SCHEDULE AND READING ASSIGNMENTS

Week 1: Introduction; What is ‘Western’ History? Ancient Greece and the Ancient Hebrews

Week 2: Ancient Rome, from Republic to Empire

        Readings: Livy,The History of Rome, preface; 1.1; 1:9-1:13; 3:26-3:29; Plutarch, “Julius Caesar”; The Gospel of Luke; St. Augustine, The City of God, selections.

Week 3: Medieval Europe

   Readings: The Nicene Creed; The Burgundian Code (selections); The Life of Charlemagne(selections); Joan of Arc, “Letter to the King of England, 1492”; Boccaccio, The Decameron, selections;  

Week 4: The Renaissance, the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution

        Readings: Machiavelli, The Prince, selections; Galileo, Siderius Nuncius, selections; Luther, “95 Theses”; Tridentine Creed; John Calvin, “On Double Predestination”; St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre eyewitness descriptions.

        Supplemental Readings: Roberts, “The Military Revolution”

Week 5: The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

        Readings: John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Selections; The Poliitcal Testament of Cardinal Richelieu, selections         

Week 6: The American Revolution

        Readings: Common Sense (selections); The Declaration of Independence; The Federalist Papers, selections; Abigail Adams, ‘Remember the Ladies’

Week 7: The French Revolution and Napoleon

        Readings: The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen; Robespierre, Principles of Political Morality, selections; Madame Roland, Memoires (selections); Napoleonic code (selections)

Week 8: Industrialization

        Readings: Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (selections); Harriet Robinson, “Lowell Mill Girls” (selections); selected texts on the industrialization of England

Week 9: The Nineteenth Century in Europe and America

        Readings: Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, selections; Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto; The Declaration of Sentiments

Week 10: Colonization

        Readings: The White Man’s Burden; Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”; Stanley, How I Found Livingston (Selections)

Week 11: World War I and the Russian Revolution and the Western World between the Wars

        Readings: Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (Selections); Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”; The Treaty of Versailles; Wilson’s Fourteen Points; Coleman, “In France’s Flowered Fields”; Lenin, What is to be Done? (selections); Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution (selections);  Hymn to Stalin; Hitler, Mein Kampf (selections); Franklin Roosevelt, First Inaugural Speech

Week 12: World War II and the Holocaust

        Readings: Elie Wiesel, Night; United Nations, “Genocide”; Churchill, The Iron Curtain Speech

Week 13: Decolonization and the Cold War

        Readings: Gandhi, selected speeches and writings; Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream”; Castro, “On the Exportation of Revolution”; de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, introduction; Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (selections)