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  1. Characteristics of Early Modernism

  2. Europe's Rise to World Leadership
    1. The Second Industrial Revolution's new technologies, and the making of the phenomenon of "modern life"
      1. Advances in technology
          2. a) Communications
          b) Transportation
      2. Differences between the First and Second Industrial Revolutions
          3. a) Urbanism
          b) The middle class
          c) The working class
          d) The changing role of women
    2. Responses to industrialism: politics and crises
      1. Domestic policies in the heavily industrialized West: Germany, France, Great Britain, and the United States
      2. Domestic policies in central and eastern Europe: Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Russia
    3. Imperialism and international relations
      1. The scramble for colonies: Africa and the Far East
      2. World War I: causes

  3. Early Modernism
    1. Philosophy, psychology, and religion
      1. Nietzsche
      2. Freud
      3. Jung
      4. Religious developments
          5. a) Social gospel
          b) Fundamentalism
          c) Kulturkampf
    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. Postimpressionism
          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
          6. a) Debussy
          b) Ravel
          c) Schoenberg
          d) Stravinsky
          e) Joplin

  4. The Legacy of Early Modernism






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