UHC Western European History II
Age of Empire and the Crisis of Europe

Week #8

October 14:  No Class today because of Fall Break.

Here is the PowerPoint with the voice over for you folks to listen to.

I will put up the MP4 Version on courseweb and let you know when it is available. 

October 16: 

Since we are behind will deal with Lafore's Chapter on the Lost Utopia at the Start of Class and then move into below:Today we will view sections of "Paris 1908" and "Barcelona 1917" episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and also "The Rite of Spring" in class this week.  We will then continue to look at the challenge to the Middle Class World View and its ascendancy.  In particular, we will look at the role of the Arts and the avant-garde in undercutting the established order.  This week we will focus on the challenge to the positivist view of the world that was current in the West. We  will continue to focus on the internal and external crises facing all the European Nations between 1871-1914 and use this as the foundation for analyzing the origins of The Great War.

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