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.
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Course Schedule |
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 |
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May 15 and 17 Napoleon and
The New European Order |
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 |
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May 22 and 24 Romanticism, Nationalism and Liberalism Romanticism,
Liberalism and Nationalism |
Goethe - Faust Part I (rest of the play) Gildea - Chapter 3 |
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May 29 and 31 Conservatism, Reaction, and
the stirrings of revolution Questions for first essay - due June 28 Short Quiz |
Weber - Chapters 1-2, 6-7 Gildea - Chapter 5 |
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June 5 and 7 Years of Revolution Lectures on the importance of 1830 and 1848, Napoleon III and European warfare |
Weber - Chapters 12, 15, 18-20 Gildea - Chapter 4 |
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June 12 and 14 New Nations, New Nationalism? Lectures on Italian and German unification |
Weber - Chapters 25-29 Gildea - Chapter 7 |
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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 |
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June 26 and 28 Industry in 19th Century Europe June
26 Outline - Industrial Revolution in Europe * Short quiz * Mid-term
essay due |
Walkowitz - Introduction, Chapters 1-4 |
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July 3 and 5 Working Men and Women July
3 Outline - Biology, Women and the Nation Final Essay Questions are on the July 5 Outline
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Walkowitz - Chapters 5-7 and Epilogue Gildea - Chapters 10 and 11 (as much as you can, try and read ahead) |
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July 10 and 12 New Imperialism and Post-Unification Europe July 10 Outline - New Imperialism July
12 Outline - Europe after Unification
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Hochschild - Part I Gildea - Chapter 12 |
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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 |
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July 24 and 26 Fin de Ciecle Europe |
Emile Zola - Selections from J' Accuse! - Introduction, 2-19, 35-53 (especially), 136-143, 164-175 Gildea - Chapter 13 |
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July 31 and August 2 The End of the Long Century |
Carl Schorske "The Ringstrasse and the Birth of Modern Urbanism" (on reserve) Gildea - Chapter 15 |