Volume 3: Modern World Revolutions & Global Ideologies
Welcome to Volume III of Flügel History: Modern World Revolutions & Global Ideologies. This volume examines the transformation of the modern globe through the intellectual crucible of the Enlightenment, Atlantic democratic revolutions, industrial capitalism, total warfare, ideological confrontations, and 20th-century decolonization.
Volume Curriculum Architecture
Chapters in this Volume
Renaissance, Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment ThoughtHumanism (Petrarch, Erasmus), Protestant Reformation (Luther), Heliocentrism & Newtonian physics, Social Contract theory (Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu).
The Age of Revolutions: American, French & Industrial Revolutions1776 US Declaration, 1789 French Estates-General to Reign of Terror, Napoleonic Code, and British First Industrial Revolution mechanization.
Industrial Capitalism, Imperialism & The Scramble for AfricaMarxist historical materialism, Second Industrial Revolution, Lenin's Imperialism thesis, 1884 Berlin Conference partition of Africa, and Meiji Restoration (1868).
World War I, Russian Revolution & Collapse of Imperial DynastiesM-A-I-N causes, Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations, 1917 Bolshevik Revolution under Lenin and Trotsky, and the creation of the USSR.
Interwar Crises, Rise of Fascism, Nazism & World War IIGreat Depression (1929), Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Third Reich, Holocaust, Battle of Stalingrad turning point, and Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
Cold War Bipolarity, Decolonization & Non-Aligned MovementTruman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Bandung Conference (1955), Non-Aligned Movement, and Gorbachev's Glasnost/Perestroika.
Primary Political Documents Analyzed
Exhaustive structural breakdowns of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), Communist Manifesto (1848), Treaty of Versailles (1919), and Bandung 10 Principles (1955).