Modern History of Europe

Year
0
Academic year
2022-2023
Code
01020031
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The curricular unit will operate on a theoretical-practical basis: presentation of content, clarification of doubts and orientation of tasks by the teacher; preparation, presentation and discussion of tasks by students.

Learning Outcomes

By concluding this course, students should be able to draw a comprehensive picture of European History from the late eighteenth century to the present; to identify both introductory bibliography and works focusing on specific aspects of modern history (allowing them to develop narratives on key processes of European modernity, such as the development of industrial capitalism, the public sphere, nationalism, the Nation-State, colonialism); to problematize the chronology of modernity (through concepts such as “the long nineteenth-century” or the “short twentieth-century”), as well as the geographical diversity of the European continent, including disctinctions between North and South, Western and Eastern Europe, centre and periphery, or metropole and colony. Students will therefore develop skills from a broad range of disciplines and mobilize their acquired knowledge in the study of the past to the understanding of our own present.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. From the French Revolution to the Springtime of Nations

2. Industrial Revolution and the making of the working class

3. Bourgeois society

4. European Empires

5. "Fin de siècle" and "Belle Époque"

6. European Civil War

7. The two Europes

8. The end of colonialism

9. European Union

10. Crises.

Head Lecturer(s)

Clara Isabel Calheiros da Silva de Melo Serrano

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 20.0%
Exam: 80.0%

Bibliography

Arrighi, G. (2010). The Long Twentieth Century. Verso.

Berman, M. (1982). Tudo o que é sólido se dissolve no ar. A aventura da modernidade. Edições 70.

Evans, R. J. (2017). The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914. Penguin.

Getz, T. (2018). The Long Nineteenth Century. 1750-1914. Bloomsbury.

Habermas, J. (1989). The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Polity Press.

Hobsbawm, E.J. (1992). A Era das Revoluções. Editorial Presença.

Hobsbawm, E.J. (2008). A Era dos Extremos. O breve século XX. Editorial Presença.

Judt, T. (2007). Pós-guerra. História da Europa desde 1945. Edições 70.

Kershaw, I. (2016). To Hell and Back. Europe 1914-1949. Penguin.

Kershaw, I. (2018). Roller-Coaster. Europe 1950-2017. Penguin.

Mazower, M. (1999). Dark Continent. Europe's Twentieth Century. Penguin.

Traverso, E. (2016). Fire and Blood. The European Civil War. 1914-1945. Verso.