THE MAKING OF THE MODERN
WORLD (HI 153)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi153/
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Lecture Times: Tuesdays at
11.00 & Wednesdays at 9.00.
Lecture topics cover social and
political history from the
enlightenment to the 1960s and
beyond.
Seminar provision: Weekly,
hour-long seminars.
This module contextualises
later modern history by
providing a framework in
which major historical
processes of the later
modern era are studied on
a world-wide scale. The
module moves away from
a eurocentric and narrative
focus and provides more
scope for historical
approaches based on,
among other things,
culture, identity and
environmental history.
THE MEDIEVAL WORLD (HI127)
www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi127/
Lecture Times:
Tuesdays at 1pm
Fridays at 11am
Seminars are held
fortnightly.
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The module is designed to
provide an introduction to
European history of the
later medieval and
Renaissance periods.
Themes include cultural life,
the family, government
and warfare, religious life,
and contacts with the
wider world.
The module makes extensive
use of documents and
electronic resources.
AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND
THE HOLLYWOOD CINEMA (AM 213)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/undergraduate/modules/am_213/
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Lecture Times:
Wednesdays 12-1
Topics this year will focus
upon the western and
gangster genres.
Seminar provision: 1.5
hours fortnightly.
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The module will consider
the trajectory of popular
and professional writing in
conjunction with how
Hollywood film has engaged
with the American past.
Readings, lectures and
discussions will consider
issues in historiography,
narration, ideology, genre,
race and gender.
BRITAIN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY:
NARRATING THE NATION (HI 149)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi149/
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Lecture
Times:
Wednesdays
10-11
Seminar
provision:
TBC
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This module explores the problem of
narrating the history of 20th century
Britain. It asks whether the story of
Britain in the 20th century is one of
the making, unmaking and remaking
of the nation. It examines the roles
of social change, war, empire, culture
and politics in the construction of the
nation; and it assesses the extent to
which class, gender, and race divided
as well as united the British people.
It concludes by examining the roles
of history and the heritage industry in
narrating the nation.
CARIBBEAN HISTORY (AM202)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/undergraduate/modules/am202
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Lecture times:
Thursdays at 12:00
Seminars: fortnightly
Lectures provide an
introduction to the history
of the Caribbean, from
Columbus to Castro.
This module will
introduce students to
several important
themes in Caribbean
history, including
slavery, emancipation
and race relations.
Other topics include the
development of
Rastafarianism and the
Cuban Revolution.
CARIBBEAN LITERATURE (AM 203)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/undergraduate/modules/am203/
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Lecture Times:
Wednesdays at 10-11am
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Topics include – ‘Remembering the past’, Novels
of childhood, Race and
gender
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Seminar provision:
Fortnightly.
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This course aims to explore a
selection of texts – novels, short
stories and poetry - from the
Anglophone Caribbean and to
show how their innovative nature
challenges traditional
assumptions about the canon of
English literature. The complex
web of relationships between
literature and language are
examined, showing how much
fictional writing can provide an
alternative perspective on
matters such as history, culture,
race and national identity.
DEVELOPING SOUTH ASIA: FROM
COLONIALISM TO GLOBALIZATION (HI 167)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/south_asia/
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Lecture Times:
Tuesdays at 3-4pm
Seminar provision:
Weekly seminars
on Wednesdays 11-12, 12-1.
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This module surveys the good, the bad
and the ugly in modern South Asian
history.
Highlights from the first term: Colonial
India – was empire all it was cracked up
to be? The British in Empire: Just a big
tiger hunt? Nationalist Struggle: Choose
your man – Gandhi or Nehru?
Highlights from term two: India and
Pakistan: Partition and its aftermath.
Development in independent India:
Those damned dams, the (not-so-green)
‘Green Revolution’ and Population
control. Independence and its
discontents – Armed Revolutionary
Marxists strike back.
FAMILY IN MODERN BRITAIN: HEALTH,
WELFARE AND SOCIAL CHANGE
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/family_in_britain/
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Lectures: Tuesdays 12-1
Lecture topics include ‘Class and the
family’, ‘Families, war and welfare’ and
‘Sexuality and deviance’.
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Seminars: Tuesdays 2-3 or 3-4.
