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Class Schedule:
Week 4
Tuesday,
February 4
Food
for Thought
Topic
of Discussion:
The Absolutist
State and Army
Readings:
Preston,
Wise, Roland, pp. 116-132
Howard,
pp. 54-74
Excerpts
from Frederick the Great, Works (c. 1770)
Excerpts
from Colbert, Instructions for a General Survey of France (1663)
Excerpts
from Bossuet, Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture
(c. 1670s)
Excerpts
from Louis XIV, Memoirs (1670)
Web
Gallery:
The
Absolutist Army
Absolutist
Architecture
Absolutist
Portaiture
Thursday,
February 6
Food
for Thought
Topic
of Discussion:
The Theory
of the Sovereign People and the Constitutionalist State
Readings:
Excerpts
from John Locke, Two Treatises on Government (1690)
Excerpts
from John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe from the Renaissance
to the Present (1996)
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