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Spring 2003
This information effective for Spring 2003. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
History
[HIS-030C] [HIS-045] [HIS-147A] [HIS-159C] [HIS-196Q]
30C. Europe in the Twentieth Century
Instructor: Bruce Thompson
Office: 276 Stevenson, 459-3467
Office Hours: MWF 12:30-1:30
E-mail: brucet@ucsc.edu
Teaching assistants:
Amy Aisen (amaisen@ucsc.edu)
Eunice Blavascunas (blavascunas@lycos.com)
Sean Donahoe (sdonahoe@ucsc.edu)
Course Description:
The best of times, the worst of times . . . . It was a century
of extraordinary technological advances and, for many Europeans, of unprecedented
prosperity. But it would have been difficult to guess in 1900 that Europe
in the twentieth century would be devastated by two disastrous wars and
that state-sponsored terror, torture, and genocide would appear in the
heart of the continent. And who would have predicted, before 1989, that
the Soviet Union and its satellites would collapse so completely and ignominiously?
As we enter a new century, it is now possible to place these great and
often terrible events in historical perspective. Drawing on historical
texts, memoirs, and films, History 30C offers a survey of European history
from the outbreak of war in 1914 to the present.
A note about readings and attendance: instead of a conventional
textbook, we'll be using Alan Bullock's Hitler and Stalin: Parallel
Lives to illuminate the major events of the first half of the twentieth
century. The book is one of the masterpieces of modern historical writing,
but it is not short, and, of course, it concentrates on events in Germany
and the Soviet Union. Diligent readers of this brilliant book will be
rewarded! For events elsewhere in Europe, we'll rely on the lectures and
the other books on the syllabus. Several of our readings are memoirs or
family narratives, and they offer vivid personal testimony about the major
trends of the period.
An excellent supplement to the lectures and readings is the
fine textbook by Felix Gilbert and David Clay Large, The End of the
European Era, copies of which are available in the Bay Tree Bookstore
and on reserve at McHenry Library. Lecture notes are available on our
course website: http://media.ucsc.edu/classes/thompson/history30c/.
But the lecture notes are not a substitute for the lectures themselves,
each of which will include clips from one or more documentary films. Please
note that regular attendance of lectures and discussion sections attendance
is one of the requirements for the course, along with a midterm examination,
a 6-page paper, and a final examination.
1. The First World War (March 27-April 5)
The Twentieth Century—Origins of World War I—Stalemate—Why Germany Lost—Peace
Reading:
Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, chapters 1, 4-6
Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin, chapters 1-2
2. The Russian Revolution (April 8-12)
Why Russia?—Lenin's Revolution—From Lenin to Stalin
Reading:
Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin, chapters 3, 8
Eduard Dune, Notes of a Red Guard, chapters 1-8
3. Failed Stabilization (April 15-19)
Fathoming Hitler—Mussolini and Fascism—National Socialism
Reading:
Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin, chapters 5, 9
Alexander Stille, Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism, pp. 11-165
4. Dark Times (April 22-26)
Terror—Appeasement and the Origins of the Second World War
Reading:
Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin, chapters 10-11
Adam Hochschild, The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin, chapters 1-4, 6, 8-12, 14-16, 20
Midterm Examination, Friday April 26
5. War and Resistance (April 29-May 3)
Blitzkrieg—The Battle of Britain—Barbarossa
Reading:
Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin, chapters 15, 17
Lucie Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo
6. Holocaust (May 6-10)
Occupation and Resistance—The War Against the Jews—Reckoning
Reading:
Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin, chapter 16 (especially section VI)
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
Alexander Stille, "The Rabbi, the Priest and the Aviator: A Story of Rescue in Genoa," in Benevolence and Betrayal (recommended)
7. A Hard and Bitter Peace (May 13-17)
The Cold War Begins—After Stalin—Boom
Reading:
Hitler and Stalin, chapters 18-20
Paper Due: May 17
8. The
Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire (May 20-24)
Brezhnev and Stagnation—Gorbachev and Perestroika—Endgame
Reading:
Slavenka Drakulic, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
9. Revolution and Regression (May 29-31)
1989—After the Cold War: The Yugoslavian Horror Story
Reading:
Stephen Kotkin, Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
Midterm
Examination Questions
Two of the
following questions will appear on the midterm examination (Friday, April
26). You will be asked to write an essay on one of these questions.
