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.

Friday, December 5, 2014

Week 16 - Napoleon and the Legacies of the French Revolution

Monday through Friday, December 8-12, 2014
- Quiz #8 is open until Tuesday evening at midnight, 12/9.
- Final Group Chronicles of Current Events on Monday, 12/9 - One last "Take the Lead".
- Current Events Chronicles will be checked during this week.
- Final drafts of the independent research projects are DUE at the latest by the end of the day, Thursday, 12/11.
- NO QUIZ.
- Begin Review on Friday, 12/12.

Day 1 - Monday, December 9: The Causes and Effects of the French Revolution.
- In-class: Current events reports.
- In-class: Wrap up discussion of the secondary source readings from homework on the causes of the French Revolution, and its radicalization. 

- Homework for Day 2: Read "Napoleon Bonaparte," in The West in the World, Vol II., eds. Sherman and Salisbury, pp. 505-515; take notes on the key terms and persons, and prepare notes on the legacies of Napoleon and the French Revolution.

- Key terms: "Whiff of grapeshot," Directory, coup d'etat, plebiscite, the Concordat, Napoleonic Code, Continental System, and Napoleonic Wars and Waterloo.

- Key persons: Napoleon, Abbe Sieyes, Simon Bolivar, Francisco de Goya, the Duke of Wellington, and Tsar Alexander I. 

- Key question: What are the legacies of Napoleon and the French Revolution?

Day 2: Napoleon.
- In-class: Discuss the primary source handouts from class and textbook readings on Napoleon from homework. 
- Primary source #1: Memoirs: Madame de Remusat, "Napoleon's Appeal." p. 132.
- Primary source #2: Joseph Fouche, "Memoirs: Napoleon's Secret Police," pp. 132-133.
- Primary source #3: Napoleon, "Diary," pp. 133-134.

- Homework for Day 3: Finish reading the primary sources AND read secondary source handouts on the legacies of Napoleon and the French Revolution, take SOAPSTONE notes on the primary sources and notes on the secondary source authors' arguments, forms of evidence, and synthesize their research on the question of the effects of Napoleon and the French Revolution.
- Secondary source #1: William Doyle, "An Evaluation of the French Revolution," pp. 128-129.
- Secondary source #2: Tim Blanning, "Napoleon: The Authoritarian Statesman," pp. 135-137.
- Secondary source #3: Martyn Lyons, "Napoeon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution," pp. 137-138.
- Secondary source #4: Bonnie G. Smith, "Women and the Napoleonic Code," pp. 138-139.

Day 3: The Legacies of the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte.
- In-class: Discuss the secondary sources, the author(s)'s argument and evidence evidence on the legacies of the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte.
- Homework for Day 4: Look over the Fall Exam Review Guide handout, and come prepared to start the review process, which will continue through the first two days of Week 17.

Day 4: Fall Exam Review.
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