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.

Saturday, November 28, 2015

Week 15 - The French Revolution


Monday through Friday, November 30 - December 4 
*Event: US Last TAP Day Out, 12/3.
**Leading questions: What were the turning points in the French Revolution or the Napoleonic Wars that followed. What are the legacies of the French Revolution in France, Europe and elsewhere in the world? In what ways did things change or progress? In what ways did things remain the same? What made this revolution so inspiring and at the same time so terrifying to the world?
***Final drafts of historiography research and historiography DUE by Tuesday, 12/8/2015. 

Day 1: The Ancien Regime: The Twilight of the Monarchies?
- In-class: Review remaining projects, final exams, the second self reflection, and remaining extra credit opportunities. Independent research presentations continue all week.
- In-class: Chronicle current events.
- In-class: Read and discuss primary sources on the ancien regime. 
- Homework for Day 2: Read "Overturning the Political and Social Order," from The West in the World, Vol II., eds. Sherman and Salisbury, pp. 487-497 (Up until the section, "Radical Republicans Struggle for Power"). Take notes on key terms and persons, and prepare notes on the accompanying question (see below).
- Key terms: The ancien regime, Reform efforts (of Jacques Turgot), the Estates General, The Tennis Court Oath, cahiers, the Bastille, The National Assembly, The Great Fear, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Declaration of the Rights of Women, March to Versailles, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Sans-culottes, The Jacobin Club, and the National Convention.
- Key persons: Arthur Young, Louis XVI, Jacques Turgot, Abbe Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes, Olympe de Gouges, and Georges-Jacques Danton.
- Key question: What were the underlying causes of the revolution (cites primary sources where possible).
Day 2/3: Independent Research. 
- In-class: Meet in the library; bring materials for final drafting and discussion with the instructor.

- Homework for Day 3: Read from "Radical Republicans Struggling for Power," in The West in the World, Vol II., eds. Sherman and Salisbury, pp. 497-505 (Up until the section, "Napoleon Bonaparte"). Take notes on key terms and persons, and prepare notes on the accompanying TWO questions (see below).

- Key terms: Girondins and Jacobins,, the terror, committee of public safety, levee en masse, the Haitian Revolution, the Thermidorian reaction, the "White" terror, and the Directory.
- Key persons:  Maximilien Robespierre, Manon Roland, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and Jean-Paul Marat.
- Key questions: How did the revolution become more radical? What were the effects of the revolution?
Day 2/3: The Causes of the French Revolution.
- In-class: Review homework, read the following two secondary sources, and discuss the causes of the French Revolution. 
- In-class, secondary Source #1: Georges Lefebvre, "The Coming of the French Revolution," pp. 125-126.  
- In-class, Secondary Source #2: Donald M. G. Sutherland, "The Revolution of the Notables," p. 126.

- Homework for Day 4: Read the handout from class on secondary sources about the French Revolution, prepare notes on the arguments and evidence of those secondary sources, and try to synthesize those arguments on the effects of the French Revolution. 
- Secondary Source #3: Ruth Graham, "Loaves and Liberty: Women in the French Revolution," pp. 127-128.
- Secondary Source #4: William Doyle, "An Evaluation of the French Revolution," pp. 128-129.
Day 4: The Ambivalent Effects of Revolution and the Prospects for “Modernity”.
- In-class: Discuss the arguments and evidence from the secondary sources, and introduce final exam review guide.
- Homework over the weekend: Work on revisions to the final draft of the historiography papers, which are DUE at the end of the school day in which each class has its long period, AND take a look over the final exam review guide in preparation for review next week.
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