Spring
2016 Occidental College History
Department Prof. Maryanne
Horowitz
History
300. Re-assessing European Global
Encounters
Monday/Wednesday 8:00-9:25am Fowler 110
The
20th-century national
movements of liberation from European colonialism initiated re-assessments of
the Crusades, trade on the Silk Road, piracy and kidnapping, as well as of the
Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English, and French trade routes and settlements on
the Atlantic and Pacific Rims in the early modern period. Each student will be
writing a historiographical essay revealing changing interpretations of one
global encounter. Class work will enhance student skills: we shall be
discussing exemplary recent historical films and histories, and we shall learn
how to efficiently find diverse viewpoints through on-line and printed
sources. Prerequisite: Open to majors and minors, or may enroll with
instructor's approval. Meets CORE
Requirements: Pre-1800 and Intercultural
and Global
The
Hist. 300 in Occidental College History Department introduces students to the
practice and writing of history through topical approaches. Students will
explore methodological approaches to historical inquiry, conduct research
projects, and improve their writing skills.
Office hours: Swan 314
Mon. 11:50 a.m.-12:45 p.m. and Fri. 8:00-9:25 a.m. Contact Prof. Horowitz
via email horowitz@oxy.edu. Phone useful during office hours
323-259-2583
BOOKS
In Bookstore: John E. Willis,
Jr., The
World from 1450 to 1700. (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Other readings are on
MOODLE for student selection of one global encounter for focused research. There are many electronic historiographical
articles and chapters received via interlibrary loan, as well as books on
reserve.
SCHEDULE
Common readings to
start:
Week 1 Willis, Preface,
Prologue, chs. 1 and 2, Chronology &
Websites Analyzing historical films
as practice in analyzing historical viewpoints in secondary sources: See on reserve before M. Jan 25 video: The Other Conquest (in Nahuatl and
Spanish; set subtitles to English) on reserve, and by America, un Mundo Nuevo (47 minutes Spanish
with English subtitles) OR an
alternative is to see How tasty was my little Frenchman (Portuguese, set
subtitles to English) to compare with the book on which it was based Hans Staden’s true history: an account of cannibal capitivity in Brazil
Jan. 20 Lecture on Patricia Seed, Ceremonies of Possession,
on
alternative national paths to dispossessing indigenous peoples
Week
2 Willis, chs. 3 and 4, and Bibliography (mark those that are primary sources) See by Wed. Jan 27
on reserve
Mon. Powerpoint Visual Lecture “Early Modern Fourfold
Division of Humanity” Focus is on personifications of America and of Africa
in Title page of Ortelius (1570), Amsterdam Town Hall (1660s), and Tapestry set
of late 17th century. For example, student might pick as
historiography topic the visual imagery of “America” or “Africa” or “Asia” (for
Europeans the reference shifted from the Near East to East Asia in 18th
century).
Questions/discussion/alternate approaches.
Wed. Bring Willis to discuss; individuals will have picked specific chapters
of greatest interest. Completed
chs. 1-3.
Week
3 Willis, chs. 4-7.
Mon. Feb. 1
Come to class
prepared to practice comparative historiography on contrasting
approach and interpretation of the 2 assigned films on the Spanish & the Aztecs OR of
Brazilian film on Tupinamba & 16th
century travel book on which it was based. Please suggest other contrasting
films ( film based on travelogue) of an encounter as
films are welcome in your historiography paper.
Workshop begins on
electronic articles and chapters on reserve in MOODLE (the articles analyze
books you may want to choose)
Wed. Feb. 3
Student presentations on topics of greatest
interest (preliminary oral stage of Feb. 8 assignment)
Bring Willis to discuss chs.
4-7; individuals will have picked specific chapters of greatest interest.
Week
4 Mon. Feb. 8 Submission of proposal for
first comparative history book review, related to commitment to specific
early modern global encounter of peoples for historiography paper. Completion of discussion on Willis and of films.
Wed. Feb. 10 Librarian
Darren Hall will supervise a workshop on finding articles through library
databases. Bring specific topics you
seek, and any other research-inquiry questions.
Consider bringing a portable drive to store articles.
Further reading
assignments and lectures will support the specific student interests. Students
are requested to recommend for scanning/group reading contrasting articles they find on their topics.
Week 5 Monday holiday
Wed. Feb. 17 Working on chosen
topic. Come with 2 copies of current bibliography of journal articles (at least
4) and at least 2 chapters from reserve historiography chapters. Have a sentence or 2 of annotation (summing
up main point of use to your topic) on at least l article and l historiography
chapter.
