Course Code
HIST 222
Academic Year
2016-2017
The ascendency of Europe relative to other cultural and political entities from the beginning of the modern period through the early 20th century is widely acknowledged, sometimes in celebratory tones, at others with extreme bitterness and anger. This course will examine the complex legacy of Europe's role in the development of the modern world. Beginning with the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and ending with the dramatic events of 1989 when communism fell in the east, we will explore how Europe's greatest achievements - political, scientific, technological, intellectual - often accompanied or at times even facilitated (directly or indirectly) the worst of its horrors and injustices.