History 1295
Winter 1996
Mr. Sabean

This course is concerned with problems of class society and state formation, emancipation, assimilation, and the growth of national consciousness. It considers the dialectic between the "bourgeois public sphere" and the private household and examines the dynamics of gender in structuring civil society and political life. The course will deal with the post-Napoleonic tensions between reform and reaction, the revolutionary period culminating in 1848, and the politics of national unification and integration leading to the Wilhelminian Reich, It will discuss themes of modernity, identity, nationalism, and racism.

Exams: There will be a mid-term and a final essay exam. The midterm will count for 40% of the grade, and the final for 60%.

The following texts are available in the bookstore:

Course reader

Koppel Pinson, Modern Germany

G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right

Marx-Engels Reader

Hagen Schulze, Course of German Nationalism

George L. Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality

David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley, The Peculiarities of German Historv

I. Civil Society. the Public Sphere and Their Discontents

1. January 9 and 11

Koppel Pinson, Modern Germany, pp. 12-49.

Craig Calhoun, "Introduction" to Habermas and the Public Sphere (1992), pp. 1-48 (Course Reader).

2. January 16 and 18

Pinson, pp. 50-79

Schlomo Avineri, Hegel's Theory of the Modern State (1972), pp. 132-93 (on reserve in Towell))

Schlumbohm, ""Traditional' Collectivity and ',Modern' Individuality" (Course Reader)

3. January 23 and 25

G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right, pp. 200-359.

4. January 30 and February I

Pinson, pp. 80-108.

Marx-Engels Reader, pp. 12-145

II. Nationalism

5. February 6 and 8 Midterm exam, February 8

Pinson, pp. 109-130.

MIDTERM EXAM  February 8

6. February 13 and 15

Pinson, pp. 131-218.

Schulze, Course of German Nationalism

7. February 20 and 22

George L. Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality

III. The Wilhelminian Reich

8. February 27 and 29

Pinson, pp. 219-73.

Schulte, "Infanticide in Rural Bavaria" (Course Reader)

Thomas A. Kohut, "The Kaiser, the Press, and Public Opinion," in Wilhelm II and the Germans. A Study in Leadership (1991), pp. 127-41 (Course Rea-der).

Katherine Lerman, "Kaiser and Chancellor" and "Bulow, the Press and Public Opinion" in Katherine A. Lerman, The Chancellor as Courtier (1990), pp. 86-102. 115-126 (Course Reader).

9. March 5 and 7

Pinson, pp. 274-312.

James Retallack, "Wilhelmine Germany," in Modern Germany Reconsidered 1870-1945,11 ed. Gordon Martel (1992), pp. 33-53 (Course Reader).

David Blackbourn, "Peasants and Politics in Germany, 1871-1914,11 and "The Politics of Demagogy in Imperial Germany," in Populists and Patricians (1987), pp. 114-139, 217-45 (Course Reader).

Theodore Hamerow, "Bismarck and the Emergence of the Social Question in Imperial Germany" (Course Reader).

10. March 12 and 14

Blackbourn and Eley, The Peculiarities of German History