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HIST362: Modern Revolutions
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Course Introduction
Unit 1: What is Revolution?
Unit 2: Revolution and Modernity
Unit 3: 17th Century England: Revolution or Civil War?
Unit 4: The American Revolution: Ideas and Experience
Unit 5: The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity
Unit 6: Revolutionary Mexico and Legacies of Colonialism
Unit 7: Revolutionary Russia: Marxist Theory and Agrarian Realities
Unit 8: Two Revolutions in China: Liberalism and Marxism in a New Context
Unit 9: Revolution and Religion: The Islamic Republic of Iran
Unit 10: 1989: Nonviolence and the End of the Cold War
Unit 11: Revolution in Perspective
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Unit 10: 1989: Nonviolence and the End of the Cold War
10.2: Behind the Iron Curtain
University of Kansas: Anna M. Cienciala's "Toward the Collapse of Communism"
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University of Florida: Robert H. Hatch's "The Scientific Revolution: Definition, Concept, and History"
Yale University: John Merriman's "Industrial Revolutions"
Theories of Revolution
Steven Kreis' "The Revolt Against the Western Intellectual Tradition: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Birth of Modernism"
Theories of History
Arya Rejaee's "Arendt's
On Revolution
and Its Implications for Political Science"
The New York Review of Books
: Timothy Garton Ash's "Velvet Revolution, The Prospects"
Unit 1 Assessment
Library of Congress: "Creating French Culture: The Rise and Fall of the Absolute Monarchy"
Yale University: John Merriman's "Absolutism and the State"
Rutgers University: Eugene N. White's "France's Slow Transition from Privatized to Government-Administered Tax Collection: Tax Farming in the Eighteenth Century"
Yale University: John Merriman's "Dutch and British Exceptionalism"
Union County College: Harold Damerow's "England in the 17th Century"
Yale University: John Merriman's "The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere"
Immanuel Kant's "What Is Enlightenment?"
Jean Jacques Rousseau's "The Social Contract"
Condorcet's "The Future Progress of the Human Mind"
Kazys Varnelis' "Modernity and History"
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Stefan Gosepath's "Equality"
Learn Sociology: "Modernization Theory"
Matheiu Delfem's "Max Weber (1864–1920): The Rationalization of Society"
Unit 2 Assessment
Origins of the English Revolution
Union County College: Harold Damerow's "Glorious Revolution"
Steven Kreis' "The English Civil War"
The English Revolution
University of Wisconsin: Johann Sommerville's "The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, 1653–8"
University of Virginia: Kevin A. Creed's "The Pamphleteers Protestant Champion: Viewing Oliver Cromwell through the Media of his Day"
Edward Vallance's "The Glorious Revolution"
Yale University: "The English Bill of Rights of 1689"
Locke: Equality, Freedom, Property and the Right to Dissent
John Locke's "A Letter Concerning Toleration"
Keith Lindley's review of John Coffey's "Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558–1689"
The Marxists Archive: Christopher Hill's "The English Revolution 1640"
Jane Bates' "The Importance of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights"
Unit 3 Assessment
Introduction: Freeman's Top Five Tips for Studying the American Revolution
Henry J. Sage's "The Era of the American Revolution 1763–1800"
Thomas Kindig's "Timeline of the Revolutionary War"
Being a British Colonist
Charles M. Andrews' "British Policy toward the American Colonies (1760–1774)"
Logic of Resistance
Francis D. Cogliano's "Was the American Revolution Inevitable?"
The American Revolution
Henry J. Sage's "The American Revolution 1775–1777" and "The American Revolution –1783"
Henry J. Sage's "Keys to Understanding the Constitution: Important Points to Remember"
Federalists and Anti-Federalists
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
The Declaration of Independence
The Bill of Rights
Being an American: The Legacy of the Revolution
Unit 4 Assessment
The French Revolution (Part I)
Mount Holyoke College: Robert M. Schwartz's "The French Revolution: Causes, Outcomes, Conflicting Interpretations"
Causes of the French Revolution
Steven Kreis' "The Origins of the French Revolution"
George Mason University: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution: Social Causes of the Revolution"
Rick Brainard's "The Influence of the Enlightenment on the French Revolution"
Marxists Internet Archive's "Principal Dates and Timeline of the French Revolution”
The Early Stages of the French Revolution
George Mason University: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution: Monarchy Embattled"
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
"Admission of Jews to Rights of Citizenship, 27 September 1791"
Olympe de Gouges' "The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (September 1791)"
George Mason University: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution: Paris and the Politics of Revolution and The Monarchy Falls"
The French Constitution of 1793
The French Revolution (Part 2)
George Mason University: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution: War, Terror, and Resistance"
Yale University: John Merriman's "Maximilien Robespierre and the French Revolution"
The French Revolution (Part 3): The Reign of Terror
The Eleventh of Thermidor
George Mason University: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution: Brumaire, Bonaparte's Justification and The Napoleonic Experience"
The French Revolution (Part 4): The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
The French Civil Code
George Mason University: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution: Legacies of the Revolution"
The Revolutions of 1830
Yale University: John Merriman's "Why No Revolution in 1848 in Britain?"
