Week 1: August 27
Lec 1: Introduction to ‘Europe in the 18th Century'
Reading : Entire syllabus and course information
Week 2: Sept 10
Lec 1: Overview of 'Europe in the 18th Century': Old Regime, Age of Reason, Age of Revolution
Readings: Vovelle, 1 – 84
Kramnick, ix - xxiii, 1 – 16
Melton, 1- 15
*Jones & Wahrman, 1 - 16, 94 - 105
Week 3: Sept 17
Lec 2: The "High Enlightenment"
Readings : Jacob, 1 - 93, 156 - 159, 202 - 208
Vovelle, 142 –189
Kramnick, 17 - 23, 26 - 38, 64 - 74
copy-pack, chapter 5
Week 4: Sept 24
Lec 3: The "Public Sphere" in the 18th Century
Reading : Melton, 79 - 232
Vovelle, 190 - 225
Jacob, 114 - 136
copy-pack, chapter 6
Week 5: Oct 1
Lec 4: 18th-Century European Culture and Cultural History of 18th-Century Europe
Reading: Vovelle, 226 - 256
Kramnick, 314 - 318, 333 - 342
* Jones & Wahrman 62 - 93, 218 - 250
Week 6: Oct 8
Lec 5: Nature, God and Reason: Religious Belief and Practice in the Age of Enlightenment
Vovelle, 356 - 392
Jacob, 94 - 114, 208 - 220
Kramnick 75 - 180
[copy-pack, chapter 7]
*Jones & Wahrman, 17 - 32
Week 7: Oct 15
Lec 6: Political Theory, Political Culture and Government
Readings : Melton, 17 - 78
Vovelle, 316 - 355
Jacob, 177 - 201
Kramnick, 395 – 440, 515 – 540
[copy-pack, chapter 1]
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Week 8: Oct 22
Lec 7: Commerce and Industry, Luxury and Labor
Reading : Vovelle, 122-141
Kramnick, 242 - 286, 480 - 514
[copy-pack, chapter 3]
*Jones & Wahrman, 124 - 136
Week 9: Oct 29
First paper due
Lec 8: Diplomacy and Warfare
Readings : Vovelle, 85 - 121
Kramnick, 546 – 559
[copy-pack, chapter 2]
*Jones & Wahrman, 33 - 61
Week 10: Nov 5
Lec 9: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Vovelle, 393 - 426
Kramnick, 560 - 608
*Jones & Wahrman, 203 - 217, 251 - 280
Nov 12: No Class, Veteran's Day
Week 11: Nov 19
Lec 10: Europe and the Wider World: Exploration, Colonialism and Cultural Exchange
Readings: Vovelle, 257 - 315
Jacob, 137 - 154, 160 - 177
Kramnick, 637 - 656
[copy-pack, Dubois, "An Enslaved Enlightenment"]
Week 12: Nov 26
Lec 11: End of the Old Regime
Readings : Melton, 273 – 276
Kramnick, 442 - 472
*Jones & Wahrman, 106 - 123, 190 - 202
[copy-pack, chapter 8]
Week 13: Dec 3
Review and Synthesis
Final Paper Due, Monday December 10
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