| source University of Canterbury (X) |
level |
department History (X) |
The history of British America and the U.S. from 1492 to the present.
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Drawing on the latest scholarship, this course is both a survey of New Zealand history from first Polynesian settlement until World War II and an experiment in historical perspective. HIST 128 challenges traditional interpretations of New Zealand's past. You will be introduced to different worlds of thought and encouraged to rethink and reimagine New Zealand history. The course addresses a range of themes including oral traditions, hopes for an ideal society, migration, war, and the balance sheet of empire.
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This course offers a wider perspective on New Zealand history since World War II by studying this small country in global context, with a particular focus on Australasia and the Pacific. It explores the ruptures in values, institutions, the economy and culture experienced by New Zealanders and Maori in the late twentieth century. How did these ruptures force New Zealanders to reconsider their British heritage, place in the world, relationships with Maori and core values and institutions that define them as New Zealanders?
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A survey course covering mainly Western Europe c.450 to c.1350 covering a range of themes including social and economic developments, government, religion and warfare.
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Why does France have the most bloodthirsty national anthem? What did Lenin mean by "all power to the Soviets"? Why do revolutions produce leaders like Napoleon or Stalin? This course explores the role of revolutions in the shaping of the modern world. After discussion of definitions and different historical approaches, the course comprises a series of case studies, including the American, French and Russian revolutions, their causes, courses and consequences.
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This course will explore some of the major ideas and events that have shaped world history since 1945. This was the era of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Arab-Israeli Wars. Among the topics to be covered are emergence of military dictatorships following decolonisation, the Kashmir crisis, Asian independence, communism in Cuba, Middle East oil, the collapse of the USSR, democracy movements and the growth of capitalism in China, Islamic militancy and America's current 'war on terror'.
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The course provides an introduction to Russian history from medieval times to the Revolution, with particular emphasis on the Russian autocratic tradition from Ivan the Terrible to the last Romanovs. It examines how Russian tsars and emperors single-handedly ruled the country's vast Eurasian expanses, often bringing about enormous political and social transformations by decree.
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