Modern Europe: From Humanism to Hitler

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This course surveys the history of modern Europe from the late Middle Ages up to the year 1945. Beginning with the cultural and religious upheavals of the Renaissance, the Reformation, and Wars of Religion, it proceeds to examine the political transformations wrought by Absolutism, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars. It then examines the emergence of modern political ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, and socialism, the development of nationalism and imperialism, the outbreak of World War I, the eruption of the Bolshevik Revolution, the interwar emergence of Fascism and Nazism, and the eruption of World War II.