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HIST215 Later Modern Europe

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp from 100-level units in History
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for twelve weeks or equivalent of lectures and tutorials.

This unit will study Europe between 1789 and 1945. It will include a critical understanding of the development of European liberalism and the movements for parliamentary democracy in Europe and the development of the German problem in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development and impact of the Industrial Revolution in the Nineteenth Century and the significance of the secularisation of the European Mind in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will also be considered. The causes of the Two World Wars and the rise Fascism will also be covered.

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