In planning your essay, please feel free to draw on a wide range of sources
(lectures, texts, documents, films, drawings, etc.), but be sure to place
the main emphasis on the course readings.
1. The First World War ended with the defeat of German militarism and
shattering of the authoritarian monarchies and empires of Central and
Eastern Europe. How then do you account for the ultimate failure of liberalism
in the postwar era? What particular political, economic, and social factors
tended to undermine the stability of European societies in this period?
2. The Bolsheviks, the Fascists, and the National Socialists created
parties of a new type, designed less for electoral competition than for
seizing and monopolizing political power. Choose any two of these three
and compare and contrast them. Why were these parties successful? To whom
did they appeal?
3. Wars in
20th-century European history have set new standards for brutality and
ferocity. Choose any two of the major wars we have studied (the First
World War, the Russian Civil War, the Spanish Civil War), and consider
the reasons for the severity and the duration of each, paying special
attention to the sufferings of both soldiers and civilians.
4. Lenin
and Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler—the great dictators have cast long
shadows across the landscape of 20th-century European history. Choose
any two of these leaders and compare and contrast their personalities
and strategies. How did they achieve, consolidate, and use (or abuse)
their power?
5. Why did certain regimes in the period between the wars systematically persecute, imprison, torture, and murder large numbers of their own citizens? Compare Stalin's terror with either Hitler's or Mussolini's.
45. The Making of the Modern Middle East
TTh 12:00-1:45,
Porter 148
Instructor: David Yaghoubian
Office: Stevenson 280; phone 459-5053
Office Hours: TTh 2:30-3:30 and by appt.
e-mail: davidyag@socrates.berkeley.edu
Visit the History 45 web site at http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~davidyag to view the course syllabus and to access a collection of maps and images relevant to the course, additional listings of recommended reading, and links to Middle Eastern history resources online.
147A. California Environmental History
Spring 2003
MWF 9:30-10:40, Crown 208
Instructor: Willie Yaryan
e-mail: wyaryan@cruzio.com
Course Description:
Thirty-five years ago, the late Raymond Dasmann, professor emeritus of
environmental studies at UCSC, wrote that "in California one sees
not only the consequence of unplanned, careless, or deliberately destructive
past activity; one also gets the feelings that the worst is yet to come."
Dasmann’s classic book, The Destruction of California, is
more relevant today than in 1965. Then the population was 19 million;
today it stands at 34 million and is growing. The state’s air, soil,
and water resources are polluted, degraded, or in short supply; plant
and animal biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate; toxic waste
dumps are sited in the back yards of the poor and people of color; farms
are paved over for housing developments; and old-growth trees are cut
and milled for overseas consumption. The war between nature and culture
in California is claiming casualties on both sides.
This course will make use of the insights and methodology of environmental
historians, who study the changing relationship between humans and their
environment, to help us to understand the roots and history of our present
environmental crisis. It was in California where the 19th century "wild
west" economy of resource extraction produced its worst abuses, and
it was in California that the early conservation movement achieved its
first successes in Yosemite and Big Basin, as well as its first failure
at Hetch Hetchy. Smog in Los Angeles exemplifies the worst pollutive effects
of urbanism, and the battles to stop the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant
and to preserve Mono Lake were high points in the early environmental
movement. We will examine a variety of primary and secondary documents,
read critical essays, and view videos on California’s diverse and
spectacular environment in order to develop an informed perspective on
the history of its use and misuse.
Course Requirements
Regular attendance in class and informed participation in discussions,
careful reading of the course materials, one critical book review (a list
of books will be provided), a take-home midterm to test comprehension
of the reading, and a 10-12 page research paper on the history of a California
environmental problem.
