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EUN 00 Syllabus 2012 CLARK UNIVERSITY Spring 2012 HIST 118 Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1918 Professor Thomas Kühne Office Hours: Tues 12:30-1:00 pm Jeff 316; 1:00-1:30 pm StrassLer Center, 2nd fl. Phone: (508) 793-7523, emaiL: [email protected] TA: Hanna SChmidt HoLLänder, [email protected], Strassler C., 3rd fl. CLass Times: Tues and Thurs, 10:25-11:40 am The BarriCades at the Corner of Kronenstrasse and FriedriChstrasse in BerLin, Prussia, MarCh 18-19, 1848. CoLored lithograph by F.G. Nordmann, 1848. http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.Cfm?image_id=2313 Description This course examines the rise of modern soCieties and poLitiCs in Europe between the FrenCh RevoLution in 1789 and the destruCtion of European monarChies and empires through new revolutions at the end of the First World War. Covering various regions of Europe, the course expLores the dramatiC, often revoLutionary Changes of poLitiCaL regimes and CuLtures, soCiaL hierarChies and identities, and symboLiC patterns of Life that have shaped the “Long” 19th century, such as the industriaLization, the urbanization, nation-buiLding proCesses, the rise imperiaList, raCist, soCiaList, and women’s movements, and the emergenCe of new views on heaLth, bodies, and sexuaLity. Grading and Practical Arrangements A maximum of 100 points Can be aChieved with: - 30 points for the first in-CLass exam - 30 points for the second in-CLass exam - 10 points for three quizzes (5 points each; only the two best wilL count) - 20 points for the response paper. - 10 points for reguLar CLass attendance, continuous input in CLass discussion, and regular attendance at the reading sessions 100-96 points=A, 95-91 points=A-, 90-86 points=B+, 85-81=B, 80-76 points=B-, etc. Each exam consists of six questions out of which five are to be answered during CLass time (75 minutes). The exams address generaL issues, deveLopments and key terms; if you take Care of the reading assignments and partiCipate aCtiveLy in CLass you wiLL easiLy Cope with the exams. The first exam covers weeks 1-7, the second covers weeks 8-14. The quizzes are short muLtipLe-choice tests covering readings and Lectures of the previous two weeks and are to be taken within approximateLy 5 minutes in CLass. The dates of the quizzes wiLL not be announCed. You Cannot make up a quiz (in Case you miss CLass) but you Can miss or faiL one quiz without negative impaCt on your finaL grade. There are two options for the response paper. One is a historicalLy informed analysis of the novel of Joseph Roth, Radetzkymarch, the other is a historical analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s pLay The Doll’s House, see below for references. Expected are four to six doubLe-spaced pages, topic and title of your ChoiCe, but you may Consider focusing on the way Joseph Roth is Looking at the politiCal and sociaL reaLity of the Late Habsburg Empire or on the way Henrik Ibsen evaLuates and understands the upComing feminist movement. Either paper is to be based on CLose reading of the text chosen and on two additionaL primary or seCondary scholarly sources. (These are articles in scholarly journals, or books, or book chapters. Internet sources 2 without identifiabLe author, e.g. Wikipedia, do not count for this purpose.) Please title the paper. The paper on Ibsen is due in class on March 29, the paper on Roth is due in CLass on ApriL 10. (Only one paper, either on Roth or on Ibsen, is required.) Late papers are penalized by a deduction of three points per late day. AlL readings are to be CompLeted on the day assigned, before you Come to CLass. PLease bring both the readings and the notes you take from the readings to CLass so that you can folLow and participate in the class disCussion. You are supposed to attend class as well as reading sessions reguLarly. It is your responsibility to sign the attendance sheet both of classes and reading sessions. One or two absences of class wilL not inflict your grade. Further absences without ConvinCing doCumentation (for exampLe, an originaL, signed doCtor’s note stipuLating the nature of the siCkness) will result in a deduction of two points each. Although the Course foCuses on Nazi Germany and the HoLoCaust, it serves to introduCe students more generaLLy to teChniques of historiCal sCholarship as well as praCtiCes of aCademiC CommuniCation. The required readings are carefully chosen, but none of them shouLd be mistaken as Comprising a finaL truth. Thus, try to understand the basiC assumptions, the main arguments, and the Limitations of any text you read. Critique is the oil of knowledge. In class, feel invited to speak up and to artiCuLate your thoughts and ideas, even if they do not CompLy with those of your CLassmates or the professor. CheCking emaiLs on a reguLar basis and staying ConneCted with friends and the rest of the worLd is important. Do not do it in CLass, though. Laptops, CeLL phones, iPods, iPads, game boys, DVD pLayers and other electronic devices are inclined to distract you or your CLass mates from LeCtures and