Topics include ‘Race, religion and
family life’, ‘Delinquent youth’ and ‘The
21st century family’.
This module provides an
historical overview of the
family in Britain from
1860 to the present. It
considers the developing
interest of the state in the
health and social welfare
of its citizens; family
structure and the
economics of family life;
and the changing roles of
children, teenagers,
women, men and the
elderly within the family
and society.
FASHION IN HISTORY: A GLOBAL LOOK,
1300-2000 (HI 169)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/go/fashion (password: fashion1)
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Lectures:
Tuesdays 4.005.00pm
Seminars:
Tuesdays 2.30-4.00
or 5.00-6.30pm
(odd weeks)
Skills & activities:
- learn to analyse
visual and material
sources
- website construction
- films, museum visits
and more.
This course
examines the
material forms,
social contexts,
cultural practices
and economic
structures
underpinning
fashion and
fashionable
behaviour from the
medieval courts to
the present-day
globalising world.
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FRENCH SOCIAL HISTORY 1800-1914
(HI 104)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi104/
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Lecture Times:
Mondays at 11.00 – 12.00
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Example topics: In the second term it
covers a range of ‘newer’ issues which
have attracted social historians: women
and gender, leisure and consumerism,
crime, medicine and sport.
Seminar provision:
Mondays: 1.30–3.00, 3.00–4.30
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This course explores French
society in the century after
the French Revolution. It
begins by analysing class
relations between a declining
aristocracy, a rising
bourgeoisie and periodically
rebellious peasants and
workers. It then seeks to
explain the bitter conflicts
between Catholics and
anticlericals – not least in the
sphere of education.
Throughout it emphasises the
value of literature (eg. the
novels of Balzac and Zola) for
the social historian.
GANDHI AND INDIAN NATIONALISM (HI161)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi161
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Lectures:
Wednesdays,
11.00
Seminars:
Fortnightly, 1.5
hours.
Lecture topics cover
the history of
colonial India, the
emergence of Indian
nationalism, Gandhi’s
early career,
leadership of the
Indian Nationalist
movement, and his
complex
relationships with
other leaders and
political groups in
India.
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The module provides an
introduction to an important
aspect of modern Indian history.
Gandhi had his own vision of an
alternative society that was
based on mutual respect, a lack
of exploitation, non-violence and
ecological harmony. He was
opposed by the British colonial
rulers of India, Indian advocates
of violent resistance, right-wing
religious leaders and upholders
of caste privilege, communists
and socialists. These different
conflicts and their underlying
causes will be looked at in the
module.
GEORGIAN BRITAIN (H145)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi145a/
Lecture times:
Mondays 12 to 1pm
Lecture topics cover British cultural,
political, social and imperial history from
the late seventeenth century to the 1830s.
Seminar provision:
1.5 hours fortnightly.
This course provides an overview
of a period which has been
traditionally seen as a period of
transition bridging the early-modern
period and the birth of modernity.
But in addition to being a period of
transition, this was also an age of
profound conflict and contradiction.
The eighteenth century was the
great time of possibilities,
opportunities, new directions and
identities, but no certainties of what
these were to be. This course
provides an overview of these and
other themes of a society creating
itself anew.
HISTORY AND THE NOVEL,
1700 TO THE PRESENT DAY (HI 170)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/novel
Lecture Times: Mondays at 11.00
Lectures read social and political
history through the lens of the novel,
from the enlightenment to the
present.
Seminar provision: Fortnightly
one and a half hour-long seminars.
•the history of the novel, and
the novel in history
• theories of the novel and
historical development (class,
gender, nation)
• histories of reading in Europe
and the wider world
• novel-reading and modern
identity
• core novels studied by all
students, and the opportunity
to write about fiction of your
choice
•thematically related to
`Making of the Modern World’
HISTORY OF GERMANY (HI136)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi136/
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Lecture times: Mondays
at 3:00 – 4.00pm
Seminars: fortnightly
This module will provide a
general introduction to
modern German history.
The focus of the course is
on Germany’s internal
political, social and cultural
developments from the
German ‘Kaiserreich’ to the
Berlin Republic.
Lectures provide an
introduction to the history
of Germany, from 1862 to
the present.
