Second Year Module
Module Leader: Dr Edward Packard
Rationale and Content:
This module focuses on the history of Europe in the turbulent years between 1914 and 1945. Topics to be addressed include: the First World War; the Russian Revolution; the Great Depression; the rise of Fascism; the Spanish Civil War; Culture and Society and the Second World War. The role of structural as well as accidental factors will be examined alongside the ideological and economic motivations informing the chief protagonists, supporters and neutrals. Students will examine tensions between rulers and ruled, frictions between advocates of moral and physical force, issues around the legitimacy of revolutionary authority and through the use of primary sources reveal the mundane, as well as the dramatic, experiences and reflections of contemporaries. It will introduce students to primary source materials relating to the topics under investigation and will encourage students to assess competing historiographical interpretations of the period.
Learning and Teaching Strategies:
This module will be delivered through weekly lectures and seminars plus tutorial support. Where appropriate supporting resources will also be made available online. Seminar sessions will be designed to encourage student participation and will support students in strengthening their skills of presentation, discussion,argument and debate,and in evaluating,interpreting and using secondary and primary sources.
Assessment:
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Module
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Mode
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Weighting %
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Length
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Submission date
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Europe 1914-45
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Individual presentation
Document Commentary
Essay
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10
40
50
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10 minutes
2,000 words
2.500 words
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As appropriate
Week 8
Week 12
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Recommended introductory reading:
M.Mazower, Dark Continent, Europe's Twentieth Century, (London, 1998).
V.R.Berghahn, Europe in the Era of the Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950, (Princeton, 2006).
P.Preston, 'The Great Civil War 1914-1945', in T.C.W.Blanning (ed.), The Oxford History of Modern Europe, (London, 2000)
R. Vinen, A History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century, (London, 2002)
N.B. Advice on recommended book purchases for this module will be given to students at the start of term.
Further Reading:
C.L.Bertrand, Revolutionary Situations in Europe, 1917-1922 (Germany, Italy, Austria, Hungary), (London, 1977)
P.M.H.Bell, The Origins of the Second World War in Europe, 2nd ed (London, 1997)
M.Blinkhorn, (ed.), Fascists and Conservatives, (London, 1990)
M.Blinkhorn, Fascism and the Right in Europe, 1919–1945, (Harlow, 2000).
M.Blinkhorn, (ed.), Spain in Conflict, 1931-1939: Democracy and its Enemies London, (1986)
P.Boobbyer, The Stalin Era, (London, 2000)
F.Carsten, Revolutions in Central Europe, 1918-1919, (London, 1972, 1988).
F.Carsten, Revolution in Central Europe, 1918–1919, (London, 1972).
S.Davies and J.Harris, Stalin: a New History, (Cambridge, 2005)
S.Ellwood, The Spanish Civil War, (London, 1991)
R.J.Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich, (New York, 2004).
S.Fitzpatrick, (ed.), Stalinism, (London, 1999)
S.Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution, (London, 1982)
H.Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide from Euthanasia to Final Solution, (London, 1997).
D.Geary, European Labour Protest 1848-1939, (London, 1981)
N.Gregor, (ed.), Nazism, War and Genocide: New Perspectives on the History of the Third Reich,( Exeter, 2005).
P.Hayes, (ed), Themes in Modern European History, (London, 1992).
J.Horne, (ed.), State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War, (Cambridge, 1997).
J.Jackson, The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy, (London, 1988).
I.Kershaw, Hitler, The Germans, and the Final Solution, (London, 2008).
M.Lewin, The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Inter-War Russia, (London, 1985)
C.Maier, Recasting Bourgeois Europe. Stabilisation in France, Germany and Italy in the decade after World War I, (London, 1975)
R.Mallett, Mussolini and the Origins of the Second World War, (Basingstoke, 2003)
M.Mazower, Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe, (London, 2008)
A.Mombauer, The Origins of the First World War, Controversies and Consensus, (Harlow, 2001).
R.Overy, Russia's War, (London, 1998)
C.Read, The Stalin Years, (London, 2002)
S.Smith, The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, (Oxford, 2002).
R.Thurston, Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia 1934-1941, (Yale, 1996)