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In the outline that follows, the following headings are used.

Themes for teaching: Common themes brought up by this subject in a typical undergraduate course.

Comments: Common problems in teaching this subject period.

Foreshadowing/Later Implications: Ideas, events, of the period which can be stressed in review and which have "modern" implications.

Fundamental Primary Texts: The primary sources typically assigned to students in Western Civ classes -- usually in excerpted form. This is not meant to be a complete list of fundamental primary texts!

Basic Reading: One good basic synthetic work on the subject. Must be read by class participants, and should be acquired when possible.

Suggested Extra Reading: Fundamental secondary texts or recent reevaluations of the subject period. These are not to be acquired/bought, but merely provide a very basic bibliography.

Teaching Strategies: Focus of discussion of pedagogical methods.

Introduction: Themes in Modern Western Civilization

Themes for Teaching:

What is Modernity? Revolutions and continuities. Rise and fall of European Hegemony?

Comments:

Basic Reading:

Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of Great Powers. New York: Vintage, repr. 1989. ISBN: 0679720197

Suggested Extra Reading:

Palmer, R. R. and Joel G. Colton. History of the Modern World. 8th ed. New York: McGraw Hill College Div. 1994. ISBN: 0070408262 {Designed as a very superior textbook, this is too difficult for most students. It can be a life saver for teachers who need to get the essentials fast.}

Teaching Strategies: The first class. Using Blackboard/

[*] The sections marked with an asterisk have already been covered in European History and Historians I, but constitute essential background in modern history for those people who are joining the program for the first time.

*Absolutism (or "the creation of the modern state apparatus")

Themes for Teaching:

The creation of the apparatus of a modern state -- central bureaucracy, standing armies, government propaganda.

Comments:

It is a mistake to convey a dichotomy between absolutism and constitutionalism: what is significant in the 17th and 18th centuries is the emergence of modern means and theories of state power.

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Richelieu, Political Testament; Jean Domat; Louis IX, Letter to Son.

Basic Reading:

James B. Collins. The State in Early Modern France (New Approaches to European History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN: 0521387248

Suggested Extra Reading:

Beik, William. Louis XIV and Absolutism: A Brief Study with Documents. New York: (Bedford/St. Martin's.

Geoffrey Parker, Lesley M. Smith, eds. The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. 2d ed. New York: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 041512882X

Jason Goodwin. Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire. Owl Books, 2000. ISBN: 0805063420 {A readable reminder that the Ottoman Empire was, for a long time, the most important state in the lands covered by Western Civilization.}

Teaching Strategies:

*Constitutionalism (or "the evolution of modern western constitutional ideas")

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

James I, Trew Law of Free Monarchies; John Locke, Second Treatise; Declaration of Dutch Republic.

Basic Reading:

Christopher Hill. Century of Revolution, 1603-1714. 2d ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1985. ISBN: 0393300161

Suggested Extra Reading:

Christopher Hill. The World Turned Upside Down : Radical Ideas During the English Revolution. New York: Viking Press, c.1972. ISBN: 0140137327

Mark Kishlansky. A Monarchy Transformed : Britain 1603-1714. New York: Penguin USA, 1997. ISBN: 014014827

Teaching Strategies:

*The Scientific Revolution

Themes for Teaching:

Science as the source of intellectual and cultural authority in modern civilization.

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

The Scientific Revolution provided the basic ideals for the enlightenment ideal of a human being as a transparent self-knowing rational individual -- the basis of liberal ideologies such as democratic government and free market economics. What happens when in the late 19th and 20th centuries, science and social science contradicts this ideal of human nature?

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Copernicus, On The Revolutions; Galileo, Letter to Duchess of Tuscany. Newton, Principles.

