University of Dayton     Department of History

HST 103:  The West and the World


Dr. Juan C. Santamarina
Office Hours:  T-Th 9:30-10:30am , and by appointment.  HM 443.
santamar@udayton.edu
Office Phone: (937) 229-2834

THIS WEBPAGE WAS LAST UPDATED 12/9/2009 at 10:00am



I.  COURSE BASICS
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

FINAL EXAM REVIEW IS CURRENT AND FINAL

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READINGS
COURSE DESCRIPTION, REQUIREMENTS, AND GRADING

II.  IMPORTANT DATES
Term Paper Proposals Due Tues (Week 10)
Exam # 1 Review Posted
Exam #1  Tues (Week 7)
Exam # 2 Review Posted
Exam #2 Thurs (Week 13)
Term Papers Draft Due for Peer Review Thurs (Week 15)
Print and bring with you this peer review
Term Papers Final Draft Due Thurs (Week 16) (December 10, 2009)
FINAL EXAM: HST 103 (WEDNESDAY, DEC 16, 2009, 12:20-2:10)

III.  WEEKLY SCHEDULE
 

I. ORIGINS OF GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE, 1500-1800

Week 1 (8/24)

READ:  Primary Documents Selections

TOPIC:

Week 2 (8/31) READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 23-25, Edible History of Humanity, Introduction

TOPIC:

  • Why did Europeans Expand into the Wider World?  Early Global Connections 
  • Encounter:  Spain in the Americas:  Conquistadors FILM
Week 3 (9/7--Monday--Labor Day No Classes) READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpts. 26-27, Edible History of Humanity, Chapter 1
Equiano's Travels

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TOPIC:

  • Good and Noble Savages:  What was happening in Europe that Contributed to Expansion?  A New World of Reason and Motion: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, 1600-1800
  • Encounter:  Were There Other Empires?  Beyond Glory, Gold, and God:  African Empires and the Slave Trade
Week 4 (9/14) READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpts. 28-29, Edible History of Humanity, Chapter 2

TOPIC:

II. REVOLUTION, INDUSTRY, AND EMPIRE, 1750-1914

Week 5 (9/21)

READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 30
READ FOR DISCUSSION:  John Locke, EXCERPTS FROM The Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690) and The Declaration of Independence, 1776

US CONSTITUTION

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TOPIC:

Week 6 (9/28) TUESDAY:  The Declaration of Independence, 1776

THURSDAY:  EXAM #1 Review


Week 7 (10/5)
  • TUESDAY---EXAM #1

  • THURSDAY--NO CLASSES
  • Week 8 (10/12) TUESDAY:  READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 32, Edible History of Humanity, Chapters 3-4

    TOPIC:




    THURSDAY:  READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 31, Edible History of Humanity, Chapter 5
    Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844)


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    TOPIC:

    • How did the New Emerging Economies Change the World?  Factories, Cities, and Families in the Industrial Age: The Industrial Revolution and Industrial Society
    Week 9 (10/19) READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 33-34, Edible History of Humanity, Chapter 6
    READ FOR DISCUSSION:  Captain F. D. Lugard, The Rise of Our East African Empire (1893)

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    TOPIC:
    • How did Europeans Expand in the 19th Century?  A New Glory, Gold, and God:  Empires Fall, Empires Rise  Orientalism
    III. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

    Week 10 (10/26)

    READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 35, Edible History of Humanity, Chapter 7
    Siegfried Sassoon, "Attack" And Other Poems

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    TOPIC:

    • Why did Europe Blow Itself Up?  Big Industry, Big Guns, and the Search for Big Peace:  War and Upheaval, 1900-1918
    Week 11 (11/2) READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 36, Edible History of Humanity, Chapter 8
    READ FOR DISCUSSION:  Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor (1935) 


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    TOPIC:

    • Western Society in Chaos:  World Depression
    Week 12 (11/9) READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 37, Edible History of Humanity, Chapter 9

    TOPIC:

    • Why Did the World Blow Itself Up...Again?  America's Rise to Supremacy
    Week 13 (11/16)
  • TUESDAY---EXAM #2
  • THURSDAY--NO CLASSES

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    Week 14 (11/23---THURSDAY IS THANKSGIVING--NO CLASSES) READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 38-39, Edible History of Humanity, Chapter 10

    TOPIC:

    • How did the World Change with the Dissolution of Formal Empires?  A new World Order Emerging
    IV. CONCLUSION

    Week 15 (11/30)

    Week 16 (12/7)

    • Thu, Dec 8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception—Christmas on Campus—no classes
    • LAST DAY OF CLASSES IS 12/10/09

     

    READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 40, Edible History of Humanity, Chapters 11-Epilogue
     

    TOPIC:

    • The Poverty of Progress?  America's Second Half Century
    • Semester Review