Western Civilization since 1660
HIST05-101-02
Instructor: Chris Golding
Fall 2011
WF 12.15-1.30pm
Room: Science Hall 128
email: tub10405@temple.edu
Course Description
This course examines expansion of European culture to other world areas and the consequent
changes for European life. It emphasizes the impact of the Industrial Revolution on all
aspects of Western culture and introduces students to the principles and methodology of
history.
Course Requirements
1. First and foremost, it is expected that you will keep up with course readings throughout
the semester (detailed below). In addition to readings from the required books, each class
will have primary documents (online) for you to read which we will take time to discuss
in each class.
2. Midterm Exam. This course will feature a midterm exam on October 5th, which will
contain short answer IDs and short essay questions.
3. Critical Review of The Great Divergence. You will write a review essay of Kenneth
Pomeranz’s The Great Divergence assessing the argument of the work and how well
Pomeranz makes that argument. (Due November 4th)
4. Primary Document Analysis. This assignment will have you assess two related primary
documents by George Kennan and Walter Lippman. (Due December 2nd)
5. Final Exam. This course will feature a final exam of a similar format to the midterm
exam. (Date TBA)
6. Quizzes. Expect quizzes on assigned reading in class (some announced, some potentially
unannounced). The weight of each quiz towards your final grade will be clearly marked
on the quiz.
7. Class Participation. It is expected that you will attend our class meeting regularly, and
involve yourself when appropriate in discussion of course material.
Grading
Midterm
Critical Review
Primary Document Analysis
Final Exam
Quizzes/Class Participation
20%
15%
15%
30%
20%
All assignments will be graded on a proportional scale of points (20% = 20 pts) and tallied
accordingly across the semester.
1 Required Books
Dennis Sherman and Joyce Salisbury, The West in the World, From Renaissance to Present
Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West,
1500-1800
Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern
World Economy
Gerard J. DeGroot, The Bomb: A Life
Course Schedule
Week 1 (2 Sept)
Week 2 (7-9 Sept)
Introduction
The Lay of the Land in 1660
The West in the World (TWIW), Ch. 12
The Military Revolution (TMR), Ch. 1
Primary Documents
Wednesday
Martin Luther, "Address to Christian Nobility of the German Nation" (1520):
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1501-1600/hakluyt/plant.htm
Council of Trent [Excerpts]: http://personal.ashland.edu/~jmoser1/trent.htm
Treaty of Westphalia: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/westphal.asp
Friday
Richard Hakluyt, Discourse of Western Planting (1584): http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/15011600/hakluyt/plant.htm
Columbus Diary (Discovery, Oct 11): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.asp
A Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1501-1600/hakluyt/plant.htm
Week 3 (14-16 Sept)
Nature of the Early Modern State(s)
TWIW, Ch. 13 and TMR, Ch. 2
Primary Documents
Wednesday
Hobbes, Leviathan, Ch. 13: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/hobbes-lev13.asp
Jacques Benigne Bossuet, Political Treatise: http://history.hanover.edu/texts/bossuet.html
Friday
James I on the Divine Right of Kings (1609): http://personal.ashland.edu/~jmoser1/divineright.htm
Commonwealth Instrument of Government, 1653: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1653intrumentgovt.asp
English Bill of Rights, 1689 [excerpts]: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1689billofrights.asp
Week 4 (21-23 Sept)
A World of New Ideas
TWIW, Ch. 13, and TMR, Ch. 3 and 4
Primary Documents
Wednesday
Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws, 1748 [excerpt]: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/montesquieu-spirit.asp
Hume, On Miracles: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/hume-miracles.asp
Voltaire, On the Government from Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques:
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1778voltaire-lettres.asp#Letter IX
Friday
The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1630galileo.asp
Voltaire, On the Royal Society and Other Academies from Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c.
