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HIST103: World History in the Early Modern and Modern Eras (1600–Present)
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Course Introduction
Course Syllabus
Unit 1: Global Networks of Exchange in the 1600s
Unit 2: Conflict and Empire in the 1600s and 1700s
Unit 3: Religious, Intellectual, and Political Revolutions in the 1600s–1800s
Unit 4: Scientific and Industrial Revolutions of the 1600s and 1700s
Unit 5: New Imperialism during the Long 19th Century
Unit 6: World War I
Unit 7: The Rise of Totalitarian States in the 20th Century
Unit 8: The Second World War and the New World Order
Unit 9: The Cold War and Decolonization
Unit 10: Global Society in a Post-Cold War World
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HIST103: World History in the Early Modern and Modern Eras (1600–Present)
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Unit 5: New Imperialism during the Long 19th Century
5.4: Resistance to Imperialism
5.4.2: China: Taiping and Boxer Rebellions
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A Comprehensive Outline of World History
Hutton Webster's
World History
The End of the Old World and the Beginning of the New
Arizona State University: "The Slave Trade Part I"
Comparing Settlement Patterns: New Spain, New France, and British North America
The Portuguese Empire
Gresham College: Thomas Crump's "The Dutch East Indies Company"
Shafaat Ahmed Khan's "The East India Trade in the XVIIth Century"
Shafaat Ahmed Khan's "The East India Trade in the 17th Century"
Alfred W. Crosby's "The Columbian Exchange: Plants, Animals, and Disease Between the Old and New Worlds"
South Asian History
: "History Crafts, Manufacturing, and Trade in the Indian Subcontinent"
The History of the British Empire
Andre Gunder Frank's "Asian-Based World Economy 1400–1800: A Horizontally Integrative Macrohistory"
Lynn Harry Nelson's "The Discovery of the New World and the End of the Old"
World Civilizations
Jack E. Maxfield's
A Comprehensive Outline of World History
Hutton Webster's "World History"
Nipissing University: Steve Muhlberger's "The Gunpowder Empires"
"European Absolutism and Power Politics"
Jean Domat's "On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy"
"History Review: Absolutism"
Robert Guisepi's "The Ottomans: From Frontier Warriors to Empire Builders"
The Tokugawa Shogunate
"History Review: Absolutism"
Steven Kreis' "The English Civil War"
Wallbank et al.'s "The Case against Absolutism"
Colonial Wars
"Beginnings of North European Expansion"
World History
Jack E. Maxfield's
A Comprehensive Outline of World History
Hutton Webster's
World History
Frank A James III's "Martin Luther"
"The Reformation: Europe's Search for Stability"
"The Reformation and Counter-Reformation"
The Counter-Reformation
"Islam from the Beginning to 1300"
"Islam from the Beginning to 1300"
The Political Impact of the Reformation
Origins of the Enlightenment
Lewis Hackett's "The European Dream of Progress and Enlightenment"
Gresham College: Allan Chapman's "The Jacobean Space Programme"
The Political and Social Impact of the Enlightenment
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78)
John Locke (1632–1704)
"The French Revolution"
The French Revolution
International World History Project: Robert A. Guisepi's "The American Revolution"
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
Michael Streich's "Early 19th Century Revolutionary Movements"
Regis University: Jim L. Riley's "Moderate Political Ideologies: Liberalism and Conservatism"
Spiritus Temporis: "Nationalism"
World History
Jack E. Maxfield's
A Comprehensive Outline of World History
Hutton Webster's
World History
William Gilbert's "The Beginning of the Scientific Revolution"
Arizona State University: "The Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th Centuries"
Steven Kreis' "The Scientific Revolution, 1543–1600"
George Mason University: Rose Cherubin's "The Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century and the Political Revolutions of the 18th Century"
Lewis Hackett's "Industrialization: The First Phase"
Lewis and Jewsbury's "Europe Transformed"
Andrew Ure's "The Philosophy of Manufacturers"
Stearns, Adas, and Schwatz's "Russia and Japan – Industrialization Outside the West"
Stuart B. Schwartz's "Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony"
World Civilizations
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Jack E. Maxfield's
A Comprehensive Outline of World History
Hutton Webster's
World History
Stuart B. Schwartz's "Industrial Rivalries and the Partition of the World"
Gresham College: Kathleen Burk's "Imperial Rivalry with the Russian Empire"
Karl Pearson's "Social Darwinism: Imperialism Justified by Nature"
V. Sundaram's "Impact of Globalization on Indian Culture"
Dadabhai Naoroji's "The Benefits of British Rule, 1871"
Imposition of European Ideas and Values
West Chester University: Jim Jones' "Europe and Africa in the 19th Century"
Facilitating Imperialism through Advanced Technologies
The Qing Dynasty of China
The Ottoman Empire
Japanese Imperialism
Philip V. Allingham's "England and China: The Opium Wars, 1839–1860"
