I HAVE RETIRED, SO I NO LONGER TEACH UNDERGRADUATE COURSES AT UBC. THIS INFORMATION IS MAINTAINED HERE FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES.
Welcome to the course website for History 220 (History of Europe) for 2012-2013. This course offers a broad overview of the history of European civilization from the late Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth century. The course will deal with many of the transformational events and movements of European history as well as the impact of those events and movements on the lives of ordinary Europeans. We will examine the careers and ideas of well-known rulers and thinkers as well as the experiences of obscure men and women whose lives can teach us just as much about how Europeans lived, created, argued and suffered over the course of seven centuries. Assigned readings will include primary sources as well as short biographies and works of fiction.
- Click here for the list of required books for the course. These books can be purchased at the UBC Bookstore.
- Click here for the course syllabus. A printed copy of the syllabus was distributed to students duiring during the initial
- lecture.
Most of the reading assignments are from the required books. Some additional reading assignments are available here. These are public-domain primary source documents.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Prologue)
- Martin Luther, Address to the German Nobility
- Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
- The Trial of Charles I
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789
- Maximilien Robespierre, Speech on the Use of Terror
- Rosa Luxemburg, “The War and the Workers”
- Conditions in British Coal Mines, 1842
- Hermann Heiberg, The Eighth Job
A few reading assignments can be accessed through the UBC Library website. For instructions, click here.
ESSAY ASSIGNMENTS will be posted here after they have been distributed in class.
- For the short paper due on October 4/5, click here.
- For the paper due in late November, click here.
- For the paper due on March 28, click here.
- Click here for the instructor’s Footnote Guide, which will be useful to you when you write your essays.