| Unit name | Global History |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HIST20112 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | I/5 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Professor. Mukherjee |
| 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.
Successful students will be able to:
1.the ability to understand critically and apply effectively key historical concepts in global history
2.an understanding of the development of globalisation as a concept
3.a critical awareness of how historians have approached the writing and research of global history
4.the ability to select pertinent evidence/data in order to illustrate/demonstrate more general historical points
5.the ability to identify a particular academic interpretation, evaluate it critically and form an individual viewpoint
Weekly:
2 x one-hour lecture
1 x one-hour workshop
1 x one-hour seminar
One 2500-word summative essay (50%) [ILOs 1-4]
One exam (50%) [ILOs 1-4]
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)