Basic Reading:

James R. Jacob. The Scientific Revolution : Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-1700. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1998. ISBN: 1573925462

Suggested Extra Reading:

J. L. Heilbron. The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0674854330

Herbert Butterfield. The Origins of Modern Science. New York: Free Press, 1997. ISBN: 0684836378 {Somewhat old now, but still a good overview.}

I. Bernard Cohen. The Birth of a New Physics. Rev ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1991. ISBN: 0393300455 {An account of the Scientific Revolution that concentrates on physics from Copernicus to Newton via Galileo.}

David C. Lindberg. The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN: 0226482316{A synthesis of the modern researches into ancient and medieval science in the West.}

Thomas S. Kuhn. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 3d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN: 0226458083 {Although attacked by some modern scientists -- who think they are finding the "truth" -- Kuhn's book is probably the most influential in the historiography of science, and is responsible for the popularity of the term "paradigm shift."}

Steven Shapin. The Scientific Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN: 0226750213 [Amazon.com $9.60]{A revisionist view of the origins of the modern scientific worldview. Shapin is a sociologist who rejects the idea that there was a "revolution" in early modern science, and argues that scientific knowledge was advanced through social practices for social purposes.}

Steven Shapin. A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. ISBN: 0226750191 {From Amazon: In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. He argues that problems of credibility in science were practically solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honor, and integrity. These codes formed, and arguably still form, an important basis for securing reliable knowledge about the natural world. Shapin's broad claim is that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge. Knowledge-making is always a collective enterprise: people have to know whom to trust in order to know something about the natural world.}

Lisa Jardine. Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution. New York: Doubleday, 1999. ISBN: 0385493258.

Teaching Strategies:

The Enlightenment

Themes for Teaching:

The concept of "modernity." The importance of the notion of "freedom" in modern discourses.

Comments:

The Enlightenment was not the first period in which thinkers saw itself as modern -- some Renaissance writers did also. Nevertheless, it was a much more successful project than the Renaissance in that it succeeded in displacing religion by "science" as the ultimate arbiter of truth. For some students this will come as a shock.

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Prepare to contrast the certainty science gave to 18th century intellectuals with the more problematic impact of science in the late 19th and 120th century.

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Voltaire. Candide, Philosophical Dictionary, Letters on Newton

Rousseau. Social Contract

Montesquieu. Spirit of the Laws

Film:

Dangerous Liasions

Basic Reading:

Outram, Dorinda. The Enlightenment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN: 0521425344

Suggested Extra Reading:

Black, Jeremy. 18th Century Europe. New York: St. Martin's. Press

Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment : An Interpretation : The Science of Freedom. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, repr. 1996. ISBN: 0393313662

Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment : The Rise of Modern Paganism. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995. ISBN: 0393313026 ;

Hunt, Lynn. The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800. New York: Zone Books, 1993.

Saul, John Ralston. Voltaire's Bastards : The Dictatorship of Reason in the West. New York: Vintage Books, repr. 1993. ISBN: 0679748199

Teaching Strategies:

Getting students interested in the history of thought.

The American Revolution

Themes for Teaching:

The place of the United States in "western civilization." Is it a special case?

Comments:

America cannot suddenly enter "western civ." in the 20^th century. It is important to emphasize two themes: the connections between aspects of US political history (liberal politics, nation building) and European developments; and the embedding of the US in the world economy.

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Contrast the relative stability of the American state with the instability of all European states.

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Declaration of Independence

Thomas Paine. Common Sense

The Federalist Papers

Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America

Basic Reading:

Morgan Edmund S. The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89. 3d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Film:

Patriot

Suggested Extra Reading:

Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.

Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of the American Revolution. New York : W. Morrow, c1991.

Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1991.

Teaching Strategies:

Teaching against student ideals -- deliberate provocation as a way of inducing discussion.

The French Revolution

Themes for Teaching:

Contrast the revolution with previous noble rebellions and peasant revolts and show the difference ideology made in guiding participants' actions.

Comments:

Despite recent attempts to limit the significance of the Revolution, it still stands as one of the clearest of chronological boundaries.

