<p>Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Development of state institutions, culture, and society in Central Europe from end of Thirty Years’ War to end of Napoleonic Wars. Consideration of absolutism as political system, and baroque and Enlightenment cultures as new discourses on power and hierarchy. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

History

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Baroque and Enlightenment Germany

HIST 125A

4 units