West Civ: Early Modern-Present

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Western Civilization: Early Modern to Present studies the history of the western world from the early modern era to the present time. Topics include the Age of Absolutism, the Industrial Revolution and capitalism, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, the rise of Nationalism and the German state, European expansion overseas, World War I, the post war period, Adolph Hitler and fascism, World War II, the Iron Curtain, third world development, and the contemporary period.