Course Assignments: World History from 1500

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VICTOR VALLEY COLLEGE Fall 2009 WORLD HISTORY 104 All Sections Instructor: Dr. Eric Mayer, Office No. ScL26 EMAIL: history104@gmail.com Website: www.emayzine.com

Week 1 – 19 October

Readings:

Wolf - Chapters 5 to 9, Roberts Book 5
BE SURE TO READ--The Writing Guide
Lecture 1: 1500, A New World
1a: Spain in the Americas
The Tupac Amaru Revolt
Lecture 2: The Fur Trade
Impact of the Fur Trade
Lecture 3: Africa, Coerced Global Labor
Lecture 3a: Africa, The Mfecane/Dificane
Lecture 4: China and the Modern World System
Lecture 7: The Rise of Northern Europe
ESSAY EXAMINATION 1 DUE 29 October
ESSAY EXAMINATION 2 DUE 9 November
BOOK ANALYSIS DUE 21 November
BOOK REVIEW ASSIGNMENT 1 December
FINAL EXAM DUE DUE 12 December

Week 2 – 26 October... Finish the Wolf book, Roberts book 6

Readings:

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Lecture 6: New Ideologies, Rationalism and Revolution
Political Development of England: 1660-1800
Lecture 8: Industrialism in England 1700-1850
Lecture 10: Latin American Independence
Mexico After Independence
Lecture 9: Japan, 1600-1860

Week 3 – 1 November...Roberts Book 7

	Readings:
Roberts pp. 882-931 - Lecture 5: China, 1850-1900 The Modernization of Mexico 1850-1900 Egypt 1800-1936 Lecture 11: Latin America-- Neocolonialism Lecture12: Japanese Modernization1860-1900 The "Gilded Age" in the United States The Road to World War I Lecture 13: World War I: The Beginning of the Second Thirty Years War Russian Revolution Rise of the CCP (China)

Week 4 – 8 November..read Roberts Book 7...Begin reading Hobsbawm chs. 1-9

Readings:

- Finish Roberts Book 8
Germany and Japan, 1919-1945
Japan in the 1930's: Military Keynsianism
Stalinism as a Development Policy
Mexican Economic Nationalism: 1930's
World War II
War in the Pacific
Post-War Japan: Statist Development

Week 5 – 15 November..Roberts Book 8 Finish Roberts...Begin reading Hobsbawm chs. 10-19

Audio Lectures:

Readings:

- Finish Roberts
Iran in the 20th Century
The Cold War: Historical Overview
The Cold War/Cruel Peace
China in the 20th Century
Indonesian History
Sukarno
"The Mexican Miracle": 1940-1968--Statist Development
Extra credit film review: A Year of Living Dangerously

Week 6 – 22 November...Finish reading Hobsbawm, chs. 10-19

Readings:

Africa: 1830-1990 History of El Salvador Into the 21st Century: Battle for Economic (and Political) Dominance Post Modernisim: The Logic of Late Capitalism Problems in the Global Economy For a Unified History of the 20th Century Authoritarian Regimes in the 20th Century Three Strikes Against the New Economy The Coming Crisis in the Persian Gulf The Political Economy the Persian Gulf States Governments and the Global Markets Capitalism in the 21st Century Workings of the Global Financial Markets