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HISTORY 202      Western Civilization Since 1600
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.
Faculty: College of Arts & Sciences
Department: History
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