MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

History 3003/5001 Summer, 2005
The Twentieth Century Mr. Bowling

Readings:

	*Martin Gilbert, A History of the 20th Century (New York, 2002).
	Lillian Guerra, The Myth of Jose Marti; Conflicting Nationalisms in Early 20th Century Cuba (Chapel Hill, 2005).
	Paul O'Brien, Mussolini in the First World War (New York, 2005).
	Richard Rhodes, Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust (New York, 2002).
	Andrew Meier, Black Earth; A Journey through Russia After the Fall (New York, 2003).
	Barry Rubin & Judith Culp Rubin, Yasir Arafat; A Political Biography (New York, 2003).

reQUIREments:

1. Attendance.

2. Participation.

3. Readings.

4. Oral reports from library research (some class time provided; longer for graduate students).

5. Successful completion of two examinations.

Topics to be considered:

The Shape of Things in 1900--Belle Epoque, Fin de
Siecle

The Imperial System

The United States Looking Outward

Japan & China: A Study in Contrast

Origins and Course of the Great War

Bolshevik Communism: The Triumph of an Idea

Modernism in Culture

Between the Wars

The Fascist Idea

Depression & Adjustments

The Conflicts in Spain and in India

Origins and Course of the Second World War

Origins of the Cold War

Europe in the Ashes, and After

The Beginning of the End of Territorial Colonialism

The Economic Boom

The Third World Emerges

Socialism, Capitalism, Social Democracy

What Were the 1960s?

The Conclusion of the Cold War: Triumph of an
Uncertain West

“World Culture”

The Twentieth Century: An Autopsy