NB: The readings should be completed before the date under which they appear. Thus, you should read the documents on Versailles and Russian peasants before class on Monday, January 10. "CP" designates works to be found in the coursepack.
1. Wed. Jan. 5 Introduction to Modern Europe and to the Study of History
SECTION: Introductions. What is History?
2. Mon. Jan. 10 A Grand Tour of Europe in the Eighteenth Century
Maps of Europe (handout)
St. Simon on the court at Versailles (handout)
Russian Peasants (handout)
SECTION: Map Quiz. Some Perspectives on Old Regime Europe
ее EVENING FILM: "Ridicule" 8 pm, Angell Aud C ее
3. Wed. Jan. 12 The Age of Enlightenment
Western Experience, Ch. 19, Parts I and II, skim Part III
Montesquieu, The Persian Letters, excerpts (handout)
SECTION: Enlightenment, Wit and the Old Regime. Discuss "Ridicule" and Montesquieu
~ Monday, January 17. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. NO REGULAR CLASSES ~
4. Wed. Jan. 19 The French Revolution
Western Experience, Ch. 20, Parts II, III, and IV, and skim Ch. 21, Part I.
(CP) Joseph Emmanuel Sieyès, "What is the Third Estate?" (January, 1789). ICCW, pp. 26-32.(CP) Cahiers. "Cahier of the Third Estate of Dourdan--29 March, 1789." ICCW, pp. 17-25.
(CP) "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen" (August 26, 1789), in Laura Mason and Tracey Rizzo, The French Revolution, A Document Collection (Houghton Mifflin, 1999), pp. 101-104.
(CP) Women's March to Versailles (October 5, 1789), in Mason and Rizzo, French Revolution, pp. 83-88.
(CP) Olympe de Gouges, "Declaration of the Rights of Woman" (September 14, 1791), in Mason and Rizzo, French Revolution, pp. 109-113.
(CP) "Insurrection of the Blacks in Our Colonies" (Oct. 29-Nov. 5, 1791), in Mason and Rizzo, French Revolution, pp. 120-123.
(CP) "The Marseillaise" (August 1792), in Mason and Rizzo, French Revolution, pp. 165-167.
(CP) Toussaint L'Ouverture (1793-4), in Mason and Rizzo, French Revolution, pp. 208-210.
SECTION: A New Politics. Discuss Sieyès, de Gouges, Sylvain.
5. Mon. Jan. 24 Napoleon, Europe and the Legacy of the French Revolution
Western Experience, Ch. 21, Parts II, III, and IV
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (selected chapters TBA)
SECTION: The Rights of Woman. Discuss Wollstonecraft
6. Wed., Jan. 26 The Industrial Revolution, 18th-early 19th century
Western Experience, Ch. 22, Parts II and III
(CP) Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (orig. 1844; Basil Blackwell, 1958), pp. 9-26, 53-64.
(CP) "The Life of the Industrial Worker," in Jonathan F. Scott and Alexander Baltzly, Readings in Europen History Since 1814 (New York, F.S. Crofts & Co., 1930), pp. 78-94.
29. Evidence Given Before the Sadler Committee (1832)
30. Mr. Cobbett's Discovery (1833)
31. The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers (1833)
32. A Cotton Manufacturer on Hours of Labor (1836)
33. Opposition to the Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Bill (1819)
34. The Benefit of the Factory Legislation (1879)
35. Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission (1842)
36. Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions (1842)
SECTION: Work in the Early Nineteenth Century. Discuss Engels and Various Sources
ее Monday, January 31. PAPER # 1 DUE, 9 am ее
7. Mon., Jan. 31 Responses to Political and Social Revolution: Conservatism, Liberalism, Nationalism, Romanticism
Western Experience, Ch. 23, Parts I and II
(CP) Giuseppe Mazzini, "Duties Toward Your Country" (1844-1858), in ICCW, pp. 539-543.
(CP) "12:1 Fight for Faith and Motherland," (Alexandros Ypsilantis, 1821) in The Movement for Greek Independence (Barnes and Noble, 1976), pp. 201-203.
SECTION: What is a Nation? Why the Nation? Discuss Mazzini and Ypsilantis
ее EVENING FILM: "Burn" 8 pm, Angell Aud C ее
8. Wed., Feb. 2 Europe and the Wider World, c. 1750-c. 1850
(CP) Napoleon's Proclamation to the People of Egypt (1798), in Napoleon in Egypt. Al-Jabartis Chronicle of the French Occupation (Markus Wiener, 1993), pp. 24, 26-27.
