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You
are urged to take advantage of the massive resources available at our library
to supplement the readings and lectures in this class. There are whole books written about every section
of the Brower textbook. Further, the
Internet offers quick access to basic information that will enhance your
understanding of the assigned texts.
Access to encyclopedic and specialized sites is simple through the
InfoHawk Gateway’s link to reference sources (http://gateway.lib.uiowa.edu/reftype.asp).
Special: Current Crisis
in Sundan
Contents:
World War II
Formation of UN
Origins of the Cold War
Postwar Economy
Communist Takeover in
Korean War
UN and Human Rights
Destalinization
Hungarian Revolution
Non-Aligned Movement
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Iranian Revolution
Soviet-Afghan War
Latin American Debt Crisis
Human Rights and Dissidents
Personal Computing Revolution
European Union
Internet
Human Rights
Cold War
Post-War Economics
UN
Non-Aligned Movement
Arab-Israeli Conflict
OPEC
Sub-Saharan
Iranian Revolution
Soviet-Afghan War
Debt Forgiveness
Human Rights and Dissidents
August 1991 Coup and the
European Union
Internet
Recommended general reference sites include:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
(free access to the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia; this is the instructor’s
most highly recommended encyclopedic source, as it is laden with hyperlinks
embedded in the text that allow you to quickly move to related topics).
Encarta
(free access to Microsoft's reference site)
Encyclopedia
Brittanica (free UI access to the Encyclopedia Brittanica; for a fee from
remote access)
Oxford
Reference (also free UI access, but remote access for a fee)
Google and
similar search engines often yield very useful information.
Library
of Congress Country Studies
Maps, both political and
geographic, including:
The United
Nation's Map Site, which offers a comprehensive collection of historical and
contemporary maps
Historical Maps
of the World, both ancient and modern
Europe 2000 (this is clearer
than most maps available on the Web)
Historical Atlas of the
Twentieth Century
Maps of
India, including Punjab
Maps of the Arab-Israeli
Conflict [tendentious narrative content, but some of the maps are helpful]
Historical Map of Modern
Israel
As
lectures relating directly to the readings will only be given once you are well
into the various books, you are strongly encouraged to take advantage of these
resources to get quick, direct answers to basic questions about the historical
events that provide the backdrop to these books.
Internet Modern History
Sourcebook: covers history in all periods and places
The Avalon Project:
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Documents relating to
the Cold War
History
and Politics Out Loud: audio archive of major speeches
US
National Archives and Records Administration
US
State Dept's Office of the Historian's Foreign Relations Document Collection
Newspapers
from around the nation and around the globe
Marxist Internet History
Archive
Internet
African History Sourcebook
"Politics and the
English Language" George Orwell, 1946: on writing well and reading
critically
United Nations Charter,
1945
Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, 1948
International
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948
Indictment
against Slobodan Milosovic
International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Churchill's
"Sinews of Peace" speech,
Kennan's "X"
Article, on "The Sources of Soviet Conduct"
Internet Indian
History Sourcebook
Hind Swaraj, Or Indian
Home Rule, an online version of Gandhi's 1908 work
Other
online writings by and on Gandhi
"Quit
India" Resolution, 1942
British
Government Statement: Policy in India, 1946
Nehru's Speech on the
Granting of Indian Independence, Aug. 14, 1947
UN
Convention on Refugees, 1951
UN Convention on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 1979
UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989: ratified by all but two member
states,
US
Ambassador to the UN Holbrook speaks on arrears, Nov. 1999; on the costs of UN peacekeeping,
Nov. 2000
The Bretton Woods
Agreement, 1944 [establishing the IMF and IBRD]
IMF Member Quotas
and Voting Power
