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  1. Characteristics of Early Modernism

  2. Europe's Rise to World Leadership
    1. The Second Industrial Revolution, new technologies, and the making of modern life
      1. Differences between the First and Second Industrial Revolutions
          2. a)   Urbanism
          b)   The middle class
          c)   The working class
          d)   The changing role of women
    2. Response to industrialism: politics and crisis
      1. Domestic policies in the heavily industrialized West
      2. Domestic policies in central and eastern Europe
    3. Imperialism and international relations
      1. The scramble for colonies: Africa and the Far East
      2. The outbreak of World War I

  3. Early Modernism
    1. Philosophy, psychology, and religion
      1. Nietzsche
      2. Freud and Jung
      3. Religious developments
    2. Literature
      1. Naturalistic literature
          2. a)   Zola
          b)   Ibsen
          c)   Chekhov
          d)   Chopin
      2. Decadence in literature
          3. a)   Huysmans
          b)   Wilde
          c)   Proust
      3. Expressionist literature
          4. a)   Strindberg
          b)   Kafka
    3. The advance of science
      1. Mendel
      2. The Curies
      3. Roentgen
      4. Planck
      5. Bohr
      6. Einstein
    4. The Modernist revolution in art
      1. Impressionism
          2. a)   Monet
          b)   Renoir
          c)   Cassat
          d)   Morisot
      2. Post-Impressionism
          3. a)   Seurat
          b)   Cézanne
          c)   Gauguin
          d)   van Gogh
      3. Fauvism, Cubism, and Expressionism
          4. a)   Matisse
          b)   Picasso
          c)   Kandinsky
      4. New directions in sculpture and architecture
          5. a)   Rodin
          b)   Sullivan
          c)   Wright
    5. Music: from Impressionism to Jazz
      1. Debussy
      2. Ravel
      3. Schoenberg
      4. Stravinsky
      5. Joplin

  4. The Legacy of Early Modernism






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