HISTORY 103: EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD: 1715 TO
THE PRESENT
Fall
2000
Professor
Joe Lunn, Social Sciences Department - History
Room: 2119 CX
Telephone: 436-9184; Home:
(734) 741-4465
Office Hours:
Tuesday 11:30-12 and 3-6; Thursday 11:30-12 and 3-3:30 or by appointment
TEXT:
McKay, Hill, and Buckler, A History
of Western Society, 5th ed, Vol. 2,
From Absolutism to the Present. Houghton.
READINGS:
Charles Dickens, Hard Times. Penguin.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles, The
Communist Manifesto.
Erich Marie Remarque, All
Quiet on the Western Front. Fawcett.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Signet.
SCHEDULE:
Date Topics Text (Chaps.) Readings
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9/7 |
Introduction:
Significance of Modern World History |
Maps |
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9/12-14 |
The
Eighteenth Century: European Intellectual, Social, and Political Trends |
18 |
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9/19-26 |
A
Revolution in Politics: The French Revolution and Napoleon |
21 |
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9/28-10/3 |
The
Industrial Revolution |
22, 24 |
Dickens |
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10/5-10 |
Nineteenth
Century Political and Social Trends: Conservatism, Liberalism,
Nationalism, and Socialism |
23 |
Marx |
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10/12-17 |
Nineteenth
Century Trends (cont.) *First Readings Exam |
25 |
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10/19 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION: IN CLASS |
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10/24-26 |
Imperial
Expansion: Europe and the World |
26 |
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10/31-11/2 |
The
First World War and the Russian Revolution (slides) |
27 |
Remarque |
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11/7-14 |
Interwar
Europe: Depression, Fascism, Communism, Liberal Democracy (slides) |
28, 29 |
Solzhenitsyn |
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11/16-21 |
The
Second World War |
29-30 |
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11/23 |
No Class: Thanksgiving |
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11/28-30 |
Post-War
Europe and the Wider World |
30-31 |
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12/5-7 |
The
Collapse of the Communist Regimes and the Future of Europe *Second Readings Exam |
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12/12 |
FINAL EXAMINATION: IN CLASS |
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