1. A Skinny
European
History

3. “The Black Death”

8. • 1389 – The Battle of Kosovo.
• 1453 – Conquest of
Constantinople.
• 1463 – Domination in Bosnia.
• 1683 – At the Gates of Vienna.

11. • Reordered much of Europe
along ideas of state
sovereignty.
• International political
boundaries made clear.
• Religion of choice defined by
state.
• Represents the first
diplomatic congress.

12. Marked by:
• Secularism.
• Rise of the Fourth Estate.
• French Revolution.

13. “Yonder sits the fourth
estate, and they are
more important than
them all.”

14. The best of times, the
worst of times

15. 1797-1815
The Revolution
Becomes
French
The ambitions of
empire turn a
concept of
universal human
rights into a
concept of
French-ness.

16. The Birth of Identity
Consciousness
• Napoleonic expansion.
• ‘Others’ in our midst.
• Saint-Simone & the Young
Europeans.
• National unifications.
• Colonial expansions.

17. • The French
• The Jews

20. Europe came to be
viewed as:
• Superior.
• Synonymous with human
progress.
All with the clever use of flags….

22. 1914
The “Great War,”
the “War to End All Wars”

23. Begging for nationalist extremism.

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