READINGS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY I

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Critical investigations and discussion of the transformations of European society and culture from the French Revolution to the present. Analyses of the sources and varying interpretation by outstanding historians of liberalisn, nationalism, war, revolution, totalitarianism, and reconstruction. Emphasis on individual nations as well as on the chainging significances of the European economy and civilization for the modern world. 5201 concentrates on the 19th century(1789-1914). 5202 concentrates on the 20th century (1914 to present). The courses may be taken individually.