Communist Writings,
from Marx to Mao
Transcript
of 1949 conversations between Stalin and Mao
Mao's Speech on the 28th
Anniversary of the CCP, 1949
Primary Documents on
the Korean War, Eisenhauer Library (includes photos)
"Behind
the Tito-Stalin Split," 1948 (reprinted article from Socialist Appeal, a Trotskist
paper)
Khrushchev's
"Secret Speech," 1956 (annotated)
Speech
by Jean Baillard, French Consul General, on the Algerian War, Dec. 1957
(text and audio)
Hungarian
Freedom Fighters, 1957 Time Magazine "Man of the Year" article,
see also the cover
art
Corvinus Library of Hungarian History,
including a page of primary sources on the Revolution of 1956
Documents
relating to Soviet-Polish conflict, 1956
Gomulka and Khrushchev
discuss Nagy's fate, May 1957
Suharto's
Opening Speech of the Bandung Conference, 1955
US State Department Documents Relating to the Arab-Israeli
Conflict:
UN Resolution 181 on
the Partition of Palestine, 1947
Broadcast to the
Israeli Nation by Prime Minister Eshkol, June 5, 1967
Egyptian President
Nasser's Statement to Arab Trade Unionists, May 26, 1967
UN Information System on the Question of
Palestine
Secretary-General's
Report on UNEF, May 26, 1967
Report
of the Secretary-General U Thant on the Withdrawal of the UNEF, June 26, 1967
Palestinian
National Charter, 1968
Chinese
Poster Art of the Cultural Revolution
Cultural Revolution Campaigns
(more poster art)
Film footage of
Events of May 1968
Daniel
Singer's Reports from Paris, 1968
An Eyewitness
Account from Paris, 1968
Cohn-Bendit
Archive (on Anarchy
Archives)
"The
Secret History of the CIA in Iran" James Risen (NYTimes): includes
links to primary, recently declassified documents
Story of the Revolution,
from the BBC: includes audio of speeches made during the Iranian Revolution, as
well as English language translations
Iranian Alternative Radio,
including a section with photos
of the 1979 Revolution
Selected speeches and interviews
of Mohammed Khatami
"Proclamation
on the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan," Ronald Reagan, 1982
Online Afghan Chat on
the Soviet-Afghan War
"Cancel the Crushing
Debt of Third World Countries," Lewis Green (
IMF's Proposal for a
Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM), January 2003 [blocked by US
4/03]
Latin American
and Caribbean Government Documents Project
UN Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean
Full
Text of the Helsinki Final Act, 1975
Statement
on the 10th Anniversary of the Signing of the Helsinki Accord (July 31,
1985, Ronald Reagan)
Computers
and Communications Page at the Smithsonian
Institution: includes transcripts of interviews with numerous leading
figures in the computing revolution, including Apple visionaries Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, and
computer pioneer Gordon
Bell
Computer History Collection,
Smithsonian National Museum
of American History
Summaries, Explanatory
Notes, and Complete Texts of European Treaties, including
Treaty on European Union [
Global
Internet Statistics by Language
On the question: Was it necessary to
drop the bomb?
A History of the
Genocide Convention, 1948-1998
Prevent Genocide
International
Nuclear
Files: A Project of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Includes a history of
the Atomic Age, documents, etc.
Interview
with George F. Kennan
Berlin Airlift: Official USAF
site includes video clips
On Punjab history,
from the Sikh perspective
India and Pakistan:
Fifty Years of Independence
On Sikhism: essay on
the origins, beliefs and rituals of Sikhism
Sikh page on Beliefnet, a site with
information on all major religions
Person of the
Century: Gandhi (Time Magazine), includes photos, audio, and links.
On the division
of India and the subsequent conflict in
Timeline of
the British Commonwealth
UN Economic And Social
Council
List of the UN's 191 Member
States:
On
US failure to ratify the the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (a BBC article)
On US
declarations of war, or the lack thereof
An explanation of
US Congress's lack of formal declarations of war
On Customs for
Selecting the UN Secretary General
On the Secretary-General's office and
responsibilities, see the UN Charter,
chapter XV
The Whirled
Bank Group: satirical, but serious critique of the World Bank
What is the IMF?
