EIU His 2400.001, Western Civilization II, Newton Key
Fall 2002, T, Th 12:30-13:45, CH 225


Western Civilization II (1500 to the present)

weeks 1 & 2. Early or Modern?: Europe circa 1500

  • Aug. 27. Introduction
  • Aug. 29. Perry, Western, chs. 13 (pp. 315-20) & 14 (pp. 328-31)
  • Sept. 3. Perry, Western, ch. 14 (pp. 334-44)
  • Sept. 5. Perry, Western, ch. 15
Hans Holbein, Sir Thomas More

week 3. Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

  • Sept. 10. Perry, Western, chs. 16-17
  • Sept. 12. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, sections 1 (pp. 6-13) & 2 (pp. 36-46) [Absolutism, Crown & Parliament, Civil War]
 James VI & I

week 4. War, Trade, and Empire in the Eighteenth Century

  • Sept. 17. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 3 (pp. 68-84) [Commerce, North America, Far East]
  • Sept. 19. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 3 (pp. 85-99) [Old Colonial, European Empires]; Voltaire, Candide, chs. I-VI
 William Hogarth, Inhabitants of the Moon

 

weeks 6 & 7. French Revolution and Europe, 1787-1815

  • Oct. 1. Perry, Western, ch. 19; Candide and the Enlightenment papers due
  • Oct. 3. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 6 (pp. 169-201) [Privilege, 3rd Estate, Challenges]
  • Oct. 8. MID-TERM EXAM I.
  • Oct. 10. Perry, Western, chs. 20 & 23 (pp. 562-65)
 Women March on Versailles, 1789

 

week 8. Industrial Europe

  • Oct. 15. Perry, Western, chs. 21 (pp. 513-22, 524-29), 22, & 23 (pp. 572-82)
  • Oct. 17. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, sections 5 (pp. 141-63) & 8 (pp. 240-48) [Manufacture, Political Economy, Factory, City]

 

week 9. Nineteenth-century Nationalism and Realpolitik

  • Oct. 22. Perry, Western, chs. 24-25
  • Oct. 24. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 10 (pp. 300-20) [Nationalisms, Italy, Habsburg, Germany]
 Street barricades, Milan, 1848

 

week 10. Domination and Instability, 1870-1914

  • Oct. 29. Perry, Western, chs. 26 (pp. 656-59), 27 (pp. 668-90), & 28 (pp. 696-710)
  • Oct. 31. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 12 (pp. 356-85) [World War I: all]
Scramble for Africa, 1885-1914

 

week 11. The Great War

  • Nov. 5. Perry, Western, ch. 29
  • Nov. 7. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front; Great war pre-assignment due

 

week 12. The Russian Revolution

  • Nov. 12. MID-TERM EXAM II
  • Nov. 14. Perry, Western, ch. 30; Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 13 (pp. 386-418) [everything by Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin]
 the lives of the illiterate adn the literate, Russia, 1920

 

week 13. Totalitarianism

  • Nov. 19. Perry, Western, chs. 30-31
  • Nov. 21. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 14 (pp. 424-39) [Italy, Germany, Spain, Munich Crisis]; Great War paper due
 Milizia nazionale XXV Legione

 

week 14. World War II and Recovery

  • Dec. 3. Perry, Western, chs. 32-33
  • Dec. 5. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 15 (pp. 458-68) [Yalta]
 "For Freedom and Life," Germany, 1944

 

week 15. Europe after 1945: the End of History?

  • Dec. 10. Perry, Western, chs. 33-34
  • Dec. 12. Conclusion

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His 2400 surveys Western Civilization, which developed primarily in Europe, since the Renaissance. Western civilization is an idea, and this course emphasizes intellectual as well as political, religious, and social factors in the construction of this idea. This course also emphasizes the practice of history: the reading and analysis of documents in a historical context. Thus, discussion and essay writing are important aspects of this course.

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