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Staff A survey of early modern European history. Emphasis is on the structures and patterns of European life. Topics include the Mediterranean region, popular and intellectual cultures, patronage, and the creation of the old regimes, printing, science, religious experience, European capitalism, and Europe's discovery of the rest of the world.
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R. Nemes This course takes as its subject the main ideas, key figures, philosophical debates, and major literary movements of Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. It explores the tensions between tradition and progress, freedom and authority, reason and the unconscious, belief and skepticism, and revolution and non-violence. This is a course about ideas - some vast, dazzling, and groundbreaking, some muddled and misguided - and the historical contexts in which they appeared.
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3.00 Credits
R. Douglas At the beginning of the 20th century, European men and women of ideas agreed that the continent was experiencing an unprecedented intellectual crisis, as the optimistic and positivist doctrines of Victorian liberalism began to crumble in the face of radical challenges from left and right alike. This course examines the transformation in European world-views that has occurred during the past 100 years, focusing in particular on such themes as the growth of "cultural despair," the intellectual impact of the Great War, the New Physics, Gramscian and Lukácsian neo-Marxism, second- and third-wave feminism, existentialism, faith after the Holocaust, the generation of 1968, and the ideas of the Frankfurt School.
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3.00 Credits
C. Stevens A study of politics and society in the Russian lands from Kiev to Alexander I. This course focuses especially on the rise of the Muscovite state, its cultural diversity, and its preoccupation with trade, treason, and winning wars; the Petrine reforms and Russia's emergence as a European power; the palace coups; and Catherine II and the Enlightenment. This course is crosslisted as RUSS 343.
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3.00 Credits
C. Stevens Russian history from Napoleon's defeat to the collapse of the Soviet Empire since 1989. Topics studied include the autocracy of Nicholas I, the Great Reforms, the emergence of revolutionary movements, industrialization and a changing society, the revolutions and the Bolshevik 1920s, the rise of Stalinism, and World War II and the Cold War. It concludes with the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. into its component parts. This course is crosslisted as RUSS 344.
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3.00 Credits
R. Nemes This course traces Germany's troubled history from Bismark to the fall of the Berlin wall. Topics include the unification of Germany, Berlin's remarkable development, the two world wars, post-war occupation and division , Wessi s an d Ossis , and reunification in 1990. German and international relations majors are encouraged to enroll.
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3.00 Credits
J. Harsin This course surveys major issues in modern European social history. Emphasis is both on particular problems in social history and on the techniques used by the social historian. Topics include the family and childhood; industrialization and the rise of the working classes; urbanization; crime, poverty, and welfare; and demography, population, and sexual behavior.
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3.00 Credits
J. Harsin, C. Stevens An examination of the experience of women in modern European history. Topics include the significance of childbirth and family size in the lives of women, the role of women in the labor force, middle-class reform movements, and the development of 20th-century feminist ideologies.
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3.00 Credits
London Study Group Director This course studies major political, social, and economic developments in Britain since 1900. The evolution of British institutions, commonwealth relations, and foreign policy are considered. Prerequisite: HIST 102 or AP credit in European history, or permission of instructor. Usually offered in London.
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3.00 Credits
R. Douglas This course studies Europe's changing status in the global community since 1945 and the domestic effects of that change. Topics include the movement toward European Union, the Cold War, decolonization, the rise and fall of Communism, and the emergence of multi-racial Europe. The course also explores critiques of material prosperity and consumer culture in the West and the tenacity of nationalism in an era characterized by supra-national ideologies. Prerequisite: HIST 102 or AP credit in European history, or permission of instructor.
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