Hist 132: Modern Europe Spring 2014 MWF 10:10-11a, Olin Auditorium Prof.

Andrew Ross Department of History Kenyon College Seitz House 3 E-mail: rossa@kenyon.edu Office Hours: W-Th 1-3:30p and by appointment Course Website: http://www.andrewisraelross.com/s14moderneurope Course Description: This course introduces students to the history of modern European political, intellectual, social, and cultural history. Beginning with the upheavals of the French Revolution, we trace the conflicts that have defined European political, cultural, and social life until the present day. Topics covered include the industrial revolution, imperialism and colonialism, mass culture, World War I and II, and the Cold War. Course Objectives: By the end of the semester, students will be able to: identify and understand key themes and concepts in European history understand and explain the relationship between intellectual, political and social trends critically analyze primary and secondary sources orally present historical research Required Texts: Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848. New York: Vintage, 1996. Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europes Twentieth Century. New York: Vintage, 2000. Brophy, James M, et al. Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations: From the Age of Exploration through Contemporary Times. Fifth Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 20012. Kluger, Ruth. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered. New York: The Feminist Press, 2003. Please ensure you buy the correct edition of the primary source collection by Brophy et al. Any edition of Hobsbawm is fine. Ebook versions are acceptable as well. Course Format: Class will meet three times a week. All meetings will be a mix of lecture and discussion unless otherwise noted. Course Requirements: Students are required to attend all classes and complete all assignments. Failure to complete any assignment will result in failing the entire course.

1. Attendance and Participation: Attendance in class is a requirement in order to pass this course and role will be taken everyday. You are permitted to miss three classes before your grade begins to suffer. Active participation in class discussion is expected as well. 2. Readings: All readings are due the day for which they are listed on the syllabus. 3. Quizzes: We will have four quizzes through the course of the semester. Format will be a mix of map identification, short answer, identification, and essay. IDs require you to identify the title, author (if applicable), approximate date, and significance of a quote or term. Your lowest quiz grade will not count towards your final grade, but you must take all four quizzes. 4. Short Essay: You will complete two short (3-5 pages) essays in response to prompts provided by me. Each essay will require you to address secondary source readings and will not necessitate outside reading. One essay will address material from the first half of the course, the other from the second half. You will have one week to write each essay. 5. Group Oral Presentation: In the final week of class, groups of between three and four students will present their research on a single topic not covered by me during lectures. The topic may be a person, event, or idea; the only requirement is that it was not previously covered by me. Each group should consult with me over e-mail or during office hours in order to choose an appropriate topic of research. A handout of selected possible topics will be provided during the first week of class. Each presentation must accomplish three tasks. 1) The group must describe the event, person or idea; 2) the group must discuss the ways in which historians have interpreted the topic and, in particular, any particular disagreements, debates, or significant moments in the historiography; and 3) the group must relate the topic to modern European history by stating its significance. Each group member will receive two grades: one for the group as a whole, one for each individual's contribution. Each person in the group should therefore prepare to speak for about the same amount of time. A grading rubric and guide will be provided at the beginning of the semester. While each group is presenting, the audience will be tasked with filling out evaluation rubrics. These evaluations will help me assess each presentation and will ensure that you begin to think about what makes an effective presentation as well.

Grade Breakdown: Quizzes: 30% Short Essays: 30% Oral Presentation: 30% Attendance and Participation: 10% Paperless Grading: In an effort to both save trees and improve the quality of my comments to you, your papers MUST be turned in electronically. You will do so via email, with a subject heading Modern Europe Essay from YOUR NAME. Accepted file formats are .doc, and .docx. Depending on the assignment, I may convert your paper to .pdf prior to grading. I will e-mail you your paper directly after all assignments have been graded. Grade Appeals: There are no grade appeals! Im more than happy to talk to you about your grade and how you can improve your work (in fact, I highly encourage you to do so), but please do not ask me to change your grade. Late Assignments: All assignments are due in class the day they are listed on the syllabus. Late assignments will be deducted one grade for each day late. If I have not received your essay after four days you will automatically fail the assignment. If I never receive an assignment you will fail the course. Contacting Me: The best way to get in touch with me is through e-mail. Please allow 24 hours for a response; if you have not heard from me in that time, do not hesitate to send another note. My office hours are at the top of this syllabus; if those times are not convenient for you I am happy to make other arrangements. I hope you will all come by my office at some point during the semester. Please check your Kenyon e-mail regularly and please keep apprised of materials available on the class website. Online Resources: The course website can be found at http://www.andrewisraelross.com/s14moderneurope. There you will find a copy of the syllabus, announcements, and other resources relevant to the course, including PowerPoint slides. Technology in the Classroom: Please feel free to use your laptops, netbooks or tablets for taking notes in class. Also feel free to utilize e-book editions of class texts. I must personally approve all recordings of class lectures. Such approval will only be granted in exceptional circumstances. Plagiarism and Academic Honesty: All students must follow the Colleges policies regarding academic honesty as outlined in the Kenyon College Catalog. It is the responsibility of each student to learn and practice the proper ways of documenting and acknowledging those whose ideas and words they have drawn upon (see Academic Honesty and Questions of Plagiarism in the Course Catalog). Ignorance and carelessness are not excuses for academic dishonesty. If you have any questions regarding this issue,

