FALL 1999

This information effective for Fall 1999.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.

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History

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History 10--Theories of History/Theories of Society in Nineteenth-century Europe

Professor Mark Traugott

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Many of the assumptions and orienting concepts we use to make sense of modern life took shape in Europe during the long nineteenth century, when the relationship between history and the social sciences was defined. This course uses the close analysis of texts and a combination of intellectual, political, social, and economic history to examine the form and the context in which those new conceptions of the modern world emerged. Students will read, in the original, the landmark works of theorists who helped define the terms of debate over the nature of the human individual and over that individual's relationship to society. In the process, the course will invite students to confront the timeless issues raised by life in a social context: how to make sense of the elusive patterns which govern long-term social development as well as day-to-day social interaction; how to balance the conflicting needs for social order and social change; and how to reconcile the rights and obligations of individuals on the one hand and the social group on the other. The course will also ask how each author conceives of the historical process and to what extent an explicit theory of history is being advanced. The course as a whole will attempt to present an overview of the characteristic assumptions concerning the directionality and coherence of history that have dominated the modern era.

The core of the course will consist of readings from the works of four main figures --- Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim --- all of whom made significant contributions to the study of history, even as they helped lay the groundwork for the disciplines of sociology, political science, economics, and anthropology as we know them today. This material will be preceded by an introductory segment on early-modern precursors of the socialized perspective on history (particularly the analytic individualism of such figures as Hobbes, Locke, Smith, and the crucial transitional figure of Rousseau) and will be followed by a concluding segment that points in the direction of twentieth-century developments.

READING LIST: The following books will be available in paperback editions at the Bay Tree Bookstore. They have also been placed on reserve at McHenry Library.

Durkheim, Emile, The Division of Labor in Society, Free Press.

Tocqueville, Alexis de, Democracy in America, Vol. II, Vintage.

Tucker, Robert, ed. The Marx-Engels Reader, Norton.

Weber, Max, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
(Either the Roxbury or the Scribners/Counterpoint edition is fine.)

READING ASSIGNMENTS: The following list of readings should be considered very tentative. A final syllabus will be available at the start of the fall quarter.

Alexis de Tocqueville and the Democratic Revolution

Democracy in America:

Vol. II,	Book I,	Chapter II ( 8-12)
	Book II,	Chapters I ( 94-97); V ( 106-110); VII (115-120); VIII (121-124); Chapter XIII, pp. 136-139
	Book III,	Chapter XXI ( 251-263)
	Book IV,	Chapters I ( 287-288); II ( 289-292); III (293-296); VI (316-321); VII (322-330)

The Old Regime and the French Revolution

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and the Industrial Revolution

	a) Preface to "A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy," pp. 3-6;
	b) "Socialism: Utopian or Scientific," pp. 683-717;
	c) "Manifesto of the Communist Party," pp. 469-500;
	d) Excerpts from "The German Ideology," pp. l46-l75.
	e) "Working-Class Manchester," pp. 579-585.
	f) "Estranged Labor," (excerpts from the "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844") pp. 70-81.

Emile Durkheim and the Independence of the Social Realm

The Division of Labor in Society;

	Introduction (pp. 1-8)
	Book I,	Chapters 1 (11-30); 2 (31-67); 3, Sections 3 & 4 (77-87); 6 and 7 (126-175)
	Book II,	Chapter 2, Section 1 (200-205)
	Book III,	Chapters 2, 3, and Conclusion (310-341)

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Max Weber and the Rationalization of the World

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (13-128, 155-183)

Excerpts from Economy and Society

"Science as a Vocation"

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History 26: WWII Memories in the US and Japan (WWII Mem US Japan)

Instructors: Alice Yang-Murray and Alan Christy

This class examines how the meanings of such issues as the atomic bomb, war responsibility, war conduct, war reparations and racism have been subjects of contention in postwar US and Japan. Our goal is to consider the ways that changing memories and situations have had an impact on the US-Japan relationship and, conversely, the way the relationship has helped to structure war memories.

Making use of a wide range of media (film, slides, museum exhibits, web pages and primary sources) students will actively discuss and debate the meaning of memory and history between 1941 and the present. Course work will include a weekly film series.