SECTION: Civilization, Capitalism, and Empire. Discuss "Burn" and Napoleon
9. Mon. Feb. 7 From Order to Revolution and Back Again. Restoration Europe, 1815-1848
Western Experience, Ch. 22, Part I, Ch. 23, Part III, and Ch. 24, Part I.
(CP) "The Statesmanship of the Old Order: Metternich's Conservatism" (Metternich on human nature, 1820) in Eugene C. Black, ed., Posture of Europe, 1815-1940 (Homewood, IL: The Dorsey Press, 1964) pp. 28-41.
(CP) "Developments on the Continent (1830-1849)," in Scott and Baltzly, Readings in European History, pp. 144-168.
51. The French Revolution of February, 1848 (Alexis de Tocqueville)
52. The June Days (Tocqueville)
53. The Zollverein
54. Phases of the German Revolution of 1848 (Carl Schurz)
55. The Failure of the Frankfort Parliament (Schurz)
56. Northern Italy on the Eve of the Revolution of 1848
SECTION: Metternich on Human Nature and Documents from 1848
10. Wed. Feb. 9 1848, Socialism and Anarchism
Western Experience, Ch. 25, section on "Social Science and Ideas of Progress"
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
SECTION: Discuss Marx and Engels
11. Mon. Feb. 14 Nation and State: Italy (1861), Germany (1870), and Austria-Hungary (1867)
Western Experience, Ch. 24, Part II
(CP) "Racialism and Nationalism: A German Definition," (Treitschke on race and nation, c. 1890) in Eugene C. Black, ed., Posture of Europe, 1815-1940 (Homewood, IL: The Dorsey Press, 1964) pp. 235-251.
SECTION: Again, What is the Nation? Why the Nation?
12. Wed. Feb. 16 The Cult of Science and the New Woman
Western Experience, Ch. 26, section on "The Woman Question"
(CP) G. Delauny, "Equality and Inequality in Sex," Popular Science Monthly 20 (1881-2), pp. 184-192.
(CP) Miss M.A. Hardaker, "Science and the Woman Question," Popular Science Monthly 20 (1881-2), pp. 577-584.
(CP) Nina Morais, "A Reply to Miss Hardaker on the Woman Question," Popular Science Monthly 21 (1882), pp. 70-78.
SECTION: Science and the Woman Question. Discuss Delauny, Hardaker, and Morais.
13. Mon. Feb. 21 Europe at the Turn of the Century: Belle époque or Fin-de-siècle?
Western Experience, Ch. 26, Parts I and II
SECTION: Review for Midterm
ее Wed. Feb. 23 MID-TERM EXAMINATION (Bring a blue book) ее
~ SPRING BREAK, Feb. 26 - Mar. 5 ~
14. Mon. Mar. 6 The Second Industrial Revolution
Western Experience, Ch. 25, Part I,
Nikolaus Osterroth, "Clay Miner," in Alfred Kelly, ed., The German Worker, pp. 160-187 (Handout)
SECTION: Working-Class Rebellion. Discuss the Life of J-B Dumay
15. Wed. Mar. 8 New Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa
Western Experience, Ch. 25, "European Power," Parts III and IV
(CP) "Stanley Finds Livingstone, 1871" in Louis L. Snyder, ed., The Imperialism Reader (Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1962), pp. 177-179.
(CP) "Through the Dark Continent with Henry M. Stanley, 1877," in Snyder, Imperialism Reader, pp. 179-184.
(CP) "The Role of the Missionary in East Africa, 1893," in Snyder, Imperialism Reader, pp. 233-235.
(CP) "The Berlin Act, 1885," in Snyder, Imperialism Reader, pp. 209-211.
(CP) "The Congo Atrocities, 1885-1908," in Snyder, Imperialism Reader, pp. 213-214.
(CP) "Leopold II Defends His Rule in the Congo, 1897," in Snyder, Imperialism Reader, pp. 236-238.
(CP) "Roger Casement's 'Congo Report,' 1903," in Snyder, Imperialism Reader, pp. 253-255.
(CP) "An American Traveler Denounces French Concessionaires in the French Congo, 1908," in Snyder, Imperialism Reader, pp. 256-257.
SECTION: The Civilizing Mission. Discuss Imperialism Documents
ее Monday, March 13. PAPER # 2 DUE, 9 am ее
16. Mon. Mar. 13 Antisemitism and Mass Politics in the Belle Epoque
Western Experience, Ch. 26, Part III, esp. the sections on France and Austria-Hungary.
(CP) Adolf Stoecker, "Our Demands on Modern Jewry" (1879) and introduction, in Richard S. Levy, ed., Antisemitism in the Modern World: An Anthology of Texts (DC Heath & Co., 1991), pp. 56-66.
(CP) Heinrich von Treitschke, "A Word About Our Jews" (1879-80) and introduction, in Levy, Antisemitism, pp. 69-73.
