Unit+IV

= = == =Unit IV:= Realism and Materialism

Unit IV Calendar


CNN's Millennium: The Nineteenth Century - The Century of the Machine ([|Student] and [|Teacher] editions of website)

Chapter 22: Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830-1850)


__The "important guideposts" for Chapter 22 are:__
 * [|Industrialization] and its impact on labor and the family.
 * The pre-conditions for the [|Industrial Revolution] that occurred in Europe (most notably Britain)
 * The changing role of women in industrial society.
 * Problems of crime and the response of police forces and prisons.
 * The development of [|socialism] and radical reform.
 * The [|revolutions of 1848]**.**

__Corresponding chapters:__
 * Kagan Chapter 22 ([|Companion website page])

__Class assignments/notes:__
 * Primary Source accounts (along with a short history) of [|Manchester] during the Industrial Revolution
 * Swift's //[|A Modest Proposal]// (1729) - satire alert!
 * Malthus' //[|An Essay on the Principle of Population]// (1798)

Chapter 23: The Age of Nation-States


__The "important guideposts" for Chapter 23 are:__
 * The unification of [|Germany] and [|Italy].
 * The shift from the [|Second Empire] to the [|Third Republic] in France**.**
 * The emergence of the [|Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary]**.**
 * Russian political and social reforms, including [|emancipation of the serfs]**.**
 * British liberalism and the confrontation with Irish nationalists over the [|Irish Question]**.**

__Corresponding chapters:__
 * Kagan Chapter 23 ([|Companion website page])

__Class assignments/notes:__ >
 * Transition to the 20th century web assignment

Chapter 24: The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I


__The "important guideposts" for Chapter 24 are:__
 * The impact of the [|Second Industrial Revolution].
 * Urban development programs, including sanitation systems and housing reform.
 * The condition of women and the rise of political [|feminism].
 * The development of political [|socialism] and the entry of workers into politics.
 * Rising unrest and disorder in Russia, including the [|Revolution of 1905] and the [|Russo-Japanese War].

__Corresponding chapters:__
 * Kagan Chapter 24 ([|Companion website page])

__Class assignments/notes:__
 * Ellis' [|The Cult of Domesticity: A System of Middle-Class Values and Social Duties] (1838)

Chapter 25: The Birth of Modern European Thought
__The "important guideposts" for Chapter 25 are:__
 * The dominance of scientific thought in this era.
 * The conflict between church and state and church and science**,** particularly over education.
 * The impact of [|modernism], [|psychoanalysis], and the [|New Physics] on intellectual life.
 * The rise of nationalistically inspired [|scientific racism] and the resurgence of [|anti-Semitism] (hatred of Jews).
 * The laying of the foundations for 20th-century [|feminism]**.**

__Corresponding chapters:__ > __Class assignments/notes:__
 * Kagan Chapter 25 ([|Companion website page])