History 104 / Lecture and Reading Schedule
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Date | Lecture topic | Textbook | Sourcebook |
Jan. 7 | Intro: Europe in 1500 | ||
Jan. 9 | Europeans as explorers, conquerors & traders | 347-371 | 25-9 |
Jan. 11 | Renaissance humanism | 372-397 | 41-62 |
Jan. 14 | Luther's Reformation | 398-420 | 63-82 |
Jan. 16 | Reform in the Catholic world | 420-425 | 82-5, 92-8, 99-102 |
Jan. 18 | The age of religious wars | 426-440 | 111-16, 123-28, 132-38 |
Jan. 21 | NO CLASS | ||
Jan. 23 | Countries without a king | 440-455 | 138-43, 173-81 |
Jan. 25 | Louis XIV, center of the universe | 456-478 | |
Jan. 28 | Baroque culture | FIRST EXERCISE DUE [pushed back from Jan. 25!] | |
Jan. 30 | England's special path | 478-491 | 145-66 |
Feb. 1 | Toward a scientific world view | 492-515 | 182-99, 203-7 |
Feb. 4 | The age of aristocacy | 221-38 | |
Feb. 6 | What is Enlightenment? | 516-543 | 244-66 |
Feb. 8 | The Classical Era | SECOND EXERCISE DUE | |
Feb. 11 | France's Revolution, 1789-91 | 544-556 | 272-87 |
Feb. 13 | The Republic and the Reign of Virtue, 1792-94 | 556-564 | |
Feb. 15 | Napoleon – revolutionary conqueror | 564-577 | |
Feb. 18 | FIRST MID-TERM | ||
Feb. 20 | Wheels are Spinning: the potential of industrialization | 578-601 | 301-8 |
Feb. 22 | Dark Satanic Mills: the problems of industrialization | 601-611 | 308-22 |
Feb. 25 | Putting a lid back on Europe | 612-626 | 372-80, 384-90 |
Feb. 27 | The mood of Romanticism | 626-632 | |
Mar. 1 | Liberal revolutions | 633-653 | 334-36, 344-60 |
Mar. 4 | Basics of Marxism | 322-26 | |
Mar. 6 | Uniting nations - by force | 653-677 | |
Mar. 8 | The new imperialism | 678-709 | |
Mar. 18 | European nation-states in the age of mass politics | 710-724 | 409-12, 417-20 |
Mar. 20 | Urban life transformed | THIRD EXERCISE DUE [pushed back from March 6] | |
Mar. 22 | Fin-de-siècle Europe | 724-745 | 436-46, 451-67 |
Mar. 25 | The onset of war | 746-754 | |
Mar. 27 | In the trenches | 755-769 | 468-82, 490-91 |
Mar. 29 | The Bolshevik revolution | 769-781 | 492-504 |
Apr. 1 | SECOND MID-TERM |
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Apr. 3 | Europe's featherweight democracies | 783-805 | |
Apr. 5 | Modernism at its peak | 805-813 | |
Apr. 8 | The appeal of fascism | 509-12 | |
Apr. 10 | National Socialism in Germany | 513-23 FOURTH EXERCISE DUE |
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Apr. 12 | Trapped by extremes: Europe in the 1930s | 814-824 | 503-9, 523-26 |
Apr. 15 | A second world war | 824-849 | 530-34, 544-53 |
Apr. 17 | The Holocaust in history | 533-44 | |
Apr. 19 | Another clash of ideologies: the Cold War | 850-862 | 544-57, 578-88 |
Apr. 22 | Europe divided | 862-883 | 557-61 |
Apr. 24 | Détente and social change | 814-915 | 562-77 |
Apr. 26 | The post-Cold War world | 915-943 | 588-98 |