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The Age of Revolution: Europe from the Reign of Terror to the First World War
Undergraduate | MAQ-MHIX221 | 2019
Course information for 2019 intake
View information for 2020 course intakeTrack the emergence of early western modernity against a backdrop of revolution. Document class formation, left-right politics and Enlightenment rationality. Find yourself exploring bourgeois life. Look to science and religion's changing relationship.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- -
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The Age of Revolution: Europe from the Reign of Terror to the First World War
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- understand and explain the key threads of European history from 1789 to 1914
- understand and explain this relationship of Europe to the rest of the world through the long nineteenth century
- produce written work on multiple aspects of European history based on primary and secondary sources
- construct persuasive historical arguments through cogent writing with appropriate references
- question and analyse sources
- engage in applying critical creative thinking
- communicate effectively in a range of written forms
- participate positively in group debates and discussions.
- Introduction
- Ancient Regimes
- The French Revolution
- Industrialisation
- Bourgeois Life
- Class
- Europe at Mid Century
- Religion & Science
- The Woman Question
- Nationalism
- Imperialism
- Fin de Siecle Crises
This subject was previously known as HSTX290 European History from the French Revolution to Freud.
How did the eighteenth-century dream of a more enlightened, rational society end with the bloodbath of the French Revolution? How was Europe reconstructed after Napoleon’s continent-wide dictatorship? Why did this effort also, eventually, end in the horror that is war? This subject explores such questions, tracing the revolutionary effects of Europe’s experimentation with democracy, its discovery of fossil-fuel efficiencies, and its efforts to rethink the place of religion, women, the poor, and much else in society. The European nineteenth century witnessed the rise of what would later appear pillars of modernity, including left-right politics, nationalism, and secular science. It also, however, produced the very things that would threaten it from the inside out: an overweening sense of racial superiority and various forms of political and cultural extremism.
- Blog Posts (20%)
- Major Essay (40%)
- Take-Home Exam (20%)
- Online (10%)
- Quizzes (10%)
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Entry requirements
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
MAQ-HSTX290 (Not currently available)
Others
Students should have studied some history at 100 levels prior to doing this subject. They should have good written English and essay writing skills.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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