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Twentieth Century Europe
Undergraduate | MAQ-MHIX2020 | 2020
Previously MAQ-MHIX220
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Trace the obsession with race and empire across Europe. Register the impact of fascism and communism. Learn about the wars that wracked the first half of the century.
Watch as the continent embarks down a road of political, cultural and social change.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 18 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Twentieth Century Europe
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will:
- have gained a sound understanding of European history in the twentieth century from a political, military, social and cultural perspective
- have come to appreciate the key turning points in this history
- have developed an understanding of the major political movements of the twentieth century
- have developed solid skills in historical research and investigation, while thinking analytically and creatively about problems.
- Modernity
- Colonialism
- The First World War
- The Russian Revolution and Stalin's Russia
- Fascist Italy
- The Spanish Civil War
- Weimar and Nazi Germany
- The Second World War
- The Holocaust
- The Cold War and the fall of communism
- Issues of migration and race in post-war Europe
- Terrorism in postwar Europe
This subject was previously known as MHIX220 Twentieth Century Europe.
Beginning with the First World War, this unit offers a political, social, cultural and economic overview of Europe's relations with the wider world. It traces the obsession with race and empire in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, and considers the postcolonial view that the twentieth century European civil wars were a result of European practices of colonialism turned inward. Was Europe indeed the 'dark continent' suggested by historian Mark Mazower? The crisis of European liberalism in the face of the Great Depression, Russian communism, the Spanish Civil War, fascism and Nazism, two world wars and the Holocaust support such a view, but the second half the century presents a more complicated picture. We look at the Cold War; the Americanisation of Europe and the fall of communism; the effects of decolonisation and postcolonial immigration on European societies; the breakdown of the postwar consensus and the rise of Islamist terrorism in the late twentieth century Europe.- Assignment 1 (20%)
- Assignment 2 (20%)
- Assignment 3 (20%)
- Non-Invigilated Exam (30%)
- Online Discussion (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-MHIX220-Twentieth Century Europe (no longer available)
Others
You should have studied some History or Politics at Level 1 before starting this subject.
Additional requirements
- Other requirements -
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Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateMAQ-ART-DEG
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