There
will be no section meetings this first week of classes
Map
assignment and document summary BOTH due Friday January 24 at 4 pm
in Section Leaders’ boxes, History department main office, 3229
Dwinelle
Week
II: New States, New Worlds
Jan 28 Machiavelli/ Renaissance Humanism
Jan 30 Columbus/ Expansion and Conquest
Read: Machiavelli, The Prince
Cabeza de Vaca, The Account
Spielvogel, chaps 12 and 14
Week
III: Religious Reformations
Feb 4 Luther/ Lutheran Reformations
Feb 6 Calvin/Protestant and Loyola Catholic Reformations
Read: Spielvogel chap 13,pp.336-359
Week
IV: Social and Religious Conflict
Feb 11 Popular and Elite Culture
Feb 13 Witchcraft and Religious Wars
Read: Spielvogel chap 13, 359-366; chap
15, 401-8; Natalie Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre
Week
V: Crisis and Order
Feb 18 17th century Crisis; English Constitutionalism
Feb 20 Absolutist States, East and West
Read: Spielvogel 15, Kishlansky #75-80
First
paper due on Thursday February 22, 4pm in history department main
office, 3229 Dwinelle
Week
VI: New World-Views
Feb 25 The New science
Feb 27 The spirit of Enlightenment
Read: Spielvogel Chaps 16,17; Kishlansky
#81-2,84,89,90-4; Voltaire, Candide
Week
VII: Midterm/ French Revolution
Mar 4 Midterm Exam
Mar 6 French Revolution: Causes, course
Read: Spielvogel chap 19; Kishlansky
#95-8
Week
VIII: French Revolution/ Industrialization
Mar 11 The French Revolution, Course, Consequences
Mar 13 Industrialization
Read:Spielvogel chap 20, Kishlansky #
99-105
Week
IX: Capitalism and Revolution
Mar 18 New Social Formations: Middle and Working classes
Mar 20 Revolutions of 1848
Read: Spielvogel, chaps 20-21; Kishlansky
# 106,107,108,110; Marx, The Communist Manifesto
(1848)
SPRING
BREAK, March 24-28
Week
X: New Nation States, 1848-1871
Apr 1st Making States and Nations, 1850-1914
Apr 3 Socialism
Read: Spielvogel chap 22, and 23 pp 665-7;
Kishlansky # 111-2
Week
XI: Bourgeois civilization at home and abroad
Apr 8 Nineteenth Century Culture and its Critics
Apr 10 The New Imperialism
Read: Freud, Civilization and
its Discontents; Spielvogel chaps 23-24; Kishlansky, #113-123
Second
paper due Monday April 21st, 4pm, history department main office,
3229 Dwinelle
Week
XIII: Fascism and the coming of World War II
Apr 22 World War II and the Holocaust
Apr 24 World War II and the Holocaust
Read: Primo Levi, Survival in
Auschwitz; Spielvogel chaps 26-7; Kishlansky # 129-135
Week
XIV: Colonization AND Decolonization
Apr 29 East/West divide
May 1st 1968
Read: Kundera, Book of Laughter
and Forgetting; Spielvogel chap 28; Kishlansky, #136-9,140-2
Week
XV: Collapse of Communism
May 6 1989 “velvet revolutions”
May 8 European Trajectories, 1950s-1990s
Read: Drakulip, Café Europa;
Spielvogel chap 29
May
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