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POLS-393 Special Topics: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Spain

Offered: Occasionally 
Description: Biorhythms of a nation. The study of the largest empire ever, more powerful and expanding across Europe, Africa, America and Asia, but then haunted by its own decline until the late twentieth century. A survey of Spain’s history: imperial Spain, the decadence of the seventeenth century, the French invasion, the age of liberalism, the Civil War, the Franco era and the vibrant Spain of today, with its political changes, economic boom and cultural awakening. (3 Credits)