TOPICS

1. The Conceptual Framework and Antiquity to the Early Modern Era

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Read :McKay, Introduction, pgs. xxi-xxxii, Readings, 2-8, 20-23

Video: "The Renaissance. The Age and Its Art." Click here for links to paintings from this era.

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2. Religion and the Struggle for Political Modernization: Constitutionalism vs. Absolutism and the Beginnings of Liberal Modernization

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Read: McKay, Ch. 16 and W-R-W, Ch. 2 and Readings, 8-10

Video: "The Baroque -- the Age and its Art." Click here for text.

Click here for links to paintings from this era.

3. The Obsolescence of Medieval Empires in Eastern Europe: The Rise of Absolutism and the Beginnings of Conservative Modernization.

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Read: McKay, Ch. 17, Readings, 15-16

1. The Fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire and the emergence of Austria.
2. The Emergence of Prussia. Read: Readings, 16-17
3. The Rise of Imperial Russia.Read: Readings, 18-19
4. Absolutism and the Baroque in Eastern Europe

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4. The Age of Reason

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   Video: "The Enlightenment: The Age and its Art. Click here for text.

Read: McKay, Ch. 18 and W-R-W, Ch. 3.

1. The Scientific Revolution
2. The Enlightenment
3. Enlightened Absolutism

 

TBA: La Nozze di Figaro

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5. The Revolution in Politics

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 Read: McKay, Ch. 21, Readings, 10-11, 24-26, W-R-W, Ch. 5

1. The French Revolution.
2. The Napoleonic Era.

FYI: Links to Napoleonic documents.

6. From Early-Modern to Modern Society.

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   1. The Maturation of Commercial Capitalism:

Read: McKay, Ch. 19, pgs. 629-644.

2. The Industrial Revolution.

Read: McKay, Ch. 22, and Wiesner, Ruff, Wheeler, Ch. 6

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7. Ideologies and Upheavals: 1815-1850

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1. The Peace Settlements of 1814-15. Read: McKay, 755-759
2. Intervention and Repression Read: McKay, 759-761.
1. The Congress System
2. Conservatism Triumphant
3. Reaction, Reform and Revolution Read: McKay, 770-777 and Readings, 11-13.
4. Radical Ideas and Early Socialism. Read: W-R-W, 181-186
1. Liberalism. Read: McKay, 655-656, 734, 761-762 and W-R-W, 187-196.
2. Utopian Socialism. Read: McKay 764-765
3. The Dual Revolution: Industrialization and politics: "Scientific Socialism."

Read: McKay, 765-766 and W-R-W 196-202, 207-211

Video: "Marxism, the theory that split a world." Click here for the text.

5. The Age of Romanticism Read: McKay, 766-772
1. The Romantic Movement
2. From Romanticism to Nationalism Read: McKay, 762-764; 784-785

Video: "Romanticism: The Age and Its Art." Click here for the text

6. The Revolutions of 1848 Read: McKay, 778-783 and W-R-W, 203-207 and Readings, 13-14

8. Modernization and Nationalism

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1. Modernization: the development of urban, industrial capitalist, mass societies. Read: W-R-W, Ch. 8.
2. The Liberal Modernizers
   1. France 1848-1914: Read: McKay, 823-825, Readings, 12 and McKay, 841-842.
      1. Napoleon III: A "Proto-Fascist" interlude?
      2. The Second Republic
      3. The Dryfus Affair, anti-semitism and the rise of Zionism, McKay, 842, 845-847
   2. Great Britain and Ireland: Read: McKay, 843-44 and Readings, 11.
3. The Conservative Modernizers
   1. Italy 1850-1914. Read: McKay, 826-829.
      1. Cavour and Unification: 1850-1871
      2. Italy's attempt to modernize: 1871-1914
   2. Germany 1850-1914. Read: McKay, 829-833, 838-841 and . Readings, 17-18
      1. Bismarck and Unification 1850-1871
      2. Conservative Modernization: 1871-1914
   3. Russia: The Failure of Conservative Modernization. Read: McKay, 835-838, Readings, 19-20
   4. The Austrian Empire 1848-1914. Read: McKay, 844.
4. The Socialist Approach. Read: McKay, 846, 848-850, 852-853

 

1. Colonialism into Imperialism. On the Eve of the "Great War"

Read: McKay,. 868-878, 884-885, W-R-W, Ch. 9.

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