Class Schedule

Week 6

Tuesday, February 22

Food for Thought
Topic of Discussion:
Romantics and the Nation
Readings:
Perry, pp. 294-300
Anthony Smith, "Romanticism and Nationalism" (2004)
Excerpts from Johann Gottfried von Herder, Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind (1784-1791)

Thursday, February 24

Food for Thought
Topic of Discussion:
The Nation before the French Revolution
Readings:
Excerpt from Simon Schama, Citizens (1989)
David Bell, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being French: Law, Republicanism and National Identity at the End of the Old Regime"
Excerpts from Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation (1992)
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