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Meeting and Assignment Schedule |
SHAPING
OF THE MODERN WORLD |
1 Thu 1/28 Introduction;
Primary Sources
2 Tue 2/2 Earlier
Civilizations
spielvogel: pages xxxv-xxxviii
3 Thu 2/4 Dawn
of the Modern: Protestant Reformation
spielvogel: pages 268-279
4 Tue 2/9 Dawn
of the Modern: Wars of Religion
spielvogel: pages 279-287
5 Thu 2/11 Dawn of
the Modern: Age of Exploration
spielvogel: pages
291-298
reader: Cortes/3
or Xavier/9
6 Tue 2/16 Dawn of
the Modern: Scientific Revolution
spielvogel: pages
341-354
reader: Galilei/19
or Franklin/42
Thu 2/18 Monday
classes
7 Tue 2/23 Social
Flux: The Middle Class: The Atlantic System
spielvogel: pages
298-312
reader: Vassa/47
or Crevecoeur/57
8 Thu 2/25 Social
Flux: The Monarchy: Absolutism
spielvogel: pages
319-332
reader: Domat/27
or Locke/34
9 Tue 3/2 Social
Flux: The Citizen: Enlightenment
Proposal
Due
spielvogel: pages
359-368
reader: Rousseau/78
or Smith/134
10 Thu 3/4 Social
Flux: Peasants, Serfs, Artisans, and Women
spielvogel: pages
332-336; 368-374; 391-395
reader: Sieyes/83
or Wollstonecraft/105
11 Tue 3/9 Social
Revolution: The Rivalry of the Great Powers
spielvogel: pages
378-391
reader: Macaulay/222
or Burke/109
12 Thu 3/11 Social
Revolution: Revolution in America
spielvogel: pages
399-400
reader: Paine/63
or Declaration/73
13 Tue 3/16 Social
Revolution: Revolution in France
spielvogel: pages
400-412
reader: de
Gouges/96 or Robespierre/101
14 Thu 3/18 Social
Revolution: Revolution Around the Atlantic
reader: Bolivar/119
or Condorcet/129
15 Tue 3/23 Social
Revolution: Napoleon
spielvogel: pages
412-418
reader: Bonaparte/115
or Hugo/123
16 Thu 3/25 MIDTERM
EXAM
Tue 3/30 Spring
Break
Thu 4/1 Spring
Break
Tue 4/6 Spring
Break
17 Thu 4/8 Economic
Revolution: Industrialization
spielvogel: pages
422-432
reader: Dickens/157
or Robinson/167
18 Tue 4/13 Economic
Revolution: Ferment of Ideology
Position Paper Optional Draft Due
spielvogel: pages
432-438; 448-456; 476-477
reader: Marx
& Engels/143 or Carnegie/193 or Zola/187
19 Thu 4/15 Economic
Revolution: Nation-building in Europe: Germany and Italy
spielvogel: pages
464-470
reader: Fichte/267
or Mazzini/270
20 Tue 4/20 Economic
Revolution: Nation-building in America: American Civil War
spielvogel: pages
470-476
reader: Stirling/171
or Stephens/274 or Lincoln/279
21 Thu 4/22 Economic
Revolution: Imperialism
spielvogel: pages
520-527
reader: Ferry/260
or Brandao/244 or Narwimba/238
22 Tue 4/27 The End
of Reason: Cultural Modernism
Position Paper Due
spielvogel: pages
508-520
reader: Nietzche/313
or Freud/215 or Herzl/304
23 Thu 4/29 The End
of Reason: Origins of World War I
spielvogel: pages
527-529; 534-545
reader: Brittain/327
or Botchkareva/331
24 Tue 5/4 The
End of Reason: Legacy of World War I
spielvogel: pages
545-554
reader: Wilson/336
or Lenin/340
25 Thu 5/6 The
End of Reason: Fascism and Nazism
spielvogel: pages
563-578
reader: Hitler/364
or Stalin/349
26 Tue 5/11 The End
of Reason: Origins of World War II
spielvogel: pages
583-593
reader: Greene/369
or Mao/357
27 Thu 5/13 The End
of Reason: Legacy of World War II
spielvogel: pages
593-604
reader: Hoess/373
or Ogura/377
28 Tue 5/18 New
World Order: New Superpowers and Former Colonies
spielvogel: pages
608-617
reader: Truman/408
or Khrushchev/411 or Gandhi/385