2025/2026
Как мир стал единым (и как он распался): общества и государства с 1800 по 1939 год
Статус:
Маго-лего
Кто читает:
Департамент истории
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа гуманитарных наук и искусств
Когда читается:
1 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
30
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course aims to introduce students to the complex dynamics of core global processes from the early 19th century to World War II. The discipline is devoted to a critical rethinking of modern history as a teleological journey from empires to nation-states whose pasts are confined to clearly delineated boundaries. The course focuses on the history of the interconnections and intertwining of various social, political, and cultural processes on a global scale, with particular emphasis on the diversity of regimes of imperial transformations, (de)colonizations, and postcolonial situations and contexts. Our goal is a critical examination of theories and approaches toward the analysis of transnational developments in the epoch. Looking beyond empires and nation-states, the course also seeks to shed light on alternative agencies of transformation, including global networks, organizations, and exchanges.
Learning Objectives
- Orientation in the historiography of global history
- Analytic perspectives on development and modernization in historical and global dynamics
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students determine the complexity of the nature of power, its capacity to 'produce' as well as to 'destroy', its different vectors and mediums
- Students examine the capacities of the 19th century political imagination and its limits. They analyze the avenues of the geographical visions nurtured in the imperial institutions and concieved by nationalist agents.
- Students formulate the main tendencies of globalization prompted by the technological advancements.
- Students compare the prospects of mobility and immobility in different regions, contexts, and political frameworks.
Course Contents
- When and where was the nineteenth century?
- WORLD CULTURE OR THE WORLD OF CULTURES
- INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION, ORIENTALISM AND OCCIDENTALISM
- Before and after global history: its ancestors, contemporaries, allies, and rivals
- Change of the tides: warfare, Atlantic revolutions, and written constitutions
- The expansion: its forms, excesses, and consequences
- The connection: technology, co-dependence, and infrastructures
- The labor: working under slavery, imperialism, and capitalism
