HS210 Sp24 Class schedule:
Week 1 (Jan.15-17)
Introduction to the course - The Ancien régime and the French revolution
Week 2. (Jan. 22-24)
Napoleon - The long French revolution(s)
Week 3 (Jan. 29-31)
Industry and empire – Queen Victoria
Week 4 (Feb. 5-7-9)
The German unification – Austria under Franz Joseph - The Russian Empire
Week 5 (Feb. 12-14-16)
Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto – The Risorgimento – Europe overseas
Exam questions posted on Moodle
Week 6 (Feb. 19-21)
The Paris of Baron Haussmann – Crystal Palace
Week 7 (Feb. 26-28)
Spring break
Week 8 (March 4-6)
Review session – Midterm exam
Week 9 (March 11-13)
The Dreyfus Affair – A New Europe for the Old
Deadline for first 4 page paper
Week 10 (March 18-20)
The second industrial revolution – Europe and the Americas
Week 11 (March 25-27)
Russia and the Romanov – The decline of the Ottoman Empire
Week 12 (Apr. 3)
The New Imperialism – The civilizing mission and the Belgian atrocities
Week 13 (Apr. 8-10)
Education, science and architecture - Modern psychoanalysis
Week 14 (Apr. 15-17)
Impressionism - A Belle Epoque?
Final exam questions posted on Moodle
Week 15 (Apr. 22-24)
War and Peace: from the Entente Cordiale to WWI - Review session -
Deadline for second 4 page paper
Deadline for 8 page paper
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