MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University

Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996


HSY2510

Germany 1815-1918: politics, ideas and society

Proposed to be offered next in 1999

Eleanor Hancock

8 points + Two lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week + Clayton + Prohibitions: HSY2510 in 1994, 1992 or earlier

Synopsis A history of Germany from the foundation of the German Confederation to the end of the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918. The subject will concentrate on the domestic and foreign implications of `the German question' as it developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth century - the development of German unity, the problems a united Germany caused for the European state system and the process of political and social change and development within the German states in this period. The subject will also study the German intellectual contribution to modern Europe in this period. The processes of unification, industrialisation and modernisation will be examined, as will the development of politics, society and foreign policy in Imperial Germany up to and including World War One and the German revolutions of 1918.

Assessment Written (4000 words): 40% + Examination (2 hours): 50% + Class participation/attendance: 10%

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