LIBS
570: HISTORY OF WARFARE DURING THE AGE OF GUNPOWDER, 1500-PRESENT
FALL
2002
Professor
Joe Lunn, Department of Social Sciences (History)
Room: 2119 CX Telephone:
436-9184; Home: (734) 741-4465
Email: joelunn@umich.edu
Office Hours: T-TH: 11:30-12:00 and TH 5:00-6:00 or by appointment
TEXTS:
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human
Societies, Norton
John Keegan, A History of Warfare,
Vintage
John
Keegan, The Face of Battle, Viking
READINGS:
Bernal Dias, The
Conquest of New Spain, Viking
Jakob Walter, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, ed. Marc Raeff,
Penguin
Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That, Anchor
FILMS: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Seven Samurai, Barry Lyndon, War and Peace, Zulu, Paths of Glory, Saving Private Ryan, Hiroshima Nagasaki 1945, The Battle of Algiers, Dr. Strangelove
SCHEDULE:
| Week |
Topics |
Texts |
Readings/Films |
|
9/5 |
Introduction:
How Did the World Come to Be as It Is? |
|
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|
9/12 |
Origins
of Human Conflict: Biological, Psychological, and Anthropological Evidence |
Keegan, History, Chap 2 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
|
9/19 |
Antecedents:
|
Keegan, History, Chaps 1, 3 |
Art
Slides |
|
9/26 |
The
Introduction of Gunpowder |
Keegan, History, Chap 5 (Part 1) |
Dias, |
|
10/3 |
Dynastic Warfare in Europe |
Keegan,History, Chap 5 (Part 2) |
Barry
Lyndon |
|
10/10 |
Revolutionary
Warfare |
Keegan, Face, Chap 3 |
|
|
10/17 |
Colonial
Warfare |
|
Zulu |
|
10/24 |
Industrial
Warfare: The First World War |
Keegan, Face, Chap 4 |
Graves, |
|
10/31 |
Total Warfare: The Second World War |
|
Saving Private Ryan, Hiroshima Nagasaki 1945 |
|
11/7 |
Anti-Colonial Warfare |
|
The Battle of Algiers |
|
11/14 |
Easter
Island, the Future, and the End of Warfare |
Keegan, Face, Chap 5 |
Dr. Strangelove |
|
11/21 |
Essay
Examination (in class) |
|
|
|
1128 |
THANKSGIVING
BREAK (No Class) |
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|
12/5 |
Student
Presentations
(in class) |
|
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12/10 |
"Think Papers"
Due |
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