SCHEDULE
Jan. 10
Introduction: Western Civilization, An Overview
Textbook Reading
Levack, Chapter 14
Jan. 15
Absolutism and Constitutionalism
Textbook Reading
Levack, Chapter 15
Outlines:
Europe in 1560
The Rise of Absolutism
The English Revolution
Documents:
The Court of
Louis XIV
James
I, The trew law of free monarchies
Thomas
Hobbes, Leviathan
English
Bill of Rights
John Locke, Second Treatise on Government
Web Resources:
L'Age d'Or: The French and English
Baroque
Jan. 17
The Scientific Revolution
Textbook Reading:
Levack, Chapter 16
Outlines:
Scientific Revolution
Documents:
Galileo
Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615
Francis Bacon,
True suggestions for the interpretation of nature.
Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
Web Resources:
The Galileo Project
Jan. 22 Commerce, Empire
and Daily life in the Eighteenth Century
Textbook Reading
Levack, Chapter 17
Outlines:
17th and 18th Century Commercial Empires
Daily Life in the 18th Century
Jan. 24 The Age of
Reason: Enlightenment thought and culture.
Textbook
Reading:
Levack,
Chapter 18, pp. 574-585
Outlines:
The Enlightenment
Documents:
Voltaire, On Toleration
Montesquieu,
The Spirit of the Laws
Rousseau,
The Social Contract
Web Resources
The European
Enlightenment
Jan. 31 The French Revolution
Levack,
Chapter 19, pp. 606-627
Outlines:
Feb 5 The Napoleonic Era:
Textbook Reading
Levack,
Chapter 19, pp. 627-641
Outlines:
The Napoleonic Era
Documents:
Napoleon
addresses his soldiers
The
Imperial Catechism
Madame de
Rémusat: Remembrances of Napoleon
Web resources:
Napoleonic Literature
Feb. 7 The Industrial Revolution:
Technology and Society
Textbook reading:
Levack, Chapter
20.
Outlines:
The Industrial Revolution
Industrial Society
Documents:
Leeds Wollen
Workers' Petition, 1786
Life of an Industrial Worker in 19th Century England
Thomas
Malthus, Essay on Population
David
Ricardo, The Iron Law of Wages
Feb. 12 The
Age of Ideology: Europe 1815-1848
Textbook reading:
Levack, Chapter 21, pp. 674-692
Outlines:
The Age of Ideology: Romanticism and Nationalism
European Politics in the Wake of Napoleon
Documents:
Johann Gottlieb
Fichte, Address to the German Nation
Edmund
Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution
Samuel Smiles,
Self Help
Feb. 14 The
Revolutions of 1848
Textbook Reading
Levack, Chapter
21, pp. 692-698
Outlines:
Feb. 19 Europe at Mid Century: National Unification and
Reform
Textbook Reading
Levack,
Chapter 21, pp. 698-708
Outlines:
Europe at Mid-Century
Documents:
King Victor
Emmanuel, Address to Parliament, 1871
Documents
on German Unification
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Feb. 21 Darwin
and Marx
Outlines:
Darwin and Marx
Documents:
Karl Marx, Friedrich
Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Edouard
Bernstein, Evolutionary Socialism
Charles
Darwin, On the Origin of Species
Andrew
White, The Warfare of Science and Theology
Web
Resources:
The
Marx and Engels Internet Archive
Feb. 28 The Second Industrial Revolution
and the Emergence of Mass Politics
Textbook Reading:
Levack,
Chapter 22
Outlines:
European Politics, 1871-1914
Documents:
Lenin, What is to be Done?
The
Paris Commune
March 4
Pre-War Culture and Society
Textbook Reading:
Levack,
Chapter 23, pp. 742-759
Outlines:
Science and Culture, 1871-1914
Documents:
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Friedrich
Nietzsche, The Parable of the Madman
Thorsten Veblen,
Conspicuous Consumption
March 6 Imperialism
Textbook Reading:
Levack, Chapter
23, pp. 759-774
Outlines
Imperialism
Documents
Kaiser
Wilhelm, Germany's Place in the Sun
Jules Ferry, On
French Colonial Expansion
Rudyard Kipling,
The White Man's Burden
John
Hobson, Imperialism
March 11 European Politics and the
outbreak of W. W. I
Textbook Reading
Levack, Chapter
24, pp. 776-785
Outlines:
March 13 World War I
Textbook Reading:
Levack, Chapter 24, pp. 785-800
Finish reading All Quiet on the Western Front
Outlines:
The Great War, 1914-1918
Documents:
Private Donald Fraser, My Daily Journal, 1915-16
World
War I Poetry
Woodrow Wilson,
The Fourteen Points
March 18 The
Russian Revolution and the Aftermath of the War
Textbook Reading:
Levack, Chapter 24, pp. 800-810
Outlines:
The Russian Revolution
Post W. W. I Europe
Documents:
Lenin's April Theses
John Maynard Keynes, On the Economic Consequences of the Peace
April 1 The Age of Anxiety: Europe in the 1920s
Textbook Readings:
Levack,
Chapter 25, pp. 812-826
Documents:
Paul Valery, On
European Civilization
Oswald
Spengler, The Decline of the West
The
Kellogg-Briand
Pact of 1928
Sigmund
Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
April 3 The
Totalitarian State
Textbook Readings:
Levack, Chapter 25, pp. 826-832
April 8
Socialism in One Country: The Soviet Union and Stalinism
Textbook Readings:
Levack,
Chapter 25, pp. 832-846
Outlines:
The Soviet Union under Stalin
Documents
Hymn to
Stalin
Stalin,
On the Industrialization of Russia
April 10 The Rise of Nazi
Germany
Textbook Reading
Levack, Chapter
26, pp. 850-854
Outlines:
April 15 World War II
Textbook Reading
Levack, Chapter
26, pp. 854-881
Outlines:
World War II
Documents:
Eyewitness
account of the massacre of Jews, 1942
Winston
Churchill, Blood, Sweat and Tears
Stalin,
Broadcast to the Soviet People, July 1941
April 17 The
Cold War and Recovery
Textbook Reading
Levack, Chapter 27
Documents:
Winston
Churchill, The Iron Curtain
The
Yalta Conference
The
Marshall Plan
Nikita
Khrushchev, Secret Speech to the 20th Party Congress
Web Resources:
The Cold War International History
Project
The
European Union
April 22 1968 and beyond
Textbook Reading
Levack, Chapter
28, pp. 923-930
Documents:
Tom
Wolfe, The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening
April 24 A New Europe?
Textbook Readings:
Levack,
Chapter 28, pp. 930-957
FINAL EXAM: May 5, Period 4 (2:45-4:25)
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