430R 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 particular
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 graduate students as Hist 530.