Course Schedule
* Lecture outlines are in Word format

Week One - The End of the Summer

Monday, August 30
Introductions, a look at the syllabus, why study European history?

Wednesday, September 2

A brief look at Europe up to 1890. What is modern? What is national?

Maps for the class are at http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de/

Outline One

Week Two - Imperialism, Nationalism and War

Monday, September 7 No Class - Labor Day

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapters One and Two

Outline Two

Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden"

Assignment and study notes for Heart of a Dog

Week Three - The Great War and Versailles

Monday, September 14
Lecture: Communism, Social Democracy and Trade Unions

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapters Three and Four

Outline Three

Slides and maps for Week Three

Excerpt from Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/classes/coreclasses/hss3/e_junger.html

Week Four - The Russian Revolution

Monday, September 21
Lecture: Course of the First World War. The Versailles Treaty and the shape of post-war Europe

Outline Four

See Week Three for slides and pictures

Assignment and study notes for Ordinary Men

Wednesday, September 23

Lecture: Lenin and the Russian Revolution. Stalin’s Russia, purges and famines

Week Five - Revolution and Radical Europe

Monday, September 28

Lecture: Culture and Crisis in Europe, arrival of America

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Five

Outline Five

Wednesday, September 30

SPLIT SECTIONS
Reminder! You must have the reading and assignment done by today!

Mikhail Bulgakov - Heart of a Dog (all)

Week Six - Rise of the Right

Monday, October 5
Lecture: Economic collapse and crisis, the Spanish Civil War and Mussolini's Italy

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Six

Outline Six - INCLUDES MIDTERM INFORMATION

Wednesday, October 7
Lecture: Hitler and the rise of Nazism

Week Seven - The Road to War

Monday, October 12
Lecture: German foreign and racial policy, the path to the Second World War

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Seven

Outilne Seven

Week Eight - Total War and Genocide

Monday: October 19
Discussion of Christopher Browning - Ordinary Men
SPLIT SECTIONS

Readings:

Christopher Browning Ordinary Men (all)

Wednesday, October 21
Lecture: The course of the Second World War in Europe

Readings:

Gilbert and Large - Chapter Eight

Week Nine -The Iron Curtain and Cold War

Monday, October 26
MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Readings:

Gilbert and Large - Chapter Nine

Week Ten -The End of Empire and the Birth of a Common Europe

Monday, November 2
The end of Europe's imperial ambitions: Algeria, Vietnam, Kenya, and Suez, France, Germany, and the European Community

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Ten

A good map of decolonization is here at CUNY.

Charles de Gaulle, "Europe and Its Role In World Affairs" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1964-degaulle-europe1.html

Wednesday, November 4

SPLIT SECTIONS
Discussion: Camus The Stranger

Week Eleven -Economic Miracle and Planned Stagnation

Monday, November 9
Lecture: Life behind the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall, Hungary and European Marxism

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter 11

Week Twelve - Behind the Iron Curtain

Monday, November 16
Lecture: Solidarity and the Second Cold War

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapters 12 and 14

Wednesday, November 18

Movie: Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)

Week Thirteen

Monday, November 23
Finish Das Leben der Anderen

No Class November 26
Thanksgiving Holiday

Week Fourteen -Thaw, then the Flood

Monday, November 30
Lecture: The collapse of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter 15

Week Fifteen - Europe as a Common Home

Monday, December 7
Lecture: Integration and the rise of the European Union - is Europe post-national?

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter 16

Wednesday, December 9
Lecture: Yugoslavia and the return of genocidal nationalism - the revitalization of Russia and future challenges

Final Examination will be held during the Critique and Evaluation Period