UNITED STATES NAVAL
ACADEMY
HH367:
History of the Balkans
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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course will provide an overview of
Balkan history from the Ottoman era to the present. It will focus on the development and emergence of nations in
this region over the last two centuries.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: (% of semester
grade)
IMPORTANT NOTE:
ASSIGNMENT AND COURSE POLICY: If any class assignment is not completed before the end of the term, the student will receive an "F" in the course. GRADES OF ALL ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE REDUCED BY 10 POINTS FOR EACH CALENDAR DAY OF LATENESS IN SUBMISSION.
REQUIRED
USNA HISTORY DEPARTMENT
PLAGIARISM STATEMENT
I. PAPERS:
A. TOPICS:
1.
One 4-6 page paper that answers the following question:
How did the Bridge on the Drina portray the roles
of different ethnic and religious groups in shaping the history of the Balkans
from the beginning of Ottoman rule to the end of World War I?
DUE
DATE:
2.
One 2-3 page paper that answers the following questions:
a. What historical question (posed about
any aspect of Balkan history from the coming of the Ottomans to 1990) will your
research paper try to answer and why is the answer to this question significant
in Balkan history?
b. What is your
tentative answer to the question posed by your research paper?
c. What sources of evidence and
information will you use to answer this question and why are they the best
sources for answering the question you posed?
This paper is
called a précis and is designed to
get you to start working on the research well before the paper is due. It is perfectly acceptable for the
question posed by your paper to shift substantially as your research develops.
DUE
DATE:
3. One 7-9 page
research paper that answers the question identified in your précis.
DUE DATE:
B. PAPER WRITING
GUIDELINES:
In all cases, the papers
will be assessed according to style, syntax, grammar, and spelling, as well as
content. ALL PAPERS ARE DUE AT 1700 ON THE DAYS INDICATED ABOVE. Late papers
will be docked one full letter grade for each calendar day, not class, that
they are late. Excuses based on computer foul-ups will normally not be
accepted; you are responsible for making and maintaining backup files of all
papers.
Proofread your essays carefully. You will
be held accountable in the paper grade for grammar, syntax, and spelling
mistakes. You must cite every reference that you make to a work, either directly
or indirectly, in a way which allows the reader to locate the source from which
you took the information or quotation that you are presenting. PLEASE NOTE:
Papers without citations will receive a maximum grade of 65 (D). All
papers must be double-spaced with a 1" margin on all sides, using an 11 or
12 point font. I will be glad to discuss your papers with you before they are
due.
i. BASIC CRITERIA:
1. Be sure to
pay careful attention in your essays to spelling and grammar. With
spellcheckers, there is no longer any excuse for sloppy spelling.
2. Be careful
not to shift verb tenses in the middle of a paper.
3. Never, I
repeat, NEVER spell the possessive form of "it" as "it's".
"It's" is a contraction for "it is." The possessive form of
"it" is spelled "its."
4. Avoid using
contractions and slang words at all times.
ii. DOCUMENTATION FORMAT AND PENALTY:
1. Papers
lacking full documentation--endnotes or footnotes or parenthetical references
with proper bibliography--will receive, at best, a 65. You are to use the CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE
format for your notes. Failure to do so will cost you thirty points off of your
grade.
2. FORMAT FOR
NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ENTRIES:
1Plato, The Republic,
trans. G.M.A. Grube, revised by C.D. Reeve, book VI, section 490d, in Classics of Moral and Political Theory,
ed. Michael L. Morgan, 3rd ed (Indianapolis: Hackett Publ. Co., 2001), p. 151.
[Note that I have
provided both a section number and a page number. The section number allows the
reader to find the passage in any edition of Plato's Republic. It also is a more precise reference, which allows the
reader more easily to locate the cited text. The page number locates the text
in the assigned book. If you must choose between the two--and you ought to have
both--the section number is more useful since it is a more precise reference.]
2David Underdown, Revel,
Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in
[The first reference to a work must provide all the publication
information. The basic format for a first reference to a book is as follows:
First and last name of author, Title of Book [in
italics, not underlined] (Place of Publication: Publisher [optional],
date of publication), p. number.]
3Raoul of Cambrai, trans. Jessie Crosland, rev. Richard Abels (New York:
American Heritage Custom Publishing Group, 1994), p. 3 (stanza 10).
[Here the author is anonymous, so the title appears first,
followed by the translators.]