This class fulfills the Ethnic Studies/Third World (E) and the topical course requirement in the humanities (T4) GE requirements.

Readings:

John Dower, Japan in War & Peace, The New Press, 1993.
Norma Field, In the Realm of the Dying Emperor, Pantheon, 1991.
Edward Linenthal & Tom Engelhardt, eds., History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past, Henry Holt, 1996.
Akira Iriye, Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War, Bedford Books, 1999.
Selected short stories and essays.

Schedule:

Week One: Introduction, History and Memory
Week Two: Perceptions of War Origins: Responsibility and Racism
Week Three: Multiple Perspectives on the War Experience
Week Four: Ending the War: US Controversies over the Bomb
Week Five: The Bomb in Japan: Victims and Victimizers
Week Six: Memorializing the War: War Exhibits and War Memorials
Week Seven: Reevaluations of War Responsibilities: Redress and Apologies
Week Eight: How the War Made Us/What it Taught Us: The War as Benchmark
Week Nine: Return of the Repressed: War Issues that Will Not Die
Week Ten: War Victory/War Loss and National Identities

Assignments

2 short papers (2-3 pages)
1 longer comparative paper (5-6 pages)
In-class Final Exam

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History 30A--Modern European History

Bruce Thompson
276 Stevenson
X3476; message # 2555
brucet@cats.ucsc.edu

Our course examines early modern European history from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Its major themes include: the origins of the modern state; the advent of a global economy dominated by Europe; the impact of such new technologies as gunpowder and printing; the sources of cultural innovation, and of new conceptions of the self and the world; and the causes and consequences of conflict, persecution, and war. But in addition to tracing the origins of modernity, we will ask what it was like for ordinary people to live through the extraordinary transformations of this period. And we will highlight the writings of some of the great critics of European civilization, from Erasmus and More to Swift and Voltaire.

Course requirements include regular attendance of lectures and weekly discussion sections, two 6-page papers based on the readings, and a final examination.

1. A MATTER OF LICE AND DEATH: DEMOGRAPHY

TOPICS: Petrarch, the First Modern--The Country and the City--Plagues and Peoples

READINGS:
Petrarch, poems
M.E. Combs-Schilling, "The Effects of the Black Death on North Africa and Europe," in Social History of Western Civilization, ed. Richard Golden, pp.192-203
Georges Vigarello, "Concepts of Cleanliness: The Water That Infiltrated," in Golden, pp.170-180

2. THE RENAISSANCE: CITIES AND FAMILIES

TOPICS: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy--Florence and Venice--Patrons and Painters

READINGS:
Mark Kishlansky, Civilization in the West, ch.11: "The Italian Renaissance"
David Herlihy, "The Family in Renaissance Italy," in Golden pp.180-192
Leon Battista Alberti, The Family in Renaissance Florence, pp.25-50

3. PRINCES AND COURTIERS

TOPICS: Origins of the Modern State--Machiavelli: Force and Fraud--Castiglione: From Chivalry to Courtesy

READINGS:
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Baldesar Castiglione, Etiquette for Renaissance Gentlemen (recommended)

4. BRAVE NEW WORLD: EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS

TOPICS: The Columbian Exchange--Spices and Vices: Toward a Global Economy--More on Early Modern Capitalism: Of Sheep and Men

READINGS:
Kishlansky, ch.12: "European Empires"
Thomas More, Utopia, in Famous Utopias, ed. Frederick White, pp.5-117
Michel de Montaigne, "Of the Cannibals," in White, pp.141-150
Alfred Crosby, "The Early History of Syphilis: A Reappraisal," in Golden, pp.219-229

5. PRINTING AND THE REFORMATION

TOPICS: Erasmus and the Republic of Letters--Luther andCalvin--The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque

READINGS:
Kishlansky, ch.13: "Reform of Religion"
Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, pp.55-61, 152-208
Martin Luther, "The Freedom of a Christian" (selections)
Merry Wiesner, "Nuns, Wives, and Mothers: Women and the Reformation in Germany," in Golden, pp.229-248

6. WAR AND VIOLENCE

TOPICS: The Gunpowder Revolution--The Thirty Years' War--The European Witch-Craze

