CBCS 6th Semester CC:14 Syllabus
North Bengal University
HISTORY OF
MODERN EUROPE II (c. 1780 - 1939)
I. Liberal
Democracy, Working Class Movements and Socialism in the 19th and 20th
Centuries:
[a] The struggle for
parliamentary democracy and civil liberties in Britain.
[b] Forms of protest
during early capitalism: food riots in France and England: Luddites and
Chartism.
[c] Early socialist
thought; Marxian Socialism Ãģ the First and the Second International.
[d] German Social
Democracy, Politics and Culture.
[e] Christian
Democracy as a political and ideological force in western and central Europe.
II. The
Crisis of Feudalism in Russia and Experiments in Socialism:
[a] Emancipation of
serfs.
[b] Russian Populism
and Social Democracy.
[c] Revolutions of
1905; the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
[d] Programme of
Socialist Construction.
III.
Imperialism, War, and Crisis: c. 1880 -1939:
[a] Theories and
mechanisms of imperialism; growth of Militarism; Power blocks and alliances:
expansion of European empires - War of 1914 - 1918
[b] The post 1919
World Order: economic crises, the Great Depression and Recovery.
[c] Fascism and
Nazism.
[d] The Spanish
Civil War.
[e] Origins of the
Second World War.
IV.
Cultural and Intellectual Developments since circa 1850:
[a] Changing
contexts: [i] Notions of Culture [ii] Creation of a New public sphere and mass
media [iii] Mass education and extension of literacy.
[b] Creation of new
cultural forms: from Romanticism to Abstract Art.
[c] Major
intellectual trends:
[i]
Institutionalization of disciplines: History Sociology and Anthropology.
[ii] Darwin and
Freud.
[d] Culture and the
making of ideologies: Constructions of Race, Class and Gender, ideologies of
Empire.
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