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Historical Thinking: a) Change (and Continuity) over time b) The Past is a Foreign Country c) Empathetic Historical Understanding d) Varied Experiences and Outlooks
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| Lecture 2 | The polycentric world system | |
| Lecture 3 | Facing Each Other: Spanish and Amerindian Encounters and Struggles in Mexica in the 16th century Power Point slides on the Aztec (Mexica), Tenochtitlan, and Cortéz (See Ella: https://ella.mtholyoke.edu/access/content/group/HIST-151-01-F09/Mexica.pptx) |
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| Lecture 4 | Facing Each Other: French Missionaries and Amerindians of the Northeastern Woodlands in the 17th century The Catholic Counter Reformation and Missionary Activity (see Roberts, Europe, 250-72) |
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| Lecture 5 | State Building in Europe and Competition for Empire | |
| Lecture 6 | The Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment: New Views of Nature, Human Nature, and Good Governement | |
| Lecture 7 | The Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment: continued | |
| Lecture 8 | Globalization and Empire in the 19th Century [in The Daily News 1886] | |
| Lecture 9 | British India | |
| Lecture 10 | Europe in the 17th Century: Statemaking, War, and Revolt | |
| Lecture 11 | Europe in the 18th Century: the rise of Russia and Prussia
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| Lecture 12 | The French Revolution | |
| Lecture 13 | Industrialization in Britain and Europe 1780-1900 Factory sounds | |
| Lecture 14 | Nationalism, National Unity, and Nation States Interesting song Carl Schurz (Reminiscences excerpt on Bonn in 1848) |
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| Lecture 15 | Building National Loyalities and the Nation State
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| Lecture 16 | The Belle Epoch and the Arms Race | |
| Lecture 17 | The Great War: Character and Consequences | |
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| MidTerm Survey | Selected results | |
| Lecture 19 | Art, Politics, and Malaise principally in the Interwar Period | |
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| Lecture 21 | Hitler and Nazi Germany | |
| Lecture 22 | Authoritarian Regimes Compared History and Memory: The Ukranian Famine of the early 1930s |
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