Title of the course Comparative History of Empires Title of the Academic Programme Bachelor in History Type of the course Elective Prerequisites Foreign language (English), Introduction to the history of humanity, source and methods of historical study, general and historical geography. ECTS workload 5 Total indicative study hours Directed Study Self-directed study Total 76 114 190 Course Overview The objectives of the course is to familiarize students with the basic problems of the modern history of European Empires, its main historiographical trends and contemporary methodology used historians in its study. Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO) Indicative Course Content Empire: a word and its meanings, new imperial histories. British Empire, Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Empire, German Empire, French Empire, Imperial traditions, Classical and post-classical approaches to nationalism. The end of the modern empires. Teaching and Learning Methods The course consists of lectures (42 hours) and seminars (42 hours). Indicative Assessment Methods and Strategy Final grade=70% accumulated grade+30% exam Accumulated grade = 25% test+25% leading a discussion during seminar+50% seminar work Readings / Indicative Learning Resources Mandatory: Anderson B. “We study empires as we do dinosaurs,” Ab Imperio 3 (2003): 57–73; Gerasimov I, Glebov S., Kaplunovski A., Mogilner M. and A. Semyonov. “In search of a new imperial history,” Ab Imperio 1 (2005): 33–56; Gerasimov I., Glebov S., Kusber J., Mogilner M. and A. Semynov. “New imperial history and the challenges of empires,” in: I. Gerasimov, J. Kusber, and A. Semyonov, eds. Empire speaks out: languages of rationalization and self-description in the Russian empire (Leiden, 2009): 3–32; 4. Semyonov A. “Empire as a Context Setting Category,” Ab Imperio 1 (2008): 193–204. Lieven D. Empire: the Russian empire and its rivals from the 16th century to the present (London, 2002),3–27. Osterhammel J. The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, 2009). Chapter 8: Imperial Systems and Nation-States. The Persistence of Empires (Pp. 392–468). Lieven D, “Empire on Europe’s Periphery: Russian and Western Comparisons,” in: A. Miller and A. Rieber, eds. Imperial Rule (Budapest: CEU Press, 2004), 133–149. Russian translation: Д. Ливен, «Империя на периферии Европы: сравнение России и Запада» // А. Миллер, ред. Российская империя в сравнительной перспективе. – Москва: Новое издательство, 2004. Emrence C. “Imperial paths, big comparisons: the late Ottoman Empire,” Journal of Global History 3 (2008) Judson P. The Habsburg Empire: a New History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016); McMeekin S. The Berlin-Baghdad express: the Ottoman Empire and Germany’s bid for world power (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010). Heffernan M. “The science of empire. The French geographical movement and the forms of French imperialism,1870–1920,” in A. Godlewska and N. Smith (eds.), Geography and empire (Oxford, 1994) Cannadine D. “The context, performance and meaning of ritual: the British monarchy and the ‘Invention of tradition’, c. 1820–1977,” in E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger (eds.), The invention of tradition (Cambridge, 1983) Wortman R., Scenarios of power: myth and ceremony in Russian monarchy (Princeton, 1995–2000). Russian translation: Р. Уортман, Сценарии власти. – Москва, 2002. Gellner E. Nations and nationalism (Ithaca, 1983), 1–62 (Russian translation: Геллнер Э. Нации и национализм (Москва, 1991). С. 5–140); Brubaker R. “Ethnicity without groups,” (2002), 7–27 (Russian translation: Брубейкер Р. «Этничность без групп» // Он же, Этничность без групп (Москва, 2012). С. 22–60); Brubaker R. “Myths and misconceptions in the study of nationalism,” J. Hall, ed. State of the nation.Ernest Gellner and the theory of nationalism (Cambridge, 1998), 272–306 (Russian translation:Брубейкер Р. «Мифы и заблуждения в изучении национализма» // Ab Imperio 1 (2000): 204–224; Ab Imperio 2 (2000): 247–268). Barkey K. et all (eds.), After empire: multiethnic societies and nation-building. The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg empires (Boulder, 1997); Brown L.C. et all, “‘In search of imperial legacy: historians’ recollections and historiographic milestones,” Ab Imperio 4 (2005): 23–38 Darwin J. After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 (New York: Bloomsbury Press,2008). Course Instructor Lecturer Anton Kotenko