2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
    Apr 19, 2024  
2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HST 255, 256 - The British Empire/Commonwealth: Rise & Decline, c. 1760-c. 2000

1 course unit
This course focuses on Britain’s period of imperial hegemony, roughly from the Napoleonic Wars to the aftermath of World War II.  In addition to Britain’s changing international role and influence, the course treats the reforms of the 1820s and 1830s which created the governing institutions of modern Britain and looks at the slow unraveling of the “United” Kingdom in the twentieth century and its ambivalent position in the European Union today and tomorrow.
Meets general academic requirement HU (and W when offered as 256).



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