Marxists Internet Archive: "History of the Paris Commune"
George Mason University: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution: Slavery and the Haitian Revolution"
Unit 5 Assessment
Shaping Latin American Independence: Force and the State
The Colonial Heritage of Independent Latin America
Dickinson College: Marcelo J. Borges' "Independence in Latin America: A Chronology"
Library of Congress: "The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War"
Origins of the Mexican Revolution
University of Manchester: "The Mexican Revolution"
Jamie O. Rodríguez's "Down from Colonialism: Mexico's 19th Century Crisis"
Mexican Liberalism, from Juarez to the Porfiriato
The Porfiriato
The Five Mexican Revolutions
The Mexican Revolution
Sue Bell's "Mexican Revolution Timeline"
Tim L. Merrill and Ramón Miró's "Mexico, A Country Study: The Revolution 1910–1920"
Rosa Maria Stoops' "Madero, Francisco I"
Joseph Judge's "The Plan of Ayala"
Emiliano Zapata's "Plan of Ayala"
Tim L. Merrill and Ramón Miró's "Mexico, A Country Study: Huerta's Dictatorship"
Josh Burnham's "Huerta, Victoriano: Excellent General or Terrible Tyrant?"
Tim L. Merrill and Ramón Miró's "Mexico, A Country Study: The Constitution of 1917 and Carranza's Presidency"
Mexico's 1917 Constitution, Title 1, Chapter 1: Individual Guarantees
Mexico's 1917 Constitution, Title VI: Labor and Social Security
Tim L. Merrill and Ramón Miró's "Mexico, A Country Study: The Obregón Presidency, 1920–24"
University of Notre Dame: Robert Curley's "Political Catholicism in Revolutionary Mexico, 1900–1926"
Mexico's 1917 Constitution
The Legacy and Promise of the Mexican Revolution
Tim L. Merrill and Ramón Miró's "Mexico, A Country Study: The Calles Presidency, 1924–48, The Maximato, Cardenismo and the Revolution Rekindled and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)"
Peter N. Stearns, Michael Adas, and Stuart B. Schwartz's "Mexican Revolution and the Great War"
Arizona State University: Celestino Fernández's "Documenting the Revolution – Casasola and Corrido"
Unit 6 Assessment
Origins of the Russian Revolution
Glenn E. Curtis' "Russia, A Country Study: Transformation of Russia in the Nineteenth Century"
Glenn E. Curtis' "Russia, A Country Study: The Russian Orthodox Church"
Glenn E. Curtis' "Russia, A Country Study: Transformation of Russia in the Nineteenth Century"
Glenn E. Curtis' "Russia, A Country Study: Transformation of Russia in the Nineteenth Century"
University of Arizona: David Ortiz, Jr.'s "Chronology of Russian Revolution"
Marx and Engels' "Manifesto of the Communist Party: Preamble and Chapter I: Bourgeois and Proletarians"
Glenn E. Curtis' "Russia, A Country Study: The Last Years of the Autocracy"
The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party Second Congress' "Programme of the Social-Democratic Workers' Party"
Encyclopedia of Marxism: "The Menshevik Party"
Manifesto of 17 October 1905
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "The Deepening of the Russian Revolution 1917"
Duel Power
Glenn E. Curtis' "Russia, A Country Study: Revolutions and Civil War"
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's "April Theses"
Glenn E. Curtis' "Russia, A Country Study: Revolutions and Civil War"
"Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited Peoples"
Glenn E. Curtis' "Russia, A Country Study: Revolutions and Civil War"
Vladmir Ilyich Lenin's "On the Organization of and Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter Revolution, Letter to Dzerzhinskii, December 19, 1917"
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's "The State and Revolution"
The Russian Revolution
Glenn E. Curtis' "Russia, A Country Study: The Era of the New Economic Policy"
The University of Kansas: Anna M. Cienciala's "Eastern Europe 1945–56 and Czechoslovakia 1968"
The Atomic Archive: "Cold War: A Brief History"
Unit 7 Assessment
Columbia University: "Introduction to China's Modern History"
Origins of the Chinese Revolution
Harvard Extension School: Peter K. Bol and William C. Kirby's "Foreign Models for a Chinese Republic"