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Compare the eventual success of French peasants in gaining clear and free land ownership, with the lesser success of Russian serfs and American slaves. This single development limited French industrial growth and ensured a very conservative rural society in France.

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Abb� Sieyee. What is the Third Estate?

Ropespierre. Terror and Virtue

Basic Reading:

Forrest, Alan. The French Revolution. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.

Film

Danton

Suggested Extra Reading:

Andress, David. French Society in Revolution, 1789-1799. Manchester: Manchester University Press , 1998.

Baker, Keith. Inventing the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Baker, Keith, ed. The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Blanning, T. C. W. The French Revolution: Class War or Culture Clash? New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Censer, Jack, ed. The French Revolution and Intellectual History. Chicago: Irwin Dorsey, 1989.

Chartier, Roger. Cultural Origins of the French Revolution. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991.

Connelly, Owen. The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era. 3d ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1999.

Doyle, William. The Oxford History of the French Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Doyle, William. Origins of the French Revolution. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Gough, Hugh. The Terror in the French Revolution. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Hunt, Lynn. Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Hunt, Lynn, ed. The French Revolution and Human Rights. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Jones, Peter, ed. The French Revolution in Social and Political Perspective. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Kates, Gary, ed. The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies. London: Routledge, 1998.

Kafker, Frank and James Laux, eds. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. . 4^th ed. Malabar FL: Krieger, 1989.

Lefebvre, Georges. The Coming of the French Revolution : 1789. Translated [with a new preface] by R.R. Palmer. Bicentennial ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989 (first French ed. 1939)

Mason, Laura and Tracey Rizzo, eds. The French Revolution: A Document Collection. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Sewell, William Hmailton. A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abbe Sieyes and What Is the Third Estate. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1993.

Napoleon

Arnold, Eric A. ed. A Documentary Survey of Napoleonic France: A Supplement Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1995.

Blanning, T. C. W. The French Revolutionary Wars 1787-1802. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Broers, Michael. Europe under Napoleon. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Connelly, Owen. Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1987.

Kafker, Frank A. and James M. Laux, eds. Napoleon and His Times: Selected Interpretations. Malabar, FL: Krieger, 1989, reissued 1992.

Markham, Felix. Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe. New York, Collier Books, 1965. {Ties Napoleon to the emergence of nationalism.}

Teaching Strategies:

The place of narrative in the classroom.

The Industrial Revolution

Themes for Teaching:

The importance of technology in everyday life as a feature of modern society. Technological innovation as a source of economic, political, and military power.

Comments:

Students are often impressed by hardships of the early industrial revolution, but try to get them to consider the alternatives -- Ireland, China, and so forth.

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

That the industrial revolution is, to use a clich�, an ongoing process. Cities such as Bombay, Sao Paolo, Wuhan, are currently facing the types of problems seen in 19^th century Britain.

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Various official reports on factory conditions.

Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South

Zola, Emile. Germinal

Frederich Engel. Condition of the Working Class in England

Film

Germinal
or Modern Times

Basic Reading:

Landes, David S. The Unbound Prometheus : Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press 1969

Suggested Extra Reading:

Ashton, T. S. (Thomas Southcliffe). The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830. Rev. ed London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1969. [First ed. 1948.] {A famous short account that challenged doom and gloom accounts by presenting the Industrial revolution as beneficial.}

Barret-Ducrocq, Fran�ois. Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality and Desire among Working-Class Men and Women in Nineteenth-Century London. Translated by John Howe. New York: Penguin, 1992. {An examination of the mores of working class women in 19^th century London based on orphanage accounts. Excellent.}

Deane, Phyllis. The First Industrial Revolution. 2d ed. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979. {An economic historians clear account of the progress of Industrialization in England.}

Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.) Industry and Empire: The Making of Modern English Society, 1750 to the Present Day. New York: Pantheon Books, 1968.

Thompson, E. P. (Edward Palmer). The Making of the English Working Class. New York: Pantheon Books [1964, c1963]. {At 850 pages this is one of the most important history books produced in Britain after World War II.}

Walton, John K., Fish and Chips and the British Working Class, 1870-1940. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1992.

