Prof. Marcuse, "World History, 1700-present"
UCSB Hist 2c, Spring 2006
(course homepage; prof's homepage)
Reader Table Of Contents

Reader
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Name of Source

page no. in printed reader

Week 1


"The Global Village:" 1996 e-mail and 2001 research report
(in-section handout)

Week 2

1
2

Th. Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), 1-3,10-13,52-7,66-9,92-5,111f,160-73
K. Wolf, "Eva Perón and Golda Meir," in: Personalities & Problems (1994), 113-126

1
20

Week 3

book

Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (1789) (B. Carey's resources; Where was E. born?)

Week 4

3

4
5

6

Michael Sadler (bio) Report, 1832 (different excerpt online)
J. Robertson, "Condition of Manchester," 1840 (Welborn) (Engels' 1844 report)
Social Democratic Party of Germany, Erfurt Program, 1891 (Welborn) (text)
Josef Stalin, Speech about the first five year plan, 1933 (Welborn)
(full text)
           (wiki bio; documents at casahistoria-see 3c; 1930s articles)
Sun Yat-sen (wsu bio), History of the Chinese Revolution, 1923 (Kishlansky)(this text+intro)

27
32
34
37

Week 5

7
8
9

Simon Bolivar, Jamaican Letter excerpt, 1815 (Welborn) (wiki bio; full text online @ Emory)
Giuseppe Mazzini on his conversion to Italian nationalism in 1821 (Welborn) (wiki bio)
Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932 (Sherman) (wiki bio;excerpt;longer excerpt)

43
45
48

Week 6

10

11
12

Lin Zexu (Lin Tse Hsü), Letter of advice to Queen Victoria, 1839 (Andrea/Overfield)
(
translated 1954, 1971, 1992, ?)(wiki bio)
Tokugawa Nariaki (1800-1860), Japan, Reject the Westerners, 1853 (Sherman) (Brittanica bio)
Justification for War, 1936[?], Okawa Shumei and Hashimoto Kingoro (Tsunoda, 1964)
(Brittanica Shumei bio; HK text @ UCLA)

49
52
55

Week 7

discussion of event/book analysis paper topics (refer to Rampolla, Guide)

Week 8

13

14
15
16
17

Flora Annie Steel, The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, 1888 (DiCaprio/Wiesner)
(wiki bio)
German women’s letters on colonization, 1898-1912 (DiCaprio/Wiesner)
Emmeline Pankhurst, "Why we are Militant," 1913 (DiCaprio/Wiesner)
(Time bio; partial text, 1914 autobio)

Dutch Suffagists, "A Call to the Women of All Nations," 1915 (DiCaprio/Wiesner)
A. Kollontai, "Theses on Communist Morality in … Marital Relations," 1921 (bio; text)

57
62

69
74
77

Week 9

18
19
20
21

Balfour Declaration (1917); UN Resolution 242 (1967); PLO National Charter (1968)
Kwame Nkrumah, The Volta River Project, 1961 (Obeng) (wiki bio; 1966 dedication speech)
Editorial: The Volta, a Reality (1965); Interview Abena Animwaa (2005) (Miescher)
Nelson Mandela, Speech to the Court, Apr. 20, 1964 (Welborn)
                                (ANC profile; text @ anc.org; Observer, ngnews, cnn, audio)

83
86
93
96

Week 10a

22
23
24
25

Winston Churchill, The Iron Curtain, 1946 (text); Nikita Khrushchev, Report, 1956 (wiki)
The Marshall Plan (New York Times, 1947) (in Congressional Record)
Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence, 1945; Appeal to Nation, 1968 (Kishlansky)(text)
Ali Mazrui and Michael Tidy, Reviving African Culture (1984) (Sherman) (2000 Mazrui lect.)

100
102
106
110

Week 10b

26
27
28

Vaclav Havel, "Living in Truth," 1986 (Kishlansky) (official bio; wiki bio; 1986 book)
Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika, 1987 (Welborn) (1988 article; wiki def)
Vaclav Havel, "The Failure of Communism," 1990 (Perry)
(full text)

111
113
117

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