• Aug. 22. Introduction
• Aug. 24. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, Prologue (to 1815)

week 2. Industrial Revolution, Isms, Balance of Power

• Aug. 29. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, ch. 11 (1815-1848) [esp. secs. 52-53, 55]
• Aug. 31. Kurlansky, part I
  • 1968 timeline
    • Port Huron Statement (1962)
    • The Whole World Was Watching:
      an oral history of 1968

week 3. Pathways to and from 1848

• Sept. 5. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, ch. 12 (1848-1870) [esp. secs. 58-61]
  • Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions
• Sept. 7. Kurlansky, part II
  • 1968 timeline
    • Chicago (1968)
    • Vietnam (1966-1970)
    • Remembering Prague Spring (1968)

week 4. Nations and Nationalism

• Sept. 12. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, ch. 13 (1859-1871) [esp. secs. 63-66, 69]
  • Italian Unification
• Sept. 14. Kurlansky, part III
  • 1968 timeline
    • Brezhnev Doctrine (1968)

week 5. Le Bon Marché, Parliament, Demography

• Sept. 19. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, ch. 14 (1871-1914) [esp. secs. 70-72]
• Sept. 21. Kurlansky, parts I-III

week 6. Triumph and Decline of Liberalism

• Sept. 26. Test (note change from 21 Sept.)
• Sept. 28. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, ch. 16 (1871-1914) [esp. secs. 77, 79-80, & 83]
  • Maps
    • British Empire in 1886; 1897
    • Africa; World circa 1900

week 7. New Imperialism

• Oct. 3. Conrad, pp. 63-91
  • Heart of Darkness worksheet
• Oct. 5. Conrad, pp. 91-158
  • Heart of Darkness (1899, full text)
  • Kipling, "White Man's Burden" (1899)

steamboat, 1840s

week 8. The Great War and the World

• Oct. 10. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, ch. 17 (1914-1919) [esp. all, secs. 84-89]
  • Maps of World War I
• Oct. 12. Conrad, appendix C

injured POW, 1916

week 9. The Internationale and Mother Russia

• Oct. 17. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, chs. 17 (1914-1919) & 18 (1905-1939) [esp. secs. 92-95]
  • Wilson's Fourteen Points (Jan. 1918)
• Oct. 19. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, ch. 18 (1905-1939) [esp. secs. 92-95]
  • Stakhanovites and other pictures from Magnitogorsk
  • 1935: Year of Stakhanov

poster from Russian Revolution, 1920s

week 10. 1920s: Age of Hope

• Oct. 24. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, ch. 19 [esp. secs. 97-99]
• Oct. 26. Cardoza, chs. 1-2
  • Conrad Paper due
    • Comments on Papers

illustration for Hasek's Good Soldier Svejk (1928 ed.?)

week 11. Depression and Anxiety

• Oct. 31. Mid-Term Exam (II) [On 1870-1930, Conrad, and Cardoza (to 1925)]
• Nov. 2. Cardoza, chs. 3-7; Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, ch. 20 (1930s) [esp. secs. 102-103]

Otto Griebel, "Die Internationale" (1928-1930)

week 12. War, World, and the West

• Nov. 7. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, ch. 21 (1939-1946)
• Nov. 9. Cardoza, chs. 8-10

wedding at British Registry Office (with sand bags & gas masks), 1941

week 13. 1st World, 2nd World

• Nov. 14. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, ch. 22 (1945-1960s)
• Nov. 16. Triumph des Willens (1935)

week 14. 3rd World

• Nov. 28. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, ch. 23 (1945-1970s)
  • Atlantic Charter (1941)
  • World, 1942
  • Mapping the Holocaust
• Nov. 30. Mussolini Paper due (no later than 1 Dec., noon, all papers must be both electronic and hard copy submissions)

week 15. Modern Worlds?

• Dec. 5. Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, ch. 24 (1945-1980s)
  • The Long March
• Dec. 7. Conclusion; Kurlansky, part IV
  • World Colonies in 1945
  • Decolonization in Africa
    • Map # 1; Map # 2
  • Decolonization in Asia
• Dec. 12. 2:45-4:45 pm. Final Exam.

Texts:

• Cardoza. Anthony L. Cardoza, Benito Mussolini: The First Fascist (New York: Pearson Longman, 2006)
• Conrad. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, ed. by D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke, 2nd ed. (Peterborough: Broadview, 1999)
• Kurlansky. Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year that Rocked the World (New York: Random House, 2004, 2005)
• Palmer, Colton, and Kramer. R.R. Palmer, Joel Colton, and Lloyd Kramer, A History of the Modern World, Since 1815, 9th ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002)