The Historian's Craft. Topics in History. Repeatable to 12. Selected topics in history which allow the student to study a specialized subject. A survey of the development of Europe from the late Roman Empire to the Renaissance.
Emphasis is on political and intellectual developments.
The course will examine social, political, military, and economic developments in the context of the Western environment. An examination of the major issues in the trans-Mississippi West during the twentieth century. Social and Cultural, 19th Century. The colonial background is consdered briefly, but emphais is given to the first half of the nineteenth century. Competing regional trends in economic, social, political, and intellectual attitudes and institutions provide the dynamics for understanding the failure of nationalism during the antebellum period.