Course info

(First semester of a two semester course. Continued as 15-HBIUC-ES-22 in the second semester.)

The Prehistory of the British Isles and Antiquity
The Cultural heritage of the Celts and Anglo-Romans
The Christianization of the British Isles
Celts, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings
The Normans and Plantagenets 
The Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses
The Early Tudors and the Reformation in England and Scotland
The Elizabethan Era
The Early Stuarts 
The English Civil War, Commonwealth and Cromwell
The Restoration, the Glorious Revolution and the United Kingdom
The Hanoverians 
The Anglo-French colonial wars of the 18th century
Victorian England: politics and society
The British Empire
Great Britain in World War I and during the interwar years
Great Britain in World War II 
Political history of the British Isles in the second half of the 20th century
Social and cultural history of the British Isles in the second half of the 20th century
British expansion in the Caribbean and North America
British India; Indian and Pakistan
Australia and New Zealand
Canada
Colonization in Africa
Decolonization
The Commonwealth of Nations, the heritage and remnants of the British Empire
Pre-Columbian cultures of North America  
The colonization of North America
Causes and events of the American Revolution
The American Constitution and the early years of the nation
The Frontier, Expansion, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracy
Compromises and causes of the Civil War
The Civil War and Reconstruction
Industrialization, immigration and the „Wild West” 
The Gilded Age, Progressivism and Teddy Roosevelt 
Wilson and the USA in World War I
The Roaring 20s and the Great Depression
The United States in World War II 
The United States during the Cold War
Later 20th century social and cultural history
The United States after the „End of History”