Course Description
Major themes and current historiography of Europe from 1800 to the present.
Athena Title
COLL MOD EUR HIST
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in HIST 7323
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This is a graduate-level survey covering some of the outstanding issues and major works in European history since the era of the French revolution. The assigned readings include a mixture of classic and quite recent works. In this connection it is worth recalling that what is now current, even deemed "cutting edge," may soon be relegated to the trash-heap of history, as anyone old enough to remember the vogue of psychohistory or quanto- history of the 1970s can attest. So we will seek to be reflexive, attentive to our own historicity, as we approach what now seem some of the key issues and works of historical scholarship.
Topical Outline
Introduction Boundaries, Communities, and Variable National Traditions East, West, and the Question of "Modernization" Beyond the Sonderweg: Accounting for Differences in National Development Liberalism and Democracy, Self and Society The Place of Imperialism Fin-de-sicle Culture and the Crisis of Liberal Rationalism Weimar Germany and the Transition to Nazism The Problem of Fascism Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment The Fall and Rise of Twentieth-Century France Gender, Reform, and the Welfare State Memory and Commemoration Taking Stock at the End of the Twentieth Century Oral presentation on final papers