History of Modern Europe- I (c. 1780-1939)

Paper Code:

24CHIS 512

Credits:

Contact Hours:

90.00

Max. Marks:

100.00

Objective:

Course Objectives:-

This paper shall provide a critical overview of the French Revolution, and acquaint the students with the repercussions of the revolution, both within and beyond France. It shall also trace the patterns and outcomes of social upheaval throughout Europe in the first half of 19th century. The debates on the development and impact of industrial capitalism shall be discussed. The birth of new social movements, political ideas and structures shall be contextualised within developing capitalism of the nineteenth century

Course Outcomes:

Course Outcomes (CO)

Course

Learning outcomes (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

24CHIS 512

History of Modern Europe- I (c. 1780-1939)

CO55-Critically assess the French Revolution and its repercussions on the European world.

CO56- Analyse the process of Restoration and Revolution of 1815-1848 and its impact

CO57- Develop Conceptual clarity about the Socio- Economic changes that occurred in the world in the Late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its impact.

CO58- Discern the varieties of Nationalism and the remaking of States in the 19th and 20th

centuries.

CO59- Delineate working class movements and Socialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries

CO60- Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks.

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

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Unit I:

The French Revolution and its European repercussions

[a] Crisis of the Ancient Regime

[b] Intellectual currents

[c] Social classes and emerging gender relations

[d] Phases of the French Revolution 1789-99

[e] Napoleonic consolidation –reform and empire

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Unit II:

Restoration and Revolution: c 1815-1848

[a] Forces of conservatism and restoration of old hierarchies

[b] Social, political and intellectual currents

[c] Revolutionary and Radical movements 1830-1848

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Unit III:

Capitalist industrialization and Socio-Economic transformation (Late 18th century to AD 1914)

[a] Process of capitalist development in industry and agriculture: case studies of Britain and Russia.

[b] Evolution and differentiation of social classes: bourgeoisie, proletariat, landowning classes and

peasantry.

[c] Changing trends in urban patterns

[d] Family, gender and process of industrialization

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Unit IV:

Varieties of Nationalism and the Remaking of States in the 19th and 20th centuries.

[a] Intellectual currents, popular movements and the formation of

national identities in Germany, Italy, Ireland and the Balkans.

[b] Specificities of economic development, political and administrative

reorganization – Italy; Germany

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Unit V:

Working class movements and Socialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries:

[a] Forms of protest: food riots in France and England in early nineteenth century

[b]Luddism

[c] Trends in labour movements: Britain, France and Germany

Essential Readings:

ESSENTIAL READINGS

Berger, S., ed. Companion to Nineteenth Century Europe 1789-1914. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Blanning, T.C.W. The Oxford History of Modern Europe. Oxford 1996, 2000.
Davies, N. Europe: A History. New York: Harper Perennial, 1998.
Hobsbawm, E. J. Age of Revolution. London: Weidenfield and Nicholson 1962; New York: Vintage 1996.
Hobsbawm, E.J. Age of Capital 1848-1875. London: Vintage, 1996.
McPhee, P. The French Revolution: 1789-1799. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Merriman, J. History of Modern Europe, From Renaissance to the Present in 2 volumes. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.

References:

SUGGESTED READINGS
Beaudoin, S.M., ed. The Industrial Revolution. New York: Wadsworth Publishing, 2003.
Blackbourn, D.The History of Germany 1780-1918:The Long Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1997.
Cipolla, Carlo,ed. The Industrial Revolution. The Fontana Economic History of Europe. London: Fontana Books 1973.
Furet, Francois. Interpreting the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
Geary, Dick ed. Labour and Socialist Movements in Europe before 1914. Oxford: New York: Berg, 1989.
Hobsbawm, E.J. “The Machine Breakers,” Past and Present 1(1952).
Horn, Jeff. “Machine Breaking in France and England During the Age of Revolution.”Labour/Le
Travail, 55 (2005).
Hunt, L. Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution. California: University of California Press, 1984.
Hunt, L., T. R Martin, B. H Rosenwein and B.G Smith.The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures,Volume II: Since 1500. New York: Bedford/St Martins: [2001] 2012.40
Kates, G.,ed. The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies. London: Routledge, 1998.
Kolakowski, L. Main Currents of Marxism, 1: The Founders.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981; New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2008.
Landes, J.B.Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the Revolution. New York: CornellUniversity Press, 1988.
Lang, S. Parliamentary Reform: 1785-1925. London: Routledge, 1999.
Lefebvre, G. The coming of the French Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.
Rude, George.The Crowd in the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Samuel, Raphael. “Workshop of the World: Steam Power and Hand Technology in Mid-Victorian Britain,”History Workshop, 3 (1977).
Schechter, R.,ed. The French Revolution. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
Sperber, J.The European Revolutions: 1848-1851. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994;2005.
Stearns, P.The Industrial Revolution in World History. Boulder: Westview Press, 2013.
Thompson, D.The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
Tilly, Louise. “The Food Riot as a Form of Conflict in France,”The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2, 1 (Summer, 1971).
Williams, Chris, ed .A Companion to Nineteenth–Century Britain. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.