Week 1- Introduction

1-18 What is History? What does an Historian do?

1-20 Review

            Reformation

            Religious Wars

Week 2- Setting the Scenes

            1-25 Domestic Growth and Expansion Abroad

                        Population and Economics- McKay 629-636

                        Colonialism- 637-652

            1-27 Centralization of Power

                        The New Statecraft-

                        England, France, Spain, The Holy Roman Empire

Week 3- 17^th Century’s Search for Order

            2-1 Absolutism

                        France and Eastern Europe- McKay 531- 547, 565-582

2-3 Constitutionalism

            England and the Dutch- McKay 548-559

*History vs. Hollywood Due Today*

Week 4- Baroque Culture

            2-8 The Arts

                        Mannerism to Rococo: Architecture, Painting, Music-McKay 585-589 

            2-10 Literature

                        Milton, Moliére, Racine, and Pope

Week 5- The Scientific Revolution

            2-15 The Language of Science- McKay 595-605

Mathematicians: Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton

            2-17 Religion and the New Science

                        Rationalism, the Scientific Method, and God

            *Secondary Source Assignment Due Today*

Week 6- 18^th Century Expansion

            2-22 Domestic Europe- McKay 661-684

                        Agriculture, Population, Social Order and the Life of the People

            2-24  European Empires

                        Austria, Great Britain, France, and Spain

Week 7- The Enlightenment

            3-1 The Ideology of the Philosophes- McKay 605-615, 626

                        Roots, Reading, and Religion

            3-3 The New World-View-McKay 615-624

                        The Enlightened Despots, the Elite, and the Masses

            *Bibliography for Paper is Due Today*

Week 8- Political Revolution

            3-15 Liberty, Equality and Brotherhood- McKay 691-703

                        The American and French Revolutions

            3-17 From Revolution to the Rise of Napoleon-  McKay 712-718

                        War in France and the Age of Napoleon

Week 9- Industrial Revolution

            3-22 The Age of Napoleon

            3-24 Industrialization in Great Britain and Abroad- McKay 725-739

                        Origins, Agents, Capital and Labor

            *Thesis Statement is Due Today*

Week 10- 19^th Century Ideologies

            3-29 A New World Order- McKay 740-749, 752, 787-811

                         Cities, Standards of Living, and the Rise of the Machines

            3-31 Concepts and Movements- 755-765, 770-782

                        Radical Ideas and the Revolutions of 1848

Week 11- The Romantic Movement

            4-5 The Age of Nationalism- McKay 784, 823-833

             Nation Building in France, Italy, Germany, and Russia

                        4-7 Literature- McKay 766-769 and The Arts

                        also see handout  

                       

Week 12- The Prelude to a Century of Warfare

            4-12 The European Chess Board- McKay 835-850

                        The French and Germans, The English and Irish, Russia’s Great Reforms

4-14 The Impact of the West on the World- McKay 855-882

                        India, Africa, Asia, and the World Economy

Week 13- The 20^th Century  

            4-19 The Great War- McKay 887-915, 921-934

                        The War, the Russian Revolution, and the Age of Uncertainty

            4-21 Between the World Wars- McKay 934-950

*Research Outline Due Today*

 

Week 14- The 20^th Century (Cont.)

            4-26 World War II and Its Aftermath- McKay 953-980, 989-1021

                        From Dictators to the Rise of “Big Science”

            4-28  Review for Exam