PERSPECTIVES ON WESTERN EXPERIENCE II :

REFORMATION TO THE PRESENT

Course Handouts

 

  1. Course Overview and Syllabus
  2. How to Use WebCT (Campus Edition)
  3. How to Prepare for a discussion
  4. How to Write a History Paper
  5. Student paper score sheet
  6. Traditional European society
  7. 17th-Century Politics
  8. 17th-Century Politics (England)
  9. 17th-Century Politics (France)
  10. 17th-Century Politics (Prussia)
  11. The Enlightenment
  12. The Enlightenment (II): Political Theory
  13. French Revolution (I): Liberty and Rights
  14. French Revolution (II): Democracy and Terror 
  15. First Paper Topics (due October 7)
  16. Napoleonic Empire and Wars
  17. Industrialization in the 19th Century
  18. From Workshop to Mill
  19. 19th-Century thought
  20. 19th-Century Workers
  21. Second Paper Topics (due November 13)
  22. Nation and Empire after 1848
  23. Maps of German unification and the Balkans
  24. European Imperialism
  25. Maps of Africa before (c. 1850)
    and     after (c. 1900) establishment of formal empire
  26. Origins of War
  27. The Great War
  28. The Post-War Unrest: Revolution, Demobilization and Depression
  29. Map of Europe after the War
  30. The Rise of Fascism and Nazism
  31. The "Nightmare" of World War II
  32. Map of Europe, 1942
  33. Population Resettlements from 1939 - 1944 and 1945 - 1950
  34. Final Paper (due December 10)