Hist 143 Europe and the Modern World

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Class Schedule

For a given day, the readings listed should be read in full by the class time. All readings are potentially the subject of reading quizzes, but the quizzes for the outside readings (such as Martin Guerre) are worth three regular reading quizzes.

Unit One: Europe from 1500 to 1789

Aug 24--Introduction. Some geography, some music and art.
In class and for review: short film by Ollie Bye on the expansion and decline of the House of Habsburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tlWHDYKej0

Aug 29--Popular Culture in 1500: Life, Death, Magic, Witches!
Read the Intro to Nicolas Copernicus's great work at http://www.bartleby.com/39/12.html
(For For background, peruse--something between reading and scanning--the Copernicus entry in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus
Also, read an interesting modern medical history of Henry VIII
https://cvhf.org.uk/history-hub/mad-bad-and-dangerous-to-know-henry-viiis-medical-history-2/

Aug 31--Technology, Economy, State.
Wealth and the new states:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debasement
Read an original account of Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth:
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1519magellan.asp
On Jakob Fugger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Fugger
and read from the Wikipedia entry on "Ireland"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland
BUT on this one--only the sections under "History" called "Norman and English Invasions" and "Kingdom of Ireland"

Sept 5--Religion and State. Read the Wikipedia article on the "Protestant Reformation":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation
http://www.k-state.edu/english/baker/english233/Luther-Diet_of_Worms.htm
and an excerpt from the superb 2003 film, Luther: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5P7QkHCfaI

Sept 7--The Scientific Revolution
    Read in Wikipedia about Andreas Vesalius:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesalius
and about
William Harvey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey

Sept 12--For class, finish reading The Return of Martin Guerre. Be able, in particular, to comment on the SOURCES which Natalie Zemon Davis uses to reconstruct the Martin Guerre story.

Sept 14--The State Emerges: Habsburgs, Tudors/Stuarts, Romanovs, and Others--Crisis and Warfare. Also read
For the Wikipedia article on the Thirty Years War, just peruse it thoroughly. Perusing is somewhere between skimming and reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years'_War
also a primary document pertaining to the war:
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=4396

Sept 19--Absolutism
    Bossuet on kingship:
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/bossuet.htm
accounts of Louis XIV:
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/louisxiv.html
and these contemporary accounts of the Russian Emperor, or Tsar, Peter the Great
http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/petergreat.asp

Sept 21--Responses to Absolutism
Read Etienne de la Boetie, Discourse of Voluntary Servitude. This is the whole book in pdf form: http://mises.org/rothbard/boetie.pdf. You need read only pp. 7-12 of Rothbard's intro and pp. 39-45 of the text itself.
also:
John Locke, Second Treatise: Of Civil Government. Sections related to rebellion and tyranny:
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch3s2.html
        Peasant and regional protest:
The Cornish revolt of 1497: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_Rebellion_of_1497
The seventeenth-century "croquants" in southern France: http://mises.org/daily/4572

Sept 26--The Enlightenment
Optional: look over the Wikipedia entry on Stoicism, as a background for the following material: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism
not optional:
From Lady Wortley Montagu's letters, 1717: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/montagu-smallpox.asp
From the Italian philosophe Cesare Beccaria, on crime an punishment: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/18beccaria.asp
Voltaire on Sir Isaac Newton, etc., 1778: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1778voltaire-newton.asp
BBC on the Scottish Enlightenment http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/23632255
From Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776): http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1776asmith-mercsys.asp
a selection of passages pertaining to the great French "salons" of the Enlightenment: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/18salons.asp
Wikipedia on Thomas Jefferson and religion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_and_religion
Also, look over Tooley Info sheet:
http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/Hist1431650to1789.html

Sept 28--The Coming of the French Revolution.
Tooley Info sheet: http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/Hist143FrenchRevHdt.html
Robert Nisbet on the idea of Progress, 1979
Cahier de doléances from Carcasonne: http://history.hanover.edu/texts/cahier.htm l
Tennis Court Oath: http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/tennis_oath.html

