The books are available at the Anglo-American Book Store (Via delle Vite, 102). Additional course readings are available on-line or on reserve in the library.
The textbook reading (Noble et al) complements the lectures by providing you with further contextual information and different interpretations of past events. You should do the textbook reading for the day it is assigned.
The on-line historical sources will provide the basis for our classroom discussions. You must read and think about those assigned for a particular class period before coming to that class. Otherwise, you will be unable to participate adequately and your participation grade will suffer. You should also bring printouts of online material to class on the days that we are discussing it. If you need additional print credits to do so, I will be happy to sign a print-credit waiver form.
Please note that in using on-line primary sources I am not endorsing the more general content and intent of many of the websites on which they are found.
Important Course Policies
All late work will be penalized by at least one letter grade. No late work will be accepted following the final examination.
Any documented case of academic dishonesty on any assignment will result not only in a failing grade for the assignment in question but also in a failing grade for the course as a whole. If you have questions about how to cite material properly, refer to the appropriate sections of the MLA Style Manual or Chicago Manual of Style (or talk to me). There are copies of both in the reference section of the library downstairs. Please note that also submitting work that you have previously submitted (or plan to submit) for credit in another course is also a form of academic dishonesty, unless you obtain explicit approval from both instructors to do so. For this course, no such double submission is allowed. Please note that your papers may be submitted to turnitin.com to check their content for plagiarism.
Accessing Shared Documents on MyJCU
1. Go to the internal web site (MY JCU).
2. After you have logged in, click on the course post-it for Spring 2015, HS 121. Then click on shared files.
3. You should then be able to access any course handouts not accessible by clicking the links on this syllabus.
4. Be sure to check the handouts page frequently for changes and updates. Similarly, I will post messages on the MyJCU board should I need to contact you in between class meetings (e.g., in the case of an unexpected class cancellation).
Course Schedule (Please note that the following is subject to change--any updates will be made to the on-line syllabus, available on the University's webpage: http://www.johncabot.edu/academics/courses/course-schedules-syllabi.aspx.)
1/20 Introductions: The “West” in 1500
Recommended: Noble, Preface
1/22 Christendom Falls Apart: The Wars of Religion
Noble, Ch. 15
DISCUSSION: Documents on the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre and the Edict of Nantes (Handouts)
1/27 The English Revolution: The Political Implications of Religious Change
Noble, Ch. 16
DISCUSSION:
"The Edict of Nantes" (Handouts)
“The True Levellers Standard Advanced, 1649” http://www.diggers.org/diggers/tlsa.htm
“The Bill of Rights, 1689” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1689billofrights.html
1/29 Reworking Political Order: Constitutionalism and Absolutism
DISCUSSION:
Locke, “Two Treatises of Government, 1690” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1690locke-sel.html
Hobbes, “Leviathan, Chaps 13-14, 1651” http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/hobbes-lev13.asp
"Additional Excerpts From Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan" (MyJCU)
Domat, “ On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1687domat.html
Saint-Simon, “The Court of Louis XIV” http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/17stsimon.asp
Explore the Palace of Versailles http://en.chateauversailles.fr/homepage
2/3
Making Order: Manners and Military Drill
DISCUSSION:
French Military Ordinance—(MyJCU)
“Manner Guides” in Elias, The Civilizing Process (Handouts)
2/5
New Ways of Ordering the Universe: The Scientific Revolution
Noble, Ch. 17
DISCUSSION:
Copernicus, “Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, 1543”
http://history-world.org/copernicus.htm
Galilei, “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/galileo-tuscany.html
“The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1630galileo.html
Bellarmine, “Letter on Galileo's Theories, 1615” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1615bellarmine-letter.html
2/10 Order and Disorder in Town and Countryside: Old Regime Society and Economics
DISCUSSION:
“Social Conditions in 17th Century France” http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/17france-soc.asp
“Accounts of the ‘Potato Revolution,’ 1695 – 1845”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1695potato.html
“The Saint Marcel Neighborhood,” “Apprentices and Masters,” and “A Bread Riot,” from Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
(http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/) (HANDOUT)
2/12 Motion in the System: Atlantic Empires, Slavery, and the First World Wars
Noble, Ch. 18
DISCUSSION:
“Le Code Noir”
https://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/335/
“Life of Gustavus Vassa”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Vassa.html
Explore Images of the Slave Trade and Slave Life in “The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record”
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/
2/17 Critique and Reordering the World of Learning: The Enlightenment
DISCUSSION:
Condorcet, “The Future Progress of the Human Mind”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/condorcet-progress.html
Kant, “What is Enlightenment?, 1784”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kant-whatis.html
“Salon Life”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/18salons.html
Hume, “On Miracles”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/hume-miracles.html
2/19 Whose Order? Whose Rights?: The French Revolution
Noble, Ch. 19
DISCUSSION:
“Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen”
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
Gouge, “Declaration of the Rights of Women, 1791”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791degouge1.html
Robespierre, “Justification of the Use of Terror”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robespierre-terror.html
“The French Revolutionary Calendar” http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-french.html
2/24 The Ends of Empires?: Atlantic Revolutions and Antislavery
DISCUSSION :
“The Declaration of Independence” http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/compare.htm (Be sure to compare the final version with Jefferson’s “Rough Draft.”)
