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Class Schedule:

Week I: Introduction
Jan 21 Introduction
Jan 23 Europe 1492
Read: Spielvogel, chap 12 .
Note: all chapter readings assigned include all the document extracts in each chapter.

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

Week XII: World War I and its consequences
Apr 15 World War I
Apr 17 Communism, Nazism and Fascism

Read: Spielvogel chap 25; Kishlansky # 124-128

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 13 REVIEW

Final Exam (Exam Group14) Wednesday, 21 May 2003, 5-8pm