Hist 143 Spring Semester 2019
History 143 Spring
Semester 2019 Hist 143 (revised
Feb 2019)
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 The Return of Martin Guerre)
are worth three regular reading quizzes.
Unless I tell you otherwise, if a reading has a little
introduction, please read that along with the document.
Unit One: Europe from 1500 to 1789
Feb 4--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
Feb 15--The
State Emerges: Ottomans,
Venetians, Habsburgs, Tudors/Stuarts,
Romanovs.
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
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"
Feb 18—Venice, Switzerland, and Other State Forms.
Class
discussion of The Return of Martin Guerre.(The reading
quiz counts triple)
Mar 1--The later
Enlightenment and Enlightened Absolutists.
Read the Wikipedia article on Jean
Jacques Rousseau (But only the intro section and the
sections "Philosophy," "Political Theory," and "Education and child
rearing.") and read Robert
Nisbet on the idea of Progress,
1979
Also, look over Tooley Info sheet: http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/Hist1431650to1789.html
Mar 4--High
Cultural Changes in Europe from 1500 to 1800. From the Renaissance
to the Baroque to the Enlightenment.
In class we will think a bit about Art
and Music that parallels our historical period. Preview it if
you like, by looking
at this powerpoint
file
Mar 27--Liberals and Others.
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")
ADD TO THIS
Apr 3--From the 1848 Revolutions
to Great Power Europe in 1900. No readings. Beginning
of Class, Map Quiz no. 2.
Apr 5--The New
Imperialism. Three readings:
Tooley Info sheet on "The
New Imperialism"
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 Apr
8--The Coming of World War
I. Diplomacy, International Finance, Destabilization, The
Russian Revolution of 1905
Take a good look at this 1910 world map http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/ward_1912/world_1910.jpg
Apr 19--Hitler
and the Nazis
Read Wikipedia, "Hitler" (But stop at the subheading,
"Nazi Germany." You are welcome to read from there to the end, but
it is not required.)
Watch this short excerpt from a documentary on Jesse Owens at the
1936 Olympics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1inifMJ0xio
(look at the Wikipedia article on Jesse Owens for the famous
"snub" from Hitler. Owens said that Hitler saluted him. But he
didn't have kind words for Roosevelt. See https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9kxhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uHQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6051,1761645&hl=en)
Apr
22--The Coming of World War
II. No reading. Beginning of class, Map
Quiz no. 3.
Watch the first episode of the great 1973 BBC documentary,
"The World At War." (Leave time for this: it is 54 minutes
long. Please watch it carefully.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4g4ZZNC1E
May 8--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 Tienamen Square: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrQqDqOx3KY
May 10--A Europe of
Immigration, Brexit, and the New Russia: And some comments on
art and culture from 1900 to 2000.
