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11 Jan |
1. Introduction: What Is ‘Western’ History? Peter N. Stearns, Western Civilization in World History (New York, 2003), Part I: ‘Getting Western Civilization Started’ (pp. 21-56).
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18 Jan |
2. Classical Greece (c.600–323 BC) Herodotus, The History, 3.80-97 (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/herodotus-persdemo.asp). Xenophon, The Spartan Constitution, 1-8 (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1178/1178-h/1178-h.htm#link2H_4_0002). Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution, 1-11 James A. Andrews, ‘Pericles on the Athenian Constitution (Thuc. 2.37),’ American Journal of Philology 125.4 (2004): 539-561. |
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25 Jan |
3. The Hellenistic World (323–30 BC) Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 18.1-14, 26-29 (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html). Theocritus, Idylls, 15, 17 (http://www.theoi.com/Text/TheocritusIdylls3.html). Stanley Burstein, ‘Greek Identity in the Hellenistic Period,’ in Katerina Zacharia (ed.), Hellenisms: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity (London, 2008) 59-91. Laurianne Martinez-Sève, ‘The Spatial Organization of Ai Khanoum, a Greek City in Afghanistan,’ American Journal of Archaeology 118.2 (2014): 267-283. |
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1 Feb |
4. The Roman Empire (30 BC–AD 284) Res Gestae Divi Augusti (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Augustus/Res_Gestae/1*.html). Virgil, Aeneid, 6.660-893 (http://www.theoi.com/Text/VirgilAeneid6.html). Tacitus, Annals, 12.31-30, 14.29-39 (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html). Andrew Lintott, ‘What Was the “Imperium Romanum”?’ Greece & Rome 28.1 (1981): 53-67. Greg Woolf, ‘Beyond Romans and Natives,’ World Archaeology 28.3 (1997): 339-350. First Tutorial |
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8 Feb |
Lunar New Year Vacation (No Lecture or Tutorial) |
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15 Feb |
5. Late Antiquity (284–565) Eusebius of Caesarea, Life of Constantine, 1.11-40 (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/vita-constantine.asp). Theodosian Code, excerpts on religion (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/codex-theod1.asp). Priscus at the Court of Attila (http://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/priscus.html). Procopius, Buildings, 1.1-5 (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Buildings/home.html). Averil Cameron, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 395-700 AD (New York, 2012), Introduction; ch. 2: ‘The Empire and the Barbarians.’
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22 Feb |
6. From Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (565–c.900) The ‘Donation of Constantine’ (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/donatconst.asp). Einhard, Life of Charlemagne (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/einhard.asp). Peter Brown, ‘“Mohammed and Charlemagne” by Henri Pirenne,’ Daedalus 103.1 (1974): 25-33. Neil Christie, ‘Charlemagne and the Renewal of Rome’, in Joanna Story (ed.), Charlemagne: Empire and Society (Manchester, 2005), 167-182. |
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1 Mar |
7. Popes, Kings, and Emperors: The High Middle Ages (c.900–1204) Urban II, Five Versions of the Speech at Clermont (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/urban2-5vers.asp). Suger of Saint-Denis, Life of Louis the Fat (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/suger-louisthefat.asp). Five Documents on the Besançon Episode of 1157 (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/besancon.asp). Elizabeth A.R. Brown, ‘The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe,’ American Historical Review 79.4 (1974): 1063-1088. Sandy B. Hicks, ‘The Investiture Controversy of the Middle Ages, 1075-1122: Agreement and Disagreement Among Historians,’ Journal of Church and State 15.1 (1973): 5-20. Second Tutorial |
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8 Mar |
