THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD (HI 153)

THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD (HI 153)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi153/

Lecture Times: Tuesdays at 11.00 & Wednesdays at 9.00.

Lecture topics cover social and political history from the enlightenment to the 1960s and beyond.

Seminar provision: Weekly, hour-long seminars.

This module contextualises later modern history by providing a framework in which major historical processes of the later modern era are studied on a world-wide scale. The module moves away from a eurocentric and narrative focus and provides more scope for historical approaches based on, among other things, culture, identity and environmental history.

THE MEDIEVAL WORLD (HI127)www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi127/

Lecture Times:Tuesdays at 1pmFridays at 11am

Seminars are held fortnightly.

The module is designed to provide an introduction to European history of the later medieval and Renaissance periods.

Themes include cultural life, the family, government and warfare, religious life, and contacts with the wider world.

The module makes extensive use of documents and electronic resources.

AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE HOLLYWOOD CINEMA (AM 213)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/undergraduate/modules/am_213/

Lecture Times: Wednesdays 12-1

Topics this year will focus upon the western and

gangster genres. Seminar provision: 1.5

hours fortnightly.

The module will consider the trajectory of popular and professional writing in conjunction with how Hollywood film has engaged with the American past. Readings, lectures and discussions will consider issues in historiography, narration, ideology, genre, race and gender.

BRITAIN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: NARRATING THE NATION (HI 149) http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi149/

Lecture Times: Wednesdays 10-11

Seminar provision: TBC

This module explores the problem of narrating the history of 20th century Britain. It asks whether the story of Britain in the 20th century is one of the making, unmaking and remaking of the nation. It examines the roles of social change, war, empire, culture and politics in the construction of the nation; and it assesses the extent to which class, gender, and race divided as well as united the British people. It concludes by examining the roles of history and the heritage industry in narrating the nation.

CARIBBEAN HISTORY (AM202)http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/undergraduate/modules/am202

Lecture times: Thursdays at 12:00

Seminars: fortnightly Lectures provide an

introduction to the history of the Caribbean, from Columbus to Castro.

This module will introduce students to several important themes in Caribbean history, including slavery, emancipation and race relations. Other topics include the development of Rastafarianism and the Cuban Revolution.

CARIBBEAN LITERATURE (AM 203) http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/undergraduate/modules/am203/

Lecture Times: Wednesdays at 10-11am Topics include – ‘Re-

membering the past’, Novels of childhood, Race

and gender Seminar provision:

Fortnightly.

This course aims to explore a selection of texts – novels, short stories and poetry - from the Anglophone Caribbean and to show how their innovative nature challenges traditional assumptions about the canon of English literature. The complex web of relationships between literature and language are examined, showing how much fictional writing can provide an alternative perspective on matters such as history, culture, race and national identity.

DEVELOPING SOUTH ASIA: FROM COLONIALISM TO GLOBALIZATION (HI 167)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/south_asia/

Lecture Times: Tuesdays at 3-4pm

Seminar provision:Weekly seminars on Wednesdays -

11-12, 12-1.

This module surveys the good, the bad and the ugly in modern South Asian history.

Highlights from the first term: Colonial India – was empire all it was cracked up to be? The British in Empire: Just a big tiger hunt? Nationalist Struggle: Choose your man – Gandhi or Nehru?

Highlights from term two: India and Pakistan: Partition and its aftermath. Development in independent India: Those damned dams, the (not-so-green) ‘Green Revolution’ and Population control. Independence and its discontents – Armed Revolutionary Marxists strike back.

FAMILY IN MODERN BRITAIN: HEALTH, WELFARE AND SOCIAL CHANGE

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/family_in_britain/

Lectures: Tuesdays 12-1Lecture topics include ‘Class and the family’, ‘Families, war and welfare’ and ‘Sexuality and deviance’.

Seminars: Tuesdays 2-3 or 3-4.Topics include ‘Race, religion and family life’, ‘Delinquent youth’ and ‘The 21st century family’.

This module provides an historical overview of the

family in Britain from 1860 to the present. It

considers the developing interest of the state in the health and social welfare

of its citizens; family structure and the

economics of family life; and the changing roles of

children, teenagers, women, men and the

elderly within the family and society.