please consult with me before submitting work. Disabilities: If you have a hidden or visible disability that may require classroom or test accommodations, please see me privately as soon as possible during a scheduled office hour. If you have not already done so, you must register with the Coordinator of Disability Services, Erin Salva, salvae@kenyon.edu, or x5145, who is the individual responsible for coordinating accommodations and services for students with disabilities. All information and documentation of disabilities are strictly confidential. No accommodations will be granted in this course without notification from the Office of Disability Services.

Course Schedule:
Week 1: January 13 January 17: The Old Regime and the Origins of the French Revolution Monday: Introductions Wednesday: The Old Regime Secondary Readings: Hobsbawm, chapter 1 Primary Readings: Arthur Young, Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 (273-276) Friday: The Origins of the French Revolution Secondary Reading: Hobsbawm, pages 53-67 Primary Readings: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (244-253); Abb Emmanuel Sieys, What is the Third Estate?(279-281); National Assembly, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (285-289) Week 2: January 20 January 24: The French Revolution and Napoleon Monday: Radicalization and Reaction during the French Revolution Secondary Reading: Hobsbawm, pages 67-76 Primary Readings: Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman (291-293); Address to the National Assembly in Favor of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (handout) Wednesday: Napoleon's Empire (Guest Lecture by Professor Ablovatski) Secondary Reading: Hobsbawm, Chapter 4 Primary Readings: Al-Jabarti, Chronicle of the French Occupation, 1798 (293-297); The Code Napoleon (298-300) Friday: Session on Library Resources by Carmen King Week 3: January 27 January 31: The Industrial Revolution

Monday: Industrialization Secondary Readings: Hobsbawm, Chapter 2 Primary Readings: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (303-308); Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (308-311) Wednesday: Social Change in the Wake of Industry Secondary Readings: Hobsbawm, Chapters 10 and 11 Primary Readings: Rules of a Factory in Berlin (312-313); Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (314-318) Friday: Discussion: The Dual Revolutions Week 4: February 3 February 7: Ideologies of Reaction, Reform, and Revolution Monday: Quiz 1: The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution Wednesday: The Restoration Secondary Reading: Hobsbawm, Chapters 5 and 6 Primary Readings: Benjamin Constant, The Principles of Politics (342344); Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (345-348); Adam Mickiewicz, The Books of the Polish Nation (380-383). Friday: Liberalism and Socialism Secondary Readings: Hobsbawm, Chapter 13 Primary Readings: Karl Marx and Frierich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (322-326); William Wilberforce, An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire, in Behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies (349-351); John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (355-360) Week 5: February 10 February 14: Revolutions and Unifications Monday: The Revolutions of 1848 Secondary Reading: Hobsbawm, Chapters 7 and 16 Primary Readings: Francis Place, The People's Charter and National Petition (334-336); Johann Gottfried Herder, Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind (374-377); Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation (377-380). Wednesday: Italian and German Unification Secondary Reading: John Breuilly, Theories of Nationalism and the Critical Approach to German History, in Imperial Germany Revisited: Continuing Debates and New Perspectives, ed. Sven Olivier Mller and Cornelius Torp (Oxford, UK: Bergahn Books, 2011) (eres) Primary Readings: Guiseppe Mazzini, Duties of Man (384-387); Ernst Renan, What is a Nation? (391-394)

