19th-Century European History

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course will cover political and international history European continent, the revolutionary break on the eve of the First World War. He proposes to go through the political history of this long nineteenth European century with lead movement - complex, contradictory, shocked and multiple - towards a form of political modernity. This is to propose a nineteenth century European reading as that times experience political forms, ways of thinking, ways of understand the world, organize and lead societies. On will report ruptures occur at the end of the 18th century, from the deep revision of social and cultural benchmarks, the transformation of institutions and the reconfiguration of conflicts on a continental scale. On will then after major political phenomena: the emergence of nations, the growth of states, the formulation of ideological alternatives, before questioning the apogee of the European power, which imposes itself as the barycenter of the circulations international organizations and set off to conquer the world. On the last try to discern the tensions that develop over the century, with progress and persistence, between and violence, between emancipation and domination, to rush to the new century. This story will be conducted at three scales: that of the continent worked by transversal dynamics; that of segments - and singularly nations - which compose it, of their diversities and their trajectories; that, finally, of a "world" history important a decentralized look on a space connected to the world, whose history is written in part from and in outside