EIU His 2400.001, Western Civilization II, Newton
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Fall 2003, T, Th 14:00-15:15, CH 2741
Western Civilization II (1500 to the present)
weeks 1 & 2. Early or Modern?: Europe circa 1500
- Aug. 26. Introduction
- Aug. 28. Perry, Western, chs. 13 (pp. 315-20) & 14 (pp.
328-32)
- Sept. 2. Perry, Western, ch. 14 (pp. 332-45)
- Sept. 4. Perry, Western, ch. 15
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week 3. Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: State and Science
- Sept. 9. Perry, Western, chs. 16 & 17 (pp. 411-20)
- Sept. 11. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, sections 1 (pp. 6-13)
& 2 (pp. 39-46) [Absolutism, Crown & Parliament, Civil War]
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week 4. War, Trade, and Empire in the Eighteenth Century
- Sept. 16. Perry, Western, ch. 17 (pp. 420-6); Tierney and Scott,
Documentary, section 3 (pp. 68-75, 78-84) [Commerce, North America,
Far East]
- Sept. 18. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 3 (pp. 85-99)
[Old Colonial, European Empires]; Voltaire, Candide, chs. I-VI
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week 5. Ancien Regime Europe and Its Discontents
- Sept. 23. Perry, Western, ch. 18; Voltaire, Candide,
chs. VII-XVIII; Candide pre-assignment due
- Sept. 25. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 4 (pp. 102-30)
[Nature, God, Progress, Skepticism, Politics]; Voltaire, Candide,
all
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weeks 6 & 7. French Revolution and Europe, 1787-1815
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week 8. Industrial Europe
- Oct. 14. Perry, Western, chs. 21 (pp. 513-22, 524-29), 22 (pp.
538-58), & 23 (pp. 570-82)
- Oct. 16. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, sections 5 (pp. 144-61)
& 8 (pp. 240-9) [Manufacture, Political Economy, Factory, City]
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week 9. Nineteenth-century Nationalism and Realpolitik
- Oct. 21. Perry, Western, chs. 24 (pp. 591-608) & 25
- Oct. 23. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 10 (pp. 300-13,
315-20) [Nationalisms, Italy, Habsburg, Germany]
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week 10. Domination and Instability, 1870-1914
- Oct. 28. Perry, Western, chs. 26 (pp. 656-62), 27 (pp. 668-90), &
28 (pp. 696-706)
- Oct. 30. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 12 (pp. 356-85) [World
War I: all]
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week 11. The Great War: Origins
- Nov. 4. Perry, Western, ch. 29 (pp. 729-54 & 758-61)
- Nov. 6. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
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week 12. The Russian Revolution
- Nov. 11. Perry, Western, chs 29 (pp. 754-8) & 30 (pp. 769-76)
- Nov. 13. MID-TERM EXAM II
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week 13. Totalitarianism
- Nov. 18. Perry, Western, chs. 30 (all except 769-76) &
31 (pp. 809-12 & 823-31)
- Nov. 20. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 14 (pp. 424-39)
[Italy, Germany, Spain, Munich Crisis]
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week 14. World War II and Recovery
- Dec. 2. Perry, Western, chs. 32 & 33 (pp. 867-78); Great
War paper due
- Dec. 4. Tierney and Scott, Documentary, section 15 (pp. 458-68)
[Yalta]
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week 15. Europe after 1945: the End of History?
- Dec. 9. Perry, Western, chs. 33 (pp. 881-5) & 34 (pp. 888-901)
- Dec. 11. Conclusion
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Books available from Textbook Services:
- Marvin Perry, et. al., Western Civilization, 6th ed., vol. since
1400s (2000)
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
- Brian Tierney and Joan W. Scott, Western Societies: A Documentary History,
2nd ed., vol. II (2000)
- Voltaire, Candide
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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