HIST 224-3 EUROPE FROM THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Instructor: Dr. Brian Campbell bwcampbe@sfu.ca
Home Phone: (778) 371-8468
Office hours: 3:30-5:00 Tuesdays, location TBA
Lecture, Tuesday, 10:30-12:20 Tutorials Tuesdays, 12:30-13:20; 14:30-15:20
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Course Schedule |
Resources and Readings |
| September
5 Week One: Cradle of Revolution Lectures on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution |
Declaration of the
Rights of Man http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/rightsof.htm "What is the Third Estate" by Sieyes http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sieyes.html |
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September
12 Week Two: Napoleon and The New European Order |
Fichte's Address to the German Nation http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1806fichte.html Be sure to read the "Vienna System" part of Schroeder's essay in Blanning, also the introduction to the book as a whole. |
| September
19 Week Three: The Rise of Ideologies - Liberalism, Conservatism, Nationalism Lectures on English and French reform, Austrian, Prussian and Russian reaction |
Weber - Chapters 1-2, 6-7 |
| September
26 Week Four: Nationalism and national cultures Lectures on the origins of nationalism, discussion of Romanticism |
Weber - Chapters 12, 15, 18-20 |
| October 3 Week Five: Years of Revolution Lectures on the importance of 1830 and 1848 | Weber - Chapters 25-29 |
| October
10 Week Six New Nations, New Nationalism? Lectures on Italian and German unification |
Schivelbusch - Chapters 1-7 - you can skip the chapter on America if you like |
| October
17 Week Seven Giants of Industry Lectures
on industrialism from the Luddites to the reach of railroads Short Quiz this week (See Week 5 outline) |
Schivelbusch - Chapters 8-13 Short examination during lecture - papers due in section |
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October 24 Week Eight: Women
in Europe Lectures on women, their roles in religion, at home, in
politics and at the workplace |
Canning - Introduction and Chapters 1-3 |
| October
31 Week Nine: Working Men and Women Lectures on Marxism, labour unions and Social Democracy |
Canning - Chapters 4-7 and conclusion |
| November 7 Week Ten: New Imperialism Lectures on Europe's role in the broader world, the relationship between imperialism and nationalism | Hochschild - Part I |
| November
14 Week Eleven: The Liberal Crisis Liberalism in decline, religious culture in Europe |
Hochschild - Part II |
| November
21 Week Twelve: Fin de Ciecle Europe Lectures on European culture including the rise of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the birth of Modernism |
Schorske: Chapters 2 and sections on Lueger and Schönerer in Chapter 3 |
| November 28 Week
Thirteen: The End of the Long Century Lectures on the collapse of European peace, origins of the First World War |
Schorske: Chapters 4-5 |
Final Examination is December 7. Essays are due December 11.