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
Lecture, Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-10:20
Tutorials Tuesday and Thursday 10:30-11:20

Please keep in mind that the Gildea readings are supplementary to the lectures and provide a historical narrative to the course.
You may substitute Gildea with any other history of Europe in the 19th century so long as you roughly follow the topics covered in
the course schedule. Tutorials will focus on the other works.

Course Schedule
* Lecture outlines are in Word format

Resources and Readings
May 8 and 10 - 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
"Levee en Masse"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1793levee.html
"Justification of Terror" by Maximillian Robespierre http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robespierre-terror.html
"Declaration of the Rights of Women" by Olympe du Gouges http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791degouge1.html

May 15 and 17 Napoleon and The New European Order

Terror and the Rise of Napoleon
May 15 Outline

May 17 Outline

Fichte's Address to the German Nation http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1806fichte.html

Faust Part I pp. 29-121 in Penguin Classics edition (up to the first meeting with Margarita) Gildea - Chapters 1 and 2

May 22 and 24 Romanticism, Nationalism and Liberalism

Romanticism, Liberalism and Nationalism
May 22 Outline
May 24 Outline

Goethe - Faust Part I (rest of the play)

Gildea - Chapter 3

May 29 and 31

Conservatism, Reaction, and the stirrings of revolution
(No slides - we held class outside)

May 27 Outline
May 29 Outline

Questions for first essay - due June 28

Short Quiz

Weber - Chapters 1-2, 6-7

Gildea - Chapter 5

June 5 and 7 Years of Revolution

Lectures on the importance of 1830 and 1848, Napoleon III and European warfare

June 5 Outline
June 7 Outline

Weber - Chapters 12, 15, 18-20

Gildea - Chapter 4

June 12 and 14 New Nations, New Nationalism?

Lectures on Italian and German unification

June 12 Outline
June 14 Outline

Weber - Chapters 25-29

Gildea - Chapter 7

June 19 and 21

Lectures cancelled due to cancelled flights from Chicago to Vancouver

Karl Marx - Communist Manifesto (online in many places)

Gildea - Chapter 6

June 26 and 28 Industry in 19th Century Europe

June 26 Outline - Industrial Revolution in Europe
June 28 Outline - Railways and the "Second Industrial Revolution"

* Short quiz * Mid-term essay due

Walkowitz - Introduction, Chapters 1-4

July 3 and 5 Working Men and Women

July 3 Outline - Biology, Women and the Nation
July 5 Outline - Organized Labour and Social Democracy

Final Essay Questions are on the July 5 Outline

 

Walkowitz - Chapters 5-7 and Epilogue

Gildea - Chapters 10 and 11 (as much as you can, try and read ahead)

July 10 and 12 New Imperialism and Post-Unification Europe

July 10 Outline - New Imperialism

July 12 Outline - Europe after Unification

Hochschild - Part I

Gildea - Chapter 12

July 17 and 19 The Liberal Crisis

July 17 - Austria, England and Liberalism in Crisis

July 19 - Finishing up England, Liberalism in France and Germany, the Dreyfuss Affair

Hochschild - Part II

Gildea - Chapter 14

July 24 and 26 Fin de Ciecle Europe

July 24 - The Collapse of the European Balance of Power

July 26 - Four Figures at the Dawn of Modernity

Emile Zola - Selections from J' Accuse! - Introduction, 2-19, 35-53 (especially), 136-143, 164-175

Gildea - Chapter 13

July 31 and August 2 The End of the Long Century


July 31 The End of the Summer

Carl Schorske "The Ringstrasse and the Birth of Modern Urbanism" (on reserve)

Gildea - Chapter 15