Lecture materials - PowerPoint presentations

    If you would like to review the outlines, maps, images etc. that were used in past lectures, here are links to each slide show.  You will need to be using Internet Explorer as your browser. 

Links are provided for the presentation following the lecture, generally by 4 pm of the same day.  If you need a link that has not been created, please send me an email at smaughan@albertson.edu  

Fri.      Introduction: the legacy of the French Revolution

 

WEEK ONE

Mon.     Metternich, the Congress of Vienna, and the Concert of Powers
Weds.   
The material bases of European power

Fri.         The Intellectual foundations of Liberalism

 

WEEK TWO

Mon.      Monarchism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in France to 1830
Weds.   
The Germanies: From French occupation to German Nationalism

Fri.         Germanic Kulture

 

WEEK THREE

Mon.     DISCUSSION: The Red and the Black

Weds.    Radicalism and the road to 1848

Fri.         The French Second Republic

 

WEEK FOUR

Mon.      Napoleon III and the Second Empire

Weds.      DISCUSSION: Marx, "The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850" and "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte"

Fri.         The Franco-Prussian War

WEEK FIVE

Mon.       The Unification of Germany

Weds.      The Risorgimento and the unification of Italy

Fri.           The erosion of certainty: philosophy and criticism

 

WEEK SIX

Mon.        The erosion of certainty: Positivism and biology

Weds.       Culture and society at mid-century: the supermarket

Fri.           MID-TERM EXAM

 

FALL BREAK  

 

WEEK SEVEN

Mon.       The Paris Commune and the French Third Republic

Weds.      DISCUSSION: Germinal and Marx, "The Civil War in France"

Fri.           The German Second Reich: Bismarckian and Wilhelmine Germany

 

WEEK EIGHT

Mon.        European Empires

Weds.       Workers of the World: Socialism, Marx and the organization of labor

Fri.          Blood and Soil: the new nationalism 

 

WEEK NINE

Mon.        Which Nation?  Citizenship and race in the French Third Republic

Weds.       The Bismarkian system and its breakdown: international relations at the end of the century

Fri.            Gender Relations and the "New Woman"

 

WEEK TEN

Mon.         The Arts Transformed

Weds.         NO CLASS

 

THANKSGIVING BREAK

 

WEEK ELEVEN

Mon.       DISCUSSION:  Wikipedia Projects

Weds.        Reason and the New Science

Fri.            The Rising Threat of Revolution

 

WEEK TWELVE

Mon.         DISCUSSION: Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

Weds.        The Road to Total War

Fri.            Discussion