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History 102B
WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE RISE OF AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
Fall 2002
DAVID SMITH
Office: Wyatt 132. - Ext. 3172 - email:
Office hours: Tuesdays 2-3:00 and Fridays 2-3:30
BOOKS TO BE PURCHASED:
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648 (2001).
Robert L. Lembright (ed.) Annual Editions: Western Civilization Volume II (2003)
There will be a mid term (15%) and a final exam (25%), two short papers (25%) and ten weekly assignments (35%).
Weekly Schedule
Week beginning September 4
1.PATHS TO CONSTITUTIONALISM AND ABSOLUTISM: ENGLAND AND FRANCE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 13. Chapter 14 pages 518-21.
Documents in Kagan: 422, 427, 433,442.
Visual sources. Daniel Mytens, Charles I, Kagan, 416. Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, Kagan, 434. Louis LeNain, Peasant Family, Kagan, 438. Photo, Chateau Vaux-le-Vicomte, Sherman, 11-13.
Reggie Oliver, "The Poisons Affair," 14 in Lembright.
Compare and contrast the political development of Britain and France in the 17th century.
Week beginning September 9
2.NEW DIRECTIONS IN THOUGHT AND CULTURE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 14
Documents in Kagan: 451, 457, 463,472.
Visual sources: Jan Vermeer, The Geographer and the Astronomer, Kagan, 470-71. Adriaen Stalbent, The Sciences and the Arts, Kagan 465.
Anthony Grafton, "Descartes the Dreamer," 32. Z. Szydlo and Richard Brzezinski, "New Light on Alchemy," 44. Owen Davies, "Witchcraft: The Spell that Didn't Break," 56 in Lembright.
Ask yourself: How did the rational scientific thinking change attitudes towards religion and politics?
What were the central new ideas and methods employed by scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe?
What is the explanation of the phenomenon of witchcraft and witchhunts in an age of scientific discovery?
Week beginning September 16
3.SUCCESSFUL AND UNSUCCESSFUL PATHS TO POWER
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 15.
Documents in Kagan: 494, 508.
Visual sources: Hiob Berckheyde, The Amsterdam Exchange, Kagan 483. Racheal Ruysch, Flower Still Life, Kagan 484. William Hogarth, The Election Entertainment, Kagan, 492-3. Pieter de Hooch, Maternal Care, Sherman, 11-12.
Gordon Craig and Alexander George, "The Emergence of the Great Powers," 2. Michael Marshall "From Mercantilism to 'Wealth of Nations," 8 in Lembright.
4.SOCIETY AND ECONOMY UNDER THE OLD REGIME IN THE 18TH CENTURY.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 16.
Documents in Kagan: 523, 540, 544, 546.
Visual sources: Jean-Baptiste Chardin, The Governess, Kagan, 512. Cluade Vernet, Construction of a Road, Kagan, 517. Joseph Wright, The Iron Forge, Kagan 521. F Boucher, The Breakfast, Jean Baptiste Chardin, The Return from the Market, Kagan 526-7. Arthur Devis, Children in an Interior, Kagan 528. Frances Wheatley, Morning, Noon, Evening, Night, Kagan, 538-9
Karen Fisk, "Arkwright: Cotton King or Spin-Doctor?," 84 in Lembright.
Think about what hierarchy and privilege meant in the 18th c. What was the role of women in the family economy? What changes took place in agriculture in the 18th c.? What was the position of the aristocracy in the 18th c.? What caused the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century? Why did the European powers start expanding to develop overseas empires? What was the nature of slavery and how was it connected to the European economy?
Week beginning September 23
5.THE TRANSATLANTIC ECONOMY, TRADE WARS, AND COLONIAL REBELLION.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 17.
Documents in Kagan: 554, 558, 563, 567.
Visual sources: Samuel Scott, Old Custom House Key, Kagan, 550. J.S Copley, Watson and the Shark, Kagan 564.
