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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 the Enlightenment

Aug 29--Introduction


Sep 3--Popular Culture in 1500: Life, Death, Magic, Witches!  (And some other matters too)
Read the Intro to Nicolas Copernicus's great work at http://www.bartleby.com/39/12.html
(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/
And please read this short primer on the House of Habsburg, by me:
A Habsburg Primer
AND watch this very short video by Ollie Bye on the expansion and decline of the House of Habsburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tlWHDYKej0

Powerpoint for this lecture: "Witches"

Sep 5--Technology, Economy, State: England, Venice, and Other Matters
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 (read only the intro--before "Contents"):  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Fugger
(and watch this cool short film on this guy:  from "History Bites":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og-yA0Vd8Kc&t=13s
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 10--Religion and State.  Read the Wikipedia article on the "Protestant Reformation":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation
and
http://www.k-state.edu/english/baker/english233/Luther-Diet_of_Worms.htm
 And an excerpt from the superb 2003 film, Luther: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LksxZ8EVTS0

Sept 12--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
and on a different topic, Read the Wikipedia entry on Russian History, but only down to and not including "Russian Empire (1721–1917)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia

Sept 17--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 19--The State Emerges:  Habsburgs, Tudors/Stuarts, Romanovs, and Others--Crisis and Warfare. 
Please read Chapter XVII from Nicolo Machiavelli's The Prince (published 1532)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm#link2HCH0017
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
And also read the INTRO ONLY to the Wikipedia article on
The Peace of Westphalia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia

Sept 24--Absolutism
    Bossuet on kingship:
https://history.hanover.edu/texts/bossuet.html
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 26--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

Oct 1--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
Short page on the Scottish Englightenment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/enlightenment/features_enlightenment_enlightenment.shtml

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
Oct 3--The Coming of the French Revolution.
Tooley Info sheets:  Also, look over Tooley Info sheets:
  http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/Hist1431650to1789.html
  and  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.html
Tennis Court Oath:  http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/tennis_oath.html    


Oct 8-- The French Revolution and Napoleon
    Update: I have just put this up: Please read this excellent short history of the Revolution:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/paris-and-the-politics-of-rebe
   and also, a document aboutr the famous  Levée en masse:  http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1793levee.asp
    and Edmund Burke (1729-1797) on the execution of Marie Antoinette:  http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/burke.htm
   

October 10--Midterm Exam


Unit Two:  Europe After the French Revolution and Napoleon

Heads Up!--Be reading Dickens, Hard Times

Oct 15--The Napoleonic Empire and Romanticism
Short essay (only 2 pp, but look at the supporting links to the left; please explore them): 
             "Slavery and the Haitian Revolution"  http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap8a.html
and Wikipedia: Napoleon  and this short excerpt from the memoirs of Madame Remusat
AND
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
(and we will also deal briefly with some European politics after 1815)

Oct 17--The Industrial Revolution: 
Read this brief but very useful history of the Industrial Revolution: 
https://www.bl.uk/georgian-britain/articles/the-industrial-revolution
 AND
Read all of Dickens, Hard Times.  Reading quiz for this will of course count double.


Oct 22--Liberals, Conservatives, Socialists. 
Read this excerpt from classical liberal John Stewart Mill:
excerpt from On Liberty
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
Mazzini,  "On Nationality," https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1852mazzini.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.lyricsbook.net/Gilbert%20And%20Sullivan-For%20He%20Is%20an%20Englishman-46384.html


Oct 29--The New Imperialism and the Coming of World War I
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: Great Powers and Great Power Politics
Please also read carefully the Info Sheet on the Coming of World War I.


Nov 5--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


Nov 12--Europe Between the Wars: Dislocations, Stalin
look carefully at Tooley Info sheet:
InfoTotalitarians
Take a good, careful look at some fascinating photos of Stalin.  (Be aware that this site is modern pro-Stalinist site, devoted to "debunking" Stalin's mass murders, ethnic cleansing, etc.) Be ready to talk about the meaning of these images.
http://www.stalinsociety.org/images/j-v-stalin-photographs/
Read the entire Wikipedia entry on World War II:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_II

Nov 14--Hitler and the Third Reich.
Nazi Party Platform, 1920
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/25points.asp


Nov 19--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 21--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

THANKSGIVING BREAK

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

Dec 5--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