HST 491: War Since Napoleon

Prof Richard Jensen

HST 491: War since Napoleon

Syllabus: Spring 2010

Contact

Prof. Richard Jensen, 860-917-1851

Office hours: 5-6 pm before class; also after class; also by arrangement; email 24x7

Four Course Requirements:

One term paper 35% (2500 word minimum; topic due Feb 2; paper due April 13; rewrite possible due April 27); Midterm 20% and final exam 25%.

Class report on any one of these articles (read all of them) (20%)

Feb 9: Historiography Report (read all –report on any one)
Christopher Bassford "Jomini And Clausewitz" (1993)
Black, Jeremy. "Determinisms and Other Issues," Journal of Military History, 68 (Oct. 2004), 1217–32.
Lee, Wayne E. "Mind and Matter—Cultural Analysis in American Military History: A Look at the State of the Field," Journal of American History,' 93 (March 2007), 1116–42. online
Andrew N. Liaropoulos, "Revolutions in Warfare: Theoretical Paradigms and Historical Evidence: The Napoleonic and First World War...", Journal of Military History, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Apr., 2006), pp. 363-384
Lynn, John A. "Rally Once Again: The Embattled Future of Academic Military History," Journal of Military History, 61 (Oct. 1997), 777–89. online
Moyar, Mark. “The Current State of Military History.,” Historical Journal 2007 50(1): 225-240 worldwide scope
Reid, Brian Holden. "American Military History: the Need for Comparative Analysis." Journal of American History' 2007 93(4): 1154-1157. Issn: 0021-8723 online
Rothenberg, “The Origins, Causes, and Extension of the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon”Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4, (1988), pp. 771-793
Spector, Ronald H. "Teetering on the Brink of Respectability." Journal of American History 2007 93(4): 1158-1160.
Spiller, Roger. "Military History and its Fictions." Journal of Military History 2006 70(4): 1081-1097.

Readings:

Townshend, ed. The Oxford History of Modern War (2000)

Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won (1995)

(required) : subscribe to H-War

(recommended) buy an encyclopedia on DVD or CD-ROM

Encarta at amazon.com or Ency. Britannica (get 2009 or 2010 DVD) at Ohio Software

Schedule

Jan 19 Historiography/ Native Americans

Matloff American Military History ch 14
Emailed essay by Jensen

Jan 26: American Revolution

Townshend ch 2, 3
http:'/en.citizendium.org/wiki/American_Revolution
Matloff American Military History ch 3-4

Feb 2: Napoleon TERMPAPER TOPIC DUE

Townshend ch 4
Rothenberg, “The Origins, Causes, and Extension of the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon”Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4, (1988), pp. 771-793
Fisher, Napoleon (1912) ch 9 -10 full text at books.google.com
Leggiere, “ From Berlin to Leipzig: Napoleon's Gamble in North Germany, 1813,” Journal of Military History, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Jan., 2003), pp. 39-84 JSTOR = also Project MUSE

Feb 9: Technology and theory: CLASS REPORTS

Townshend ch 5, 11, 18
Matloff American Military History ch 13
Grimsley, Mark. "Why Military History Sucks," Nov. 1996, War Historian.org, online at

Feb 16: Civil War I

Matloff American Military History ch 9-10
James Ford Rhodes, , History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 (1918) ch 1-5, 7

Feb 23: Civil War II

Matloff American Milatary History ch 11-12
James Ford Rhodes, History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 (1918) ch 6, 8-14

Mar 2 spring break

Mar 9 WWI

Townshend ch 6, 11
Matloff American Military History ch 17

Mar 16 WWI

Townshend ch 7
Matloff American Military History ch 18

Mar 23 WW2 Coming, Sea

Townshend ch 12; Overy ch 1-2
Matloff American Military History ch 20-21

Mar 30 WW2: Land war and air

Townshend ch 8, 13, 14; Overy ch 3, 4, 5
Matloff American Military History ch 22- 3

Apr 6 WW2 Homefront

Townshend ch 15, 16; Overy ch 6, 8-10
Women at war:
D'Ann Campbell, "Women in Combat: The World War II Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union,” Journal of Military History, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Apr., 1993), pp. 301-323

Apr 13 Cold War TERMPAPER DUE

Townshend ch 9, 10, 18 and TBA

Apr 20: Vietnam

Links: http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/vietnam.html
Matloff American Military History ch 28 at
Richard Jensen, "Victory afd Defeat an t`e Vaetnam War". (2003! http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/viet36.doc
Raymond W. Leonard, "Learning from History: Linebacker II and U.S. Air Force Doctrine, " Journal of Military History, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Apr., 1994), pp. 267-303

Apr 27 exam week

Online sources

class handouts and readings
Jensen, Web Sources for Military History http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/military.html
Military History Resources http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Thomas.Pilsch/history.html
Robert Cowley, Geoffrey Parker, eds Reader's Companion to Military History (1996)
War Historian Mark Grimsley's informal and highly useful site on military history
scholarly articles
powerful book search

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