Huw V. Bowen, "440 Years of the East India Company,"18. James Walvin, "Slavery and the British," 93 in Lembright.
6.THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 18.
Documents in Kagan: 597, 599, 608, 610.
Visual sources: Joseph Wright, Experiment with Air Pump, Kagan 592, Nicolas de Largilliere, Portrait of Voltaire, Kagan 588.
Roy Porter, "Matrix of Modernity," 50. S. Tomkievcz, "The First Feminist," 67 in Lembright.
What was the Philosophes attitude towards religion? What was the connection between the methods of science and the proposals to improve and change society in the 18th c.?
First Paper: What were the essential concerns and values of the Age of Enlightenment? Essay due on Tuesday, October 1 by 3:00 at the History Department Office, Wyatt Hall 135.
Week beginning September 30
7.THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 19.
Documents in Kagan: 630, 635, 646, and 651, 653.
Visual sources:, Siffred Duplessis, Louis XVI, Kagan, 628. Jacques Louis David, Lictors Bringing To Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, Kagan, 640-641. Jean Duplessi-Bertaux, The Siege of the Palais des Tuileries, Kagan 647. Girodet de Roussey-Trioson, Portrait of Jean Baptiste Belley, Kagan, 657.
Stephen Jay Gould, "The Passion of Antoine Lavoisier," 62 in Lembright.
Trace the various stages of the French Revolution and what were the aims of various participants in the political turmoil between 1789-1794?
Week beginning OCTOBER 7
8. THE AGE OF NAPOLEON AND THE TRIUMPH OF ROMANTICISM,
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapters 20.
Documents in Kagan: 677, 679, 697, 700.
Visual sources: Jacques Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, Kagan 666, Francisco Goya, The third of May 1808, Kagan, 680. Philip James de Loutherbourg, A Philopher in a Moonlit churchyard, Kagan, 690
Philip Mansel, "Napoleon the Kingmaker," 77 in Lembright.
Examination October 11th.
Week beginning OCTOBER 14
9. THE CONSERVATIVE ORDER AND THE CHALLENGES OF REFORM.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapters 21.
Documents in Kagan: 707, 709, 712.
Visual sources: Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, Kagan 704, John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, Kagan 733.
Take two countries in either Eastern or Western Europe and trace the fortunes of the forces of conservatism and liberalism between 1815 and 1848. Explain why the forces of liberalism and conservatism gained such strong support in Europe between 1815-1848.
10.ECONOMIC ADVANCE AND SOCIAL UNREST.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 22.
Documents in Kagan: 753, 759, 769, 772.
Visual sources: Honore Daumier, The Uprising, Kagan, 742. J. M. W. Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed-The Great Western Railway, Kagan, 746.
John Marriott, "Sweep Them Off the Streets," 111. Christine Laiumia, "Scrooge and Albert: Christmas in the 1840s," 97 in Lembright.
Discuss what you consider to be the major difficulties and opportunities industrialization and urbanization faced by the working classes in Western Europe between 1830 and 1900?
Week beginning October 21 (no class 21 Oct.)
11.THE AGE OF NATION STATES.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 23.
Documents in Kagan: 790, 794, 802, 806.
Visual sources: Franz von Leubach, Prince Otto von Bismark, Kagan, 780.
Christopher Duggan, "Nation-Building in 19th-Century Italy: The Case of Francesco Crispi," 101 in Lembright.
Discuss the impact of nationalism on two countries in Europe in the nineteenth century.
How successful had socialism in Europe become by 1914? Contrast the experience of the middle classes and the proletariat in an increasingly industrialized and urbanized Europe between 1850 and 1914.
Week beginning October 28
12.THE BUILDING OF EUROPEAN SUPREMACY: SOCIETY AND POLITICS TO WORLD WAR 1.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 24
Documents in Kagan: 819, 823, 830, 833, and 842, 845.
