History 249 - Early Modern Europe 1600-1815
Early Modern Europe 1600-1815
Spring
2023
01
4.00
Ernest Benz
TU TH 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Smith College
HST-249-01-202303
Seelye 312
ebenz@smith.edu
A survey of the ancien régime. 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.