Course Description

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The overall course covers the history of the world from roughly 1500 to the present. The first quarter opens with the time when Asia was the center of world affairs, then traces European encounters with Asia and the Americas, and the complex interactions and consequences of the so-called "Columbian Exchange" between Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa. The first quarter ends with a survey of the European Renaissance and Reformation, in both its local and global dimensions. The second quarter will focus on the rise of absolute monarchies and new ideas and practices, especially with the scientific revolution and Enlightenment. The second quarter ends with assessments of the legacies of the French Revolution, Napoleon and the emergence of the British Empire. The third quarter starts with the implications of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars in the wake of the Congress of Vienna, i.e., the discourse on rights, reaction, revolution and reform, the rise of new ideologies, in particular, Classical Liberalism, nationalism, and romanticism, and conservative reactions to the changes wrought by the American and French Revolutions. The course then examines the rise of industrialization and social change in 19th-century Europe, and the emergence of middle and working class cultures, followed by new iterations of liberalism and conservatism, the proliferation of more ideologies, e.g., socialism, communism, ultranationalism, social Darwinism, and antisemitism. Then the course examines the unification of the Italian and German nation states, and the creation of the modern welfare state. From there the course traces the rise of a new wave of Western imperialism, followed by the rest of the world's reactions to the rise of European empires and ideas, and in particular, the emergence of industrial Japan and their surprising victory over Russia. The third quarter ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The fourth and final quarter surveys the effects of the First World War, followed by the brief peak of classical liberal nation states and promises for peace, and the rapid rise of authoritarianism, in both communist and fascist variations, with a special focus on the rise of Nazism, the Nazi racial transformation of Germany and the Holocaust and Shoah of modern Europe. The fourth quarter concludes by looking at the causes and effects of the Second World War, the Cold War, the end of European empires in Asia and Africa, the emergence of the Modern Middle East and China, the end of the Cold War, history since 1989, all the way to the present, including current events.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Week 9 - The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)

Monday through Friday, October 21-25, 2013
Grades and comments are due by Tuesday, 10/22 at 5PM.
Revised book reviews (with original copy plus instructor comments) DUE on Wednesday, 10/23 (for period 1) and on Wednesday, 10/30 (for periods 3&5); email copies to class editors for book review project.
Topic proposals DUE on Friday for period 1; DUE on Tuesday, 10/29 for periods 3&5.
Admissions Open House on Friday, 10/25; 35 minute class schedule.
Quiz on Monday, 10/28; covers material from the Renaissance, Reformation and Thirty Years' War.

Day 1, Monday, October 21: The start of the second quarter.
In-class: Review the secondary sources on the Reformation in groups and prepare for class discussion.

Homework: NO new homework, except to review notes on the primary and secondary sources of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.

Day 2/3: The Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
Long Periods: Meet in classroom to finish discussions of the primary and secondary sources of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Assemble notes from class discussions on the definitions, causes and effects of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation.
*** Come prepared to work in the library during the second part of the long period on independent research topic proposals.

Key terms: Northern Renaissance, the Holy Roman Empire, indulgences, the 95 theses, the Protestant Reformation, the Diet of Worms, Lutheranism ("justification by faith," "the priesthood of all believers"), Calvinism (Predestination), the Council of Trent, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, the Jesuits, cuius regio eius religio, and the Peace of Augsburg.

Key persons: Johann Tetzel, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ignatius Loyola.

Homework: Read the handout packet on "War and Revolution: 1560-1660," pp. 49. Prepare notes on the primary and secondary source readings. Pay special attention to the causes and effects of the Thirty Years' War.
- Primary source #1: "Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, "Civil War in France," p. 50.
- Primary source #2: Richelieu, "Political Will and Testament," pp. 50-51.
- Visual source #1: "Germany and the Thirty Years' War," p. 57.
- Secondary source #1: Hajo Holborn, "A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years' War," p. 58.
- Secondary source #2: Carl J. Friedrich, "A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years' War," pp. 58-59.
- Secondary source #3: M. S. Anderson, "War and Peace in the Old Regime," pp. 59-60.

Day 4: The Thirty Years' War.
In-class: Discuss the primary and secondary sources on the Thirty Years' War, with special attention to the causes and effects of the war.

Homework: Review for quiz#5 on Monday, October 28; work on independent research.

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