HIST 120
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Western Worlds II: Emerging Modernity
This course introduces students to the formative influences and developments that have shaped the
modern Western world. It examines processes of state formation, scientific and technological change, political and
religious upheaval, capitalist development, and territorial expansion as elements in the modernization of the
West. The course explores the history of the West as a diverse congeries of peoples, ideas, and movements.
