HIS 8241-001 European Nationalism 1815-1870 Dr. Johnson

CRN: 40299 W 7:30-9:30 pm, SAC 401

This graduate seminar will analyze the shaping of politics and culture in the era of European nation-building from the end of the Napoleonic Wars through the revolutions of the 1830s and 1840s to the national unifications of the 1860s and 1870s. Among the clashing ideologies of the period that we will discuss are the transformation of conservatism from the anti-nationalist "Metternich System" and Pope Pius IX to Bismarck, along with the development of various liberalisms (constitutionalist, nationalist, and free-trade) and radicalisms (democratic, anarchist, and socialist). We will examine these clashes within the context of the ongoing European industrialization, mechanization, and urbanization; environmental crises such as epidemics and famines; and cultural trends as Romanticism and Realism.

This course will meet once a week for reports and discussions of common readings, including monographs as well as primary sources. Written work will include two short reports as well as a longer bibliographical essay or case-study on a topic selected by the student in consultation with the instructor. There will be no examinations. In the last two weeks, students will join the instructor in critiquing each other's drafts of the longer paper before writing final versions.

Readings will include several paperback books as well as shorter readings to be put on reserve or in electronic form on WebCT. The books to be purchased will include the following, listed in approximate order of use:

Riall, Lucy & David Laven. Napoleon's Legacy: Problems of Government in Restoration Europe. Oxford: Berg Publishers; Gordonsville: Holtzbrinck Publishers [Distributor], Feb. 2002

ISBN: 1859732496 (Trade Paper), USD 25.95

Lieven, Dominic C. The Aristocracy in Europe, 1815-1914. [NO LONGER REQUIRED - book is out of print.]

Aminzade, Ronald. Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

ISBN: 0691028710 (Paper Text), USD 32.95

Beales, Derek & Eugenio F Biagini. The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy, 2nd ed., White Plains: Longman Publishing Group; Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education [Distributor], Feb. 2003

ISBN: 0582369584 (Trade Paper), USD 22.00

Heine, Heinrich; transl. T J Reed. Deutschland: A Winter's Tale. 2nd ed., London: Angel Books; Chester Springs: Dufour Editions, Inc. [Distributor], 1997

ISBN: 0946162581 (Trade Paper), USD 16.95

Marx, Karl & Friedrich Engels; ed. C J Arthur. The German Ideology, Pt. 1 & Selections From Pts 2 & 3. New York: International Publishers Company, Inc., 1970

ISBN: 0717803023 (Trade Paper), USD 6.95

Sperber, Jonathan, William Beik, & T C W Blanning. The European Revolutions, 1848-1851. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994

ISBN: 0-521-38685-3 (Paper Text), USD 21.99

Series: New Approaches to European History Ser.; No. 2

Williamson, D. G. Bismarck and Germany, 1862-1890, 2nd ed., White Plains: Longman Publishing Group; Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education [Distributor], 1998

ISBN: 0582293219 (Paper Text), USD 15.00