HIS-261 War and Society in the Age of Total War: WWI and WWII
This course focuses on the era of global conflict between 1870 and 1945, from the Franco-Prussian War, the trenches of the 1914-18 Western Front and the beaches of WWII Normandy and Iwo Jima, to the Holocaust, the birth of the atomic age and the dawn of the Cold War. The First and Second World Wars were history's first modern, industrial, technological, multidimensional, total and global conflicts, whose legacy continues to shape the world today. Of particular interest will be the crucial interaction between war and society: how societies give form and substance to modern conflict and how wars, in turn, spark dramatic social, political and economic change. This course carries SUNY General Education credit in World History and Global Awareness.
Prerequisite
ENG-101 or Permission of Instructor