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DSE VI (3rd Year)

 

Issues in Twentieth Century World History-II

 

Course Objectives:

 

This  course  aims  to  provide  an  understanding  of  20th  century  world  

history  not  as  history  of parts, individual nations but as interconnected world history.  Through events focus is on how the world evolved from the Wars of Nations to new radical and social movements.

World ridden with conflict  and  violence  also  witness  growing  desires  for  Peace  by  

forming  United  Nations. The emphasis is on taking up case studies to illustrate the processes and trends in society and culture.

 

Learning Outcomes:

 

•      Define world history.

 

•      Discuss  and  explain  the  evolving  polities,  economies  and  

cultures  of  the  twentieth century world.

 

•      Analyze the interconnectedness in world history. (pdf link)

 

•      Demonstrate critical skills to discuss diverse social movements and

cultural trends.

 

Course Content:

 

Unit I: The World Divided:

The Cold War-case studies, Korea/Vietnam

 

Unit II: Decolonization and the long shadow of colonial exploitation:    (pdf link)

Ghana/Algeria

 

Unit III: Popular Movements:

 

(a)  Environmental Struggles: Chipko Movement; Struggles for the Amazon; Bhopal

 

(b) Student Movements: Paris 1968

 

(c)  Anti-apartheid movements in S. Africa and Civil Rights Movement USA

 

(d) Women’s  Movements:   Issues   and   Debates/Women   and   Work   

Place-Vishakha Guidelines

Unit IV: Leisure and Entertainment

 

(a)  Spectator Sports (football/Olympics)

 

(b) Cinema  (James  Bond  films  in  the  context  of  the  Cold  War,  

Satyajit  Ray’s  films  and

Bicycle Thief in the context of the Depression)

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS AND UNIT-WISE TEACHING OUTCOMES:

 

Unit 1:  This Unit shall discuss the global impact of the Cold War though

specified case studies.

 

(Teaching Time: 3 weeks approx.)

 

 

•    Dickinson,   Edward   Ross.   (2018).   The   World   in   the   Long   

Twentieth-Century,   An

Interpretive History. USA:  University of California Press.

 

•    Lightbody, Bradley. (1999). The Cold War. New York and London: Routledge.

 

•    McMahon,   Robert.   (2003).   Cold   War-A   very   Short   Introduction.

  USA:       Oxford

University Press.

 

•    Lee,  Stephen  J.  (1982).  Aspects  of  European  History  1789–1980.  

London,  New  York:

 

Routledge (Ch.31).

 

•    Anderson, David L. (2005).  The Vietnam War.  New York:  Palgrave

Macmillan.

 

•    Stueck,  W.  (2010).  “The  Korean  War.”  in  M.P.  Leffler  and  O.A.  

Westad,  (Eds.).  The

Cambridge History of the Cold War. Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press.

 

Unit 2:   This Unit shall familiarize the students with the decolonization

process and with the

politics of persisting colonial interests through a prescribed case study from

the African/South

American region. (Teaching Time: 3 weeks approx.)

 

•    Lee,  Stephen  J.  (1982).  Aspects  of  European  History  1789–1980.  

London,  New  York:

Routledge (Ch.36).

 

•    Whitfield,  Lindsay.  (2018).  Economies  after  Colonialism:  Ghana  and  

the  Struggle  for Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 133-177.

 

•    Choi, Sung-Eun. (2016). Decolonization and the French of Algeria: Bringing

the Settler Colony Home. New York: Springer (Introduction).

 

•    Findley, Carter V. and John Rothey. (2011). Twentieth-Century World. USA:  

Wadsworth Publishing.

 

•    Duikar, William J. (2005) Twentieth-Century World History.  USA:  

Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

 

•    Roberts,  J.M.    (1999).  Twentieth-Century,  the  History  of  the  

World,  1901-2000.  New York:  Viking.

 

•    महाजन, स्नेह. (२०१६) बीसवीं शताब्दी का विश्व इतिहास: एक झलक (भाग-२) दिल्ली लक्ष्मीप्रकाशन.

 

•    देशपांडे, अनिरुद्ध    (२०१४).  विश्व इतिहास के प्रमुख मुद्दे :   बदलते  आयाम. दिल्ली, दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय प्रकाशन

 

 

Unit 3:   This Unit shall provide an outline of important case studies of

popular movements that

emerged in the latter half of the twentieth century. (Teaching Time: 6 weeks

approx.)

 

•    Findley, Carter V. and John Rothey. (2011). Twentieth-Century World. USA:  

Wadsworth

Publishing.

 

 

•    Duikar, William J. (2005) Twentieth-Century World History.  USA:  

Wadsworth Cengage

Learning.

 

•    Burkett, Elinor. (YEAR). “Women's Rights Movement - Political and Social

Movement.”

 

Encyclopaedia Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/topic/womens-movement).

 

•    Flavia Agnes. (2001). Law and Gender Equality: The Politics of Women’s

Rights in India.

 

Delhi: Oxford University Press (relevant sections in Part-II).

 

•    Joan  Martinez-Alier.  (2012).  “The  Environmentalism  of  the  Poor:  Its  Origins  and Spread” in A Companion to Global Environmental History, Eds. J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 455-73.

 

•    Nagraj,  Vijay  K.  &  Nithya  V  Raman  (2006).  “Are  we  Prepared  for

Another  Bhopal.”

