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Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Kate Fullagar
AAH Building, Level 2
by email appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
40cp at 1000 level or above OR (10cp in HIST or MHIS or POL or POIR or MHIX or POIX units)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
How did the eighteenth-century dream of a more enlightened, rational society end with the bloodbath of the French Revolution? How was Europe reconstructed after Napoleon's influential dictatorship? Why did this effort also, eventually, end in the horror is war? This unit explores such questions, tracing the revolutionary effects of Europe's experimentation with democracy, its discovery of fossil-fuel efficiencies, and its efforts to rethink the place of religion, women, the poor, and much else in society. The European nineteenth century witnessed the rise of what would later appear pillars of modernity, including left-right politics, nationalism, and secular science. It also, however, produced the very things that would threaten it from the inside out: an overweening sense of racial superiority and various forms of political and cultural extremism. |
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Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
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This unit is delivered via iLearn.
All readings for this unit will be uploaded into the appropriate section iLearn. MQ no longer prints readers for purchase. The textbook for this unit is John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, Vol 2 (3rd edition, 2010). There will be copies in the co-op for purchase, but I will also upload PDFs of each assigned chapter onto iLearn, so if you read better online then you will not need to buy the book. Some may prefer the paper version, however.
All essential readings per week will be covered by Merriman and the Unit Reader combined. This should come to around 40 pages per week: make time each week to allow for them!!!
See Week 1 in this reader for additional suggestions.
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