The themes
and goals of the course.
Notes on reading academic
articles in history.
A
general chronology of social and cultural change around the year 1900
Notes on reading Benedict Anderson, The Spectre of Comparisons:
Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World
Notes
on reading Elleke Boehmer, ed., Empire Writing
Notes on reading Kate Brown, Biography Of No Place
Notes on reading Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
Notes
on reading Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the
Birth of the Modern Age
Notes
on reading Sheila Fitzpatrick, Tear Off the Masks: Identity and
Imposture in 20th Century Russia
Notes
on reading Sabine Fruhstuck, Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social
Control in Modern Japan
Notes
on reading Nikki R. Keddie, Modern Iran: Roots and Results of
Revolution
Notes on reading Tessa Morris-Suzuki, The Past Within Us: Media,
Memory, History
Notes
on reading James Scott, Seeing Like a State.
A
handout on totalitarianism during the twentieth century.
Notes
for our class on global change and technology
This is the syllabus for an undergraduate
course I teach on the second world war - it has useful web links
for
resources on that era.
Reading Studs
Terkel's oral histories.
LINKS