HIS 455-H001 History of the German Lands in the 19th and 20th Centuries
University of Southern Mississippi, Spring 2009 M-W-F 12:00-12:50, LAB 102
Professor Jeff Bowersox Email: [email protected] Office: LAB 454 (601-266-4519) Office Hours: M-W 10:30-12:00 or by appointment
Course introduction:
This course focuses on the development of the German lands over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will engage with a variety of topics, including nationalism and nation-building, revolution and reaction, industrialization and urbanization, changing gender roles and social structures, empire at home and abroad, mass politics and culture, Germans' roles and experiences in two world wars, Nazi racism and genocide, and division and unification in the Cold War world. The common threads running throughout will be Germans' persistent experimentation with defining "Germany" and the consequences for those variously included and excluded according to gender, class, religion, race, and ethnicity.
Course objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to Discuss with sophistication the major themes of modern German history Critically analyze primary and secondary sources Propose, organize, and construct an extended research essay that draws on both primary and secondary sources
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Course Materials:
Roth, Joseph. What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933. Trans. Michael Hofmann. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. Smith, Helmut Walser. The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Tipton, Frank B. A History of Modern Germany since 1815. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Selected readings from German History in Documents and Images (GHDI): http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/home.cfm.
All course materials are available from the Barnes & Noble on campus., but feel free to search out used copies from such sites as www.addallbooks.com, www.half.com, www.choosebooks.com, www.alibris.com, www.abebooks.com, and www.amazon.com.
Assessment:
Participation 15% The Butcher’s Tale analysis (4 pages, due 16 Feb.) 15% Midterm exam (45 minutes, 6 Mar.) 10% Research essay (10 pages, due 8 Apr.) 35% Final exam (7:00-9:30 pm, 6 May) 25% Total 100%
Course outline:
1. Mon., 12 January Introduction to course themes and expectations
2. Wed., 14 January The state of the German lands in 1815 Tipton, 1-24 Ernst Moritz Arndt, “The German‟s Fatherland” (1813) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 1 No. 1] Preface to the Second Edition of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1819) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 12 No. 1]
3. Fri., 16 January The Sattelzeit Tipton, 25-48 Ernst Dronke, Excerpts from Berlin (1846) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 8 No. 1]
Mon., 19 January Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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4. Wed., 21 January Politics in the “pre-March” era Tipton, 49-58 Clemens Prince von Metternich to Friedrich Gentz (1819) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 2 No. 1] Johann August Wirth at the Hambach Festival (1832) [GHDI Vol. 3 Sec. 1 No. 6]
5. Fri., 23 January The 1848 revolutions: Success or failure? Tipton: 59-60, 66-89, 100-111 Carl Schurz on why he became a supporter of the Republican Form of Government during the Revolution of 1848 (1913) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 2 No. 6] Women's Activism in the Revolution of 1848/49: Statutes of the Viennese Democratic Women's Association (1848); Report on their Activities (1850); Petition to the Austrian Constituent Assembly (October 16, 1848) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 7 No. 5]
Mon., 26 January: Last day to drop classes and receive 100% financial refund
6. Mon., 26 January Crisis in Prussia and the rise of Bismarck Tipton, 90-93, 111-120
7. Wed., 28 January Crises in Austria
8. Fri., 30 January Industrialization Tipton, 61-66, 94-99 Railway Construction (1850-1873) [GHDI: Vol. Vol. 4 Sec. 1 No. 7] The Economic and Social Significance of Gas Motors (1870s) [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 1 No. 11]
9. Mon., 2 February Showdown in Central Europe Tipton, 120-128 Excerpts from Bismarck‟s “Blood and Iron” Speech (1862) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 1 No. 13]
10. Wed., 4 February Bismarck‟s state Tipton, 129-144, 156-170 August Bebel, Reichstag Speech of November 8, 1871 [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 5 No. 26]
3 Association of German Catholics, Founding Manifesto (July 8, 1972) [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 7 No. 5] Bismarck‟s Speech to the Prussian House of Delegates on the “Polish Question” (1886) [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 7 No. 7]
11. Fri., 6 February Dualism in Austria-Hungary
