Lecture
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Wk X
Tu 3/7 French Revolution: from Constitutional Monarchy to Republic: 1792-1793
Revolution: First French Republic & the Terror
Thermidor and the Directory
Th 3/9 Rise of Napoleon and the French Empire
Fri 3/10 Discussion: Napoleon Coup and Napoleon Code
Censer & Hunt, Docs (#5.1), pp. 160-161, (#5.6-5.7), pp 166-169
Edmund Burke and Counter Revolutionary Thought
Censer & Hunt, Docs (#6.1), pp. 186-189
Burke on Queen & Chivalry, against the October Days:
: Link to one page from his Reflections
Wk IX
Tu 2/28 18th C. France, Louis XVI (cont. from last week)
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Th 3/2 1788-1789: French Revolution: Fiscal Crisis, Estates General
French Revolution: 1789 to 1791
Fri 3/3 Documents from the French Revolution: Question for discussion link
Censer & Hunt, Ch 2, pp. 62-84; Ch 3, pp. 85-114
Babeuf & the Enragés, Doc. #1.4-1.5, pp 25-28
Robespierre, Speech on Virtue & Terror (link here & on C&H CD Rom),
Robespierre, The Cult of the Supreme Being -- see the following link
http://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/cult-of-the-supreme-being/
Link to web page on the Revolutionary Calendar (worth a look):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
Wk VIII
Tu 2/21 Rousseau, continued from last week
Late Enlightenment: Nature and Morality
Kant, "What is Enlightenment?" (see selection in Jacobs, The Enl)
Th 2/23 France in 18th Century: Background to the Revoluation
Louis XV: Legacy of Louis XIV, Taxation and parlements
F 2/24 Discussion: Manifestos of the early Revolution:
Rousseau, Social Contract selections in Jacob, pp 178-201
Documents in Censer & Hunt, pp. 24-25, 42-47, 129-138, including
Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen, and The Emancipation of Negroes
Olympia de Gouges, Declaration of Rights of Women: links are here
Olympe de Gouge, Preface to Queen Marie Antoinette
Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women
Wk VII
Tu 2/14 Enlightenment (continued from last week)
Enlightened Despotism -- Prussia & Russia
Th 2/16 ROUSSEAU: from Enlightenment to Romanticism
F 2/17 DISCUSSION: ROUSSEAU, Discourse on Origin of Inequality
and Voltaire's Letter to Rousseau about Discourse on Inequality
Wk VI Tu 11/2 MIDTERM EXAM, no lecture
Th 2/9 Enlightenment: Voltaire and the Encyclopédie
Background for reading Voltaire's Candide
Pope's Essay on Man 1732 read with Candide
Fr 2/10 DISCUSSION: Voltaire's Candide
Week V
Tu 1/26 and Th 1/28 Eastern Europe in 17th C: three separate links
Hapsburg Austria
Prussia
Russia
Week IV
Tu 1/24 Continuation of 17th C Philosophy & 17th C. France from last week
Tu 1/24-1/26 Louis XIV le grande monarque et roi soleil
Reading for Thurs 1/26 lecture:
Bossuet, Politics Taken from the Very Words of Holy Scripture
DISCUSSION: Voltaire Letters on the English Nation, Three Impostors
Week III Dutch Republic
Tu 1/17 Scientific Revolution: Galileo to Newton
17th C. Philosophy: Rationalism and Empiricism
Th 1/19 17th C. France: Richelieu, Louis XIII and the Fronde
Fr 1/21 DISCUSSION: Descartes Discourse on Method
Wk II
Tu 1/10 Stuart Monarchy and English Civil War coutline from Handout Th 1/5)
England: from the Restoration to Glorious Revolution of 1688
Th 1/2 Political Theory: Divine Right versus Social Contract
John Locke: Theorist of Constitutional Monarchy
Fri 1/6 DISCUSSION: John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
Week I
Tu 1/3 Introduction: Climate, Population & 17th C. Crises
Madame de Sevigne
Thirty Years' War
Mars & Venus in 17th C. Painting
Th 1/5 Stuart Monarchy and English Civil War
English religious groupings
Fri 1/6 DISCUSSION: Hobbes Leviathan selections
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Wk IX
Tu 2/28 Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
1788-1789: Fiscal Crisis and Estates General
Th 3/2 Revolution: 1789 to 1791
From Constitutional Monarchy to Regicide
Fri 3/3 DISCUSSION: Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen
and Declarations on Jews, Negroes, Women
Documents on Radicalization of the Revolution (Censer & Hunt):
(to be discussed in lecture IF there is time.) -- Response papers
on any of these documents may be turned in any time until
the last lecture. Remember, only TWO response papers anytime
in the quarter
(not 3 as originally stated).
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Week I
Tu 1/3 Introduction: 17th C. Crises
Madame de Sevigne
Thirty Years' War
Mars & Venus in 17th C. Painting
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