Rise of the Modern West- I

Paper Code: 
24CHIS 312
Credits: 
06
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objective :-

 The focus of the course is on transition and transformations in the economy, polity, and socio-cultural life from late medieval period to 1600 in various parts of Europe. The course shall critically examine the dynamics of economic and political power within Europe, and contact with the New World. The processes by which Europe’s economy benefited from colonial expansion and exploitation of indigenous and slave labour will be explained. Students shall also engage with continuities and changes in intellectual and artistic realms; the social and economic milieu which influenced development in religion; trends in state formation; and the relationship between state and religion. Students will be introduced to the concept of Eurocentrism in our understanding of the Rise of the Modern West

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course Outcomes (CO)

Course

Learning outcomes (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

24CHIS

312

Rise of the Modern West- I

CO31-Critically evaluate the problems and theories in the process of Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism

CO32- Develop conceptual clarity of the changes that occurred in the Modern World with focus on Renaissance

CO33- Examine the origin, course ,result and  impact of  Reformation and Counter Reformation

CO34- Trace the  economic developments of the 16thcentury

CO35-Assess the Emergence of European state system: with two case studies (Spain, France,

England, Russia).

CO36- Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Power Point Presentation

 

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

 

18.00
Unit I: 
Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism: problems and theories

[a]Early colonial expansion

[b] Motives, beginning of the era of colonisation

[c] Mining and plantation

[d] African slaves

 

18.00
Unit II: 
Rise of Modern World: Renaissance

[a] Renaissance in Italy: its social roots

[b] Humanism and its spread in Europe

[c] Art

 

18.00
Unit III: 
Reformation and Counter Reformation

Origins, course, and results of the European Reformation and  Counter Reformation in the 16th century

 

18.00
Unit IV: 
Economic developments of the 16th century

[a] Shift of Economic balance from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic

[b] Commercial Revolution

[c] Price Revolution.

 

18.00
Unit V: 
Emergence of European state system

Emergence of European state system: with two case studies (Spain, France,

England, Russia) with a focus on  interconnections between economy, society, religion, and polity

 

Essential Readings: 

ESSENTIAL READINGS

  • Anderson, Perry. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: Verso Edition, 1979.
  • Cipolla, Carlo M., ed. Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and HISnomy 1000-1700. New York: WW Norton & Co., 1994.
  • Davis, Ralph. The Rise of the Atlantic Economies. London: Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1973.
  • Elton, G.R.Reformation Europe, 1517-1559. London: Fontana Press, 1990.
  • Elliot, J.H., Europe Divided, 1559-1598. London: Fontana Press, 1990.
  • Hale, J. R. Renaissance Europe, 1480-1520. London: Fontana Press, 1990.
  • Hilton, Rodney, ed. TheTransition from Feudalism to Capitalism. London: Verso, 1985.
  • Wallerstein, Immanuel.The Modern World System, Vol. I, Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World Economy in the Sixteenth Century. New York: Academic Press, 1974.
  • Winks, Robin W. and Lee Palmer Wandel. Europe in a Wider World, 1350-1650. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

 

References: 

SUGGESTED READINGS

  • Aston, T.H. and C.H.E. Philpin, ed. The Brenner Debate, Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe. Cambridge/Delhi: Cambridge University Press, Ist South Asian Edition, 2005.
  • Braudel, Fernand. Civilization and Capitalism, 15th to 18th
  • Burke, Peter. The Italian Renaissance, Culture and Society in Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.Centuries, Vols. I, II, III.
  • Cipolla, Carlo M., ed. Fontana Economic History of Europe, Vols. II, III. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1976.
  • Dickens, A.G.German Nation and Martin Luther. London: Edward Arnold, 1974.
  • Dobb, Maurice.Studies in the Development of Capitalism. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963.
  • Greengrass, Mark. Christendom Destroyed, Europe 1517-1648. London: Penguin Books, 2015.
  • Gupta, P. S., ed. Aadhunik PaschimKaUday. Delhi: Delhi University, 1993.
  • Hill, Christopher. Reformation to Industrial Revolution. London: Penguin Books, 1969.
  • Kriedte, Peter. Peasants, Landlords and Merchant Capitalists: Europe and the World Economy, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  • Lee, Stephen. Aspects of European History 1494-1789. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1984 (2nd Edition )
  • Lynch, John. Spain under the Habsburgs, Vol. I, Empire and Absolutism,1516-1598. New York: New York University Press, 1984.
  • Mac Culloch, Diarmaid. Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490-1700. London:Penguin Books Ltd., 2004.
  • Mac Kenny, Richard. Renaissances:The Cultures of Italy, 1300-1600. London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  • Parry, J. H. Age of Reconnaissance. London: Weidenfield& Nicholson, 1963.26
  • Rich, E.E. and C.H. Wilson, ed. The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Vols. IV-V.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967, 1977.
  • Wood, E.M. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View. London: Verso, 2002 (rev. ed.).
  • Wolf, Eric R. Europe and the Peoples without History. Berkeley: University of California Press,
  • Woolfson, Jonathan, ed. Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.rev. ed.) 2010.

E-Resources

Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism: problems and theories

Rise of Modern World: Renaissance

Reformation and Counter Reformation

Economic developments of the 16th century

Emergence of European state system

 

Academic Year: 
2024-25
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