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 online versions of each week's daily schedule. If faculty need to change the schedule for any reason, we shall note the changes here, and post changes to the updates segment of the site.

Week One: Introduction to History and Global Perspective

Week Two: Ideology

Week Three: Imperialisms

Week Four: Identity

Week Five: Imagined Communities

Week Six: Interdependence - postcolonial states, globalization, genocide, refugees & migration

Week One: Introduction

Class Readers
Chris Hedges: Introduction to War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Czeslaw Milosz: American Ignorance of War
Coco Fusco: The Other History of Intercultural Performance
Eviatar Zerubavel: The Social Lens
Edward Said: Orientalism

Sources of 20th Century Global History
James Overfield: Prologue - Primary Sources and How to Read Them, pp. xv - xx

Online
Thucydides: On Writing History
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

Handout in Class
Horace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

Week Two: Ideology

Class Readers
James Kavanagh: Ideology
Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals, aphorisms 13 & 14
Tu Wei-Ming: The Formation of the Confucian Tradition
Arthur Waley: Selections from the Analects

Sources of Twentieth-Century Global History
Jose Carlos Mariategui, The Problem of the Indian and The Problem of the Land, pp. 149 - 153
A Marxist Blueprint for Russia, pp. 43 - 7
Lenin's Call For Revolution, pp. 92 - 4
Forging the Soviet State, pp. 94 - 8
Sun Yat-sen: The Three People's Principles and the Future of the Chinese People, pp. 39 - 43
Hu Shi: Our Attitude Toward Modern Civilization of the West, pp. 221 - 5
Mao Zedong: Report on Investigation…, pp. 225 - 9
Tan Manni: Lushan's Pig-Iron Sputnik, pp. 328 - 332
One Hundred Items for Destroying the Old and Establishing the New, pp. 332 - 5
Poster Art from the Cultural Revolution, pp. 335 - 7

Online
The Age of Ideologies: General Introduction (the History Guide)
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: Prescriptions Against the Heretics (extracts)
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
The Gnostic Gospels
The Diversity of Early Christians
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: The Communist Manifesto
Guide to the Communist Manifesto (very helpful!)
The Long March: A Walking Visual Display

Week Three: Imperialisms

Class Readers
Mary Louise Pratt: Introduction to Criticism in the Contact Zone
Bartolomé de las Casas: In Defense of the Indians
Jose Ginés de Sepúlveda: Democrates alter de justis belli causis apud Indios Eric Hobsbawm: The Age of Empire
Ernesto Cardenal: Zero Hour

Sources of Twentieth Century Global History
Jules Ferry: Speech before the French Chamber of Deputies, pp. 8 - 10 Records of the Maji-Maji Uprising, pp 14 - 17
Amanda Labarca: Where is Woman Going?, pp. 147 - 9
Lázaro Cárdenas: Speech to the Nation, pp. 154 - 7
José Clemente Orozoco: Hispanic-American Society & Diego Rivera: Imperialism, pp. 163 - 5
The Church Committee Report on Covert Action In Chile, pp. 351 - 5

Online
The Age of Discovery (the History Guide)
Notes on Empire
Christopher Columbus: Letter to the King of Spain
Rolena Adorno: Genesis of the Text
Willem Bleau: Map of Africa

Week Four: Identity

Class Readers
Francis Bacon: Of Studies
Mary Wollstonecraft: Introduction to Vindication of the Rights of Women Sigmund Freud: The Mystical Writing Pad
Kate Bornstein: Which Outlaws?

Sources of 20th Century Global History
James Overfield: Introduction to Africa Under Colonial Rule, pp. 167 - 170 James Overfield: African Society and Identity Under Colonial Rule, p. 176
James Aggrey: Parable of the Eagle, pp. 177-8

Online
The Scientific Revolution (The History Guide)
African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning
Facts about Liberia
The Constitution of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Liberia

Arlington Reader
Dierdre McCloskey: Yes, Ma'am, p. 208
Judy Brady: I Want a Wife, p. 214
Marion James Porter: Easter Sunday, New Orleans, p. 145
Pam Spaulding: New York City 1989, p. 221

Week Five: Imagined Communities

Class Readers
Robert Tignor: Chapter 8: Nations and Empires, 1850-1914; (selection from Chapter 9) Reimagining Nations and Rethinking Race
Benedict Anderson: Introduction, Cultural Roots
Partha Chatterjee: Whose Imagined Community?
Thongchai Winichakul: Introduction: The Presence of Nationhood
Will Kymlicka: Multicultural Citizenship
Jurgen Habermas: The Public Sphere
Janice Radway: Interpretive Communities and Variable Literacies: The Functions of Romance Reading
Sunil Khilnani: Who is an Indian?

Sources of 20th Century Global History
Debate in the House of Commons, pp. 280 - 84
Mohandas Ghandi: Indian Home Rule, pp. 212 - 16
Muhammad Al Jinnah: Speech to the Muslim League, pp. 216 - 218
Jawaharlal Nehru: Speeches and Writings, pp. 365 - 367

Online
Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Richard Ohmann: Public Radio: a Cultural Medium for the Professional-Managerial Class, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 14, 1997 (available via the Lexis-Nexis database on the GMU Library web site)

Week Six: Interdependence

Class Readers
Ankie Hoogvelt: Introduction and Chapter 8: Africa: Exclusion and Containment of Anarchy
J. Robert Port: The Story No One Wanted to Hear
Timothy Longman: Christian Churches and Genocide in Rwanda
Herbert Hirsch: Learning to Obey
Chris Hedges: Selection
Economist: Survey on Migration
Ghassan Kanafani: Men in the Sun
Eduard Glissant: The Unforseeable Diversity of the World

Sources of 20th 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

Online
Adel Darwish: Halabja: whom does the truth hurt?
Project for the New American Century - Letter to President Clinton
Michael Walzer: The argument about humanitarian intervention. Dissent; Winter 2002
Samantha Power. Raising the cost of genocide. Dissent; Spring 2002. (both Dissent articles available via Proquest database on GMU Library web site)

Arlington Reader
Niall Ferguson: 2011, pp. 560 - 567