History of Western Civilization II
History 21:510:202:80
Spring 2012
Conklin 424
Saturday 9:00-11:55
Dr. Martha Brozyna
Office: Conklin 326
Office Hours: Saturday 12:00-12:30
Phone: 973-353-5410
Email: [email protected]
This course covers European history from the eighteenth century to modern times. It will encompass a
wide range of topics in political, social, economic and cultural history.
Readings: We will be covering hundreds of years of history over the course of the semester. For this
reason it is necessary that you keep up with the readings. Keeping up with the readings will also help
you participate in class discussions, which make up part of your overall grade. I will also be giving
several pop quizzes throughout the semester which will be based on the readings. You must have the
readings completed on the day they are listed in the schedule below.
The following textbook is required for the course:
Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society 8th edition, ed. Perry, Marvin et al. Volume 2.
This book can be purchased at Rutgers University Bookstore and New Jersey Books.
You will also be required to read primary source documents found online. The exact title of each
document and its web link is listed below. These readings are also posted on Blackboard. Each student
is responsible for obtaining the documents off the internet or Blackboard. Please bring your readings to
class the day of discussion.
Attendance: Class attendance and participation are mandatory. Because this is a three-hour class that
meets once a week, I will be treating each class as two separate sessions. You will have a ten-minute
break between sessions about an hour and half into the class. I will be taking attendance twice during
each class meeting, once at the beginning of class and again when you return from the ten-minute
break. If you attend the first half of class, but decide to skip the second half of class (or vice versa), then
that will count as one absence. Every unexcused session absence deducts 4% from your overall
attendance grade. Moreover, after a student has four unexcused session absences, I will begin
deducting from his or her overall course grade by half a letter for each absence.
Students who miss eight or more sessions (i.e. half classes) for any combination of excused and
unexcused absences will not earn three credits in this class. Such students should withdraw from the
class.
Class participation: Class participation makes up an important part of your overall grade. I will be
devoting a certain portion of every class period to discussion. I will be grading your participation during
that time.
Quizzes: There will be several pop quizzes throughout the semester based on the readings. Quizzes may
be given in the first or second session of class (maybe even both!) I will drop the lowest quiz grade
when I calculate your overall quiz average for the semester. There will be no makeup quizzes. If you are
absent during the session a quiz is given, and your absence is unexcused, I will count that absence as the
lowest quiz grade and drop it. If you have an excused absence, I will simply disregard that missed quiz
when I average your grade.
Exams: There will be a midterm and a final during the semester. You will be given important terms and
questions prior to each exam to help you prepare. Makeup exams will NOT be given unless there is a
good reason for missing the exam.
The final exam will be cumulative, and it will be part take-home and part in-class. The cumulative part
of the final will be the portion that is take-home. The take-home section of the final will be due on the
day of the in-class final exam (May 5)
Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the use of another person’s words or ideas and passing them off as your
own. It is an offense that Rutgers University takes very seriously. While there is nothing wrong with
quoting another person’s work, you should always make sure you give credit to the source from which
you got your information. In order to take this course, you are required to sign the Academic Integrity
form on Blackboard which states that you will not cheat or plagiarize. If you have any questions about
plagiarism, please feel free to speak with me or visit the following website:
http://cat.rutgers.edu/integrity/policy.html
Grades will be determined by the following:
Class attendance – 5%
Class participation – 10%
Quizzes – 20%
Midterm exam – 25%
Final exam – 40%
January 21:
Introduction to the course; Chapter 18: The Age of Enlightenment
January 28:
Finish Chapter 18 Readings -- Perry pp. 419-444; Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws,
1748 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/montesquieu-spirit.html Jean Jacques Rousseau: The
Social Contract, 1763 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Rousseau-soccon.html Voltaire: On
Tolerance http://history.hanover.edu/texts/voltaire/voltoler.html Start Chapter 19: The French
Revolution Readings – Perry, pp. 452-465; Abbé Sieyes: What is the Third Estate?
