HIST 227
A Century of Revolutions: Europe in the 19th Century
Last Offered Fall 2008
Division II
This course is not offered in the current catalog

This course introduces students to the era of the European domination of the world, a time of revolutionary excitement and fervor, of war and travesty, of profound social and economic change, and of great intellectual ferment. Topics include the French and Russian Revolutions, the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848, the Industrial Revolution, German and Italian Unification, European imperialist expansion, processes of secularization and religious revival, and the origins of World War I. With an eye toward exploring the origins of today’s complex attitudes toward race, ethnicity, and gender, the course will also investigate racial thought, anti-semitism, and feminism in the nineteenth century.