GRADUATE LIBERAL STUDIES PROGRAM SOCS 648: EUROPE SINCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Summer, 2014 Nathanael Greene [email protected] 860-685-2376 BOOKS AVAILABLE AT THE BOOKSTORE: John Merriman A History of Modern Europe: VOL. II, From the French Revolution to the Present Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1936-1945 JUNE 30: INTRODUCTION AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, NAPOLEON, RESTORATION John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, Volume II, From the French Revolution to the Present, chapters 13-15 OR, E. J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution, chapters 1, 3, 4, 6, 12 and 13 and 4 • Documents: [on Moodle in your portfolio] • The Marseillaise • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen • Robespierre’s Last Speech JULY 2: INDUSTRIALIZATION John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, Volume II, From the French Revolution to the Present, chapters 16 and 20, OR, instead of Merriman’s chapter 16, E. J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution, chapter 2 • Documents: • Taine, “Notes on England” • Ure, “The Philosophy of Manufacturers” • Dickens, Dombey And Son • “The 1834 Poor Law Report” GLSP SOCS 648 Summer, 2014 Page 2 • Coulson, “Child Labor in the Factories” • Chadwick, “The Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population” • Wilson, “Chartism in Halifax” • Smiles, “Self Help” • Macaulay, “The 1832 Reform Bill” • Cobden, “Repeal of the Corn Laws” JULY 7: REVOLUTION, MASS POLITICS, NATIONAL UNIFICATION John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, Volume II, From the French Revolution to the Present, chapters 17-19 Documents: Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto JULY 9: SOCIAL CONFLICT, NATIONALISM, AND IMPERIALISM ***PAPER DUE*** John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, Volume II, From the French Revolution to the Present, chapters 21 and 22 Documents: • The English Constitution, by Walter Bagehot • The Great Exhibition of 1851, by the Prince Consort • Winston Churchill on “Peace and Progress” • The Concept of Empire, by Benjamin Disraeli • England’s Mission, by William Ewart Gladstone • Jules Ferry and Imperialism • David Lloyd George in 1908 • Keir Hardie on Socialism • Jean Jaurès, “Discours à la Jeunesse” • Syndicalism in France • Fernand Pelloutier on the General Strike • Édouard Drumont on Dreyfus and the Jews • Émile Zola, “I Accuse!” • Dictator and King, by Charles Maurras • Dreyfus after his Pardon, 1899 GLSP SOCS 648 Summer, 2014 Page 3 JULY 14: THE GREAT WAR: ORIGINS, CONDUCT, CONCLUSION John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, Volume II, From the French Revolution to the Present, chapters 23 and 24 Documents: • Gabrielle d’Annunzio on Italy • Marinetti, “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” • Léon Jouhaux at the Grave of Jaurès, 1914 • George Dangerfield, About England in 1914 JULY 16: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: LENIN AND STALIN John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, Volume II, From the French Revolution to the Present, chapter 25, AND Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution Documents: • V. I. Lenin, “What Is To Be Done?” • V. I Lenin, “April Theses,” 1917 • A statement by Lenin, ca. 1919 • Stalin’s speech at Lenin’s Funeral and 1931 Speech • A comment on Stalin by Citizen Andreyeva JULY 21: FASCISM, APPEASEMENT, AND DEMOCRACY John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, Volume II, From the French Revolution to the Present, chapters 26 and 27 Documents: • Benito Mussolini, “Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism” • Gabrielle d’Annunzio, 1915 • Neville Chamberlain, from In Search of Peace • Léon Blum on Socialism • Program of the Popular Front in France • Jacques Doriot and Fascism in France“ • Manifesto of Generalissimo Franco, 17 July 1936” GLSP Proposed SOCS 648 Summer, 2014 Page 4 JULY 23 HITLER AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR Sebastian Haffner, The Meaning of Hitler AND John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, Volume II, From the French Revolution to the Present, chapter 28 Documents: • The Fall of France and the Vichy regime: Spinasse, Laval, Pétain • President Jacques Chirac, 1995 • General de Gaulle, at the Liberation of Paris, 1944 • Statements by Hitler, Himmler, and Goebbels on the fate of the European Jews JULY 28 AND 30: RECONSTRUCTION, COLD WAR, AND CONTEMPORARY EUROPE ***PAPER DUE*** JULY 30 John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, Volume II, From the French Revolution to the Present, chapters 29, 30 • Aneurin Bevan, “A National Health Service” • The Labour Party, “Let Us Face the Future” • Harold Callendar, “French Resistance and the Liberation” • Charles de Gaulle, “Greatness” and “The Call to Honor” • André Malraux, “When the French Lived in Darkness” • Speeches by Margaret Thatcher • Mikhail Gorbachev, “Glasnost and Perestroika” .