READINGS:
Kishlansky, ch.14: "Europe at War, 1555-1648"
Johann von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, Books 1-3
Natalie Davis, "The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in 16th-Century France," in Golden, pp.287-300
Joseph Klaits, "Sexual Politics and Religious Reform in the Witch Hunts," in Golden, pp.264-287

7. DAILY LIFE AND POPULAR CULTURE

TOPICS: Spain: The Picaro and the Prostitute--The Dutch and Domesticity--The Novel and the Newspaper

READINGS:
Kishlansky, ch.15: "The Experience of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650"
Anonymous, Lazarillo de Tormes
Mary Elizabeth Perry, "'Lost Women' in Early Modern Seville: The Politics of Prostitution" in Golden, pp.248-264

8. STATE AND SOCIETY IN 17TH-CENTURY EUROPE

TOPICS: Consolidation and Decline: Richelieu and Olivares--The English Civil War--Louis XIV and Absolute Monarchy

READINGS:
Kishlansky, ch.16: "The Royal State in the 17th Century"
Wendy Gibson, "Birth and Childhood in 17th-Century France," in Golden, pp.300-313
Michael MacDonald, "Insanity in Early Modern England," in Golden, pp.313-321

9. SCIENCE AND COMMERCE

TOPICS: The Scientific Revolution--Mercantilism and Capitalism--The Jews in Early Modern Europe

READINGS:
Kishlansky, ch.17: "Science and Commerce in Early Modern Europe"
Gluckel of Hameln, Memoirs
Francis Bacon, New Atlantis, in White, pp.209-250

10. THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

TOPICS: The Great Powers--The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

READINGS:
Kishlansky, ch.18: "The Balance of Power in 18th-Century Europe"
Voltaire, Philosophical Letters, pp.117-194

11. ENLIGHTENMENT AND DESPAIR (December 2-6)

TOPICS: What is Enlightenment?--Voltaire and Swift: Satire and Society--Before the Deluge: The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution

READINGS:
Kishlansky, ch.19: "Culture and Society in 18th-Century Europe"
Voltaire, Candide or Optimism
Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"

1. Imagine that Thomas More had not been executed by Henry VIII and had therefore lived long enough to receive a copy of the English translation of Machiavelli's The Prince. He writes a letter to his friend Erasmus in which he describes the contents and method of that work. While acknowledging the shrewdness of the author's judgments, he is generally critical of Machiavelli and regards his book as a confirmation of his own worst fears about the condition of Europe. Write your own version of that letter.

2. Imagine that a copy of More's Utopia has been discovered in Niccolo Machiavelli's library, along with five pages of critical observations about the text in Machiavelli's own hand. Machiavelli is impressed by Raphael's analysis of European affairs in Book I, but regards Book II, with its detailed account of Utopian society, as irrelevant to the problems of Italy. Write your own version of those notes.

3. Imagine that Erasmus of Rotterdam has not died of complications from syphilis but on the contrary has lived long enough to read Montaigne's essay "On Cannibals." He regards the essay as having been written in the spirit of his own Praise of Folly, and he writes his fellow humanist an appreciative letter that underscores the similarities between their methods and perspectives. Montaigne replies with a grateful letter in which he acknowledges his debt to the master. Write your own version of this correspondence.

4. The great European humanists often seem to resemble physicians offering diagnoses of the ills of the body politic. Choose any one or two of the writers we have encountered so far, and show how the prescription each writer offers follows from his diagnosis. In other words, to what crisis or adverse trends is each writer responding, and what solutions does he suggest?

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History 080A--Introduction to Global History

Mr. Burke
Tu/Th 10:00-11:45

In our society the human and natural sciences have progressed by asking narrower and narrower questions about less and less. While this has brought enormous advances in knowledge, it has also had a major downside: a sense of how it all fits together has been lost, and attempts to ask large questions have been systematically discouraged. This course is a deliberate effort to move against this trend. It views the past in the largest possible context (from the origins of the universe to the present) and seeks to raise questions often overlooked in more specialized courses. Explicitly interdisciplinary and synthetic, it aims at providing students with a coherent sense of the past and present of specific human societies.

Instead of deluging students with information, it encourages them to raise large questions about human beings and their place in the history of nature, the planet and the universe. By studying how different societies have answered large questions, and how they have tested and refined their answers, the course seeks to develop skills of question-asking, not fact-gathering.

