The Ascendancy of the West: 1450-Present
HIST S-1351
Summer 2006 syllabus
Three Criteria of Historical Study
Primary Sources Supplement II
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A-1: Historical Methods and Approaches A-2: Eight Components of the Western Ascendancy B-1: Overseas Expansion: Microscopic Pioneers B-2: Renaissance Perspectives B-3: Origins of the Reformation Determinism B-4: The Grand Political Experiment Identity of Shakespeare C-1: The Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution Study Questions for Mid-Term Exam C-2: The Enlightenment: Triumph of Reason C-3: The French Revolution Start Out to Make a Small Revolution D-1a: The Industrial Revolution D-2a: Ideological Positions D-2b: Paradoxes of Latin American Independence D-3: The New Imperialism D-4a The Women's Movement D-4b: Origins of World War I E-1: The Russian Revolution E-2: Europe between the Wars E-3: World War II and the Origins of the Cold War Study Questions for Final Exam