History of the 20th Century L1RI

Code Cours
2223-ESPOL-HIST-EN-1003
Langue d'enseignement
Français, Anglais
Ce cours apparaît dans les formation(s) suivante(s)
Responsable(s)
Thomas RICHARD
Période

Présentation

Objectifs

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.

Présentation

The contents are divided in four units, which contain nine sessions of two hours. Each two-hour session will provide students with basic knowledge and concepts to understand the political, economic and social processes of the period, as well as a number of bibliographical references, from which they will be able to draw as their future careers develop.

Modalités

Modalités d'enseignement

The course is structured in nine lectures of two hours.

Évaluation
Examen : coeff. 100

Ressources

Bibliographie

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.|| 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.||