Europe was still the center of the “civilized world” in the nineteenth century, but nascent “globalization” was already at work due to expanding commercial ties, multinational alliances, and innovations in communications, transportation, and information sharing. This course will examine how European politics, society, and culture were transformed by industrialization, technology, political revolution, nationalism, and imperialism – and how Europe’s passage to modernity affected, and was affected by, the wider world in which it transpired. For better and for worse, the epochal transformations we associate with the nineteenth century established the socio-political framework for the world in which we now operative. Each lecture will include copious use of visual imagery, especially maps.