| You will find on this page lists of readings
for each week. These lists include direct links to the online readings
you will use for each week.
You may also link to word versions of each week's daily schedule (online
versions will appear soon). If faculty need to change the schedule for
any reason, we shall also note the changes here.
Readings - Week One
Inquiry
Frances Fitzgerald: America Revised, pp. 192 - 200
Czeslaw Milosz: American Ignorance of War, pp. 634 - 638
Western Civilization Reader (hereafter WCR)
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War, pp. 24 - 26
Sources of 20th Century Global History
James Overfield: Prologue - Primary Sources and How to Read Them, pp.xv
- xx
Class Reader
Stephen Satris. Student Relativism
Coco Fusco: The Other History of Intercultural Performance
Eviatar Zerubavel: The Social Lens
Edward Said: Orientalism
Ronald Reagan:
Address to the Nation on United States Policy in Central America (May
9, 1984)
International
Court of Justice (judgment vs. US: Section XI: Application of the law to
the facts, sections 1 - 5)
Diego Rivera: Murals:
The National Palace, Mexico City
Claribel Alegria: Packing
My Bags
Readings - Week Two
Class Reader
James Kavanagh: Ideology
Pliny the Younger: The Younger Pliny Asks the Emperor Trajan How to
Arrest and Punish "The Depraved and Excessive Superstition" of the Early
Christians
Elaine Pagels: God the Father/God the Mother
Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals, aphorisms 13 &
14
Tu Wei-Ming, Confucianism (selections)
Chu Hsui: Compilation of Confucian Ideas The Analects (selections)
WCR
Peter Brown: The World of Late Antiquity, pp. 39 - 43
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Antichrist, p. 240
Letters of New England Textile Workers, pp. 179 - 183
Western Civilization (textbook)
Chapters 6 & 7, pp. 106 - 150 Marxism: an historical overview,
pp. 429 - 432; 455 - 458
Sources of Twentieth-Century Global History
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Gay Science and on the Genealogy of Morals,
pp. 62 - 64
Jose Carlos Mariategui, The Problem of the Indian and The Problem of
the Land, pp. 149 - 153
Sun Yat-sen: The Three People's Principles and the Future of the Chinese
People, pp. 39 - 43
Deng Yingchao: Memoirs, pp. 105 - 108
Hu Shi: Our Attitude Toward Modern Civilization of the West, pp. 221
- 225 Mao Zedong: Report on Investigation… & Strategic Problems of
China's Revolutionary War, pp. 225 - 229
Tan Manni: Lushan's Pig-Iron Sputnik, pp. 328 - 332
"One Hundred Items for Destroying the Old and Establishing the New,"
pp. 332 - 335
Poster Art from the Cultural Revolution, pp. 335 - 337
Deng Xioaping: Speeches and Writings, pp. 411 - 416
Poster Art from the 1980s, pp. 416 - 418
Online
Plato: Euthyphro
(the section we shall discuss in seminar begins with the line:-
"Soc. And what is your suit, Euthyphro? are you the pursuer
or the defendant?...")
Tertullian: Prescription
Against Heretics
Karl
Marx and Frederick Engels: The Communist Manifesto
Guide
to the Communist Manifesto (very helpful!)
Eusebius
of Caesarea
The
Long March: A Walking Visual Display
Readings - Week Three
Course Reader
E. Hobsbawm: The Age of Empire
R. Bulliet:
European Expansion: 1450-1550, pp. 491-499
The Columbian Exchange, pp. 543-547
Spanish America and Brazil, pp. 547-556
Colonial Expansion and Conflict, pp. 563-567
The Ottoman Empire, pp. 599-607
The Ottoman Empire and the European Model, pp. 766-775
Independence in Latin America, pp. 707-711
The Problem of Order, pp. 711-720
Imperialism in Latin America, pp. 847-850
The Mexican Revolution, pp. 932-937
Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq: Letter
S. Shaw: Some Aspects of … 19th Century Ottoman Reformers
C. Findley: Ibrahim Hakki Pasha
B. Braude and B. Lewis: Introduction
Mary Louise Pratt: Introduction & Science, Planetary Consciousness,
Interiors
Ernesto Cardenal: Zero Hour
Sources of Twentieth Century Global History
Jules Ferry: A Defense of French Imperialism - Speech Before the French
Chamber of Deputies, 1883, pp. 5 - 10
Records of the Maji-Maji Uprising, pp. 13 - 17
Amanda Labarca: Where is Woman Going?, pp. 147 - 149
Lázaro Cárdenas: Speech to the Nation, pp. 153 - 157
Getúlio Vargas: Excerpts From Speeches and Interviews, pp. 157 - 160
José Clemente Orozco, Autobiography, pp. 160 - 162
José Clemente Orozco, Hispanic-American Society and Diego Rivera,
Imperialism, pp. 163 - 165
Online
Tacitus: Boudecia
Christopher Columbus: Letter
to King Ferdinand
Handouts
Jose Ginés de Sepúlveda: Democrates alter de justis belli causus
apud indios (1547)
Bartolomé de las Casas: In Defence of the Indians (1551)
Readings - Week Four
Class Reader
Sigmund Freud: The Dissection of the Psychical Personality
Kate Bornstein: Which Outlaws?
