Unit 1 Tradition, Modernity and Culture
Unit 2 Brave New Worlds: What is Reformation?
Unit 3 What is Enlightenment? / What is Capitalism?: The Invention of Economics or "How Many Workers Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?"
Unit 4 The Idea of Revolution and Enlightened Women
Unit 5 The Idea of America, The Idea of Democracy
Unit 6 The Ottomans / The Experience of Shi'a and Islamic Republicanism
Unit 7 The Culture and Legacy of the Mughals
Unit 8 The Emergency of Modern Chinese Society
Unit 9 Chinese Democracy, Chinese Communism
Unit 10 Frozen Features in a Floating World: Ukiyo, Kabuki, and Ran / Tokugawa Enlightenment: Inventing Japanese Culture and After
Unit 11 Cultures in Collission: Modern Japan
Unit 12 Colonies and Statehood in Latin America
Unit 13 Two Perspectives: The Slave Trade
Unit 14 Modern Africa
Unit 15 World Cultures in Crisis: War, Abstraction, Fascism, Postcolonialism
Blog Assignments
Blog assignments should respond to the readings. You need not write something about every reading, but should write about more than one. You may compare two readings, denounce a reading, express your critique of a reading, etc. The final entry in the blog should be your thoughts on the assigned topic.
Sign each blog post -- your "professors" will be posting, too.
Unit 3 The European Enlightenment (Text files for overview essays are archived within blog at 3/26/06, and available on-line at The European Enlightenment. Go to this site and click on Contents on left -- then click through all of the content pages.
Unit 2 -- Discovery and Reformation -- (large text file for overview is archived within blog at 3/14/06, and available on-line at Brave New Worlds: Discovery and Reformation. Go to this site and click on Contents on left -- then click through all of the content pages.
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