1. Lecture 1: Perspectives on Europe: Histories, Cultures, Identities
2. Lecture 2: The Renaissance in Western and World History
3. Lecture 3: The State as a Work of Art
4. Lecture 4: New Worlds, New Peoples, New Goods
5. Lecture 5: Revolutions in Religion: 1517-1555
6. Lecture 6: Cultural Diversity in Early Modern Europe
7. Lecture 7: Witchcraft and Religious War
8. Lecture 8: English Revolutions, Dutch Revolutions and Constitutionalism
9. Lecture 9: French and Other Absolutisms
10. Lecture 11: The Scientific Revolution in Europe and the World
11. Lecture 12: The Enlightenment: Daring to Know and its Difficulties
12. Lecture 13: The French Revolution (1789-1792)
13. Lecture 16: The Industrial Revolution: The origins of a new civilization
14. Lecture 17: Ideologies of Class, Gender, and History
15. Lecture 18: Revolution and Reform, 1815-1851
16. Lecture 19: Science, Medicine and Religion
17. Lecture 20: Making and Reforming Nation States
18. Lecture 21: Politics, Culture, and Society at the End of the 19th Century
19. Lecture 22: European Imperialism at its Zenith
20. Lecture 23: The Great War: Its Causes, Course, and Consequences
21. Lecture 24: The Russian Revolution
22. Lecture 25: The Failure of Politics Between the Wars
23. Lecture 26: World War Two: Holocaust and Rebuilding
24. Lecture 27: Remaking Europe East and West: Communism and Social Democracy

This course is an introduction to European history from around 1500 to the present. The central questions that it addresses are how and why Europe--a small, relatively poor, and politically fragmented place-- became the motor of globalization and a world civilization in its own right. Put differently how did "western" become an adjective that, for better and often for worse, stands in place of "modern".