History 232 Modern European History (1815-1919)

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Course Texts

Gordon A. Craig, Europe 1815-1914, New York: Harcourt Brace Javanovich, 1989. (Third Edition)

Charles Dickens, Hard Times, New York: Signet Books, 1997.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, W.W. Norton & Co., 1988 (Norton Critical Edition edited by Frederic L. Bender)

Internet Modern History Sourcebook by Paul Halsall (Fordham University)

French Revolution

  • DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF THE CITIZEN
  • Maps of the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon
  • The Rights Of Man by Thomas Paine
  • The reign of Louis XVI (1774-1791)
  • Marie-Antoinette by Vigee-Lebrun
  • The Revolution (1789-1799)
  • Political Background to Wordsworth
  • Wordsworth on the French Revolution (1809)
  • Chronology of the French Revolution
  • French Revolutionary Pamphlets
  • The French Republican Calendar
  • The French Revolution
  • Select Bibliography of the French Revolution
  • The Napoleon Series

    Industrial Revolution

  • Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
  • Dr. James Kay, The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes in Manchester (1832)
  • Dr. Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures (1835)
  • Friedrich Engels, The Condtion of the Working Class in England in 1844
  • Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1868)
  • Arnold Toynbee, Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884)

    Nineteenth Century

  • The Victorian Web
  • Victorian Women Writers Project
  • The Potato Famine in History
  • Stories of the "Famine"
  • The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871 (Northwestern University Library)
  • Northern Ireland Time Line (University of Ulster)

    Marxism

  • Manifesto of the Communist Party

  • Marx and Engels Online Library
  • The Marx/Engels Archive
  • Marxism Page
  • Marx and Engels' Writings
  • Index - Marxist Sites on the Web

    Nationalism

  • Heinrich von TreitschkePolitics

    Imperialism

  • Rudyard Kipling The White Man's Burden
  • "The White Man's Burden" and Its Critics by Jim Zwick
  • Edward Morel The Black Man's Burden
  • John A. Hobson Imperialism
  • Anti-Imperialism in the United States

    World War I

  • The World War I Document Archive
  • Trenches on the Web
  • Mississippi State U History Archives
  • GCSE Study Guide for First World War
  • Isaac Rosenberg's "Break of the Day in the Trenches"
  • Treaty of Versailles (maps & images)
    ttaylor@ctc.edu