HSTEU302, Winter 2017

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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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 Last Updated:
2/26/17

Contact the instructor at: oneilmr@u.washington.edu