Topics covered include the origins of the universe, of the earth and of life, the first human beings, hunting and gathering societies, the agricultural revolution, early civilizations, ancient empires, the great transformation, the modern world order.

Readings are due at the beginning of the week in which they are assigned.

There are two required books, which may be purchased at Bay Tree Book Store on campus.

(1) Alfred Crosby Ecological Imperialism (Cambridge) ISBN: 0-521-33613-9

(2) Eric Wolf, Europe and The People Without History (California) ISBN: 0-520-04898-9

There are also two required readers.

(1) The "textbook" is David Christian's work in progress, This Fleeting World: An Introduction to Big History. It is available via Electronic Reserve at McHenry Library. It is accessed via a password (to be given in class) at the UCSC website: (http://eres.ucsc.edu/index.html).

(2) A class reader is also required and can be purchased in the Campus Copy Center (115 Communications Bldg.)

Nuts and Bolts: Attendance at section is obligatory and will be taken at the beginning of section meetings. More than three absences will lead to a failing grade for the course. Absences will be excused only with a note from your physician. There will be an in-class final examination. No early departures for Christmas vacation will be permitted.

Written Work: Students must pass three midterm exams plus an in-class final exam.

There are two Class Websites for History 80A: (1) http://wwwcatsic.ucsc.edu/~hist80a.

(2) McHenry Library Electronic Reserves class website. http://eres.ucsc.edu/index.html

Instructor Terry Burke: My office is Merrill 112, tel: 459-2287, email: eburke@cats;

Office Hrs: W: 11-noon; Th: 1-2pm

T.A.s are:
Willie Yaryan (Email: wyaryan@cats)
Sina Saidi. (Email: FarnazJafarian@msn.com)

Section times: 01A: Tu 4:00 p.m.; 01B: Tu 2:00 p.m.; 01C: Th 12:00 noon; 01D: Th 2:00 p.m.

Their office hours will be announced later.

Sept 23: Introduction to "Deep Time"

Lecturer: Terry Burke

Readings: Christian, "What is Big History? (In Reader)

Christian, This Fleeting World: An Intro. to Big History, Intro. & ch. 1 (Electronic Reserve)

Sept 28: Origins of the Universe and of the Earth

Lecturers: Mark Primack, "Origins of the Universe"

Elise Knittle "Origins of the Earth"

Readings: Christian, Intro. to Big History, chs 2-3 (Electronic Reserve)

NRC, "Cosmology: A Research Briefing" (Reader)

Alyn and Alison Duxbury, "The Not-So-Rigid-Earth" (In Reader) 

Oct 5: The Origins of Life and the Evolution of Species

Lecturers: David Deamer, "Origins of the Life"

Terry Burke "Evolution and the Diversification of Life"

Readings: Christian, Intro. to Big History, chs 4-5 (Electronic Reserve)

Schopf, "Evolution of the Earliest Cells" (In Reader)

Mayr, "Ideological Opposition to Darwin's Five Theories" (In Reader)

Oct 12: Human Beings and the First Human Societies

Lecturers: Robin McFarland, "Evolution of Hominids"

Lisa Sloan, "The Pleistocene Earth: The Ice Ages"

Readings: Christian, Intro. to Big History, chs 6-7 (Electronic Reserve)

Goudsblom, Fire and Civilization, chs 1-2 (In Reader)

Zihlmann and Lowenstein, "From Eternity to Here," (In Reader)

Lowenstein, "The Other People," (In Reader)

Oct 19: The First Agricultural Societies

Lecturers: Diane Gifford Gonzales, "The Origins of Agriculture"

Terry Burke, "Assessing the Neolithic Revolution"

Readings: Christian, Intro. to Big History, chs 8-9 (Electronic Reserve)

Gifford-Gonzales, "Origins of Farming" (In Reader)

Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel, chs.6, 9 (In Reader)

Oct 26: Agrarian Civilizations in Afro-Eurasia

Lecturer: Burke, "The First Urban Societies"

Burke, "The Classical Agrarian Civilizations of Afrasia"

Readings: Christian, Intro. to Big History, chs.10-11 (Electronic Reserve)

Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel, chs.10, 12 (In Reader)

Nov 2: The Ancient World to 1450

Lecturer: Burke, "States and Social Power"

