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Required Texts:
Mark A. Kishlansky et. al., Civilization in the West Volume II (6 th or 7th edition).
Mark A. Kishlansky, editor, Sources of the West: Readings in
Western Civilization, Volume II (6 th or 7th edition).
UNIT 1—Europe in Transition: State-Building and Expansion
January 15 & 17
New Models for Government
Read: Civilization in the West, chapter 16
So urces of the West, #77 (James I), #78 (Duplessis-
Mornay), #79 (Clarke), #80 (Hobbes), #81 (Locke), #82
(English Bill of Rights), #75 (Richelieu).
January 22 & 24
Science and “Superstition”
Read: Civilization in the West, chapter 17
Sources of the West, #84 (Galileo), #85 (Descartes), #86
(Mun), #87 (Smith)
January 29 & 31
The Balance of Power
Read: Civilization in the West, chapter 18
TEST #1 TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5
UNIT 2—Political and Social Upheaval from the French Revolution through the Industrial Revolution
February 7 & 12
Enlightenment Thought
Read: Civilization in the West, chapter 19
Sources of the West, #91 (Voltaire), #92 (Rousseau), #96
(Jefferson), #98 (Condorcet)
February 14 & 19
The French Revolution and Its Aftermath
Read: Civilization in the West, chapter 20
Sources of the West, #99 (de Sieyes), #100 (Declarations),
#101 (Burke)

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February 21 & 26
Industrialization and the Working Class
Read: Civilization in the West, chapter 21
Sources of the West, #102 (Malthus), #104 (Chadwick),
#105 (Engels)
February 28 & March 4
19 th Century Ideologies
Read: Civilization in the West, chapter 22
Sources of the West, #110 (Mill), #111(Proudhon), #112
(Charter), #114 (Marx and Engels).
TEST #2 THURSDAY MARCH 6
SPRING BREAK MARCH 10-16
UNIT 3—Toward the Modern World
March 8
German Unification
Read: Civilization in the West, chapter 23
March 18 & 20
Fin-de-Siecle Culture and Politics
Read: Civilization in the West, chapters 23 & 24
S ources of the West, #115 (Alexander II/Kropotkin),
#116 (Bismarck)
And pick a document from #118-#122.
March 25 & 27
The New Imperialism
Read: Civilization in the West, chapter 25
Sources of the West, pick a document from #123-#127.
April 1 & 3
The Great War
Read: Civilization in the West, chapter 26
Sources of the West, #128 (Voices from the Somme), #129
(Junger), #130 (Wilson), #131 (Lenin)
TEST #3 THURSDAY APRIL 3

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UNIT 4—Modernity and Its Discontents
April 8 & 10
Fascist and Totalitarian States
Read: Civilization in the West, chapter 27
Sources of the West, #134 (Mussolini), #135(Hitler)
April 15 & 17
World War II and the Holocaust
Read: Civilization in the West, chapter 28
Sources of the West, #136 (Memories of the Holocaust),
#137 (Churchill), #138 (Levi), #139 (Eichmann)
April 22 & 24
The Cold War Era
Read: Sources of the West, chapter 29
Sources of the West, #141 (Solzhenitsyn), #144
(Churchill), #145 (Khrushchev)
BOOK REPORT PROJECTS DUE IN CLASS THURSDAY APRIL 24
April 29 & May 1 & 5
The Collapse of the Soviet Bloc and the Rise of the European
Union
Read: Sources of the West, chapter 30
Sources of the West, #146 (Gorbachev), #148 (Charter of the UN), #149 (Charter of Economic Rights and duties)
DEADLINE FOR TURNING IN EXTRA CREDIT THURSDAY MAY 8 IN
CLASS
TEST #4 THURSDAY MAY 8