| Week One |
| 1 |
Introduction: Reason in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance |
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| 2 |
Demography, Geography, Agriculture, Global Trade, 1600-1850 |
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| Week Two |
| 3 |
Galileo and the Roman Catholic Church |
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| 4 |
The Cartesian Method |
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| Week Three |
| 5 |
The Trial of Charles I, King of England (1649) |
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| 6 |
Louis XIV and the Court at Versailles |
First paper due |
| Week Four |
| 7 |
Writing Workshop |
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| Week Five |
| 8 |
The Radical Enlightenment |
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| 9 |
The Newtonian Moment |
Rewrite of first paper due |
| Week Six |
| 10 |
The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert |
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| 12 |
Cosmopolitanism and the Jews in the Eighteenth Century |
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| Week Seven |
| 13 |
France in the Age of Democratic Revolution |
Second paper due |
| 14 |
Revolution in France |
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| Week Eight |
| 15 |
The Trial of Louis XVI |
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| Week Nine |
| 16 |
After The King's Trial: Terror, Napoleon, Restoration |
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| 17 |
Conservatism Created: A Response to Reason and Revolution |
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| Week Ten |
| 18 |
Hegel: History, Reason, and the State |
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| 19 |
Romanticism in Literature, Art, and Music |
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| Week Eleven |
| 20 |
The Industrial Revolution and the Movement to Abolish Slavery |
Third paper due |
| Week Twelve |
| 21 |
A Cultural Interpretation of Industrialization |
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| 22 |
Nineteenth-Century Liberalism |
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| Week Thirteen |
| 23 |
Utopian Socialist Experiments |
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| 24 |
The Revolutions of 1848 and The Communist Manifesto |
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| Week Fourteen |
| 25 |
Darwin and Christian Theology (or, Galileo Revisited) |
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| 26 |
Conclusion |
Fourth paper due |