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WEEK I: INTRODUCTION
Aug 29 Introduction
Aug 31 Europe 1492
Read:
Chambers, chap. 11
Andric, The Bridge on the Drina, chs. 1-2.
DR (Documents Reader, from Odin):
no. 1: Papal Bull Unam Sanctum (1302)
no. 72: Virginia Woolf, from "A Room of One's Own (1929)
WEEK II: NEW STATES, NEW WORLDS
Sep 5 Machiavelli/Renaissance Humanism
Sep 7 Columbus/Expansion and Conquest
Read:
Chambers, chs. 12 and 14
Machiavelli, The Prince
DR
2. Pico della Mirandola, from "The Dignity of Man" (1436)
3. Toscanelli, from Letter of Paolo Toscanelli (1474)
4. Columbus, from Journal of First Voyage (1492)
5. Introductory documents to "The New World"
6. Sepulveda, from Democrates Alter (1547)
7. Las Casas, from Apologetic History of the Indies (1550)
Map Assignment and Document Summary BOTH Due Friday September
8 at 4 p.m. in Section Leaders' boxes, History Department, 3229
Dwinelle
WEEK III: RELIGIOUS REFORMATIONS
Sep 12 Luther/Lutheran Reformations
Sep 14 Calvin/Protestant and Loyola/Catholic Reformations
Read:
Chambers, ch. 13.
Andric, Bridge on the Drina, chs. 3-4.
DR
8-10. Luther, from To the Christian Nobility, On the
Babylonian Captivity of
the Church, On Christian Liberty (1520)
11. Luther Confronts the Emperor Charles V at Worms (1521)
12. The Twelve Articles of the Swabian Peasants (1525)
13. Luther, "Against the Peasant War" (1525)
14. Augustin Wurzlberger, Proceedings of his Trial (1528)
15. Peter Riedmann, "Account of our [Anabaptist] Religion
(1547)
16. Genevan Ecclesiastical Ordinances (1541)
17. Calvin, from Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
18. Commission's address to Pope Paul III (1538)
19. Loyola, from Spiritual Exercises and First Sketch of
the Society of
Jesus
20-21: Decrees of the Council of Trent (1563) on the parish
clergy and
marriage
WEEK IV: SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT
Sep 19 Bertrande de Rols/Popular and Elite Cultures
Sep 21 Religious Wars
Read:
Natalie Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre
Chambers, ch 16 (pt. IV, on "social patterns and popular
culture") and ch. 15 (pt.
I), in that order.
DR
22. from The Malleus Maleficarium (1486)
23. Spanish Inquisition Abstract of the case of Catalina Matheo
(1590)
24. Michel de Montaigne, "On Cannibals" (1578-1580)
First Paper Due on Friday, September 22, 4 p.m. in History Department, 3229 Dwinelle.
WEEK V: CRISIS AND ORDER
Sep 26 17th-century Crisis; English Constitutionalism
Sep 28 Absolutist States, East and West
Read:
Chambers, ch. 15 (pts II-VI), ch. 17
Andric, Bridge on the Drina, ch. 5.
DR
25. Puritan social legislation (ca. 1650)
26. Documents on Levellers and Diggers (c. 1650)
27. "An Agreement of the People"
28. Hobbes, from The Leviathan (1651)
30. Locke, from Second Treatise on Government (1690)
29. Bossuet, from Treatise on Politics (1678)
31. Saint Simon, "Description of Louis XIV and His Court"
WEEK VI: NEW WORLD-VIEWS
Oct 3 The New Science
Oct 5 The Spirit of Enlightenment
Read:
Chambers, ch. 16 (pts. I-III); ch. 19
Voltaire, Candide
DR
32. Bacon, from The Great Instauration (1607)
33. Descartes, from Discourse on Method (1637)
34. Newton, from Mathematical Principes of Natural Philosophy
(1687)
35. Newton, excerpt "Principia",
36. Rousseau, from The Social Contract (1762)
37. Kant, "What is Enlightenment?" (1784)
WEEK VII: MIDTERM / FRENCH REVOLUTION (I)
Oct 10 MIDTERM EXAM
Oct 12 French Revolution I: Causes, Course
Read:
