WS 2 Research Project Topics
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Chapter Topic & Question
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The Village and the State (1400-1650)
Question: How do village, state leaders determine and justify their actions?
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First Encounters: The Creation of Cultural Stereotypes (1450-1650)
Question: Analyze the concept of the other and its influence on the
interactions of Europeans and non-Europeans.
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Gender Differences in Peasant Households in Southeast Asia and
Central Europe (1500-1850)
Question: How did the experiences of men and women in early modern
peasant households differ? How might these differences have been affected
by economic change and how, in turn, might economic developments have
been shaped by gender differences?
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The Confucian Family (1600-1800)
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Option 1: 3 documents (All from the Americas)
 Christopher Columbus, 1530s: Journal to the First Voyage to America
 Amerigo Vespucci, 1497-1498: The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci
 Native American Account of Cortes’s Conquest: The Broken Spears: The Aztec
Account of the Conquest of Mexico.
Option 2: 4 documents (Japan + America Perspectives)
 Christopher Columbus, 1530s: Journal to the First Voyage to America
 Native American Account of Cortes’s Conquest: The Broken Spears: The Aztec
Account of the Conquest of Mexico.
 Cosme de Torres, 1550s-1560s: They Came to Japan: Anthology of European
Reports on Japan
 Suzuki Shosan, 1642: Deus Destroyed: The Image of Christianity in Early Modern
Japan.
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Le Côde - Vietnam: Law in Traditional Vietnam 16-17th Century
Agama Law Code - Java 16th Century
Law Code - Salzburg, Austria 1526
Will of a Rural Weaver - Eastern Germany 1856
Question: How did Western nations portray their revolution’s heroes during
the 18th and 19th centuries?
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Fisher Ames’s Eulogy for George Washington (February 8, 1800)
F. E. Guiraut’s Funeral Oration for Marat (July 1793)
Henry Christophe, Manifesto (1814)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Paul Revere’s Ride (1860)
Constitutional Responses to European Expansion in Africa and the
Pacific (1850-1890)
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Question: What were the indigenous responses to Western Imperialism in
both the Hawaiian Islands and Africa?
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King Kamehameha V Addresses the Hawaiian Legislature, 1864 by Helen Jennings
and William F. Swindler
Hawaii's Last Queen on American Annexation from Liliuokalani
An Argument for African Self-Rule, 1868 from James Africanus Horton
A Fante Appeal to British Authorities, 1872 from J.H. Brew
The Liberator-Hero and Western Revolutions (1770s-1810s)
Industrializing the Nation: Germany and Japan (1860-1900)
Lands of Desire: Department Stores, Advertising, and the New
Consumerism (1920s)
Question: How did department store advertising create what historian William
Leach calls the “land of desire”?
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Court Roll of Teynton, 1541
Pedro de Cieza de Leon - Cronicas 1553
Extract from Garcilosa de la Vega
Regulations for Villagers Issued by the Tokugawa Shogunate, 1643
Family Instructions for the Miu Lineage, late 16th century
From Classic of Filiality or Xiao Jing (Hsiao Ching) circa 2nd century b.c.e.
From Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi) Family Rituals, 12 Century
From Chen Duxiu(Ch’en Tu-hsiu) “The Ways of Confucius and Modern Life,” 1916
Question: What impact did industrialization have on national unity in modern
Germany and Japan?
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Question: Does the family or the individual form the basis of society and that
society’s stability?
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Documents
Modernity: From Promise to Threat (1790-1930)
Question: What were the potential positive and negative consequences to
modernization/ industrialization from 1790-1930?
Industrialization brought significant social, political, and economic changes:
 Hagen Rolling Mill, 1860s
 From Max Weber, Inaugural Lecture at Freiberg University, 1895
 From Okubo Toshimichi, Recommendation on Industrialization, 1874
 Oral Records of “Crossing Nomugi Pass” to Work in the Suma Mills, ca. 1900
Analyze the appeals made to consumers in each advertisement:
 Strawbridge & Clothier, Philadelphia, 1922
 Mappin Stores, Brazil
 Bon Marche, Paris 1923
 Hudson’s Bay Company, Canada, 1926
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Walt Whitman. “Years of the Modern”
From Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
From Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj
Still shots from Fritz Lang’s Film Metropolis
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The Industrial Crisis and the Centralization of Government (1924-1939)
Question: Compare how major industrialized nations chose to combat the
Great Depression.
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Total War: The Cost of Unlimited Conflict (1914-1945)
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, “Features of the War”
Paul Valery, “The Crisis of the Spirit”
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Kande Kamara, “Memories of a West African in France” (from John Reilly, Worlds
of History: A Comparative Reader)
Part Two: How did total war influence both government policy and civilian
populations?
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Reischsmarschal Hermann Goering, German Radio Broadcast
Iwo Nakamura, Recollections of August 6, 1945
Henry L. Stimson, “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb”
Jean-Francois Steiner, Treblinka (from John Reilly, Worlds of History: A
Comparative Reader)
Crucible of Conflict: The Suez Crisis (1956)
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Gamal Abdel Nasser Announces the Nationalization of the Suez Canal
8&9 (together) Exchange of letters between President Eisenhower and PM Eden
A Statement by Jawarharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister
Soviet Response to the Aggression Against Egypt
Question: How strong were women’s arguments for peace from 1910-1990?
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Jane Addams on Women and War
Huda Sha’rawi, Speech to the Congress of …
Miyako Shinohara “In the Name of Peace”
Coretta Scott King on Women and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1984
McDomination: The Americanization of Global Popular Culture (1950s to
the Present)
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Advertisement from McDonald's restaurant Oslo, Norway
A McDonald's Promotion in Hong Kong, 1998 from Washington Post October 11,
1998
The French Protest McDonald's from The Times (London) September 1, 1999
Big Mac II: How McDonald's Became Global by Thomas L. Friedman New York
Times, December 11, 1996
Question: How did international rivalries and ideology impact regional conflict
during the Cold War?
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Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, February 12, 1931: Parliamentary Debates:
House of Commons
 President Franklin Roosevelt, April 14, 193- Nothing to Fear: The Selected
Addresses of FDR
 Chancellor Adolf Hitler: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922- August 1939
 Hashimoto Kingoro, Address to Young Men: Sources of Japanese Tradition
Supplemental Documents: Formatted in Charts
 Unemployment Charts: League of Nations, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics.
 Central government Revenues Expenditures in National Currencies: European
Historical Statistics
 Sizes of Armies, Great Britain, US and Germany: The Oxford History of the British
Army
 Armed Services Spending as a Percentage of Total Government Expenditures in
Japan: Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict
from 1500 to 2000
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Part One: How did World War I change the way people felt about war?
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Feminism and the Peace Movement (1910-1990)
Question: How did the Americanization of popular culture impact other
cultures that consume American products?
Greeks/
Romans
Greeks/Romans
Enlightenment
Thinkers
Enlightenment Thinkers
Between
the Wars
Between the Wars
Question: How did early civilizations help develop modern Democratic ideas?
Question: What were the Enlightenment’s philosophical views of humanity
and human rights?
Question: What philosophies grew out of the outcomes of the first World War?
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Plato’s The Republic
Aristotle’s PoliticsThe Ten Commandments
Rome’s 12 Tables
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John Locke - Treatise on Government
Thomas Hobbes - The Leviathan
Rousseau - The Social Contract
Wollstonecraft - Vindication on the Rights of Women
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Lenin - April Theses
Mussolini - On Fascism
Wilson - 14 Points
Hitler - Mein Kampf