College Bulletin 2024-2025 
    
    Mar 18, 2026  
College Bulletin 2024-2025 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 002X. British History, 1066-1720: From the Crusades to the South Sea Bubble


This survey course will trace the history of medieval and early modern Britain from the Crusades to the eighteenth century. In addition to covering major events, the course will explore how the histories of sex, race, class, gender, climate, science, technology, empire, art, culture, capitalism, religion and philosophy shape and are shaped by British histories of wars, rebellion, state-building and imperial expansion.
Concentration: Empires and Nations
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: History
Department website: https://swarthmore.edu/history


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