Required Readings (History 112)

On-Line Reserves

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King Louis XIV “Letter to His Heirs” and satirical poem concerning Charles I

Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?”

Jean Jacques Rousseau, “Preface,” Emile

“Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen”

Olympe de Gouges, “The Declaration of the Rights of Woman”

“What is a Sans-Culotte?”

Napoleonic Code

Goethe, “Erlking”

Communist Manifesto

Bismarck, “We Germans Fear God…”

E. Pankhurst, “My Own Story”

Marr, “The Victory of Judaism over Germandom” and Treitschke, “A Word About Our Jewry”

Trial of Oscar Wilde (selections)

Lenin, “Call to Power”

Resolutions of Soviet Congresses

Mussolini, “The Doctrine of Fascism”

Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (selection)

Spiegelman, Maus (selection)

Adolf Hitler’s June 22 1941 speech