HIST 1170 — Europe: Empires, Revolutions, Wars, and Their Aftermath

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath DDNUpath SIusually offered: fall, springtypical days: M/ThBostonTraditional

Examines how empires, wars, and revolutions have influenced the development of the modern world, focusing on Europe and Europe’s connections with the non–European world. Explores how wars and revolutions led to the emergence of modern concepts of sovereignty, the state, and citizenship and how global competition between states led to the emergence of empires. Traces the promise of allegedly liberating ideologies and the political and economic revolutions they fostered, repeated wars and their aftermaths, and the challenges of recent world developments viewed from the perspective of history. Explores how human diversity and difference have shaped modern societies through history and how human difference and multiculturalism have both fostered and posed challenges to civic sustainability. Interrogates the meanings of “modernity,” democracy and totalitarianism, capitalism and socialism, and globalization.

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Fall 20231244949%25.0
Spring 20241264854%22.0
Spring 20251464896%2.0
Summer B 20251192576%6.0
Fall 20251454894%3.0
Spring 202614848100%0.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 56% · T 9% · W 44% · Th 88% · F 0%

Common patterns: MWR (44% of sections), R (35% of sections), M (13% of sections), TR (9% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

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Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

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