Readings

Wherever possible, the book citations below reflect the specific editions used in the course.

Required

de Erauso, Catalina. Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World. Translated by Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780807070727.

Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Equiano. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2004. ISBN: 9780375761157.

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. London, UK: Penguin in association with Heinemann African Writers Series, 2001. ISBN: 9780141186887.

Kovaly, Heda. Under a Cruel Star. New York, NY: Holmes & Meier, 1997. ISBN: 9780841913776.

Optional

Cook, Scott. Colonial Encounters in the Age of High Imperialism. New York, NY: Talman Company, 1996. ISBN: 9781886746626.

Readings by Class Session

Readings table
SES #	TOPICS	readings
1	Introduction to Class and Requirements	Abu-Lughod, Janet Lippman. "The World System in the 13th Century: Dead-End or Precoursor?" in M. Adas, Islamic and European Expansion. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1993, 75-102. ISBN: 9781566390682.
2	Transatlantic Contact and Its Significance Discussion: Letter from Columbus	Letter from Columbus; Morison, Sauer, & Todorov on Columbus in M. Lunenfeld. 1492: Discovery, Invasion, Encounter. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. 107-113, 131-142. ISBN: 9780669211153. Begin: Pomeranz, Kenneth and Topik, Steven. Eds. The World that Trade Created. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999, 21-23, 53-55. ISBN: 9780765602497.
3	Indian Ocean Encounters; Conquest in the New World	Pomeranz, Kenneth and Topik, Steven. Eds. The World that Trade Created. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999, 16-18. ISBN: 9780765602497. McNeil, "The Age of Gunpowder Empires 1450-1800" in M. Adas, Islamic and European Expansion. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1993, 103-139. ISBN: 9781566390682.
4	Discussion: Catalina de Erauso, Lieutenant Nun	de Erauso, Catalina. Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World. Translated by Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780807070727.
5	Racism I: New World Slavery
6	Discussion: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Equiano	Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Equiano. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2004. ISBN: 9780375761157.
7	The Ottoman Empire; Absolutism in Europe
8	Revolution in France
9	Discussion: Abbé Sieyés; Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen, and other documents from L. Hunt, The French Revolution and Human Rights	Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen, and other documents from Hunt, Lynn. The French Revolution and Human Rights. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996. ISBN: 9780312108021.
10	Revolution in Haiti Discussion: Readings and documents on Toussant L'Overture (from Liberty, Equality, Fraternity)	Readings and documents on Toussant L'Overture from Censer, Jack and Hunt, Lynn. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780271020884.
11	European Industrialization Discussion: The World that Trade Created	Pomerance, and Topik. The World that Trade Created. pp. 179-213.
12	Social Implications of Industrialization Discussion: Documents on child labor and social conditions of industrialization, Smiles, Self-Help and Communist Manifesto	Smiles, Self-Help (1882). Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Communist Manifesto. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 1998. ISBN: 9780451527103. [Download Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, a version of this text from Project Gutenberg.]
13	The (Mis)Measure of Man: Culture of Technology and Race "Science"	Excerpt from Adas, Michael.Machines as the Measure of Men. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780801497605. Excerpt from Charles Darwin & Comte de Gobineau
14	From the Opium Wars to the Boxer Uprising in the Far East
15	The New Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa	Excerpt from: Adas, Michael. Machines as the Measure of Men. Short excerpt from: de Gobineau.
16	Discussion of Chinua Achebe's, Things Fall Apart	Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. London, UK: Penguin in association with Heinemann African Writers Series, 2001. ISBN: 9780141186887. (Entire book.)
17	Cultural Transformation & Economic Genocide	"King Leopold's Congo" and "Imperium et Libertas in India" in Cook, Scott. Colonial Encounters in the Age of High Imperialism. New York, NY: Talman Company, 1996. ISBN: 9781886746626.
18	The Modern Metropolis and the Origins of Mass Culture
19	Discussion: Advertising: The Magic System, and "From Salvation to Self-Realization"	Williams, Raymond. "Advertising: The Magic System." In Problems in Materialism and Culture. London, UK: Verso, 1980, 170-195. ISBN: 9780860917298. Lears, T. J. Jackson. "From salvation to self-realization: Advertising and the therapeutic roots of the consumer culture, 1880-1930." In The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980, Edited by Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears, New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1983, 1-38. ISBN: 9780394511313.
20	The First World War
21	Socialism in the Soviet Union and China	Begin reading: Kovaly, Heda. Under a Cruel Star. New York, NY: Holmes & Meier, 1997. ISBN: 9780841913776.
22	World War II
23	Discussion: Heda Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star	Kovaly, Heda. Under a Cruel Star. New York, NY: Holmes & Meier, 1997. ISBN: 9780841913776.
24	Decolonization Discussion: Short excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth	Short excerpt from: Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York, NY: Grove Press: Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2005. ISBN: 9780802141323.
25	The Cold War
26	"Globalization"?
	Final Exam

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