READINGS IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY

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(Slashed with HIST 82000 ) This course offers an overview of the major themes and problems in the historical scholarship on early modern Europe and the early modern world. It will also explore different methodological and theoretical approaches drawing from foundational and recent scholarship in intellectual history, cultural history, social history, gender history and global history. Topics may include the Renaissance, Europe's Reformations, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, court culture and the rise of absolutism, popular culture and everyday life, Europe's colonial and commercial expansion, the rise of capitalism, urbanization and the emergence of industrialization.