HISTORY 335: EUROPE IN THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY, 1890-1945
Winter 2003
Professor
Joe Lunn, Department of Social Sciences - History
Room: 2119 CX Telephone:
436-9184; Home: (734) 741-4465
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday: 12:00-12:30 and 2:00-3:00 p.m.or by
appointment
TEXT:
Felix Gilbert, The End of the European Era, 1890 to the Present.
4th ed. Norton.
READINGS:
D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers. Penguin.
J. Conrad, Heart of Darkness. Penguin.
S. Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Farber &
Farber.
A. Koestler, Darkness at Noon. Bantam.
G. Orwell, My Country Left or Right: The Collected Essays. Godine.
P. Levi, Survival in Auschwitz.
Macmillan.
FILMS:
Battleship Potemkin, Cabinet of Dr.
Calagari, Triumph of the Will
SCHEDULE:
Week
Topics
Text (Chapters) Readings/Films
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1/6 |
Introduction:
Significance of Europe |
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1/8-13 |
Western
Europe: Economic, Social, and Political Foundations |
|
Lawrence
(Part 1) |
|
1/15,
1/22 |
Eastern
Europe: Economic, Social, and Political Foundations |
1-3 |
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1/20
|
Martin
Luther King Jr. Day (No Class) |
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1/27-29 |
Age
of Imperialism |
4 |
Conrad |
|
2/3-10 |
The
First World War |
5 |
Sassoon |
|
2/12-17 |
The
Russian Revolution |
5 |
Battleship Potemkin |
|
2/19 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION:
IN CLASS |
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2/24-26 |
Search for
Stability |
6-7 |
Dr. Caligari |
|
3/3-5 |
Spring
Break (No Class) |
|
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3/10-17 |
Economic
Depression: Fascism, Communism, Liberal Democracy |
8-9 |
Koestler |
|
3/19-24 |
Hitler’s
War |
9-10 |
Orwell
(War Diaries) |
|
3/26-31 |
The
Holocaust |
|
Levi |
|
4/2-7 |
Collaboration,
Resistance, and Liberation |
10 |
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4/9-14 |
The End of
the European Era: Division and Decolonization |
11 |
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4/16 |
TAKE HOME FINAL EXAMINATION: DUE
IN CLASS |
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