Between the Protestant Reformation and the End of Napoleon in 1815, a new world took shape in Europe, a world that still moulds our own thoughts, beliefs and actions. This world was forged in fire and the course will look at the dark sides of this new age, the suffering at the receiving end of power struggles like the Seven Years War as well as at the splendor and centuries-bridging music, which we still enjoy today. Did you know, that Prussian soldiers tried to avoid killing enemy soldiers? We will have a glimpse at the different forms of the Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation, the Thirty Years War, as well as Europe's three great Revolutions, the Revolt of the Netherlands, the English Civil Wars and the French Revolution.
Class Summary
Class Time:
15 hours of learning!
Class taught in:
English
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We will explore mentalities and culture, having a deep look into ealry modern religiosity as well as at the dark sides of the Enlightenment, which was not so bright as many textbooks want us to believe.
Did you know that Rousseau was the first theoretician of the Berlin Wall and that Spanish enlightened officials attempted a cultural genocide of the Spanish gipsies? We will of course look beyond the borders of Europe and explose the making of European empires from the Spanish to the emerging British Superpower.
This 10 session course will cover all relevants fields of European history between 1492 and 1815. It will be a great preparation for higher education tests, especially AP European History, a thorough review for BA-PhD candidates and will at the same time allow unique insights into the history of Europe for all of us who are interested in history. We will work with lectures, videos and rare first-hand sources and engage in detective work analyzing them.
About the lecturer
Dr. Sascha Möbius is Senior Lecturer at the University of Louisville (KY, USA) / Quality Leadership University Panama, and was lecturer at the Otto-von-Guericke UniversitÀt Magdeburg and University of the Federal Army in Hamburg (Germany) looking back to several teaching awards and more than twenty years of teaching experience. He has written and edited several internationally celebrated volumes together with his wife Katrin on Early Modern European and World history.