4Ernst Badian, “
The basic format for a first reference to an
article is:
First and last name of author, "Title of
the article," Name of the Journal
volume number of the periodical (year of publication), page number.
Note the punctuation. You separate author and
title with a comma. There is no comma, however, before a parenthesis. The note
ends with a period. The title of the article is set off with quotation marks.
The title of the journal is placed in italics.
Shorten second and subsequent references:
5Plato, Republic,
section 561d, in Morgan, ed., Classics,
p. 201.
6Underdown, Revel,
p. 56.
INTERNET CITATIONS: To cite sources on the
internet, follow the format provided by the following link: Citing Internet Sources
The basic rule is to provide a full note reference followed by
the URL and the date accessed:
7Peter Abelard, The
Story of My Misfortunes, ch. 16, translated by Henry Adams Bellows
(1922; reissued N.Y: Macmillan, 1972), in Paul Halsall, ed., Internet Medieval
Sourcebook, revised by Richard Abels
[http://www.nadn.navy.mil/Users/history/abels/hh205/abelardhel.html],
8Paul Rahe, "The
The format of an internet
citation is basically the same, except for the addition of the URL address
in square brackets followed by the date accessed
iii.
PLAGIARISM (READ CAREFULLY AND NOTE):
All direct quotations, paraphrases, allusions to
specific passages in a text, and use of another's interpretations and research
must be documented with a note that includes a specific page/section reference
to the work used. You need not document "common knowledge,"
which includes the factual information in your textbook. To 'paraphrase' means
to put another's ideas into your OWN words. If you take another's words and
fail to indicate that fact with quotations marks, that is PLAGIARISM. See the History Department's
plagiarism statement linked to this syllabus. If you commit
"unintentional" plagiarism, that is plagiarism not intended to
deceive, through carelessness or laziness, the paper will receive a ZERO.
If I believe that you intended to pass off another's work as your own, I will
regard it additionally as an HONORS OFFENSE. If you have any questions about
what needs to be cited, ask me.
iv. PAPER STYLE:
1. Avoid writing
a paper as a series of long quotations strung together by a few connective
sentences. What I would like to see is what your thoughts are about what you
have read, not how well you can introduce long excerpts from primary material.
2. Although it
is good to be eloquent, eloquence most often grows out of simplicity. Keep it
simple, and do not try to use impressive words just to reify an efflorescence
of pseudosemiotic prestidigitation.
3. All
analytical essays (as distinguished from short stories, editorials, personal
letters, etc.) must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. You must state the
points that you want to cover in summary in a couple of paragraphs at the
beginning. The end of the introductory section should be your thesis
statement: the one or two-sentence statement which gives the main point
that your paper is designed to make. This is the THESIS PARAGRAPH. Papers
lacking a coherent thesis paragraph that states a coherent thesis will be
penalized.
4. You should
then immediately launch into the middle of the paper, which should cover those
points in the same order in which you mentioned them in your introductory
paragraph. Finally, you should summarize them again in a conclusion at the
end. This format asks you to repeat the same points three times,
once in the thesis, once in the body, and once in the conclusion of the
paper. There is much wisdom in the old saying about speechmaking:
"First you tell them, then you tell them what you told them, then you tell
them again."
II. Riddles:
Each student
will answer one of the riddles in the syllabus below and lead a 7-10 minute
discussion about it on the assigned day. Each riddle presenter will use a
Powerpoint presentation of which a hardcopy should be submitted to the
instructors on the day of the presentation. (10%)
III. Class participation (10%)
IV. Exams:
1.
Midterm exam on
2.
Midterm exam on
3.
