Western Civilization II 1600 to present
Course Description
Textbook: Civilization in the West, Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization
The course attempts to address European cultural, diplomatic, economic, intellectual,
political and social history from the Reformation to Word War Two.
Unit
Unit I
Unit
II
Unit
II
Unit
III
Unit
IV
Unit
V
Unit
VI
Unit
VII
Period
The Reformation
Title
Why Henry the VIII murdered his wives and
Catholics don’t eat fish on Friday.
The Thirty year’s
Let’s invite our enemies over for a wedding and
War
then kill them. . .all of them.
The Enlightenment Ignorance is bliss unless you want to dominate
the world.
The French
Let them eat cake…well cake flour…well
Revolution
something other than rats.
Europe 1815-1871 Isms, isms and more isms
The Victorian Era
The Great War
World War Two
How can a woman have had so many
grandchildren that governed so badly?
When you mix industrial power, mass culture and
patriots, you get a big mess
War without end.
Textbook
Chapter
13
Chapter
14
Chapter
19
Chapter
20
Chapter
22
Chapter
24
Chapter
26
Chapter
28
Grades: 1,000 points each semester
3
Unit Tests:
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1
3
1
3
Simulation
Art/Culture
Primary Source
Discussions
Maps
(200 points) 3
part; multiple
choice 100 points/
short answer 50
points/ big essay
50 points
(100 Points)
(50 Points)
(150 Points)
(50 Points)
(50 Points)
Each unit students will receive: chapter reading, study guide, timeline, primary sources,
outline of epoch, essay question and lectures…lots and lots of lectures.
Supplemental Reading list
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Sources of the West, “The Twelve Articles”
Martin Luther, “Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants”
Sources of the West, Ignatius of Loyola, “A New Kind of Catholicism”
Suriano, An Estimate of Philip II
Sources of The Making of the West, Henry IV, “Edict of Nantes”
Sources of the West, Grimmelshausen, “Simplicissimus”
Wolsey, “Account of his Service to Henry VIII”
Act of Supremacy, 1534
Treaty of Westphalia excerpts
Queen Elizabeth I, “Speech Before the Spanish Armada”
Pasqualigo, “Description of Henry VIII”
Sources of the West, Duc de Saint Simon, “Memoirs”
Sources of the West, Thomas Hobbes, “Leviathan” excerpts
Sources of the West, King James I of England, “True Law of a Free Monarchy”
An Account of the Execution of Charles I”
English Bill of Rights
Sources of the Making of the West, “Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”
Sources of the West, Thomas Mun “England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade”
Sources of the West, Rousseau, “The Social Contract”
Sources of the West, Montesquieu, “The Spirit of the Laws”
Sources of the West, Beccaria, “On Crimes and Punishment”
Sources of the Making of the West, Frederick II, “Political Testament”
Sources of the West, Abbe Sieyes, “What is the Third Estate?”
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Declaration of the Rights of Women
Sources of the West, Edmund Burke, “Reflections on the Revolution in France”
Sources of the Making of the West, Robert Owen, Constitution for New Harmony
Sources of the Making of the West, Adam Smith, “On the Wealth of Nations”
Sources of the West, Sir Edwin Chadwick, “Inquiry into the Condition of the
Poor”
Sources of the West, Bismarck, “Speech to the Reichstag”
Sources of the West, Pope Leo XIII, “Rerum Novarum”
Sources of the West, Alexander II, “Emancipation of the Serfs”
Sources of the Making of the West, Kropotkin, “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”
Sources of the West, Darwin, “The Descent of Man”
Jules Ferry, “Speech before the French National Assembly”
J. A. Hobson, “Imperialism”
Kipling, “White Man’s Burden”
“Brown Man’s Burd
The Human Record, “Comments of the German Delegation to the Paris Peace
Conference on the Conditions of Peace, 1919”
Wilfred Owen, “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
Woodrow Wilson, “14 Points
Letters from History, Emile Zola, “J’Accuse”
Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil”
Emmeline Pankhurst, “Speech from the Dock”
Sources of the West, Keynes, “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”
Mussolini, Fascist Doctrine
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kamph excerpts
Winston Churchill, Speeches
Maastricht Treaty excerpts
Solzhenitsyn, excerpts from Gulag Archipelago
Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Winston Churchill, The Iron Curtain and Stalin’s response
Nikita Khrushchev, Report to the Communist Party Congress