History 461/661 : Europe in the Eighteenth Century

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REQUIRED READING (for undergraduates) [available at UNLV bookstore]:

  1. Michelle Vovelle, Enlightenment Portraits (Chicago)           
  2. Margaret Jacob, The Enlightenment (Bedford)
  3. Isaac Kramnick, The Portable Enlightenment Reader (Penguin)
  4. James Van Horn Melton, The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe (Cambridge)
  5. A copy-pack of additional readings, “Eighteenth-Century Europe”

SUGGESTED READING (required for graduates):

  1. Jones and Wahrman, Age of Cultural Revolution (California)
  2. additional articles to be specified by the instructor

SUGGESTED READING: (for those new to the topic, choose 1 of these)

  1. John Merriman, Modern Europe (Yale)
  2. Isser Woloch, Tradition and Progress (Norton)