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Dr. Gary B. Cohen
The University of Oklahoma

History 3833 


NATION-BUILDING IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE,1790-1939 (Lecture
Course)


Fall Semester 1994

Office hours:
     Mondays & Wednesdays, 9:30-11:00 a.m.,
     Wednesdays, 2:30-3:45 p.m.,
     and by appointment.

The following required books are available in paperback at the local
bookstore
recommended for purchase:

     Norman Davies.  HEART OF EUROPE:  A SHORT HISTORY OF POLAND (Oxford
Univ.
          Press, paper).
     Jorg Hoensch, A HISTORY OF MODERN HUNGARY, 1867-1986  (Longmans,
paper)
     Barbara Jelavich.  HISTORY OF THE BALKANS:  EIGHTEENTH & NINETEENTH
          CENTURIES  (Cambridge Univ. Press, paper)
     Barbara Jelavich.  HISTORY OF THE BALKANS:  TWENTIETH CENTURY
(Cambridge
          Univ. Press, paper)
     A. J. P. Taylor, THE HABSBURG MONARCHY, 1809-1918 (Univ. of Chicago
Press,

In addition to these books, the required readings include a small number
of
photocopied articles.

Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments

Week 1:  Aug 22-26 - THE EARLY MODERN HERITAGE

     a) Introduction:  lands and peoples.
     b) The heritage of fragmentation; Davies, Heart of Europe, pp.
279-306;
          Jelavich, Balkans: 18th & 19th Centuries, pp. 1-36.
     c) Economies and societies; Jelavich, 18th & 19th, pp. 39-98.

Week 2:  Aug 29-Sept 2 - THE MULTINATIONAL EMPIRES IN THE 18th CENTURY

     a) The Ottoman Empire; Jelavich, 18th & 19th, pp. 98-126.
     b) The Habsburg Monarchy; A. J. P. Taylor, Habsburg Monarchy, pp.
9-32;
          Jelavich, 18th & 19th, pp. 127-134.
     c) The Tsarist Empire; Davies, pp. 306-53.

Week 3:  Sept 5-9 - THE WINDS OF CHANGE

     a) Labor Day, September 5, no class.
     b) Reform efforts in the 18th century; Jelavich, 18th & 19th, pp.
134-168;
          Davies, pp. 311-23.
     c) Economics, peasants, and the state;  I. Berend & G. Ranki,
Economic
          Development in East-Central Europe, pp. 1-27 (XEROX); Davies,
pp. 
          158-166.

Week 4:  Sept 12-16 - NATIONAL MOVEMENTS AS HISTORICAL PROCESS

     a) Nationalism and cultural revivals; Taylor, pp. 33-46; Jelavich,
18th &
          19th Centuries
     b) Middle-class nationalism--the Czechs;  Jan Havranek, "The
Development 
          of Czech Nationalism" (xerox).
     c) Nationalism and the Polish nobility; Davies, pp. 166-69, 175-236.

Week 5:  Sept 19-23 - NATIONAL MOVEMENTS IN AGRARIAN SOCIETIES

     a) Hungary's nationalist gentry; Hoensch, Hungary, pp. 1-10;
Jelavich, 
          18th & 19th, pp. 300-308.
     b) The southern Slavs; Jelavich, 18th & 19th, pp. 193-254, 264-87.
     c) FIRST EXAMINATION, Friday, Sept. 23.  Bring blue book[s]!

Week 6:  Sept 26-30 - SOCIAL CONFLICT & THE NATIONAL CAUSES AT MID-CENTURY

     a) The crisis of the 1840s; Taylor, pp. 47-70.
     b) The dilemma of gentry nationalism in Poland; Davies, pp. 236-78.
     c) The revolution of the Hungarian gentry; Taylor, pp. 71-82.

Week 7:  Oct 3-7 - THE LIBERAL EXPERIMENTS OF 1848

     a) Middle-class liberals in Prague and Vienna;  F. Palack , "Letter
to the
          German National Assembly" [from H. Kohn, Pan-Slavism] (XEROX).
     b) The Austrian reaction; Taylor, pp. 83-94; Jelavich, 18th & 19th,
pp. 
          308-327.
     c) University holiday; no class meeting.

