Meeting times: MW 1:00-2:20
Location: 475 Grayson
Email: imcneely@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Phone: 346-6161
Office: 317 Grayson
Office hours: W 2:30-3:30, F 11-12 and by appointment
This seminar is intended not just for students in history but for those
in related disciplines such as sociology and political science. It is aimed
at advanced undergraduates and graduate students and assumes a basic knowledge
of modern European history. The reading averages 90-120 pages a week.
Sept. 25 | INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE |
Sept. 27 | MODELS OF CITIZENSHIP
*Putnam, "Bowling Alone" *Sandel, Democracy's Discontent, 3-24 |
Oct. 2 | THE MODEL: LIBERALISM
Locke, Second Treatise, §§ 4, 6-8, 13, 27-32, 39-41, 44-45, 54-55, 58, 61-63 |
Oct. 4 | Locke, §§ 77-80, 82, 86-90, 95-100, 113-124 |
Oct. 9 | CASE STUDY: ANGLO-AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
*Stone, Family, Sex, and Marriage, 149-180 *Norton, Founding Mothers & Fathers, 3-17 |
Oct. 11 | *Norton, Founding Mothers & Fathers, 281-322, 401-404 |
Oct. 16 | THE MODEL: REPUBLICANISM
Rousseau, Social Contract, I. 1-4, 6, 8-9; II. 3-6, 8-10 |
Oct. 18 | Rousseau, III. 1, 3-4, 9-15; IV. 1-3 |
Oct. 23 | CASE STUDY: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Higonnet, Goodness Beyond Virtue, 76-96, 101-103, 111-116, 125-143 |
Oct. 25 | Higonnet, 183-223, 325-335 |
PAPER TOPICS DUE OCT. 25 IN CLASS
Oct. 30 | NO CLASS - individual meetings with instructor |
Nov. 1 | NO CLASS - individual meetings with instructor |
MIDTERMS DUE NOV. 3
Nov. 6 | THE MODEL: CIVIL SOCIETY
Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 65-77, 218-227, 273-312 |
Nov. 8 | Tocqueville, 620-649, 767-769, 838-845
*Walzer, "The Civil Society Argument" |
Nov. 13 | CASE STUDY I: NATIONALISM
*Anderson, Imagined Communities, 1-36, 47-65 |
Nov. 15 | CASE STUDY II: FASCISM
*Berman, "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic" *Koshar, "From Stammtisch to Party" |
Nov. 20 | THE MODEL: THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Habermas, Structural Transformation, 1-5, 14-43, 51-56 |
Nov. 22 | Habermas, 159-175, 181-196, 211-222 |
Nov. 27 | CASE STUDY: THE FALL OF COMMUNISM
Havel, Summer Meditations, 1-59 |
Nov. 29 | *Isaac, "The Meanings of 1989" |
TERM PAPERS DUE DEC. 4