Colloquium in European History since 1789

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Identify some of the key issues of debate in the broad historiography of modern Europe.
• Evaluate and synthesize scholarly arguments on a specific topic in modern European history by writing a historiographical essay.
• Critically appraise varying historical arguments and formulate their own interpretations.
• Critically read and distinguish between different methodologies and “read between the lines” of differing points of view.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Participation	30%
3 Book Reviews (2-3 pages/500-750 words; 12-point font; double-spaced)	10% each
Historiographical Essay (12-15 pages; 12-point font; double-spaced)	40%

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
93-100%	A
90-92%	A-
83-89%	B
80-82%	B-
73-79%	C

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance/participation is not a graded component included in the student's final grade for this course.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

• Required Film: “Danton”
• Jeremy D. Popkin, A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution (New York: Basic Books, 2021), Chapters 13-15, pp. 295-417
• François Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution, translated by Elborg Forster (Cambridge University Press, 1981), 216pp.
• Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution (University of California Press, 1993), 204pp.
• Julie Peakman, Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis (Reaktion Books, 2024), 352pp.
• Priya Satia, Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2018), 410pp.
• Jessica Cox, Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain (The History Press, 2023), 320pp.
• Steven King, Paul Carter, Natalie Carter, Peter Jones, and Carol Beardmore, In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022), 332pp.
• Sara E. Black, Drugging France: Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022), 284pp.
• Emily Greble, Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2021), 262pp.
• Nimisha Barton, Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France (Cornell University Press, 2020), 216pp.
• Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (University of Chicago Press, 2022), 312pp.
• Stefan J. Link, Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and the Contest over the Industrial Order (Princeton University Press, 2023), 218pp.
• Louis Howard Porter, Reds in Blue: UNESCO, World Governance, and the Soviet Internationalist Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2023), 315pp.
• Emily Marker, Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era (Cornell University Press, 2022), 228pp.
• Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, Reprint Edition with a new Epilogue (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021), 372pp.