8. The Late Middle Ages (1204–1453) Gregory IX, Statutes for the University of Paris (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/uparis-stats1231.asp). Jacques de Vitry, History of the West 2.7 (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/vitry1.asp). Boccaccio, Decameron, proem, 1.1-6 (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3726/pg3726.html). Donald Sullivan, ‘The End of the Middle Ages: Decline, Crisis, or Transformation?’ History Teacher 14.4 (1981): 551-565. David Herlihy, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West (Cambridge, MA, 1997), ch. 2: ‘The New Economic and Demographic System’. |
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15 Mar |
9. Renaissance and Reformation (1453–1648) Martin Luther, 95 Theses (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/luther95.txt). Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, prefaces (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25326/25326-h/25326-h.htm). Euan Cameron, ‘The Turmoil of Faith,’ in Euan Cameron (ed.), The Sixteenth Century(Oxford, 2006), 145-173. Paul F. Grendler, ‘The Universities of the Renaissance and Reformation,’ Renaissance Quarterly 57.1 (2004): 1-42. Derek Croxton, ‘The Peace of Westphalia of 1648 and the Origins of Sovereignty,’ International History Review 21.3 (1999): 569-591. Second Short Take-Home Paper Due |
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22 Mar |
10. Trade and Exploration (1453–1700) Amerigo Vespucci, Letter to Pier Soderini (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1497vespucci-america.asp). Edward Haies, Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s Voyage to Newfoundland (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1585haies-gilbert.asp). Anonymous, Ferdinand Magellan’s Voyage Around the World (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1519magellan.asp). D.A. Brading, ‘Europe and a World Expanded,’ in Euan Cameron (ed.), The Sixteenth Century(Oxford, 2006), 174-199. Elizabeth Mancke, ‘Early Modern Expansion and the Politicization of Oceanic Space,’ Geographical Review 89.2 (1999): 225-236. J.H. Elliot, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 (New Haven, 2006), ch. 5: ‘Crown and Colonists.’ Third Tutorial |
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29 Mar |
11. Enlightenment and Revolution (1700–1800) Thomas Paine, Common Sense Declaration of the Rights of Man (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp). Olympe de Gouge, Declaration of the Rights of Women (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1791degouge1.asp). Sebastian Conrad, ‘Enlightenment in Global History: A Historiographical Critique,’ American Historical Review 117.4 (2012): 999-1027. Michael Sonenscher, ‘Enlightenment and Revolution,’ Journal of Modern History 70.2 (1998): 371-383. |
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5 Apr |
Reading Week (No Lecture or Tutorial) |
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12 Apr |
12. Industry and Empire (1800–1910) John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, excerpt on colonisation (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1849jsmill-colonies.asp). Charles Creighton Hazewell, ‘British India’, The Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1857 (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1857/11/british-india/531183/). Captain F.D. Lugard, The Rise of Our East African Empire (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1893lugard.asp). Roger Owen, ‘Egypt and Europe: From French Expedition to British Occupation,’ in Roger Owen and Bob Sutcliffe (edd.), Studies in the Theory of Imperialism (London, 1972), 195-209. Krishan Kumar, ‘Greece and Rome in the British Empire: Contrasting Role Models,’ Journal of British Studies 51.1 (2012): 76-101. Third Short Take-Home Paper Due |
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19 Apr |
13. The World at War (1910–1945) A.J.P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War (New York, 1962), ch. 1: ‘Forgotten Problem;’ ch. 2 ‘The Legacy of the First World War;’ ch. 3. ‘The Post-War Decade.’ Hugh Trevor-Roper, ‘A.J.P. Taylor, Hitler, and the War,’ Encounter 17.2 (1961), 88-96 (http://www.unz.com/print/Encounter-1961jul-00088). A.J.P. Taylor, ‘How to Quote: Exercises for Beginners,’ Encounter 17.3 (1961), 72-73 (http://www.unz.com/print/Encounter-1961sep-00072). Keir A. Lieber, ‘The New History of World War I and What It Means for International Relations Theory,’ International Security 32.2 (2007): 155-191. Fourth Tutorial; Map and Timeline Quiz in Lecture |
