Europe and the World I, 1808-1918

4 credits

A survey of Europe’s relationship to the world from the end of the Atlantic slave trade to the end of the first world war. Topics include Europe and slavery, colonialism, the global origins of the industrial revolution, explorers and knowledge transfer, nation-building and the American civil war, transnational social movements (abolitionism, feminism, socialism), global modernism, international trade, imperialism abroad and at home, colonial wars and genocides, World War I as a global conflict.