Orientation in the historiography of global history
Analytic perspectives on development and modernization in historical and global dynamics
Expected Learning Outcomes
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
OLD REGIME AND ITS DEMISE
TIME, SPEED, RHYTHM
HEGEMONY, POWER, RULE
TERRITORIALITY, IMPERIALISM, NATIONALISM
TECHNOLOGY, GLOBALIZATION, GLOCALIZATION
MOBILITY AND IMMOBILITY
WORLD CULTURE OR THE WORLD OF CULTURES
INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION, ORIENTALISM AND OCCIDENTALISM
Assessment Elements
Семинарская работа
Презентация
Устный экзамен
Контрольная работа
Interim Assessment
2024/2025 3rd module
0.3 * Семинарская работа + 0.2 * Контрольная работа + 0.2 * Презентация + 0.3 * Устный экзамен
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
"Empire" by integration : the United States and European Integration, 1945-1997, Lundestad, G., 1998
A Companion to Global Environmental History, , 2012
A Cultural History of Ideas. Vol. 5: In the Age of Empire, , 2022
A global history of consumer co-operation since 1850 : movements and businesses, , 2017
After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century, Rankin, W., 2016
Alexis Papazian. (2018). Suny, Ronald G.: “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else”. A History of the Armenian Genocide, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2015. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.CD28A9C1
Being Israeli : the dynamics of multiple citizenship, Shafir, G., 2002
Beyond mobility : planning cities for people and places, Cervero, R., 2017
Burbank, J. (DE-588)141712732, (DE-576)164382186. (2010). Empires in world history : power and the politics of difference / Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper. Princeton, NJ [u.a.]: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.321297032
Capital mobility : the impact on consumption, investment and growth, , 2010
Children's literature and capitalism : fictions of social mobility in Britain, 1850-1914, Parkes, C., 2012
Colonial fantasies : towards a feminist reading of orientalism, Yegenoglu, M., 1998
Demography and infrastructure : national and regional aspects of demographic change, , 2011
Foucault, M., Burchell, G., Senellart, M., Ewald, F., & Fontana, A. (2009). Security, Territory, Population : Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=379853
From orientalism to postcolonialism : Asia, Europe and the lineages of difference, , 2009
German orientalism in the age of empire : religion, race, and scholarship, Marchand, S. L., 2010
Global cities. Vol.3: Infrastructures for cities in globalization, , 2013
Gordin, M. D. (2015). Scientific Babel : How Science Was Done Before and After Global English. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=961442
Hall, C., & Rose, S. O. (2006). At Home with the Empire : Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World. Cambridge University Press.
Learning across sites : new tools, infrastructures and practices, , 2011
Nelson, W. M., Hunt, L., & Desan, S. (2013). The French Revolution in Global Perspective. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=671401
Red cloud at dawn : Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly, Gordin, M. D., 2010
Shafir, N. (2014). The international congress as scientific and diplomatic technology: global intellectual exchange in the International Prison Congress, 1860–90. Journal of Global History, 9(1), 72–93. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022813000508
Sidney W. Mintz. (1986). Sweetness and Power : The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Penguin Books.
Temporality and film analysis, Mroz, M., 2012
Temporality and mediality in late medieval and early modern culture, , 2018
The Birth of Territory, Elden, S., 2013
Timespace : geographies of temporality, , 2001
Weber, A., & Gommans, J. (2011). “You turn a page and then there is suddenly something on a turtle”. An Interview with Jürgen Osterhammel. Itinerario, 35(3), 7–16. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115312000034
Zahra, T. (2014). Travel Agents on Trial: Policing Mobility in East Central Europe, 1889–1989*. Past & Present, 223(1), 161–193. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtu002
Глобальная история современной историографии, Иггерс, Г., 2012
Recommended Additional Bibliography
1971: a global history of the creation of Bangladesh, Raghavan, S., 2013
A global history of history, Woolf, D., 2011
A global history of the developing world, White, C. M., 2014
A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind, Axworthy, M., 2016
Преподаватель
Егоров Евгений Витальевич
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Learning Objectives
Expected Learning Outcomes
Course Contents
Assessment Elements
Interim Assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
Recommended Additional Bibliography
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