Course Schedule
* Lecture outlines are in Word format

Week One - The End of the Summer

Tuesday, January 27
Introductions, a look at the syllabus, why study European history?

Thursday, January 29

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

Tuesday, February 3
Lecture: Communism, Social Democracy and Trade Unions

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapters One and Two

Outline Two

Slides and maps for Week 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

Tuesday, February 10
Lecture: Origins of the conflict in the Balkans and the rise of Germany as an empire, course of the First World War.

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

Tuesday, February 17 - No class -
Presdient's Day Holiday

Thursday, February 19
Lecture:The Versailles Treaty and the shape of post-war Europe

Outline Four

Slides and Maps for Week Four

Assignment and study notes for Ordinary Men

Week Five - Revolution and Radical Europe

Tuesday, February 24
Lecture: Lenin and the Russian Revolution, Stalin's Russia, famines and the Great Purge

Outline Five

Slides and Maps for Week Five

Thursday, February 26
SPLIT SECTIONS
Reminder! You must have the reading and assignment done by today!

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Five

Mikhail Bulgakov - Heart of a Dog (all)

Week Six - Rise of the Right

Tuesday, March 3
Lecture: Economic collapse and crisis, the Spanish Civil War and Mussolini's Italy

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Six

Outline Six

Slides and Maps for Week Six

Thursday, March 5
Lecture: Hitler and the rise of Nazism

Week Seven - The Road to War

Tuesday, March 10
Lecture: German foreign and racial policy, the path to the Second World War

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Seven

Slides for Week Seven

We will use the outline from Week Six this week.

Movie: Conspiracy

Also: Read the transcript of the Wannsee Conference at: http://www.ghwk.de/engl/Prot-engl.pdf

Week Eight - Total War and Genocide

Tuesday: March 17
Discussion of Christopher Browning - Ordinary Men
SPLIT SECTIONS

Readings:

Christopher Browning Ordinary Men (all)

Thursday, March 19
Lecture: The course of the Second World War in Europe

Readings:

Gilbert and Large - Chapter Eight

Week Ten -The Iron Curtain and Cold War

Tuesday, March 31
MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Outline for Week Ten

Readings:

Gilbert and Large - Chapter Nine

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

Tuesday, April 7 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

Outline for Week Eleven

Week Twelve -Economic Miracle and Planned Stagnation

Tuesday, April 14
Lecture: Life behind the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall, Hungary and European Marxism

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter 11

Week Thirteen - Behind the Iron Curtain

Tuesday, April 21
Lecture: Solidarity and the Second Cold War

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapters 12 and 14

Outline for Week Thirteen

Thursday, April 23

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

Week Fourteen -Thaw, then the Flood

Tuesday, April 28
Lecture: The collapse of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter 15

Outline for Week Fourteen

Week Fifteen - Europe as a Common Home

Tuesday, May 5
Lecture: Integration and the rise of the European Union - is Europe post-national?

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter 16

Outline for Week Fifteen

Thursday, May 7
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