History 249 - EARLY MODERN EUROPE 1600-1815
Fall
2014
01
4.00
Ernest Benz
MW 07:30-09:00
Smith College
20447-F14
SEELYE 301
ebenz@smith.edu
A survey of the ancien regime. On behalf of the central State, war-making absolutists, Enlightened philosophes, and patriotic republicans assailed privileges. The era culminated in the leveling of European societies through the French Revolution and the industrial revolution.