Rutgers University - Newark
175 University Ave.
History 21:510:357 - Nineteenth Century Europe
Professor Steven Saltzman Spring 2006
Office Conklin 326 (973-353-5410 ex.58 voicemail only ) Mon.& Thurs 1-2:20
email shs001@yahoo.com CON455
My webpage http://members.surfbest.net/shsaltzman/
4 Required texts:
1. Theodore S. Hamerow, Restoration, Revolution, Reaction - Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815-1871
2. Frank McDonough, The British Empire 1815-1914
3. Barbara Taylor, Eve and the New Jerusalem Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
4. Required Course reader- available at Affordable Copies Center - 49 Halsey St.
There will also be readings on my web site.
This course will examine the history of the nineteenth century from the end of the Napoleonic era up until the start of the twentieth century. We will examine the major social, political, economic and intellectual trends that made the nineteenth century so important in shaping our world today. Nationalism, feminism, socialism and imperialism all took shape and developed into recognizable modern forms, and the industrial revolution spurred the expansion of the working and middle classes.
Nineteenth century European history is so varied and rich that we will only be able to introduce many of these topics, but the hope is that the course will whet the students appetite for learning more about the women and men whose struggles helped shape our world.
Goals and objectives
Students will work from both primary and secondary materials to increase their ability to interpret historical documents and to learn how historians formulate ideas about history and argue for the positions that they take on various subjects. We will endeavor to understand the importance of many of the isms of the nineteenth century, and how these ideas changed over time and influenced events. The class will emphasize the interrelationships between the social, political, economic and intellectual forces at work during this most fascinating of times.
Course requirements and grading
5%- attendance
15%- class participation
20%- quizzes
20% - one essay paper or two reviews of scholarly articles
20% - mid-term exam
20% - final exam
Attendance
All un-excused absence after the second missed class will lower your attendance grade by one grade step. It is considered a common courtesy to notify your professor when you know that you will not be in class.
Class participation
Students will be expected to demonstrate that they have carefully and completely read the required readings by participating in class discussions. Students will be asked to comment on readings in class or summarize the authors point of view, or otherwise show that they have read and understood each days material. You may, at times, be called upon to contribute questions of your own for class discussion based upon your understanding of the readings.
Written requirement
Students may choose between two writing options. Either you may elect to write an integrative essay paper of 4-6 pages on a topic that relates two or more class readings on a single theme, or you may write two papers, each 3 pages, based upon reading a scholarly historical article that relates to one or more of the topics in class. Detailed instructions for these written requirements will be provided. Late papers will be downgraded one LETTER grade for each DAY the paper is late. No student should expect to receive special consideration when everyone else gets their work in on time.
Exams
Both the mid-term and final exams will be a combination of short answer and essay questions based upon the readings. The essay questions will be taken from a list of possible essays that will be provided to you at least one week before the exam.
SYLLABUS
Thur. Jan. 19 Introduction
Mon. Jan. 23 The end of Napoleon and the Age of Metternich
James J. Sheehan, German History 1770-1866 Get reading here!
Thur. Jan. 26 France under the Restoration
Wright, ch. 9 (in reader)
Mon. Jan. 30 Industrialism at the start of the century
Hamerow - ch. 1 & 2
Thur. Feb 2 Industrialization and the city
Engels - Introduction, the Industrial Proletariat, the Great Towns -Get Engels!
Mon. Feb. 6 Class formation I - Origins of the Working Class
R. J. Morris selection - Get it here!
E P Thompson, Making of the English Working Class - Get it here!
Thur. Feb. 9 Class formation II - Middle Class triumphant?
Wright, ch. 10 (in reader) and
A French Republican View of the July Monarchy - on my web site
Mon. Feb. 13 Class formation III - Womens place in class formation
Owenism and womens rights (Taylor, ix-xi and ch. 2)
(Optional: Clark, Struggle for the Breeches - ch. 1-2)
Thur. Feb. 16 Feminism and socialism I - beginnings
Wollstonecraft - Selection!
