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HIST W3903: History of the World Since 1500 CE

HIST W3903: History of the World Since 1500 CE (Fall 2011, Columbia Univ.). Instructor: Professor Richard Bulliet. This course presents and at the same time critiques a narrative world history after 1500 CE. The purpose of the course is to convey an understanding of how this rapidly growing field of history is being approached at three different levels: the narrative textbook level, the theoretical-conceptual level, and through discussion sections, the research level.

Lecture 05 - Early Modern Islamic Governance

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Lecture 01 - Transformations in Europe, 1500-1750

Lecture 02 - The Americas, the Atlantic, and Africa, 1530-1770

Lecture 03 - The Americas, The Atlantic, and Africa, 1530-1770 II

Lecture 04 - Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1750

Lecture 05 - Early Modern Islamic Governance

Lecture 06 - Korea, Japan, and China in the Sixteenth Century

Lecture 07 - Northern Eurasia, 1500-1800

Lecture 08 - Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850 Part I

Lecture 09 - The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851

Lecture 10 - Egypt and the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century

Lecture 11 - British India

Lecture 12 - Nineteenth Century China

Lecture 13 - Africa in the Nineteenth Century

Lecture 14 - Nineteenth Century isms

Lecture 15 - Velocity and Modernity

Lecture 16 - Social Darwinism

Lecture 17 - The Twentieth Century in History

Lecture 18 - Money and Decolonization

Lecture 19 - America and the Cold War

Lecture 20 - Human/Animal Relations

Lecture 21 - Concluding Reflections