Boğaziçi University
Department of History
Spring 2007
Hist 106 – Making of the Modern World II
Coordinator:
Yücel Terzibaşoğlu
Teaching Assistants:
Zeynep Cebeci
Kutluğhan Soyubol
Merve Tezcanlı
Ayşe Tek Başaran
Feray Coşkun
Rezzan Karaman
Lectures: MWF 4 (GKM)
Office Hours: TBA
Discussion Sessions: Fridays
Website: hist106.blogspot.com
Course Description
Making of the Modern World (Hist 105 and 106) is a two-semester elective course offered by the History Department. It provides a thematic history of the world from the ancient to the modern times. One of the major aims of the course is to develop the sensitivity among first year students that history is about change: How societies, political systems, cultural practices, and our understanding of the world changed through time, and how changes in the past conditioned, and continue to condition, our present. The second part of the course (Hist 106) employs a global and universal perspective to explore the paths of specific historical change in the early modern and modern periods in different regions of the world.
Therefore it is as much about the Renaissance and Reformation in Europe as culture and society in the early modern Middle East; as much about European feudalism as about the methods of rule of Chinese and Japanese bureaucratic power; much about the revolutions of 1789 and 1848 in Europe as about the transformation of Ottoman political power in relation to the Habsburg and Russian empires, and revolutions in Latin America. It is concerned not only with conventional political history of kings and queens and sultans, but more fundamentally about how ordinary people lived, what their material conditions were, what they thought and did.
Format
There will be three one-hour lectures every week followed by discussion hours on Fridays. It is essential that you participate fully to the course by attending the lectures, doing your readings and directing questions and discussing lecture topics. On Friday afternoons a number of films will be shown, which will be an integral part of the course. There is not one set textbook for the course. The following two books are mostly for background reading and introduction to the subject, and complement the lectures, rather than reproduce them. You can find copies of the books in the reserve section of the library. It is therefore essential that you come to the lectures having read the relevant material. Extra readings will be provided during the course when necessary.
Stearns, Peter N. et.al. World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Pearson Longman, 2007.
Bayly, C.A. The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, Blackwell, 2005.
Assessment
Mid-term exam 45%
Final exam 45%
Participation 10%
Program and Preliminary Reading List:
1. Introduction 19 February M Terzibaşoğlu
A.) Discoveries and Expansion
Reading: Stearns chpts. 21, 24, 26, 27
2. Early Expeditions and Asian Trade 21 February W Esenbel
3. European Expansion in the Atlantic
and Indian Oceans 23 February F Terzibaşoğlu
4. Ottoman Conquest and Expansion 26 February M Terzioğlu
B.) Religion, Culture and Society in the Early Modern Era
Reading: Stearns, chpts. 20, 22
5. Renaissance in Italy and
Northern Europe 28 February W Girardelli
6. Reformation and Counter Reformation:
Change in Religious Culture 2 March F Babaoğlu
Film: Florence
7. Reformation and Society 5 March M Babaoğlu
8. Culture and Society in the
Early Modern Near East 7 March W Kafescioğlu
C.) Early Modern States and the Evolution of Absolutism
Reading: Stearns, chpts. 22, 26, 27; Bayly chpt, 1
9. The Power of the Prince 9 March F Kafescioğlu
10. Ottoman, Mughal and
Safavid Rulers 12 March M Toksöz
11. The Ming Bureaucratic Empire in China and
Tokugawa Centralised Feudal
Order in Japan 14 March W Esenbel
12. Absolutism at its Peak:
Louis XIV 16 March F Terzioğlu
Film: Merchant of Venice
13. Absolutism Challenged:
The English Revolution 19 March M Terzioğlu
D.) Age of Capitalism
Reading: Stearns, chpts. 22, 28, 29; Bayly, chpt. 2
14. From a Society of Orders
to a Society of Classes 21 March W Eldem
15. Innovation and Institutional
Change 23 March F Eldem
16. Diverging Paths:
Mercantilism versus Free Trade 26 March M Terzibaşoğlu
E.) Reason and Revolution
Reading: Stearns, chpt. 28; Bayly, chpt. 3
17. Scientific Revolution:
from the Renaissance to Newton 28 March W Danışman
18. The Enlightenment:
Man as an Object of Science 30 March F Deringil
19. An Enlightenment Experiment:
the American Revolutions 2 April M Mazzari
20. Destroying the Ancien Régime:
the French Revolution 4 April W Deringil
21. The Industrial Revolution 6 April F Karakışla
Film: Danton
F.) State, Nation and Progress
Reading: Stearns, chpts. 28, 31; Bayly, chpts. 4, 5
22. Old Empires, the Struggle for Survival:
Romanovs, Ottomans,
and Habsburgs 9 April M Terzibaşoğlu
23. Towards a Europe of Nations 11 April W Kechriotis
24. Latecomers: Bismarck and Garibaldi 13 April F Eldem
MID-TERM EXAM 16 April M 17.00
25. The Cult of Progress 18 April W Ersoy
26. Society Transformed: Peasants,
Workers, Consumers
and Capitalists 20 April F Deringil
27. The Triumphant Bourgeoisie 25 April W Türe
G.) Imperialism, Reform and Resistance
Reading: Stearns, chpts. 27, 29, 30, 31, 32; Bayly, chpts. 6, 7
28. Colonialism and Imperialism:
A Project of European
World Domination 27 April F Ersoy
SPRING BREAK (30 April – 4 May)
29. Reform as Resistance:
Meiji Modernity and Asian Empire 7 May M Esenbel
30. Reform as Resistance:
19th-Century Ottoman
Transformation 9 May W Terzibaşoğlu
31. Imperialism in South Asia:
The British Raj 11 May F Toksöz
32. Resistance and Revolution in
Latin America 14 May M Mazzari
H.) Modernity, Revolution and War
Reading: Stearns, chpts. 31, 32, 33, 34, Bayly, chpts. 11, 13
33. Revolution in Asia and Nationalism 16 May W Esenbel
34. Nations and Nationalism:
Turn of the Twentieth Century 18 May F Kechriotis
Film: All Quiet on the Western Front
35. The Great War 21 May M Deringil
36. The Russian Revolution 23 May W Karaömerlioğlu
37. Conclusion: The End of Empires 25 May F Eldem