“Natural and Inalienable Right to Freedom”: Slaves ’Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Legislature, 1777”
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6237/
“Haitian Declaration of Independence” (MyJCU)
2/26 Towards New Imperial Orders?
DISCUSSION:
Handouts on Napoleon
3/3 Midterm Exam
3/5 New Ways of Working and Living: The Impact of the Industrial Revolution
Noble, Ch. 20
DISCUSSION:
“Women Miners in the English Coal Pits”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1842womenminers.html
Engels, “Industrial Manchester, 1844”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1844engels.html
Wordsworth, "The Excursion", 1814
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1814wordsworth.html
“Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/indrevtabs1.html
“Spread of Railways in 19th Century”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/indrev6.html
3/10 Responses to the Revolutions, Part 1: Political Ideologies and Revolutions
Noble, Ch. 21
DISCUSSION
Metternich, “Political Confession of Faith, 1820”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1820metternich.html
Smiles, “Self Help, 1882”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1882smiles.html
“Chartism: The People's Petition, 1838”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1838chartism.html
Blanc, “The Organisation of Labour, 1840”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1840blanc.html
Kropotkin, “Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal, 1896”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1896kropotkin.html
3/12 Responses to the Revolutions, Part 2: Nationalism and Unifications
Noble, Ch. 22
DISCUSSION:
Renan, “What is a Nation?” (Excerpts on MyJCU)
3/17 The Birth of Mass Society and Politics: Ongoing Industrialization and Urbanization
Noble, Ch. 23
DISCUSSION:
Taylor, “The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1911taylor.html
3/19 Class Cancelled
3/24 New Visions: Mass and Avant-garde Culture
DISCUSSION:
Darwin, “The Descent of Man, 1871”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871darwin.asp
Nietzsche, “Excerpts”
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111niet.html
3/26 Global Domination: The “New Imperialism” and the New Empires
Noble, Ch. 24
DISCUSSION:
Kipling, “The White Man's Burden, 1899”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html
“British Missionary Letters Urging the Annexation of The South Sea Islands, 1883”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1883hebrides.html
Ferry (1832-1893), “On French Colonial Expansion” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1884ferry.html
Pearson, "National Life From the Standpoint of Science, 1900" http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1900pearsonl.asp
3/31 Total War, part 1: World War I
Noble, Ch. 25
DISCUSSION:
“1914-1918 - Casualty Figures”
http://www.worldwar1.com/tlcrates.htm
“World War I Poetry”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914warpoets.html
Niepage, “The Armenian Massacres”
http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/armenianmassacres.htm
4/2 From War to Revolution: Russia and the Bolsheviks
DISCUSSION:
Propaganda Posters
http://www.firstworldwar.com/posters/russia.htm
Start Reading Primo Levi, If This is a Man
4/14 Change and Crisis: Gender Revolutions and Economic Disasters
Noble, Ch. 26
DISCUSSION :
Pankhurst, “Militant Suffragist, 1913”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1913pankhurst.html
Pankhurst, “My Own Story, 1914” (Focus on Chapter IV) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914Pankhurst.html
Kollontai, “The Social Basis of the Woman Question, 1909”
https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1909/social-basis.htm
Fashion Photographs of Louise Brooks from the 1920's
http://www.pandorasbox.com/galleries/fashion.html
Continue Reading Primo Levi, If This is a Man
4/16 Totalitarian Responses: Fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism
Noble, Ch. 27
DISCUSSION:
Mussolini, “What is Fascism?”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html
Hitler, Excerpts from Speeches and Mein Kampf
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111hit1.html
“Hymn to Stalin”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/stalin-worship.html
Continue Reading Primo Levi, If This is a Man
4/21 Total War, part 2: World War II and Genocide
Noble, Ch. 28
DISCUSSION:
Levi, If This is a Man
Short Paper on If This is a Man Due (NOTE THIS HAS CHANGED)
4/23 A New Global Struggle: The Cold War
Noble, Ch. 29
4/24 FRIDAY--Make-up For March 19--12:00-14:30, T.1.1.
The Ends of Empires?: Decolonization
Film, The Battle of Algiers
4/28 The “West” in an Age of Integration and Immigration
Noble, Ch. 30
DISCUSSION:
Skrewdriver, “Europe Awake” and “Before The Night Falls”
http://www.metrolyrics.com/europe-awake-lyrics-skrewdriver.html
http://www.metrolyrics.com/before-the-night-falls-lyrics-skrewdriver.html
Noir Désir, “A Day In France” (Handout)
Asian Dub Foundation, “Fortress Europe” (Handout)
The Clash, “Whiteman in Hammersmith Palais” (Handout)
MC Solaar, “Le Nouveau Western” (Handout)
4/30 Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?
DISCUSSION:
Web Assignment—Trends, Directions, Institutions
FINAL EXAM WEEK: MAY 2-8