AP European History
Chapter 16 Outline
CHAPTER 16 – THE BIRTH OF MODERN EUROPEAN THOUGHT
OUTLINE
I. The New Reading Public
A. Advances in Primary Education
B. Reading Material for the Mass Audience
II. Science at Midcentury
A. Comte, Positivism, and the Prestige of Science
Read the Document “Auguste Comte, ‘Course of Positive Philosophy’ (France), 1830–1842” on MyHistoryLab.com
B. New Theories of Evolution: Lamark, Lyell, Darwin, Wallace
Read the Document “Origin of Species, Charles Darwin (1859)” on MyHistoryLab.com
C. Science and Ethics: Social Darwinism
Read the Document “Herbert Spencer, Social Darwinism, from The Data of Ethics (1857)” on MyHistoryLab.com
III. Christianity and the Church Under Siege
A. Intellectual Skepticism
Read the Document “Matthew Arnold, Excerpt from Dover Beach” on MyHistoryLab.com
B. Conflict Between Church and State
View the Closer Look “Conflict between Church and State in Germany” on MyHistoryLab.com
C. Areas of Religious Revival
D. The Roman Catholic Church and the Modern World
Read the Document “Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (Of New Things), 1891” on MyHistoryLab.com
E. Islam and Late-Nineteenth-Century European Thought
Read the Document “Sayyid Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, ‘Lecture on Teaching and Learning’ ” on MyHistoryLab.com
IV. Toward a Twentieth-Century Frame of Mind
A. Science: The Revolution in Physics
Read the Document “Werner Heisenberg, ‘Uncertainty’ (Germany), 1927” on MyHistoryLab.com
Read the Document “Henrik Ibsen, from A Doll’s House, Act Three” on MyHistoryLab.com
B. Literature: Realism and Naturalism
Read the Document “Emile Zola, Nana” on MyHistoryLab.com
C. Modernism in Literature
Read the Document “John Maynard Keynes, from The End of Laissez-Faire” on MyHistoryLab.com
D. The Coming of Modern Art
View the Closer Look “Monet’s Water Lilies” on MyHistoryLab.com
View the Closer Look “Sunday on La Grande Jatte” on MyHistory Lab.com
AP European History
Chapter 16 Outline
Watch the Video “The Art of Pablo Picasso” on MyHistoryLab.com
E. Friedrich Nietzsche and the Revolt against Reason
Read the Document “Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil” on MyHistoryLab.com
F. The Birth of Psychoanalysis
G. Retreat from Rationalism in Politics
H. Racism
I. Anti-Semitism and the Birth of Zionism
V. Women and Modern Thought
A. Antifeminism in Late-Century Thought
B. New Directions in Feminism
Read the Document “Ellen Key, from The Century of the Child” on MyHistoryLab.com
Read the Document “Virginia Woolf, from A Room of One’s Own (Great Britain), 1929” on MyHistoryLab.com
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