History 143  Fall Semester 2013   History 143  Fall Semester 2013  History 143  
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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 are Martin Guerre) are worth three regular reading quizzes.

Unit One:  Europe from 1500 to 1789

Sep 4--Introduction. 
Sep 6--Long Ago and Far Away:  The World of 1500.

Sep 9--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 Fuggers (!)
a brief summary:  http://www.squidoo.com/fugger
and a youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEByLEkVzu4
and read from the Wikipedia entry on "Ireland"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland
BUT only the sections under "History" called "Norman and English Invasions" and "Kingdom of Ireland"

Sep 11--Religion and State.  Read the Wikipedia article on the "Protestant Reformation":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation
and this part of a speech by Martin Luther:
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

Sep 13--Clinic:  historical evidence and primary documents.

Sep 16--Class discussion of The Return of Martin Guerre.  (The reading quiz counts double)

Sep 18—The State Emerges:  Habsburgs, Tudors/Stuarts, Romanovs, and Others.

Sep 20—Clinic:  what we mean by evidence, proof, examples, illustrations, and more!


Sep 23--The Scientific Revolution and the Age of Reason.
    Read the Intro of Nicolas Copernicus's great work at http://www.bartleby.com/39/12.html
Also read in Wikipedia about Andreas Vesalius:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesalius
and about
William Harvey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey

Sep 25--Absolutism.
    Bossuet on kingship:
http://history.hanover.edu/early/bossuet.htm
accounts of Louis XIV:
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/louisxiv.html
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
Set of primary accounts of the war:
germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/Doc.7-ENG-Heberle_en.pdf

Sep 27--A Response to Absolutism:  Liberty
    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.

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
Sep 30--The Early Enlightenment.  Beginning of Class, Map Quiz no. 1.

Optional:  look over the Wikipedia entry on Stoicism, as a background for the following material:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism

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

Oct 2--Exam I. 

Oct 4--Take advantage of this week to READ all of the novel by Dickens, Hard Times.

Oct 7--No Class. 


Unit Two:  Europe from 1789 to 1900

 Oct 9--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.html
Tennis Court Oath:  http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/tennis_oath.html

Oct 11--No Class, Fall Break
Oct 14--The French Revolution. 

The Bastille:  (ONLY the first page with all of its supporting links):  http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap4a.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

Oct 16--Napoleon and Romanticism. 
Read all of the Wikepedia entry on Napoleon Bonaparte:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon
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 18--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 21--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” http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html

Oct 23--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 25--From the 1848 Revolutions to Great Power Europe in 1900.  No readings.  Beginning of Class, Map Quiz no. 2.
Oct 28--The New Imperialism.   Three readings:
Tooley Info sheet: http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/hwc301jmtht/NewImperialismhdt.html
the Wikipedia article on "Imperialism"  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism
and an article by Headrick called "The Tools of Imperialism."  You will need to use JSTOR for this.  Begin with the Abell Library site.  Then navigate to JSTOR (if you are not on campus you will have to log in when that is called for).  Search for the terms above. 
Also, two brief letters from British missionary folks, urging extension of empire.  http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1883hebrides.asp

Oct. 30--The Coming of World War I

Nov 1--Unit Two Test
Unit Three:  Europe from 1900 to 2000 and Beyond

Nov 4--World War I.  Read the entire Wikipedia entry on World War I: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
Nov 6--The End of the War and the Paris Peace of 1919:  A Distorted World.
Nov 8--Totalitarians!  Mussolini:  "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
Read more Mussolini quotes, if you like,  at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/benito_mussolini.html#cbbMRX3fZxvQCbm7.99
And look carefully at Tooley Info sheet:
InfoTotalitarians
Nov 11--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
and some fascinating photos of Stalin:  please look at these carefully for discussion:
http://www.stel.ru/stalin/joseph_1935-1953.htm

Nov 13--Read all of Haffner, The Meaning of Hitler.  Reading quiz will count double. 

Nov 15--The Coming of World War II.   No reading.  Beginning of class, Map Quiz no. 3.
Nov 18--The course of the war:  Read the entire Wikipedia entry on World War II:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_II
Nov 20--Holocaust and More. 
Read Himmler’s “Posen speech”: http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/himmler-heinrich/posen/oct-04-43/ausrottung-transl-nizkor.html
Nov 22--The End of World War II:  Expulsion, Violence, Revenge, Starvation, Ambition
Nov 25--Cold War and Decolonization.
Tooley Info sheet:  http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/ChronEurPost45.html
documentary (great footage), "The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall."  Plan ahead:  it takes 52 minutes to watch on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S169PQMwNmE&feature=related

Nov 27--No Class
Nov 29--Thanksgiving Break

Dec 2--The Eastern Bloc, 1948 to 1989.
 http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/intro1.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.html#cold1

Dec 4--The West
A lecture on 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
Paris 1968, with contemporary protest music:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbar529zc9Y
Swinging London:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinging_London
David Bowie, "London Bye Ta Ta"; The Kinks, "Waterloo Sunset"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo6aq0Cu_BU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M8hrmGQOHk
AND...TWIGGY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrJjxlP0iYMhttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/ward_1912/world_1910.jpg

Dec 6--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
Tank Man at Tienanamen Square:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrQqDqOx3KY


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