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What was the cultural world which people in the period 1400 to 1750 inhabited? How did they respond to changes such as price rises, population growth and consumerism? Were their ideas about sexualities, families and childhood markedly altered by the religious changes known as the Reformation? These and other questions are addressed in this unit which focuses on society as a whole including the interactions between the elite and the masses. The unit considers issues of law and order, patterns of crime, the rise and decline of witchcraft prosecutions, and popular protests and uprisings. Students have the opportunity to work with documentary evidence from the period.
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In this 'hands-on' unit, students enhance their skills in effectively finding and working with a range of historical source materials. In seminars and workshops students become familiar with some of the key practical and theoretical issues and debates relating to the use of various sources (including photographs and film, archives, oral history and material culture). Strategies and tools for planning and managing research are also discussed. The skills in finding, analysing and managing information that are developed in this unit are required for advanced-level historical research, but are also highly transferable to many workplace situations. Some workshops are held off-campus. The unit is recommended for all students planning to proceed to honours in History or a topic in Historical Archaeology.
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Aggressive movements dedicated to racial renaissance, charismatic authoritarianism and social hierarchy marched across Europe during the years after World War I. By the onset of the Great Depression, they challenged the continent's established regimes everywhere. Only defeat in World War II and revelation of Nazi atrocities at Auschwitz halted the seemingly irresistible advance of these 'fascist' and 'national-socialist' movements. Even today, many fear that fascism will surge from its grave and once again terrorise the world. This unit studies the rise, fall and resurgence of European fascism and addresses the many mysteries that surround this history. Was fascism the descendent of earlier counter-revolutionary traditions, or was it the unique product of the 'Era of World Wars'? Can one equate Mussolini's Italian Fascists with Hitler's Nazis, or were these movements too different to be merged into a 'European fascism'? What might account for the explosion of fascist politics between the wars—collective psychosis, capitalist crisis or 'totalitarian' modernisation? And what about today's European ultra-Right? Does fascism have a future?
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In no other country's experience have the startling achievements and the sinister horrors of European civilisation co-existed so conspicuously. This unit provides an overview of German history from 1870 to the present and this difficult dichotomy is one of the unit's central themes. German nationhood, ideology, politics, economic and social developments evolved on a backdrop of war, revolution, dictatorship, division and democracy. The unit also covers the debates in historiography that have sought to make sense of this country's tormented recent past. No previous knowledge of European and/or German history is required.
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This unit familiarises students with the history of the American West, a region whose myths and history deeply influence American politics and culture. Students learn to interpret the American West's conflicted pasts, which weave together key features of the modern world—violent colonialism, territorial expansion, displacement but persistence of indigenous people; rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, and coexisting multiple international and domestic migration streams.
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The seventeenth century in Europe charts the rise of new political entities such as the economically dominant, maritime Dutch Republic, and the establishment of strong royal rule primarily through cultural patronage and symbolism by the Bourbons at Versailles and the Hapsburgs in Vienna. This unit investigates how music, art, literature and architecture all fashioned the seventeenth-century state and the power of the ruling elite within them, be they monarchs or the mercantile classes. The emergence of religious dominance by the Society of Jesus is explored in the context of increased missionary endeavours in Europe and across the world from Canada to China and Japan. The unit assesses the social, cultural and economic impact in Europe of the burgeoning slave trade, and new materials and ideas gathered from expanding maritime trade. This era sees European scientific culture develop through print communication, marked by a methodological shift from how to why in scientific thought. Despite developments in medical theory, diseases still had the potential to ravage cities, such as the 1665 plague in London. The demographics of morbidity and mortality, and cultural meanings of plague across Europe, are explored as well as the impact of city building works and changing public health measures. The unit employs original documents and artefacts across a broad geographical survey of Europe and in its interactions with the world beyond. The unit involves critical assessment of a wide range of types of seventeenth-century source material in order to develop an understanding of the main issues in seventeenth-century history from a body of complex material. Students work both collaboratively and independently to arrive at questions and conclusions about the period. Students have the opportunities to debate the historical narratives that have described the rise of the early modern state across Europe in the broader context of social, cultural, gender and intellectual history approaches to the period.
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Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries underwent fundamental change. This unit charts the country’s transformation from pre-industrial society to industrial powerhouse. It examines why Britain became the ‘workshop of the world’ and assesses the social and political consequences of industrial expansion. Among the topics investigated are the origins of economic take-off; urbanisation and social problems; developments in leisure; women’s role in society; British imperial policy; the struggle for the extension of the franchise and its impact on political life; and the challenge to Britain’s industrial supremacy in the late nineteenth century. The unit draws on primary source documents in order to help students critically assess the main economic, political and social developments. Students also engage with historiographical debates which surround the principal themes.
