Western Civilization Since 1600

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• The struggle for constitutional government in England; the emergence of Austria, Prussia, and Russia; the eighteenth century struggle for power; the scientific revolution; the Enlightenment; literature, art and music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the French Revolution; Napoleon, France and Europe; the Congress of Vienna and the concert of Europe; romanticism; reform and revolution in Great Britain and France; the conservative order in Central and Eastern Europe; the agricultural and industrial revolutions; liberalism and socialism; the revolutions of 1848; national unification in Italy and Germany; the advance of democracy in Great Britain, France and Italy; autocratic Europe - Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia; European civilisation in the late nineteenth century; the age of imperialism; the coming of the First World War; the First World War; Soviet Russia under Lenin and Stalin; fascist Italy; Germany from Weimar to Hitler; Great Britain and France between the wars; the coming of the Second World War; the Second World War; the Cold War; the western democracies since 1945; the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since 1945; the revolt against colonialism; twentieth century thought and culture.