Robert L. Worden, Andrea Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan's "China, A Country Study: The Republican Revolution of 1911 and Republican China"
The Xinhai Revolution
Robert L. Worden, Andrea Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan's "China, A Country Study: Nationalism and Communism"
Sun Yat-sen's "The Three Stages of Revolution"
Columbia University: "Before and After the May Fourth Movement"
Columbia University: "The Long March (1934–1936)"
Robert L. Worden, Andrea Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan's "China, A Country Study: Anti-Japanese War"
Robert L. Worden, Andrea Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan's "China, A Country Study: Return to Civil War"
Robert L. Worden, Andrea Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan's "China, A Country Study: The People's Republic of China and The Transition to Socialism, 1953–57"
Columbia University: "Mao Zedong: Biographical and Political Profile"
Columbia University: "Commonly Read Speeches and Writings of Mao Zedong (1927–1945)"
Columbia University: "20th Century: Communism and Internal Challenges to Tradition"
Princeton University Press: Lorenz M. Lüthi's "The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World"
Wikipedia: "Cultural Revolution"
Robert L. Worden, Andrea Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan's "China, A Country Study: The Great Leap Forward, 1958–60"
Robert L. Worden, Andrea Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan's "China, A Country Study: The Cultural Revolution 1966–1976"
Mount Holyoke College: Satya J. Gabriel's "Capitalism, Socialism, and the 1949 Chinese Revolution: What Was the Cold War All About?"
Unit 8 Assessment
Origins of the Iranian Revolution
Columbia University: Richard Bulliet's "Iran under the Shahs"
Moojan Momen's "The Religious Background of the 1979 Revolution in Iran"
Mount Holyoke College: Satya J. Gabriel's "Class Analysis of the Iranian Revolution of 1979"
University of Notre Dame: A. Rashied Omar's "Islamic Worldview"
The Iranian Revolution
Columbia University: Richard Bulliet's "The Islamic Republic of Iran"
Helen Chapin Metz's "Iran, A Country Study: The Coming of the Revolution and The Bakhtiar Government"
Helen Chapin Metz's "Iran, A Country Study: The Revolution, The New Constitution, and The Bani Sadr Presidency"
Helen Chapin Metz's "Iran, A Country Study: Terror and Repression and Consolidation of the Revolution"
Ayatullah Ruhallah Khomeini's "The Form of Islamic Government"
Ayatullah Ruhallah Khomeini's "The Position of Women"
Unit 9 Assessment
George Mason University: "Origins of Change in Eastern Europe"
The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later
Steven Kreis' "1989: The Walls Came Tumbling Down"
University of Kansas: Anna M. Cienciala's "Eastern Europe 1945–56 and Czechoslovakia 1968"
University of Kansas: Anna M. Cienciala's "Poland 1956–81"
University of Kansas: Anna M. Cienciala's "Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany 1968–1980; The Balkans, 1948–1980"
Steven Kreis' "1989: The Walls Came Tumbling Down"
University of Kansas: Anna M. Cienciala's "The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, 1989"
George Mason University: "Geremek on Solidarity's Strategy of Restraint in the Spring of 1989"
George Mason University: "Record of Conversation between Representative of the Opposition Roundtable and Boris Stukalin"
George Mason University: "Bonn Embassy Cable, The German Question and Reunification"
The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later
: Adam Michnik's "I Will Remember That Day All My Life"
Vaclav Havel's "New Year's Presidential Address to the Nation, January 1, 1990"
"Romania: Letter of the Six, March 1989"
University of Kansas: Anna M. Cienciala's "Central and Eastern Europe since the Fall of Communism"
Unit 10 Assessment
Theoretical Models of Revolutionary Change
Revolutionary Change in the Twenty-First Century
Unit 11 Assessment
HIST362 Study Guide
Course Feedback Survey
HIST362: Certificate Final Exam
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