Jan 29—Introduction: Discontent, Optimism, Family, and Revolution
Unit 1: Europe in the century
before the Revolution
Jan
31--Kings and Battles, From the Thirty Years War to the Seven
Years War
Reading:
Watch this cool history graphic about the Habsburg Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tlWHDYKej0
and read this
brief info sheet on the Habsburgs and the Holy Roman
Empire which I use for History 143
Also, read two sections from the Wikipedia entry on the Glorious
Revolution: The Intro only.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution
AND watch this nine-minute mini-lecture on the broader origins
of the French Revolution (one of the first remote films I made
for classes at the beginning of the pandemic)--an outline of
origins of the revolution. Sorry, it is a big file and will take
a few minutes to load.
A Bit About the Origins of the French
Revolution
(I may have to email this one to you. Remind me, please.
Feb
3—Absolutism--Two Models: France and England
Feb
5—More on Europe and the World: Peasants, Kings, and War
Read
Wikipedia on The Seven Years War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years'_War
And read the Wikipedia article on George III of the UK--just the
"Intro"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III
Feb
7—Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture
For this
reading, I will send a pdf to you via email.
Feb 10—The Enlightenment
From
Montesquieu, On the Spirit of the Laws, 1748
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/montesquieu-spirit.asp
From
Condorcet, The Future Progress of the Human Mind:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/condorcet-progress.asp
Short
bio of Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot:
https://oll.libertyfund.org/person/anne-robert-jacques-turgot
From
Italian Enlightenment thinker, Cesare Beccaria On Crime and
Punishment, 1764:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/18beccaria.asp
Feb 12—Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Contrast
Read:
from The Social Contract, excerpts, only to and not
including Chapter III: Slavery
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/rousseau-contract2.asp
and this short essay on Rousseau and his comments on man being
born free.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/11/rousseau-man-born-free-social-contract
This is a good blog entry on Rousseau's ideas about motherhood
and nursing infants:
https://www.invitinghistory.com/2014/06/wet-nurses-and-breastfeeding-in-17th.html
And on Adam Smith
https://worldhistoryjournal.com/2024/10/07/adam-smith-the-father-of-modern-economics-and-his-enduring-legacy/
Feb 14--The American Revolution: Liberty and War
Four Documents on Lockean thought:
See this handout from the Bill of Rights Foundation, a study
comparing Locke's Second Treatise (1687) and the Declaration of
Independence:
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/activities/handout-g-comparing-the-second-treatise-of-civil-government-to-the-declaration-of-independence
Virginia Declaration of Rights: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/virginia-declaration-of-rights
(read all of it if you like, but you only have to read the first
three sections. Please read carefully.
Rights of Man of the Citizen:
https://constitutionnet.org/sites/default/files/declaration_of_the_rights_of_man_1789.pdf
Read Lynn Miller's short essay on the relationship
between George Washington and Lafayette
http://francerevisited.com/2009/08/my-dear-general-the-relationship-between-lafayette-and-washington/
Feb 17--Writing instructions
Feb
19—France on the Eve of the Revolution
Begin to look over this chronology of the French Revolution
which I made for Hist 143:
Hist
143 Overview of the French Revolution
The Memoirs of Elizabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun
https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/lebrun/memoirs/memoirs.html#I
Please read from the beginning through Chapter 3)
Feb
21--Orleans Family Values
And
this piece I wrote some years ago for presentation at a
conference:
about the Duke of Orleans, who changed his
name to Philippe Egalité (Philip Equality)
and look carefully at the first part of this
chronology I made for Hist 143. Study the chronology
through 1790
Unit 2—The French Revolution, From Outbreak to Napoleon
Feb
24—Estates General, Bastille, and the Work of the Early
Revolution: From Locke to Rousseau
From the Liberty, Equality, Fraternity website:
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/monarchy-falls
Feb 26—From Constitutional Monarchy to a Nation at War
Read the preface and chapter one of Lynn Hunt's great 2013
book, The Family Romance of the French Revolution:
https://books.google.com/books?id=TQAiA-46BnsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=family+romance+french+lynn&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiwmOOt-7jyAhVQG80KHV1hA5sQ6AEwAHoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q=family%20romance%20french%20lynn&f=false
And on the The levée en masse:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1793levee.asp
Feb 28—The Terror: One Big Happy Family
About the Guillotine
ppt without sound. Give it a moment to load.
Robespierre on state terror:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/robespierre-terror.asp
Documentary Project is due at 11:59pm via
Turnitin.com on Feb 28.