TDP Dugdale-Pointon's "The Boxer Rebellion, 1900"
George P. Landow's "The 1857 Indian Mutiny"
Desmond Kuah's "The Epic of Race: The Indian Mutiny, 1857"
Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League
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World History
St. Mary's University: Wallace G. Mills' "Imperialism, Capitalism, and World War I"
"HMS Dreadnought: The Ship that Sparked an Arms Race"
Michael Duffy's "The Causes of World War One"
Robert Guisepi, ed.'s "Tragic War and Futile Peace: World War I"
The Planning of the First World War
Michael Duffy's "World War I Campaigns"
America and World War I
University of Oxford: Everett Sharp's "Trench Warfare"
David R. Woodward's "The Middle East during World War One"
Michael Duffy's "Fronts of World War I"
New Weapons of War
Wallbank and Jewsbury's "Economic Disasters"
Ruth Henig's "Versailles and Peacemaking"
Robert Guisepi's "Tragic War and Futile Peace: World War I, Part 2"
Woodrow Wilson's "Speech on the Fourteen Points, Jan 8, 1918"
Martin Kitchen's "The Ending of World War I, and the Legacy of Peace"
Charles Townshend's "The League of Nations and the United Nations"
Encyclopedia of the New American Nation: "Mandates and Trusteeships – League of Nations Mandates"
World History
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World History
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European History
: "Chapter 13, Europe: 1918–1945"
The Effects of the First World War
The European Economy in the Interwar Period
Kagan, Ozment, and Turner's "The Western Heritage, Chapter 28: Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930s"
Michael Adas' "One-Half Century of Crisis, 1914–1945"
European History
: "The End of Optimism? The Great Depression in Europe"
Colby College: Raffael Scheck's "Germany and Europe, 1871–1945"
The Russian Revolution
Vladimir I. Lenin's "Call to Power"
The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution
Steven Kreis' "The Aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution"
Steven Kreis' "The Age of Totalitarianism: Stalin and Hitler"
Totalitarianism, 1919–1939
: "Fascist Italy"
Steven Kreis' "The Age of Totalitarianism: Stalin and Hitler"
Totalitarianism, 1919–1939
: "Nazi Germany"
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Holocaust Encyclopedia: Victims of the Nazi Era"
Wesleyan University: Bill Gordon's "Japan's March Towards Militarism"
Susan Townsend's "Japan's Quest for Empire, 1931–1945"
Wesleyan University: Bill Gordon's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"
European History
: "The End of Optimism? The Great Depression in Europe"
World History
: "Causes and Course of the Second World War"
European History
: "Europe: 1918–1945"
Ofcansky and Berry's "Ethiopia: A Country Study: Mussolini's Invasion and the Italian Occupation"
"World War II: Before the War"
F. Tillman's "The Nanking Massacre, 1937"
U.S. Army Area Handbook: "Chapter 1.04"
"Causes of World War 2"
Gary Sheffield's "The Fall of France"
Helen Cleary's "Battle of the Atlantic, 1939–1943"
Laurence Rees' "Hitler's Invasion of Russia in World War Two"
Stephen A. Hart's "Liberation of the Concentration Camps"
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Holocaust Encyclopedia"
Bruce Robinson's "Pearl Harbor: A Rude Awakening"
Andrew Lambert's "The Battle of Midway"
David Powers' "Japan: No Surrender in World War Two"
Richard Overy's "World War Two: How the Allies Won"
Duncan Anderson's "Nuclear Power: The End of the War against Japan"
The Effects of the Second World War
The Charter of the United Nations
The Origins of the Cold War
The Reconstruction of Europe after the Second World War
World Civilizations
World History
European History
: "Europe: 1945 to Present"
World History
: "Chapters 29–31"
"The Elusive Peace: The Cold War"
"European Economic Recovery"
Wesleyan University: Bill Gordon's "The Allied Occupation of Japan"
"Cold War, 1945–1960"
Steven Kreis' "The Origins of the Cold War"
Robert Guisepi's "The Vietnam War"
Decolonization in the British Empire
Stanford University: Frederick Cooper's "Citizenship between Empire and Nation: France and French Africa, 1945–1960"
"The Non-Aligned Movement: Description and History"
Jawaharlal Nehru's "Speech at the Bandung Conference Political Committee, 1955"
National Science Digital Library: "The Cold War: A Brief History"
Steven Kreis "1968: The Year of the Barricades"
World Civilizations
European History
: "Europe: 1945 to Present"
Steven Kreis' "1989: The Walls Came Tumbling Down"
Mark J. Rice's "NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War"
Wikipedia: "Effects of the Cold War"
George Washington University: Jeffrey T. Richelson and Michael L. Evans' "Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History"
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George Mason University: T. Mills Kelly's "Breakup of Yugoslavia"
Robert J. Leiber's "A Contested Future"
Anup Shah's "Stress on the Environment, Society, and Resources?"
Gresham College: Avinash Persaud's "Will the US Easily Relinquish Economic and Political Power to China and India in the 21st Century?"
The Nation
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