Note:This course is not currently being taught by Dr. Anne Clendinning.
This course explores the development of modern Europe and European culture from approximately 1500 to the late twentieth century. Course lectures, readings, tutorial work and written assignments will familiarize students with a number of important themes to be covered in this course, as well as introduce students to the nature of historical study. Europe Since 1500 includes the examination of the following topics: the renaissance and the reformation; the exploration of new worlds, territorial, commercial, scientific and industrial; monarchies and the formation of the modern European state; the enlightenment; nineteenth century liberalism, socialism, nationalism and imperialism; conflict and change in the twentieth century including Communism and Fascism; concluding with the European union.
Term one covers the period roughly 1500-1815; from the renaissance to the French revolutionary wars. The second term takes up the narrative in post-Napoleonic Europe and continues up to the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the late twentieth century.