Lecture & Discussion Materials

Europe

Historical Thinking: a) Change (and Continuity) over time b) The Past is a Foreign Country c) Empathetic Historical Understanding d) Varied Experiences and Outlooks

 

 

The polycentric world system

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)

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)

State Building in Europe and Competition for Empire
The Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment: New Views of Nature, Human Nature, and Good Governement
The Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment: continued
Globalization and Empire in the 19th Century [in The Daily News 1886]
British India
Europe in the 17th Century: Statemaking, War, and Revolt

Europe in the 18th Century: the rise of Russia and Prussia

State consolidation: study maps of Europe in 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800

The French Revolution
Industrialization in Britain and Europe 1780-1900 Factory sounds

Nationalism, National Unity, and Nation States Interesting song

Carl Schurz (Reminiscences excerpt on Bonn in 1848)

Building National Loyalities and the Nation State

Multiple ethnic groups and languages in the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary in 1867

The Belle Epoch and the Arms Race
The Great War: Character and Consequences

Revolutions in Russia

Peacemaking at Versailles

Selected results
Art, Politics, and Malaise principally in the Interwar Period

Varieties of Fascism

Paxton on Fascism

Hitler and Nazi Germany

Authoritarian Regimes Compared

History and Memory: The Ukranian Famine of the early 1930s