Study Guide for exam #2
Western Civ:
Ren. to Present
We are going from the Scientific Revolution to the mid-19th
century. This includes a variety of
areas and individuals, including:
- Decline
of Absolutism, rise of Enlightened Despotism, discussion of politics in
its myriad forms.
- The
French Revolution
- Agricultural-Industrial-Demographic
revolution
- Napoleon
and his endeavors
- Post-Napoleonic
Europe through 1848
- The
social and cultural transformation of Europe; think
comparatively about Ancien Regime and “modern” Europe.
- The
“social problems” of modern Europe that are
manifested by these transformations.
- Liberalism
and the rise of the market economy
- Utilitarianism
and the thinkers who argue for it/against it, and why.
- Growth
of Nationalism vs. national politics
- Intellectual
developments in political thought, or the enlightenment, part II (Utilitarians, Socialists, Anarchists)
- Revolutions
from below: July Ordinances, the
French Restoration, the rise of Louis Napoleon.