History 600
Fall 1998
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of History
Wednesday, 3:30-5:30pm, Humanities Seminar Room
Professor Florentino Rodao
Office 5214
e-mail: fgrodao@facstaff.wisc.edu
Visiting hours: Wednesday 2-3:30; Thursday, 12-1:30
The course aims at studying the issues that consumed the world during the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s: totalitarian ideologies and the search for a new international order. Students will have to reflect upon the issues that lead to the War in Europe, Africa and Asia, as well as its consequences, through reading and discussion in class.
Aside from providing a basic pool of facts and interpretations, the course will develop the student’s essential academic skills in research, synthesizing sources, using primary documents and critically analyzing information.
There is no single text covering the range of topics discussed in this course. For the basic events relating to the war, we will use:
Peter Calvocoressi and Guy Wint, Total War: Causes and Course of the Second World War. New York, Pantheon Books, 2nd revised edition, 1989. 2 volumes.
Students are advised to purchase a copy of this book, since we will be reading from it throughout the course
The attached syllabus will list a number of other readings for each weekly topic to supplement this book and to allow students a choice in case this book is unavailable. In preparation for each class meeting, students should read all the designated Main readings and use the Background readings for alternative sources or for preparations of individual essays. Students are responsible for all the readings marked with an asterisk (*) which total around 100-130 pages per week.
Students with no background on World War II or those unfamiliar with the chronology of the war are urged to read the books bellow for general information on its military and diplomatic aspects.
- Liddell Hart. History of the Second World War. 2 vols. (London: Cassell, 1970) Col/Mem D743 L514 1970b
- Taylor, A.J.P. The Origins of the Second World War (Middlesex: Penguin, 1964) Col D741 T34 1983
- Spector, Ronald H., Eagle against the Sun. The American War against Japan (New York: Vintage books, 1985) Col/Mem D767 S69 1985
- Weinberg, Gehrard, The World at Arms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) Col/Mem D743 W424 1994
During the semester, each students will make one oral presentation, write weekly book reviews and complete a research essay (these activities are described more fully bellow). Grades in the course will be computed in the following manner:
- Oral presentation: 30 %
- Book reviews: 20%
- Major research essay: 50%
These three course assignments are described as follows:
Oral Presentation: At each class meeting, one student shall open the class by leading a 15-minute presentations of the week’s readings, summarizing the main themes and suggesting questions for class discussion Within a week after the presentation, the student will submit a four-page written summary of the topic, complete with footnotes and a bibliography drawn from the Main and Background readings.
Weekly Book Reviews: Each week, every students will submit a one-to-two page analysis of two of the assigned readings, summarizing the main argument and identifying the main questions raised by the authors. These reviews will be placed in my mailbox at the History Department by 12:00 noon before each of the class meetings.
Major Research Essay: Each students will select a topic for a major research essay, which must be turned in by December 12. Topics should be discussed with me in advance, since they will require students to locate and use source materials not necessarily included in the readings for the course. The research essay must be ten-to fifteen pages in length and must be written according to a paper format that will be handed out later in class.
Syllabus and Readings Assingments
* indicates the main readings discussed each week
Week 1 (September 9) :
The End of the Versailles set-up and the Origins of the War in Europe
* - Calvocoressi, vol 1, part. 1, pp, 23-115
* - Taylor, , A.J.P. The Origins of the Second World War (Middlesex: Penguin, 1964), chapters 2-3, pp. 41-88
- Bullock, Alan, Hitler and Stalin, Parallel lives (New York: Knopf, 1991), Chapter 10: pp. 342-418
- Large, David Clay, Between Two Fires: Europe’s Path in the 1930’s. (New York: W.. Norton, 1990)
- Kissinger, Henry, Diplomacy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), chapters, 11-12, pp. 266-318.
Week 2 (September 16):
The Asian way toward the war
* - Calvocoressi, vol. 2, part. 1, pp. 603-699
- Iriye, Akira, The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (New York: Longman, 1987) pp. 1-81
- Storry, Richard, Japan and the Decline of the West in Asia, 1894-1943 (London: MacMillan, 1979), pp. 14-52. Col. DS885 S84 1979
- Butow, Robert J.C., Tojo and the Coming of the War (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1961) Col/Mem DS890 T57 B8
- Iriye, Akira, Across the Pacific. An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations (New York: Harbinger, 1967), chapter 5, pp. 111-137.
Week 3 (September 25) :
Fascism, Nazism, Authoritarianism , Totalitarianism
* - Payne, Stanley, Fascism: Comparison and Definition (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1980), chapters 3-5, pp. 50-142 Col. JC481 P374
* - Payne, Stanley, A History of Fascism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962), chapters 7-8, pp. 212-289
- Preston, Paul, The Politics of Revenge (London: Routledge, 1995). Chapter 1, pp. 23-56.
