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Second Quarter Syllabus

 

 


Nov. 17th - Scientific Revolution- Bacon, Descartes and Newton.

pp. 286-300 Palmer

(265-287new)

pp.31-52 Perry

Handout- "The Scientific Revolution"

"Trial of Galileo"

Essays of Francis Bacon

 


Nov. 21- Scientific Revolution-Natural law, natural right, Hobbes and Locke.

pp.300-313 Palmer

(288-293new)

pp. 57-59 68-72 22-24 Perry

Science and Religion Confront

Thomas Paine: Deism compared with Christianity

David Hume: On Miracles

John Locke- Reasonableness of Christianity

Thomas Jefferson's- His version of the Bible

Report- Scientific Revolution

Nov. 23- The Enlightenment- The Philosophes, Montesquieu, Voltaire & Rousseau

pp. 314-326 Palmer

(295-308new)

pp. 55-57 60-68 72-90 Perry

Handouts: "Philisophical Revolution" & "Mind of an Age"

Rousseau- Excerpts from the Social Contract

Locke- His view of the Social Contract

Report- Enlightenment


Nov. 29th- Enlightened Despotism-France, Austria, Prussia and Russia.

The British reform movement.

pp. 326-351 Palmer

(308-331new)

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were preeminent political thinkers in the 17th-18th century.

Hobbes in his work "Leviathan" and Locke with his several treatise on government.

Compare and contrast the philisophical beliefs of the two men,

using examples from primary source documents. 2 pages.

Frederick II - Essays on forms of government

Catherine the Great- Various documents


Nov. 21st Test- Absolutism, Enlightenment, Sci. Rev.


Nov. 25th- French Revolution-Estates General,National Assembly,

The Terror and Thermidor.

pp. 361-392 Palmer

(343-377new)

pp. 93-107 Perry

Memoirs of marie Antoinette

Samples of Cahiers des Doleances

Abbe Sieyes- What is the Third Estate

The Declaration of the Rights of Man

Handouts-"The Social & Economic Character of the French Revolution"-

"The Catechism of the French Revolution."

Dec. 1st- The French Revolution-The Directory and the Consulate.

pp.393-415 Palmer

(377-387new)

pp.108-111 Perry

Edmund Burke- Reflections on the French Revolution

Plight of the French Peasants: Young

Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Wollstonecraft

Handouts-"Social Interpretation of the French Revolution"-Orthodox critique of the

Social Interpretation-Marxist critique of Social Interpretation

Report-French Revolution


Dec.3rd- The French Revolution-Comparisons of the French and

American Revolutions.

pp. 351-360 Palmer

(331-342new)

Handouts- "Comparing the French and American Revolutions"-

"The Liberator-Hero and Western Revolutions"

Marxist Interpretations of the French Revolution


Dec 5th Test w/ Essay

French Rev.

Dec 9th- Napoleon- French Imperial System and the Grand Empire.

pp. 417-431 Palmer

(389-403new)

pp.112-116

Napoleon: Speech to his troops

Napoleon's Account of France 1804

Napoleon in Egypt

Report- Napoleon


Dec 11th-Congress of Vienna- The National movements and the overthrow of Napoleon.

pp.431-452 Palmer

(403-425new)

Handouts- "Confession of Political Faith"- Excerpts from the Congress.


 

Dec. 15th The Industrial Revolution-Agriculture, industrial , economic and social.

453-462 Palmer

pp. 119-136 Perry

Handout: Labor Old and New: The Impact of the Industrial Revolution


Dec 17th-The Industrial Revolution-

Handouts- "Impact of the Industrial Revolution"

"Myths of the Industrial Revolution"

"In Defense of Machinery" "The Philosophy of Manufacturers"

"The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844"

Factory rules Berlin 1844

Malthus: Too many mouths to feed?

A working girl in mid-ninteenth century Germany

England: The Peterloo Massacre

Report- Industrial Revolution


Dec. 19th Test w/ Essay

Napoleon, Congress of Vienna, Industrialism


Jan. 6th- Advent of Isms- Romanticism, Liberalism, Radicalism, Republicanism,

Socialism and Nationalism

pp. 463-474 Palmer

pp. 137-147 Perry

Nationalism:Race and Language: Freeman

Music and nationalism

Utilitarianism- John Stuart Mill

Handout:Two Programs for Social Change: Liberalism and Socialism


Jan. 8th-Isms- Reaction and Revolution. France, Poland, Spain ,

Belgium and Britain.

pp. 474-499 Palmer

pp. 161-172 & 180-183 Perry

Zola on the Dreyfuss affair

Romantic British Authors

Romanticism in Painting


Jan 12th- Marxism & Revolution-The tenets of Marxism.

Social revolution in the west.

The second French Empire.

pp. 500-533 Palmer

pp. 173-180 Perry

Handouts- "Trumph of Secularism" - "Liberalism and Socialism"

Alienated Labor - Marx

A view on Darwin and his book Origin of the Species

Report- Revolutions and Marx

 

Jan 22nd Midterm

 

Primary Sources

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