Final Exam (place and time TBA) (20%)
COURSE TEXTS:
Ivo Andric, The Bridge on the
Andre Gerolymatos, The Balkan Wars
(Basic)
Misha Glenny, The Balkans (Viking)
Norman Itzkowitz,
Laura Silber and Allan Little,
Additional Internet readings are linked on the syllabus. These are not supplementary, but primary course readings. You are responsible for reading them as you are responsible for reading the printed material for the course. The web address for this page is:
http://www.usna.edu/Users/history/tucker/hh367/367syll.htm
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Date |
Topic |
Main Instructor |
Main |
Andrić Readings (pages to be completed by the date specified) |
Riddle |
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Aug 20 |
Tucker/ Segal |
Gerolymatos: 1-5 Glenny: xxi-xxvi |
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Aug 22 |
“ |
Tucker/ Segal |
Peter
Maass, Love Thy Neighbor |
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Aug 25 |
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Tucker |
Gerolymatos: 233-245 |
1-52 |
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Aug 27 |
Ottoman History I |
Tucker |
Itzkowitz: 3-36 |
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Was Suleyman so “Magnificent”? |
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Aug 29 |
Ottoman History II |
Tucker |
Itzkowitz: 37-61, 87-109 |
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Sep 3 |
Balkan Mythology:
Kosovo and Beyond |
Tucker |
Gerolymatos: 61-84 |
53-93 |
Who cares who lost the battle of Kosovo? (Geary) |
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Sep 5 |
The Greek War of |
Tucker |
Gerolymatos: 163-190 |
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Why did a bunch of Englishment get involved with (Brewer) |
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Sep 8 |
The Stirrings of
National Feeling in |
Segal |
Glenny: 1-22, 39-57 |
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What was “Illyrianism”? ( |
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Sep 10 |
Outlaws, Nationalism,
and Klephts |
Segal |
Gerolymatos 85-119 |
94-133 |
What parts of the Balkans could be viewed as
“kleptocracies” in the nineteenth century? (Tisdall) |
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Sep 12 |
Ottoman Decay and the Tanzimat |
Tucker |
Glenny: 70-84, 90-106 |
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Who was Namık Kemal? (Drewiske) |
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Sep 15 |
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Segal |
Glenny: 120-151 |
134-185 |
What did Otto von Bismarck once say about the Balkans? ( |
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Sep 17 |
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Tucker |
Glenny: 151-178 |
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Who were the başi-bözöks? (Gill) |
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Sep 19 |
Conflict in |
Tucker |
Glenny: 178-205 |
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Where were most of the Jews in (Horst) |
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Sep 22 |
The Balkan Wars |
Tucker/ Segal |
Glenny: 223-248 |
186-234 |
How was Skutari part of the powder trail towards the
powder keg of (Hotchkiss) |
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Sep 24 |
EXAM 1
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Sep 26 |
World War I part I |
Tucker |
Glenny: 293-306, 308-323 |
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What happened to the exact spot and artifacts associated
with Franz Ferdinand’s association? (Stochel) |
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Sep 29 |
World War I part II |
Tucker |
Glenny: 339-356 |
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What was the “Big Idea” (or “Great Idea”) in the Balkans? ( |
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Oct 1 |
Bridge on the Drina discussion |
Segal |
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235-314 |
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Oct 3 |
Segal |
Glenny: 361-377 |
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Oct 6 |
Tucker |
Glenny: 378-396 |
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How did (Boodakian) |
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Oct 8 |
Tucker |
Glenny: 412-423 |
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Who claimed the Mare Nostrum after World War I? (Vitollo) |
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Oct 10 |
Tucker |
Glenny: 402-412, 423-436 |
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Who wore grey uniforms in (Trembula) |
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Oct 15 |
Segal |
Glenny: 436-460 |
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Oct 17 |
Segal |
Glenny: 485-495 |
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What happened in Kragujevac in October, 1941? (Robins) |
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Oct 20 |
Tucker |
Glenny: 460-485 |
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Oct 22 |
Tucker |
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Oct 24 |
Segal |
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Why was Tito called “Tito”? (Fletcher) |
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Oct 27 |
The Holocaust in the
Balkans |
Segal |
Glenny: 495-518 |
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Oct 29 |
The End of the War in |
Tucker |
Glenny: 529-544 |
Research Paper Precis Due |
What was the OZNa? (Berke) |
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Oct 31 |
Tito breaks with Stalin: 1945-1952 |
(guest speaker: Prof.
Thomas Sanders) |
Glenny: 545-552 |
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Why did the Cazin Muslims revolt? (Edwards) |
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Nov 3 |
Tucker |
Glenny: 570-593 |
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Nov 5 |
Tucker |
Glenny: 559-569 |
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What country was Enver Hoxha’s greatest ally and why? (Rolfs) |
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Nov 7 |
EXAM
2 |
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Nov 10 |
Segal |
Glenny: 552-559, 594-608 |
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Nov 12 |
Tucker |
Glenny: 608-622 |
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Who was Nikos Samson? (Bower) |
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Nov 14 |
The End of “Freedom and
Brotherhood”: 1980-1989 |
Segal |
Glenny: 622-633 |
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