1:00-2:15p MW BH242
Meets with HIST B200
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Western Civ. without the Civ. (sort of). This course will explore the
physical space of Europe, its peopling and the development of
languages, the growth of cities and the emergence of states. We shall
explore various arguments regarding how and when Europe moved from a
peripheral backwater to political and economic global hegemony. We’ll
consider the spread of European peoples to other areas of the globe
after 1492 and the mechanisms, violent and biological, by which they
came to replace indigenous peoples in some of those areas. We’ll
explore European colonization and imperialism to its peak in the late
nineteenth century when Europe dominated much of Africa and Asia.
We’ll conclude with European quasi-self destruction in two World
Wars, decolonization and the emergence of a new and unifying Europe
in the late twentieth century. Now you’re ready for Western Civ.