NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE, 1789-1914.

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This course focuses on the political, cultural, social, and intellectual developments that shaped the European continent's "long" nineteenth century. Beginning with the dawn of modern politics in the salons and streets of revolutionary Paris and concluding with cultural crises that prefigured War in the summer of 1914, it examines in detail how European political and cultural forms came to dominate the globe during the nineteenth century while setting the stage for European decline in the first decades of the twentieth.