HISTORY 105, sections 1, 4,
5, 6 EUROPE FROM 1660 TO THE PRESENT
F 2002
Professor Jeremy Popkin
Office: 1725 POT
Phone: 257‑1415
email:
popkin@uky.edu
Lecture MW 10am-10:50, CB 102 Office Hrs: M 1:30-3,
W 4-5
Teaching Assistants: David Popko (sec’s 1 & 5), Stuart Rice (sec’s 4 & 6)
David Popko:
sec. 1 (Fri., 12-12:50, Barker Hall 301); sec. 5, (M 11-11:50, Dickey Hall 127)
Stuart Rice:
sec. 4 (Fri., 12-12:50, Classroom Bldg 309); sec. 6,(W 11-11:50, Funkhouser B8)
Course Content: This course will cover the political,
social, economic and cultural revolutions that transformed Europe from a
tradition‑oriented, agricultural society to a modern industrial one. Major topics will include absolutism and the
Enlightenment, the French and industrial revolutions, the rise of Germany, the
spread of European imperialism and the interaction of European and non-western
cultures, the impact of the two world wars, the Russian revolution, and the
state of Europe today.
Course Learning Goals: (1) Students completing this course will have a
basic knowledge of the major events and changes in European history from 1660
to the present; (2) Students will gain experience in understanding and
interpreting a wide variety of historical source materials.
Course Web Page: The course syllabus, course assignments, and
other materials concerning this course are posted on Professor Popkin’s Web
site: www.uky.edu/~popkin.
Course Requirements: 1. regular attendance
at lectures and sections and active class participation
2. completion
of required readings (see below)
3. writing
assignments based on assigned readings (assignments will be given out in sections)
4. 2 in‑class
midterms and a final exam. Exams
include essay questions, IDs and multiple‑choice items.
Final exam is comprehensive.
Grading: Section participation 25%; writing
assignments 25%; midterms 12.5% each; final 25%
Required Readings (to be purchased by each student)
Wiesner, Ruff, Wheeler, Discovering the Western
Past, 4th ed., vol. II: Since 1500 (Houghton Mifflin) ISBN
0-395-97614-6
Olaudah Equiano, The Life of Olaudah Equiano
(Dover) ISBN 0-486040661-X
McCord, The Calling of Katie Makanya (Wiley)
ISBN 0-471-24691-3
Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (Collier) ISBN
0-02-029192-2
Recommended Reading: Noble et al., Western
Civilization: The Continuing Experiment, Brief Edition (Houghton Mifflin)
0-395-88550-7 (or any other standard textbook on modern European history)
NB ISBN numbers are provided for your convenience if
you order your textbooks via the Internet.
This is the best way to be sure you are getting the proper edition for
this course.
Writing Assignments
Writing assignments
for this class will be graded both for understanding of historical material
and on the basis of ability to write clearly and grammatically.
There will be four graded writing assignments during the semester. These will be based on questions about the
required readings.
There will be a number of ungraded writing
assignments, ranging in length from a sentence to a page. These will be given out and collected in
sections.
The section reading assignments are shown in italics on the
syllabus. For purposes of the section assignments, a "week" begins on
Friday. If we don't do things this way, folks, those of you in the Friday
section will be hopelessly behind the other students, especially because you
miss two weeks of class that the other students don't (because of university
holidays on Fri., Oct. 4, and Fri., Nov. 29).
Reading assignments are to be completed BEFORE each week’s section
meeting.
Schedule of Lecture Topics and Related Reading Assignments
28 Aug.: Introduction to the Course:
Europe in 1660
2 Sept: LABOR DAY HOLIDAY: no lecture or section meetings
4 Sept.: European society at the beginning of the
18th century
Reading assignment for sections (Sept. 6, 9, 11): Discovering European Past, 95-115: (European
rural life)
9 Sept.: The age of absolutism
11 Sept.: The European Enlightenment
Reading assignment for sections (Sept. 13, 16, 18): Olaudah
Equiano
Click here for the writing assignment on Olaudah
Equiano (due Mon., 23 Sept.)
