Schedule
Aug 26--Introduction: Some comments on Power
and the Second Industrial Revolution
Aug 28--The 1848 Revolutions and Italian
Independence
First, read this
short info sheet I created for Hist143:
THE
SHORT NINETEENTH CENTURY: LIBERALISM.
REFORM, and NATIONALISM
Then read the Wikipedia entry on Unification
of Italy, but only the Intro and from "Revolutions
of 1848–1849 and First Italian War of Independence" up to the
subheading "Third War of Independence (1866)"
Read these short
primary sources on German Unification
Sep 4--The Great Powers from 1871 to 1900: An Overview
Read Chapter1 of Carleton J. H. Hayes, A Generation of
Materialism. Find it on Archive.org https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274702/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater
Sep 9--Russia, the Great Reforms, and the Violent Aftermath
Read Intro only to the Wikipedia
article on Alexander's governmental reforms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_reforms_of_Alexander_II_of_Russia
And read Michael Lynch's essay on the abolition
of serfdom:
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/emancipation-russian-serfs-1861
Read the Wikipedia Intro (only) to "Karl Marx"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
and
and look at this brief powerpoint on "Marxist
Dialectics"
and read
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm
and the Intro to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent_of_Man,_and_Selection_in_Relation_to_Sex
and
http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-descent-of-man/chapter-05.html
Sep 16—Freud, Nietzsche, Bergson, Sorel
Read these Wikipedia entries:
Intro to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche
Intro to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
Sep 18--Power, the Nation, and the New
Imperialism
Read my essay:
"Empire
and Brutality: The
Origins of the Concentration Camp."
Sep 25--The Coming of the Great War
Read Tooley, The Great War, ch. 1
And also look carefully over this excellent timeline of events
leading to WWI on the WWI Document Archive:
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Timeline_of_Events, up to 1900
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Wilhelm_II%27s_Account_of_Events
And read Tooley, The Great War Chapter 2.
Oct 2--The War of Stalemate and the Emergence of Deeper
Forces
Oct 7—Surrender and "Peace"
http://twentiethcenturyviolence.blogspot.com/2019/07/diktat-1919-versailles-treaty-as.html
https://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/01/top-ten-events-in-tumultuous-history-of.html
https://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/01/german-revolution-german-politics.html
https://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/01/conference-opens.html
Oct 9--Peacemaking at Paris: Borders
Read these blog entries:
https://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/10/border-issues-and-paris-peace-ninety.html
https://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/01/borders-in-paris-peace-primer-part-i.html
https://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/02/borders-in-paris-peace-primer-part-ii.html
https://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/02/borders-in-paris-peace-primer-part-iii.html
And please watch this short powerpoint: "Banks, Plans, Depression"
Oct 14--MIDTERM EXAM
Oct 16—Something Completely Different. As a
relief from the doom and gloom of the period we are studying, we
will take a historical look at the subject of dancing in the
period we are studying. As a persistent form of entertainment at
all levels of society, I think it can tell us a good bit about the
people of Europe.
No Reading
Oct 21—The Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War
Read this fact-rich recent article which gives
a solid survey of the history of the Revolution:
https://www.worldhistory.org/Bolshevik_Revolution/
And read this excellent internet source (by an
economics professor at George Mason University) called The Museum
of Communism. The
link to the index page is:
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/history.htm
Oct 23--Totalitarians! Mussolini and Italy
Read the Wikipedia entry for Benito Mussolini. Also, read the little
statement on Fascism by Mussolini:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html
Paper 2 due by 5:00pm
on Friday, Oct. 24, via Turnitin
Oct 28—Stalin!
Look carefully at this quick ppt. bio of Stalin I put together:
http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/Hist334StalinBio.ppt
Oct 30--Weimar
Germany
Read this short history of the Weimar Republic from The Holocaust Encyclopedia
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-weimar-republic
and this piece by George J. W. Goodman: The German
Hyperinflation, 1923
Read carefully the 1919 Party Program of the
NSDAP (Nazi Party):
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-party-platform
and this group of excerpts from Mein Kampf, at the
Jewish Virtual Library:
https://archive.org/details/moderneurope17890000brig_z2o4/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater
Nov 11--The Hitler Regime
Richard
Breitman's summary of Nazi Germany at German History in Documents
and Images (this is a pdf file--about 45 pages of reading).
You can read this online (just click "Introduction"--no need to
look at the other documents etc.) OR download as a pdf by clicking
"print version."
Nov 13--The Spanish Civil War
Read the Wikipedia entry Intro (only down to and not including "Background":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War
Paper 3 due by 5:00pm on Friday, Nov 14 via Turnitin
Nov 20--The Far East and the Origins of
World War II Look carefully at this powerpoint (without
sound) on the Far
East Origins of WWII
Nov 18--—Hitler, Czechoslovakia, and Poland
Read the following sections from Spartacus-Educational's entry on Appeasement:
https://spartacus-educational.com/2WWappeasement.htm#breadcrumb
The Munich Agreement
The Myth of Appeasement and Rearmament
Doubts about Appeasement