Oct 3-- The French Revolution.
    The Bastille: (ONLY the first page with all of its supporting links): http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap4a.html
    The National Convention outlaws monarchy. http://history.hanover.edu/texts/natcon.html
    The Levée en masse: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1793levee.asp
    Edmund Burke (1729-1797) on the execution of Marie Antoinette: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/burke.htm
    Short essay (only 2 pp, but look at the supporting links to the left; please explore all of them):
             "Slavery and the Haitian Revolution" http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap8a.html

October 5--Napoleon and After: Europe from 1800 to 1830.
Wikipedia: Napoleon
and
from the memoirs of Madame Remusat
and in class we will think a bit about Art and Music that parallels our historical period:
for a preview, see this powerpoint file

Oct 10--Midterm Exam

Unit Two: Europe After the French Revolution and Napoleon

Oct 12--Romanticism
Read the lyrics of Schiller's/Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"
http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/romanticperiodsymphonies/qt/Beethovenjoytxt.htm
and William Wordsworth's poem "We Are Seven"
http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww124.html

Oct 17--The Industrial Revolution:
Read Lewis Hackett's chapter on the Industrial Revolution: http://history-world.org/Industrial%20Intro.htm
AND
Read all of Dickens, Hard Times. Reading quiz for this will of course count double.

Oct 19--Liberals, Conservatives, Socialists. Read
the excerpt from The Law, by classical liberal Frederic Bastiat
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G005
(read from "Life is a Gift from God" to the end of "The Results of Legal Plunder")
Also read the first section of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, just the section including the short preface and the first “chapter” called “Bourgeoises and Proletarians” https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/

Oct 24--Nations, Peoples, and Nationalisms, 1815-1900.
Tooley Info sheet: http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/Hist143NatHdt.html
Arndt, "Where is the German Fatherland?": http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/arndt-vaterland.asp
Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Easter 1916: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1916proc.jpg
Read the Gilbert and Sullivan song lyrics:
http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?hid=oM06KzsYIMo%3D

Oct 26--The New Imperialism.
Tooley Info sheet: The New Imperialism
the Wikipedia article on "Imperialism" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism
Also, two brief letters from British missionary folks, urging extension of empire. http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1883hebrides.asp

Oct 31--The Coming of World War I
Please read carefully the Info Sheet on the Coming of World War I.

Nov 2--Beginning of Class, Map Quiz no. 2.
World War I. Read the entire Wikipedia entry on World War I: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

Nov 7--Paris Peace and Bolshevik Revolution. The Bolshevik Revolution and the Rise of Stalin.
and a short chapter from Bryan Caplan's "Online Museum of Communism" at George Mason University:
http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/museum/his1g.htm
ome fascinating photos of Stalin. (Be aware that this site is modern pro-Stalinist site, devoted to "debunking" Stalin's mass murders, ethnic cleansing, etc.)
http://www.stalinsociety.org/images/j-v-stalin-photographs/

Nov 9--The Totalitarians.
look carefully at Tooley Info sheet:
InfoTotalitarians
Read the entire Wikipedia entry on World War II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_II

Nov 14--War and Holocaust:
Reading: Beginning of Class: 4x RQ on Dry Tears AND discussion.
Read Himmler’s “Posen speech”: http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/himmler-heinrich/posen/oct-04-43/ausrottung-transl-nizkor.html

Nov 16--Cold War and Decolonization.
Tooley Info sheet: http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/ChronEurPost45.html
And a lecture on French President Charles de Gaulle by Yale historian John Merriman (no need to start before 4:48) (warning, there is still over 42 minutes' worth to watch):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPXyKr-6sek

Nov 28--The West--Beginning of class, Map Quiz no. 3.
Readings:
A fast look at cultural developments parellelling the period of history we are studying:
powerpoint TBA.
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinging_London

Nov 30--The Fall of Communism and the Brave New World of the nineties. Please explore the CNN page on the fall of the Berlin Wall and related issues. Take about thirty minutes exploring the links:
Also read the entire Wikipedia entry on Gorbachev:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev
Watch Pres. Ronald Reagan's famous "Tear Down This Wall" speech in Berlin, at the Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MDFX-dNtsM
Tank Man at Tienanamen Square, Beijing, June 5, 1989:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrQqDqOx3KY

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