UHC Western European History II
Week #6 -
Tuesday September 30: We will discuss the Communist Manifesto in class today and how it fits into the 1848 Revolutions and Western European History, and in particular it has its roots in the Enlightenment and is a reaction to the worst excesses of the Industrial Revolution.
Reread for Thursday:
pp 445-465 in Textbook
Textbook Notes: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_levack_west_2/0,11592,2899269-,00.html
Documents on German Unification - brief reviews
One Day under the Paris Commune
Encarta 2000 article on the Paris Commune
Thursday October 2: We will deal with the Age of Capital in this class, dealing with the period between 1848-1871, focusing particularly on German Unification.
For Next Tuesday Read:
pp. 467-484 in Textbook
http://wps.ablongman.com/long_levack_west_2/0,11592,2899305-,00.html
Read Lafore: "The Lost Utopia" in The Long Fuse
For Next Thursday:
pp. 487-506 in Textbook
http://wps.ablongman.com/long_levack_west_2/0,11592,2899340-,00.html
Berghahn: "Introduction" and "Europe Before World War I, 1895-1914" in Europe in the Era of the Two World Wars.