Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
| The age of empires (A) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 3-36. | | |
| Origins of the First World War (A) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 41-63
AND / OR David Stevenson, The Outbreak of the First World War: 1914 in perspective, MacMillan, Basingstoke and London, 1997, pp. 2-38 (moodle)
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| The course of the First World War (A) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 63-105. | | |
| Revolution in the Old World: the Soviet Union and beyond (A) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 107-137 AND/OR Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991, Abacus, London, 1995, pp. 54-78 (moodle) | | |
| The Great Illusion: the Treaty of Versailles and its revisions (A) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 141-176 AND/OR Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century, Penguin Books, London, 1998, pp. 40-76 (moodle) | | |
| Italian and European Fascism (A) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 179-199, 225-227. | | |
| The Great Depression: the US, Europe and the world (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 261-277 AND Ben S. Bernanke: Money, gold and the Great Depression, Remarks by Mr Ben S Bernanke, Member of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System, at the H Parker Willis Lecture in Economic Policy, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 2 March 2004. | | |
| The Weimar Republic and Hitler's rise to power (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 188-190, 213-219, 277-281. | | |
| Totalitarianism compared: the Stalinist Soviet Union (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 227-230, 288-293. | | |
| Totalitarianism compared: the Nazi regime (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 281 - 288. | | |
| The road to war (1): authoritarianism in Southern Europe (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 224, 299-324 | | |
| The road to war (2): international crisis and the politics of appeasement (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 329-351. | | |
| The course of the Second World War (1): repression and resistance in the Nazi New Order (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 355-384 AND/OR Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century, Penguin Books, London, 1998, pp. 141-184 (moodle) | | |
| The course of the Second World War (2): why the allies won? (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 390-400 AND Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won, Randomhouse, London, 2006, pp. 386-401 (moodle) | | |
| Midterm exam to be held in class | | | |
| Origins of the Cold War: the Iron Curtain and the division of Europe (A) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 400-422 AND/OR Tony Judt, Postwar: a History of Europe since 1945, Penguin Press, New York, 2005, pp. 129-165 (moodle) | | |
| Western Europe from War to Peace (A) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 425-433 AND/OR Tony Judt, Postwar: a History of Europe since 1945, Penguin Press, New York, 2005, pp. 360-390 (moodle) | | |
| Stalinism and De-Stalinization in Eastern Europe (A) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 447-479 AND/OR Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century, Penguin Books, London, 1998, pp. 253-290 (moodle) | | |
| The European post-war economic boom (A) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 503-515 AND Stephen Broadberry and Kevin O’Rourke (Eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe, Volume 2: 1870 to the present, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010, pp. 296-333 (Moodle) | Outline of individual paper due | |
| Europe and decolonization: an international perspective (A) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 479-487 AND/OR Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Time, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp. 73-130 (moodle) | | |
| 1968: social and cultural change (A) | Tony Judt, Postwar: a History of Europe since 1945, Penguin Press, New York, 2005, pp. 390-422 (moodle) AND/OR Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 516-539.
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| Ostpolitik and Détente (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 540-548 | | |
| European democracies and the crisis of the 1970s (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 548-551, 558-559 AND Tony Judt, Postwar: a History of Europe since 1945, Penguin Press, New York, 2005, pp. 553-484 (moodle) | | |
| Dictatorship and its demise in Southern Europe (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, 559-562 AND/OR Tony Judt, Postwar: a History of Europe since 1945, Penguin Press, New York, 2005, pp. 504-525 (moodle) | | |
| The Brezhnev Era (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 613-639 | | |
| The new politics of the 1980s (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 551-558 AND Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century, Penguin Books, London, 1998, pp. 332-366 (moodle) | | |
| Collapse: Gorbachev and the demise of the Soviet Union (B) | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 643-652 AND/OR Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991, Abacus, London, 1995, pp. 461-500 (moodle) | | |
| Who won the Cold War? Unipolarity and European integration | Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Fifth Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, 2012, pp. 652-673 | Electronic copy of individual papers due at 6 pm on the last day of class | |
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