MIR 560

EMERGENCE OF MODERN EUROPE

SUMMER 2017

Cengiz

The purpose of this course is to cultivate an understanding of the rise of the European hegemony from a world historical perspective. Against the widely employed "Eurocentric" approach narrating the last five centuries of world history as the "inevitable" expansion of European civilization into non-European areas, this course will attempt to show the complex nature of historical development, and to underline the crucial task of writing the peoples of non-Western areas into the rise of Europe. The course illustrates this complexity by comparing developments in China, South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas.

Course Schedule
  1. Introduction: Is Europe Unique? (June 19)

Immanuel Wallerstein, “Medieval Prelude”

  1. The “Columbian Exchange,” the Atlantic Economy and Africa (June 21)

Philip D. Curtin, “The Tropical Atlantic in the Age of Slave Trade”

July 26 NO CLASS (BayramTatili)

  1. Subjects and Citizens (June 28)

Richard Bulliet,et. al. “Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850”

  1. Industrial Europe (July 3)

Eric Hobsbawm, “The Emergence of the Industrial World”

  1. British Hegemony in the Age of Liberalism (July 5)

Richard Johnson, “British Imperialism”

  1. Sharing the Spoil: Imperialism (July 10)

Eric Hobsbawm, “The Age of Imperialism”

  1. The Great War (July 12)

Eric Hobsbawm, “The Age of Total War”

  1. From Empires to Nations (July 17)

Eric Hobsbawm, “Nations and Nationalisms since 1780”

  1. The Crisis of Capitalism (July 19)

Eric Hosbawm, “Into the Economic Abyss”

  1. The Rise of Fascism and World War II (July 24)

Eric Hosbawm, “Against the Common Enemy”

  1. Decolonization, Cold Warand the Three-World Order (July 26)

Eric Hobsbawm, “The Cold War, ” and “The Third World”

  1. Globalization and the World at the End of the 20th Century (August 1)

David Harvey, “A Brief History of Neoliberalism”