HIST 307: Old Regime and Revolutionary Europe

HIST 307-001: Old Regime and Revolutionary Europe
(Fall 2012)

10:30 AM to 11:45 AM TR

Section Information for Fall 2012

This course explores the history of Europe from the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 through Napoleon’s defeat and the resulting Congress of Vienna in 1815. The first part of the course contrasts two responses to the social, economic, political, and military crises of the seventeenth century: the rise of absolutism in France and constitutionalism in Britain. The middle part of the course examines the intellectual and cultural movement known as the Enlightenment from its scientific origins through its philosophical and social contributions to human understanding. The final part of the course focuses on collapse of the Old Regime in France, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic wars that reshaped Europe. In each phase of the course we pay particular attention to Europe's increasingly important global entanglements.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Political, social, economic, and cultural history of Europe from 1648 to 1815. Crisis of authority, consolidation of the state, absolutism, colonial expansion, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution and Napoleon. Limited to three attempts.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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