A survey of Western civilization within the context of world history from 1650 to present, this course emphasizes the historical process. Major topics include the Age of Absolutism; the Scientific Revolution; the Enlightenment; the era of revolutions; the modern state system and nationalism; the Industrial Revolution; imperialism, colonialism and racism; European/American dominance of the world; World War I, World War II and the Cold War; the twentieth-century revolutions; the Third World; the dissolution of the Soviet Union; and the role of ideas, the arts and literature.