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Paper Code: 
25CHIS 412
Credits: 
06
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This paper offers an in-depth historical analysis of economic, political and social transformations in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. Cyclical and secular trends in history, important political shifts, modern scientific views, and intellectual developments of the 17th and 18th centuries will be analysed closely. The paper will trace the development of socio-economic and technological forces which went into the making of the Industrial Revolution in late 18th century Britain. The role of trade and empire, colonial networks, and slavery will be examined to emphasize their contribution to industrial capitalism. The divergence debate will further help draw parallels and subsequent differences between Europe and Asia, and broaden our understanding of early modern Europe

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Course Title

25CHIS 412

Rise of the Modern West- II

(Theory)

CO43- Analyse the political, Social and Economic Dimensions of 17th Century of Modern World

CO44- Determine the major issues of English Revolution and Political and intellectual currents.

CO45- Trace the economic developments of European countries in the 17th and 18th centuries

CO46-Critically assess the European politics in the 18th century in Modern World.

CO47- Examine the Political and economic issues in the American Revolution and Industrial Revolution.

CO48- Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

Approach in teaching

 

Lecture, PowerPoint presentations, Classroom discussions

 

Interactive sessions,

various online resources, PowerPoint presentations and case studies

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

Online Quiz
 
18.00
Unit I: 
17th century European crisis

Economic, social, and political dimensions

18.00
Unit II: 
Revolutions

[a] The English Revolution: Major issues

[b] Political and intellectual currents

18.00
Unit III: 
European Economics

Mercantilism and European Economics; 17th and 18th centuries

18.00
Unit IV: 
European politics in the 18th century

Parliamentary monarchy; patterns of Absolutism in Europe.

18.00
Unit V: 
American and Industrial Revolution

Political and economic issues in the American Revolution.

Origins of the Industrial Revolution: divergence debate

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Black, Jeremy.Europe and the World, 1650-1830. London: Routledge, 2002.
  • Coleman, D.C., ed. Revisions in Mercantilism. London: Methuen Young Books, 1969.
  • Deane, Phyllis. The First Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.
  • Hall, A.R.From Galileo to Newton 1630-1720. London: Fontana-Collins, 1970..
  • Hobsbawm, E. J. Industry and Empire. London: Penguin Books, 1999.
  • Pagden, Anthony. The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • Parker, G. and L.M. Smith, eds. The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. London: Routledge, 1997.30
  • Parthasarthi, Prasannan. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Modern World System, Vol. II, Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World Economy, 1600-1750. New York: Academic Press,1980.
References: 
  • Anderson, M. S. Europe in the Eighteenth Century, 1713-1783. Oxford: Oxford
  • University Press, 1976.
  • vanBath, B. H. Slicher. The Agrarian History of Western Europe 500 AD to 1850. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963.
  • Canny, Nicholas, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. I,The Origins of Empire, British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • Fitzpatrick, Martin, et. al., ed. The Enlightenment World. London: Routledge, 2004.
  • Floud, Roderick, and D.N.McCloskey, ed. The Economic History of Britain Since 1700,
  • Vol. I: 1700-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Harris, Tim. Restoration: Charles II and his Kingdoms, 1660-1685. London: Penguin, 2006.
  • Hill, Christopher. Puritanism and Revolution: Studies in the Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th Century. London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997.
  • Hill, Christopher. The Collected Essays of Christopher Hill, Vol. 2, Religion and Politics in Seventeenth Century England. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1985
  • Kamen, Henry. European Society, 1500-1700. London: Routledge, 1996.
  • Mathias, Peter. The First Industrial Nation. London: Routledge, 2001.
  • Marshall, P. J., ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. II,The Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.
  • Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the
  • Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000
  • Scammell, G.V. The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion 1400-1715.London/New York: Routledge, 1989.
  • Stone, Lawrence. The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642. New York:
  • Routledge, 2002.
  • deVries, Jan. Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis 1600-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
  • deVries, Jan. The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behaviour and the Household
  • Economy, 1650 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Waites, Bernard. Europe and the Third World: From Colonization to Decolonisation,1550-1998. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.
  • Williams, Eric. Capitalism and Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,1944.

E-Resources

The English Revolution

Mercantilism and European Economics

European politics in the 18th century

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2025-26 [9]

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