Tue 8/28 |
Introduction: the German Question (podcast not available) |
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Thu 8/30 |
The Setting: The "First Reich" (Holy Roman Empire) |
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Tue 9/4 |
The Prussian Tradition |
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Thu 9/6 |
Enlightenment in Politics? Frederick the Great |
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Tue 9/11 |
No Podcast - Class Discussion - Frederick II & Enlightened Absolutism |
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Thu 9/13 |
The Impact of Napoleon; Romanticism |
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Tue 9/18 |
Slide lecture: Romanticism: C.D. Friedrich & Others. |
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Thu 9/20 |
No Podcast - Class Discussion - The Essence of Romanticism? |
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Tue 9/25 |
The Age of Metternich: 1814 - 1848 (technical problem - audio has static) |
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Thu 9/27 |
The Revolutions of 1848 |
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Tue 10/2 |
No Podcast - Class Discussion - Self-Government, German Style |
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Thu 10/4 |
Midterm 1 |
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Tue 10/9 |
The Rise of Bismarck to 1866 |
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Thu 10/11 |
The 2nd Reich |
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Tue 10/16 |
No Podcast - Class Discussion - Blood and Iron: Causes of the Franco-Prussian War |
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Thu 10/18 |
Outsiders in the New Reich I: Culture War Against the Catholics (The Kulturkampf) |
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Tue 10/23 |
Outsiders in the New Reich II: Class War Against the Social Democrats |
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Thu 10/25 |
No Podcast - Class Discussion - German Workingmen and Women |
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Tue 10/30 |
Outsiders in the New Reich III: The Jews of Central Europe and Antisemitism |
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Thu 11/1 |
No Podcast - Class Discussion - A Murder Case and a Case of Genocide |
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Tue 11/6 |
Race in a Mult-Ethnic Empire |
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Thu 11/8 |
Slide Lecture: Viennese Culture between Tradition and Modernism |
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Tue 11/13 |
Wilhelmine Germany: A Special Path (Sonderweg) |
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Thu 11/15 |
Origins of World War I: Long Term - No Podcast |
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Tue 11/20 |
Origins of World War I: Encirlement, Balkan Crisis, Countdown |
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Thu 11/22 |
Thanksgiving |
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Tue 11/27 |
No Podcast - Class Discussion - What Caused World War I |
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Thu 11/29 |
A German Way of War? Atrocities and Military Dictatorship |
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Tue 12/4 |
No Podcast - Class Discussion - A Garman Way of War? |
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Thu 12/6 |
Dying by the Sword. The Fall of the Hohenzollern and Hapsburg Empires: From the Second Reich to the Third |