* - Taylor, The origins ... chapters 3-4, pp. 89-134. Reserve room
- De Felice, Renzo, Interpretations of Fascism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977) Col/Mem JC481 P374
- Mosse, George L. Nazism: A History and Comparative Analysis of National Socialism (New Brunswick, 1978) Mem DD2566.5 M5713
- Linz, Juan J., “An Authoritarian regime: Spain”, in Allardt, Erik and Littunen, Yrje (eds.), Clevages, ideologies and party systems. Contributions to comparative political Sociology, Transactions of the Westmark Society, vol. X, Helsinki, 1964
- Mosse, G.L. International Fascism. New Thoughts and New Approaches (London, SAGE,1979)
- Arendt, Hannah, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966) Col. JC481 A62 1973
- Mühlberger, Delef, The Social basis of European Fascists Movements (Becckenham, Kent: Croom Helm, 1987)
- Laqueur, Walter and Mosse, George L. (eds.), International Fascism, 1920-1945 (New York: Harper & Row, 1966)
Week 4 (October 2) :
The Colonial Wold
* - Peattie, Mark R., “introduction”, in Ramon Myers and Mark Peattie, eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. 3-52. Col/Mem JV5260 J36 1984
* - Hata Ikuhiko, “Continental Expansion, 1905-1941”, in The Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 6, The Twentieth Century, pp. 271-309. Mem/Col DS835 C36 1988
* - Snyder, Jack, Myths of Empire, Domestic Politics and International Ambitions (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), chapter 1-2, pp. 1-65. Mem JC359 S577 1991
Background Reading:
- Mayo, Marlene, “Attitudes Toward Asia and the Beginnings of the Japanese Empire”, in Grant Goodman, ed., Imperial Japan and Asia: A Reassessment (New York, 1967), pp. 6-31. Reserve Room
- Fieldhouse, David K. The Colonial Empires. A Comparative Survey from the Eighteenth Century (New York: Delacourt Press, 1966) Col Reserve JV105 F5 1982
- Beasley, W.G., Japanese Imperialism 1884-1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) Mem DS885.48 B43 1987
- Gould, Stephen Jay, The Mismeasure of Man (Norton, 1981) Mem/Col BF431 668 1996
- Willmott, H.P. Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1982), pp. 67-94.
- Gann, Lewis and Duignan, Peter, The Burden of the Empire: An Appraisal of Western Colonialism in Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1971)
- Holland, R.F., European Decolonization, 1918-1981: An Introductory Survey (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985) Mem KV151 H65 1985b
- Ansprenger, F., The Dissolution of the Colonial Empires (London, Routledge, 1988) Col/Mem JV151 A5713 1989
Week 5 (October 9):
Ultranationalism in Japan
* - YOUNG, Louise, Japan’s Total Empire. Manchuria and the Culture of Imperialism (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998), pp. 241-305: Brave New Empire: Utopian Vision and the Intelligentsia. Not in Library
* - Maruyama Masao, Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics (London: Oxford University press, 1963), pp. 25-131 Col/Mem DS889 M34
- Barnhart, M., “Japan’s Drive to Autarky” in Wray, Harry and Conroy, Hillary, Japan Examined. Perspectives on Modern Japanese History (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1983), pp. 293-300 Col/Mem DS881.9 J29 1983
- Peattie, Mark R., Ishiwara Kanji and Japan’s Confrontation with the West (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975) Col/Mem DS885.9 177 P4
- Snyder, Jack, Myths of Empire, Domestic Politics and International Ambitions (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), chapter 4, pp. 112-152.
- Fletcher, William M., The Search for a New Order: Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1982), pp. 71-87. Mem DS888.5 F58 1982
Week 6 (October 16):
War in Europe, 1939-1941
* - Taylor, AJP, The Origins of the War... chapters 8-10, pp. 190-300
* - Calvocoressi and Wing, Total War, Vol. 1, part II, pp. 119-230.
- Read, Anthony and Fischer, David, The Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939-1941 (New York/London: W.W. Norton, 1988) Mem D749.5 F58 1982
- Kissinger, Henry, Diplomacy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), pp. 332-368
- Bullock, Alan, Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives, Chapter 14, pp. 557-624. Mem DD247 H5 1991
- May, Ernst R., Knowing One’s Enemies: Intelligence Assessment before the Two World Wars (Princeton University Press, 1984)
- Weinberg, Gehrard, World in the Balance: Behind the Scenes of World War II (Hanover, New Hampshire, 1981) Mem D757 W385
- McGregor Knox, Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-41: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy’s Last War (Cambridge, 1982) Mem DG572 K56
- Hillgruber, Andreas, Der Zweite Weltkrieg 1939-1945. Kriegsziele und Strategie der Großen Mächete Fünfte, verbesserte Auflage (W. Kohlhammer, 1992) chapters 2-4, pp. 42-131. Mem D743 H54 1983
Week 7 (October 23):
Europe under the Nazis
* - Calvocoressi, vol. 1, part 3, chapters 12-15
- Payne, Stanley G., A History of Fascism, chapter 11, pp. 355-437.
