5515B 17Th And 18Th Century European History (3)
This course is designed to present the upper-division undergraduate with a firm
grasp of the major intellectual, cultural, political and economic development
of 17th and 18th century Europe. It considers the bitter Thirty Years War in
Century Europe, the rise of the Netherlands, the fall of Italy and Spain, the
rise of constitutional and absolutist styles of government, the scientific
revolution, the colonization by Europeans of the Pacific and Indian Ocean
Basins, Enlightenment political philosophy, the Agricultural Revolution, and
the French Revolution. Also offered for undergraduates as 415B. Graduate
students will be held to a higher standard in terms of additional, in-depth
historiographic research, writing, and discussion.