History 5 - Spring 2008
The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the Present
| Prof. Margaret Anderson | History 5, Spr. 2008 |
| 2315 Dwinelle, phone 642-6246 | 145 Dwinelle T-Th: 2-3:30 pm |
| Office Hrs.: TBA | Head GSI: Albert Wu |
| Course Control # 39024 | albert.wu@gmail.com |
"A good historian resembles the ogre of the legend. Wherever he smells human flesh, he knows that there he will find his prey."
Marc Bloch, Apologie pour 'lhistoire our métier d'historien (1941)
"The sounding of the battle-drum is important; the fierce waging of the war itself is important; and the telling of the story afterwards -- each is important in its own way....But if you ask me which of them takes the eagle-feather, I will say boldly: the story....Why? Because it is only the story [that] can continue beyond the war and the warrior. It is the story, not the others, that outlives the sound of war-drums and the exploits of brave fighters. It is the story, not the others, that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence. The story is our escort; without it, we are blind. Does the blind man own his escort? No, neither do we the story; rather it is the story that owns us and directs us."
Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah (1989)
Required Reading:
The following paperbacks are available for purchase. They are also on 2-hour reserve at Moffitt. They are for sale at the Cal store and at Ned's. Those with an asterisk are also available on-line.
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513-1514) *
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) *
Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854) *
Sigmund Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905)
Art Spiegelman, Maus I, a Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (1986)
Art Spiegelman, Maus II, a Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (1991)
Textbook: Judith G. Coffin & Robert C. Stacey, Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture, vol. II (hereafter referred to as the Textbook). Assignments are from the 15th ed. but the 14th ed. is acceptable, and page #s noted in syllabus after those of 15th edition.
Our Documents Reader is for sale at Copy Central, on Bancroft above Telegraph.
Attendance
Attendance at lectures and section is required. Sections begin the first week. Unexcused absence from 3 sections is grounds for failing the course. Your GSI has the prerogative of requesting reasonable additional assignments, such as preparing answers to study questions. Lecture outlines will be available at entrances to the lecture hall. Syllabus, outlines, and other materials will also be posted on bSpace (http://bspace.berkeley.edu) or on the official History 5 blog (http://calhistory5.blogspot.com).
Assignments and Exams
The Midterm exam is on Thurs., Mar. 6.
The Final is on Thursday, May 15, 12:30-3:30 pm.
A short map assignment, due on Fri., Feb. 8 at 4 pm in the History Office, 3229 Dwinelle.
Two short papers (3-5 pp., double spaced) on topics to be assigned:
Paper # 1: due Fri. Feb. 22, 4 pm. Send it electronically to your GSI.
Paper # 2: due Fri. Apr. 24, 4 pm. Send it electronically to your GSI.
Your final grade, determined by your GSI, is based on the following approximate percentages:
-- map assignment (5%) midterm (20%) and final (35%)
-- section attendance and participation (10%) papers (30%)
Schedule
| Week I. | ||
| Jan 22 | Lecture 1 | The Boundaries of the "West:" Endings and Beginnings |
| Jan 24 | Lecture 2 | The Rise of the State in the Age of Machiavelli |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Ch. 12 "The Civilization of the Renaissance" (14th ed.: Ch. 13) |
| Document: | Pico della Mirandola, The Dignity of Man (1486) | |
| Begin reading Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513-14) | ||
| Week II. | ||
| Jan 29 | Lecture 3 | New States and New Worlds: 1492 and Beyond |
| Jan 31 | Lecture 4 | A Common Culture |
| Reading: | Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513-1514). Entire | |
| Documents: | Christopher Columbus, "Journal of the First Voyage" (1492) | |
| Joseph Blau, et al., Introduction to Sepúlveda & Las Casas | ||
| Juan Gines de Sepúlveda, "On the Just Causes for War against the Indians" (1550) | ||
| Bartholomé de Las Casas, "Defense of the Indians" (1550) | ||
| Week III. | ||
| Feb 5 | Lecture 5 | Salvation at Stake: The Reformation Begins |
| Feb 7 | Lecture 6 | The Institutionalization of the Reformation |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Ch. 13 "Reformations of Religion" (14th ed.: Ch. 14 "Prot. Ref.") |
| Documents: | Boniface VIII, "Unam Sanctam" (1305) | |
Martin Luther, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520) Concerning Christian Liberty (1520) |
