Actualités et agenda
Nos formations
Présentation
The course offers a general overview of the political, economic, social and cultural processes that have characterized the last century. From a temporal perspective, the course approaches the period following Eric Hobsbawm’s notion of the “short 20th century” as comprised by the beginning of World War I in 1914 and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. From a spatial perspective, the course aims to give a global and wide overview of historical developments that goes beyond the Euro-Atlantic space, including developments in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
The contents are divided in five (5) units, going from the outbreak of WW1 until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The content of each session will provide students with basic knowledge and concepts to understand the political, economic, social and cultural developments of the period, as well as a number of bibliographical references that they will be able to draw from in the development of their future career.
Modalités
The course is structured in nine (9) sessions of two hours. Given new circonstances, each session will consist of a 1-hour presentation (recorded in advance and available on Moodle) and immediately after, a 1-hour consultation session to discuss the contents of the session and address any doubts. Moreover, students will find other complementary materials online, such as images and a list of useful links.
Ressources
Browning, Christopher R. <i>Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland</i>, 2017.|| Carr, Edward Hallett. <i>The Russian Revolution: From Lenin to Stalin (1917-1929)</i>. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.|| Eley, Geoff. <i>Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000</i>. Oxford University Press, 2002.|| Fitzpatrick, Sheila. <i>The Russian Revolution</i>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.|| Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. <i>Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust</i>. New York: Vintage eBooks, 2010.|| Hobsbawm, Eric J. <i>Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991</i>. London; New York: Michael Joseph ; Viking Penguin, 1994.|| MacMillan, Margaret. <i>Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World</i>, 2002.|| Manela, Erez. <i>The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism</i>. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.|| Prashad, Vijay. <i>The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World</i>. A New Press People’s History. New York: New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2007.|| Smith, Neil. <i>The Endgame of Globalization</i>. New York: Routledge, 2005.|| Verdery, Katherine. <i>What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?</i>Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996.|| Westad, Odd Arne. <i>The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times</i>. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2007.