 

in Environmental Issues in India, ed. Mahesh Rangarajan, Delhi: Pearson.   

(Available in

Hindi also)

 

•    McNeill,  J.  R.  (2001).  Something  New  Under  the  Sun:  An Environmental  History  of Twentieth-Century World. New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company. (Especially Introduction)

 

•    Mitchell,  Timothy.  (2013).  Carbon  Democracy:  Political  Power  in  the  age  of  Oil. London & New York: Verso (Introduction).

 

•    Skinner, R. (2017). Modern South Africa in World History: Beyond Imperialism. London: Bloomsbury (Ch.6 and Ch.7).

 

•    महाजन, स्नेह. (२०१६) बीसवीं शताब्दी का विश्व इतिहास: एक झलक (भाग-२) दिल्ली

 

लक्ष्मीप्रकाशन.

 

•    देशपांडे, अनिरुद्ध    (२०१४).  विश्व इतिहास के प्रमुख मुद्दे :   बदलते  

आयाम. दिल्ली, दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय प्रकाशन

 

 

Unit 4:    This Unit shall discuss important trends in the realm of spectator

sports and in cinema.

The focus shall be on specified case studies. (Teaching Time: 4 weeks approx.)

 

•    Findley, Carter V. and John Rothey. (2011). Twentieth-Century World. USA:  

Wadsworth Publishing.

 

•    Hobsbawm, E.J.  (1996). The Age of Extremes. 1914-1991. New York:  Vintage.

 

•    Hobsbawm,  E.J.  (2009).  The  Age  Of  Extremes,  translated  into  Hindi

 :  अतिरेकोंकयुग   :बीसवीं सदी का इतिहास : 1914-1991; अनुवादक, प्रकाश दीक्षित ; मेरठ : संवाद प्रकाशन

 

•    Duikar, William J. (2005) Twentieth-Century World History.  USA:  Wadsworth Cengage

 Learning.

 

•    Leab, D.L. (1998). “Introduction: The Cold War and the Movies.” Film

History vol. 10 no.3, pp. 251-53.

 

•    महाजन, स्नेह. (२०१६) बीसवीं शताब्दी का विश्व इतिहास: एक झलक (भाग-२) दिल्ली

 

लक्ष्मीप्रकाशन.

 

•    देशपांडे, अनिरुद्ध    (२०१४).  विश्व इतिहास के प्रमुख मुद्दे :   बदलते  

आयाम. दिल्ली, दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय प्रकाशन

 

 

Suggested Readings:

 

•    Chapman,  James.  (2005).  Cinemas  of  the  World--Film  and  Society  

from  1895  to  the Present.  London:  Reation Books.

 

•    Cumings, Bruce. (2010). The Korean War: A History. New York: Modern

Library.

 

•    Falola,   Toyin   and   Achberger,   Jessica.   (Eds).   (2012).   The   

Political   Economy   of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa. New York and London:  Routledge.

 

•    Forbes, Geraldine. (1999). Women in Modern India. The New Cambridge

History of India

 

– Volume 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Chs.7-8).

 

•    Grosfoguel, Ramonand Cervantes-Rodriguez, Ana Magarita (Eds.). (2002). The

Modern/

Colonial/Capitalist   World-System   in   the   Twentieth   Century:        

Global   Processes,

Antisystemic Movements, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge. USA:  Greenwood

Press.

 

•    Guelke, Adrian. (2005). Rethinking the Rise and fall of Apartheid-South

Africa and World

 

Politics.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan.

 

•    Guttmann,  A.  (1986).  Sports  Spectators.  New  York:  Columbia  

University  Press  (Chs.

4-6).

 

•    John, M. (2014). “Fears and Furies of Sexual Harassment.” The Economic and

Political Weekly vol. 49 no.15, 29-32.

 

•    Klimke, M. and J. Scharloth. (Eds.). (2008). 1968 in Europe: A History of

Protest and

Activism 1956-1977. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

•    Kumar, Radha. (1993). The History of Doing. Delhi: Zubaan (Chs.6-12).

 

•    McNeill,  J.  R.  and  Erin  Stewart  Mauldin  (Eds.).     (2012).  A  

Companion  to  Global

Environmental History. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.

 

•    Moore, Jason W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the

Accumulation of

 

Capital. London & New York: Verso.

 

•    Rajadhyaksha, Ashish. (2016). Indian Cinema: A Very Short Introduction.

Delhi: Oxford

University Press.

 

•    Rathbone, Richard. (2000). Nkrumah and the Chiefs: The politics of

Chieftaincy in

 

Ghana 1951-60. Athens: Ohio University Press, pp 1-28, 89-150.

 

•    Schofield, John, Johnson, William Gray and Beek, Colleen M. (Eds.).

(2002). Material

Culture-the   Archaeology   of   Twentieth   Century   Conflict.   New   York   

and

London: Routledge.

 

•    Sen,  Samita.  (2000).  “Toward  a  Feminist  Politics?  The  Indian  

Women's  Movement  in Historical  Perspective.”  Policy  Research  Report  on  Gender  and  

Development  Working Paper Series No. 9. (World Bank), pp. 20-46.

 

•    Sorlin,  Pierre.  (1998).  “The  Cinema:  The  American  Weapon  for  the  

Cold  War.”  Film History vol. 10 no.3, pp. 375-381.

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