Teaching Strategies:

Social class as a historical tool.

19th Century Europe: Romanticism and Nationalism

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Herder

Giuseppe Mazzini. On Patriotism

Theodore Herzl. The Jewish State

Film:

Michael Collins

Basic Reading:

Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.). Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Suggested Extra Reading:

Alter, Peter. Nationalism. New York: Edward Arnold, 1989.

Burns, Michael. France and the Dreyfus Affair. New York: Bedford-St. Martin's.

Hobsbawm, Eric. Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality

Smith, Anthony D. National Identity (Ethnonationalism in Comparative Perspective) Reno NV: University of Nevada Press, 1993. ISBN: 0874172047

Teaching Strategies:

Dealing with "isms."

19th Century Europe: 1848: Conservatism and Liberalism

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

John Stuart Mill. On Liberty

Jeremy Bentham. Utilitarianism

Edmund Burke. Reflections on the French Revolution

Mary Wollstonecroft. Vindication of the Rights of Women

Film

Charge of the Light Brigade
or Juarez
or Life of Zola

Basic Reading:

Sperber, Jonathan. The European Revolutions, 1848-1851. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Suggested Extra Reading:

Teaching Strategies:

19th-20th Century Europe: Radicalism and Socialism

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Karl Marx and Frederich Engels. The Communist Manifesto

Film:

Reds
or Rosa Luxemburg
or The Molly Maguires
or 1900

Basic Reading:

Sasson, Donald. One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century. New York: New Press, 1998.

Suggested Extra Reading:

David P. Jordan. Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann. University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Kramer, Hilton. The Twilight of the Intellectuals. Ivan R. Dee, 2000.
{Conservative take on the left in the US.}

Teaching Strategies:

Imperialism

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Quin Lung Huangdi. Letter to English King

Commissioner Lin. Letter to Queen Victoria

Kipling. The White Man's Burden

Achebe. Things Fall Apart

Film:

Breaker Morant
Or Passage to India

Basic Reading:

Headrick, Daniel R. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Suggested Extra Reading:

Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport CT: Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972.

Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Pakenham, Thomas. The Scramble for Africa, 1876-1912. New York: Random House, c1991.

Porter, Bernard. The Lion's Share: A Short History of British imperialism, 1850-1983. 2nd ed. London; New York: Longman, 1984.

Said, Edward W. Orientalism. New York : Vintage Books, 1979, c1978.

Scammell, Geoffrey Vaughn. The world Encompassed: The First European Maritime Empires, c. 800-1650. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

Scammell, Geoffrey Vaughn. The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion c. 1400-1715. London; Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.

Teaching Strategies:

Certainties Undermined: Darwin, Freud, Marx, and Einstein

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Nietzsche, F. Also Sprach Zarathustra

Freud, Sigmund. Madness and Civilization

Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto

Therese of Lisieux. The Story of a Soul

Film:

Oberst Redl
or Insignificance

Basic Reading:

Schorske, Carl E. Fin-de-si�cle Vienna: Politics and Culture. New York: Knopf, 1979.

Suggested Extra Reading:

Robinson, Paul. Freud and His Critics. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992.

Teaching Strategies:

World War I

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Graves, Robert. Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography.

Junger, Ernst. The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Stormtroop Officer on the Western Front.

Erich Maria Remarque. All Quiet on the Western Front.

Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms.

Owen, Wilfred. Poems

Brittain, Vera. Testament of Youth

Film:

All Quite on the Western Front
or Grand Illusion
or Gallipoli

Basic Reading:

Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of World War I. New York: Morrow, 1981.

Suggested Extra Reading:

Becker, Jean-Jacques. The Great War and the French People. . Berg, 1986

Bourne, J.M. Britain and the Great War 1914-1918

Chickering, Roger. Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Ferguson, Niall. The Pity of War. New York: Basic, 1999, c.1998.

Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975, repr. 2000

Hasek, Jaroslav. The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War. New York: Viking, repr. 1985.

Horne, Alistair. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916. New York: Penguin, repr. 1994,

Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of World War I. New York: Morrow, 1981. {Concentrates on the military progress of the war.}

Teaching Strategies:

The Russian Revolution 1905-1989

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Reed, John. Ten Days that Shook the World

Lenin. V. I. Writings

Film:

Nicholas and Alexandra
or Reds

Basic Reading:

Fitzpatrick, Shiela. The Russian Revolution, 1917-1932, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Suggested Extra Reading:

Acton, Edward. Rethinking the Russian Revolution. New York: Edward Arnold, 1990.

Conquest, Robert. The Harvest of Sorrow. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Fowkes, Ben, The Rise and Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Hill, Christopher. Lenin and the Russian Revolution. New York: Penguin, 1987.

Orwell, George. Animal Farm. New York: Signet, 19?? .

Pipes, R. "Did the Russian Revolutions Have to Happen." The American Scholar (1994): 215-36.

Ponton, Geoffrey. The Soviet Era: From Lenin to Yeltsin. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.

Wood, Alan. Stalin and Stalinism. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Teaching Strategies:

Interwar Successes and Failures

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Kafka, Franz. Metamorphosis.

Levi, Carlo. Christ Stopped at Eboli. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1947.

Film:

Cabaret
or Christ Stopped at Eboli
or The Grapes of Wrath

Basic Reading:

Carr, Edward H. The Twenty Years' Crisis: 1919-39. New York: HarperCollins, 1964.

Suggested Extra Reading:

Carsten, F.L. The Rise of Fascism, 2d ed.. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980.

Lee, Stephan J. The European Dictatorships 1918-1945. New York: Routledge, 1987.

Munting, Roger and B.A. Holderness. Crisis, Recovery and War: An Economic History of Continental Europe, 1918-1945. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

France

Adamthwaite, Anthony. Grandeur and Decline: France 1914-1940. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Agulhon, Maurice. The French Republic, 1879-1992. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.

Germany

Gay, Peter. Weimar Culture. New York: Harper, 1968.

Heiber, Helmut. The Weimar Republic: Germany 1918-1933. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.

Italy

Cassels, Alan. Fascist Italy. Arlington Heights, IL: AHM Publishing, 1968.

Spain

Payne, Stanley. The Spanish Revolution. New York; Norton, 1970.

Kenwood, Alun. The Spanish Civil War: A Cultural and Historical Reader. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Teaching Strategies:

World War II

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Film:

Saving Private Ryan

Basic Reading:

Kershaw, Ian. Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation. 4^th Ed.New York: Edward Arnold, 2000.

Suggested Extra Reading:

Carr, William, Hitler: A Study in Personality and Politics. New York: Edward Arnold, 1986.

Engelmann, Bernt. In Hitler's Germany: Everyday Life in the Third Reich, trans. Krishna Winston. New York: Schoken, 1986.

Kershaw, Ian. The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Kershaw, Ian. The Nazi Dictatorship, 3d ed. Rev. London: Edward Arnold, 1991.

Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.

Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Viking, 1989.

Muhlberger, Detlef. Hitler's Followers: Studies in the Sociology of the Nazi Movement. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Teaching Strategies:

The Holocaust

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Frank, Anne. The Diary of Anne Frank. various editions.

Weisel, Elie. Night.

Levi, Primo, Survival in Auschwitz. New York: 1959.

Heger, Heinz. The Men With the Pink Triangles. Boston: Alyson, 1980.

Film:

Schindler's List
or Shoah
or Genocide (World at War)

Basic Reading:

Marrus, Michael. The Holocaust in History. New York: NAL/Plume, 1987.

Suggested Extra Reading:

Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The War against the Jews: 1933-1945. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub, repr. 1991.

Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust. New York: Henry Holt, 1985.

