HIST 316Germany 1500-1914

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(PP,G)This course will explore the tumultuous course of German-speaking Europe, including the Reformation(s), religious warfare, the Thirty Years' War, absolutism, the Enlightenment, movements for unification, and Imperial Germany. We will examine the tensions between religious revival and the forces of secularization as well as the place of groups and individuals in a period of contested state-building and nation-building.