Society and Self: The Human Ideal in France & Britain

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This course, by looking at the history and culture of these two predominant European nations, will introduce students to broad questions about the nature of the human condition. These questions will be explored within the context of the evolving political and cultural structures of these two societies as they were transformed from absolutist monarchies to mass democracies between the mid 17th century and the start of the 20th century.