MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

 

History 3003/5003                                                    Fall, 2007
The Twentieth Century                                           Mr. Bowling

Books:

Stefan Tanaka, New Times in Modern Japan (Princeton, 2004).

Yuri Slezkine,  The Jewish Century (Princeton, 1999).

Jeffrey H. Jackson, Making Jazz French; Music & Modern Life in
        Interwar Paris (Durham, 2003).

Anthony Beevor, The Battle for Spain; The Spanish Civil War,1936-1939
    (New York, 2006).

Ronald Hyam, Britain's Declining Empire, 1918-1968: The Road to
Decolonisation (Cambridge, 2006).

Ahmad H. Sa'di & Lila Abu-Lughod, Nakba; Palestine,
    1948, and the Claims of Memory(New York, 2007).

Dagmar Herzog, Sex After Fascism; Memory & Morality in Twentieth-Century
    Germany (Princeton, 2005).

Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire; America's Advance through
    Twentieth-Century Europe (Cambridge, Mass., 2005).

Judith M. Brown, Global South Asians (Cambridge, 2006).

Charles Tripp, Islam & the Moral Economy (Cambridges, 2006).

Francisco Vidal Luna & Herbert Klein, Brazil Since 1980 (Cambridge, 2006).

Requirements:

          1.    Attendance.
            2.    Participation.
            3.    Readings.
            4.    Successful completion of two examinations.
            5.    A critical paper, c. 15-20 pp. for undergraduates, c. 25 pp.
                    for graduate students, on a topic to be chosen in consultation
                    with the instructor, a complete, typewritten draft of which is due
                    on November 7^th.

Schedule:

Aug. 29          Introduction: the Paradoxical 20^th Century

Sept. 5            Modernization Hits Japan
                                Reading:  Tanaka

Sept. 12          The Rise of "Free Agency".
                                Reading:  Slezkine

Sept. 19          Paris in the Twenties
                                Reading: Jackson

Sept. 26          The Spanish Civil War
                                Reading: Beevor

Oct. 3             The Sun Sets on the British Empire
                                Reading:  Hyam

Oct. 10           What Happened in Palestine, & the Aftermath
                                Reading:  Sa'di & Abu-Lughod

Oct. 17                 M I D T E R M   E X A M I N A T I O N

Oct. 24           The Reinvention of Post-war Germany
                                Reading: Herzog

Oct. 31           America Regit
                                Reading: de Grazia

Nov. 7             The Asian Diaspora
                                Reading:  Brown

C O M P L E T E ,   T Y P E W R I T T E N   D R A F T

          O F   P A P E R   I S   D U E   T O D A Y .

Nov. 14           Trying to Create a "Modern Islam"
                                        Reading: Tripp

Nov. 21                 T H A N K S G I V I N G

Nov. 28           Upheaval in Indonesia
                                Reading: Parry

Dec. 5              "The Country of the Future”: Brazil Now
                                Reading: Luna & Klein

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