This course offers an introduction to the main contours of European history from 1789 to the present. Beginning with an examination of the "dual revolutions" of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (the French and the Industrial revolutions), we will then consider Europe's "long nineteenth century" of industrialization, nation-state building, class formation, and imperial expansion up to 1914, during which time European ideas and institutions reached the height of their power and left their imprint upon the whole world. In the second half of the course, we will turn to the history of Europe's "second Thirty Years War" in the first half of the twentieth century, and how two devastating world wars, economic depression, and the rise of fascism transformed both European societies and governments in themselves, while diminishing Europe's global position and leaving it no longer the full master of its own fate. Finally, we will turn to Europe in the post-European age, from 1945 to the present, a period marked by Cold War revisions, decolonization, deepening democracy, economic, social and cultural metamorphis, and the emergence of the European Union. Rather than provide a comprehensive, chronological survey, the course will focus on a number of key political and social movements, or "isms," forged in Europe during these two tumultuous centuries, including liberalism, feminism, nationalism, imperialism, fascism, socialism, and communism. Readings will include selected primary sources, contemporary historical scholarship, novels and memoirs. Format: lecture/discussion. Evaluation will be based on two short papers, a midterm and a final exam. No enrollment limit. Group B

Hour: ROSENFELD