5530 The Ordeal Of Total War Europe,1900- 1950 (3)
This upper-division course traces the history of Europe-on its own and in its
relations to the rest of the world from its use of genocide "beyond" its shores
to its systematic application in Europe. It will survey significant trends in
warfare, politics, economics, social relations and culture, paying particcular
attention to the causes for war and the expansion of violence, modernization
and modernity, democracy and totalitarianism, colonization and resistance, mass
destruction and everyday life. Also offered for undergraduates as 43.0.
Graduate students will be held to a higher standard in terms of additional,
in-depth historiographic research, writing, and discussion.