Western Civilization III: The Modern Age: HIST: 2403:0AAA

Schedule of Lectures Fall 2016

Page numbers following the lectures are from the textbook. Students should first read the entire chapters when listed, and then read the specific textbook pages associated with the lecture. If no chapter is listed then the pages next to the lecture title make up the entirety of one chapter.

Week 1: Read Hunt, Chapters 16 and 17

08/23 How to Study History: The Old Regime. 505-538

08/25 European Servitude and African Slavery 541-572

Week 2: Read Hunt, 18

08/30 The Enlightenment, the Revival of Protestantism, and Abolitionism 575-598

09/01 Population Growth and the Industrial Revolution 674-682

Week 3: Read Hunt, 19 and 20

09/06 The Democratic Revolutions in America and France 601-637

09/08 Napoleon's Empire and the Congress of Vienna 639-657

Week 4 Read Hunt, Chapter 21. Begin reading The History of Mary Prince

Question for Paper 1: How does Mary Prince use her position as a female slave within this text to convey to her readers information about slavery in general?

09/13 Liberalism and the Fall of the Slave Empires. 657-659, 662-671, 689-695

09/15 Romanticism. 659-662

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

09/20 Great Britain: Workshop of the World

09/22 Karl Marx and Marxism 695-707

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

09/27 Charles Darwin and Natural Selection 739-740

09/28 Science, Religion, and the Bible in the Nineteenth Century. 784-790

Week 7 Read Hunt 23, 24

10/04 State-building and the Rise of Socialism 767-770, 716-733, 794-796

10/06 Democratic Socialism and Votes for Women 770-780, 796-803

Week 8

10/11 The Second Industrial Revolution 726-733

10/13 Mid-Term Exam C20 PC. The exam will not be given early for any reason.

Week 9 Read Hunt Chapter 25. Begin reading Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Question for Paper 2: Using Things Fall Apart as evidence, identify the different ways in which African people responded to the presence of missionaries. In Achebe's view, which of these responses proved to be the most disruptive?

10/18 Imperialism and Resistance 710-716, 746-755, 803-810

10/20 World War I 810-830, 834-835

Week 11

10/25 The Russian Revolution. and the Versailles Treaty 830-834

10/27 The 1920s and the Rise of Fascism. 836-847, 852-857

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

11/01 Modern Science: Einstein and Freud 790-792

11/03 Modern Art 792-795

Week 13 Read Hunt, Chapter 26. Begin Reading Orwell, 1984

Question for paper 3: Written in the late 1940s, the novel 1984 was a warning to western audiences. What was one of Orwell's major warnings to his readers, and how was it based on the historical developments and geopolitical conditions of the age in which he wrote?

11/08 The Great Depression and the Rise of Hitler 859-864, 867-881

11/10 The Soviet Union and Stalin 864-867

Week 14 Read Hunt, Chapter 27

11/15 World War II 881-897

11/17 America and World Communism. 899-917, 925-927

Week 15.

Thanksgiving Holiday

Week 16. Paper on Orwell, 1984, due (to your TA), and paper portfolio

11/29 The Cold War and Western Prosperity 917-919, 927-935

12/01 The End of the European Empires?

Week 17 Read Hunt Chapters 28, 29

12/06 The Fall of Communism 949-971

12/08 Globalization and America's Drive for World Supremacy 973-1009

Week 18

The Final Exam for Western Civ III will be Mon 12/12/2016 : 8:00PM - 10:00PM W290 CB

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, 5:30-7:30