1778: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1778voltaire-royalsoc.asp
2 Week 5 (28-30 Sept)
The (First) Great War
TWIW Ch. 15 and 16, and TMR, Ch. 5 and 6
Primary Documents
Wednesday
Duc de Saint-Simon, The Court of Louis XIV: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/17stsimon.asp
Abbe Sieyes, What is the Third Estate?: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/sieyes.asp
Arthur Young, Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789:
http://www.thenagain.info/Classes/Sources/Young.html
Friday
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1791:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791burke.asp
The Levee en Masse, 23 August 1793: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1793levee.asp
Week 6 (5-7 Oct)
The Industrial Revolution
TWIW, Ch. 17
Midterm Exam, 5 October
Primary Documents
Friday
Leeds Woolen Workers Petition, 1786: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1786machines.asp
Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants, 1791: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1791machines.asp
Parliamentary Inquiry into the Life of Workers, 1832: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/workers1.html
Week 7 (12-14 Oct)
Conservative Europe and the Age of Revolutions
TWIW, Ch. 18
The Great Divergence (TGD), Intro and Part 1
Primary Documents
Wednesday
Prince Klemens von Metternich, Political Confession of Faith, 1820:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1820metternich.asp
Viscount Castlereagh's State Paper of 1820: http://www.historyhome.co.uk/forpol/statepap.htm
Treaty of Paris, 1814: http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/government/diplomatic/c_paris1.html
Treaty of Paris, 1815: http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/government/diplomatic/c_paris2.html
Friday
Alexander Ypsilantis' Proclamation of Revolt, 24 February 1821:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/history/revolt.htm
Timeline of 1848: http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/revs/1848time.html
Hungarian Declaration of Independence, 1849: http://www.h-net.org/~habsweb/sourcetexts/hungind.html
Week 8 (19-21 Oct)
Metternich’s Nemesis: Nationalism
TWIW, Ch. 19 and TGD, Part 2
Primary Documents
Wednesday
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities [extracts from Introduction]:
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/CCT510/Sources/Anderson-extract.html
Metternich on the Greek Question: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/history/mett2.htm
Giuseppe Mazzini, On Nationality, 1852: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1852mazzini.asp
Friday
Documents of Italian Unification, 1846-61: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1861italianunif.asp
Documents of German Unification, 1848-71: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/germanunification.asp
Helmuth von Moltke, The Elder, "On the Nature of War": http://www.hnet.org/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/moltke.html
3 Week 9 (26-28 Oct)
Tensions: Political Radicalism and European Imperialism
TWIW, Ch. 20 and TGD, Part 3
Primary Documents
Wednesday
Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto [Preamble and Ch. 1]:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859):
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/
world_civ_reader_2/mill.html
John Stuart Mill, Liberalism Evaluated, 1873: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1873jsmill.asp
Friday
Adam Smith: Of Colonies (Wealth of Nations): http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/17761800/adamsmith/wealth02.htm
Macaulay, On Empire and Education: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1833macaulay-india.asp
Week 10 (2-4 Nov)
The Great War
TWIW, Ch. 21 and 22
The Bomb: A Life (TB), Ch. 1-4
Critical Review of The Great Divergence due, 4 November
Primary Documents
Wednesday
Bismarck's Fall From Power, 1890: http://www.h-net.org/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/dismiss.html
November, 1901, British Foreign Policy by ABC:
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_ABC_Proposal_for_British_Foreign_Policy
Bulow's Hammer and Anvil Speech:
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/B%C3%BClow%27s_%27Hammer_and_Anvil%27_Speech_before_the_Reic
hstag_(The_English_Translation)
Friday
Fritz Kreisler, Four Weeks in the Trenches: http://h-net.org/~habsweb/sourcetexts/kreis1.htm
Fourteen Points: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1918wilson.asp
Treaty of Versailles, 28 Jun 1919: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1919versailles.asp
Week 11 (9-11 Nov)
Interwar Years
TWIW, Ch. 23 and TB, Ch. 5-7
Primary Documents
Wednesday
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est: http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html
Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, 1922: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/spengler-decline.asp
Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural Address, 4 March 1925: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/cc30/speeches/coolidge.htm
Friday
John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920:
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1920keynes.asp
Benito Mussolini, What is Fascism, 1932: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.asp
Adolf Hitler, Proclamation to the Nation, 1 February 1933: http://www.hitler.org/speeches/02-01-33.html
4 Week 12 (16-18 Nov)
Rising Powers, and World War II
TWIW, Ch. 24 and TB, Ch. 8-10
Primary Documents
Wednesday
Lenin, What is to be Done?, 1922: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1902lenin.asp
Stalin, Industrialization of the Country, 1928: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1928stalin.asp
Stalin's Purges, 1935: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1936purges.asp
Friday
Charles E. Wyzanski, Nuremburg: A Fair Trial? A Dangerous Precedent:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1946/04/nuremberg-a-fair-trial-a-dangerous-precedent/6492/
Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz: Testimony at Nuremburg, 1946:
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1946hoess.asp
Week 13 (23 Nov)
TBD
Week 14 (30 Nov – 2 Dec)
A Cold War World
TWIW, Ch. 25 and TB, Ch. 14-15
Primary Document Analysis Due, 2 December
Primary Documents
Wednesday
Winston S. Churchill, "Iron Curtain Speech": http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/churchill-iron.asp
Joseph Stalin, Response to Churchill: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1946stalin.asp
Truman Doctrine: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1947TRUMAN.asp
Friday
George Kennan, "Long Telegram" [excerpt]:
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=505
Walter Lippman, "Mr Kennan and Reappraisal in Europe":
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/96jan/nato/lipp.htm
Week 15 (7-9 Dec)
The Fall of the West?
