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HSTEU302, Fall 2010

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Wk X  
Tu 11/30       Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette   

                      1788-1789: Fiscal Crisis and Estates General

                      DISCUSSION: Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen
                       and Declarations on Jews, Negroes, Women


Th 12/3       Revolution: 1789 to 1791

                    From Constitutional Monarchy to Regicide

                  
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).

Link to web page on the Revolutionary Calendar (worth a look):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar

Wk XI
Tu 12/8       Revolution: First French Republic & the Terror
                  
                  Thermidor and the Directory

Th 12/10       Rise of Napoleon and the French Empire

                  Edmund Burke and Counter Revolutionary Thought

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Wk IX   

Tu 11/23 SNOW DAY: No class

Th 11/25     THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY, NO CLASS   

Wk VIII

Tu 11/16
  Reading: Rousseau, Discourse on Origin of Inequality and                                Selections from Social Contract, in Jacob, Enlightenment                         and  Voltaire's Letter to Rousseau about Discourse on Inequality

             ROUSSEAU: from Enlightenment to Romanticism

            DISCUSSION: ROUSSEAU, Discourse on Origin of Inequality

Th 11/18 France in 18th Century: Background to the Revoluation

              Louis XV: Legacy of Louis XIV, Taxation and parlements      

Wk VII
Reading: Link to Pope's Essay on Man 1732 read with Candide

Tu 11/9 Background for reading Voltaire's Candide

             DISCUSSION: Voltaire's Candide

Th 11/11 VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY: NO CLASS

            READ ROUSSEAU, Discourse on Origin of Inequality for Tues


         
Wk VI Tu 11/2 MIDTERM EXAM, no lecture

Th 11/4 Enlightenment: Voltaire and the Encyclopedie


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Wk V

Tu 10/26 17th C. France: Louis XIV

Link to Bossuet reading: Politics drawn from the very words of Holy Scripture

              DISCUSSION: Religion in the Age of Reason & Enlightenment

            If you are doing a response paper,
 please write on one of these two :
            Anonymous,  Treatise of Three Impostors, Jacob pp. 94-114 or
            Voltaire, Letters concerning the English Nation,  pp.114-137 

Th 10/28 Eastern Europe in 17th C: three separate links
           Hapsburg Austria           
           Prussia
           Russia

Wk IV
Tu 10/19   Scientific Revolution: Galileo to Newton (cont'd from Th)

                 17th C. Philosophy: Rationalism and Empiricism

                DISCUSSION: Descartes Discourse on Method

Th 10/21 17th C. France: Richilieu, Louis XIII and the Fronde

Week III

Tu 10/12     England: from the Restoration to Glorious Revolution of 1688

                 Political Theory: Divine Right versus Social Contract

                 John Locke: Theorist of Constitutional Monarchy

                 DISCUSSION: John Locke, Second Treatise of Government

Th 10/14   Dutch Republic

              Scientific Revolution: Galileo to Newton (cont'd on Tu 10/19)

Week II       New outline: English religious groupings

DISCUSSIONS: Tuesday: Hobbes Leviathan selections (link)
                         Thursday: Locke, Second Treatise of Govt.

Tu 10/5     Stuart Monarchy and English Civil War
       
               
Th 10/7 DISCUSSION: Hobbes Leviathan selections
             to be continued on Tuesday October 12

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Week I
Th 9/30 Introduction: 17th C. Crises

                Madame de Sevigne

                Thirty Years' War

                Mars & Venus in 17th C. Painting

 

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10/10/10

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