day-by-day schedule-----

 
     
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 Week Two
Week Three Week Four
Week Five Week Six
Daily Schedule
Week One Week Two
Week Three Week Four
Week Five Week Six

 
 
 

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


 
 

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