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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Society, politics, and economy in Europe from 1600 to 1789. Enlightened absolutism in France and Prussia; the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution; changes in the rural economy; the rise of religious enthusiasm; foreign trade and colonial expansion; the rise of the middle classes; the Enlightenment and the origins of the French Revolution.
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3 hours, 3 credits. Preconditions of discontent in late eighteenth-century France, the origin and unfolding of the French Revolution, the Thermidorean Reaction, the rise of Napoleon and his influence in Europe.
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3 hours, 3 credits. Survey of European diplomacy, with special emphasis on nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments.
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3 hours, 3 credits. World War I, the rise and fall of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, fascism, World War II, postwar prosperity, European union, and the impact of immigration.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Travel literature and the early Enlightenment; the spread of Enlightenment ideas, such as natural laws, natural rights, and market forces.
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3 hours, 3 credits. The social and intellectual formation of liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, socialism, and anarchism, and their impact on political and social change in modern Europe.
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3 hours, 3 credits. The social movements and ideas that have shaped our modern consciousness, including communism, fascism, existentialism, feminism, revolution, and total war.
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3 hours, 3 credits. The advent of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VIII, the divorce, and the church; Queen Elizabeth's government and the church, and Elizabethan society; poverty and vagrancy in the Tudor state; the divine right of kings and mass political attitudes in early Stuart England; the origins of the civil war; the execution of Charles I; Oliver Cromwell and the Saints; Restoration England; and the Glorious Revolution.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Modern Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The impact of the industrial revolution on British society; the American Revolution; democratization; depression, imperialism, and the new liberalism; and the Irish question in British politics.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. World War I and its effects on politics and society; the economic crisis of 1931 and the National Government; depression; Churchill and the war effort; the Labour Party, nationalization and the welfare state after 1945; decolonization; economy and society under Thatcher; the rise of New Labour.
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