Required Texts (available at Literary Guillotine)
- Carolyn
Merchant, ed., Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental
History (Island Press, 1998)
- Robert
Dawson and Gray Brechin, Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the
California Dream (University of California Press, 1999)
- Terry
Beers, ed., Unfolding Beauty: Celebrating California's Landscapes
(Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000).
Course Syllabus:
Date: January 28, 2003
159C. Modern Japan
Instructor:
Noriko Aso
Office: Merrill 108
Office Hours: TBA
E-mail: naso@ucsc.edu
Teaching
Assistant: Yoko Fukumura
E-mail: yokesf@aol.com
Course Web Page: http://wwwcatsic.ucsc.edu/~naso/hist159b
Draft Syllabus
Course Description:
This course covers the social, political, and cultural history of the people of Japan from the nineteenth century to the present. We will examine such topics as the establishment of the modern Japanese state and emperor system, "modernization" and debates regarding its direction, the changing status of women, the rise of Japanese imperialism, World War II, the U.S. Occupation, high growth economics, protest movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and current discussions regarding economic recession and military rearmament. Our emphasis will be on a diversity of historical experiences and struggles shaping Japanese society.
Requirements
1. Attendance
- Attendance
for the lectures is expected. While I will not be keeping formal records
of individual attendance, the frequency of a student's attendance is
generally obvious from the degree of engagement demonstrated in a student's
written work for the class. However, should attendance for the class
as a whole become a problem, I will begin taking attendance on random
days, or giving pop quizzes.
- Attendance
and participation in discussion section is mandatory and will be recorded.
Discussion section is your opportunity to work out your ideas or any
confusion you might have about the reading. Missing more than two discussion
sections will mean failure of the discussion section of the class.
2. Weekly
written assignments
- You must
turn in 6 of a possible 8 short (1 page) assignments.
- The assignments
must be typed and proofread.
- No late
assignments will be accepted.
- Specific
topics and further guidelines will be provided in a separate handout.
3. Exams
- The midterm
exam will be held in class. It will consist of a map quiz, identifications,
and a short essay. A study guide will be handed out beforehand.
- The final
will be a take-home exam due the scheduled finals exam date at 4 PM.
The exam will consist of an essay 5-7 pages long. The questions will
be handed out two weeks before the end of classes.
4. Overall
grading:
- Discussion
section (20%)
- Short
written assignments (20%)
- Mid-term
exam (30%)
- Final exam (30%)
Required
Texts
- Ann Waswo,
Modern Japanese Society, 1868–1994
- John Dower,
Japan in War and Peace
- Anne Walthall, The Human Tradition in Modern Japan
Reading
Packet
- Books
are available for purchase at the Literary Guillotine, 204 Locust Street
(457-1195).
- Reading Packet is available from Slug Books (in 7-Eleven mini-mall, 469-7584).
Weekly Readings
Week One:
The Meiji Restoration (4/1-4/3)
- Basic
Orientations
- The End of the Tokugawa Shogunate/Remapping the World
Readings:
Ann Waswo, "On the Meiji Restoration"
Anne Walthall, "Nishimiya Hide"
Reading Packet:
1) Various letters in section entitled "Coming of the American Fleet, 1853-1854," in Meiji Japan Through Contemporary Sources 2
2) Broadsheets in Japanese Discovery of America
Week Two:
The New Nation (4/8-4/10)
- Civilization
and Enlightenment
- Industrialization
Readings:
Waswo, "Creating the New Nation" and "Toward an Industrial Economy"
Anne Walthall, ed., "Hatoyama Haruko" and "Kinoshita Yoshio"
Reading Packet:
1) Fukuzawa Yukichi, "On De-Asianization" in Meiji Japan Through Contemporary Sources 3
2) "Proposal of Okubo Toshimichi Concerning Industrial Enterprises for Increasing Production, May or June, 1874," in Meiji Japan Through Contemporary Sources 3
3) Selections from Journal of Enlightenment regarding the status of women
Week Three:
From Modernization to Modernity? (4/15-4/17)
- The State
and Parliamentary Politics
- Cultural
Hybridity
Readings:
Waswo, "Protest from Below"
Walthall, ed., "Matsuura Isami," "Yoshiya Nobuko," and "Takahashi Masao"
Reading Packet:
1) Wray and Conroy, "How Democratic was Taishô Democracy?"
