HIST W3956, Spring 2006, MW 5:40-6:55
Prof. Adam McKeown, x49121, amm2009@columbia.edu
Office Hours, M 2-4 and by appointment,
Fayerweather 516
TA: Sam White: saw2105@columbia.edu
Suggested books
for final critique.
Schedule:
W: Jan 18:
Introduction:
Readings:
David
Christian, "World History in Context," Journal of World History 14,
no. 4. (2003): 437-458. (Download via CLIO)
M: Jan. 23
Eurasian Interactions, 1350-1750
Notes (with
links to more maps and pictures)
World Population, 500
BCE-2000
World Population
by regions, 1650-2000
Old Maps: Aztec, European
1109, Islamic
1109, Chinese
1402, Genovese
1457, Ptolemy
1482, Japan
1645, Korean
18c.
W: Jan 25
What is
Capitalism? What is the Market?
Readings:
Marks, Origins of the Modern World, ch. 1-3.
Recommended,
C.A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World (Blackwell, 2004)
M: Jan 30
W: Feb 1
Trade Diasporas
and Joint Stock Companies: Early Transnationals?
Tribute to Akbar,
British Resident
Map of British and
Mughals in India
Readings:
C.A. Bayly, "From Archaic Globalization to
International Networks."
Ken Pomeranz, "Two Worlds of Trade, Two
Worlds of Empire."
Pomeranz and Topik, The World that Trade
Created, 28-43.
Janice Thomson, Mercenaries, Pirates and
Sovereigns, 32-41.
Recommended,
Alfred Crosby, Columbian Exchange
____, Ecological Imperialism
Philip Curtin, Cross-Cultural Trade in World
History
Jarod Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates
of Human Societies
Andre Gunder Frank, ReOrient: Global Economy in
the Asian Age
John Richards, Unending Frontier: Environmental
History of the Early Modern World
M: Feb 6
W: Feb 8
Exotic Drinks of
the World, 1685
Readings
Janice Thomson, Mercenaries, Pirates and
Sovereigns, 107-18, 143-49.
Letters exchanged between King George III and the
Qianlong Emperor.
Letter from Lin Tse-hsu to Queen Victoria.
David Starkey, "Pirates and Markets."
Thomas Gallant, "Brigandage, Piracy,
Capitalism, and State-Formation."
Jordan Goodman, "Excitiana: Or, How
Enlightenment Europe took to Soft Drugs."
Recommended,
David Courtwright, Forces of Habit: Drugs and
the Making of the Modern World
Sydney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of
Sugar in Modern History
C.R. Pennell, ed. Bandits at Sea: A Pirates
Reader
Cark Trocki, Opium, Empire and the Global
Political Economy
M: Feb 13
Capitalism and Slavery
Caribbean
sugar plantation, 1667
W: Feb 15
When Did Globalization Begin?
Chart: World
History 1770-1840
Readings
Kevin O’Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson, "When
Did Globalization Begin?"
Dennis Flynn and Arturo Giráldez, "Path
Dependence and the Birth of Globalization."
O’Rourke and Williamson, "Once More: When Did
Globalization Begin?"
Flynn and Giráldez, "Born Again: Globalization’s
Sixteenth-Century Origins"
M: Feb 20
Diagram: Snowballing
Industrialization
W: Feb 22
Organization and Infrastructure
Tariff Charts: Gobal Average, Regional Trends
Readings:
Marks, Origins of the Modern World, ch. 4.
Giovanni Arrighi, "The Global Market,"
217-30.
Paul Bairoch, Economics and World History, 80-87.
Pomeranz and Topik, The World that Trade
Created, 136-40, 214-35.
Recommended:
M: Feb 27
Global Migration
W: March 1
The Birth of Political Economy
Readings:
David Ricardo on Comparative Advantage.
Richard Cobden, "Speech at Bradford."
Friedrich List, The National System of Political
Economy, 107-32, 163-73, 365-71.
Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, ch. 1.
Recommended:
Adam
McKeown, "Global Migrations, 1846-1940." Journal of World History
15.2 (2004): 155-89.
Fri, March 3. MID-TERM EXAM DUE at NOON
M: March 6
International Law and the Standard of Civilization
W: March 8
To Civilize?
Readings:
L. Oppenheim, International Law, 8-18, 30-34.
Theodore Roosevelt, "Expansion and
Peace."
Fukuzawa Yukichi, "Outline of a Theory of
Civilization," and "Good-Bye Asia."
Mohandas Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, selections.
Recommended:
C. Henry Alexandrowicz, An Introduction to the
History of the Law of Nations in the East Indies.
Anthony Anghie, Imperialism, Soverignty and the
Making of International Law.
Gerrit Gong, The Standard of
"Civilization" in International Relations.