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| Luther Confronts Emperor Charles V at Worms (1521) | ||
| Sebastian Lotzer, The Twelve Articles of the Swabian Peasants (1525) | ||
| Thomas Müntzer vs. Martin Luther, On the Peasant War (1525) | ||
| The Cardinals' Proposal for Reform Addressed to Pope Paul III (1538) | ||
| Ignatius Loyola, Letter on Obedience (1553) | ||
| MAP ASSIGNMENT DUE FRIDAY, FEB 8! in History Office | ||
| Week IV. | ||
| Feb 12 | Lecture 7 | Things Fall Apart: Persecutions, Plague, and War |
| Feb 14 | Lecture 8 | Hobbes's World and the Emergence of Constitutional Government |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Ch. 14 "Religious Wars and State Building" (14th ed.: Ch. 15) |
| Documents: | The Puritan Acts and Ordinances (17th century) | |
| Radical Dissent: Levellers & Diggers (17th century) | ||
| Thomas Hobbes, from Leviathan (1651) | ||
| John Locke, from Second Treatise on Government (1690) | ||
| Week V. | ||
| Feb 19 | Lecture 9 | Absolutism and the Sun King |
| Feb 21 | Lecture 10 | The New Science |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Ch. 15 "Absolutism & Empire" (14th ed.: pp. 567-91 and Ch. 17) Ch. 16 "The Scientific Revolution" (14th ed.: Ch. 18) |
| Documents: | Saint-Simon's Description of Louis XIV and his Court (1657) | |
| Francis Bacon, The Great Instauration (1607) | ||
| Galileo Galilei, "Letter to Madame Christina of Lorraine" (1615) | ||
| René Descartes, from Discourse on Method (1637) | ||
| Isaac Newton, "The General Scholium" (1687) | ||
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Constantinople Letters (1717-18) | ||
| FIRST PAPER DUE FRIDAY, FEB. 22! | ||
| Week VI. | ||
| Feb 26 | Lecture 11 | The 18th Century and the Enlightenment |
| Feb 28 | Lecture 12 | The French Revolution |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Ch. 17 "The Enlightenment" (14th ed.: Ch. 19) Ch. 18 "The French Revolution" up to p. 655 (14th ed.: Ch. 20 up to p. 710) |
| Documents: | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from The Social Contract (1762) | |
| Immanuel Kant, "What Is Enlightenment?" (1784) | ||
| Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, "What Is the 3rd Estate?" (Jan. 1789) | ||
| Decrees of August 4th, 1789 | ||
| Declaration of the Rights of Man & the Citizen (Aug. 26, 1789) | ||
| Olympe de Gouges, "Declaration of the Rights of Women" (Sept. 14, 1791) | ||
| "What is a Sans-Culotte?" (1794) | ||
| Maximilien Robespierre, "On the Principles of Political Morality" (1794) | ||
| Week VII. | ||
| Mar 4 | Lecture 13 | Napoleon: Military Dictatorship and Military Revolution |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Finish Ch. 18, on Napoleon (pp. 655-664) (14th ed.: pp.710-721) |
| Documents: | Napoleon, Proclamation to the French Nation (1799) Start Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854). It won't be on the midterm! Section devoted to review for midterm | |
| Mar 6 | IN-CLASS MIDTERM EXAM | |
| Week VIII. | ||
| Mar 11 | Lecture 14 | Getting and Spending: England's Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830 |
| Mar 13 | Lecture 15 | Capitalism and Its Critics |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Ch. 19 "The Industrial Revolution & Nineteenth-Century Society" (14th ed.: Chs. 21 and pp. 744-64) |
| Documents: | Adam Smith, from the Wealth of Nations (1776) | |
| Thomas Malthus, from On Population (1798) | ||
| Finish Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854) | ||
| Week IX. | ||
| Mar 18 | Lecture 16 | Romanticism and The Search for Wholeness |
| Mar 20 | Lecture 17 | Bismarck and the Re-Configuration of Europe |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Ch. 20 "From Restoration to Revolution" (14th ed.: pp. 764-71 & Ch. 23) Ch. 21 "What Is a Nation?" (14th ed.: Ch. 24) |
| Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) | ||
| Documents: | Moritz Bromme, "Woodworker & Metalworker" (1896) | |
| "A City Man on a Farm" (1896) | ||
| MAR 24-28 Spring Break !! | ||
| Week X. | ||
| Apr 1 | Lecture 18 | "What Did Women Want?" Women and Society in the 19th Century |
| Apr 3 | Lecture 19 | The Re-Discovery of the Irrational: Fin-de-Siècle Pessimism & the Birth of Psychoanalysis |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Ch. 23 "Modern Industry and Mass Politics, 1870-1914" (14th ed.: Ch. 26) |
| Documents: | A Prostitute's Letter to the London Times (1858) | |
| Charles Darwin, From The Descent of Man (1871) | ||
| Friedrich Nietzsche, From The Will to Power (1888) | ||
| Sigmund Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case Study in Hysteria (1905), including introduction | ||
| Week XI. | ||
