202 Western Civilization Since 1600 (3)
This course surveys the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural
history of Europe from about 1600 to the present, through these major
developments in those centuries: the origins of the modern sovereign state
(absolutist and constitutional), the English revolutions; the European
Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleonic Europe; Romanticism and
Scientism in culture and thought, the Industrial Revolution and urban society,
and nationalism and imperialism; the two world wars, the Russian Revolution,
dictators and totalitarian states, and the current postwar world and culture.
Fall, Summer, Winter.