Course catalog

13351

WiSe 12/13: Introduction to Global History, 1600 - 2000

Sebastian Conrad

Comments

This seminar will provide a first overview of global history in the early modern and modern period by focusing, in exemplary fashion, on crucial topics and debates. Topics include the notion of early modernity, trade and the constitution of the world economy, Atlantic revolutions, empires and colonialism, nations and nationalism, social reform on a global scale, transnational migration, etc. close

Suggested reading

Recommended background reading: Chris A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, Oxford (Blackwell) 2004; Anthony G. Hopkins (ed.), Globalization in World History, London (Pimlico) 2002; John Darwin: After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire, London (Penguin Books) 2007; Jane Burbank und Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference, Princeton (Princeton University Press) 2010. close

16 Class schedule

Regular appointments

Thu, 10:00 - 12:00 Introduction 16 Class schedule

Thu, 2012-10-18 10:00 - 12:00

Introduction

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2012-10-25 10:00 - 12:00

Early modernities

Comments:
Text: Alexander Woodside, Territorial Order and Collective Identity Tensions in Confucian Asia: China, Vietnam, Korea, Daedalus 127, no. 3 (1998), 191-220.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2012-11-01 10:00 - 12:00

Early Modern Travel and Space

Comments:
Text: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, On World Historians in the Sixteenth Century, Representations 91 (2005), 26-57.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2012-11-08 10:00 - 12:00

Early Modern Empires

Comments:
Text: Pekka Hämäläinen, The Politics of Grass: European Expansion, Ecological Change, and Indigenous Power in the Southwest Borderlands, William and Mary Quarterly 67 (2010), 173-208.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2012-11-15 10:00 - 12:00

Trade and the World Economy

Comments:
Text: Kenneth Pomeranz, Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global Conjuncture, American Historical Review 107 (2002), 425-446.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2012-11-22 10:00 - 12:00

Atlantic Revolutions

Comments:
Text: Laurent Dubois, An Enslaved Enlightenment: Re-Thinking the Intellectual History of the French Atlantic, Social History 31 (2006), 1- 14.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2012-11-29 10:00 - 12:00

Time regimes

Comments:
Text: Johannes Fabian, Time and the Emerging Other, in: Fabian, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object, New York (Columbia University Press) 1983, 1-35.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2012-12-06 10:00 - 12:00

A Century of Global Reform

Comments:
Text: Naider Sohrabi, Global Waves, Local Actors: What the Young Turks Knew about Other Revolutions and Why it Mattered, Comparative Studies in Society and History 44 (2002), 45-79.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2012-12-13 10:00 - 12:00

Imperialism and Colonialism

Comments:
Text: Ann Laura Stoler, Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural: Politics of Exclusion in Colonial. Southeast Asia, Comparative Studies in Society and History 34 (1992), 514-551.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2012-12-20 10:00 - 12:00

Nationalism

Comments:
Text: David Armitage, The Contagion of Sovereignty: Declarations of Independence since 1776, South African Historical Journal 52 (2005), 1- 18.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2013-01-10 10:00 - 12:00

Migration

Comments:
Text: Adam McKeown, Global Migration 1846-1940, Journal of World History 15 (2004), 155-189.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2013-01-17 10:00 - 12:00

Environment

Comments:
Text: Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History: Four Theses, Critical Inquiry 35 (2009), 197–222.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2013-01-24 10:00 - 12:00

Religion

Comments:
Text: Ernest Renan, Islamism and Science [1883], in: Bryan S. Turner (ed.), Orientalism: Early Sources, Volume 1: Readings in Orientalism, London (Routledge) 2000, 199-217; Kritik des Afghanen Djemmal Eddin und Ernest Renans Erwiderung, in: Der Islam und die Wissenschaft. Vortrag gehalten in der Sorbonne am 29. März 1883, Basel 1883, 29-48. This session will start at 2 p.m. Room will be announced.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2013-01-31 10:00 - 12:00

Fascism

Comments:
Text: William C. Kirby, Images and Realities of Chinese Fascism, in: Stein Ugelvik Larsen (ed.), Fascism outside Europe: The European Impulse against Domestic Conditions in the Diffusion of Global Fascism, Boulder (Social Science Monographs) 2001, 233-268.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2013-02-07 10:00 - 12:00

Decolonization

Comments:
Text: Matthew Connelly, Rethinking the Cold War and Decolonization: The Grand Strategy of the Algerian War for Independence, International Journal of Middle East Studies 33 (2001), 221-245.

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

Thu, 2013-02-14 10:00 - 12:00

Final discussion

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

Location:
A 125 Übungsraum (Koserstr. 20)

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