Sylabus
COURSE SYLLABUS FOR SUMMER SEMESTER 2013
TEMA - Economy and Politics in European History AHSV10268
Jíra Janáč
Jira.janac@gmail.com
This course is offered mainly to foreign students in the framework of TEMA program, and to MA students of SOKD. The course focuses on various aspects of the 20th century formation of Europe as an economic and political unit. Each class will be divided into two halves - a lecture followed by a discussion. Credit for the course will be granted on the basis of attendance, class participation, and the quality of term paper.
Class participation:
Participation on seminars is compulsory. More than two missed classes will automatically result in a failing grade. Students are responsible for reading the required material prior to the class for which it has been assigned. Readings will serve as the basis for class discussions. An active participation in the discussion and thoughtful reading of the assigned texts is a fundamental requirement of the course. Assigned readings will be available via SIS (ca 30 pages per week) a week in advance.
Term Paper:
Students will have to submit a term paper - either a book review, or an essay (MA students only) on the topic of your own choosing (requires consultation with the lecturer and his approval).
For a review pick a book from the reading list. MA students (a 3000 word alternative) are asked to compare and contrast author’s perspective on European history with Patel’s concept of Europeanization. Read an Introduction and at least one chapter focused on the 20th century.
The most important thing in choosing a paper topic is to make sure that your interest is sufficiently engaged so that you can sustain the effort necessary to produce a good work. Be sure to do some library work in March and then come in to see me to discuss your choice of topic. In the essay you should apply Patel’s Europeanization concept to your chosen topic.
The required length is 3000 words for MA students, 1000 for undergraduates (deadline May 8th 2012). The essay will be handed to the lecturer by the end of the semester via email.
Provide full references to the cited publications (preferably Chicago 15a).
Seminars:
Tuesday 14:10 - 15:40, room number 302b 01 19/2 introduction 02 25/2
Histories of (20th Century) Europe 03 5/3
Continuity and Discontinuity I.
Europe and the First World War 04 12/3
European (Universal?) International Regime
The League of Nations 05 19/3
Crisis of Liberalism
The Rise and Fall of Mitteleuropa 06 26/3
Continuity and Discontinuity II.
Memories of the Second World War 07 2/4
Postwar
Visions for new Europe 08 9/4
Cold War Europe I.
The Steal of (Eastern) Europe 09 16/4
Cold War Europe II.
The Debate on Americanization of Europe 10 23/4
European Integration Histories
Economic, International and Biographies 11 30/4
European Particularities
Postwar Europe in Global Perspective 12 7/5
EU-ization of Europe 13 14/5
Credit week
Reading list:
Hirschhausen, Ulrike v. and Klaus Kiran Patel. 2010." Europeanization in History: An Introduction" In: Conway, Martin and Klaus Kiran Patel Europeanization in the Twentieth Century. Historical Approaches.Basingstoke:Palgrave MacMillan.
Books:
Apor, Balázs, Péter Apor, and E. A. Rees. The sovietization of Eastern Europe : new perspectives on the postwar period. Washington, DC: New Academia Pub., 2008.
Badenoch, Alexander, and Andreas Fickers. Materializing Europe : transnational infrastructures and the project of Europe. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Berend, T. Iván. An economic history of twentieth-century Europe : economic regimes from laissez-faire to globalization. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Bideleux, Robert, and Richard Taylor. European integration and disintegration : east and west. London ; New York: Routledge, 1996.
Broadberry, S. N., and Kevin H. O'Rourke. The Cambridge economic history of modern Europe. 2 vols New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. (2nd volume)
Connelly, John. Captive university : the Sovietization of East German, Czech and Polish higher education, 1945-1956. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Conway, Martin, and Kiran Klaus Patel. Europeanization in the twentieth century : historical approaches. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Davies, Norman. Europe : a history. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Deák, István, Jan Tomasz Gross, and Tony Judt. The politics of retribution in Europe : World War II and its aftermath. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Delanty, Gerard. Inventing Europe : idea, identity, reality. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste. Europe : a history of its peoples. London, England ; New York, N.Y., USA: Viking, 1990.
Eichengreen, Barry J. Globalizing capital : a history of the international monetary system. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Hobsbawm, E. J. Age of extremes : the short twentieth century, 1914-1991. London, New York: Michael Joseph ; Viking Penguin, 1994.
James, Harold. Europe reborn : a history, 1914-2000. Longman history of modern Europe. Harlow, England ; New York: Pearson Longman, 2003.
Judt, Tony. Postwar : a history of Europe since 1945. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.
Kaiser, Wolfram, and Antonio Varsori. European Union history : themes and debates. Basingstoke ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Krige, John. American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe. Transformations. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006.
Loth, Wilfried. Experiencing Europe : 50 years of European construction 1957-2007. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009.
Maier, Charles S. Among empires : American ascendancy and its predecessors. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Mazower, Mark. Dark continent : Europe's twentieth century. London: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1998.
Mazower, Mark. Hitler's empire : how the Nazis ruled Europe. New York: Penguin Press, 2008.
Milward, Alan S. The European rescue of the nation-state. 2nd ed. London ; New York: Routledge, 2000.
Pagden, Anthony. The idea of Europe : from antiquity to the European Union. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Pells, Richard H. Not like us : how Europeans have loved, hated, and transformed American culture since World War II. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1997.
Shore, Cris. Building Europe : the cultural politics of European integration. London ; New York: Routledge, 2000.
Stone, Randall W. Satellites and commissars : strategy and conflict in the politics of Soviet-Bloc trade. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996.