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, November 6, 2015

Week 12: The English Civil War and Constitutionalism.

Monday through Friday, November 9-13.
*Online Quiz 2.5 Absolutism and Constitutionalism (Weeks 11 &12); opens on Friday, 11/13 at 3:30 and closes on Wednesday evening at midnight, 11/18.

Day 1: Absolutism in Eastern Europe.
- In-class: Report and chronicle current events; focus on Syria and ISIS.
- In-class: Discuss the homework reading, "The Struggle for Sovereignty in Eastern Europe," from The West in the World, Vol II., eds. Sherman and Salisbury, pp.403-409 (up until the section, "The Triumph of Constitutionalism").
- In-class group work: Develop PERSIA notes on France, Central Europe, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire.
- In-class Question#1: How did the struggles in everyday life and issues of sovereignty compare between Western and Eastern Europe, based on the examples of Brandenburg-Prussia, Austria, Russia and Poland?
- Key Terms: sovereignty, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the (French) Wars of Aggression, the Peace of Utrecht, estates, serfs, Brandenburg-Prussia, the Hohenzollerns, Austria, the Hapsburgs, the Ottomans, the Tsars, and the Romanovs.
- Key Persons: The Great Elector Frederick William, Leopold I, Jan Sobieski, Ivan IV (the "Terrible"), and Peter I (the "Great").
- Homework for Day 2/3: Read "The Triumph of Constitutionalism in England," from The West in the World, Vol II., eds. Sherman and Salisbury, pp. 409-419 (up until the section, "The Netherlands Maintains a Republic," and prepare notes on the following key terms, persons, and questions for discussion in class:
1. What were the causes of the English Civil War?
2. What were the effects?
3. Why did constitutionalism emerge in England and not at the same time on the continent of Europe?
- Key terms: Divine rule, Lèse-majesté, constitutionalism, sumptuary laws, "gunpowder plot", Puritans, Cavaliers, Roundheads, Levellers, the Rump Parliament, two theories of government, the social contract, natural law, "military revolution," the Commonwealth, the Glorious Revolution, the English Bill of Rights, and the Hanover Dynasty.
- Key Persons:  James I (the Stuart Dynasty), Charles I, Jane Whorwood, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Samuel Pepys.

Day 2/3 (Long periods): Independent Research.
- In-library: Use time to continue research and writing, and consult with instructors, librarians and tutors.

Day 3: Social Contracts, Constitutionalism and the Glorious Revolution.
- In-class: Read, take SOAPSTONE notes, and discuss the following primary sources:
- Primary source#1: James I, "The Powers of the Monarch in England".
- Primary source#2: The House of Commons, "The Powers of Parliament in England".
- Primary source#3: Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory".
- Primary source#4: John Locke, "Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power".

- In-class: Discuss the homework questions:
1. What were the causes and effects of the English Civil War?
2. Why did constitutionalism emerge in England and not at the same time on the continent of Europe?
- Homework for Day 4: Read the handout packet on the following secondary sources on the English Civil War, and identify the arguments and evidence of the secondary sources.
- Secondary source#1: Conrad Russell, "The Causes of the English Civil War".
- Secondary source#2: G. Durand, "Absolutism: Myth and Reality".
- Secondary source#3: George Macaulay Trevelyan, "The English Revolution, 1688-1689".

Day 4: The Historiography on the English Civil War and Constitutionalism.
- In-class:  Discuss the secondary sources and review the materials on the English Civil War and the emergence of constitutionalism.
- Homework: Continue to work on independent research, outlining and drafting of independent research papers.
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