Unit name | Global History |
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Unit code | HIST20112 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Rob Skinner |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of History (Historical Studies) |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit offers an introduction to the central topics and debates in the vibrant field of global history. Starting from the medieval era and coming up to the contemporary age, this unit traces the various ways in which the world was, and continues, to be connected, and how historians have engaged with these developments. This emergent field of history considers the possibilities, tensions, and limits of a global perspective on the past. It engages with key concepts such as networks, globalisation, colonialism, migration, and collaboration, and with social, political, economic, and environmental themes - from nationalism, internationalism, and humanitarianism to port-cities, frontiers, and borderlands.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
Classes will involve a combination of long- and short-form lectures, class discussion, investigative activities, and practical activities. Students will be expected to engage with readings and participate on a weekly basis. This will be further supported with drop-in sessions and self-directed exercises with tutor and peer feedback.
1 x Timed Assessment (100%) [ILOs 1-5]; 1 x Formative Timed Assessment [ILOs 1-5]
Maxine Berg (ed.), Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballantyne (eds), World History From Below: disruption and dissent, 1750 to the present (Bloomsbury, 2016)
A.G. Hopkins (ed.), Global History: Interactions between the universal and the local (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
Bruce Mazlish and Akira Iriye (eds), The Global History Reader (Routledge, 2005)