12. Mon., 9 February From Bismarck to Wilhelm II: Domestic affairs Tipton, 144-155 Start reading The Butcher’s Tale Socialist “Revisionism”: The Immediate Task of Social Democracy (1899) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 5 No. 14] Socialist “Radicalism”: Rosa Luxemburg‟s “Social Reform or Revolution” (1899) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 5 No. 15] Caligula: A Study in Roman Imperial Insanity by Ludwig Quidde (1894) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 5 No. 6]
13. Wed., 11 February From Bismarck to Wilhelm II: Foreign affairs Tipton, 170-179, 223-248 Continue reading The Butcher’s Tale Friedrich Fabri, Does Germany Need Colonies? (1879) [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 6 No. 17] Wilhelm II, “Hun Speech” (1900) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 5 No. 3]
14. Fri., 13 February Jewish life in Central Europe Continue reading The Butcher’s Tale Memorandum from the Ministry of State of the Duchy of Nassau (1822) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 3 No.2 ] A Jewish Child‟s Memories of His Family‟s “Conversion” from Orthodox to Reform Practice (1880s) [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 4 No. 6]
15. Mon., 16 February Butcher’s Tale essay due Discussion of The Butcher’s Tale
16. Wed., 18 February Fin-de-siècle: The promises of “modernity” Tipton, 180-193 Telephones and Electric Light (c. 1890) [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 1 No. 9] The “Atom” Vacuum Cleaner: Advertisement by the Firm L.F. Nissen (1906) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 1 No. 13] Consumerism: Berlin Department Stores (1908) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 2 No. 17]
17. Fri., 20 February
4 Fin-de-siècle: The perils of “modernity” Tipton, 193-222 Working Class Life (1891) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 2 No. 9] Dwelling and Domesticity (1899) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 2 No. 2]
Mon., 23 February Mardi Gras NO CLASS 18. Wed., 25 February Reforming empire in Austria-Hungary
19. Fri., 27 February World War I: The war front Tipton, 249-293 Soldiers Describe Combat II: Sophus Lange [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 7 No. 4] Erich von Falkenhayn‟s “Christmas Memorandum” (December 1915) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 7 No. 9]
20. Mon., 2 March World War I: The home front Tipton, 293-322 Rationing in Practice: Queuing for Food (October 1917) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 9 No. 5] Dancing the Polonaise (1916) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 9 No. 6]
21. Wed., 4 March Defeat, disillusion, and dissolution Roth, 11-50 The First German Note to President Woodrow Wilson (October 1918) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 10 No. 9]
22. Fri., 6 March MIDTERM EXAM
23. Mon., 9 March Crisis and stabilization in Germany Tipton, 323-340, 370-391 Roth, 52-82
24. Wed., 11 March Crisis and more crisis in Austria Roth, 85-128
25. Fri., 13 March Research proposal due Discussion of Roth: Tempo and the “Golden „20s” Tipton, 340-369 Roth, 130-175
5 16-20 March Spring Break NO CLASSES
26. Mon., 23 March The National Socialist movement Tipton, 410-419
27. Wed., 25 March The decline and fall of Weimar Tipton, 391-410 Roth, 179-217
28. Fri., 27 March The racial state Tipton, 420-456 The Reich Citizenship Law (September 15, 1935) and the First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law (November 14, 1935) [GHDI: Vol. 7 Sec. 5 No. 5] American Consul Samuel Honaker's Description of Anti-Semitic Persecution and Kristallnacht and its Aftereffects in the Stuttgart Region (November 12 and November 15, 1938) [GHDI: Vol. 7 Sec. 5 No. 6]
29. Mon., 30 March The radical right in Austria and the Anschluss
30. Wed., 1 April World War II: The war experience Tipton, 457-486 Directives for the Treatment of Political Commissars ("Commissar Order") (June 6, 1941) [GHDI: Vol. 7 Sec. 6 No. 12] Excerpt from Goebbels‟s Speech at the Sports Palace in Berlin (February 18, 1943) [GHDI: Vol. 7 Sec. 11 No. 5]
31. Fri., 3 April World War II: The Holocaust Tipton, 486-495 Major General Bruns‟s Description of the Execution of Jews outside Riga on December 1, 1941, Surreptitiously Taped Conversation (April 25, 1945) [GHDI: Vol. 7 Sec. 5 No. 13] The Wannsee Protocol (January 20, 1942) [GHDI: Vol. 7 Sec. 5 No. 14]
32. Mon., 6 April Dividing the Germanies Tipton, 496-507 Stuttgart Speech ("Speech of Hope") by James F. Byrnes, United States Secretary of State (September 6, 1946) [GHDI: Vol. 8 Sec. 1 No. 9]
6 Announcement of the Impending Establishment of the German Democratic Republic (October 7, 1949) [GHDI: Vol. 8 Sec. 4 No. 9]
33. Wed., 8 April Research essay due “Coming to terms with the past” Tipton, 547-557, 600-613 Control Council Directive No. 38 (October 12, 1946) [GHDI: Vol. 8 Sec. 2 No. 2] The Editor-in-Chief of Die Zeit on the Nuremberg Trials (January 22, 1948) and the American Response (February 12, 1948) [GHDI: Vol. 9 Sec. 2 No. 3]
