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Academic Year 2000/2001

Early Modern Europe
HIST 202 FA
Clusters:
Christian Studies

A comparative study of the ideology of religion, politics, and society of the great social political changes in Europe. The course will analyze the relationship between these changes and the development of the dominant ideas and institutions of the period. Emphasis on the social context of adaptive change and innovation in culture, politics and thought. The course covers: the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the English civil war, Louis XIV and absolutism, the rise of capitalism, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. Required for the European History concentration, this course also provides essential historical grounding for any student interested in study abroad or in modern culture and politics.

MAJOR READINGS

Merriman, A HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE, Vol I
READINGS IN WESTERN CIVILATION, Vols. 5,7.
Bainton, THE REFORMATION OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Cortes, FIVE LETTERS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Machiavelli, THE PRINCE AND THE DISCOURSES
de Tocqueville, THE OLD REGIME AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Woloch, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE
Barker, ed., SOCIAL CONTRACT: LOCKE, HUME, ROUSSEAU
Hobbes, LEVIATHAN
Rousseau, FIRST AND SECOND DISCOURSES
Burke, REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE
Paine, RIGHTS OF MAN
Lefebvre, THE COMING OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Moore, Jr., SOCIAL ORIGINS OF DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Mid-term and final examination; two papers (4pp.); discussion assignments.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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