ENGLISH HISTORY: ENGLAND TO 1688

HISTORY/LEGALST 476

Introduction to the central historical developments of law and legal institutions in the European middle ages (400-1500).

HISTORY 124

Introduction to the major themes in the history of imperial Britain and the modern world. Themes include (but are not limited to) the changing patterns of life during those centuries, the development of modern identities and notions of the self, the emergence of a modern, commercial civil society, the rise of industrial capitalism, liberalism, the modern state, and imperial and total war.

HISTORY 707

Readings and/or research on the social, cultural, and political history of France from the late seventeenth century through the French Revolution.

HISTORY 101

American political, economic, and social development from the founding of the colonies to the Civil War.

ENGL 417

Linguistic and sociolinguistic change in English from its beginnings to the present.