History 5: Europe Since 1500

Week

Topic

Readings

1 (8/30) Europe in 1500 None
2 (9/6) The Renaissance

Roots of Empire

Coffin, 13

Machiavelli, 1-90

Course Reader, #1, 2

3 (9/13) Conquest of the Americas

"Marvelous Possessions"

Course Reader,  #3-8
4 (9/20) Religious Revolution?

Protestant Reformation

Radical Reformation

Coffin, 14

Course Reader, #9-26

5 (9/27) Absolutism

Atlantic System

FIRST PAPER DUE

Coffin, 17

Equiano, 23-180

Kishlansky, #75-80

6 (10/4) The Age of Enlightenment

Scientific Revolution

Enlightenment

Coffin, 19

Voltaire, entire

Kishlansky, 84, 89-95

7 (10/11) Revolution in France and Beyond

MIDTERM EXAM, THURSDAY OCTOBER 14

Coffin, 20

Kishlansky, 95-98

8 (10/18) Industrialization

Middle Class Liberalism

Coffin, 21

Kishlansky, 99-105

9 (10/25) Liberalism and the Socialist Challenge

Socialism

Coffin, 22-23

Marx/Engels, 3-77

Kishlansky, 106-108

10 (11/1) The Age of Empire

Electoral Democracy

Imperialism

Coffin, 25

Forster, entire

Kishlansky, 119-123

11 (11/8) The European Civil War

NO CLASS, NOVEMBER 11

Coffin, 27

Kishlansky, 124-126

Remarque, entire

12 (11/15) Revolution and Counterrevolution

SECOND PAPER DUE

Coffin, 28

Kollontai, entire

Kishlansky, 127, 129-132

13 (11/22) World War II

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY, NO CLASS 11/24-25

Coffin, 29

Fischer, entire

14 (11/29) The End of European Hegemony

A New Europe

Decolonization

Coffin, 30, 32

Kishlansky,  138-139

15 (12/6) The Collapse of Soviet Communism

Toward the Twenty First Century

Coffin, 31

Kishlansky, 140-142

FINAL EXAM

TUESDAY DECEMBER 21    12:30 – 3:30    LOCATION: 2050 VLSB

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