Reserve electronic reading “Judith C. Brown, "Courtiers and Christians: The First
Japanese Emissaries to Europe," Renaissance Quarterly 47
(Dec. 1994) , 872-906
Lecture on Early
Modern Policies on Ambassadors (Gift-giving enters collections)
Feb. 21 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m Bus Trip to Getty Center, especially for prof’s guided
tour of Versailles tapestries of Louis XIV --- necessary to sign up ahead.
Week
6. Jesuits
Mon. Feb. 22 Lecture
on Catholic Reformation/Counter-Reformation and founding of Jesuits, the
Society of Jesus
Wed. Feb. 24 Prof. Robert Ellis
“Japanese and Spaniards in the Christian Century” Read ahead electronic copy on
reserve ch. 1 “Japanese and Spaniards in the
Christian Century” of Robert Richmond Ellis, They Need Nothing: Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period
(book also on reserve)
Week 7 Exploration and
impact on museums and botanical gardens
Mon. Feb. 29 Early Modern
Botanical Gardens (Pisa, Padua) & Early Library/Museum, a “Studiolo” (Piero’s and then
Lorenzo’s in Medici Palace in Florence)
Comparative book review due Mon. Feb. 29.
Wed.
March 2 Workshop on professional editing of your papers in Word: Dr. Carey Sargent, Associate Director,
Instruction and Research, Center for Digital Liberal Arts.
Spring Break
Week 8 Background and
context of James Cook’s trips. Read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook
looking at endnotes. Report on links to
Journals or Links to museums. Topic has lots of on-line resources for research.
Mon. March 14
Wed.
March 16 Wed. March 16 Comparative Article Review due Wed. March 16
NOON (email as Word attachment to horowitz@oxy.edu. Students
will be receive a paper via email for trying out the professional editing
learned on March 2.)
Abstract of entire paper under 150 words due Fri.
March 18 by Noon via email
Week 9 Start week 11
assignment...at least printing, reading “the problem” pp. 410-11, the method p. 416,
browsing for your interests.
Mon. March 21 Meet in classroom,
and then we’ll go to Special Collections at 8:25.
Wed. March 23: Paper presentations on museums and on James
Cook. Completion of presentation on
Early Modern Policies on Ambassadors: see The
Requirement (required to be read by Spanish to indigenous peoples) and Machiavelli’s
letter letter
to Vettori on work in study in evening with ancients
and ms. of The Prince.
Recommended: I had assumed more student use of reserve readings which both
provide articles and suggest articles. Please read an introductory reserve
reading related to own paper topic and paper you commented upon: Under Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History: “Museums” “Indigenous Peoples” “British East
India Company ( includes British Empire)” “Global Imperialism and Gender” Guide
to Historical Literature is the model for annotated bibliographies.
Week
10 Mon. March 28 Re-writes due of March 16 Comparative Article Review with improvements from
faculty/student suggestions and any additional research. On any one article, do
not devote more than one paragraph; paragraphs comparing at least two articles
are better. You may be aided by starting
annotated secondary source bibliography due on March 30.
Monday March 28: Paper
presentations on Europe-Japan Encounter and Spanish-Aztec Encounter
Wed.
March 30 Draft of at least 10 pages with endnotes plus Bibliography (most of
the secondary sources annotated in 1-3 sentences for point of view) due Wed. March 30.
Week 11 Print and mark
up with your thoughts on first item in MOODLE electronic reserve from Discovering the Global Past, 4th
edition: “Cross-cultural Encounters: Travel, Religion Conquests, and Trade
(14000-1700)” This is a problem set for
students to discuss.
Mon.
April 4 Meet in
new Career Office with Valerie Savior 8-9:20 a.m. She has received your
specified interests.
Wed. April 6 Bring your marked-up “Cross-cultural Encounters” for first analysis/discussion of documents 1-13. Reading legal cases: Somerset v Stewart in 1772 and the Zong insurance claims case in 1783, which helped lay the groundwork for Britain's Slave Trade Act 1807.
Week 12 Analyzing
particularly quantitative data in “Cross-cultural Encounters,” pp. 434-437.
Mon.
April 11 Film Belle.
Wed.
April 13 Last date to resubmit abstract of paper.
Film Belle Discussion of film and of quantitative
data in “Cross-cultural Encounters.”
Week 13 Read and
analyze paper that won Renaissance
Quarterly paper prize that year: Markey “Stradano’s
Allegorical Invention of the Americas,” in electronic items top of MOODLE. Students to recommend articles or chapters
they would recommend on early modern encounters.
