Магистратура
2026/2027
Как мир стал единым (и как он распался): общества и государства с 1800 по 1939 год
ID 1161042
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Глобальная и региональная история / Global and Regional History)
Кто читает:
Департамент истории
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа гуманитарных наук и искусств
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 1 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
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
- By the end of the course students will learn to solve problems in professional activity on the basis of analysis and synthesis, assess the need for resources and plan their use while solving problems in professional activity, find, evaluate and use information from various sources, which is necessary to solve scientific and professional problems.
- Students will also learn to critically evaluate and rethink the accumulated experience (one’s own and that of colleagues).
- Students will be able to reflect upon professional and social activities in the international environment, written and oral communication in a foreign language, master special literature in a foreign language, determine the novelty and relevance of professional tasks on the basis of the modern condition of historical science, formulate and solve professional problems using interdisciplinary approaches.
- Students analyze the premises of the crisis of the old regime, the consequences of the change, and the potential of the 'old' polities to adapt and change, facing the challenges of the global revolution
- Students recognize the change in the perception of time in the 19th century, as well as ambiguities and inconsistencies of this process
- 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
- MOBILITY AND IMMOBILITY
- TECHNOLOGY, GLOBALIZATION, GLOCALIZATION
- TERRITORIALITY, IMPERIALISM, NATIONALISM
- HEGEMONY, POWER, RULE
- TIME, SPEED, RHYTHM
- OLD REGIME AND ITS DEMISE
- What is global history?
- WORLD CULTURE OR THE WORLD OF CULTURES
- INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION, ORIENTALISM AND OCCIDENTALISM
- Before and after global history: its ancestors, contemporaries, allies, and rivals
- The labor: working under slavery, imperialism, and capitalism
- The connection: technology, co-dependence, and infrastructures
- The expansion: its forms, excesses, and consequences
- Change of the tides: warfare, Atlantic revolutions, and written constitutions
- When and where was the nineteenth century?
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- A Companion to Global Environmental History, , 2012
- After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century, Rankin, W., 2016
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind, Axworthy, M., 2016