F16 - HIST003A.01 - Modern Europe, 1789-1918

Topic outline

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  General

  • News forum
  • Syllabus File
  • Reading a Document File
  • First Paper Assignment: Due October 7 File
  • Second Paper Assignment: Due Monday, November 7 File
  • Third Paper Assignment: Due Monday, December 5 (Revised) File
  • Fourth Paper Assignment: Due Friday, December 16 File
  • How to Cite Sources: Footnotes and Bibliographies File

    The History Department asks that you refer to the Chicago Manual of Style when writing footnotes and bibliographies.  You can access two sources via Tripod that will tell you all you need to know on this topic.

  • FINAL EXAM File
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  August 31: The Enlightenment

  • Lynn Hunt, "The Many Bodies of Marie-Antoinette" File
  • Alan Lightman, "The Enlightenment" File
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  September 2: Europe in the Eighteenth Century

  • E. P. Thompson, "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd" URL
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  September 5: 1789-The Year of Revolution

  • Abbe Sieyès, "What is the Third Estate?" File
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man File
  • Malcolm Gladwell, "Historical Outbreaks of Panic Linked to Rye Bread" URL
  • "The Cataclysm of Revolution" File
  • Text 750 File
  • Text 752-761 File
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  September 7: The Revolution Picks Up Speed

  • Documents on Sans-Culottes File
  • Text 761-763 File
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  September 9: Heads Roll

  • Robespierre, "The Republic of Virtue" File
  • Lynn Hunt, "The Imagery of Radicalism" (Chapter 3 in Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution" URL
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "The General Will" File
  • Documents on the Terror File
  • Text 763-770 File
  • Text 770-777 File
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  September 12: Who is a Citizen?

  • Olympe de Gouges, "The Declaration of Rights of Woman" File
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Emile" File
  • Documents on Women File
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  September 14: Who is a Citizen? (Continued)

  • Documents on Jews File
  • Documents on Slavery File
  • Text 758 File
  • Text 777-779 File
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  September 16: Napoleon and the Revolution in Retrospect

  • Robert Darnton, "What was Revolutionary about the French Revolution?" File
  • Text 780-783 File
  • Text 787-805 File
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  September 19: Restoration of the Old Regime

  • Text 805-809 File
  • Text 823-825 File
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  September 21: The Industrial Revolution

  • Andrew Ure, "Decent Working and Living Conditions" File
  • Friedrich Engels, "Industrial Manchester" File
  • Report on Child Labor File
  • Text 829-840 File
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  September 23: The Age of Isms--Conservatism and Liberalism

  • John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty" and "On Property" File
  • Samuel Smiles, "Self Help" File
  • Joseph de Maistre, "Of the Divine Influence in Political Constitutions" File
  • Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the French Revolution" File
  • Text 853-854 File
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  September 28: The Revolutions of 1848

  • Reading on 1848 File
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  September 26: The Age of Isms--Socialism and Marxism

  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "The Communist Manifesto" File
  • Text 854-857 File
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  September 30: The Age of Isms--Nationalism

  • Ernest Renan, "What is a Nation?" File
  • Fichte, "Address to the German Nation" File
  • Giuseppe Mazzini, "To the Young Men of Italy" File
  • Giuseppe Mazzini, "Young Italy" File
  • Giuseppe Mazzini, "The Duties of Man" File
  • Text 849-853 File
  • Giuseppe Mazzini's Conversion to Nationalism File
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  October 3: No Class
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  October 5: Russia at Mid-Century

  • Terence Emmons, "The Peasant and Emancipation" File
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  October 7: Nationalism Turns to the Right

  • Text 873-879 File
  • Text 881-889 File
  • Otton von Bismarck, "Blood and Iron" File
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  October 17: State and Society in the Nineteenth Century

  • Text 844-849 File
  • Text 891-897 File
  • Text 911 File
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  October 19: The Modern State and Mass Society

  • Text 915-924 File
  • Text 945-954 File
  • Text 979-980 File
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  October 24: The Jewish Question

  • Protocols of the Elders of Zion" File
  • Wilhelm Marr, "The Victory of Judaism over Germandom" File
  • Text 980-985 File
  • Documents on Antisemitism File
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  October 31: Racism and the Imperial Realm

  • Ch'ien Lung, "Letter to George III" File
  • "The Letter of Commssioner Lin to Queen Victoria" File
  • Jules Ferry, "Speech before the French National Assembly" File
  • Jawaharial Nehru, "British Rule in India" File
  • Ho Chi Minh, "Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Vietnam" File
  • Text 847-849 File
  • Text 895-899 File
  • Tet 924-933 File
  • Namibia: The Genocide of the Second Reich URL
  • Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death URL
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  November 2: The Woman's Question

  • Emmeline Pankhurst, "Why We Are Militant" File
  • Hubertine Auclert, "La Citoyenn" File
  • Alexandra Kollontai, "Women and the Family in the Communist State" File
  • Text 964-966 File
  • Text 975-978 File
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  November 4: What Do We Mean by Modernity?

  • Text 959-964 File
  • Text 965-974 File
  • Text 933-942 File
  • The Morgue and Musee Grevin File
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  November 7: Reform or Revolution?

  • Rosa Luxemburg, "Social Reform or Revolution File
  • Vladimir Lenin, "What is To Be Done?" File
  • Eduard Bernstein, "Evolutionary Socialism" File
  • Text 906-911 File
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  November 9: The War to End All Wars

  • Text 985-988 File
  • Text 990-999 File
  • Text 1003-1014 File
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  November 14: The Cataclysm of War

  • Ernst Junger, "Storm of Steel" File
  • Denis Winter, "The Strain of Trench Warfare" File
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  November 21: The Collapse of Tsardom and the Bolshevik Seizure of Power

  • Sheila Fitzpatrick, "The Russian Revolution" File
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  November 23: Understanding the Bolshevik Seizure of Power

  • Leon Trotsky, "Peculiarities of Russia's Development" File
  • Ron Suny, "Revising the Old Story" File
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  November 28: Picking Up the Pieces

  • Text 1019-1028 File
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  December 2: Reflections on the War

  • Peter Holquist, "Information is the Alpha and Omega of Our Work" File
  • Sigmund Freud, "The Disappointments of War" File
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