Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jaroslav Ira, Ph.D. (28.09.2018)
History of Europe is usually presented as a uniform story or a sequence of general themes. This course takes a different approach and looks at European history in comparative perspective. Selected themes in early modern and modern social, political and cultural history of Europe, such as the state building and nation formation, revolutions, urbanization, or cultural movements are discussed in regard to similarities, differences and specificities in various parts of the continent. The course covers the period from sixteenth to nineteenth century. The main objective of the course is to broaden the students’ knowledge of European history, to provide them with a more complex and differentiated view of European development that is not reduced only to the Western European pattern and to get the students acquainted with the basic principles of comparative approach in exploring and teaching European history.
The course has been primarily designed for the bachelor students of the Erasmus+ program. A profound knowledge of European history is therefore not required.
But at least the indermediate knowledge of English is highly recommended.
Preliminary structure of the course:
01 Introduction
02 Renaissance and reformation
03 Early modern urbanization
04 State formation and absolutism
05 Enlightenment and romanticism
06 Revolutions and reforms
07 Old and new social structure
08 Political systems and citizenship
09 Formation of nation states (big nations)
10 National movements (small nations)
11 Modern European urbanization
12 Varieties of economic development
13 Final test
Podmínky zakončení předmětu - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jaroslav Ira, Ph.D. (31.08.2016)
The course will be concluded by the final test.
Literatura - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jaroslav Ira, Ph.D. (03.09.2016)
General histories of Europe:
DAVIES Norman: Europe: a history. London: Bodley Head, 2014. MERRINAM, John. A history of modern Europe: from the Renaissance to the present. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. WIESNER, Merry E. Early modern Europe, 1450-1789. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Specialized volumes on particular themes:
PORTER, J. R., - TEICH, Mikuláš (eds).: The renaissance in national context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. GOODY, Jack: Renaissances: the one or the many?. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. SCRIBNER, Robert W., (ed.): The reformation in national context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. CLARK Peter: European cities and towns: 400-2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. HOHENBERG Paul - LEES, Lynn Hollen: The making of urban Europe 1000-1994. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995 EPSTEIN, S.R.: Town and country in Europe, 1300-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. LENGER, Friedrich. European cities in the modern era, 1850/1914. Leiden: Brill, 2012. MILLER Jaroslav: Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate 2008. TILLY, Charles: Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1992. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1992. TILLY, Charles: European revolutions: 1492-1992. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995 BLOCKMANS, W. P. - TILLLY, Charles (eds.): Cities and the Rise of States in Europe, A.D. 1000 to 1800. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. ANDERSON, Perry: Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: Verso Edition, 1979. SCOTT H.M., ed. Enlightened Absolutism: Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe, University of Michigan Press, 1990. REINALTER, Helmut, - KLUETIG, Harm (eds.): Der aufgeklärte Absolutismus im europäischen Vergleich. Wien: Böhlau, 2002. WILSON, Peter H.: Absolutism in Central Europe. London: Routledge, 2000 GREW, Raymond (ed.) Crises of political development in Europe and the United States. Princeton: Princeton University, 1978. IM HOF, Ulrich. Das Europa der Aufklärung. München: C.H. Beck, 1993. PORTER, Roy, TEICH, Mikuláš (eds). The Enlightenment in National Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. GREENFELD, Liah. Nationalism: five roads to modernity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992. HROCH, Miroslav. Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. TEICH, Mikuláš, PORTER, Roy (eds). Romanticism in national context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. JENSEN, Lotte, LEERSSEN, Joep, MATHIJSEN, Marita (eds). Free access to the past: romanticism, cultural heritage, and the nation. Leiden: Brill, 2010. BEREND, T. Iván. An economic history of nineteenth-century Europe: diversity and industrialization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. BEREND, T. Iván. History derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the long nineteenth century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
