CH 400 12: World Civilizations II (Assignment 2)
Instructor:

(You need to submit both to get a grade).

Choose two or three documents from the syllabus or text book and write a double-spaced 3-5 page essay about them. Do NOT pick a document you discussed in your first assignment (Essay 1). This is an essay assignment, so your paper should not be an outline or in a “question and answer” format. Develop a specific argument or theme (thesis) you wish to address concerning your chosen texts. Although your essay will rely primarily on your chosen documents, use your knowledge of the lectures, and other readings to interpret the context of the document. Be sure to support your main points or arguments with specific references to the documents. Direct quotations must be enclosed in quotation marks. Always supply a page number and the author’s name for a direct quotation in parentheses. At the end of your essay you should give bibliographical data for the document (or other sources) you have used: author, full title, place and date of publication. Make sure you underline or italicize titles of books, plays, films, periodicals, and pamphlets. You should also italicize or underline foreign terms. Avoid using abbreviations or slang.

Please keep the following guidelines in mind while writing your essay:

Direct quotations must be enclosed in quotation marks. Always supply a page number and the author’s name for a direct quotation in parentheses. Footnotes are usually unnecessary for these types of short essays, but you should include a bibliography if you use “in-text” citations.
Somewhere in your essay you should give bibliographical data for the document (or other sources) you have used: author, full title, place and date of publication. If the text/s lack the publication information, than please cite just the author and document title. This applies to point 1 above as well (in other words cite whatever information is available).
ALWAYS number your pages (preferably in the upper right-hand corner).
Give your essay an ORIGINAL title. Something a bit more imaginative than ‘essay 2” or “Assignment 1,” etc.
These are not a research papers; you should limit your references to material covered in the course. Do NOT reference material outside of this course.
You should underline or italicize titles of books, plays, films, periodicals, and pamphlets. You should also italicize or underline foreign terms.
Avoid abbreviations and slang.
Avoid writing in an “outline form.” Make sure you write comprehensive paragraphs that reflect an essay style.
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List of sources:
20 January – 26 January

Abbé Sièyes, “What is the Third Estate?” at Modern History Sourcebook URL
“Cahiers de doleances,” at the History Guide URL
Toussain L’ Ouverture, Letter to General Etienne Laveaux” and “Letter to the People of Verrettes,” in Katharine J. Lualdi, ed., Sources of The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Volume II (Boston and New York, 2009): 123-25. File
Outline 1 Modern History File

27 January – 2 February

Friederich Engels, “Industrial Manchester,” (1844) at Modern History Sourcebook URL
Ernst Renan, “What is a Nation (1882)” at Computers & Society Technical University of Berlin URL
Edouard Drumant “Jewish France,” in Marvin Perry, Mathew Berg and James Krukones, eds., Sources of Twentieth Century Europe (Boston and New York: 2000): 32-3 File

3 February – 9 February

Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden.” at Modern History Sourcebook < http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kipling.asp> URL
Edward Morel “The Black Man’s Burden (1903),” [excerpts] at Hannover College History Department < http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111mor.html> URL
Houston Stewart Chamberlain, “The Importance of Race,” in in Marvin Perry, Mathew Berg and James Krukones, eds., Sources of Twentieth Century Europe (Boston and New York: 2000):20-22 File
Joseph Chamberlain, ” The British Empire, ” in in Marvin Perry, Mathew Berg and James Krukones, eds., Sources of Twentieth Century Europe (Boston and New York: 2000): 23-5. File
Cecil Rhodes, “The Superior Anglo-Saxon Race,” in in Marvin Perry, Mathew Berg and James Krukones, eds., Sources of Twentieth Century Europe (Boston and New York: 2000):22-3. File
Outline 2 part 1 sec 12 Legacies of the Nineteenth Century File

10 February – 16 February

Woodrow Wilson, “Speech on the Fourteen Points Jan 8, 1918,” at Modern History Sourcebook URL
Outline 3 Section 12 New Imperialism File

17 February – 23 February

Lenin, “April Theses” at Marxist Archive URL
Eugene Debs, “The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918) URL
Outline 4 WORLD WAR I File

24 February – 2 March

Benito Mussolini “What is Fascism,” 1932 at Modern History Sourcebook URL
Robert Paxton, “What is Fascism,” pp. 218-221 in The Anatomy of Fascism (2004). File
Outline 5 Revolution and the Fall of Empires File

3 March – 9 March

10 March – 16 March

17 March – 23 March

24 March – 30 March

The Nanking Massacre” at Modern History Sourcebook URL
Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata [At Exploratorium] < http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/photos.html#journey/01.gif > URL
Outlines 6 & 7 World War II and the Holocaust File

31 March – 6 April

Wannsee Protocol” (January 20, 1942) at the Avalon Project URL
Omar Bartov, “Hitler’s Army,” in Donald Niewyk, ed., The Holocaust (Boston, 2011: Fourth Edition): 70-83. File
Christopher Browning, “Ordinary Men,” in Donald Niewyk, ed., The Holocaust (Boston, 2011: Fourth Edition): 84-99. File
Robert Jay Lifton, “The Nazi Doctors,” in Donald Niewyk, ed., The Holocaust (Boston, 2011: Fourth Edition): 69-74. File

7 April – 13 April

Winston Churchill, “The Iron Curtain,” in Marvin Perry, Mathew Berg and James Krukones, eds., Sources of Twentieth Century Europe (Boston and New York: 2000): 314-15. File
Nikita S. Khrushchev, “Report to the Twentieth Party Congress,” in Marvin Perry, Mathew Berg and James Krukones, eds., Sources of Twentieth Century Europe (Boston and New York: 2000): 315-17. File
OUTLINE 8 and 9 COLD WAR AND DECOLONIZATION File

14 April – 20 April

“President Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh: Letter Exchange, 1967” at Modern History Sourcebook< http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1967-vietnam-letters1.asp > URL
This week
21 April – 27 April

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, “The French Student Revolt,” in Marvin Perry, Mathew Berg and James Krukones, eds., Sources of Twentieth Century Europe (Boston and New York: 2000): 378-82. File
Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex,” in Marvin Perry, Mathew Berg and James Krukones, eds., Sources of Twentieth Century Europe (Boston and New York: 2000):374-8. File
Gay Liberation Front, “Manifesto (1971)” at Modern History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/glf-london.asp