Lecture Notes
Lecture 1: Europe 1500-1700: Political Organization and First Encounters Overseas
Lecture 2: Encounters Abroad (1492-1600), Crisis at Home, 1600-1660
Lecture 3: Grandeur and Power
Lecture 4: Statemaking, Warmaking, and the Competition for Global Empire
Lecture 5: The New World in the New: Changing Views of Difference and the Reassessment of European Civilization
Lecture 6: The Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment
Discussion and Additional Remarks for February 20
Lecture 7 & 8: The French Revolution
Lecture 9: The Europe of Napoleon and Metternich: 1798-the 1840s
Lecture 10 & 11: Industrialization
Lecture 12: Karl Marx and Victory Hugo: Socialism, Romanticism, and Revolution in 19th-Century Europe (with notes from Lara Ceppi on the proletariat)
Lecture 13: Faiths, Nationalism, and the Unification of Italy and Germany
Lecture 14: Imperialism and Civilizing Missions
Lecture 15: From the Gay 90s & Belle Epoch to the Great War
Lecture 16: The Russian Revolutions
Lecture 17: Deja Vu: Cultural Malaise and Crisis in Early 20th Century Europe
Lecture 18: Fascism, Hitler, and Nazi Germany
Lecture 19: World War II and the Holocaust: Toward an Understanding of the Incomprehensible
Lecture 20: Totalitarianism, Cold War, and Other Fun Facts about the Post-War Period in Europe
Lecture 21: Europe in the 1960s: The Hitch Hikers Guide
Lecutre 22: European History in the Long Run: The example of two competing patterns--international cooperation versus the power of states and nations.
Lecture 23: Warm Up: Headlines in 1984
Lecture 23: European Unity, the Retreat from Empire, and the Fall of Communism