IS 124 Reading Assignments
Instructions: Below you will find the reading assignments for IS 124 while we are in Europe. In most cases, these readings will correspond with a particular class session of the course. In a few cases, the readings correspond to an excursion or set of excursions we will be doing. Readings are to be completed by the date with which they are listed. All readings listed below are contained in the course reader with the exception of assignments in Doris Bergen, War & Genocide, and are arranged in the reader in the order they will be used.
DatePlaceReadings Due
8/27Dublin“Proclamation of the Provisional Government”; “How to Read a
Document”
8/30Belfast“English Identity”; Nationalism – “Introduction”; “What is a
Nation”; “The Nation” by Joseph Stalin; “The Nation” by Max
Weber
9/4Cambridge“What is Nationalism?” – selections from Benedict Anderson,
Michael Hechter, Ernest Gellner, Rogers Brubaker; “The Nation
As Invented Tradition”
9/7LondonRemembering War – Introduction and Chapter One
9/10LondonThe Cult of the Nation – “Introduction: Constructing the Nation”;
“Patrie”; “The Discourse on the Love of Country”
9/11London“How Soccer Explains the Discreet Charm of Bourgeois
Nationalism”; “Justice for Ireland”; “Materials for the Philosophy
of the History of Mankind”
9/13London“The National Question in Yugoslavia”; “Nationalism, The
Victorious Ideology”
9/14London“Self-Determination Conflict Profile: Bosnia-Herzegovina”;
“Ethnic Hatreds and Racial Reconciliation”; “Women and the War
in Bosnia”; “Report on the Fall of Srbrenica”
9/25Vienna“The Watch on the Rhine”; “The German Fatherland”; “German
Attitudes”; “Josiah Strong on Anglo-Saxon Predominance”; “The
White Man’s Burden”; “A Natural Inclination to Submit to a
Higher Authority”
9/28ViennaWar & Genocide, Preface, Chapter 1
10/2Prague“What is Fascism”; “Mein Kampf”; “Nazi Appeal and Victory”;
War & Genocide, Chapters 2-6
10/4PragueWar & Genocide, Chapter 7, Conclusion
10/5-12 Poland“Poland: Igniting the Revolution”
10/15Berlin“Theological Declaration of Barmen”; “Martin Niemöller”;
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
10/16Berlin“Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting”; “Holocaust Timeline”;
“Testimony at Nuremberg”
10/18Berlin“Germany’s Holocaust Memorial Problem – and Mine”;
Selections by Richard von Wiezsäcker, Elie Wiesel, and Miroslav
Volf; “Ghosts of the Holocaust”
10/23LeidenThe Diary of a Young Girl; “Women and the Resistance”;
10/26Bruges“On Nationality”; “An Essay on the Duties of Man”;
“Proclamation for the Liberation of Sicily”; “Address to
Parliament”
10/27Bruges“Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte”; “The Third of May”; “To the
German Nation”; “Address to the German Nation”; “We Germans
Fear God, and Naught Else in the World”; “Russia’s Imperial
Destiny”
10/30Ypres“The Soldier”; “Wounded”; “Stormtroopers During Gas Attack”;
“They”; “Dulce et Decorum Est”
11/1Normandy“Storming of Normandy”; “News Brings Tears and Prayers Here”
11/3Paris“On the Jewish State”
11/7Paris“The Fourteen Points”; “The Treaty of Versailles”; “The Peace
That Failed”
11/7Paris“Unfriendly Fire”
11/14Venice“God, Work, Family, and Fatherland”; “Introduction by the
Widow [and letters of Karl Fuchs]”; “Be Ye Men of Valour”
11/15Venice“When They Were Young, These Men Saved the World”; “The
Politics of Memory”
11/ 19Florence“Iron Curtain Speech”; “Reply to Churchill”
11/21Florence“Unrest in Eastern Europe and Soviet Response”
11/26Rome“‘A World Turned Upside Down’: The Gorbachev Era and
Beyond”
11/27Rome“Not by Politics Alone: Unwrapping the Revolution of 1989”
11/29 Rome“The Future of Europe”; “Danger and Opportunity in Eastern
Europe”