Lecture and Seminar Timetable
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Autumn Term |
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Introductory week - No seminar but start reading! Core reading: Chapter 1, Blanning (ed.), John Roberts, ‘Revolution from Above and Below: European Politics from the French Revolution to the First World War’, pp.15-45 |
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Lecture: Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars Seminar: Writing the history of war Core reading: Sheehan, Prologue, ‘War and Peace in the Twentieth Century’, pp.xiii-xx |
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Lecture: The wars of German unification Seminar: War, citizenship, and the nation state Core reading: Sheehan, Ch. 1 ‘“Without War, There Would Be No State”’, pp.3-21 |
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Lecture: The birth of industrial warfare Seminar: The Russo-Japanese war Core reading: Chap. 2, Blanning (ed), Clive Trebilcock, ‘The Industrialization of Modern Europe, 1750-1914’, pp.46-75 |
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Lecture: Colonial warfare Seminar: “Martial Races” and demographic anxieties Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 3 ‘Europeans in a Violent World’, pp.42-65 |
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6 |
~ Reading Week: no lectures or seminars ~ |
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Lecture: Pacifism in the nineteenth century Seminar: Is war good for business? Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 3, ‘Pacifism and Militarism’, pp.22-41 |
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Lecture: The First World War and the totalization of warfare Seminar: How to fight on the Western Front (1914-1918) Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 4, ‘War and Revolution’, pp.69-91 |
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Lecture: Home fronts and social mobilization in WWI Seminar: Gender in wartime Core Reading: Blanning (ed.), Chap. 4, Pamela Pilbeam, ‘From Orders to Classes: European Society in the Nineteenth Century’, pp.101-125 |
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Lecture: Environmental Warfare Seminar: Disease, Disability, and the Humanitarian Impulse Reading: Blanning (ed.), Chap. 3, Hew Strachan, ‘Military Modernization, 1789-1918’, pp.76-100 |
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Spring Term |
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Lecture: Regulating and preventing war (1899-1939) Seminar: Remembering the First World War Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 5, ‘The Twenty-Year Truce’, pp.92-118 |
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12 |
Lecture: The Spanish Civil War Seminar: Fascisms and war Core Reading: Blanning (ed.), Chap. 6, Paul Preston, ‘The Great Civil War: European Politics, 1914-1945’, pp. 153-85 |
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Lecture: The Second World War: a "thirty years' war"? Seminar: Economic mobilization Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 6, ‘The Last European War’, pp.119-44 |
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Lecture: War and genocide in Europe (1915-1945) Seminar: Was the Holocaust an act of war? Core Reading: Blanning (ed.), Chap. 8, Richard Overy, ‘Warfare in Europe since 1918’, pp.214-33 |
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Lecture: Warfare and Welfare Seminar: The World Wars, Race, and Citizenship Core Reading: WATCH Days of Glory (2006) |
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16 |
~ Reading Week: no lectures or seminars ~ |
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Lecture: From war to civil wars: resistance, collaboration, and the aftermath of WWII Seminar: Violence and the transition to peace Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 7, ‘The Foundations of the Postwar World’, pp.147-71 |
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Lecture: A Cold War? Seminar: The meaning of deterrence Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 8, ‘The Rise of the Civilian State’, pp.172-97 |
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Lecture: Wars of decolonization Seminar: The War of Algerian independence Core Reading: Chap. 9, Richard Bessel, ‘European Society in the Twentieth Century’, Blanning (ed.), pp.234-59 |
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Lecture: The dividends of peace Seminar: The Euromissiles crisis Core Reading: Chap. 11, David Reynolds, ‘Europe Divided and Reunited, 1945-1995’, Blanning (ed.), pp.282-306 |
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Summer Term |
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Lecture: Yugoslavia and the return of war in Europe Seminar: Humanitarianism and Liberal interventionism Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 9, ‘Why Europe Will not Become a Superpower’ |
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22 |
Lecture: Terrorism and the transformations of war Seminar: Military history, the history of war, and Modern Europe Core Reading: Sheehan, Epilogue |
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23 |
Revision |
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