Doctor of Philosophy in English
A History of the World since 1300
Jeremy Adelman
This course will examine the ways in which the world has grown more integrated yet more divided over the past 700 years.
Course Schedule
All suggested readings are from Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World: From 1000 CE to the Present (Third Edition) (Vol. 2).
Week 1: September 16
Lecture 1: Peoples and Plunderers
Lecture 2: Warfare and Motion
Lecture 2: Warfare and Motion
Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, chap. 11
Week 2: September 23
Lecture 3: Clashing Worlds
Lecture 4: Atlantic Worlds
Lecture 4: Atlantic Worlds
Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, chap. 12
Global Dialogue: Robert L. Tignor
Week 3: September 30
Lecture 5: Indian Ocean Worlds
Lecture 6: The Worlds that Merchants Made
Lecture 6: The Worlds that Merchants Made
Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, chap. 13
Global Dialogue: Molly Greene and Anthony Grafton
Week 4: October 7
Lecture 7: East Asian Dynamism and the Seventeenth-Century Global Crisis
Lecture 8: Empire and Enlightenment
Lecture 8: Empire and Enlightenment
Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, chap. 14
Assignment 1 Due: October 7, 6 p.m. ET
Week 5: October 14
Lecture 9: The World in Revolution
Lecture 10: States and Nations
Lecture 10: States and Nations
Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, chap. 15
Global Dialogue: Ben Elman
Week 6: October 21
Lecture 11: Global Frontiers
Lecture 12: Empires and Nations
Lecture 12: Empires and Nations
Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, chap. 16
Assignment 2 Due: October 21, 6 p.m. ET
Global Dialogue: TBD
FALL BREAK
Week 7: November 4th
Lecture 13: Worlds in Motion
Lecture 14: Empire Redux
Lecture 14: Empire Redux
Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, chap. 17
Assignment 3 Due: November 4, 6 p.m. ET
Global Dialogue: TBD
Week 8: November 11
Lecture 15: Retreat of the Elephants
Lecture 16: The World, 1914
Lecture 16: The World, 1914
Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, chap. 17
Global Dialogue: TBD
Week 9: November 18th
Lecture 17: Civilization and its Discontents
Lecture 18: Worlds at War
Lecture 18: Worlds at War
Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, chap. 18
Week 10: November 25
Lecture 19: Atrocities
Lecture 20: Aftermaths
Lecture 20: Aftermaths
Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, chap. 19
Assignment 4 Due: November 25, 6 p.m. ET
Global Dialogue: Gyan Prakash
Week 11: December 2
Lecture 21: Recoveries
Lecture 22: Inventing the Third World
Lecture 22: Inventing the Third World
Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, chap. 20
Global Dialogue: Anne McCauley
Week 12: December 9
Lecture 23: Crisis and Globalization
Lecture 24: The Cunning of History
Lecture 24: The Cunning of History
Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, chap. 21
Assignment 5 Due: December 9, 6 p.m. ET
Global Dialogue: John Ikenberry
Week 13: December 16th
Assignment 6 Due: December 16, 6 p.m. ET
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