- Polonsky, Antony, The Little Dictators. The History of Eastern Europe since 1918 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975)
- Veiga, Francisco, Da Cal, Enrique y Duarte, Angel, La Paz Simulada. Una Historia de la Guerra Fría 1941-1991 (Madrid: Alianza, 1997), pp. 29-42
- Collotti, Enzo, La Alemania Nazi (Madrid: Alianza, 1972), cap. 9, pp. 263-296.
- Hytier, A.D, Two Years of French Poreign Policy: Vichy 1940-1942 (Geneve, 1958) Mem DC 397 H95
Week 8 (October 30):
United States Enter the War
* - Calvocoresia and Wint, vol. 2, second part, pp. 905-971
- Kissinger, Henry, Diplomacy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), pp. 369-422
- Iriye, Akira, Across the Pacific. An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations (New York: Harbinger, 1967), chapter 5, pp. 200-249. Col/Mem DS518 I73
* - Thomson, James C., Stanley, Peter W. & Perry, John C. Sentimental Imperialists: The American Experience in East Asia (New York: Harper & Row, 1981), pp. 4-19, 93-120. Col DS518.8 T486 1985
- Esthus, Raymond A., Theodore Roosevelt and Japan (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967), pp. 128-195. Historical Society Library E183.8 J3 E8
- Morgan, Ted, FDR: A Biography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985) Historical Society Library E807 M75 1985
- Thorne, Christopher, Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain and the War against Japan, 1941-1945 (Oxford University Press, 1978), part two, pp. 131-272. Col/Mem D749 T48 1978
- Thorne, Christopher, The Issue of War. States, Societies and the Far Eastern Conflict of 1941-45 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 177-210. Reserve D742 J3 T48 1985b
- Marshall, Jonathan, To Have and To Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), pp. 1-53. Col/Mem D741 M275 1995
* - Calvocoressi and Wint, Total War, vol. 1, part. IV, chapters 16-18; 20, pp. 347-409; 423-455
- Kissinger, Henry, Diplomacy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), pp. 394-422.
- Bullock, Alan, Hitler and Stalin, Parallel lives, Chapter 17, pp 779-841.
- Louis, William Roger, Imperialism at Bay. The United States and the Decolonization of the British Empire, 1941-1945 (New York: Oxford University press, 1978) Mem D753 L67 1977
- Hillgruber, Andreas, Der Zweite Weltkrieg 1939-1945. Kriegsziele und Strategie der Großen Mächete Fünfte, verbesserte Auflage (W. Kohlhammer, 1992) chapter 5, pp 132-156.
- Payne, Stanley, Franco y José Antonio, El Extraño Caso del Fascismo español, (Barcelona: Planeta, 1997) chapter 11, pp. 549-590.
* - McCoy, Alfred W., “Introduction”, in Alfred W. McCoy, ed., Southeast Asia under Japanese Occupation (New Haven: Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University, 1980) pp. 1-13. Reserve room
* Calvocoressi and Wint, Total War, vol. 2, part III, pp. 975-1085.
* - Friend, Theodore, Blue-eyed enemy: Japan against the West in Java and Luzon, 1942-1945 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988) pp. 54-74; 139-184; 258-287. Col/Mem DS643.5 F75 1988
- Anderson, Benedict R., “Japan: “The Light of Asia,” in Silverstein, Josef, ed., Southeast Asia in World War II: Four Essays (New Haven: Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University, 1966), pp. 65-79 Col/Mem DS767 S56
- Benda, Harry J., “The Japanese Interregnum in Southeast Asia”, in Goodman, Grant (ed.), Imperial Japan and Asia: A Reassessment (New York: Columbia University, 1967), pp. 65-79.
- Duus, Peter, Myers, Ramon H., and Peattie Mark (ed.), The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) Soon to be on catalog
- Anderson, Benedict R., Java in a Time of Revolution: Occupation and Resistance, 1944-46 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971), pp. 1-66. Col/Mem DS644 A6936
- Peattie, Mark R., Nan’yô. The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1988), pp. 257-310. Mem DU500 P43 1988
- Shillony, Ben-amy, Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), chapter 6, pp. 134-170 Reserve JO1626 1981e
- Dower, John D., War without Mercy. Race and Power in the Pacific War (New York: Pantheon, 1986), pp. 262-90 Reserve D767.9 D69 1986
* - Calvocoressi, Total War, vol. 1, pp. 410-422.
