HIST 543
European History in the 18th and 19th Centuries

This course investigates the intellectual, social, and economic history of Europe from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the onset of the Great War in 1914. As such, this is a course on the "long" 18th and 19th centuries. The major focus shall be on the Enlightenment, the French and Industrial Revolutions, the Age of Ideologies, the new imperialism and the coming of the Great War. While the general focus is the intellectual history of Europe the course also investigates the social and economic structure of 18th and 19th century Europe.

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