Department: Social Studies Course Title: Advanced Placement World History Length: One 18-week semester (Block Scheduling) Credit: One Course Overview: Advanced Placement World History is like no other class you have ever taken. We will be looking at the history of the world via the examination of five time periods. In this class we will study 10‚000 years of history over six continents. European and United States history account for no more than 30% of the total class‚ so be prepared to look
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Empire Niall Ferguson Introduction * To the British‚ as to people in the rest of the world‚ imperialism’s golden age is now considered a stain on human history‚ an era of slavery and racism and the plunder of native lands and peoples. The notion that imperialism is inherently evil‚ and that no empire can be a good empire‚ is an axiom in today’s geopolitics. * Examines the British Empire from an economic perspective‚ controversially concluding that the British Empire was‚ on balance‚ a
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BERNATH LECTURE The New International History of the Cold War: Three (Possible) Paradigms* The Cold War is not what it once was. Not only has the conflict itself been written about in the past tense for more than a decade‚ but historians’ certainties about the character of the conflict have also begun to blur. The concerns brought on by trends of the past decade – such trifles as globalization‚ weapons proliferation‚ and ethnic warfare – have made even old strategy buffs
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Have the aspirations of the UN’s founders as laid out in the Charter been met? The United Nations was established at the San Francisco Conference on October 24 1945. The world had just witnessed the failure of the League of Nations to fulfill its purpose‚ the prevention of a Second World War. Consequently the countries that had opposed Germany and Japan looked to succeed where they had previously failed in promoting a “just and peaceful global community” (Taylor; Curtis‚ 2008 p.314). The objectives
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HISTORY OF THE CARIBBEAN LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES UNIT HUMANITIES COURSE SYLLABUS History of the Caribbean: LAC 108 Tuesday and Thursday: 11:00AM-12:15PM Professor: Ana Ozuna‚ Ph.D. Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday‚ 2:00PM-3:30PM Office: C-417 E-mail: aozuna@hostos.cuny.edu Tel.: 718-518-6852 REQUIRED TEXTS Palmié‚ S.‚ & Scarano‚ F. A. (Eds.). (2011) The Caribbean‚ a History of the Region and Its Peoples. Chicago: UP Chicago. ISBN-13: 978-0226645087 Handouts
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History 135 Week 9 Final Project: “The Most Significant Events”: When most people are taught about U.S. history‚ we think of mostly the bad times like the wars‚ the civil rights movements‚ President Kennedy’s and M. L. King Jr’s associations‚ just to name a few. In this paper I will discuss those and more going into the start of the 21st century. The previous five decades consisting of the 1950s into the millennium happened during the U.S. History equally turbulent‚ but exciting. There
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China - ruled by Chiang Kai Shek c. US regained Philippines‚ pledged quick turnover w/ bases d. Europeans retook control of Vietnam‚ Malay and Indonesia e. Japan occupied by US forces B. New Divisions and the End of Empires i. Decolonization led to independence for Malaya‚ Indonesia‚ Philippines ii. Taiwan ruled by Chiang Kai Shek‚ mainland to Mao a. Taiwan emergs as separate republic iii. US intervention preserves South Korean independence C. Japanese Recovery i. Recovered
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Small States in International Relations INTRODUCTION Lilliputians in Gulliver’s World? IVER B. NEUMANN AND SIEGLINDE GSTÖHL 1. Small States in the International System Edited by CHRISTINE INGEBRITSEN‚ IVER NEUMANN‚ SIEGLINDE GSTÖHL‚ and JESSICA BEYER 2006 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS • SEATTLE International Relations (IR) is a state-centric discipline as well as a powercentered discipline‚ and this volume will not challenge either of those two foundations. Our aim is rather to draw attention
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Discuss the connection of export processing zones (EPZs) to the growth of what McMichael calls "the globalization project". Why are EPZs consistent with the logic of neoliberal globalization? How has the growth of these zones been encouraged by the actions of key governing institutions in the globalization project? What was the relationship between the debt crisis of the early 1980s‚ the growth of structural adjustment programs and the growth of EPZs? Moshe Lokshin 209476169 Globalization
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India‚ Australia‚ New Zealand‚ South Africa and Canada. Around the end of the 19th century‚ the economic lead that Britain had successfully kept for many years was beginning to become eroded. With this erosion of leadership came a great decolonization movement by most of the territories that were under control of the British Empire. Both World War I‚ and World War II put extreme financial and population strains on Britain‚ and even with the large amount of territorial extent the Empire no longer
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