Friday: Discussion: Ideologies of the Nineteenth Century Week 6: February 17 February 21: The Fin de Sicle Monday: Mass Culture, Militancy, and the Social Secondary Reading: Judith Walkowitz, Contested Terrain: New Social Actors, in City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in LateVictorian London (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) (eres). Primary Readings: Eduard Bernstein, Evolutionary Socialism (423-425); Vladimir Lenin, Our Programme (426-428); Emmeline Pankhurst, Why We are Militant (442-446). Wednesday: The New Imperialism: Secondary Reading: Alice Conklin, The Setting: The Idea of the Civilizing Mission in 1895 and the Creation of the Government General, in A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997) (eres) Friday: Quiz 2: Ideologies of Class and Nation First Essay Prompt Handed Out Week 7: February 24 February 28: World War I Monday: The Origins of World War I Secondary Reading: Mazower, Preface and Chapter 1 Primary Readings: None Wednesday: The Great War Secondary Reading: None Primary Readings: The Trench Poets of the First World War (469470); Press Reports from the Front, (472-474); Ernst Jnger, The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front (475-478); Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (478-483); The Versailles Treaty (483-489). Friday: Discussion: The World at War First Essay Due by 5:00p Spring Break Week 8: March 17 March 22: The Russian Revolution Monday: The October Revolution Secondary Reading: Mazower, Chapter 2

Primary Reading: N.N. Sukhanov, The Rusian Revolution 1917 (493-497); Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, Order Number One, 1 March 1917 (498-499) Wednesday: Stalin's Russia Secondary Reading: None Primary Reading: Alexandra Kollontai, The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (501-505).Daily Life under Stalin, (504-509). Friday: Discussion: The Aftermath of World War I Secondary Reading: Mazower, Chapter 3 Week 9: March 24 March 28: Turmoil Between the Wars Monday: Italian Fascism Secondary Reading: Mazower: Chapter 4 Primary Reading: Benito Mussolini, Born of a Need for Action (509512); Ruth Kluger, Forward and Part 1 (first half) Wednesday: Weimar and the Rise of Hitler Secondary Reading: Mazower, Chapter 5 (pages 138-154) Primary Reading: Kluger, Part 1 (finish) Friday: Quiz 3: World War I and After Week 10: March 31 April 4: WWII and Holocaust Monday: The Origins of World War II Secondary Reading: Mazower, Chapter 5 (Finish) Primary Reading: Kluger, Part 2 Wednesday: World War II Secondary Reading: None Primary Reading: Kluger, Part 3 Friday: Discussion: The Holocaust Primary Reading: Kluger, Part 4 Week 11: April 7 April 11: Postwar Europe Monday: Postwar Europe Secondary Reading: Mazower, Chapter 6 Primary Reading: The Atlantic Charter and Third World Nationalism (531-534); Charter of the United Nations (548-549); Aerial Bombardment (550-553)

Wednesday: Decolonization Secondary Reading: None Primary Reading: Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Writings (580-584); Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (584-588). Friday: Discussion: The Beginning of the Cold War Secondary Reading: Mazower, Chapter 7 Primary Reading: Winston Churchill, The Sinews of Peace (555-557) Week 12: April 14 April 18: Cold War Monday: Postwar Communism Secondary Reading: Mazower, Chapter 8 Primary Reading: Nikita Krushchev, On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences (557-561). Wednesday: 1968 and After Secondary Reading: Mazower, Chapter 9 Primary Reading: French Students and Workers Unite in Protest (562565); Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (574-577) Friday: Quiz 4: World War II and Postwar Europe Second Essay Prompt Handed Out Week 13: April 21 25: A World Without Walls? Monday: European Unification Secondary Reading: Mazower, Chapter 10 Primary Reading: None Wednesday: The End of the Cold War and Globalization Secondary Reading: None Primary Reading: Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless (565-569); Mikhail Gorbachev, On Restructuring the Party's Personnel Policy, (569-575); Nicolas Sarkozy, Speech at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal, July 26, 2007 (590-593); Achille Mbembe, Nicolas Sarkozy's Africa (593-596). Friday: Discussion: Wrap Up and Review Secondary Reading: Mazower, Chapter 11 and Epilogue Second Essay Due by 5:00p Week 14: April 28 May 2: Presentations