THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD, 2 SPRING 2015
Boğaziçi University Department of History
Coordinator: PAOLO GIRARDELLI, room: TB 410A e-mail: girardel@boun.edu.tr
Office hours: Monday 14:00-15:00 or by appointment
Teaching Assistants:
Firuzan Melike Sümertaş
melike.sumertas@gmail.com
Işık Gürgen isik_guergen@yahoo.de
Ezgi Burcu Işıl e.burcu.isil@gmail.com
Betül Kaya betul.kaya1@gmail.com
Yener Koç yenerko@gmail.com
Naz Özkan
naznurayzeynep@gmail.com
Damla Özakay (Head TA) ozakaydamla@gmail.com
Lectures: MWF 4, GKM, Discussion sessions: Fridays, Web: http://hist106spring2015.wordpress.com
Course Description:
The Making of the Modern World (HIST 105; HIST 106) is a two-semester course providing a thematic history of the world from ancient to modern times. The course surveys the major patterns and events of human activity from a global perspective within a broad chronological framework, while familiarizing students with interactions, parallelisms, and divergences in the historical and cultural patterns of diverse societies and civilizations. The course aims to develop an understanding of modes and patterns of historical change, and provides a perspective on the complex ways in which the legacy of the past shapes our present.
HIST 106 explores the paths of specific historical change in the early modern and modern periods in different regions of the world, covering the period between the 15 th
and the 20 th
centuries. Therefore the course is as much about the Renaissance and Reformation in Europe as about culture and society in the early modern Middle East; as much about transformations in European feudalism as about the methods of rule of East Asian polities; as much about the revolutions of 1789 and 1848 in Europe as about the transformation of Ottoman political power in relation to the Habsburg and Russian empires. Issues regarding the political, cultural, ideological and institutional structures and transformations that ushered in the modern era are discussed, as well as aspects of daily life and material culture. Connections and interactions across spatial and cultural divides remain a focus throughout the survey.
Format:
The course is team-taught by members of the History Department. Each week’s lectures will be followed by onehour discussion sessions on Fridays led by the teaching assistants. There are two types of reading for the course.
The primary source readings for each week introduce a set of particular issues and themes directly related to the lecture topics. The Heritage of World Civilizations, vol. 2: Since 1500 by A. M. Craig, W. A. Graham, D. Kagan,
S. Ozment, F. M Turner, (New Jersey, 2011) and The Birth of the Modern World,1780-1914, C. A. Bayly
(Oxford: Blackwell,2004) are complementary readings, which provide an introduction and background to the topics to be covered in the lectures.
It is highly important that students participate fully in the course by attending the lectures and doing the readings
(preferably before lectures, certainly before the Friday discussion hours). Friday discussion hours led by the teaching assistants will be devoted to an in-depth discussion and interpretation of the primary sources, and will include three quizzes on primary sources. Partaking in the discussions is crucial, and the students’ performance in discussion sessions will contribute substantially to the final grade.
ll readings will be available as electronic documents on the Bo aziçi ibrary online reserve web site (go to
Catalogue Search; Search Course Reserves). Lecture outlines, course announcements and additional materials will be posted on the course website.
Requirements: (There are no pre-requisites for HIST 106)
Mid-term exam:
Final exam:
Attendance and participation in discussion sessions:
36%
36%
28%
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There are no pre-requisites for HIST 106. To be eligible to take the final exam, the student will have to obtain at least 10 points on the midterm exam. If this condition is not met, the student will be disqualified from taking the final exam . Participation at the final exam is necessary to receive a passing grade.
HIST 106
INTRODUCTION
9 February M Introduction
A.) DISCOVERIES AND EXPANSION
11 February W Early Expeditions and Asian Trade
13 February F European Expansion in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
1. Discussion: Introduction
B.) RELIGION, CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN THE EARLY MODERN ERA
16 February M The Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe
Girardelli
Durak
Girardelli
Girardelli
18 February W The Power of the Prince: the Renaissance State Girardelli
20 February F The Age of Religious Reform Girardelli
2. Discussion: Discoveries
Readings and sources : Craig, ch. 16 (384-389), ch. 17 (414-440) and ch. 16 (389-413)
Renaissance Maps
Francis Drake, Voyages , 1580
Machiavelli, The Prince [Excerpts]
Suggested film: Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
C.) THE AGE OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES: STATE-BUILDING AND POLITICAL CONFLICT
23 February M Ottoman Absolutism and its Limits Terzio lu
25 February W Absolutism in South Asia: The Mughal Empire Toksöz
27 February F Social and Cultural Transformations in the Middle East Kafescio lu
3. Discussion: Religion and State
Readings and sources : Craig, ch. 20 (508-524)
Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
bu’l-fazl Allami,
Akbar-nama [Book of Akbar]
2 March M
4 March W
6 March F
Tokugawa Centralized Feudal Order in Japan
The Ming Bureaucratic Empire in China
Absolute Monarchy and Its Challenges:
France and England in the Seventeenth Century
Hong
Togan
Campbell
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4. Discussion: Political and social change
Readings and sources: Craig, ch. 18 (440-465) and ch. 19 (476-488) and ch. 18 (493-494)
Mustafa Ali, from The Tables of Delicacies
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, (1659-1719), Hagakure and The Way of the Samurai , pp. 473-480.
