An Introduction to the Humanities: Bk. 2 Resource Book(Course A103)

This work talks about introduction to history in history, Rousseau in philosophy, and David and Friedrich in art history. This material is for use with Block 3 from the course.

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS: SECTION A History: Introduction to history; A1 Chronology showing key events of the Revolution; Primary sources; A2 Calonne's reform programme, 26 August 1786; A3 Petition of the women of the Third Estate to the king, 1 January 1789; A4 Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen, August 1789; A5 Extracts from a letter from Marquis de Ferrie'res to M. de Fabreuil, Versailles, 7 August 1789; A6 Extracts from Paul-Philippe Gudin, Supplement to the Social Contract, 30 October 1790; A7 Extracts from Sebastien Mercier, J.J. Rousseau, considered as one of the first authors of the Revolution, June 1791; A8 Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791; A9 Letter from Nicolas Rouault to his brother, Paris, 4 May 1792; A10 Extracts from the decree regulating divorce, 20 September 1792; A11 Extracts from the second propagandist decree, 15 December 1792; A12 Extracts from the proclamation of the Convention concerning the events of 31 May and 1 June 1973 (promulgated 1 June 1793, published in official newspaper, Moniteur, on 3 June 1793); A13 Extract from the decree establishing the leve'e en masse, 23 August 1793; A14 Extracts from the law of 22 Prairial, 10 June 1794; A15 Extracts from the proclamation of the Council of Five Hundred, 10 November 1799 (19 Brumaire, Year VIII); A16 Extracts from the proclamation of the Consuls to the French people, 15 December 1799; (24 Frimaire, Year VIII); A17 Michael Bartholomew and Antony Lentin, 'The veneration of the ancients'; A18 Colin Cunningham, 'Reactions to Classical antiquity'; A19 Clive Emsley, 'France in the eighteenth century'; A20 Olwen Hufton, 'Women in revolution, 1789,1796' A21 Darline Gay Levy and Harriet B. Applewhite, 'Women of the popular classes in revolutionary Paris, 1789,1795'; A22 Franc ois Furet and Denis Richet, Introductory section to 'The new France'; A23 Matthew Anderson, Introduction to The Ascendancy of Europe, 1815 :1914, (a summary of the period 1780s to 1815); SECTION B: Philosophy: Rousseau; B1 Rousseau, The Social Contract, extract from bk4, ch.8, On Civil Religion; B2 Jonathan Wolff, 'Who should rule?'; SECTION C: Art History: David and Friedrich; C1 Robert Herbert, extract from David, Voltaire, 'Brutus' and the French Revolution; C2 Charles Etienne Gabriel Cuvillier, Letter to Joseph Vien, 10 August 1789; C3 Anita Brookner, extract from Jacques-Louis David; C4 Caspar David Friedrich, statement on The Tetschen Altar; C5 Jacques-Louis David: a chronology; C6 Caspar David Friedrich: a chronology;