MODERN HISTORY

2013 Fall Semester Lecturer: Amer Dardaan

Lecture One: Foundations of Diplomacy Lecture Two: Europe in 1500Ancient and New Monarchies Lecture Three: Renaissance Statecraft in Italy Lecture Four: Religion and Empire Lecture Five: The Thirty Years War Lecture Six: The Peace of Westphalia, 1648A New Era Lecture Seven: French Superpower Lecture Eight: The Great Powers Lecture Nine: Northern Earthquake Lecture Ten: 18th-Century Competition Lecture Eleven: Revolutions Lecture Twelve: Napoleons Glory and Defeat Lecture Thirteen: The Congress of Vienna Lecture Fourteen: The Concert of Europe System Lecture Fifteen: Eastern and Western Questions Lecture Sixteen: The Challenge of 1848 and Napoleon III Lecture Seventeen: Britains Empire Lecture Eighteen: The Crimean War Lecture Nineteen: Italian Unification

Lecture Twenty: German Unification Lecture Twenty-One: The Bismarckian System Lecture Twenty-Two: High Imperialism Lecture Twenty-Three: The Reconfigured World of 1900 Lecture Twenty-Four: Balkan Instability Lecture Twenty-Five: The Outbreak of World War I Lecture Twenty-Six: World War ITotal War Lecture Twenty-Seven: The Paris Settlement Lecture Twenty-Eight: Interwar Europe Lecture Twenty-Nine: Europe into Crisis Lecture Thirty: World War II Lecture Thirty-One: Aftermath and Peace Plans Lecture Thirty-Two: The Cold War Begins Lecture Thirty-Three: Blocs and Decolonization Lecture Thirty-Four: The European Project Lecture Thirty-Five: The Fall of the Wall Lecture Thirty-Six: PostCold War to the Present

ESSENTIAL READINGS

Albrecht-Carri, Ren. A Diplomatic History of Europe since the Congress of Vienna. Revised edition. New York: Harper and Row, 1973. Anderson, M. S. The Rise of Modern Diplomacy 14501919. New York: Longman, 1993. Bobbitt, Philip. The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History. New York: Anchor Books, 2002. Dehio, Ludwig. The Precarious Balance: Four Centuries of the European Power Struggle. New York Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. New York: Random House, 1987. Kissinger, Henry. Diplomacy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. Machiavelli, Niccol. The Prince. Translated by William J. Connell. Boston: Bedford St. Martins, 2005. Schroeder, Paul. The Transformation of European Politics, 17631848. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Smith, Simon C. British Imperialism 17501970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Taylor, A. J. P. Bismarck. The Struggle for the Mastery of Europe, 18481918. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954.