| Apr 8 | Lecture 20 | Europeans All Around: Globalization and Imperialism in the 19th Century |
| Apr 10 | Lecture 21 | Shooting an Elephant: Why Europe Went to War in 1914 |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Chapter 22 "Imperialism and Colonialism" (14th ed.: Ch. 25) |
| Documents on Imperialism: | Stanley finds Livingstone (1871) | |
| Through the Dark Continent with H.M. Stanley | ||
| The Berlin Act of 1885 | ||
| The Congo Atrocities (1885-1908) | ||
| Leopold II (of Belgium) Defends His Rule in the Congo (1897) | ||
| Roger Casement's "Congo Report" (1903) | ||
| George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) | ||
| Documenting the Origins of the First Word War: | Evidence on Serbian Nationalism Analysis by Austrian Intelligence of Serbian nationalist pamphlet issued by Narodna Odbrana (National Defense), misleadingly entitled "Extract from the 'Narodna Odbrana....'" (1911) Deposition of Trifko Krstanović concerning Narodna Odbrana, July 6-7, 1914 A firsthand account by Borivoje Jevtić, a leader of Narodna Odbrana, on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand (1924) |
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| Deliberations of the Great Powers & Their Diplomatic Exchanges Telegram of the German Chancellor, Bethmann Hollweg, to the German Ambassador, Vienna, July 6, 1914 Count Berchtold, Austrian Foreign Minister, to the Royal and Imperial [i.e., Austro-Hungarian] ambassadors in the capitals of Europe (July 25, 1914), analyzing Serbian propaganda The Servian [i.e., Serbian] press on the assassination [as analyzed by Austria, in its "Dossier" published in 1915] Count Berchtold, to the Austrian Minister at Belgrade, von Giesl, conveying Austria's Ultimatum to Serbia, July 22, 1914 Special Journal [= Minutes] of the [Russian] Council of Ministers, July 24, 1914 Servian [i.e., Serbian] Reply to Austria-Hungary's Ultimatum, July 24, 1914 Foreign Office, Berlin, Aug. 1914 [i.e., its account of why Germany had to go to war]. From White Book (1914) Kaiserliche Deutsche Gesandschaft in Belgien-Brüssel [i.e., the German Delegation in Brussels (Non-Great Powers didn't rate an embassy before WWI)], Request for Safe Passage through Belgium, Aug. 2, 1914 Belgian Reply to German Request for Safe Passage, Aug. 3, 1914 |
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| Week XII. | ||
| Apr 15 | Lecture 22 | The Great War |
| Apr 17 | Lecture 23 | Russian and its Revolution |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Ch. 24 "The First World War" (14th ed.: Ch. 27) |
| Documents: | Four Poems from World War I -- Rupert Brooke (English, 1887-1915, d. 28), "The Soldier" (1914) -- Charles Hamilton Sorley (English, 1895-1915, d. 20), "When you see millions of the mouthless dead" (1915) -- John McRae (Canadian, 1872-1918, d. 46), "In Flanders Fields" (1918) -- Wilfred Owen (English, 1893-1918, d. 25), "Dulce et decorum est" | |
| V. I. Lenin (1870-1924), What Is to Be Done? (1903) | ||
| V. I. Lenin, The April Theses (1917) | ||
| SECOND PAPER DUE FRIDAY, APR. 24! | ||
| Week XIII. | ||
| Apr 22 | Lecture 24 | The War Moves Home: Fascism and the Fall of the Democracies |
| Apr 24 | Lecture 25 | Interwar: A Broken World |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Ch. 25 "Turmoil between the Wars" (14th ed.: Ch. 28) |
| Documents: | William Butler Yeats (Irish), "The Second Coming" (ca. 1919-1921) (poem) | |
| Giovanni Gentile, for Benito Mussolini, article on "The Doctrine of Fascism" for the Encyclopedia Italiana (1932--not 1939, as your Reader states) | ||
| From Documents on British Foreign Policy -- Sir N. Henderson (Berlin to Sir A. Cadogan, Aug. 25, 1939, impressions of Hitler -- Sir G. Ogilvie-Forbes (Berlin) to Mr. Kirkpatrick, Aug. 25, 1939, cover letter enclosing: -- Adolf Hitler, Speech to His Military Commanders Aug. 22, 1939 |
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| Begin Art Spiegelman, Maus I (1986) and Maus II (1990) | ||
| Week XIV. | ||
| Apr 29 | Lecture 26 | Circles of Hell: 1938-1945 |
| May 1 | Lecture 27 | The Colonialization of Europe & De-Colonialization Abroad |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Ch. 26 "The Second World War" (14th ed.: Ch. 29) |
| Art Spiegelman, Maus I (1986) and Maus II (1990) | ||
| Week XV. | ||
| May 6 | Lecture 28 | Speaking Truth to Power: The 4th Decolonization & the Fall of the Soviet Empire |
| May 8 | Lecture 29 | The Eclipse of Violence? Europe as a Civilian Society |
| Reading: | Textbook: | Ch. 27 "The Cold War" and Ch. 28 "Red Flags & Velvet Revolutions" (14th ed.: Chs. 30 and 31) |
| Documents: | Winston Churchill vs. Joseph Stalin, "The Iron Curtain" (Mar. 1946) | |
| Václav Havel, "The Power of the Powerless" (Oct. 1978) | ||