MMW 22 Course Materials (Summer Session II 2012)

Making of the Modern World: Exploring the Modern World (Summer Session 2012)

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MIDTERM ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 28TH

FINAL EXAM ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH (11:30AM-2:30PM)

Handouts
  1. Making of the Modern World 22 Syllabus Summer 2012 REVISED
  2. Midterm Review Guide (MMW22 Summer Session 2012)
  3. Final Exam Review Guide REVISED (MMW22 Summer Session 2012)
  4. Turnitin.com Instructions for Students
  5. Manage Anxiety
Relevant Links
  1. In-Class Video: Credit Where It’s Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
  2. In-Class Video (1:18-14:31 & 24:00-35:44): Paths of Glory
  3. In-Class Video (0:46-13:55): The Shock of the New: The Powers that Be
  4. In-Class Video (0:00-23:35): China: A Century of Revolution (1911-1949)
  5. Republicans, Dadaists Declare War on Art
Music and Poetry of the Course
  1. Le ça ira (1790)
  2. La Marseillaise (1792)
  3. Robert Burns, “A Man’s a Man for A’ That” (1795), and another version, and a handsome, young gentleman sings this one.
  4. William Blake, “Preface to Milton” (1804)
  5. William Wordsworth, “The World is Too Much With Us” (1807)
  6. Richard Wagner, “Tristan und Isolde” (1857-9)
  7. Modest Mussorgsky, “Pictures at an Exhibition” (1874)
  8. Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (1899)
  9. Rupert Brooke, “The Soldier” (1914)
  10. Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum est” (1917)
  11. Constantine Cavafy, “Waiting for the Barbarians” (1904)
  12. William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” (1919)
  13. W.H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” (1939)
  14. Igor Stravinsky, “The Rite of Spring” (1913)
  15. Paul Celan, “Death Fugue” (1944), in German
Beautiful Things
  1. Smetana, “Die Moldau“
  2. Claudio Monteverdi, “Zefiro Torna“
  3. Bach, “Matthäus Passion“
  4. Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose“
  5. Leonard Cohen, “Anthem“
  6. Charles Bukowski, “The Laughing Heart“
E-Readings:
  1. Kenneth Pomeranz, “Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global Conjuncture” (2002) 
  2. Jared Diamond, “What Makes Countries Rich or Poor?” (2012)
  3. John Williamson, “What Washington Means by Policy Reform” (1990)
Optional E-Readings:
  1. Samuel Huntington, “Democracy’s Third Wave” (1991)
  2. Amartya Sen, “Democracy as a Universal Value” (1999)
  3. Friedrich Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society” (1945)
  4. Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History?” (1989)
Lecture Powerpoints
  1. Lecture #1: The Malthusian Economy and The Great Divergence
  2. Lecture #2: Enlightenment and the Social Contract
  3. Lecture #3: Revolutions, Economic and Political
  4. Lecture #4: The New Spirits of the Age
  5. Lecture #5: Ism, Ism, Ism
  6. Lecture #6: Imperialism in Africa, India, and China
  7. Lecture #7: The World in Upheaval
  8. Lecture #8: Responses to the Liberal Order
  9. Lecture #9: Liberalism Triumphant