MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

Readings:

*Michael Howard & William Roger Lewis, The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century (New York, 1998).

Patrick manning, Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa 1880-1995 (Cambridge, 1998).

Nirad c. Chaudhuri, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (New York, 1951).

M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj & Other Writings (Cambridge, 1997) .

Istvan Deak, Essays on Hitler’s Europe (Lincoln, 2001).

Mark Harrison, ed., The Economics of World War II  (Cambridge, 1998).

Pierre Manent, The City of Man (Princeton, 1995).

Alma Guillermoprieto, Samba (New york, 1990).     

*Textbook.

 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

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