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• Huntington, 'The Clash of Civilizations?' - opening argument through 'Why Civilizations Will Clash' (excerpt, pp. 1-8)PDF

• Huntington, 'The Clash of Civilizations?' - 'Fault Lines Between Civilizations' through 'Implications for the West' (excerpt, pp. 9-29)PDF
• Hall, 'The West and the Rest'PDF

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• Said, 'The Clash of Ignorance'PDF
• Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors - propositions 15-18 and 77-80 (selected handout)PDF

• McGreevy, Catholicism, chs. 1-3PDF

• Pomeranz, The Great Divergence, pp. 1-27PDF
• Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution, pp. 1-27Required text

• Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution, pp. 27-53Required text
• Beyond Huaxia, episode 23: 'The Great Divergence'Audio

• Patterson, 'The Constituent Elements of Slavery'PDF

• Ahmad Baba, 'Can Muslim States Enslave Muslims?'Web
• Gyasi, Homegoing, ch. 1Required text

• The Code Noir (1685)Web
• Gyasi, Homegoing, ch. 2Required text

• C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins, preface to the first editionPDF

• Constitution of Saint-Domingue (1801)Web
• Toussaint Louverture, 1801 letter to BonaparteWeb
• Toussaint Louverture, letter to Napoleon from Fort de Joux (Sept. 17, 1802), pp. 111-12PDF

• James, The Black Jacobins, ch. IV, 'The San Domingo Masses Begin' (pp. 79-103 in this PDF)PDF
• Buck-Morss, 'Hegel and Haiti'PDF
• Dubois and Garrigus, Slave Revolution in the Caribbean - doc. 25, Sonthonax's 'Decree of General Liberty,' and doc. 46, Haitian Declaration of IndependencePDF

• Cooper Owens, Medical Bondage, pp. 1-14PDF
• 'Remembering Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey: The Mothers of Modern Gynecology'Web

• Cooper Owens, Medical Bondage, pp. 89-107PDF

• Simpson, Behind the Sheet - entire playRequired text

• McGreevy, Catholicism, pp. 135-155PDF

• Butler, War Is a Racket, pp. 3-16PDF

• Marti, 'Our America'Web
• García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude - ch. 12 (banana company arrives) and ch. 15 (strike, massacre, and official denial)PDF

• Oscar Romero, selected homiliesWeb
• Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation, chs. 1 and 9 (pp. 3-11 and 83-105)PDF

• McGreevy, Catholicism, pp. 156-186PDF

• Midterm study guideWord

Op-ed due at midnight

• Azuela, The Underdogs, part I, chs. 1-5PDF
• Constitution of Mexico (original 1917 text) - arts. 3, 27, 123, and 130 (selected pages)PDF

• Vasconcelos, 'Mestizaje' / The Cosmic Race - complete essay (the original 1925 preface, later ch. 1)PDF
• Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude, ch. IV, 'The Sons of La Malinche'PDF

• Mariátegui, Seven Interpretive Essays - 'The Problem of the Indian' and 'Contemporary Literary Currents—Indigenism'PDF

• Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, pp. 14-32PDF

• Lipton, Alias Olympia, ch. 1 (pp. 1-17) and ch. 3 (pp. 50-62)PDF

• Priestley, 'An Account of Further Discoveries in Air' - letters to Sir John Pringle and Richard Price (1775)PDF
• Priestley, dedicatory letter from Considerations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston (1796)Web

• Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, pp. 1-9, 52-57, 92-101, 147-151, and 156-159PDF

• Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry - introductionWeb
• Chang, Is Water H₂O?, ch. 1, §§1.1-1.2 (pp. 1-50)PDF

• Flaws, 'The Nuremberg Race Laws'Web
• Bergen, War and Genocide, ch. 3, 'From Revolution to Routine: Nazi Germany, 1933-1938' (pp. 69-100)PDF

• McGreevy, Catholicism, ch. 8PDF

• Conspiracy (2001) - streaming filmVideo

• Franz Jagerstatter - introductionCourse file forthcoming

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A Hidden Life

• McGreevy, Catholicism, ch. 14PDF

• Pascoe, What Comes Naturally, pp. 1-77Required text

• Schumaker, Tangled Fortunes, pp. 1-12 and 141-164PDF

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