Lipstadt, Deborah E. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, 1993

Teaching Strategies:

A Bipolar World: 1945-1989

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. New York: NAL/Dutton, 1963: or New York: Bantam, 1984.

Film:

Eleni
or The Third Man
or The Killing Fields

Basic Reading:

Wegs, J. Robert. Europe Since 1945: A Concise History, 4th ed.. New York: St. Martins, 1996.

Suggested Extra Reading:

Laqueur, Walter. Europe in Our Time: A History 1945-1992.. New York: Penguin: 1992.

Tierney, Brien et al., eds. "The Cold War - Who is to Blame." In Great Issues in Western Civilization, Vol 2, 3rd. ed.. New York: Random House, 1970. 627-714

Sch�pflin, George. Politics in Eastern Europe, 1945-1992. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.

Swain, Geoffrey and Nigel Swain, Eastern Europe Since 1945. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

William, Alan, The European Community, 2d ed.,(Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.

Teaching Strategies:

Decolonization

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Basic Reading:

Chamberlain, Muriel Evelyn. Decolonization: The Fall of the European Empires. 2d ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

Film:

Gandhi
or Mandela
or Battle of Algiers

Suggested Extra Reading:

Ross, Kristin. Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.

Teaching Strategies:

European Society since WWII

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Kureishi, Hanif. The Buddha of Suburbia. New York: Viking Penguin, 1991.

Carles, Emilie. A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman in 20th Century France. New York: Penguin.

Film:

My Beautiful Launderette
or My Son the Fanatic
or Women in Flames
or Kathy Come Home

Basic Reading:

Wegs, J. Robert. Europe Since 1945: A Concise History, 4th ed.. New York: St. Martins, 1996.

Suggested Extra Reading:

Brown, John. The Welfare State in Britain. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.

Lowe, Rodney. The Welfare State in Britain since 1945. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Morgan, Kenneth. The People's Peace: British History 1945-1990, updated edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 199?.

Weeks, Jeffrey. Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain From the Nineteenth Century to the Present, rev. ed. New York & London: Quartet, 1990.

Jeffrey-Poulter, Stephan, Peers, Queers and Commons: The Struggle for Gay Law Reform from 1950 to the Present. New York: Routledge, 1991.

de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex

Braun, H.J. The German Economy in the Twentieth Century. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Larkin, Maurice., France Since the Popular Front: Government and People, 1936-1986. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Stovall, Tyler. The Rise of the Paris Red Belt Fascism. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990.

Torstendahl, Rolf, Bureaucratisation in Northwestern Europe, 1880-1985. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Teaching Strategies:

Modern Science and Technology

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Film:

October Sky
or Apollo 13
or The Man in the White Suit

Basic Reading:

Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Touchstone, repr. 1995.

Suggested Extra Reading:

Teaching Strategies:

1989 and After

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Film:

Gate of Heavenly Peace

Basic Reading:

Stokes, Gale. The Walls Came Tumbling Down : The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993

Suggested Extra Reading:

Feffer, John. Shock Waves: Eastern Europe after the Revolution. Boston: South End Press, 1992.

Merridale, Catherine and Chris Ward, eds. Perestroika: The Historial Perspective. New York: Edward Arnold, 1991.

Narkiewicz, Olga N. The End of the Bolshevik Dream: Western European Communist Parties in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Paterson, William and David Spence, eds. German Unification. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.

Teaching Strategies:

The Future

Themes for Teaching:

Comments:

Foreshadowing/Later Implications:

Fundamental Primary Texts:

Basic Reading:

Fukuyama, Francis. "The End of History." National Interest, summer 1989. [http://www.wku.edu/~sullib/history.htm]

Suggested Extra Reading:

Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York: Touchstone Books, 1998.

Kennedy, Paul. Preparing for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Vintage Books, 1994. Teaching Strategies: The last class -- review or inspiration?

Useful Websites

H-Net: Teaching Western Civilization.
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~wciv/

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