2) Kobayashi Hideo, "Literature of the Lost Home"
Week Four:
Colonial Japan (4/22-4/24)
- Diplomatic,
Military and Economic Expansion
- Systemization
of the Colonial Empire
Readings:
Walthall, ed., "Jahana Noboru"
Reading Packet:
1) Wray and Conroy, "Japanese Colonialism: Enlightened or Barbaric?"
2) "Japanese Rule in Korea after the March First Uprising: Governor General Hasegawa's Recommendations"
3) "Through the Eye of a Needle" and "A Red Line Marks My Record," from Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
Week Five:
Japan at War (4/29-5/1)
- National
Mobilization
- The Fifteen
Year War
Readings:
Waswo, "The Military in Politics" and "Modernization and its Discontents"
Dower, "Sensational Rumors"
Reading Packet:
1) Chronology of the wartime era from John Benson and Takao Matsumura, Japan 1868–1945
2) Selections from Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook, ed., Japan at War: An Oral History
Week Six:
Midterm Week (5/6-5/8)
Tuesday ***
In-class midterm***
- Arrival
of the American Occupation Forces
Readings:
Dower, "Race, Language, and War in Two Cultures"
Reading Packet;
1) Beate Sirota Gordon, "The Equal Rights Clause," from The Only Woman in the Room
2) Kojima Nobuo, "American School," in Contemporary Japanese Literature, Howard Hibbett, ed.
Week Seven:
Under the Nuclear Umbrella (5/13-5/15)
- The Reverse
Course
- Conservative
Hegemony
Readings:
Dower, "Occupied Japan and the Cold War in Asia," "Yoshida in the Scales of History"
Walthall, ed., "Yokoi Shoichi" and "Misora Hibari"
Week Eight:
Economic Miracle (5/20-5/22)
- 1950s
and 1960s: Crisis, Recovery, and Growth
- 1970s
and 1980s: From Oil Shocks to Bubble Economy
Readings:
Dower, "The Useful War"
Waswo, "The Postwar 'Economic Miracle' and its Consequences"
Reading Packet:
1) Mark Schilling, "Consumer Culture," in Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture
2) Ishinomori Shôtarô, "Trade Friction" and "Epilogue," from Japan, Inc.
Week Nine:
Social Protest (5/27-5/29)
- Postwar
Protest Movements
- Postwar
Okinawa
Readings:
Dower, "Japanese Artists and the Bomb"
Reading Packet:
1) Frank Upham, "Unplaced Persons and Movements for Place," in Postwar Japan as History, ed. by Andrew Gordon
2) Chibana Shôichi, "The first time Okinawan people have said no," in Okinawa Dreams OK
2) Ota Masahide, "I'm an amateur politician," in Okinawa Dreams OK
3) Ahagon Shoko, "Go home and be happy," in Okinawa Dreams OK
Week Ten:
Redefining Japan in the 21st Century (6/3-6/5)
- The End
of the "Postwar"
- New Directions
Readings:
Waswo, "Japanese Society in the Early 1990s"
Dower, "Postscript: Two Reflections on the Death of the Shôwa Emperor"
Reading Packet:
1) Nicholas Kristof, "Real Capitalism Breaks Japan's Old Rules" (NYT 7-15-97)
2) "Mutual Image/Mutual Distortion" (Zinpangu interview with Carol Gluck)
3) "Who Needs National Identity?" (Zipangu interview with Norma Field)
196Q. Topics in Korean History: Independence on the Korean Peninsula
Instructor: Noriko Aso
Draft Syllabus
Course Description:
In this readings
seminar, we will focus on works that explore the possibilities for and
specific forms taken in expressions of independence in the Korean peninsula
during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. "Independence"
here can be understood both in reference to a sense of the right to "national"
self-determination and to a sense of the right to diverse and dissenting
opinions within Korean society itself. Not surprisingly, these two meanings
of independence intertwined in complex ways over time.