Fri., 10 April Good Friday NO CLASS
34. Mon., 13 April Wirtschaftswunder in the West and surveillance state in the East Tipton, 507-539, 545-547 The Five-Year Plan for 1951-1955 (1950) [GHDI: Vol. 8 Sec. 7 No. 3] Statement by the Government of the GDR (June 17, 1953) [GHDI: Vol. 8 Sec. 7 No. 10]
35. Wed., 15 April The Germanies and the Cold War: From the Wall to Ostpolitik Tipton, 540-547 A Neutral‟s Description of the Building of the Wall (August 14, 1961) [GHDI: Vol. 9 Sec. 1 No. 2] Two States, One Nation (October 28, 1969) [GHDI: Vol. 9 Sec. 1 No. 5]
36. Fri., 17 April Duelling moderns Tipton, 558-573 Experiences of a GDR Citizen Buying a New Wartburg (April 14, 1989) [GHDI: Vol. 9 Sec. 3 No. 13] Motorization in the FRG and the GDR (1960-1990) [GHDI: Vol. 9 Sec. 3 No. 14]
37. Mon., 20 April Fightin‟ the man: Opposition in the Germanies Tipton, 573-600 Ulrike Meinhof Calls for a Move from Protest to Resistance (May 1968) [GHDI: Vol. 9 Sec. 6 No. 8] A Communist Idealist Criticizes the "Real Existing Socialism" of the GDR (1977) [GHDI: Vol. 9 Sec. 16 No. 4]
38. Wed., 22 April Unifying the Germanies Tipton, 614-648 Survey Results on German Reunification (1951-89) [GHDI: Vol. 9 Sec. 13 No. 15]
7 The Storming of the Stasi Headquarters (January 16, 1990) [GHDI: Vol. 9 Sec. 2 No. 2]
39. Fri., 24 April A multi-kulti Germany? Tipton, 648-667 The Onset of Turkish Labor Migration (1961) [GHDI: Vol. 8 Sec. 4 No. 1] A Plea by Second-Generation Immigrants for Mutual Acceptance (May 13, 1982) [GHDI: Vol. 8 Sec. 4 No. 13]
40. Mon., 27 April Film: Goodbye Lenin! (121 min. – Don‟t be late!) 41. Wed., 29 April Film: Goodbye Lenin! (121 min. – Don‟t be late!)
42. Fri., 1 May Exam review
43. Wed., 6 May (7:00 – 9:30 pm) FINAL EXAM
Please note: The professor reserves the right to amend the syllabus at any time.
8 Assignments:
All written assignments are due in class (that is, by 12:50am, not by 5:00 pm). On all other days, assignments should be handed in to the history department office (LAB 462). Assignments turned in to the history office after it closes for the day or the week will be considered turned in on the next business day.
You are required to turn in a hard copy of all written assignments to me – do not email them to me – and also upload your essays to www.turnitin.com (see below). An assignment is not considered complete until BOTH conditions have been met, and late penalties will accrue accordingly.
Students agree that by taking this course all required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. The terms that apply to the university‟s use of the Turnitin.com service are described on the Turnitin.com website.
Turnitin.com Go to www.turnitin.com, register as a student, and join the class. o Class ID: 2542133 o Class password: sonderweg You may upload the file as an attachment or copy and paste it into the website. You may submit the essay early if you wish.
Due dates are firm. No extensions will be given except for certified medical or humanitarian reasons. Failure to schedule your time appropriately over the course of the semester does not constitute a valid reason for an extension.
Assignments turned in late will be penalized 5% per day, including weekends, up to a maximum of 7 days. Assignments will not be accepted after one week. If you turn your assignment in late, you forfeit the right to receive it back when timely students receive theirs.
For any written assignment, you have the right to request explanation or even review of your mark. However, I ask that you wait at least 24 hours to consider comments before contacting us. If you do wish to challenge your mark, please provide an explanation in writing as to why you feel your mark is unfair. Address our comments specifically and submit this at least 24 hours before meeting so that we may consider your points.
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Analysis of The Butcher’s Tale (4 pages, due 16 February)
In 4 PAGES you will compose a polished essay that answers a specific question I will provide at a later date.
Research Proposal/Essay (2 pages/10 pages, due 13 March/8 April)
You may choose any topic for this assignment as long as it falls within the temporal and geographic parameters of the course. So that I may help you with your selection from an early stage, you are required to turn in a 2 page PROPOSAL for this assignment, due in class on or before 13 March.
IF YOUR PROPOSAL IS NOT APPROVED AND RETRIEVED, YOUR FINAL ESSAY WILL NOT BE GRADED.
The purpose of the proposal is to assess your ability to put together an appropriate research topic and to find appropriate sources. As such, it is not meant to be the first step in your project, but rather the result of some engagement with your sources and some consideration of how they might help you formulate and support an argument.
