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Nancy J. Curtin
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
HSRU 1000
Prof. Nancy Curtin
Spring 2009
THE WEST: FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE PRESENT
Course description
In this lecture course we will explore the making of the modern world, starting with the fundamental intellectual, social, political, and economic transformations which occurred in the eighteenth century and concluding with a survey of the traumatic twentieth century.
Written assignments and exams
Midterm exam (20%) – on Mar. 25
Paper (20%) – 3-5 pages due Apr. 14 – see Paper Assignments document
Quizzes (20%) -- 7 or 8 short quizzes (two lowest scores dropped)
Class Participation (10%) – both class discussion and weekly postings to the class discussion board at fordham.blackboard.com.
Final (30%)
Required readings
Chambers, et. al., The Western Experience, vol. C: The Modern Era (see http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/history/west/chamb/ for the on-line student resources for this text)
All texts and documents listed below are available on line via my web page at www.fordham.edu/history/curtin and on the syllabus on the course page at Blackboard, fordham.blackboard.com.
Course Schedule of Meetings and Readings
Jan. 13-16 - Introduction and Old Regime Europe
Jan. 20-23 - The Enlightenment
Chambers, ch. 19
Voltaire, "Tolerance" from the Philosophical Dictionary
Montesquieu, from The Spirit of the Laws
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from The Social Contract
Jan. 27-30 - French Revolution
Chambers, ch. 20
Abbe Sieyes, What is the Third Estate?
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 1789
Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women
Declaration of Independence
La Marseillaise
Maximilien Robespierre, On the Principles of Political Morality
Feb.3-6 - Napoleon/The age of Restoration and Reaction
Chambers, pp. 762-72
From the Memoirs of Prince Metternich
Feb. 10-13 - The Industrial Revolution
Chambers, pp. 773-93
Evidence given before the Sadler Committee
Testimony gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission
Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions
Andrew Ure, from The Philosophy of the Manufacturers
Feb. 18-20 - Liberalism
Chambers, ch. 23
Thomas Malthus, from the Essay on Population
David Ricardo, "The Iron Law of Wages"
Feb. 24-27 - Socialism
Karl Marx, "The Fetishism of Commodities" from Capital
The Internationale
Midterm: Feb. 25
Mar. 3-6 - Nationalism and the Unification of Germany
Chambers, ch. 24
Documents of German Unification, 1848-1871
Mar. 10-13 - Imperialism
Chambers, ch. 25
Herbert Spencer, "Progress: Its Law and Causes"
Jules Ferry on French Colonial Expansion
John Hobson, from Imperialism
Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden"
Edward Morel, "The Black Man's Burden"
George Orwell. “Shooting the Elephant”
Mar. 24-27 - International Rivalry and World War I
Chambers, ch. 26-7
From the Journal of Private Fraser, 1914-18
War Poets
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Charge of the Light Brigade”
Mar. 31- Apr. 3 - The Russian Revolution
Chambers, pp. 984-1006
Vladimir Illyich Lenin, from What is to be Done
Vladimir Illyich Lenin, April Theses
Apr. 7-8 - The Russian Revolution (cont.)
Alexandra Kollantai, The Worker's Opposition
Vladimir Illyich Lenin, "Our Revolution"
Apr. 14-17 - Germany Between the Wars
Chambers, pp. 1007-1035
Versailles Treaty, excerpts
Adolph Hitler, Speech, 1921
Horst Wessel Song
From the Nuremburg Laws, 1935
SS Racial Policy
The Poisoned Mushroom
Wannsee Conference
Papers due: Apr. 14
Apr. 21-24 - World War II
Chambers, ch. 29
Apr. 28-29 - Cold War
Chambers, ch. 30
Final Exam: Tuesday, May 5, 1:30-3:30
Office Hours
618Dealy (x0730)
nancy.curtin@verizon.net
10:30-11:30 Tues.
12:30-1:30 Wed.
or by appointment
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