HIS 217 - Diplomats and Dreamers

3 credit(s)
This course studies European history from the end of the 19th century to the outbreak of World War I and through the postwar peace and the developments of the 1920s and 1930s. Private and official correspondence of diplomats and their governments is used as a starting point for a much deeper investigation into the society, culture, economy, and arts of the period. A study of the experience of the common soldier and those who remained at home, as well as of the diplomats and dreamers, elucidates the roles of nationalism, militarism, and ideology in shaping the world.

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