The theme of independence in Korea is both important in its own right and has particular relevance in the present day, as the world debates what is to be done about North Korean pursuit of nuclear arms in the name of self-determination. How have Korean views of independent or dissenting thought and action shown continuity over time? How have they changed over time? How did colonization under Japan shape subsequent government and citizen relations in North and South Korea? What does nationalism or the pursuit of national independence have to do with democracy? What has been, will, and should be the role of the United States on the peninsula? We will pursue these questions, and more, through weekly readings and discussion. You will also keep media journals in order to make active connections between our historical studies and current developments. Finally, you will have the opportunity to pursue more individual interests in written essay form.
Course Assignments:
- Three
written discussion points based on the week's readings to be turned
in by 10:00 Wednesday morning.
- Book report
and presentation due at midterm. Detailed paper guidelines handed out
separately. A solid bibliography of works on Korean history is available
at: http://www2.hawaii.edu/korea/bibliography/biblio.htm
- One media watching journal composed of entries drawn from two media sources that you will consistently track through the quarter, and an analytical essay based on your tracking. One source will be an American media source; the other will be a foreign source. You will make a brief presentation on your findings during the final class session. Detailed guidelines handed out separately.
Required Reading Materials:
At the Literary Guillotine:
- Yong-Ho
Ch'oe et al., ed., Sources of Korean Tradition
- Hildi
Kang, ed., Life Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea,
1910–1945
- Kang Chol-Hwan,
Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
- Lee Jai
Eui, Kwangju Diary
- Katherine Moon, Sex Among Allies
At Slug Books:
- Reading Packet
Weekly Schedule
Week One: Introduction
Week Two:
Confucian State and Society
Readings:
- Sangjun
Kim, "The genealogy of Confucian Moralpolitik and its implications
for modern civil society" in Reading Packet (hereinafter "RP")
- "Politics," "Education," and "Society" sections in Yong-Ho Ch'oe, ed., Sources of Korean Tradition (hereinafter "Sources") (12-69, 143-180)
Week Three:
Constructing New Orders
Readings:
- James
Palais, "Introduction," "The Clamor for the Recall of
the Taewongun," and "The Debate over Accommodation with Japan,"
in Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea (1-22, 237-271)
- "The Tonghak Uprisings and the Kabo Reforms," "The Independence Club and the People's Assembly," and "The Nationalist Movement" from Sources of Korean Tradition (261-288, 333-351)
Week Four:
Possibilities and Constraints under Colonization
Readings:
- Hildi Kang, ed., Life Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
Week Five: Book Review Roundtable
Week Six:
Liberation, Division, and War
Readings:
- Bruce
Cumings, "August to September 1945," "Internationalist
Policy and Nationalist Logic," "The Autumn Harvest Uprisings,"
and "The North Wind," Origins of the Korean War, v. 1
(68-100, 214-264, 351-381, 382-427) in RP
- Bruce Cumings, "Collision, 1948-1953," in Korea's Place in the Sun (237-298) in RP
Week Seven:
Totalitarianism in the DPRK
Readings:
- Charles
Armstrong, "Surveillance and Punishment in Postliberation North
Korea," in Tani Barlow, ed., Formations of Colonial Modernity
(323-347) in RP
- Kang Chol-Hwan,
Pierre Rigoulot, Yair Reiner (Translator), Aquariums of Pyongyang:
Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
- "Kim Ilsong and Chuch'e Thought in North Korea," in Sources (419-424)
Week Eight:
Repression and Resistance in the ROK
Readings:
- Lee Jai
Eui, Kwangju Diary
- "Kim Taejung and His Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in South Korea," in Sources (431-452)
Week Nine:
U.S. Bases and the Korean Peninsula
Readings:
- Katherine
Moon, Sex Among Allies
- "Dialogues Between North and South Korea," in Sources (425-430)