Feb 11 Feb 12 Feb 13 Feb 16 Feb 17 Feb 18 Feb 20 Feb 23 Feb 25 Feb 27 Mar 1 Mar 2 Mar 3 Mar 5 Mar 8 PART II. LIBERTY VERSUS EQUALITY W Feb 11 lecture: Industrial Revolution Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Child labor - Go to Supporters of Child Labour; click on Dale, Althorp, Ure and Greg: What were arguments for and against child labor? Go to Life in the Factory and Factory Workers: What was it like to work in early industrial factories? Go to Factory Acts and Statistics: What did the factory acts accomplish? From the statistics on height and weight, what might one infer regarding health of factory children? R Feb 12 e-lecture: In The Wake of Revolution Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France - Burke founded modern conservatism. What were his criticisms of the French Revolution, and how might these define what you think of as conservative ideals? Peterloo - What was the "Peterloo massacre"? Do different types of sources-- visual representations, media accounts, reports by eyewitnesses-- tell different stories about the event? Map of German Confederation F Feb 13 lecture: Inventing Industrial Society, I: Economic Change and Cultural Reactions Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Malthus, Essay on Population - What was his argument concerning the growth of population? Why was his outlook pessimistic? Ricardo, Iron Law of Wages - What was his "iron law of wages," the natural law by which wages were regulated? What did he advocate regarding government's role in establishing wages? Baudelaire, What is Romanticism? - What was Romanticism, according to Baudelaire? Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People Coleridge, Kubla Khan How do Delacroix's painting and Coleridge's poem exemplify the ideals of Romanticism? Map of Zollverein M Feb 16 lecture: Inventing Industrial Society, II: Intellectual and Social Responses Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Mill, On Liberty - What is the "tyranny of the majority" and why is it a problem? How do Mill's arguments form the basis of classical liberalism? socialisms - Read to establish an overview of how socialism developed. Robert Owen, A New View of Society - Robert Owen articulated an alternative to Marxian socialism. What characterized his thought? T Feb 17 e-lecture: 1848: The Revolution that Wasn't Before Class Assignment In Class Guide 1848 timeline - Read to establish an overview of how the revolutions of 1848 developed. Revolution of 1848 in France - How does the language and message of the proclamations compare with the documents from 1789? Hungarian Declaration of Independence - How did the Hungarians justify their revolution? Hungarian national song - Where might it combine romanticism and nationalism? W Feb18 discussion: Marxian Socialism See Coursebook images of Marx F Feb 20 lecture: Age of Nationalism Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Arndt, German Fatherland - How do geography, history, language and culture affect national identity? Mazzini, On the Duties of Man - In Mazzini's thought, how did liberalism and nationalism intersect? Paris Commune Sergei Witte on the Russian economy Ukhtomskii, Russia's Imperial \Destiny - According to Ukhtomskii, what was Russia's imperial destiny, and how was this rela\ted to Russian nationalism? Documents of German Unification - From the perspective of power politics, how did modern Germany come into being? Why did one Prussian king refuse a German crown in 1849 while another accepted it in 1871? von Beust, Ausgleich - According to von Beust, what were the two problems facing Austria? (Note how the map for today reveals the second problem.) How was the Ausgleich a solution to both problems? map of Austria-Hungary M Feb 23 lecture: Life in European Urban Society Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Dickens' London Jack the Ripper London sewers How do Dickens' fiction, the Ripper murders and sewers reveal what life was like in nineteenth-century London? W Feb 25 discussion: Urban Life See Coursebook London in 1827 London in 1859 London in 1889 Birmingham Manche ster F Feb 27 lecture: Second Industrial Revolution Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Baron, Chemical Industry - Why might the rise of its chemical industry have helped Germany overtake Britain as the leading economy of Europe? Titanic - What does the story of the Titanic reveal about modern technological society? Second Paper Due M Mar 1 lecture: Masses and Classes Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Chamberlain, Radical Programme Blease, New Liberalism Chamberlain and Blease: Use these documents to characterize the shift from classical to modern liberalism, and the connection between the latter and the ideals of socialism. Bernstein, Evolutionary Socialism - Why did Berstein disconnect revolutionary means and socialist ends? Use this document to define social democrats/revisionists. Program of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party - To what degree is there any change from Marxist socialism? Try to relate Bolshevik ideology to the Russian situation at the turn of the century. Pius X, Oath Against Modernism - What was the Catholic church's response to the modernist movement in thought? Impressionism T Mar 2 e-lecture: Modern Imperialism Before Class Assignment In Class Guide tables on empires - What do the tables and maps reveal about the nineteenth century European empires? Lugard, Rise of Our East African Empire Cromer, Why Britain Acquired Egypt How did Lugard and Cromer justify British expansion in north and east Africa? Ferry, French Colonial Expansion - What arguments did Ferry use to promote French colonial expansion? Program of the Pan-German League - How did the Pan-German League and Kaiser William II justify expanding Germany's empire? Kaiser Wilhelm II, A Place in the Sun map of China Blunt, Britain 's Imperial Destiny Hobson, Imperialism On what basis did Blunt and Hobson criticize modern imperialism? W Mar 3 discussion: Women in Modern Europe See Coursebook F Mar 5 lecture: Origins of WWI Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Maps - Using maps 2-4, note the shifting alliances during the generation before World War I. Alliances (Franco-Russian, Entente Cordiale, Anglo-Russian): When, why, for whom, against whom, long-term repercussions. Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention Entente Cordiale Anglo-Russian Entente Black Hand, articles 1-4, 29-35 - What was the role of nationalism in the Balkans? von Bernhardi, The Next War - Bernhardi was a leading German military thinker. Looking at Chap. 1, how did he view the prospects and utility of war? German militarism - Note culture of military in pre-war Germany. M Mar 8 SECOND EXAM

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