SPRING BREAK
M: March 20
Maps: Colonial Africa,
Colonial
Asia, British
Empire, African
Railroads
Images: African Icons,
Victorian Races,
Liberating
Cuba
W: March 22
Measuring the Great Divergence
Readings:
Marks, Origins of the Modern World, ch. 5.
Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of
Capitalism, 16-31, 69-75.
Paul Bairoch, Economics and World History, 72-9, 88-97.
Angus Maddison, The World Economy, 44-7, plus comparative charts.
D.K. Fieldhouse, Economics and Empire, 459-77.
Recommended
Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño
Famines and the Making of the Third World.
Michael Geyer and Charles Bright, "Global
Violence and Nationalizaing Wars in Eurasia and America: The Geopolitics of War
in the Mid-Nineteenth Century." Comparative Studies in Society and
History 38 (1996): 619-57.
M: March 27
From WWI to Bretton Woods I: Socio-Political History
W: March 29
From WWI to
Bretton Woods II: Economic History
Trade Globalization according to Chase-Dunn and Maddison
Establishment of
International NGOs, 1875-1975
Real Wages in Asia and Latin America
1820-1939
Destination of
European Exports 1860-1996
Regional
Proportions of World Trade, 1878-1937
Non-Westen Propoportions of Primary and Manufacture
Trades, 1878-1937
Readings:
Max Millikan and W.W. Rostow, A Proposal: Key to
an Effective Policy, 1-8, 33-42.
W.W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth, 4-16.
Alvin So, Social Change and Development, 38-59.
James O’Connell, "The Concept of
Modernization."
Giovanni Arrighi, "The Global Market,"
231-47.
Recommended:
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Yukio Kawano and Benjamin
Brewer, "Globalization since 1795: Waves of Integration in the
World-System." American Sociological Review 65.1 (2000): 77-95.
M: April 3
W: April 5
Dependency
and World-Systems Theory
Readings
Peter Taylor, Political Geography, 10-29, 113-43.
Kwame Nkrumah,
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, ix-xix, 239-59.
Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Ideological
Tensions of Capitalism: Universalism vs. Racism and Sexism."
Recommended:
Andre Gunder Frank, "The Development of
Underdevelopment." Monthly Review
18 (1966): 17-31.
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Essential Wallerstein. New Press, 2000.
M: April 10
W: April 12
Development and
Its Discontents
Charts: World Trade,
1950-2000, Growth
of World Trade, Foreign
Aid, 1970-2004, US
Imports and Exports
Regional GDP Growth
Rates, 1960s-90s, GDP Growth Rates
(long trend version)
Readings:
Timothy Mitchell, "Economics: Economists and
the Economy in the Twentieth Century."
Edward Shils, "End of Ideology?"
Kwame Nkrumah, "The Myth of the ‘Third
World’"
Timothy Mitchell, "The Object of Development:
America’s Egypt."
Nanda Shrestha, "Becoming a Development
Category."
Recommended:
D.K. Fieldhouse, The West and the Third World. (Blackwell, 1999)
Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third
World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (2005).
M: April 17
W: April 19
Measuring Global Inequality since the 1940s.
Charts: Global
Percentile Distribution of Income, Unicef Inequality
Calculation; U.S. Distribution
of Wealth, People
under $1
Readings:
World Bank Research Policy Report,
Globalization, Growth and Poverty, 1-51.
Branko Milanovic, "The Two Faces of
Globalization," and "Worlds Apart."
Paul Cammack, "The Governance of Global
Capitalism."
Recommended:
Charles Bright and Michael Geyer, "Regimes of
World Order." In Jerry Bentley, Renate Bridenthal and Anand Yang, eds., Interactions:
Transregional Perspectives on World History
(U. Hawai’I Press, 20005).
M: April 24
Global
Capitalism: Flexible, Regulatory or Uncontrolled?
Recent Trends in
Globalization
Trade Distribution Charts: World, US, Europe, Japan
Foreign Direct Investment Charts: Origins, Destinations
W: April 26
Globalization and Environment
20th Century
Enviromental Indicators, Commodity Prices,
1970-2005, Oil
Consumption, Meat
Consumption
Readings:
Stephen Krasner, "Globalization and
Sovereignty."
Robert Kaplan, "The Coming Anarchy."
Ann-Marie Slaughter, "The Real New World
Order."
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.
Wolfgang Sachs, "Globalization and
Sustainability."
Paul Wapner, "Greenpeace and Political
Globalism."
Recommended:
Cato Institute, "10 Myths about Financial
Derivatives"
Richard Duncan, The Dollar Crisis: Causes,
Consequences and Cure
Edward LiPuma and Benjamin Lee, Financial
Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk.
J.R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun: An
Environmental History of the Twentieth Century World (2000).
M: May 1
Does Globalization Have a History? So What If It Does?
Mon., May 8. FINAL EXAM and BOOK CRITIQUE DUE, NOON
FINAL EXAM