(according to the IMF itself)
Hoover
Institution Public Policy Inquiry: About the IMF
WTO
in Brief [at the WTO Home Page]
A Short
Guide to the WTO [at ZNN]: a
layman's explanation of what people are upset about
Global Exchange's
anti-WB/IMF links
Mao Zedong gateway site
to a variety of sources
Bibliography of
Chinese History
On the Origins of the
Korean War
Soviet Archival
Records and the Origins of the Korean War
The Briefest History of
Korea, from the US National Park Service
Joint Truman-Eisenhauer
Libraries Site on the 50th Anniversary of the Korean War
Kim
Il-Song: Chronology of his life
A Military History
of the French-Algerian War
Report on
current situation in Algeria
The Hungarian Revolution of
1956: Radio Free
The Yeltsin
Dossier: Soviet Documents on
Soviet Decision-Making
and the 1956 Polish and Hungarian Crises
Bio
of Mihaly Farkas, mentioned in the reading for
discussion on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Institute
for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
The History Guy's Links on Suez
Crisis
Dag Hammarskjold: The UN
Years
Lessons of
the Bandung Conference (take with a grain of salt)
PBS's History of
the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
MTV's Primer on the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (from its series "True Life")
Encyclopedia
of the Orient: Six Day War
UN Homepage on the Question
of Palestine
Brief
History of the Cultural Revolution
"The Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution," Brian R. Train
Paris 1968, 25 Years
Ago: When France Rebelled: an anarchist history of the revolution
"May '68:
France's Month of Revolution," by Iain Gunn
"'Danny the Red'
Is Back": what Daniel Cohn-Bendit has been up to lately (c. 1999)
OPEC: The Oil Cartel: A
BBC News summary
The BBC's Story
of Africa
African
Lives, a 1997
Poverty and Development
in Africa
Oil
Price History Essay, including several illuminating graphs
A History of the
Iran-Iraq War, on the WWW
Virtual Library History of Iran
"A Biography of
Dr. Mohammed Mossadeq"
"Biography of Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi"
BBC News Profile of
Mohammed Khatami
The Iranian Revolution,
a brief history
"Iranian
Women's Situation Has Improved under the Islamic Republic," William O.
Beeman
The
Soviet-Afghanistan War, from a military history perspective
Cold
War Olympic Highlights, from the CNN Cold War series
Olympic
Boycott, also from CNN
"Global Debt and Third
World Development," Vincent Ferraro and Melissa Rosser, World Security: Challenges for a New
Century (1994)
"Latin America
in Crisis: Debt, the IMF, and Bill Clinton," John W. Sherman,
On why international
financial institutions refuse to consider debt cancellation
The Third World
Debt Crisis: Facts and Myths
Notes on the Third World
Debt Crisis
"International Banks and
the First Debt Crisis: Latin America" (The Brandt 21 Forum)
Latin American
Network Information Center
Internet
Resources for Latin America
Whatever
happened to the Soviet dissidents? (includes audio)
Nobel Foundation's Andrei
Sakharov Page, 1975 Peace Prize winner
On
Andrei Sakharov at the American Physics Institute
International
Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
The Failed Coup of
August 1991
The Causes and
Consequences of the Collapse of the Soviet Union: a links page from
"Chernobyl
and the Collapse of Soviet Society," Jay Gould (March 1993, The Nation)
"Reform,
Coup, and Collapse: The End of Soviet Communism and the Soviet State,"
Archie Brown
"Explaining
the Soviet Collapse," Peter Rutland
"Ten
Years after the Soviet Collapse," Alexander Motyl (August 2001)
"Trashcanistan:
A Tour through the Wreckage of the Soviet Empire," Stephen Kotkin
(April 2002, The New Republic): a review essay
Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD] Homepage
15 Member States of the
European Union
European Union's Eastwar
Expansion (from Radio Free Europe/Radio
"Reinventing
Technology, Rediscovering Community": a summary of the 1997 book on
the sociological implications of computer technology
Computers
and Society Related Links
The Machine that Changed the
World
John W.
Mauchley and the Development of the ENIAC Computer
Atanasoff and the Birth
of the Digital Computer: An Iowa (o.k., it's
Intel's
History of the Microprocessor
A Brief History of the
Internet
The History of the
Internet by Dave Kristula
Life on the Internet Timeline
(PBS)
"Language As A Barrier,"
(a study in Internet usage in
"Where Wizards Stay up Late,"
companion site to the book by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
Help with writing assignments:
This
course requires considerable written work and the History Department offers both
online and live human assistance that you should take advantage of. Located in SH303, the Dept. of History’s
If
you are interested in further reading on any subject covered in this course,
one place to start is with the recommended readings listed in the back of the
Robbins textbook. You are also
encouraged to seek suggestions from the professor. Also, as the semester
progresses, I hope to add additional sites to those listed above that deal with
some of the specific topics and themes covered in this course. Stay tuned!
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