Ursula K. LeGuin: The Question of Sex
Marilyn Frye: Oppression
Mary Wollstonecraft: portions of Chapter IV of Vindication of the Rights
of Women
Maurice Berger: Interview with Adrian Piper
Franz Fanon: The Fact of Blackness
Serena Nanda: Neither Man Nor Woman
Susan Bayley: Introduction to The New Cambridge History of India: Caste,
Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern
Age
Western Civilization Textbook
Chapter 16, emphasis on pp. 333 - 336, Women in the Origins of Modern
Science
Chapter 20, emphasis on pp. 418 - 419, New Social Classes
Chapter 22, with emphasis on pp. 456-458, Marx and Marxism
Chapter 23, pp. 476-477, The "Woman Question," The Role of Women and
The Middle-class and Working-class Family
Chapter 24, with emphasis on pp. 489-490, Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis,
and The Impact of Darwin: Social Darwinism and Racism. Chapter 24, with
emphasis on pp. 495-496, The Movement for Women's Rights
WCR
E. Sylvia Pankhurst: History of the Suffrage Movement, pp. 226 - 229
Emmeline Pankhurst: Why we are Militant, pp. 230 - 231
Peter Stearns: Socialism and Nationalism, pp. 184 - 185
Friedrich Engels: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, pp. 186 - 190
Sources of Twentieth Century Global History
Bahithat al-Badiya: A Lecture in the Club of the Umma Party, 1909,
pp. 52 - 55
Editorial Against Dowry, pp. 409-410
Mohandas Ghandi, Indian Home Rule, pp. 211-216
Roy Porter: Introduction
to Rewriting the Self
Lynne Constantine & Suzanne Scott: What
is Performance Art, Anyway?
India's Hidden Apartheid (UNESCO article)
Michael Sullivan, India's
Eunuchs (audio)
Handouts
Beatrice Webb: Women and the Factory Acts
Readings - Week Five
Course Reader
Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities.
Partha Chatterjee: Whose Imagined Community?
Will Kymlicka: Multicultural Citizenship
Paul Gilroy: The Whisper Wakes, the Shudder Plays: Race, Nation and
Ethnic Absolutism
E. J. Graff: What Makes a Family?
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Ch. IX)
Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
Milton M. Gordon: The Concept of the Subculture and Its Application.
Arjun Appadurai: Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural
Economy
Western Civilization Textbook
Chapter 19
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 29, pp. 618-623
WCR
Ernest Gellner: Nationalism as a Product of Industrial Society, pp.197
- 203
Sources of Twentieth Century Global History
General Syrian Congress, pp. 103 105
Chaim Hertzog: Speech to the UN National Assembly, pp. 345 - 347
The Palestine National Charter, pp. 341 - 345
Online
Vaclav Havel: At
Home in the World (database)
Johann Gottfried von Herder:
Materials for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind, 1784
Inez Hedges: Transnational
Corporate Culture and Cultural Resistance (database)
Nasser Al-Taee: Voices
of Peace and the Legacy of Reconciliation (database)
"Misgivings
in Misgav" in Ha'aretz newspaper
"The Shackles
of Underdevelopment" in Al Ahram newspaper
Readings - Week Six
Course Reader
Raimon Pannikkar: The Myth of Pluralism
Kurt Jahasson & Karin Solveig Bjornson: What is Genocide? &
A Cultural Perspective
Herbert Hirsch: Learning to Obey
Timothy Longman: Christian Churches and Genocide in Rwanda
Robert Cohen: Prologue (Introduction to the Cambridge Survey of World
Migration)
A. M. Findlay: Return to Yemen: the end of the old migration order
in the Arab world
Ghassan Kanafani,. Men in the Sun
Eduard Glissant: The Unforseeable Diversity of the World
Western Civilization Textbook
Chapter 24, pp. 500 - 509
Chapter 25 Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Sources of Twentieth-Century Global History
Fergal Keane: Season of Blood, pp. 445 - 449
T. D. Allman: Serbia's Blood War, pp. 440 - 445
Jorg Haider: The Freedom I Mean, pp. 433 - 437
Nelson Mandela: Presidential Inauguration Speech, May 10, 1994, pp.
449 - 451
Economist Survey on Migration: The Longest Journey
Online
Christiane Berthiaume: Asylum
under Threat
(search under the title of the article once you reach the UNHCR web
site - use the search field in thetop right-hand corner of the page)
Sadako Ogata: Refugees:
A Multilateral Approach to Humanitarian Crises
(text, audio, some video)
Achille Mbembe: The
Refugee Camp |