* - Shillony, Ben-amy, Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), chapters 1-5, pp. 7-134.
- Nakamura, Takafusa, Lectures on Modern Japanese Economic History, Tokyo, LTCB, 1994, pp. 75-128
- Kersaw, Ian, Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich. Bavaria 1933-1945 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), part 1, 3, pp. 111-155.
- Tsurumi, Shunsuke, An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan, 1931-1945 (London: KPI, 1986), chapters 5-10, pp. 33-93 Mem DS838.7 T78 1986
- Dower, John D., “Sensational Rumors, Seditious Graffiti and the Nightmares of the Thought Police”, in Japan in War and Peace. Selected Essays, (New York: New Press, 1993), pp. 101-154. DS888.2 D68 1993
Week 12 (November 27):
The Propaganda War
* - Dower, John D., “Japanese Cinema goes to War”, in Japan in War and Peace. Selected Essays, (New York: New Press, 1993), pp. 33-54.
* - Dower, John D., “Race, Language and War in Two Cultures”, in Japan in War and Peace. Selected Essays, (New York: New Press, 1993), pp. 257-285
- Short, R.M., (ed.), Film and Radio Propaganda in World War II (University of Tennessee Press, 1983) Mem D810 P6 F52 1983
- Winkler, Allan M., The Politics of Propaganda: The Office of War Information, 1942-1945 (Yale University Press, 1945)
- Dower, John D., War without Mercy. Race and Power in the Pacific War (New York: Pantheon, 1986)
- McLaine, Ian, Ministry of Morale: Home Front Morale and the Ministry of Information in World War II (George Allen & Unwin, 1979) Mem D799 G7 M32
- Veiga, Francisco, Da Cal, Enrique y Duarte, Angel, La Paz Simulada. Una Historia de la Guerra Fría 1941-1991 (Madrid: Alianza, 1997), pp. 43-57. Not in Library
Week 13 (December 4):
The Total War: New Weapons, new strategies
* - Howard, Michael, War in European History (Oxford: Oxford University Press), chapter “The Technician’s War” Col/Mem V43 E93 H68
- Richelson, Jeffrey, A Century of Spies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) Mem JF1525 I6 R52 1995
* - Alperovitz, Gar, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Postdam (New York: Viking/Penguin, 1985), pp. 1-60. Mem E813 A75 1994
- Chalou, George C. (ed.), The Secrets War. The Office of Strategic Services in World War II (Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), pp. 19-41. Historical Society Library D810 S7 S38 1992
- Gudgin, Peter, Military intelligence. The British Story (London: Arms and Armour Press, 1989)pp. 41-70.
- Drea, Edward J., MacArthur’s Ultra. Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945 (Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 1992), pp. 1-31. Historical Society D767 D66 1992
- Andrew, Christopher “Introduction” and Hinsley, F.H., “British Intelligence in the Second World War”, in Andrew, Christopher and Noakes, Jeremy, Intelligence and International Relations, 1900-1945 (Exeter: Exeter university Publications, 1987), pp. 1-8, 209-218. Mem UB250 I5 1987
Week 14 (December 11):
Triumph of the Allies
* - Calvocoressi, vol. 1, part 5, pp. *** vol. 2, pp. 1091-1208
- Sigal, Leon V., Fighting to a Finish. The politics of war termination in the United States and Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988), chapter 3, pp. 87-157 Historical Society Library D821 U6 S54 1988
- Thorne, Christopher, Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain and the War against Japan, 1941-1945 (Oxford University Press, 1978), part two, pp. 131-272.
- Feis, H., Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin: The War they Waged and the Peace they Sought (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1957) Col/Mem D748 F4
- Kissinger, Henry, Diplomacy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), pp. 423-445.
- Day, David, Australia and the Allied Defeat of Japan, 1942-1945 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 176-93, 286-316. D767.6 D39 1991
- Sherry, Michael S., The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon (New Haven: Yale University Press, 9187), pp. 177-218.
* - Dower, John, “The Useful War”, in Japan in War and Peace. Selected Essays, (New York: New Press, 1993), pp. 9-32.
* - Thompson, James C., Peter W. Stanley and John Curtis Perry, Sentimental Imperialists: The American Experience in East Asia (New York: Harper & Row, 1981), pp. 203-16.
- Dower, John, Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878.1954 (Cambridge, MZ: Harvard University Press, 1979) pp. 273-368. Mem/Col Reserve DS890 Y6 D685 1971a
- Fieldhouse, David K., The Colonial Empires (London: MacMillan, 1982), pp. 395-428.
- Veiga, Francisco, Da Cal, Enrique y Duarte, Angel, La Paz Simulada. Una Historia de la Guerra Fría 1941-1991 (Madrid: Alianza, 1997), pp. 15-28.