HIST 422 Napoleon to Hitler: War & Society in Modern Europe
This course looks at the history of three major wars that changed European societies since the French Revolution: the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War. We will study the major questions related to these wars.
How did these wars begin? How were they fought out? What roles did military technology, strategy, the media and propaganda play? When and how did they end? Who participated, who were the victims? What were the major political, economic, social, cultural changes that the wars brought? What were the main differences between these major wars?