Centre for Comparative and Public History Department of History Chinese University of Hong Kong In-Service Teacher Training Course The Making of the Modern World

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A. Recap of “The Making of the Modern World” 1. French Revolution a.) Edmund Burke and Reflections on the Revolution in France b.) Maximilien Robespierre, Justification of the Use of Terror i.) Discussion of conservative government traditions versus the use of “Terror” to safeguard revolutionary gains c.) Napoleonic civil code d.) The Revolutionary Calendar 2. Industry, Restoration, Romanticism, and (a form of) Revolution a.) The case of child labor, “The Sadler Report” i.) Discussion of child labor in industrial revolution & the current case of the Gap in India b.) The Carlsbad Decrees i.) Discussion of motivations of Prince Clemens von Metternich as revealed by his writings c.) Lord Byron and Alexander Pushkin i.) Discussion of Romanticism as an artistic and political movement and its currency today d.) Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species i.) Evolution assignment - “Charting the Evolution of the Theory of Evolution” ii.) Creationism examples and consideration of them 3. Revolutions (of 1848), Consolidation (Germany and Italy) a.) Trouble for the Hapsburgs i.) Discussion, how did such a diverse empire endure? b.) Mazzini, “On Nationality” i.) Discussion, what did nationalism offer to Europeans at the mid-point of the nineteenth century and how is it used today? c.) Bismarck, “Blood and Iron” i.) Discussion, which methods of national unification proved more effective, German or Italian? 4. Fin de Siecle Ennui a.) “Rerum Novarum,” by Pope Leo XIII i.) Discussion, did Pope Leo XIII deserve the title, “the workingman’s Pope, why or why not?” b.) “Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal,” by Peter Kropotkin i.) Discussion, what is anarchism’s most appealing aspect; under what circumstances might it succeed? c.) Oscar Wilde and the state of personal affairs, The Importance of Being Earnest i.) Discussion, what made late Victorian values ripe for satire? B. An Informed and Partisan Public 1. Rise of the popular press 2. Images of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era a.) Analysis of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era caricatures C. (Re) Building the Nation 1. Building classical Edinburgh 2. The Great Stink and London public works and public health 3. Haussmann and the reconstruction of Paris a.) Discussion, what do cities say about the people who design and construct them? D. Remarkable changes in ordinary lives 1. The Chartist movement 2. Emancipation (of the serfs in Russia) 3. Suffragism a.) Discussion, given the many scientific, social, and political advances of the nineteenth century, why were so many people purposely left behind? E. Ideologies 1. Romanticism, nationalism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism a.) Discussion, to whom would each of these ideologies appeal, why? 2. The Internationale a.) Discussion, what devices insert something into the popular memory and which are most effective or ineffective?