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HIST 216 (Rev. 5): Europe, 1618–1939: From the Thirty Years’ War to the Age of Dictators Report a Broken Link

Unit 2: Absolutism and Constitutionalism

Childs, John. “The Military Revolution I: The Transition to Modern Warfare.” In The Oxford History of Modern War, edited by Charles Townshend, 20–39. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Unit 4: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

Outram, Dorinda. “Enlightenment Thinking About Gender.” In The Enlightenment, 80–95. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Unit 5: Agriculture, Global Economy, and Changing Life

Blanning, Tim. “People.” In The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648–1815, 40–92. London: Penguin, 2008

Unit 6: Revolutions in Politics

Bell, David A. “War’s Red Altar.” In The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It, 263–301. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Kates, Gary, ed. "Introduction." In The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies. London: Taylor & Francis, 2002.

Unit 7: The Industrial Revolution

Trebilcock, Clive. "The Industrialization of Modern Europe 1750–1914." In The Oxford History of Modern Europe, edited by T. C. W. Blanning, 41–60. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England. London: Electric Book Company, 2001.

Unit 8: Ideologies, Reforms, and Revolutions

Sperber, Jonathan. "The Outbreak of Revolution." In The European Revolutions, 1848–1851, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Unit 9: Urbanization and New Ideas

Pilbeam, Pamela. "From Orders to Classes: European Society in the Nineteenth Century." In The Oxford History of Modern Europe, edited by T. C. W. Blanning, 77–92. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Unit 10: Nation Building and Economic Expansion

Eley, Geoff. "The Rise of Labor Movements: History's Forward March." In Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000, 62–84. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Porter, Andrew, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire. Vol. III: The Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999

Unit 11: Imperialism, the First World War, and the Russian Revolution

Parker, John, and Richard Rathbone. "Colonialism in Africa." In African History: A Very Short Introduction, 74–87. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Howard, Michael. "Europe in 1914." In The First World War, 1–17. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Unit 12: Economic Crisis and Authoritarianism

Bock, Gisela. “Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany: Motherhood, Compulsory Sterilization, and the State.” Signs 8, No. 3, Women and Violence (Spring, 1983): 400–421.
Burleigh, Michael. "Psychiatry, German Society and the Nazi 'Euthanasia' Programme." In The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath, edited by Omer Bartov, 43–62. London, New York: Routledge, 2001.

Assignment 1

Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu). The Spirit of Laws. Translated by Thomas Nugent. Kitchener, CA: Batoche Books, 2000.
de Gouges, Olympe. “Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791.” In Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789–1795, edited by Darline Gay Levy, Harriet Branson Applewhite, and Mary Durham Johnson, 87–96. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980.