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This course offers an introduction to the history of modern Europe with special attention to the ways in which race, migration, and colonialism have shaped Europe and the modern world. We will discuss major landmarks in modern European cultural, political, social, economic and intellectual history: slavery, the slave trade, and abolition; the Enlightenment and the French Revolution; the Industrial Revolution, the rise of labor politics, and environmental degradation; imperialism, settler colonialism, and nationalism; the cataclysms of the First and Second World Wars; decolonization and postcolonial migration; and the politics of European integration after 1989. Readings will include primary sources from the period as well as scholarly works.