Burke, "The Pre-1500 World Economy"

Readings: Christian, Intro. to Big History, chs.12 (Electronic Reserve)

Wolf, Europe & People w/o History, chs. 2, 4

Nov 9: The Roots of the Modern World

Lecturer: Burke, "The Rise of the Modern State"

Burke, "Eurasian Roots of the Modern World Economy"

Readings: Christian, Intro. to Big History, chs. 13 (Electronic Reserve)

Crosby, Ecological Imperialism, Prologue, chs. 5-6

Wolf, Europe & People w/o History, chs. 5, 8

Nov 16: The 'Great Transformation' (I)

Lecturer: Burke, "Models of the Great Transformation"

Burke, "The Industrial Revolution"

Readings: Christian, Intro. to Big History, chs. 14 (Electronic Reserve)

Crosby, Ecological Imperialism, chs. 4, 9

Wolf, Europe & People w/o History, chs. 9

 

Nov 23: The 'Great Transformation' (II)

Lecturer: Burke, "The Great Transformation and the World"

Thanksgiving Break (No Class)

Readings: Crosby, Ecological Imperialism, ch.7-8

Nov 30: The Modern World Order

Lecturer: Burke, "European Migration and the Neo-Europes"

Burke, "The Great Transformation Reconsidered"

Readings: Wolf, Europe & People w/o History, chs. 11-12

Crosby, Ecological Imperialism, chs. 10

 

Dec 2: Major Themes of the Course: A Review

Lecturer: Burke, "End of the Developmentalist Model?"

Readings: Cohen, "Ten Myths of Population," in (READER)

Woodhouse, "Environmental Degradation and Stability," (READER)

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History 124--Revolutions in France, 1789-1871

Professor Traugott

The fall of the Old Regime in France and the sequence of political and social changes it set in motion has long been viewed as the defining moment of the modern era. The aftershocks of the 1789 revolution --- in 1830, 1848, and 1871 --- produced an ongoing level of political upheaval in French society that has remained without historical parallel. This class examines that century-long period of intense and rapid change, while also trying to understand the essential continuity exhibited by French culture and society over the course of the nineteenth century. Readings and class discussions will present a variety of analytic styles, including narrative, political, economic, social, Marxist, and revisionist approaches to the history of the period. In an effort to bring this material to life, the work of professional historians will be supplemented by occasional use of primary sources, films, and slides depicting key events. At least half of the quarter will be spent on the French Revolution of 1789. Relatively brief two-week segments will be devoted to the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848, while the Paris Commune of 1871 will be considered mainly as a way of calling attention to some of the regularities that emerge when these discrete revolutionary episodes are viewed as parts of an inter-related process. The objectives of the course include familiarizing students with the revolutionary history of France; encouraging them to search for consistent patterns that connect historical events at different times and in different places; and helping them to understand how the turmoil of the nineteenth century has left its mark upon French society and world history as we understand them today.

Organization of the Course and Weekly Readings

The list of weekly assignments below should be regarded as strictly tentative, with respect to both timing and the content of specific readings.

Week 1. French Society at the end of the Old Regime

Popkin, Jeremy. A Short History of the French Revolution. (Complete)

Week 2. The Coming of the French Revolution: Pre-revolution to the Overthrow of the Monarchy (1787-1792)

* Baker, ed., pp. 302-24

Week 3. The Radical Republic (1792-95)

Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, pp.

Week 4. Interpreting the French Revolution

* Baker, ed., pp. 337-61, 368-91

Week 5. Aftermath of the French Revolution

* Pilbeam, Pamela. The 1830 Revolution in France. (Chapters 3-5, pp. 37-98)

Week 6. The French Revolution of 1830

John M. Merriman, ed., 1830 in France

Week 7. The Fall of the Orleanist Monarchy

Priscilla Robertson, The Revolutions of 1848: a Social History

* Duveau, George. 1848: The Making of a Revolution. (Pages 3-160)

Week 8. The Revolution of 1848 in France and Beyond

* Price, Roger, ed. Selected Primary Documents
(Pages 55-63, 68-70, 72, 74-75, 78-81, 88, 96, 101-105, 107-13)

* Marx, Karl. "The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1852."