(CP) Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, trans. Ralph Manheim (Houghton Mifflin, 1971), pp. 51-65.
SECTION: The Jew in Turn-of-the-Century Europe
17. Wed. Mar. 15 World War I
Western Experience, Ch. 27
(CP) Laura Lee Downs, "The Wartime Career of Isabelle McGee"
(CP) F. Wedd, ed. and trans., German Students' War Letters (Methuen, 1929) [orig. published under editor's name, Philipp Witkop], pp. 1-4, 39-43, 149-153, 299-301, 359-364, 372-374.
(CP) World War I Poetry
Wilfrid Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est"
W.B. Yeats, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
Vernon Scannell, "The Great War"
Philip Larkin, "MCMXIV"
SECTION: The Experience of War, Homefront and Battlefront
18. Mon. Mar. 20 The Russian Revolution
Western Experience, Ch. 28, Part II, sections on Russia, and Part IV, section on "Stalin's Soviet Union"
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Heart of a Dog (written 1925).
(CP) Alexandra Kollontai, "Soon (In 48 Years Time)," (1922), in Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai, trans. Alix Holt (Westport, Conn.: Lawrence Hill and Co., 1978), pp. 232-236.
SECTION: Revolution and Social Transformation. Discuss Bulgakov
19. Wed. Mar. 22 Culture and Science in the Twentieth Century
Western Experience, Ch. 28, Part I
(CP) Dada and Tristan Tzara, "Dada Manifesto" (1918) in Eugen Weber, Movements, Currents, Trends (D.C. Heath and Co., 1992), pp. 270-277.
(CP) André Breton, "What is Surrealism?" (written 1934) in John W. Boyer and Jan Goldstein, Readings in Western Civilization 9 (Univ. of Chicago), pp. 368-386.
SECTION: Culture in the Twentieth Century. Discuss Tzara and Breton
20. Mon. Mar. 27 Fascism in Europe
Western Experience, Ch. 28, Part II, section on Italy, III, IV, section on Germany
(CP) Benito Mussolini, "The Doctrine of Fascism" (1932) in John W. Boyer and Jan Goldstein, Readings in Western Civilization 9 (Univ. of Chicago), pp. 219-233.
(CP) George Mosse, ed., "The Assumption of Power," in Nazi Culture (New York: Schocken Books, 1981), pp. 369-386.
Otto Michael Knab, "Our Town under the Swastika"
"The Changed Tempo of Life: The City of Herne"
"The Nazis Take Over Cologne"
Herman Stresau, "Little Things Create Pressures"
Erich Ebermayer, "Vanishing Friends"
SECTION: Fascism and the Nazi Seizure of Power
21. Wed. Mar. 29 The 1930s
Western Experience, Ch. 28, Part V
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (orig. 1938).
SECTION: The Spanish Civil War, A Fragmented Left. Discuss Orwell
22. Mon. Apr. 3 World War II and The Holocaust
Western Experience, Ch. 29, Parts I and II
(CP) Documents on the Holocaust from: Documents of Destruction: Germany and Jewry, 1933-1945, ed. by Raul Hilberg (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971), pp. 46-67, 85-106, 208-218, 221-231
12. Open-Air Killings in Russia
15. The Final Solution
44. Behind the Fence
45. Selection
47. Revolt
48. Liberation
(CP) Christopher Browning, "One Day in Josefow: Initiation to Mass Murder," in Browning, The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992), pp. 169-184.
Film in class, "Night and Fog," (France, Dir. Alain Resnais, 1955, 32 mins).
SECTION: Discuss "Night and Fog"
ее EVENING FILM: "The Marriage of Maria Braun" 8 pm, Angell Aud C ее
23. Wed. Apr. 5 The New Europe: Decolonization, Immigration, and Political Union
Western Experience, Ch. 29, Part III and IV. Ch. 30, Parts I, II, and III
SECTION: Germany and the Economic Miracle. Discuss "The Marriage of Maria Braun"
ее Friday, April 7. PAPER # 3 DUE, 4 pm ее
24. Mon. Apr. 10 Eastern Europe Under Communism
(CP) Milan Kundera, "Lost Letters," in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, trans. Aaron Asher (HarperPerennial, 1996), pp. 1-34.
SECTION: Eastern Europe under Communism. Discuss Kundera
25. Wed. Apr. 12 The Revolutions of 1989 and the End of History(?)
Western Experience, Ch. 30, Parts IV and V
SECTION: Review--two hundred and fifty years of European history
ее FINAL EXAM Tuesday, Apr. 25, 8:00-10:00 am (Angell, Aud C. Come early, bring a blue book) ее