| # 1 Absolutism Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Leviathan, 1651 [at IMHS] Bishop Jacques Bossuet (1627-1704), Politics Derived from the Very Word of Holy Scripture [at Hanover (under the title of "Political Treatise")] Jean Domat (1625-1696), On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy, 1697 [at IMHS] Duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755), The Court of Louis XIV, from Memoires, 1740-46 [at IMHS] Louis XIV: Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, October 22, 1685 [at IMHS] [The Edict of Nantes] Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), Memorandum on Trade, 1664 [at IMHS] Louis XIV, Letter to the Town Officers and People of Marseilles, August 26, 1664 [at Hanover] The Decline of the Holy Roman Empire and the Rise of Prussia, 1700-1786 [at IMHS] [first four documents only] |
| # 2
Constitutionalism Invitation to the Prince of Orange, 1688 [at The Jacobite Heritage] The Declaration of Right [at Avalon] Act of Toleration [at The Jacobite Heritage] Locke [at Liberty Fund] [this link is for your information; please focus your reading on the selections listed below] A letter concerning
toleration, 1689-93 [W&K, 39-40]
An essay concerning the True Original, extent, and end of civil government, 1690 [at Groningen] [read Chapters V, IX, XIX] Some Thoughts concerning Education, 1693 [Jacob, 73-93] History today: The Jacobite Heritage |
| # 3 Early 18th-century
wars; Russia and the West The War of the League of Augsburg Irish documents Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland Russia Peter the Great and the rise of Russia [at IMHS] Proclamation on the Introduction of a New Calendar, December 20, 1699 [at Seton Hall U] Decree on Single Inheritance Pavel Miliukov on the reforms of Peter the Great The War of the Spanish Succession The Treaty of Utrecht |
| # 4 The
Enlightenment, Empire, and Travel Writing The First English Coffee Houses [at IMHS] [optional: Stephen Buck, "Geneva. A poem in blank verse. Occasioned by the late act of Parliament for allowing liquors compound of English spirits... With a dedication to all Gin-Drinkers in Great Britain and Ireland" London, 1734 at ECCO] Voltaire, Letters Concerning the English Nation, 1733 [Jacob, 114-137] Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters, 1716-1718, [Jacob, 137-56] Montesquieu, Persian Letters (1721) [read letters XI-XIV, XXIV, and one other of your choosing] biographical info on Montesquieu |
| # 5
Prussia The Decline of the Holy Roman Empire and the Rise of Prussia, 1700-1786 [at IMHS] Frederick II, Memoirs and Essay on the Forms of Government Frederick II, The King of Prussia's Military Instructions to his Generals [Winks and Kaiser, 90-92] [additional documents tba] |
| #6 Empire James Cook, Journal of Remarkable Occurrences aboard His Majesty's Bark Endeavour, 1768-1771, General Description of New Zealand, esp. pp. 48-61 |
| #7 Enlightened
despotism documents on enlightened despotism from the Modern History Sourcebook: Catherine the Great, Various Documents on Enlightenment and Government The Decline of the Holy Roman Empire and the Rise of Prussia (includes Frederick II of Prussia (1740-1786): Essay on Forms of Government) optional: Luise Gottsched: Description of the Empress Maria Theresa, 1749 Smith, The Wealth of Nations [W&K, 110-11] |
| #8 [documents
on the French Revolution tba] |