The West in the World: Modern HIST: 1403:0AAA

Schedule of Lectures Spring 2020

*bold: deadlines

The Lecture Hall

Please be on time, turn off your cell phone, and shut down your laptop browsers. Do not text, tweet, read email, or look at Facebook during the lecture. I recommend a pen or pencil and paper for lecture notes (you can print out an outline in advance from the course website). Do not leave before the end of lecture except in an emergency. If you must leave, please do not return to your seat. As a courtesy to other students, please avoid shutting books or notes before the end of the lecture, which will always end promptly at 11:50

Note: the two exams will only cover topics that are presented in the lectures. To do well on the mid-term and final, you should attend lecture, take notes with a pen or pencil, and use those notes along with the posted lecture outlines to review for the exam. You should read the textbook, but you will not be asked on the exams about topics presented in the textbook but not covered in the lecture. The textbook is encyclopedic, more of a reference book than a traditional text. It should be used as a supplement to help you understand the lectures. Use it to look things up. It is more reliable than Wikipedia

Week 1: Read Hunt, Chapters 16 and 17

 01/21 How to Study History: The Old Regime.

• Where do we begin?

01/23 European Servitude and African Slavery

• How did the enslavement of Africans form the basis of European economic growth and global expansion?

Week 2: Read Hunt, 18; Begin reading The History of Mary Prince

01/28 The Enlightenment and the Revival of Protestantism

• How did changing ideas in science and religion challenge The Old Regime?

01/30 Population Growth and the Industrial Revolution

• What were some of the reasons for the growth in population and economic output?

Week 3: Read Hunt, 19 and 20

02/04 The Revolutions in America, France, and Haiti

02/06 Napoleon's Empire and European Liberalism to 1848

 Week 4 Read Hunt, Chapter 21

Prompt for your paper on The History of Mary Prince, due week 6.

02/11 Romanticism. 659-662

02/13 Liberalism, Abolitionism and the Fall of the Slave Empires

Week 5. Read Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

02/18 Great Britain: Workshop of the World

02/20 Karl Marx and Socialism

Week 6 Read Hunt, 22. *Paper due this week (to your TA) on The History of Mary Prince

02/25 Charles Darwin and Natural Selection: Race and Gender

02/27 Science, Religion, and the Bible in the Nineteenth Century

Week 7 Read Hunt 23, 24

03/03 Empire and the Global Struggle for Power

03/05 Democratic Socialism and Votes for Women

Week 8

03/10 The Second Industrial Revolution

03/12 *Mid-Term Exam C20 PC. The exam will not be given early for any reason.

Week 9 Spring Break!

Week 10 Hunt Chapter 25. Read World War One British Poets. Begin reading Achebe, Things Fall Apart

03/24 Imperialism and Resistance

03/26 World War I

Week 11

03/31 The Russian Revolution. and the Versailles Treaty

04/02 The 1920s and the Rise of Fascism

 Week 12. *Paper on Achebe, Things Fall Apart, due (to your TA)

04/07 Modern Thought: Einstein and Freud

04/09 Modern Art

Week 13 Read Hunt, Chapter 26. Begin Reading A Woman’s Berlin Diary

 04/14 The Great Depression and the Rise of Hitler

04/16 The Soviet Union and Stalin

Week 14 Read Hunt, Chapter 27

04/21 World War II

04/23 America and World Communism

Week 15. *Paper on A Woman's Berlin Diary due (to your TA), and *paper portfolio (your graded copy of each of the first two papers)

04/28 The Cold War and Western Prosperity

04/30 The End of the European Empires?

Week 16 Read Hunt Chapters 28, 29

05/05 The Fall of Communism

05/07 Globalization and America's Drive for World Supremacy

Week 17. Exam Week. May 11-15

*The Final Exam will be scheduled during exam week at a time and place TBA.

Please note that the exam will not be given early for any reason.

A make-up for those with excused absences will be scheduled on Friday evening, May 15.

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