| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Conceptualizing "the global" |
Mazlish, Bruce, and Ralph Buultjens, eds. Conceptualizing Global History. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780974369235. Mazlish, Bruce. "The New Global History." Gills, Barry, and William Thompson, eds. Globalization and Global History. New York, NY: Routledge, 2006, chapters 1-2. ISBN: 9780415701365. Fuglestad, Finn. The Ambiguities of History: The Problem of Ethnocentrism in Historical Writing. Oslo, Norway: Oslo Academic Press, 2005. ISBN: 9788274772045. Jarzombek, Mark. "A Prolegomenon to Critical Historiography." In The Psychologizing of Modernity: Art, Architecture and History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780521582384. Also in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58, no. 4 (December 1999): 488-493. |
| 3 | Comparative "globality" in architectural history textbooks |
Bergdoll, Barry. European Architecture 1750-1890. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780192842220. Canizares-Esguerra, Jorge, and Erik Seeman, eds. The Atlantic in Global History: 1500-2000. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. ISBN: 9780131927148. Trachtenberg, Marvin, and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN: 9780810906075. Kostof, Spiro. A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780195083798. Scully, Vincent. Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780312062927. Stavrianos, Leften. A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN: 9780139238970. Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007. ISBN: 9780132250672. |
| 4 | The global and art history |
Elkins, James, ed. Is Art History Global? New York, NY: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415977852. Dussel, Enrique. "Beyond Eurocentrism: The World-System and the Limits of Modernity." In The Cultures of Globalization. Edited by Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780822321699. |
| 5 | Euro-centrism and ethno-centrism |
Preiswork, Roy, and Dominique Perrot. Ethnocentrism and History: Africa, Asia, and Indian America in Western Textbooks. New York, NY: NOK Publishers, 1978. ISBN: 9780883570715. Baudet, E. H. P. Paradise on Earth: Some Thoughts on European Images of Non-European Man. Translated by Elizabeth Wentholt. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965. Rüsen, Jörn. "How to Overcome Ethnocentrism: Approaches to a Culture of Recognition by History in the Twenty-First Century." History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History 43 (2004): 118-129. |
| 6 | Large perspective histories |
Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: A World History. New York, NY: Penguin, 2003. ISBN: 9780142001615. Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed. New York, NY: Penguin, 2005. ISBN: 9780143036555. |
| 7 | Example lecture (the Pantheon: a comparative historiographic analysis) | |
| 8 | Some global hot points |
Esherick, Joseph. Empire to Nation. Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World. London, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. ISBN: 9780742540316. Inikori, Joseph. "Africa and the Globalization Process: Western Africa, 1450-1850." Journal of Global History 2, no. 1 (2007): 63-86. Thompson, Andrew. The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Longman, 2005. ISBN: 9780582438293. Topik, Steven, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, eds. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780822337669. Vink, Markus. "Indian Ocean Studies and the 'New Thalassology'." Journal of Global History 2 (2007): 41-62. Jackson, Peter. The Mongols and the West, 1221-1410. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Longman, 2005. ISBN: 9780582368965. |
| 9 | Some global hot points (cont.) |
Prange, Sebastian. "'Trust in God, but Tie Your Camel First.' The Economic Organization of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade Between the Fourteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." Journal of Global History 1 (2006): 219-239. Gills, Barry, and William Thompson, eds. Globalization and Global History. New York, NY: Routledge, 2006, chapters 8-9. ISBN: 9780415701365. |
| 10 | Discussion | |
| 11 | Student presentations | |
| 12 | Student presentations (cont.) | |
| 13 | Student presentations (cont.) |