FASHION IN HISTORY: A GLOBAL LOOK, 1300-2000 (HI 169)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/go/fashion (password: fashion1)

Lectures:Tuesdays 4.00-5.00pm

Seminars:Tuesdays 2.30-4.00 or 5.00-6.30pm (odd weeks)

Skills & activities:- learn to analyse visual and material sources- website construction- films, museum visits and more.

This course examines the

material forms, social contexts,

cultural practices and economic

structures underpinning fashion and fashionable

behaviour from the medieval courts to

the present-day globalising world.

FRENCH SOCIAL HISTORY 1800-1914 (HI 104)


Lecture Times: Mondays at 11.00 – 12.00

Example topics: In the second term it covers a range of ‘newer’ issues which have attracted social historians: women and gender, leisure and consumerism, crime, medicine and sport.

Seminar provision:Mondays: 1.30–3.00, 3.00–4.30

This course explores French society in the century after the French Revolution. It begins by analysing class relations between a declining aristocracy, a rising bourgeoisie and periodically rebellious peasants and workers. It then seeks to explain the bitter conflicts between Catholics and anticlericals – not least in the sphere of education. Throughout it emphasises the value of literature (eg. the novels of Balzac and Zola) for the social historian.

GANDHI AND INDIAN NATIONALISM (HI161)http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi161

Lectures: Wednesdays, 11.00

Seminars: Fortnightly, 1.5 hours.

Lecture topics cover the history of colonial India, the emergence of Indian nationalism, Gandhi’s early career, leadership of the Indian Nationalist movement, and his complex relationships with other leaders and political groups in India.

The module provides an introduction to an important aspect of modern Indian history. Gandhi had his own vision of an alternative society that was based on mutual respect, a lack of exploitation, non-violence and ecological harmony. He was opposed by the British colonial rulers of India, Indian advocates of violent resistance, right-wing religious leaders and upholders of caste privilege, communists and socialists. These different conflicts and their underlying causes will be looked at in the module.

GEORGIAN BRITAIN (H145)http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi145a/

This course provides an overview of a period which has been traditionally seen as a period of transition bridging the early-modern period and the birth of modernity. But in addition to being a period of transition, this was also an age of profound conflict and contradiction. The eighteenth century was the great time of possibilities, opportunities, new directions and identities, but no certainties of what these were to be. This course provides an overview of these and other themes of a society creating itself anew.

Lecture times: Mondays 12 to 1pm

Lecture topics cover British cultural, political, social and imperial history from

the late seventeenth century to the 1830s.

Seminar provision: 1.5 hours fortnightly.

HISTORY AND THE NOVEL, 1700 TO THE PRESENT DAY (HI 170)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/novel

Lecture Times: Mondays at 11.00 Lectures read social and political history through the lens of the novel, from the enlightenment to the present.Seminar provision: Fortnightlyone and a half hour-long seminars.

•the history of the novel, and the novel in history• theories of the novel and historical development (class, gender, nation)• histories of reading in Europe and the wider world• novel-reading and modern identity• core novels studied by all students, and the opportunity to write about fiction of your choice•thematically related to `Making of the Modern World’

HISTORY OF GERMANY (HI136)http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi136/

Lecture times: Mondays at 3:00 – 4.00pm

Seminars: fortnightly

This module will provide a general introduction to modern German history. The focus of the course is on Germany’s internal political, social and cultural developments from the German ‘Kaiserreich’ to the Berlin Republic.

Lectures provide an introduction to the history of Germany, from 1862 to the present.

HISTORY OF RUSSIA SINCE 1881 (HI107)http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi107

Lecture: Monday 3.00-4.00Seminars: fortnightly.

Main theme: Political, social, cultural and economic history of

Russia/ USSR since 1881 focusing on the origins, events and consequences of the 1917

revolution.

This module develops themes of political, social, cultural and economic history raised in the core course, in the context of Russian history.

Term 1: Traditional Russia; social and economic change in the late nineteenth century; the downfall of tsarism; the revolution of 1917; Lenin and Bolshevism.

Term 2: The Stalin revolution; World War and Cold War; Khrushchev’s reforms; the Brezhnev years; perestroika; post-Soviet Russia.

Prerequisites: none (but if you know any Russian you can use it!)