Anglo-Irish thinker Edmund Burke on Marie Antoinette's
execution:
https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/edmund-burke-execution-of-marie-antoinette-1793/
Also,
read Wikipedia on the French Republican Calendar introduced in
1792/3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
The
violent war against Christianity:
https://www.iwp.edu/articles/2018/01/12/the-dechristianization-of-france-during-the-french-revolution/
Wikipedia on the dechristianization policies of the Revolution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianization_of_France_during_the_French_Revolution
Wikipedia on the Cult of the Supreme Being
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being
Mar 5—French Opposition to the Revolution: The Vendée
Alpha History on the Vendee Revolt:
https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/vendee-uprising/
Mar 7—The Thermidor Uprising and the Directory
Read these two articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermidorian_Reaction
https://www.worldhistory.org/French_Directory/
We
will look at this map in class, but peruse it briefly before
class:
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/item/8
Mar
19—Women in the Revolution I
Read Olympe des Gouges, Declaration
of the Rights of Women
Read A Vindication of the Rights of Women, by Mary Wollstonecraft
Mar
21—Lavayette Family Values
Read Constance Wright's Madame de Lafayette, the whole book,
please. There will be a 4x value reading quiz:
https://archive.org/details/madamedelafayett006987mbp/page/n19/mode/2up?view=theater
Friday Mar 21 at 5:00 pm,
documentary exercise is due via Turnitin.com
Mar
24—Women and the
Revolution II
The Memoirs of Elizabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun;
http://www.batguano.com/vlblsmemoirs.html
Please read from Chapter 7 to the end)
And
for class, we will go through this ppt (without sound)
pertaining to the family of Lafayette:
Mme.
Lafayette and Picpus
Mar
26--The United States
and the French Revolution
reading TBA
Mar
28—Exporting
the Revolution: Poland and Ireland
Read the Wikipedia entry on Tadeusz Kosciuszko, but only down to
and not including "Later Life"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko
and read the Intro only to the Wikipedia entry on the Irish
Rebellion of 1798
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Rebellion_of_1798
Mar
31—Exporting the Revolution: Haiti
Readings on the Haitian Revolution:from Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/slavery-and-the-haitian-revolu
(please read the
whole page and look at at least six of the graphics and read at
least six of the text links to gain important insights into the
Haitian Revolution as well as Revolutionary/Napoleonic attitudes
toward slavery and more.)
Apr 2—"Bliss was it in that dawn...” Wordsworth, Family, Romanticism, and the Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth
And on Dorothy Wordsworth, from NPR:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101452310
Apr
4—From Classicism to
Romanticism: David, Goethe, Beethoven, and Others
no reading
Unit 3: Napoleon
Apr
7—Buonaparte
Family Values
Read Chapter 1, Corsica, of J. M. Thompson's
Napoleon Bonaparte:
https://archive.org/details/napoleonbonapart00thom/page/n11/mode/2up
Apr
9—Napoleon Comes to Power
Read
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/item/366
and
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/napoleonic-experience
Apr 11--Napoleon and Europe
and read about the Concordat with the Catholic Church
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/item/363
By Wed, Apr 16, watch Master and Commander
(2003)
Apr
14—The Napoleonic Wars: From Italy to Egypt and Back
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/item/276
And finally, some speeches of Napoleon to
his troops, very early in his career (1796)
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/nap1796.html
Apr 16—Class Discussion: Britain and the Napoleonic
Wars
Movie: Master and Commander (2003) Be ready for class
discussion and a reading quiz over the movie.
Also,
read this brief "catechism" of allegiance to Napoleon for
children:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1806catechism-napoleon.asp
Second Paper is due via Turnitin.com on Fri, Apr 18, at 11:59pm.
(By Monday,
Apr 23, watch one of these movies based on Jane Austen
novels:
Emma (1996) with Gwyneth Paltrow
Pride and
Prejudice (2005) with Keira Knightley)
Sense and Sensibility (1999) with Emma Thompson)
Apr 21—Jane Austen and More
no reading, but we will discuss the three movies.
Apr 23—Warfare: From Austerlitz to the Russian Invasion:
Highlighting Wellington and the Spanish Ulcer
Readings:
Listen to this moving version of the eighteenth century folk
song, about enlisting in the British Army, which fought many
times in Flanders, apart from the 1793 campaign involving
Welsley/Wellington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfdLJTvwBMc
And
read:
the account of Charles O'Malley on the British Army's crossing
of the Douro River in northern Portugal:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1809wellington.asp
Wikipedia
on Goya's The Disasters of War series:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disasters_of_War
Apr 25--From
the Peninsular War to the Russian Invasion
On the battle of Borodino, two readings:
Excerpt from Tolstoy's famous novel,
War and Peace. It provides an insightful commentary on the
nature of "coming to battle" at Borodino.
TolstoyBorodino.html
This is a brief account of the battle from the French
side, by Heinrich Brandt, fighting with one of the Polish
regiments in Napoleon's army.
http://www.anistor.gr/english/enback/s052.htm
And look carefully at this fascinating chart of Napoleon's
losses in the 1812 invasion of Russia
https://badriadhikari.github.io/DV/week2/minards/
Apr
28--The
Hundred Days and Waterloo
Read Patrick Lynch's essay on this subject at History
Collection:
https://historycollection.com/napoleons-hundred-days-legendary-french-commander-met-waterloo/2/
Apr 30—Peacemaking 1815
Read
this general article on the Congress of Vienna
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/what-was-congress-vienna
May 2—The Vienna Congress: Settlement, Peace, and the Concert of Europe
Read Wikipedia articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple_Alliance_(1815)
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Alliance
Third Paper is due at
11:59pm on May 2, via Turnitin
May 5--Restoration Europe...And the World
no reading
May 7—The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Legacy
no reading