Global History

2024/2025

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент истории

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

3-й курс, 3 модуль

Преподаватель

Егоров Евгений Витальевич

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Introductory course in global history

Learning Objectives

• 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
  0.2 * Контрольная работа + 0.2 * Презентация + 0.3 * Семинарская работа + 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

Authors

• EGOROV EVGENIY VITALEVICH