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CONTENTS

SUMMARY

A. THE FIRST MODERN EMPIRES.

B. ASIA IN THE EARLY EUROPEAN IMPERIAL ERA.

C. AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE EARLY EUROPEAN IMPERIAL ERA.

D. CHALLENGES TO THE DEVELOPING ORDER.

E. EUROPEAN REVIVAL.

F. THE NEW CONQUEST.

G. WAR, DEPRESSION, DISINTEGRATION.

H. THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD.

UNIT A. THE FIRST MODERN EMPIRES

1. IMPERIALISM AS WORLD HISTORY

a. Empire Building before the Modern Era

b. The European Explosion 1415-1700

2. THE MOTIVATIONS FOR IMPERIALISM

c. Military and diplomatic factors

d. Intellectual factors

e. Local/Individual effort

3. THE AMERICAN EMPIRES

a. The Iberian Empires

b. British North America

c. Impact of the Conquest

4. STRUGGLE FOR EMPIRE

5. DISCUSSION OF ASSIGNED READINGS

UNIT B. ASIA IN THE EARLY EUROPEAN IMPERIAL ERA

1. INTRODUCTION

a. Contrasting experiences

b. First western contacts

c. Asia in global history

2. CHINA

c. Manchu China

d. The European arrival

b. The rise of the Tokugawa

c. Self-isolation

4. INDIA

b. Moghul empire

c. Rise of the independent states

d. European conquest

5. DISCUSSION OF READINGS

C. AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE EARLY EUROPEAN IMPERIAL ERA

1. INTRODUCTION

a. Geographical and historical connections

1. Major African civilizations

2. The Middle Eastern world

c. Birth of Islam

d. Europe and the Arabic-African World before 1415

2. ARAB CULTURE, TURKISH EMPIRE

b. Rise of the Ottoman Empire

c. The Euro-Turkish conflict

d. Ottoman decline

3. EUROPE AND AFRICA IN THE AGE OF SLAVERY

a. Western exploration and colonization begins

b. Slavery in the modern age: Introduction

c. Slavery and the African Diaspora

1. Types of slavery

2. Historical development of slavery

3. Transatlantic Slave Trade

b. Africa and the slave trade

c. Europe and the slave trade

4. The life of the slave

4. EUROPE AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD

a. The Mediterranean tide turns

b. The impact of the Middle East on Europe

c. Concluding questions

5. DISCUSSION OF READINGS

D. CHALLENGES TO THE DEVELOPING ORDER

1. INTRODUCTION

2. THE ENLIGHTENMENT

b. Enlightened absolutism

3. COLONIAL RESISTANCE

a. Commonalities

b. The United States, 1775-1789

(2) Outbreak & early fighting

(3) Suppression fails

(4) What did it mean?

c. The revolutions in Latin America

(1) Introduction

(3) Early revolts

(5) Conclusion: Things to think about

d. Resistance elsewhere

4. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

a. Establishment of the Republic

(1) Introduction

(3) The fiscal crisis

(4) The King and his court

(5) The Revolution begins

(6) The Revolution in crisis

b. The revolutionary republic

(2) The Jacobins rule

(3) The Directory

(4) The Revolution in the Bonapartist age

c. Legacy

(2) The conquest

6. DISCUSSION OF READINGS

E. EUROPEAN REVIVAL

1.THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

a. Industrialization begins

(1) Introduction

(3) The Industrial Revolution begins: Britain

(4) Economic Liberalism

(5) Emergence of Socialism

b. Industrialization spreads and matures

(1) Introduction

(2) The Second Industrial Revolution in Britain

(3) The Second Industrial Revolution elsewhere

(4) What did it really mean for people?

2. STABILIZATION AND CHALLENGES

a. The New Order

(1) Introduction

(2) Crisis and progress in the West

(3) Stability abroad: The Congress of Vienna

(4) Stability at home: Keeping the lid on

b. The great challenge: 1848

(1) A continental revolution: why?

(2) Opponents of the 'Restoration'

(3) The rise and fall of the revolutions

c. The western nation-state after 1848

d. Changing ideas

3. DISCUSSION OF READINGS

F. THE NEW CONQUEST

1. INTRODUCTION

2. AFRICA: PARTITION AND IMPACT

3. THE FAR EAST

4. CONQUEST OF THE NOMADS

5. THE BIRTH OF NATIONALISM IN THE EMPIRES

7. DISCUSSION OF READINGS.

G. WAR, DEPRESSION, DISINTEGRATION

1. INTRODUCTION

2. WORLD WAR I

a. Origins and outbreak

1. Summary of major points

2. The balance of power

(a) What is a balance of power?

(b) The balance of power before World War I

(c) The major powers

3. The road to war

(a) The Western powers on the eve of disaster

(b) Diplomatic and military events

(d) attitude toward causes

b. Conduct

1. Expectations and reality

2. 1914: The clash *notes followed by statistics on strengths of warring nations*

3. 1915: The clinch

4. 1916: The great offensives

5. 1917: Crisis\

6. 1918: The collapse

7. Outcome *notes followed by casualty statistics*

8. The USA and WWI

3. FOUR CRISES

a. Russia

2. Reform is tried

4. Stubborn weakness

5. Background to revolution

6. The collapse of Tsarist Russia

7. Uneasy interlude

8. Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War

c. Global economy

d. Radical ideologies

1. Nazism and fascism

2. The spread of fascism

3. Nazism and Hitler

4. WORLD WAR II

1. The European theater

2. The Asian theater

b. Conduct

1. Nazi Victories

4. The Japanese advance

5. The tide turns: the Pacific

6. The tide turns: Europe

7. The destruction of the Third Reich

8. Japan defeated

c. Implications and conclusion

5. DISCUSSION OF READINGS

H. THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

1. THE NEW NATIONS

a. The end of empires

b. Sources of weakness

c. Revolts and wars

d. Decolonialiazation

2. THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE

a. What was it?

b. Outbreak and early crises

c. The Cold War in the nuclear age

d. Implications

3. A NEW WORLD ORDER?

a. The rise and fall of the Soviet Union

1) What killed Communism?

2) Post-war reform

4) The last act

b. The fall and rise of Europe

1) The economic miracle

a) introduction

c) recovery; where, how, why

5. DISCUSSION OF READINGS