TWIW, Ch. 26 and TB, Ch. 16-17
Primary Documents
Wednesday
Osama Bin Laden Interview from TIME, January 1999:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054517,00.html
George W. Bush, "History's Unmarked Grave of Discarded Lies":
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/2001Bush-speech-sep212001-onWTC.asp
Friday
Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations?: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/664292/posts
5 COURSE POLICIES
Course Goals
The description of this course is listed above and provides the basic outline of the course. In
addition to learning about the development of Western Civilization over the last 350 years, this
course will also address historical methodology, documentary analysis, critical thinking and
writing, and a general appreciation for historical context.
Assignments
All assignments will be written in a 12-point Times New Roman font with 1-inch margins. Your
written assignments must be bound (either by staple, paper clip, or other means), with your name
and the assignment name listed in the header.
Grammar and spelling matter. Take advantage of spell-check, and proofread your assignments in
advance of handing them in.
Submission of Assignments
If you are having some problem (technical or otherwise) with meeting the deadline, make me
aware of it in advance of the beginning of class on the due date. Failing to do so will lead to the
assignment being marked as late.
Late Assignments
For each day that an assignment is overdue I will subtract 5% from the grade, until a week
following the due date after which I will not accept the assignment and you will receive a 0. So,
for example, an assignment due on a Friday that is received on Sunday will have 10% removed
from the final grade. If you are submitting an assignment late, be sure to submit it by email. I
will date the submission of the assignment to the timestamp. Then bring a hard copy of your
assignment to our next meeting.
There will be no makeup for in-class assignments without prior notice, and only then in
compelling cases.
Attendance
Attendance is required in this class, as your involvement in discussion of course material is a
core part of this course. Attendance will be regularly taken, and unexcused absences will
negatively impact the class participation portion of your grade. More than six unexcused
absences will result in a failing grade.
Grades and Grading Issues
The weight of assignments is listed above. As noted, the weight of in-class quizzes will be
clearly announced as well. I will provide the expectations for assignments—both in class and out
of class—in advance, and discuss the assignments when they are returned.
If you notice a mistake, please bring it to my attention within a week of the assignment being
returned to you. Bring the hard copy and an explanation to me, and we can address whatever
6 mistake may have occurred. Keep the hard copy of the assignment until the end of the semester
in case an error is made.
If you have any grievance about a received grade, resubmit the assignment to me with an
explanation for why you feel a mistake was made. Then we can make an appointment to discuss
the grade after I have had a chance to look over your assignment and my notes.
Academic Honesty
Plagiarism or other acts of academic dishonesty will be treated very seriously. All ideas,
language or other elements drawn from the work of other scholars must be properly cited.
From the academic integrity policy:
Plagiarism: Plagiarism occurs when a person represents someone else’s words, ideas,
phrases, sentences, or data as one’s own work. When submitting work that includes someone
else’s words, ideas, syntax, data or organizational patterns, the source of that information
must be acknowledged through complete, accurate and specific references. All verbatim
statements must be acknowledged through quotation marks. To avoid a charge of plagiarism,
a person should be sure to include an acknowledgment of indebtedness, such as a list of
works cited or bibliography.
For the full academic integrity policy at Rowan, visit:
http://www.rowan.edu/provost/policies/documents/2011_AcadInteg_policy.pdf
University-wide Policies
The Student Handbook can be accessed here:
http://www.rowan.edu/studentaffairs/main_office/publications/Handbook_Planner.cfm
Students with Disabilities
Your academic success is important. If you have a documented disability that may have an
impact upon your work in this class, please contact me. Students must provide documentation of
their disability to the Academic Success Center in order to receive official University services
and accommodations. The Academic Success Center can be reached at 856-256-4234. The
Center is located on the 3rd floor of Savitz Hall. The staff is available to answer questions
regarding accommodations or assist you in your pursuit of accommodations. We look forward to
working with you to meet your learning goals
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