Week 8:  Oct 10-14 - REACTION & DEVELOPMENT IN THE 1850s

     a) Neo-absolutist innovations; Hoensch, pp. 10-16, Taylor, pp.
95-108.
     b) Conservative modernization; Taylor, pp. 109-140; Hoensch, pp.
16-19.
     c) Development and German Liberal rule in Austria; Taylor, pp.
141-168.


Week 9:  Oct 17-21 - INDUSTRIALIZATION AND MODERNIZATION IN THE
                    MULTINATIONAL EMPIRES

     a) The Hungarian revival; Hoensch, pp. 20-53; Taylor, pp. 185-195;
          Jelavich, 18th & 19th, pp. 327-28.
     b) Emerging national societies in the Balkans; Jelavich, 18th & 19th,
pp.
          287-299, 329-361, 366-80.
     c) Mass politics in a developing Poland; Davies, pp. 169-175; Wm.
Hagen,
          "National Solidarity and Organic Work in Prussian Poland"
(XEROX).

Week 10:  Oct 24-28 - MASS POLITICS AND SOCIAL CONFLICT, 1890-1914

     a) National and social conflict, ca. 1900; Taylor, pp. 169-184,
196-213;
          Jelavich, Balkans: 20th Century, pp. 51-63.
     b) The Habsburg Monarchy's endemic apocalypse; Taylor, pp. 214-32; 
          Hoensch, 53-83; Jelavich, 20th Century, pp. 63-78.
     c) SECOND EXAMINATION, Friday, October 28.  Bring blue book[s]!
     *"Friday, October 28, is the last day to withdraw from courses with a
W or
          F without petition to the college dean."

Week 11:  Oct 31-Nov 4 - THE LAST GAMBLES OF THE MULTINATIONAL EMPIRES

     a) Turkey and Balkan instability; Jelavich, 20th Century, pp. 13-50, 
          79-114
     b) The Great War and the collapse of the empires; Davies, pp. 236-50;
          Jelavich, 20th Century, pp. 106-114; Taylor, pp. 233-51.
     c) The winning of national independence; Taylor, pp. 252-61;
Jelavich, 
          20th Century, pp. 114-133.

Week 12:  Nov 7-11 - PEACE AND INDEPENDENCE

     a) Winning the peace; Davies, pp. 109-121; Hoensch, pp. 84-105; Z.
Zeman,
          "The Emergence of Successor States," from The Making and
Breaking 
           of...
     b) Postwar politics and new borders; Jelavich, 20th Century, pp.
134-43; 
          Z. A. B. Zeman, "The Triumph of Nationalism," pp. 98-109
(XEROX).
     c) Building new political systems; H. Seton-Watson,"The Political
System 
          of Eastern Europe between the Wars" (xerox ON RESERVE; not in 
          packet!).

Week 13:  Nov 14-18 - THE PROBLEMS OF GOVERNING NEW STATES, I

     a) Questions of control: Hungary and the Balkans; Hoensch, pp.
105-123;
          Jelavich, 20th Century, pp. 143-166.
     b) Economic backwardness and development strategies; Davies, pp.
121-127,
          129-148; Jelavich, 20th Century, pp. 166-184.
     c) Land and society; Jelavich, 20th Century, pp. 185-191.

Week 14:  Nov 21-25 - THE PROBLEMS OF GOVERNING NEW STATES, II

     a) Elites, the masses, and the minorities; J. Rothschild,
"Czechoslovakia"
     b) & c) Thanksgiving holiday; no class.

Week 15:  Nov 28-Dec 2 - THE CRISIS OF THE 1930s

     * ESSAY ASSIGNMENT DUE IN CLASS, Monday, November 28 *

     a) The depression years; Hoensch, pp. 123-131; Davies, pp. 127-129;
          Jelavich, 20th Century, pp. 184-185.
     b) Social and political instability;  Jelavich, 20th Century, pp.
192-209,
     c) The pawns of the Great Powers; Hoensch, pp. 131-145; I. Berend &
G.
          Ranki, Economic Development in East-Central Europe, pp. 265-84 
          (XEROX)

Week 16:  Dec 5-9 - BETWEEN EAST AND WEST--TO MUNICH AND WORLD WAR II

     a) Between Hitler and Stalin; Jelavich, 20th Century, pp. 213-21.
     b) Divide and conquer:  Munich.
     c) "Help Day," Friday, December 9 (no class meeting).

THIRD/FINAL EXAMINATION, Wed., Dec. l4, 1994; 1:30 p.m.  Bring blue
book[s]!
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