AP European History Readings

Please download and complete these questions for the summer reading assignment, History: A Short Introduction. They will be due via TurnItIn on January 24th.

Please see the following documents and readings for each unit for AP European History.

Unit 1: 1350–1648

• Huppert, George. After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe. Second Edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
• “The Book of the City of Ladies,” Christine de Piza
• “The Hammer of Witches,” Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger
• Excerpts from The Prince, Machiavelli
• “Indulgences,” Johann Tetzel
• Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation and 95 Theses
• Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
•  Twelve Articles of the Swabian Peasants
• “Constitution of the Society of Jesus,” Ignatius of Loyola
• “Political Will and Testament,” Cardinal Richelieu
• Selected excerpts of speeches of Elizabeth I
• “Leviathan,” Thomas Hobbes
•  Instruments of Government (1655) – Thomas Cromwell
• Treaty of Westphalia

Secondary Resources:

• “Political Interpretation of the Reformation” Geoffrey Elton
• “Women in the Reformation” Boxer and Quatert
• Two Views of the Renaissance: Jacob Burckhardt vs. Peter Burke
• “The Expansion of Europe” Richard Reed
• “The Effects of Expansion of the Non- European World” M.L. Bush

Unit 2: 1648-1815

• “Memoirs,” Duc de Saint-Simon
• Edict of Fontainebleau, 1685
• English Bill of Rights, 1688
• English Act of Toleration, 1689
• “A Secret Letter,” Frederick William the Great Elector
• “What is Enlightenment,” Immanuel Kant
• Selections from Social Contract, Rousseau
• Documents Pertaining to the French Revolution: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, What is the Third Estate?

Secondary Resources:

• “A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War,” Hajo Holborn
• “A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War,” Friedrich Schiller
• “War and Peace in the Old Regime,” M. S. Anderson
• “The Ancien Regime: Ideals and Realities,” John Roberts
• “The Resurgent Aristocracy,” Leonard Krieger
• “Lords and Peasants,” Jerome Blum

Unit 3: 1815-1914

• “Testimony for the Factory Act of 1833: Working Conditions in England”
• “The Condition of the Working Class in England” – Engels
• Communist Manifesto – Marx
• The Organization of Labour – Blanc
• On Liberty – Mill
• Essay on the Principle of Population – Malthus
• The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation – Ricardo
• Report to the Committee for the Relief of the Manufacturing Poor –Owen
• Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism – Lenin
• The White Man’s Burden – Kipling
• The Black Man’s Burden – Morel
• Confession of Faith – Rhodes
• Imperialism, A Study – Hobson

Secondary Resources:

• “German Unification,” Hajo Holborn
• “The Age of Empire,” Eric Hobsbawn
• “The Effects of Imperialism,” David Landes
• “The Unfinished Revolution: Marxism Interpreted,” Adam Ulam

Unit 4: 1914-Present

• Article 231 of Treaty of Versailles (the War Guilt Clause), Austrian Ultimatum, Serbian Reply, German Letter to Austria, Willy-Nicky Telegrams
•  Excerpts from What is to be Done? – Lenin
• Excerpts from Hitler: Mien Kampf and The Secret Book
• Churchill’s “Iron Curtain Speech”
• UN Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1960
•  The Rome Treaty, 1957
• The Maastricht Treaty, 1992

Secondary Resources

• Three perspectives of the roots of WWI: Roland Stromberg, Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, Gordon Craig
• Perspectives on Nazi Germany: Klaus Fischer and Daniel Goldhagen
• Two Views on Appeasement: George Kennan and A.J.P. Taylor
• “The Short Century—It’s Over,” John Lukacs
• Two views on the Collapse of Communism: Robert Heilbroner and Carol S. Leff