Professor Gershon Shafir
MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD 5:
REVOLUTION, INDUSTRY, AND EMPIRE
A consideration of the great changes in European society from the French and Industrial Revolutions to the Russian Revolution and their impact on the
non-Western world. Topics will include the Absolutist state, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the rise of nationalism and the nation-state, Western imperialism
and the colonial experience in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, Japan, and Africa, Positivism, Modernism, socialism, the crisis of liberalism and the First World
War. Developments in non-Western countries will also be examined from their internal perspective.
WEBPAGE: http://weber.ucsd.edu/~gshafir/index.html
Lecture Outline Slide Show for MMW5
ASSIGNMENTS: Midterm (50%) and final (50%).
REQUIRED READINGS:
*Voltaire, Candide.
*Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness.
*Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart.
*Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From the Underground, Part One & Part Two, Section I.
Richard W. Bulliet et. al., The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History , Boston, Houghton Mifflin (excerpts).
*The Times Concise Atlas of World History, revised edition.
*Reader for MMW5.
The Reader is available from University Printing Service, the books from the University Bookstore.
Reading assignments for each subject (numbered pages refer to the Reader and to the accompanying textbook respectively):
I. EUROPE AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
July 3
Voltaire, Candide
(1) John Locke, "A Letter Concerning Toleration" 1
(2) Voltaire, "On the Presbeterians" 9
Bulliet, pp.513-516, 535-541.
II. THE ANCIENT REGIME AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
July 5
(3) French Revolution Time Line 11
(4) "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" 13
(5) Mary Wollstonecraft, selection from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 15
Bulliet, pp.516-528, 649-651, 678-699, 807-810.
III. THE RISE OF CAPITALISM AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
July 10
(6) Andrew Ure, selections from The Philosophy of Manufactures 23
(7) P. Calquhoun, selections from A Treatise on Indigence 29
(8) Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, selections from The Manifesto of the Communist Party 31
(9) T.H.Marshall, selections from Class, Citizenship and Social Development 43
Bulliet, pp. 528-535, 653-674, 676.
IV. ROMANTICISM, NATIONALISM, AND REVOLUTION FROM ABOVE
July 12
(10) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, selections from The Reveries of the Solitary Walker 49
(11) Heinrich von Kleist, "Earthquake in Chile" 57
(12) Charlees Buadelaire," The Life and Work of Eugene Delacroix" 65
(13) Heinrich von Treitschke, selections from Politics 71
Bulliet, pp.699-705, 810-815.
V. WESTERNIZATION, MODERNIZATION, AND NATIONALISM IN MEIJI JAPAN
July 17, 19
(14) "Charter Oath" (1866) 81
(15) "The Imperial Rescript on Education" (1890) 83
(16) Thomas C. Smith, "Japan's Aristocratic Revolution," in his Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization 85
Bulliet, pp. 786-791, 820-823.
MIDTERM
July 19
VI. MODERNIZATION AND NATIONALISM IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
July 24, 26
(17) Judith Tucker, selections from Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt 93
(18) Halide Edib Adivar, selections from "Beginnings of Change" 105
(19) James J. Reid, ""Total War, the Annihilation Ethic, and the Armenian Genocide," from The Armenian Genocide 113
(20) Sayyid Jamal al-din al-Afghani, An Islamic Response to Imperialism," & Islamic Solidarity" 127
(21) Muhhamad Abduh, "Islam, Reason, and Civilization" 133
Bulliet, pp. 674-675, 739-740, 764-775.
VII. IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA & MODERNIST EUROPEAN CULTURE
July 26 & 31
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
(22) Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" 137
(23) Karl Pearson, selections from The Grammar of Science 139
(24) Charles Darwin, selections from The Origins of Species 145
Bulliet, pp.814-815, 827-841.
VIII. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION & FIRST WORLD WAR
July 31 & August 2
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground, pp.1-65.
(25) Alexander Herzen, selections from The Russian People and Socialism 149
(26) Fyodor Dostoevsky, selections from The Brothers Karamazov 155
(27) Nikolai Chernishevsky, selections from What Is To be Done? 165
(28) Leon Trotsky, "Permanent Revolution" 175
(29) V.I. Lenin, "What Is Soviet Power" 177
Bulliet, pp. 674, 815-820, 855-870.