European civilisation: Lecture 1 - Introduction

Identify the course’s historical frame.

How to study this source

• How did industrialisation remake the world?

  criticismCourse scope and historical framing

  Identify the geographic and chronological scope of the course before using its examples.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against

• National Archives: immigration records

  US National Archives. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Library of Congress: newspapers

  Library of Congress. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Library of Congress: maps

  Library of Congress. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• National Archives: citation guidance

  US National Archives. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• European civilisation: Lecture 2 - Absolutism and the State

  John Merriman. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.