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Modern Europe
HIST203 SP

This course surveys the history of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era to the 1990s, and is intended primarily for frosh and sophomores. Attention will be devoted to major political, social, economic, and cultural developments, beginning with the many dimensions of the political and industrial revolutions of the 19th century, continuing with the emergence of nation-states and nationalism, working-class movements, the consequences of imperialism and war, and Communism and Fascism, and concluding with study of the Second World War, the reassertion of Europe and the collapse of the Soviet system.

MAJOR READINGS

John Merriman, A HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE: VOLUME II, FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE PRESENT
Tom Kemp, INDUSTRIALIZATION IN 19TH CENTURY EUROPE
E.J. Hobsbawm, THE AGE OF REVOLUTION
A.J.P. Taylor, BISMARK, MAN AND STATESMAN
Philip Pomper, THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY INTELLIGENTSIA
Sheila Fitzpatrick, THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Stanley G. Payne, A HISTORY OF FASCISM, 1914-1945
Walter Laqueur, EUROPE IN OUR TIME
Additional readings will be assigned; substitutions for the above may be made.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two five-page papers and a final examination.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Greene,Nathanael    
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Times: .M.W.F. 10:00AM-10:50AM;     Location: PAC002
Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 60)
SR. major:    Jr. major: 10
SR. non-major:    Jr. non-major:    SO: 25   FR: 25

Special Attributes:
Curricular Renewal:    Writing

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000


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