6931019 European History
| Numbering Code | U-LET26 36931 LJ36 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Second semester |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | special lecture |
| Target Year | Target Student | ||
| Language | Japanese | Day/Period | Wed.5 |
| Instructor name | KOYAMA SATOSHI (Graduate School of Letters Professor) | ||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course | The eighteenth century was a time when the political map on the both Eastern and Western shores of the Atlantic Ocean had changed on a large scale. On the North American Continent thirteen English colonies made resistance against the home government and became independent from Britain. In the western part of European continent the old system collapsed by the French Revolution, while in the eastern part of Europe the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ceased to exist by the three partitions. These changes were connected with each other. They are known generically as the Trans-Atlantic Revolutions. This lecture aims to survey these changes from the perspective of Polish historical persons, Tadeusz Kościuszko and Józef Pawlikowski. | ||
| Course Goals | This lecture aims at reconsidering the series of historical changes in the second half of the eighteenth century and understanding the transition from the early modern to the modern period in European history. | ||
| Schedule and Contents |
This lecture will take up following problems: 1) Kościuszko from the Japanese point of view. 2) On the Atlantic Revolutions: a historiographical survey. 3) Social structure and constitution of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 4) Kościuszko's early years. 5) The West and the East in the Enlightenment: what did Kościuszko learn in France? 6) Kościuszko's America. 7) Pawlikowski as a people's monarchist. 8) Crisis and reform of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the Four Years Parliament to the Second Polish Partition. 9) "Freedom, Integrity, Independence": the Kościuszko Uprising and its results. 10) Pawlikowski as a republican. 11) Napoleon and Kościuszko. 12) Selfdom and slavery: Kościuszko's social thought. 13) Hero worship and mythification: Kościuszko in the memory of Poles. 14) Feedback. |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Students will be evaluated through a examination in the end of the semester. | ||
| Course Requirements | None | ||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Students are expected to read the reference books mentioned in the lecture. | ||
| References, etc. | The lecturer will introduce related literatures. | ||