Week 9. The Collapse of the Second Empire and the Paris Commune

Discussion of Term Papers

Week 10. Revolution in France, 1789-1871

A Note to History Majors

Majors who take this course may also be interested in the senior seminar I will be offering in the following quarter. I expect this to be a small class which will focus on historiographical issues and the use of primary sources (a considerable number of which are available in English) relating to the French Revolution. Students will be expected to prepare a full-scale research paper that addresses a topic of historical significance and that beings empirical evidence to bear. History 124 will be a pre-requisite for admission to this intensive senior seminar.

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History 147--California History

This upper division lecture course examines California's history. We begin with a look at geology and ancient societies. The course proceeds to examine native societies at the point of spanish conquest, spanish colonial and mexican society, the war with Mexican and U.S. conquest of California, statehood, the gold rush, and immigration and migration from around the world. These themes take us through the mid-nineteenth century and the first half of the course. In the second half of the course we follow the course of rapid economic and ecological, social and cultural change in the late nineteenth century, and then trace the emergence of Los Angeles as the preeminent and reknown 20'th century city.

Twentieth century California is intensively studied through the final month ofthe quarter. We study history through many different people's experiences and by tracingsocial, economic, cultural and political change. The readings are excellent and offer a range of materials, writing styles and viewpoints. During each period we examine, the history is brought to life through film and images that I show in the form of slide lectures. Excellent reading complement lectures.

Each student will be able to complete a small research paper - and will also write a straightforward mid-term and final exam.

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History 159A--The History of Premodern Japan

Instructor: Noriko Aso (Merrill 108, 459-5371)
Teaching Assistant TBA

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course covers the history of the peoples living in the Japanese archipelago from prehistoric times to the 18th century. The history of premodern Japan is usually presented as the story of the origins of the Japanese people and their culture. The standard conclusion of this kind of history is that the Japanese always have been and always will be a certain kind of people.

Our emphasis, on the other hand, will be on History as a process of struggle and change. As a result, we will not assume the unity of the "Japanese nation" nor the homogeneity of the "Japanese people." Instead, we will look at the many ways that people identified themselves over time, "Japanese" being only one possible identity (and one of the least used). The present-day Japanese will be seen to be less the result of a natural progress from the past and more the result of struggles in which some people won and some people lost.

In order to help us envision this kind of history, we will do our best to examine both the familiar histories of the ruling classes of Japan and the experiences of the people usually left out of the history books. We will investigate this latter group through visual images, literature, religion and performing arts.

ASSIGNMENTS:

1 Map Quiz
Weekly Short Papers (1-2 pages long)
1 Take Home Midterm
1 Take Home Final Exam

READINGS:

Reading Packets:

Topics in Japanese History by Gregory Smits
Rereading Japanese History, By AMINO Yoshihiko
General Reading Packet

Books:

Genji & Heike, trans. by Helen Craig McCullough (StanfordUniversity Press, 1994)
Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki SATO (The Overlook Press, 1995)

COURSE SCHEDULE:

WEEK ONE: Jômon, Yayoi and the Founding Myths
WEEK TWO: Formation of the Ritsuryô State
WEEK THREE: Heian Court Life
WEEK FOUR: The Rise of the Military Class
WEEK FIVE: The Kamakura System and the Rise of Popular Buddhism
WEEK SIX: The Ashikaga System: Money, Art and Power
WEEK SEVEN: The Warring States Period and Reunification
WEEK EIGHT: The Tokugawa System: The Search for Stability
WEEK NINE: The Tokugawa System: Autonomy and Authority
WEEK TEN: Tokugawa Learning: New Approaches to the World

History 196L

Bruce Thompson
276 Stevenson
brucet@cats.ucsc.edu

Espionage is undoubtedly one of the world's oldest professions, but its history has been, until recently, relatively underdeveloped. This course examines the role of intelligence services in Britain, France, Germany, and the Soviet bloc countries at crucial points in 20th-century history. It also examines images of the spy in popular culture, from the war scares of the beginning of the century to the cold war fantasies of Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.

1. GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERS

Jeffrey T. Richelson, "A Shady Profession," in A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the 20th Century
Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse

2. A BUREAUCRACY IS BORN: SPY SCARES AND SPY SCANDALS

Christopher Andrews, "Spies and Spy Scares: The Birth of the Secret Service Bureau," in Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community
David French, "Spy Fever in Britain," Historical Journal (1978)
Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty"
Douglas Porch, "The Birth of the Modern French Secret Services," and "Success and Scandal, 1900-1914," in The French Secret Services: A History of French Intelligence from the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War

3. "AND, IS THE KAISER COMING FOR TEA?": WAR SCARES IN BRITAIN

Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands (1903) or
William Le Queux, Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England (1909)

4. THE WESTERN FRONT

Jeffrey T. Richelson, "The Great War: Spies and Saboteurs" and "Spies in the Great War: Eyes and Ears," in A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century
Somerset Maugham, Ashenden stories
Alfred Hitchcock, The Secret Agent (film)

5. REDS AND WHITES

Jeffrey T. Richelson, "Lenin's Spies," in A Century of Spies
Bernard Wasserstein, The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln

6. BETWEEN THE WARS: FRANCE

Jeffrey T. Richelson, "Spies Between the Wars," in A Century of Spies
Michael Miller, Shanghai on the Metro: Spies, Intrigue, and the French Between the Wars

7. BETWEEN THE WARS: BRITAIN

Christopher Andrews, "Appeasement: The Road to Munich," in Her Majesty's Secret Service
Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Philby Affair: Espionage, Treason, and Secret Services
Alfred Hitchcock, The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps (films)

8. THE CODEBREAKERS

Christopher Andrews, "Winston Churchill and the Making of the British Intelligence Community," in Her Majesty's Secret Service
Jeffrey T. Richelson, "The Second World War," in Century of Spies
F.H. Hinsley et al., British Intelligence in the Second World War (selections)

9. DRESSED TO KILL: JAMES BOND AND THE COLD WAR

David Cannadine, "James Bond and the Decline of England," Encounter (September 1979)
Jeffrey T. Richelson, "The Cold War and Beyond," in A Century of Spies
Ian Fleming, "Risico," in The Oxford Book of Spy Stories, ed. Michael Cox (and film clips from early Bond films)

10. A HARD AND BITTER PEACE: GRAHAM GREENE, JOHN LE CARRE AND THE COLD WAR

Graham Greene, "A Branch of the Service," in The Oxford Book of Spy Stories
Walter Laqueur, "Le Carre's Fantasies," Commentary (June1983)
John Le Carre, The Little Drummer Girl
John Schlesinger, An Englishman Abroad (film)

1. From The Oxford Book of Spy Stories, ed. Michael Cox (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996):
William Le Queux, "The Brass Butterfly," pp.30-40
W. Somerset Maugham, "Giulia Lazzari," pp. 87-104
Ian Fleming, "Risico," pp.228-256
Graham Greene, "A Branch of the Service," pp.317-327

2. Geoffrey Powell, "John Buchan's Richard Hannay," History Today 37 (August 1987), pp.32-39.

3. David Cannadine, "James Bond & the Decline of England," Encounter (1979), pp.46-55.

4. Mordecai Richler, "James Bond Unmasked," in Mass Culture Revisited, ed. Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1971),pp.341-355.

5. Bernard Wasserstein, The Secret Lives of Lincoln Trebitsch (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988), pp.1-22, 39-241, 286-290.

6. F.H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp (eds.) Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp.1-29.

7. John Le Carre, introduction to Philip Knightley, Philby: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation (Garden City: Doubleday, 1968), pp.9-23.

8. Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Philby Affair: Espionage, Treason, and Secret Services (London: William Kimber, 1968).

9. Markus Wolf, Man Without a Face (New York: Random House, 1997), pp.123-150, 174-232.

10. Robert Harris, "I, Spy," The New Yorker (June 9, 1997), pp.91-93.

11. Timothy Garton Ash, "The Imperfect Spy," The New York Review of Books (June 1997), pp.12-16.

12. Ian Buruma, "Wolf in Wolf's Clothing," The New Republic (July 14 & 21, 1997), pp. 40-43.

13. A.J.P. Taylor, "Through the Keyhole," The New York Review of Books (February 1972), pp.14-18.

14. John Cawelti and Bruce Rosenberg, "A Guide to the Spy Story," in The Spy Story (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), pp.221-236.