HIST 202
European Civilization, 1648-1945
Fall 2008
Topics
- Introduction
- Absolutism and the State
- Dutch and British Exceptionalism
- Peter the Great
- The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere
- Maximilien Robespierre and the French Revolution
- Napoleon
- Industrial Revolutions
- Middle Classes
- Popular Protest
- Why No Revolution in 1848 in Britain
- Nineteenth-Century Cities
- Nationalism
- Radicals
- Imperialists and Boy Scouts
- The Coming of the Great War
- War in the Trenches
- Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (Guest Lecture by Jay Winters)
- The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution
- Successor States of Eastern Europe
- Stalinism
- Fascists
- Collaboration and Resistance in World War II
- The Collapse of Communism and Global Challenges
Readings
- Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men . New York: Harper Perennial, 1998.
- Merriman, John. A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Present. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
- Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia . New York: Harvest Books, 1980.
- Smith, Helmut. The Butcher's Tale . New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
- Winter, Jay. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Zola, Emile. Germinal. London: Penguin Books, 2004.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical Open Yale Courses
- Historical Open Yale Courses offering. Texts and lecture titles are reproduced as bibliographic and topic information; reading requirements vary by the linked syllabus.