HIS 214 Modern Europe

This introductory survey charts the course of European history from around 1500. This period saw the rise of the European great powers to unprecedented world dominance and the extension of western influences to every corner of the globe through imperialist wars of conquest, trade, and the growth of the world capitalist system. The modern nation-state emerged over this time as the primary form of political organization and the principal source of allegiance and identity, as well as modern forms of governance, the modern state and its constitutive institutions. These were critical developments that define modernity. Our main focus will be on the formation and globalization of economic, political, and social modernity, with a special focus on the evolution of the modern state. (L03)

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