An examination of the ideals of the Enlightenment against the background of social and political change in eighteenth-century Europe.

This course looks at Enlightenment thought and the ways in which it was adapted by European monarchs like Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great to serve their goals of state building.

Exclusion: (HISB18), HIS244, HIS341Y1

European Area

0.5 pre-1815 credit