16 Sept.: YOM KIPPUR: No lecture; Monday section meets
18 Sept.: The French Revolution of 1789
Reading assignment for sections (Sept. 20, 23, 25): Discovering
European Past, 116-42 (French Revolution)
23 Sept.: The Napoleonic era
25 Sept.: The First Industrial Revolution
Reading assignment for sections (Sept. 27, 30, Oct.2):
Discovering European Past, 143-80 (Labor Old and New)
30 Sept.: Nationalism in the 19th century
*2 Oct: 1ST
MIDTERM (covers lectures, readings in Discovering the Western Past
and Olaudah Equiano)
4 Oct.: FALL SEMESTER BREAK: No
Friday section meetings
Reading assignment for sections (Oct. 7, 9): Discovering
European Past, 181-211 (Liberalism and Socialism)
7 Oct.: Revolutions of 1848
9 Oct.: The Unification of Germany
Reading assignment for sections (Oct. 11, 14, 16):
Discovering European Past, 212-250 (Modern City)
14 Oct.: The Second Industrial Revolution
16 Oct.: Europe and the Non-Western World in the
age of imperialism
Reading assignment for sections (Oct. 18, 21, 23): Discovering
European Past, 251-72 ‘New Imperialism’; Katie Makanya, 1-91
21 Oct.: Art and society (read Discovering
European Past, 273-99)
23 Oct.: Reactions against liberalism
Reading assignment for sections (Oct. 25, 28, 30):
Katie Makanya, 92-253
Click here for Katie Makanya resource page
28 Oct.: Origins of the Great War
30 Oct.: The Russian Revolution
Reading assignment for sections (Nov. 1, 4, 6): Discovering
European Past, 300-334 (World War I)
4 Nov.: The Post-War Settlement
6 Nov.: 2ND MIDTERM (covers lectures, text readings, Calling of
Katie Makanya)
Click here for 2nd Midterm
Study Guide
Reading assignment for sections (Nov. 8, 11, 13): Discovering
European Past, 335-363 (‘New Women’)
11 Nov.: The Great Depression
13 Nov.: Soviet Totalitarianism
Reading assignment for sections (Nov. 15, 18, 20): Discovering
European Past, 364-93 (Selling Totalitarian System)
18 Nov.: The Nazi Dictatorship
20 Nov.: World War II in Europe
Reading assignment for sections (Nov. 22, 25, 27): Survival
in Auschwitz, all
Click here for essay assignment on Survival
in Auschwitz.
25 Nov.: The Cold War
29 Nov.: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY: No Friday sections
Reading assignment for sections (Dec. 2, 4): Discovering
European Past, 394-425 (Perils of Prosperity)
2 Dec.: Decolonization
4 Dec.: The collapse of the Soviet
empire
Reading assignment for sections (Dec. 6, 9, 11): Discovering
European Past, 426-456 (New Europeans)
9 Dec.: Europe today
11 Dec.: Modern European history in the context
of world history
20 Dec. (Friday): FINAL EXAM (10:30 am, in regular classroom).
Click here for Final Exam
Study Guide.
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Course Policies
1. Late Work and Make‑Up Exams: Late papers are not accepted and make‑up exams are not
administered unless students requesting them can produce documented
evidence of illness, accident or other legitimate cause beyond their control
accounting for absence. Students who
will miss an exam or assignment because of a scheduled university activity must
notify the professor or teaching assistant and make arrangements to make up the
work before the scheduled due date.
2. Plagiarism: Plagiarism and the penalties for it are defined
in the UK Student Handbook. Students
submitting work which is not their own will receive an 'E' for that assignment
and will not be allowed to make it up.
Students should keep materials used in preparing written assignments
until after final grades are received (e.g., notes, rough drafts of written
assignments). Plagiarism includes, but
is not limited to, any unacknowledged use of material copied from another
source, whether that source is a book, journal, Web site, or another student’s
paper. History Department instructors
have access to some very effective Web search engines for detecting
plagiarism—don’t take a chance!
3. Rights, Responsibilities, Attitudes: The teaching assistants and I take our
responsibilities as teachers seriously and we expect you to take your
responsibilities as students seriously.
Students are expected to be prepared for class, to be in class on time
and not disrupt sessions by arriving late or leaving early, and to be attentive
and ready to participate during class.
4. Modern Technology: Recording
devices are not permitted during lectures and discussions, except for students
who have a valid physical reason for needing them (e.g., inability to take
written notes). Students wearing
earphones during class will be invited to go be bored somewhere else. Beepers, cellular phones and other devices
which may cause a distraction must be turned off during class.
5. Written Assignments:
Formal written assignments should be typed or done on a
word-processor. Instructors will
indicate which assignments need to be typed.
Copies of papers that have been xeroxed are not acceptable unless an
original copy of the paper is also shown to the professor. Midterm and final
exams must be done in standard blue book.