Taylor, ch. 1
Mon. Feb. 20 Feminism and socialism II - Women leaders
Taylor, ch. 3
Thur. Feb. 23 Feminism and socialism III - The social compact?
Taylor, ch. 6 and
Rachel G. Fuchs, Poor and Pregnant in Paris, (ch. 2) Immorality and Motherhood: 1830-1870" (in reader)
Mon. Feb. 27 Revolution returns- Europe in 1848
Wright, ch. 11 (in reader)
Hamerow ch. 5-6
Thur. Mar 2 First of two article review papers due
Thur. Mar 2 Nationalism at work the case of Italian Unification
For primary documents see
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1861italianunif.html
Mon. Mar. 6 MID TERM EXAM
Thur. Mar. 9 The end of Revolution in Europe - Bonapartism in France
Wright, ch. 12 (in reader)
* * * * * * spring break * * * * * *
Mon. Mar. 20 The end of Revolution in Europe - Reaction in Germany
Hamerow, chapters 7, 10, 11, 12
Thur. Mar. 23 Mid-Victorian England - Conservatism in the ascendency
Rubenstein ch. 6-7 (in reader)
or Parry ch. 7- (in reader)
Mon. Mar. 27 Europe on the brink - The Concert of Europe breaks down
Hamerow, 238-262
Thur. Mar. 30 The Formation of Germany
Breuilly, (in reader) 49-87
Otto Von Bismarck, Direct Provision for the Workers (on my web)
Mon. Apr. 3 Republican France
Wright, ch. 18 (in reader)
Thur. Apr. 6 Liberalism in England
Parry, 262-273 (in reader) & Debates on the Reform Bill of 1867 (web site)
Mon. Apr. 10 Second review essay due
Mon. Apr. 10 The Politics of Imperial Germany
Berghahn, 190-201, 216-221 (in reader), and Otto Von Bismarck Direct Provision for the Workers-Get reading !
Thur. Apr. 13 Integrative essay due
Thur. Apr. 13 The end of Liberalism and the rise of Labour
Parry, ch. 12 (274-292) (in reader)
Mon. Apr. 17 Imperialism unbound- Britain in Africa and Asia
McDonough, 28-36, 51-64
Thur. Apr. 20 Imperialism and domestic policy
McDonough, 72-86
Mon. Apr. 24 Culture and intellectual developments by the end of the 19th century
Darwinism and Social Darwinism - Darwin selection- Get reading!
Thur. Apr. 27 Culture and intellectual developments by the end of the 19th century
Racism and antisemitism- Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews 1933-1945 (pp. 23-33)Get Reading!
Mon. May 1 Culture and intellectual developments by the end of the 19th century
Modern life and the loss of control
Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (on my web site)
Max Plancke on quanta and Einstein on time (?)
Additional reading sources:
Volker R. Berghahn, Imperial Germany 1871-1914, Berghahn Books, Providence, RI., 1994
John Breuilly, The Formation of the First German Nation-State 1800-1871, St. Martins Press, New York, 1996
Anna Clark, The Struggle for the Breeches, Gender and the Making of the British Working Class, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1995
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the War Against the Jews 1933-1945, Bantam Books, New York, 1986
Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England, David McLellan, ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993
Rachel G. Fuchs, Poor and Pregnant in Paris Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth Century, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick,
R. J. Morris, Class and Class Consciousness in the Industrial Revolution 1780-1850, Macmillan Press, Ltd., London, 1982
Jonathan Parry, The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993
W.D. Rubenstein, Britains Century - A Political and Social History 1815-1905, Arnold Pub., London, 1998
James J. Sheehan, German History 1770-1866, Clarendon Press, Oxford: 1994
E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, Vintage Books, New York, 1966
Gordon Wright, France in Modern Times, 5th ed., WW Norton, New York, 1995