BA VV31 Art History and History,
BA VV32 Art History and History (Including Placement Year),
BA VV38 Art History and History (Including Foundation Year),
BA VV3B Art History and History (Including Foundation Year and Year Abroad),
BA VV3C Art History and History (Including Year Abroad),
BA MV91 History and Criminology,
BA MV92 History and Criminology (Including Placement Year),
BA MV98 History and Criminology (Including Foundation Year),
BA MV9C History and Criminology (Including Year Abroad),
BA LV11 History and Economics,
BA LV18 History and Economics (Including Foundation Year),
BA V1L1 History and Economics (Including Placement Year),
BA VL11 History and Economics (Including Year Abroad),
BA QV21 History and Literature,
BA QV22 History and Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA QV2C History and Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA VQ12 History and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA LV31 History and Sociology,
BA LV32 History and Sociology (Including Placement Year),
BA LV38 History and Sociology (Including Foundation Year),
BA LV3C History and Sociology (Including Year Abroad),
BA V1W6 History with Film Studies,
BA V1W7 History with Film Studies (Including Placement Year),
BA V1W8 History with Film Studies (Including Foundation Year),
BA V1WP History with Film Studies (Including Year Abroad),
BA V1L2 History with Human Rights,
BA V1L8 History with Human Rights (Including Foundation Year),
BA V1LF History with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad),
BA V1LG History with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
BA V140 Modern History,
BA V144 Modern History (Including Foundation Year),
BA V148 Modern History (Including Placement Year),
BA V149 Modern History (Including Year Abroad),
BA VL12 Modern History and International Relations,
BA VL14 Modern History and International Relations (Including Placement Year),
BA VL18 Modern History and International Relations (Including Foundation Year),
BA VL1F Modern History and International Relations (Including Year Abroad),
BA LV21 Modern History and Politics,
BA LV22 Modern History and Politics (Including Placement Year),
BA LV28 Modern History and Politics (Including Foundation Year),
BA LV2C Modern History and Politics (Including Year Abroad),
BA VV15 Philosophy and History,
BA VV16 Philosophy and History (Including Placement Year),
BA VV51 Philosophy and History (Including Foundation Year),
BA VV5C Philosophy and History (Including Year Abroad),
BA VV5X Philosophy and History (Including Foundation Year and Year Abroad),
BA L903 Global Studies,
BA L904 Global Studies (including year abroad),
BA L905 Global Studies (Including Placement Year),
BA L908 Global Studies (Including Foundation Year and Year Abroad),
BA LR04 Global Studies and Modern Languages (Including Year Abroad),
BA L910 Global Studies with Politics,
BA L911 Global Studies with Politics (Including year abroad),
BA L912 Global Studies with Politics (Including Placement Year),
BA L913 Global Studies with Politics (Including Foundation Year),
BA L914 Global Studies with Human Rights,
BA L916 Global Studies with Human Rights (Including Foundation Year),
BA L917 Global Studies with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
BA L918 Global Studies with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad)
This team-taught, full-year module familiarises the students with the main factors and processes that made the modern globalized world we are living in today. It begins by identifying the roots of ‘Modernity’ and the rise of Europe up to the 18th Century. Subsequent weeks are taught in themed ‘blocks’. In the autumn term we focus on the major historical forces shaping the late 18th and 19th century world: firstly the revolutions in thought, economy and politics of this period, and secondly the growth and impact of nationalism and imperialism. The spring term considers the concept of modernity in the twentieth century, with blocks examining the impact and legacies of the First World War, and identifies key global shifts after 1945. The module structure and content of the lectures thus reflect the political, social, and cultural dimensions of the Making of the Modern World, and also its global character.
The module aims to introduce students to conceptual thinking by giving them an understanding of ideas such as ‘Modernity’, ‘Modernization’, and ‘Globalisation’, among others. Part of this is done through the discussion and understanding of different histories, different methodological approaches and different ways of interpreting the past.
Last, but not least, the module helps students with their academic skills, especially in making the transition to more independent study in the second and third year. Students are taught how to interpret primary sources, how to find and read relevant secondary literature, how to write essays, and how to organise their studies effectively.
The module aims to introduce students to conceptual thinking by giving them an understanding of ideas such as 'Modernity', 'Modernization', and 'Globalisation', among others. This is done through the discussion and understanding of different histories, different methodological approaches and different ways of interpreting the past.
The module helps students with their academic skills, especially in making the transition to more independent study in the second and third year. Students are taught how to interpret primary sources, how to find and read relevant secondary literature, how to write essays, and how to organise their studies effectively.
General reading list:
John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe From the French Revolution to the Present, (Vol.2) (New York and London, 1996).
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolutions, 1789-1848 (London, 1962).
Ida Blom, Catherine Hall and Karen Hageman (eds.) Gender Nations. Nationalism and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 2000).
David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, The Age of Revolutions in Global Context (Basingstoke, 2010).
Eric Wolf, Europe and the People Without History, (New York, 1982).
Philip D. Curtin, The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History (Cambridge, 1990).