Class Schedule

Week 10

Tuesday, March 29

Food for Thought
Topic of Discussion:
Competing 19th-Century Conceptions of the Nation
Readings:
Perry, pp. 346-362
Excerpt from John Stuart Mill, On Representative Government (1861)
Excerpts from Lord Acton, "Nationality" (1862)
Ernest Renan, "What is a Nation?" (1882)

Thursday, March 31

Food for Thought
Topic of Discussion:
Making Nations: Modernization, the State, and Nationality
Readings:
Eric Hobsbawm, "Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, 1870-1914"
Excerpt from Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen (1976)
Excerpts from Ernest Lavisse, Second Year of French History (1895)
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