2018-2019 Academic Catalog

HI 316 History of Modern Germany (WI)

Modern Germany: From Blood and Iron to Nazis and Communists A history of modern Germany from 1815 to the present, covering the unusual path that Germany has taken to achieve modernity and find its place in the world. After covering the failed liberal revolutions of 1848 and Bismarck's authoritarian solution to German unification, the course illuminates the two world wars and the Cold War from the German perspective and delves into the recurrent questions of German unity, political functioning, militarism and economic development that bedeviled Germany, Europe, and the world.

Credits

3

Course Types

WI