MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

 

History 3080/5080                                          Summer, 2004

The American Century                                   Mr. Bowling

                                                       

Readings:

William M. Leary ed.  MacArthur and the American Century:  

     A Reader (Lincoln, 2001).

Ruth Vasey, The World According to Hollywood, 1918-1930

    (Madison, 1997).

Dennis Kux, The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000

    (Princeton, 2001).

Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United States and

    the Middle East Since 1945 (Chapel Hill, 2004).

Samantha Power, ”A Problem from Hell”; America and the

    Age of Genocide (New York, 2002).

Alfred E. Eckles, Jr. & Thomas W. Zeiler, Globalization and

    the American Century (Cambridge, 2003).

 

Requirements:

1. Attendance.

2. Participation.

3. Readings.

4. Oral Reports (library time provided).

5. Successful completion of 3 examinations.

 

 

Topics to be Considered:

 

        The United States & the World in 1900

        The International Economy

        The Great War & Wilsonianism

        American Popular Culture Exported

        The Rise of the Totalitarianisms and

                the Response of the United States

        The Course & Results of World War II

        The Cold War World Structure

        Case Studies of United States foreign

                relations: Pakistan, the Middle East

        The Conclusion to the Cold War, and Its

                Results

        Case Study in Human Rights: the genocide

                issue

“Globalization”: various meanings

Will the 21^st Century be American?

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