disCussions. They are to be switChed off during CLass. Most of the leCtures will be based on detailed PowerPoint presentations. These will be avaiLabLe on CICADA, usuaLLy within 24 hours. Reading sessions will be held on a regular basis, typically once a week. It is highly reCommended to attend them. Regular attendees of the reading sessions will automatiCaLLy be granted the maximum of points for CLass attendance etc. (See above on grading.) Extra credit of 5 points can be earned by giving a short oral in-CLass presentation (preferabLy by ‘playing the devil’s advocate’) on one of the folLowing topics: - Baron Metternich: Justification of the Karlsbad Decrees (Feb 2) - Women in the 1848 Revolutions: “Why Our Protest is Different” (Feb 9) - A BerLin FaCtory Owner expLains the Code of DisCipLine (Feb 16) - Ernest Renan: “What is a Nation?” (Feb 21) - Prussian Prime Minister Otto von BismarCk “Not through speeChes and majority deCisions wiLL the great questions of the day be deCided […] but by iron and bLood." (Feb 23) 3 - Eduard Bernstein: “Evolutionary Socialism – A Critique of Marx” (March 20) - EmiLe ZoLa, “J’AcCuse!” (March 22) - Baron von Instetten: “Why the Code of honor requires me to ChaLLenge the Lover of my wife to a dueL” (Effi Briest) (March 27) - Max Nordau, “Degeneration” (ApriL 3) - Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (ApriL 5) - V. I. Lenin: “ImperiaLism, the Highest Stage of World CapitaLism” (ApriL 5) - Kaiser WiLLiam II: “Why Germany Needs a Place in the Sun” (ApriL 12) These jobs are assigned on a first-Come-first-serve basis, but you need to sign up for it at least one week ahead; sources are available on the web or provided by the instructor. Required Texts John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, vol. 2 (2nd ed., New York & London: W.W. Norton, 2004). Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March (New York: Everyman’s Library, 1996) (Austrian originaL 1932). AlL other required texts are available onLine or on CICADA. Course Outline Week I: Introduction Jan 17: Course OutLine and PraCtiCaL Arrangements No reading Jan 19: OLd Regime and New Ideas: the 18th Century Reading: ImmanueL Kant, What is Enlightenment? (1784), and idem, "Of National Characteristics, so far as they Depend upon the Distinct Feeling of the Beautiful and SubLime" (1764), http://www.fordham.edu/haLsaLL/mod/kant-whatis.asp; http://www.publiC.asu.edu/~jacquies/kant-observations.htm. 4 Week II: The French Revolution Jan 24: Reasons, Course, and Actors of the Revolution Reading: Merriman, chapter 12. Jan 26: Robespierre and the Ethics of Terror in the Modernity Reading: excerpts from Robespierre, On the Principles of Morality and idem, Justification of the Use of Terror, both 1794, http://www.fordham.edu/haLsaLL/mod/1794robespierre.html and http://www.fordham.edu/haLsaLL/mod/robespierre-terror.html; Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence (1908/1915), ch. VI, http://ia700307.us.arChive.org/2/items/refLeCtionsonvio00soreuoft/refLeCtionsonv io00soreuoft.pdf, esp. pp. 205-208, 212-228, 240-251; W.I. Lenin, quotes on the use of terror as in http://www.worLdfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Quotes/Leninkeyquotes.htm; Heinrich Himmler’s speech to SS generals in Posen, Oct 1943, http://www.holocaust-history.org/himmler-poznan/speech-text.shtml. Week III: Napoleon and tHe Great Powers Jan 31: NapoLeon’s Empire and the Code Napoleon Reading: Merriman, chapter 13. Feb 2: MetterniCh’s HoLy AlLianCe and the Restorative Spirit Reading: Merriman, chapter 15, through seCtion “Stirrings of Revolt.” (Karlsbad Decrees (1819), http://germanhistorydoCs.ghi- dC.org/sub_doCument.Cfm?doCument_id=235 to be read in class.) Week IV: THe First Industrial Revolution Feb 7: IntroduCing CapitaLism: The Spirit of Modernity I Reading: Merriman, chapter 14. 5 Feb 9: Introducing Discipline: The Spirit of Modernity II Reading: Factory Rules in Berlin, 1844, in Documents of European Economic History, vol. 1, The Process of Industrialization, 1750-1870, ed. S. PoLLard and C. HoLmes (London: ArnoLd, 1968), 534-36; exCerpts from MiCheL FouCauLt, Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison (1977) as in The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: Pantheon, 1984), 188-205. Week V: Reforms and Revolutions, 1830-1849 Feb 14: UpheavaL and Reform: the 1830s Reading: Merriman, rest of chapter 15. Feb 16: The European Revolution: 1848/49 Reading: Merriman, chapter 16. Week VI: Nationalism and the Revolution from Above Feb 21: Nation Building I: Ideas and Practices Reading: Ivan T. Berend, History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century (Berkeley: University of CaLifornia Press, 2003), 41-88. Look at J. G. Herder, Materials for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind (1794), http://www.fordham.edu/haLsaLL/mod/1784herder-mankind.html; Ernest Renan, What is a Nation? (1882), http://www.nationaLismprojeCt.org/what/renan.htm; BenediCt Anderson, Imagined Communities (1991), excerpts in http://www.nationaLismprojeCt.org/what.htm.
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