HIST 134C

Main Course

Economic History of Europe, 20th Century

Description

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Changing European economy after World War I and II and in 1990s; impact of fourth and fifth Industrial Revolutions; Great Depressions of century during 1930s, 1970s, and 1980s; and changing modernization strategies; import-substituting industrialization in peripheries; Soviet modernization dictatorship in East Central Europe and its collapse; integration process of second half of century and rise of European Union; modernization model at end of century. P/NP or letter grading.