Бакалавриат
2023/2024
Глобальная история
Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»
Статус:
Курс обязательный (История)
Направление:
46.03.01. История
Кто читает:
Департамент истории
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа гуманитарных наук и искусств
Когда читается:
3-й курс, 2 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
28
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Global and comparative history aims to familiarize the students with the main events of global history of the modern period (long nineteenth century) and current methodology of research of global and comparative history. The main argument of the class is that global context matters and no domestic history should be explained just from within.
Learning Objectives
- This course aims at familiarising the students with the main events of global history of the modern period (long nineteenth century).
- The course also aims at getting students acquainted with methodology of global and comparative history, its advantages, drawbacks, and perspectives.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Traces the roots of global history from the 18th century to the present
- Navigates the main events, processes, and reasons of the global change that occured at the end of the 18th century.
- Analyzes different types of colonialism, expansion, territorial control.
- Critically evaluates the impact of various types of new techology that emerged in the 19th century.
- Navigates the differences between different forms of labor during the global age.
Course Contents
- What is global history?
- When and where was the nineteenth century?
- The end of the old regimes and its global dimension: North America.
- The end of the old regimes and its global dimension: France.
- The end of the old regimes and its global dimension: Central and South America.
- Industrial revolution.
- The age of empires.
- The Scramble for Africa.
- Great divergence? Nineteenth century history of China.
- Great convergence? Nineteenth century history of Japan.
- Midterm.
- The century of connections.
- The century of disconnections.
- The century of mobility.
- The century of immobility.
- The century of global cooperation.
- The world of global languages.
- La belle époque and memory of the century.
- Global history in national contexts.
