Course Textbook:
Hung, Jochen & Tompkins, Andrew & Ira, Jaroslav & Lesage, Sylvain & Klement, Judit & Hansen, Jan & Simal, Juan. (2023). The European Experience. A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000. 10.11647/OBP.0323.
Download here: https://teh21.sites.uu.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/557/2022/12/The-European-Experience-galley-proof.pdf
Discussion Readings (Primary Sources)
French Revolution
Abbe Sieyes, “What is the Third Estate?”
Declaration of the Rights of Man
M. Robespierre, Justification of the Use of Terror
Napoleonic Wars
Napoleon, Proclamation to his Troops in Italy (1796)
Madame de Remusat, Remembrances of Napoleon
Industrial Revolution
Excerpt: The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers (1833)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto, Introduction and Chapter 1
Europe of Nations
Documents on German Unification (1848-1871)
The Public Mood in Bavaria and Other Federal States through British Eyes (December 3, 1866)
Bismark on the “Polish Question”
Imperialism
Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden”
Wilfred Scawan Blunt, Britain’s Imperial Destiny
Thomas H. Huxley, The Struggle for Existence
World War One
Excerpts of Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front. (Available via Open Library here): Chapter 6, p. 69-92.
Excerpts of Ernst Jünger, Storms of Steel. (Available via Internet Archive here): Chapter 6, “The Ouverture to the Somme Offensive”, p. 64-92.
Russian Revolution
Excerpts of Lev Kopelev, The Education of a True Believer
(optional) Hymn to Stalin
Interwar Europe and the Rise of Fascism
25 Points: Early Nazi Party Program (1922)
Victor Klemperer, Diary Entry on the Impending Boycott of Jewish Businesses (March 31, 1933)
Nazi Guidelines for Teaching History (1938)
World War Two
Churchill Speech (June 4, 1940)
Molotov, Reaction to German Invasion of 1941
CIA Report on the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
The Holocaust
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (available through CCNY library here)
Cold War Europe
Excerpts from Czesaw Milosz, The Captive Mind (available through archive.org here): p. 24-51.
Decolonization and Globalization
Film: The Battle of Algiers -> Here
Post-Cold War Europe
TBD
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