Lu Jo-Han (Johannes B. Rodrigues), A Letter to Li Yung-hou
D.) REASON AND REVOLUTION
9 March M The Scientific Revolution: from the Renaissance to Newton
11 March W The Enlightenment and the Power of Reason
13 March F An Enlightenment Experiment: The American Revolution
5. Discussion: The nature of state and power
Readings and sources: Craig, ch. 21 (532-555) and ch.22 (556-561)
James I, On Monarchy
Documents on Louis XIV
From Voltaire, The English Letters
From Montesquieu, The Persian Letters
16 March M The End of Absolute Monarchy and the Birth of Modern Politics
E.) AGE OF CAPITALISM
Terzio lu
Campbell
Toksöz
Campbell
18 March W Transition to Capitalism: Agricultural Origins
20 March F Industrial Revolution
6. Discussion: Enlightenment and Revolution
Readings and sources: Craig, ch. 22 (560-574)
Rousseau, from The Social Contract
From The Encyclopedie : “Philosophe”
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Suggested film: Danton (Andrzej Wajda)
23 March M
25 March W
Convergence and Divergence Around the Globe
Colonialism and Imperialism: a Project for World Domination
Terzibaşo lu
Terzibaşo lu
Terzibaşo lu
Terzibaşo lu
27 March F Society Transformed: Workers, Peasants, Consumers and Capitalists Terzibaşo lu
7. Discussion: The Industrial Revolution
Reading: Craig, ch. 24 (612-626), Bayly, ch. 2 (49-76) and Bayly, ch. 3 (86-112)
From Parliamentary Papers , 1831-2.
The People’s Petition , 1838.
30 March M MID TERM EXAM
F.) STATES AND NATIONS
1 April W
3 April F
Nations and Nationalism
Towards a Europe of Nations
Eldem
Eldem
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8. Discussion: Social and Political Transformations in the Age of Capitalism
Reading: Bayly, ch. 5 (170-198)
From Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Renan, What is a nation?
6 April M
8 April W
Second Empire France and the Paris Commune Eldem
Old Empires, the Struggle for Survival Toksöz
10 April F Old Empires, the Struggle for Survival: the Ottomans
9. Discussion: New Solidarities, New Challenges
Readings and sources: Bayly, ch. 6 (199-243)
The Paris Commune viewed through the pages of the daily Paris Libre (Free Paris)
13 April M The British Colonial Empire: 19 th
century India
15 April W Anti-colonialism and Nationalism in South Asia
17 April F Colonialism and Orientalism
10. Discussion: State reforms and social transformation
Readings and sources : Craig, ch. 26 (666-674), Bayly, ch. 7 (247-83)
From Ahmet Midhat, Basis of Reform
From the Gülhane Edict
Toksöz
Toksöz
Toksöz
Ersoy
20 APRIL – 24 APRIL SPRING BREAK
27 April M Society Transformed: Gender Relations and the Family
G.) REVOLUTION, WAR AND MODERNITY
29 April W The Great War
1 MAY F - HOLIDAY ( There will be no discussion session.)
Öztürkmen
Babuna
4 May M The Russian Revolution Babuna
6 May W Interwar Europe and the Rise of Fascism évy-Aksu
8 May F World War II
évy-Aksu
11. Discussion: War and Revolution
Readings and sources: Craig, ch. (735-741), ch. 24 (626-629), ch. (742-751), ch. 29 (756-772), ch. 30 (778-802)
Barkley’s etters
enin, “Our Party Programme”
Mussolini, “The Doctrine of Fascism”
Suggested film : All Quiet on the Western Front
11 May M The Post-War World: Cold War, Decolonization and the New International Balance
13 May W Conclusions
évy-Aksu
Girardelli
Readings: Craig, ch. 31 (804-823)
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