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This unit analyses two great revolutions which deeply influenced European history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917. The unit begins with a structural comparison—What was their pre-history? Why did they happen? Who made them? What were their consequences? Is there something like a life-cycle of revolutions? Then it looks at entanglements between the two—How much did the Bolsheviks know about the French Revolution? What did they learn from it? How did this knowledge influence their own behaviour as revolutionaries? Finally, it makes a comparison at a historiographical level—Did historians ask similar questions of both revolutions? How did their knowledge of one revolution affect their understanding of the other?
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This unit draws on a wide array of primary and secondary sources in order to provide a critical assessment of how crime was perceived, controlled and punished in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Its objectives are to (1) examine changes in crime and perceptions of crime over this period; (2) investigate the manner in which law enforcement and the criminal justice system were reformed in response to changing needs and perceptions; and (3) critically assess the competing theoretical frameworks which have been advanced to explain reform. Key questions addressed include—What did contemporaries regard as crime, ‘social crime’ and ‘social protest’? How did the eighteenth-century criminal justice system function and in whose interests? Why did prisons and transportation replace public executions as the cornerstone of the penal system? What historical explanations have been advanced to explain the transition from an unpoliced to a policed society? And how can long-term trends in crime, including class and gender variations, be explained? Britain forms the main focus of the unit, but comparisons are drawn with America and Australia.
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Between the seventeenth and the twentieth centuries, societies emerged in many parts of the world which deliberately gave 'white' people power over other 'races'. This unit begins by considering the material and intellectual origins of white supremacy. Emerging doctrines of racial differentiation and evolution are viewed against the background of colonisation, plantation slavery and inter-European warfare. The remainder of the unit is devoted to case studies of racial domination in a number of societies including South Africa, the United States of America, Kenya, Zimbabwe, New Zealand and Australia.
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This unit considers historical concepts and studies of nature and culture in Europe and its colonies between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Particular emphasis is placed on British and Dutch colonies (although other empires are also considered). The unit provides a comparative overview of the impact of European expansion on colonised lands and the human societies that they supported. Non-European attitudes to environment and land-use practices are also examined, with particular focus on Asian examples. Emphasis is placed on cultural approaches to environment, and the unit makes strong use of art and historical sources.
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This unit examines China's tumultuous history from the wellspring of Maoist revolution in 1930s Yen'an, the rapid spread of revolution throughout China, its culmination in the heady excesses of the Cultural Revolution and China's about-face in 1978 with the rise of market socialism under Deng Xiaoping and his successors. The unit introduces students to the revolutionary processes that forged a unified China and sowed the contradictions between Maoism and 'market socialism', so critical to understanding the social and political dynamics within The People's Republic today.
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This unit attempts to explain why Britain, after the American Revolution, built a vast new empire in Asia, Africa and the Pacific. The motives of empire building are examined along with the effects of Social Darwinism, racism and humanitarian paternalism. The unit pays particular attention to what has lately been called 'the theatre of empire' including the contrived splendour of Vice-Regal rule in India and popular images of empire in advertising, literature and missionary propaganda. The case in favour of British imperialism is measured against the critiques mounted by subject peoples and postcolonial theorists.
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This unit introduces students to major themes in the history of Southeast Asia from the early twentieth century to the present day. The focus is on social and political change in three countries of contrasting historical experience. Thailand retained its political independence in the age of European colonialism, modernised under the auspices of an 'enlightened' monarchy, and preserves traditional Thai social values in an environment of modern capitalism. Vietnam was colonised by France in the nineteenth century and achieved independence and national reunification in the twentieth century through a 40-year 'war of national liberation' which revolutionised Vietnamese society. Cambodia found itself, for most of its recent history, caught both culturally and politically in the periodic rivalry between Thailand and Vietnam.
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The revolutionary events of twentieth-century China spawned immense social change. This unit explores major developments in spatial history, urbanisation and the growth of markets, the rise of new social classes, changing gender relations, and the merging of Confucian and communist values. Topics covered include social mobility; business and labour; crime and delinquency; policing and law; health and disease; gender and sexuality; westernisation and 'spiritual pollution'.
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This unit examines (1) Indonesian responses to the impact of major religions including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Christianity; (2) environmental issues in Indonesian histories; (3) the nature and impact of regional and internal migrations; (4) Indonesian responses to early European, sea-based expansion by the Portuguese, Dutch and British (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries); (5) the nature and impact of colonialism under the Dutch (nineteenth to twentieth centuries); and (6) Indonesia’s experience of and contribution to major twentieth-century events.
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This unit explores nationalism and revolution in societies with a shared Confucian tradition, tracks the types of modernisation which emerged and considers the ongoing impact of these developments.
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