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Week 1: NEW EMPIRES AND COMMON CULTURES, 600-1000 CE
Themes of the Week: Introduction to the course and syllabus; about world histories; the birth and rise of Islam, political fragmentation in the Islamic World; Chapter 9, pp. 321-338.
Week 2: NEW EMPIRES AND COMMON CULTURES, 600-1000 CE
Tang State in China, Franks and 'Medieval' Europe
Chapter 9, pp. 338-348 & 352-359.
Week 3: BECOMING “THE WORLD,” 1000–1300 CE - I
Themes of the Week: Global trade and regional worlds of 1100-1300 CE; Song China; Crusades
Chapter 9, pp. 363-396.
Week 4: BECOMING “THE WORLD,” 1000–1300 CE - II
Themes of the Week: The Mongols and Pax Mongolica
Chapter 10, pp. 401-407
Week 5: CRISES AND RECOVERY IN AFRO-EURASIA, 1300–1500 - I
Themes of the Week: Plague, disaster and crises; Islamic dynasties; the rise of Ottomans
Chapter 11, pp. 411-424.
Week 6: CRISES AND RECOVERY IN AFRO-EURASIA, 1300–1500 - II
Themes of the Week: Islamic dynasties (Safavids & Mughals); Western Christendom, Renaissance and Ming China
Chapter 11, pp. 424-443.
Week 7: CONTACT, COMMERCE AND COLONIZATION, 1450–1600
Themes of the Week: Old and new trade patterns; European exploration and expansion; Reformation in Europe, the Atlantic world and the transformation of Europe; prosperity in Asia
Chapter 12, pp. 447-480.
Week 8: WORLDS ENTANGLED, 1600–1750 - I
Themes of the Week: Economic and political Impacts of global commerce; slave trade and Africa
Chapter 13, pp. 483-499.
Week 9: MIDTERM EXAM (There will be a lecture after the midterm exam)
Week 10: WORLDS ENTANGLED, 1600–1750 – II
Themes of the Week: Asia in the 17th-18th centuries; formation of Russian Empire, Mughal India, Manchus in China, Tokugawa dynasty in Japan, transformations in Europe;
Chapter 13, pp. 501-521.
Week 11: CULTURES OF SPLENDOR AND POWER, 1500–1780
Themes of the Week: Cultural developments in Eurasia and the Americas; the “Enlightenment” in Europe; Enlightenment, the 17th-century crisis in the Ottoman world,
Chapter 14, pp. 524-558.
Week 12: REORDERING THE WORLD, 1750–1850
Themes of the Week: Western and non-Western revolutions and revolutionary transformations; French revolution and its reflections, economic reordering and change in Afro-Eurasia
Chapter 15, pp. 561-580.
Week 13: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY-I
Themes of the Week: Industrial Revolution; Reactions to social and political revolutions; Great Indian Rebellion,
Chapter 15, pp. 580-596 & Chapter 16, pp. 599-628.
Week 14: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY-II
Themes of the Week: Industrial Revolution; Reactions to social and political revolutions; Great Indian Rebellion,
Chapter 15, pp. 580-596 & Chapter 16, pp. 599-628. |