Course

Towards war and revolution: 19th century Europe - ARTS2273

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of Humanities

Course Outline: School of Humanities Course Outlines

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1

Excluded: EURO2410, HIST2410, IRSH2410

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

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Description

Subject Area: History
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: European Studies



For better or for worse, nineteenth-century Europe shaped the modern world through the rise of industrial capitalism and the global conquest of colonial empires, turning European wars into world wars. This course focuses on the unique dynamism of nineteenth-century Europe but also its internal conflicts and contradictions which culminated in the bloodbath of the Great War and the eventual collapse of much of the old European order in revolution. This is a genuinely pan-European course, paying attention not only to England, France and Germany but also to the often neglected Mediterranean, East European, and Scandinavian "peripheries", and complements a focus on political developments with aspects of cultural and intellectual history.
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