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History 5 European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present

11:00-12:30 PM | 145 Dwinelle
Instructor Thomas Laqueur

History 5 - European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present - Fall 07. A survey of Europe from the Renaissance to the present.


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Lecture Archive
Tue 8/28 Introduction - Perspectives on Europe ? Histories, Cultures, Identities
Thu 8/30 The 'Renaissance' in Western and World History
Tue 9/4 The State as a Work of Art
Thu 9/6 'New' Worlds, 'New' Peoples, 'New' Goods
Tue 9/11 Revolutions in Religion: 1517-1555
Thu 9/13 Cultural Diversity in Early Modern Europe
Tue 9/18 Witchcraft and Religious War
Thu 9/20 English Revolutions, Dutch Revolutions and the European Tradition of Constitutionalism
Tue 9/25 French and Other Absolutisms
Thu 9/27 Worlds Of Goods, World Economies, Wars Of Commerce (Lecture from Fall 2006)
Tue 10/2 New Worlds of Learning - The 'Scientific Revolution' in Europe and the World
Thu 10/4 The Enlightenment - Daring to Know and its Difficulties
Tue 10/9 The French Revolution (1789-1792)
Thu 10/11 The French Revolution (1792-1989)
Tue 10/16 Midterm Exam
Thu 10/18 The Industrial Revolution - The Origins of a New Civilization
Tue 10/23 The Structures and Institutions of Class
Thu 10/25 Ideologies of Class, Gender and History
Tue 10/30 Revolution and Reform, 1815-1851
Thu 11/1 Science, Medicine and Religion
Tue 11/6 Making and Reforming Nation States
Thu 11/8 Politics, Culture, and Society at the End of the 19th Century
Tue 11/13 European Imperialism at its Zenith
Thu 11/15 The Great War - Its Causes, Course, and Consequences
Tue 11/20 The Russian Revolution
Thu 11/22 Thanksgiving Holiday
Tue 11/27 The Failure of Politics Between the Wars
Thu 11/29 World War Two - Holocaust and Rebuilding
Tue 12/4 Europe East and West - Communism and Social Democracy
Thu 12/6 Perspectives on Europe (again) - Histories, Cultures, Identities, Hopes