Modern European history
BT BW BB BS BV DT GA PA BC BP BL BDT BJ BY
Proposed to be offered next in 1996
Subject value of 1.0 (6 points) * 3 hours per week * First semester * Gippsland/Distance
The subject is an introduction to modern European history. It takes as its focus the major developments in the social, economic and political affairs of western Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Three themes are studied in the course: the economic revolution (pre-industrial Europe, demographic, agricultural and industrial revolutions); revolution in political affairs (nationalism, imperialism, the Russian Revolution, depression, Nazi revolution); and revolution in warfare (World War I and II, and postwar Europe).
Assessment
Tutorial exercise (900 words): 20% * Essay (1600 words): 40% * Examination (2 hours): 40%
Prescribed texts
Gildea R Barricades and borders: Europe 1800-1914 OUP, 1987
or
Stearns P N and Chapman H European society in upheaval: Social history since 1750 Macmillan, 1992
Grenville J A S A world history of the twentieth century vol. 1, 1900-45: Western dominance Fontana, 1986
or
Gilbert F and Large D C The end of the European era 1890 to the present Norton, 1991