IRELAND, 1852-1970: A POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY (HI 143)


Lecture Times: Tuesdays at 4.00 p.m. in SO.18

Seminar provision: Fortnightly, 1.5 hour-long seminars.

This option module examines the main themes in Irish history from the Great Famine to the outbreak of violence in Northern Ireland. It explores the rise of nationalism and unionism, the fight for independence and the constitutional tradition within Irish politics. This module also offers an insight into the social history of the country, looking at the impact of emigration on Irish society and the effect of religion on the political, social and moral values of the country. This module questions many of the assumptions held about the Irish and their history. How Catholic was Ireland in this period? Did violent republicanism offer the best solution to the ‘Irish Problem’? Were the only options available to Irish women motherhood or emigration? Were the British to blame for all our troubles?

MEDICINE, TECHNOLOGY AND IDENTITY (HI 269)


Lecture Times: Tuesdays at 4:00 Lectures explore social responses to medical and technological innovations from the enlightenment to the present.

Seminar provision: Weekly, hour-long seminars, Tuesdays 5-6.

This module examines the often controversial impact of medical and technological innovations on personal, familial, and social identities. From fingerprinting to genotyping, from adoption to IVF, and from imperial medicine to the Human Genome Project, how have medicine and technology changed the way we answer the question: ‘Who do you think you are?’

NORTH AMERICA: THEMES AND PROBLEMS (AM 102)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/undergraduate/modules/am102a/

Lecture Times: Wednesdays at 1pm.

Lecture topics include: American Revolution, Origins of Slavery, Frontier and Empire, the Civil Rights movement.

Seminar provision: 1.5 hours fortnightly.

The course introduces students to topics in North American history, from the first European settlements of the early 17th century to the 1990s. The focus is primarily on the British North American colonies and the USA, although there is some attention to New France and Canada.

Students will consider some major recurrent themes - social history, race, class, gender, and political developments – by studying key episodes and events.

POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN EASTERN AFRICA 1800-1989 (HI268)


Lecture times: Wednesdays at 10:00

Lectures provide an introduction to the modern history of Eastern Africa.

Seminars: fortnightly

This module will introduce students to the history of Eastern Africa from the era of slavery, through colonialism to the post-colonial period. Themes discussed include identity, conflict, urbanisation and development.

THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF FOOD IN LATIN AMERICA (AM 205)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/undergraduate/modules/am205

The course is taught by a weekly lecture-seminar.

This will take place on Wednesdays 12-2 p.m. in MS.03

The module explores the history of food in a Latin American context. It examines the origin, production and significance of foods such as sugar, chocolate, maize and alcohol, and it encourages students to think about the cultural meaning of food in the formation of national, racial, sexual and social identities.

THE GLOBAL CITY: THE EMERGENCE OF A METROPOLITAN CULTURE IN PARIS, LONDON,

NEW YORK – 1750-1920 (HI 166) http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/global_city/

Lecture Times: Thursdays 9-10am.

Seminar provision: fortnightly in 1.5 hour seminars.

This module explores the cultural history of emergent world cities during two centuries, focusing on a theme that has emerged as central in recent study of modern urban history: the metropolitan culture. From the history of cultural capital in Europe to the analysis of the global-city, students are encouraged to think beyond national and to question the cultural centrality of metropolis. Through the case studies of three cities the challenge of globalisation in its first phase of emergence will be examined.

THEMES AND PROBLEMS IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY (AM 101)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/undergraduate/modules/am101/

Lecture Times:Tuesdays, 2-3pm

Seminar provision:Fortnightly, usually

on Wednesdays, Thursdays or

Fridays.

This team taught course offers an introduction to the history of Latin America, focusing on the worlds created by the interaction of Spanish and Portuguese settlement with Native American peoples and African slaves. Themes include the Inca and Aztec Empires; the Spanish Conquest of Mexico and Peru; the beginnings of African slavery; the revolutions of independence; Latin America in the global economy; the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions; the development of modern Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Central America.

WAR, REVOLUTON, AND REFORM: CHINA SINCE 1900 (HI 168)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/war_revo

This module examines

the interrelated themes of war, revolution, and reform and traces how they impacted the complex process of forging new social, political, and cultural identities in China from the late 1800s through the present day.

Lecture Times: Tuesdays at 10.00Seminars: Weekly, hour-long seminars

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THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD (HI 153)