Visual sources: Edouward Monet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, Kagan, 797. Zeichnung von A. Beltrame, Im Londoner Hauptbahnhof, Kagan, 814. Sir George Clausen, Schoolgirls of Haverstock Hill, Kagan, 825. Edgar Degas, Portrait of the Bellelli Family, Kagan, 829. Georges Seurat, Sunday on La Grande-Jatte. Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, The Fourth Estate, Kagan 838-9.
William Rubinstein, "Hunt for Jack the Ripper," 115 in Lembright.
Why do you think the major European powers wanted to extend their influence throughout the world in the late 19th c.?
Week beginning November 4
13.IMPERIALISM, ALLIANCES AND WAR..
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 26.
Documents in Kagan: 890, 896, 905, 918,
Visual sources: John Singer Sargent, Gassed, 1918-19, Kagan 912. Photo, Film: The First World War and the Making of the Twentieth Century.
Harriet Ritvo," Destroyers and Preservers: Big Game in the Victorian Empire," 123, David DeVoss, "Searching For Bavril Princip," 141. David Fromkin, "How the Modern Middle East Map Came to be Drawn," 147 in Lembright.
What were the major causes and consequences of World War 1 in Europe?
Week beginning November 11
14.POLITICAL EXPERIMENTS OF THE 1920’S.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 27.
Documents in Kagan: 939, 944, 956.
Visual sources: Gemalde von Gerassimow, Lenin as an Agitator, Kagan 934. George Grosz, Pillars of Society, Kagan 958.
What were the major difficulties faced by the all European countries in the 1920s. Why was the revolution successful in Russia? How did the communists attempt to control and modernize Russia before 1939?
15.EUROPE IN THE 1930’s.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 28.
Documents in Kagan: 970, 975, 980, 985.
Visual sources: Volkswagen Advertisement, Kagan, 981 Soviet Poster, Kagan, 983.
Lisa Pine, "Nazism in the Classroom," 155 in Lembright.
Second Paper: Using the materials provided by discuss the main elements that promoted the appeal for the fascist regimes that became popular between the Wars in Europe. Essay due on Tuesday November 26th by 3:00 p.m. at the History Department Office, Wyatt Hall 135.
Week beginning November 18
16.WORLD WAR II
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 29.
Documents in Kagan: 997, 1003.
Visual sources: Ben Shan, The Destruction of Lidice, Kagan, 994. Pablo Picasso, Guernica, Kagan, 997. Photo of DP’s, Kagan, 1030.
John Keegan, "His Finest Hour," 166 in Lembright.
Who caused World War II? Think of the major changes produced by World War II and the defeat of Germany in 1945.
Week beginning November 25 (no class November 29)
17.FACES OF THE 20TH CENTURY: EUROPEAN SOCIAL EXPERIENCES.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 30.
Documents in Kagan: 1034, 1051.
Visual sources: Tatjiana Yablonskaya, Bread, Kagan 1040. Jackson Pollock, One; number 31, 1950, Kagan, 1041
The Economist, "The Poor and the Rich" 206, Peter Waldron, "The Barbarians Have Not Come," 215 in Lembright
Compare and contrast the lives of Europeans on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Week beginning December 2
18.THE COLD WAR ERA AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEW EUROPE.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Volume II, since 1648. Chapter 31.
Documents in Kagan: 1073, 1074, 1081, 1086, 1103, 1112.
Visual sources: Photo 1104 Kagan.
Tom Gallagher, "Folly and Failure in the Balkans," 201 in Lembright.
What were the causes of the Cold War? What was the effect of the division of Europe on Eastern and Western Europe? Discuss the reasons for the collapse of communism and point out what problems accompanied the demise of the Cold War.
Week beginning December 9 (Last class 11 December)
Summary and review for final examination.
Eugene Linden, "The Big Meltdown," 188, Stanley Hoffman, "Why They Don't Like US?," 197 in Lembright.
Final examination Thursday, December 19, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
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