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sieyes.html Declaration of the Rights of Man - 1789
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
February 4:
Finish Chapter 19: pp. 467-478 Maximilien Robespierre: The Cult of the Supreme Being
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robespierre-supreme.html Maximilien Robespierre: Justification
of the Use of Terror http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robespierre-terror.html
Chapter 20: Napoleon Readings -- Perry, pp. 481-497; Napoleon's Proclamation to His Troops in Italy
1796 http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/nap1796.html
Napoleon's Account of the Internal Situation of France in 1804
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/NAPOLEON.html
The Return of Napoleon from Elba, 1815
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1815napoleon100days.html
February 11: Chapter 21: The Industrial Revolution; Readings – Perry, pp. 499-517; Observations on
the Loss of Woollen Spinning, 1794 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1794woolens.html
Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions http://www.victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html
Women Miners in the English Coal Pits http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1842womenminers.html
Chapter 22: Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century; Readings -- Perry, pp. 519-536; G.W.F
Hegel: The Dialectic of History http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/hegel-summary.asp Edmund
Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/563/
February 18: Finish Chapter 22: Readings – Perry, pp. 537-544; Johann Gottfried von Herder:
Materials for the Philosophy of History of Mankind http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1784herdermankind.asp Thomas Malthus: Essay on Population
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1798malthus.asp
Chapter 23: Revolution and Counterrevolution; Readings – Perry, pp. 547-568; Prince Klemens von
Metternich: Political Confession of Faith, 1820
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1820metternich.html
François Guizot: Condition of the July Monarchy, 1830-1848
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1848guizot.html
Documents of the Revolution of 1848 in France http://history.hanover.edu/texts/fr1848.html
February 25: Chapter 24: Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century; Readings – Perry pp.
572-594; Charles Darwin: On the Origin of
Species http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111dar.html
Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man, 1871 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871darwin.html
Karl Marx: The Alienation of Labor
http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~batchelo/7%20Marx%20Estranged%20Labor.htm
March 3:
Midterm
Chapter 25: The Surge of Nationalism; Readings – Perry, pp. 597-619; Documents of German
Unification, 1848-1871http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/germanunification.html
Giuseppe Mazzini: On Nationality, 1852 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1852mazzini.html
King Victor Emmanuel: Address to Parliament, Rome, 1871
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871victoremm.html
March 10:
Spring Break. No class!
March 17:
Spring Break. No class!
March 24:
Chapter 26: The Industrial West; Readings -- Perry pp. 638-664; Emmeline Pankhurst:
My Own Story, 1914 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914Pankhurst.html
Chapter 27: Western Imperialism; Readings -- Perry pp. 668-685 Mountstuart Elphinstone: Indian
Customs and Manners, 1840 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/1840elphinstone.html
Fei Ch'i-hao: The Boxer Rebellion, 1900 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1900Fei-boxers.html
March 31:
Finish Chapter 27 Readings -- Perry pp. 684-693
Chapter 28: Modern Consciousness; Readings – Perry pp. 696-727; Sigmund Freud: The Structure of
Unconscious, http://anupamm.tripod.com/freudst.html
April 7:
Chapter 29: World War I; Readings -- Perry pp. 696-723; Private Donald Fraser,
Canadian Expeditionary Force: Selections from My Daily Journal, 1915-1916
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918fraser.html Vladimir Illyich Lenin: What is to be Done, 1902
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1902lenin.html Alexandera Kollantai: Communism and the
Family http://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1920/communism-family.htm
April 14:
Chapter 30: An Era of Totalitarianism; Readings -- Perry pp. 766-804 Dizzy with Success:
Concerning Questions of the Collective-Farm Movement http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/dizzy.html
Hymn to Stalin http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/stalin-worship.html
Stalin's Purges, 1935 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1936purges.html Adolf Hitler Speech of
April 12, 1921 http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111hit1.html Benito Mussolini: What is
Fascism, 1932 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html
April 21:
Chapter 31: Thought and Culture in an Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism; Readings
-- Perry pp. 809-831 Franz Kafka, excerpts from The Trial
http://web.archive.org/web/19980116133522/http://pluto.clinch.edu/history/wciv2/civ2ref/trial.htm
April 28:
Chapter 32: Readings -- Perry pp, 836-863 Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health:
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/nurmlaw1.html The Nuremberg Laws on Citizenship and Race:
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/nurmlaw2.html
The Yalta Conference, Feb. 1945 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1945YALTA.html
Winston S. Churchill: "Iron Curtain Speech", March 5, 1946
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.html
May 5:
Final Exam, 8:30-11:30
****NOTE: The syllabus and calendar are subject to change in the event of extenuating
circumstances.