The proposal must include the following: A title (be descriptive and creative) Introduction and prospective thesis of at least 1 paragraph A brief summary of your approach and points in prose form. An annotated bibliography including at least 6 sources. For each source, briefly explain what the work is about and how it might be useful to your research. You should have both primary and secondary sources in this bibliography.
The 10 page RESEARCH ESSAY is due in class on 8 April. For this analytical essay you are expected to illustrate effective use of a range of source material, including primary sources, journal articles, and monographs. To this end, this assignment requires the use of 4 primary sources and 6 secondary sources (including at least ONE journal article and ONE scholarly monograph). Please provide an annotated bibliography with the final product. Please also submit with your essay your original PROPOSAL, with my comments.
Proper citations are required for the final essay (see below for guidelines). Use footnotes and not endnotes; parenthetical references are not acceptable. Failure to cite properly will be penalized up to 5%. If you have questions about how to cite, please check the handout first. If the answer is still not clear, then feel free to contact me for advice.
In-Class Exams (Midterm – 45 minutes, 6 March / Final – 8:00-10:30am, 6 May)
Further details about format and content will be provided closer to the dates.
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Research and Writing Tips:
Resources
The library catalogue is of great value for connecting you to sources in Cook Library as well as with materials in other libraries and electronic resources.
If you have problems finding sources, you may wish to try the University of Toronto‟s History Research Guide: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/MyUTL/guides/folder.cfm?guide=historyintro&folderI D=225720. I also suggest that you ask for assistance from the librarians at Cook Library (1st floor or on-line).
Useful aids for your research include
Scholarly databases (e-resources): Historical Abstracts – abstracts of journal articles and monographs on European topics JStor – full-text, online journals in a wide variety of disciplines
Interlibrary Loan (library services): The library‟s Document delivery service (1st floor) is very good at delivering materials not found in Cook Library, but the process can sometimes take some time. Make sure to get any requests in as early as possible. Worldcat (“Find Books”) combines university and public library catalogues all across North America and even Europe.
Primary Sources: Published collections of documents Novels and plays Memoirs Foreign (i.e. non-German) press Online collections of primary sources o See the University of Washington‟s guide to finding and evaluating primary sources online . http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/ o GHDI . http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/home.cfm o German Propaganda Archive . http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ o Internet Modern History Sourcebook . http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html o Eurodocs . http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page o Electoral posters archive (in German) . http://www.wahlplakate-archiv.de/
11 o Internet Archive (collections of full-text books, memoirs, diaries, various primary sources, etc.) . http://www.archive.org o Center for History & New Media (wide range of primary sources on topics including 1989) . http://chnm.gmu.edu/1989/ o Deutsches historisches Museum (comprehensive collection of images and material culture artifacts relating to German history – in German) . http://www.dhm.de Musical compositions Images (photographs, paintings, advertisements, maps)
Choose your sources wisely. Be aware of their biases and the historical contexts in which they were written.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is scholarly theft and thus an offence that we take very seriously. We are happy to assist you but are also equally vigilant about prosecuting offences. Failure to abide by the standards noted below constitutes a violation of the code of student conduct and may be grounds for automatic failure, probation, suspension, expulsion, or all of the above.
Briefly, plagiarism is defined as the use – intentional or unintentional – of ideas, information, or language from another source without proper attribution. When quoting directly from another source, you must enclose the material in quotation Marchks and cite the source. Even if you paraphrase material, you must still cite. When in doubt, cite. Feel free to contact us if you have questions about whether or not to cite. For more, see the overview and examples at www.historians.org/governance/pd/Curriculum/plagiarism_intro.htm.
Citations
The easiest way to avoid plagiarism is to cite properly. There are many different scholarly formats in use, but for this course we will expect you to adhere to those laid out in Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007) – available at Cook Library and in condensed version online. If you have any questions, please refer to Turabian first. If the answer is still not apparent, please feel free to contact me for clarification.
12 Please note: In your footnotes, the first reference to a work must include be a full reference. Subsequent references to a work include only the author‟s last name and a brief title. When referencing the source and page number in subsequent footnotes, use the abreviation Ibid. If you are referencing the same source but a different page number, then include the new page number after the Ibid. See below for details.
1 Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), 34-37. 2 Nancy Reagin, “The Imagined Hausfrau: National Identity, Domesticity, and Colonialism in Imperial Germany,” Journal of Modern History 73, no. 1 (Mar 2001): 54-86. 3 Burton, Burdens of History, 38. 4 Ibid., 39 5 Ibid.
If you access an article or book online, but it is found in a published version (e.g. an article in Central European History viewed through JStor or a book that is viewed through myilibrary.com), you need only cite the published version with appropriate page numbers. In other words, do not cite the web portal unless it is the ONLY way to access the source you cite. Include the web address if the material is part of a collection or journal available exclusively online, like GHDI.
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