2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
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2017-2018 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]

HIST 204H - Age of Empire and Total War


Credits: Four
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
This Bascom Honors program seminar explores European politics, society, and culture during a period dominated by two world wars. Topics include imperialism and great power competition, the Great War, social reform and class conflict, the Russian Revolution, Nazism and Fascism, World War II and the Holocaust. We will pay significant attention to the ways in which religion, ideology, and nationalism appreciably shaped the lives of people living in an era of total war. Honors components and features of the course include its interdisciplinary nature as well as the high level of student-student and student-faculty interaction.