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MHIS321: Twentieth-Century Europe
This unit offers a political, social, cultural and economic overview of Europe's relations with the wider world. It traces the obsession with race and empire in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, and considers the post-colonial view that the 20th century European civil wars were a result of European practices of colonialism turned inward. Was Europe indeed the dark continent suggested by Mark Mazower? The crisis of European liberalism in the face of the Great Depression, Russian communism, the Spanish Civil War, fascism and Nazism, two world wars and the Holocaust support such a view, but the second half the century presents a more complicated picture. We look at the Cold War; the Americanisation of Europe and the fall of communism; the effects of decolonisation and post-colonial immigration on European societies; the growth and eventual erosion of the welfare state; civil rights, peace and environmental movements; the development of the EEC and the EU.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year Summer Session - Offered in January-February as part of Summer School program X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Hsu-Ming Teo |
| Prerequisites: |
30cp or (6cp in HIST or MHIS or POL units at 200 level, including 3cp in HIST or MHIS) |
| Corequisites: | |
| NCCW(s): | HIST270, HIST370 |
| Unit Designation(s): | |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Modern History, Politics, International Relations and Security |
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