Mon. April 18 Discuss advantages
and disadvantages of film Belle vs. reading the 3 legal documents assigned for
April 6. Bring “Cross-cultural encounters”--discuss quantitative date in
“Cross-cultural Encounters” and discuss whether any item from quantitative date
or fact list of use in your historiography paper. Are there some “facts” on
your topic that are not interpretation?
Bring to discuss Markey’s article for use of visual and textual primary
sources and arguments with other historians.
Wed.
April 20 Final paper (2 stapled copies) due Wed. April 20 at beginning of
class. Follow format
specified below. Workshop
on papers.
Week
14 Discussion of recommended articles and chapters.
Mon.
April 25 Student Evaluations of course at computers. Discussion of recommended
articles and chapters.
Tues. April 26 Hist. Dept. Party
Wed. April 27 Last
class: papers passed in on-time returned.
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Special Events:
Mon. March 21 After 20 minutes in class, we have a hands-on exhibition in
Special Collections in the Library. You are encouraged to request additional
items ahead.
Meeting in new Careers
office to discuss career planning: April 4.
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Grading: 25% Class participation
including some writing in response to faculty and student presentations
Pass in 2 complete
copies of paper progress assignments on due dates (l is for student reading and
response):
25% 2 Comparative
reviews with some assessment of use of some shared primary sources. First
requires a minimum of 2 history books (footnoted or endnoted
monographs, not textbooks). Second
requires a minimum of 6 journal articles or chapters in edited books. Write 4 pages each plus minimal endnotes as needed.
Condensations or sections of these reviews may appear in your
historiography paper later. First due
Mon. Feb. 29. Second due Wed. March 16.
50%
Final paper due Wed. April 20.
FORMAT: Include marked up copies of March 30
draft and any later drafts commented on by Prof. Paper should have a
title page with your name and course.
Then place abstract, then text of paper starting on new page,
then endnotes starting on new page, then primary and secondary source
bibliography starting on new page. If you have a figure list and
figures, put that in Appendix after the bibliography. Whole paper should be
proofread for accuracy and numbered
consecutively (fine by hand starting 1 at text of paper. title page and
abstract do not need a page number.). Staple
entire final paper in top left corner. Earlier drafts are
separate.
15-page carefully
researched historiography paper with Univ. of Chicago Endnotes. In addition, a
Bibliography divided into Primary (the first accounts of an encounter
translated into English) and Secondary Sources.
Abstract of entire paper under 150 words due Fri. March 18
to Swan 314 office hours. Draft of at least 10 pages with endnotes plus Bibliography (most of
the secondary sources annotated for point of view) due Wed. March 30.
Resubmit Abstract by April 13
the latest. Final paper due Wed. April 20.
Main class task is to write an excellent Historiography
Paper. Reference notes are to follow
University of Chicago format. Latest edition is 16th edition (2010). Prepare papers
on a wordprocessing program for easy revision.
Regularly backup. Keep a hardcopy and computer backup at least until
final grades are received. Times Roman, 12 point, 1 inch
margins, 2-sided acceptable. Endnotes and Bibliography for historians
accord with Chicago Manual of Style. Hacker, A Writer’s Reference (6th edition) discusses The
Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition, 2010) on pp.
510-537: follow no. 4 for citing work by multiple authors and
follow no. 13 for citing work in an anthology as for a specific document in
Bartlett, Civilization of the Renaissance
in Italy (on reserve). 7th
edition of Hacker has The Chicago Manual of Style on pp. 498-540. While
a bibliography is alphabetized by last name, an endnote should always begin
with the first name and then the last name of the author of the sentences
quoted or paraphrased. You may cite a student or faculty comment with
approximate date (such as from a student report showing student's
interpretation with which you agree or disagree). The first name that
appears in an endnote is the author you are citing: examples include an author
of an article in an edited book or an author of a primary source quoted by a
secondary source, or a student who expressed an interesting viewpoint in Hist 300, Occidental College, on a specific date in spring
2016.
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Course
Objectives:
To read academic writing critically and to analyze
historical debate.
To
expand skills in writing about historians’ arguments and their interpretation
of sources (whether expressed in film, museum exhibit/catalogue, book or
article)
To
develop understanding of diverse subfields of historical writing and of the
challenges of taking a global and comprehensive view of a topic
To
meet Junior year college writing requirement, and to
be better prepared for a Senior thesis.
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