The lectures over the next few weeks won’t match up with the textbook quite as closely as usual. The 20th century can be looked at in a lot of different ways: though I like what Fernandez-Armesto is trying to do with the last four chapters, I think that a more chronologically focused presentation might be helpful. So here’s what’s going to happen over the next few weeks:
Topics | readings | |
11/14 (F) | Science and uncertainty. | Chapter 27: The Twentieth-Century Mind: Western Science And The World(from ch. 28) Soldier’s Accounts of Battle and François Carlotti, from “World War I: A Frenchman’s Recollections” and British Soldiers on the Battle of the Somme |
11/17 (M) | Politics of crisis and war: totalitarianisms and nationalisms | Chapter 28: World Order And Disorder: Global Politics In The Twentieth CenturyBenito Mussolini, from “The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism” |
11/19 (W) | Technology of war: WWI and WWII Catch-up/Review |
Technologies of WWI and WWII |
11/21 (F) | Test 7 (Instructor Absent) | |
11/24 (M) | Long Essay Part One: Timeline | |
11/26 (W) | Thanksgiving Break | |
11/28 (F) | Thanksgiving Break | |
12/1 (M) | Cold War and internationalism | Chapter 29: The Pursuit Of Utopia: Civil Society In The Twentieth CenturyCold War Chronology
UN “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” 1948 |
12/3 (W) | Technology and ecology | Chapter 30: The Embattled Biosphere: The Twentieth-Century Environment |
12/5 (F) | Long Essay Part Two: Thesis, Outline | |
12/8 (M) | Social and cultural change Catch-up/Review |
Sayyid Qutb, from Milestones, 1964 |
12/10 (W) | Test 8 | |
12/12 (F) | Long Essay Due Catch-up/ReviewLast day of instruction |