HIST 001U. First-Year Seminar: Defining an “Us”: Nationalism, Culture, and Identity in Modern Europe

This course examines how populations come to see themselves as part of a single community. That community, in some instances called a nation or nation-state (or even an empire), can demand loyalty. It can also be exclusionary, sometimes with violent outcomes. We will examine the emergence of cultural and national identities in 19th- and 20th-century Europe through thematic investigations of four intertwined ways such identities might be forged: land, language, symbols, and blood.
Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Empires and Nations
Social sciences.
Writing course.
1 credit.
Eligible for Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Empires and Nations
Fall 2024. Brown.
Spring 2026. Brown.
Catalog chapter: History
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history

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