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
   
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
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