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After the textbook (SPIELVOGEL) and the sourcebook (ROGERS) reading assignments, you will find links to more source materials on the Internet. They are useful for special assignments during the term. Those marked with an asterisk (*) contain written assignments which can be submitted for extra credit through E-Mail. They are due the following Monday. In addition, make a habit of browsing through Paul Halsall's Internet Modern History Sourcebook.

LECTURES AND READING ASSIGNMENTS

1. (3/4) INTRODUCTION:THE ROOTS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
SPIELVOGEL: Introduction to Students of Western Civilization

ROGERS: Preface

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2. (3/5) ABSOLUTISM IN WESTERN AND EASTERN EUROPE
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 16, The Practice of Absolutism in Western and Eastern Europe

ROGERS: The Theory of Absolute Monarchy, (Hobbs, Domat, Bossuet) 8-15

WEB ASSIGNMENT:*

3. (3/6) LIMITED MONARCHY
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 16, The Dutch Republic and England

ROGERS: Second Treatise of Civil Government (Locke, 70-75)

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4. (3/11) THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 18, The Enligtenment

ROGERS: Thoughts on Government (Montesquieu, Rousseau 75-80)

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5. (3/12) CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN AN AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 18, Culture and Religion

ROGERS: Thoughts on Women (Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, 80-85)

WEB ASSIGNMENT:*
6.(3/13) INTERNATIONAL WARS AND ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISIM
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 19, The Eighteenth Century

ROGERS: (D'Argenson, De Bouille, The Grievances of Carcassonne, 103-107)

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7. (3/18) THE OUTBREAK OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 20, The Beginnings of the Revolutionary Era

ROGERS: The Outbreak of Revolution ("What is the Third Estate?", The Tennis Court Oath, Declaration of the Rights of Man, 108-117)

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8.(3/19) RADICALIZATION OF THE REVOLUTION
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 20, The French Revolution

ROGERS: The Reign of Terror, (Desmoulins, Robespierre, De Maillane, 127-131)

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9. (3/20) NAPOLEON'S RISE AND FALL
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 20, The Age of Napoleon

ROGERS: Articles for the Catholic Church, Comments on Reform from Napoleon's Diary, The Invasion of Russia, 135-144

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10. (3/25) THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 21, The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

ROGERS: The Rural and Urban Transformation, (Davies, Disraeli, Ure, 169-183)

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11. (3/26) REACTION AND REVOLUTION
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 22, The Conservative Order, 1815-1830

ROGERS: Reaction and Reform, (Ricardo, Smiles, 186-193)

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12. (3/27) THE IDEOLOGIES OF CHANGE
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 22, Liberalism, Nationalism, Socialism

ROGERS: (Mazzini, 212-213; Fichte, 215-217; Owen, 193-195)

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13. (4/8) REVOLUTION AND REFORM
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 22, Revolutions of 1830 and 1848

ROGERS: The Communist Manifesto, 195-201

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14. (4/9) AN AGE OF NATIONALISM AND REALISM
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 23, The France of Napoleon III and the Unification of Italy and Germany

ROGERS: (Garibaldi, Victor Emmanuel, Bismarck, 213-220)

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15. (4/10) IMPERIAL STATES IN MID-CENTURY
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 23, Austria, Russia and Great Britain

ROGERS:

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16. (4/15) SCIENCE AND CULTURE IN AN AGE OF REALISM
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 23, Charles Darwin and the Theory of Organic Evolution

ROGERS: (Darwin, Strong, Pearson, Morris, 220-227)

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17.(4/16) MIDTERM EXAM

18. (4/17) MASS SOCIETY IN AN "AGE OF PROGRESS"
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 24, The Emergence of Mass Society and the Beginnings of Feminism

ROGERS: (Roland and Deroine, Parkman 252-256; Butler, Pankhurst, 258-260)

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19.(4/22) THE NATIONAL STATE IN WESTERN AND EASTERN EUROPE
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 24, The Growth of Political Democracy and the Persistence of the Old Order

ROGERS: (Blunt, Twain, 238-239)

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20.(4/23) AN AGE OF MODERNITY AND ANXIETY
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 25, Intellectual Developments and Politics

ROGERS: Revolt Against Reason (Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, 260-268)

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21. (4/24) THE NEW IMPERIALISM
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 25, The Expansion of Empires and International Rivalry

ROGERS: (Chamberlain, 229-230; Kipling, Lugard, 233-235)

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22. (4/29) THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 26, The Road to World War I

ROGERS: The Celebration of War, (Treitschke, Wilhelm II, 269-272)

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23. (4/30) WORLD WAR I
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 26, Illusions and Stalemate

ROGERS: Statutes of "The Black Hand," Assassination at Sarajevo, 275-278

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24. (5/1) WAR AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 26, The Russian Revolution

ROGERS: The First Declaration of the Provisional Government, Policy of the Petrograd Soviet 321-325

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25. (5/6) THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: PHASE II
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 26, The Civil War

ROGERS: (Lenin, 327-332)

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26. (5/7) EUROPE BETWEEN THE WARS
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 27, An Uncertain Peace and the Democratic States

ROGERS: The Weimar Constitution, The Devaluation of Currency, The Kellogg-Briand Pact 374-379

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27. (5/8) SOVIET TOTALITARIANISM
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 27, Soviet Russia

ROGERS: (Stalin, Vyshynsky, Gurian, 339-354)

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28.(5/13) FASCIST ITALY
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 26, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

ROGERS: (Mussolini, Hitler, Hindenburg, 366-373)

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29.(5/14) NAZI GERMANY
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 27,

ROGERS:

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30. (5/15) CULTURAL TRENDS IN THE INTERWAR YEARS
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 27, The Expansion of Mass Culture and Intellectual Trends

ROGERS: (Eliot, Whitehead, Woolf, Freud, 304-310)

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31. (5/20) THE DEEPENING OF THE EUROPEAN CRISIS
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 28, Prelude to World War II

ROGERS: (Hitler, Chamberlain, 410-416)

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32. (5/21) THE COURSE OF WORLD WAR II
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 28, The Turning Points of the War and the Last Years of the War

ROGERS: (Bogenhardt, Churchill, 423-430)

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33. (5/22) THE NAZI NEW ORDER AND THE HOLOCAUST
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 28, The Nazi Empire, the Holocaust and the Frontline Civilians

ROGERS: (Wiesel, Hoess, Gerstein, 480-488)

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34. (5/28) THE END AND THE AFTERMATH OF THE WAR
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 28, The Conferences at Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam

ROGERS: The Aftermath of the War, 455-460

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35. (5/29) THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN RETROSPECT
SPIELVOGEL: Ch. 28, Conclusion

ROGERS: (Halsman, Sartre, 458-460)

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36. FINAL EXAMINATIONS; DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED



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