Becoming Modern: Asia/Europe. 3 credits

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Explores the various ways in which historians have conceptualized the shift from early modernity to modernity. Focuses on two geographic regions: Western Europe, whose historical experience gave rise to most of the models of modernization, and East Asia, where many of those models have been applied in an attempt to test their universality. Offered by History & Art History . May not be repeated for credit.