2010-2011 Academic Catalog 
    
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2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HGS 142 - Central Europe in the Long 19th century (1756-1914)

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion
The “heart of Europe”–mainly the territory of today’s Germany, Poland, and the former Habsburg Empire–is often seen as crucial for the fate of Europe. The course surveys the political, social, economic, and cultural history of Central Europe in a period which was shaped by struggles between ethnical and religious movements, monarchs and citizens, the bourgoisie and the working-class, as well as the rise of modern nation-states and imperialism that led to the First Word War.

Cross Listed: HIST 142 

Instructor: Mr. Kuehne

When Offered: Offered every year

Faculty: Thomas Kuehne, Ph.D. - Professor of History; Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History