May 21, 2025  
2025-2026 University Catalog 
    
2025-2026 University Catalog

HIS 3355 - The Long 18th Century: Europe in a Wider


3 Credits

This course examines ‘long Eighteenth Century,’ or the period from 1648 to 1815. It offers in-depth discussions on the economy, society, politics, warfare, diplomacy, empire, and ideas of the period stretching from the Scientific Revolution, thru the Enlightenment, and to Napoleonic Europe. We will seek to comprehend the fundamentally transformative impacts each had upon Europeans and the World.