Chambers, ch. 20
DR
38. Sièyes, from "What is the Third Estate?"
(1789)
39. "Decrees of August 4, 1789"
40. "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen"
(1789)
41. Olympe de Gouges, "Declaration of the Rights of Woman
and the Citizen" (1791)
42. Debates in the National Convention on Women's Clubs
(1792)
47. Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France"
(1790)
WEEK VIII: FRENCH REVOLUTION (II) / INDUSTRIALIZATION
Oct 17 The French Revolution (II): Course, Consequences
Oct 19 Industrialization (I): Conditions
Read:
Chambers, chs. 21, 18 (in that order)
DR
44. Robespierre, "On the Principles of Political Morality"
(1794)
43. What is a Sans-Culotte"? (1794)
45. Babeuf, from Manifesto of Equals (1796)
46. Napoleonic Proclamations (1799)
49. Malthus, from "Essay on Population" (1798)
50. Smith, from "The Wealth of Nations" (1776)
WEEK IX: CAPITALISM AND REVOLUTION
Oct 24 Industrialization (II): Technology and Social Consequences
Oct 26 1848/the Age of Isms
Read:
Andric, Bridge on the Drina, chs. 6-7.
Chambers, chs. 22-23.
DR
51. Engels, from The Condition of the Working Class in England
(1844)
52. Disraeli, "Sybil or the Two Nations"
53.Dodd, from The Factory System Illustrated
54. "On Child Labor"
55. Ure, from The Philosophy of Manufactures (1835)
56. Alexis de Tocqueville, from Recollections (1848)
WEEK X: NATIONALISMS AND SOCIALISMS
Oct 31 Making States and Nations (1850-1914)
Nov 2 Marx/Socialism(s)
Read:
Andric, Bridge on the Drina, chs. 8-13.
Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Chambers, ch. 24
DR
57. Mill, "Of Nationality" (1861)
58. Von Treitschke, from Politics (1894-1896)
59. "Nardona Odbrana" (1911)
WEEK XI: BOURGEOIS CIVILIZATION AT HOME AND ABROAD
Nov 7 Bourgeois Culture and its Critics
Nov 9 The New Imperialism
Read:
Andric, Bridge on the Drina, finish.
Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
Chambers, chs. 25-26
DR
61. Darwin, from The Descent of Man (1871)
62. Nietzsche, from The Will to Power (1888)
63. Strong, from Our Country (1885)
64. Pearson, from The Standpoint of Science (1890)
65. Johnston, from The Backward Peoples (1920)
66. Kipling, from The White Man's Burden (1899)
67. Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" (1931-1936)
WEEK XII: WORLD WAR I AND CONSEQUENCES
Nov 14 World War I
Nov 16 Politics and Culture Between the Wars
Read: Chambers, chs. 27-28
Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
DR
68. "A Firsthand Account" (1914)
69. German White Book (1914)
70. The Fall of Antwerp
71. WW I Poetry
75. Rocco, from The Political Doctrine of Fascism (1925)
76. Mussolini, from The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism
(1932)
Second Paper Due on Friday, November 17, at 4 p.m. in the History Department offices, 3229 Dwinelle
WEEK XIII: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND WORLD WAR II
Nov 21 The Russian Revolution
Nov 23 World War II
Read: Chambers, ch. 29 (pts I - III)
DR
73. Lenin, "What is to be done?"
74. Lenin, "April Thesis"
77. Hitler, from Mein Kampf and political speeches (1940-5)
78. Documents from the Final Solution (1944)
WEEK XIV: POST-WAR EUROPE
Nov 28 Post-War Europe
Nov 30 Thanksgiving
Read: Chambers, ch. 29 (pt. IV)
DR
79. Churchill, from the "Iron Curtain" speech and Stalin's
response (1946)
80. Truman, "The Truman Doctrine"
81. Marshall, "Commencement Address"
82. Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth (1963)
WEEK XV: 1968 and 1992
Dec 5 1968, 1992
Dec 7 1492-1992
Read: Chambers, chs. 30 and Epilogue.
Documents Reader
83. De Beauvoir, from The Second Sex (1949)
Final Exam (Exam Group 19):
Wednesday December 20th from 12:30-3:30 p.m.
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