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A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. - Robert A. Heinlein
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana
Chronological Snobbery: "the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to your own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited."- C.S. Lewis
Exam 1 Study Guide for the exam on 24 January You'll also need to know the quotes above.
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Book Sites on Publisher's Website
Western Civilization Information This link lists various topics from the book publisher's site, including maps and online documents.
15 January 2008 - Chapter 16 lecture. You're responsible for all material in this lecture.
17 January 2008 - Chapter 17 lecture: The Enlightenment.
22 January 2008 - Chapter 18 lecture: The 18th century political situation.
Other lectures from previous semesters. The book chapters have changed:
Chapter 15 (Adobe Acrobat Reader format)
Chapter 20 lecture the Enlightenment.
Chapter 21 lecture the French Revolution.
Chapter 21 lecture Napoleon.
Chapter 22 lecture Industrialization.
Chapter 24 lecture Revolutions of 1830; Communism and Socialism; Nationalism.
Chapter 25 lecture Revolutions of 1848; German and Italian unification. Read this page for an explanation of the 1832 Reform Act.
Chapters 25-26 lecture Russia, Germany, and Great Britain, 1871-1914.
Supplemental Lecture: Queen Victoria and Great Britain
Chapters 26-27 lecture Alliances, Social Darwinism, and Imperialism, 1871-1914.
Chapter 27 lecture World War I.
Chapter 27 lecture World War I, Russian Revolution.
Chapter 28 lecture The Treaty of Versailles, Weimar Republic, Mussolini, Hitler.
Chapter 28-29 lecture Stalin, World War II.
Chapter 29 lecture World War II, 1941-45.
Chapter 31 lecture Post-World War II Europe.
Chapter 31 lecture Europe 1945-1970.
Chater 32 lecture Margaret Thatcher, Gorbachev, fall of Communism.
Chapter 32 lecture Fall of USSR, German unification, Balkan Wars, European Unity.