HIST 2350 - History of Modern Europe - Enlightenment to the Fall of Soviet Communism

4 Semester Hours
HIST-2350 is a survey of the major social, political, economic, and intellectual developments in European history from the French Revolution of 1789 to the revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989/1990. Lectures and discussions are devoted to understanding the influence of ideology (liberalism, conservatism, socialism, nationalism) on social and political life; the role of material factors (economic change, urbanization, the experience of warfare) in historical change; and the global expansion of Europe and the extension of European ideas and institutions to other peoples of the world.