HIST 361

Spring 2019 All Classes

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Euro Thght & Soc Since 1789

Credit: 3 hours.

Examines the reciprocal relationship between thought and society in western Europe from the French Revolution to the present.

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HIST 361 class schedule data for spring 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	41761	Lecture-Discussion	A	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	111 Gregory Hall	Liebersohn, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Section Info: Description: This course will focus on wealth and inequality in Europe since the late eighteenth century. What is the meaning of wealth? How does it shape status, power and culture in marketplace societies? How much has the distribution of wealth changed over time? To answer questions like these, we will concentrate on three books: Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), and Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014). The authors of these works were aware of the connections between wealth and every other aspect of human life. Following their lead, we will turn to many different kinds of sources - to paintings and film as well as fiction and social science - in order to understand wealth in its many dimensions.