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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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