HISTORY OF RUSSIA SINCE 1881 (HI107)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi107
Lecture: Monday 3.00-4.00
Seminars: fortnightly.
Main theme: Political, social,
cultural and economic history of
Russia/ USSR since 1881
focusing on the origins, events
and consequences of the 1917
revolution.
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This module develops themes of
political, social, cultural and
economic history raised in the
core course, in the context of
Russian history.
Term 1: Traditional Russia;
social and economic change in
the late nineteenth century; the
downfall of tsarism; the
revolution of 1917; Lenin and
Bolshevism.
Term 2: The Stalin revolution;
World War and Cold War;
Khrushchev’s reforms; the
Brezhnev years; perestroika;
post-Soviet Russia.
Prerequisites: none (but if you
know any Russian you can use it!)
IRELAND, 1852-1970: A POLITICAL AND
SOCIAL HISTORY (HI 143)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi143/
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Lecture Times:
Tuesdays at 4.00
p.m. in SO.18
Seminar provision:
Fortnightly, 1.5
hour-long seminars.
This option module examines the main
themes in Irish history from the Great
Famine to the outbreak of violence in
Northern Ireland. It explores the rise of
nationalism and unionism, the fight for
independence and the constitutional
tradition within Irish politics. This
module also offers an insight into the
social history of the country, looking at
the impact of emigration on Irish society
and the effect of religion on the political,
social and moral values of the country.
This module questions many of the
assumptions held about the Irish and
their history. How Catholic was Ireland
in this period? Did violent republicanism
offer the best solution to the ‘Irish
Problem’? Were the only options
available to Irish women motherhood or
emigration? Were the British to blame
for all our troubles?
MEDICINE, TECHNOLOGY AND IDENTITY
(HI 269)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi269/
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Lecture Times: Tuesdays
at 4:00 Lectures explore
social responses to medical
and technological innovations
from the enlightenment to the
present.
Seminar provision: Weekly,
hour-long seminars,
Tuesdays 5-6.
This module examines the
often controversial impact
of medical and
technological innovations
on personal, familial, and
social identities. From
fingerprinting to
genotyping, from adoption
to IVF, and from imperial
medicine to the Human
Genome Project, how have
medicine and technology
changed the way we
answer the question: ‘Who
do you think you are?’
NORTH AMERICA: THEMES AND
PROBLEMS (AM 102)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/undergraduate/modules/am102a/
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Lecture Times: Wednesdays
at 1pm.
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Lecture topics include:
American Revolution, Origins of
Slavery, Frontier and Empire,
the Civil Rights movement.
Seminar provision: 1.5 hours
fortnightly.
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The course introduces
students to topics in North
American history, from the
first European settlements of
the early 17th century to the
1990s. The focus is primarily
on the British North American
colonies and the USA,
although there is some
attention to New France and
Canada.
Students will consider some
major recurrent themes social history, race, class,
gender, and political
developments – by studying
key episodes and events.
POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN EASTERN
AFRICA 1800-1989 (HI268)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi268/
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Lecture times:
Wednesdays at 10:00
Lectures provide an
introduction to the
modern history of Eastern
Africa.
Seminars: fortnightly
This module will
introduce students to
the history of Eastern
Africa from the era of
slavery, through
colonialism to the postcolonial period.
Themes discussed
include identity,
conflict, urbanisation
and development.
THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF FOOD IN
LATIN AMERICA (AM 205)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/undergraduate/modules/am205
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The course is taught by a
weekly lecture-seminar.
This will take place on
Wednesdays 12-2 p.m. in
MS.03
The module explores
the history of food in a
Latin American context.
It examines the origin,
production and
significance of foods
such as sugar,
chocolate, maize and
alcohol, and it
encourages students to
think about the cultural
meaning of food in the
formation of national,
racial, sexual and social
identities.
THE GLOBAL CITY: THE EMERGENCE OF A
METROPOLITAN CULTURE IN PARIS, LONDON,
NEW YORK – 1750-1920 (HI 166)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/global_city/
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Lecture Times:
Thursdays 9-10am.
Seminar provision:
fortnightly in 1.5
hour seminars.
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This module explores the cultural
history of emergent world cities
during two centuries, focusing on a
theme that has emerged as central
in recent study of modern urban
history: the metropolitan culture.
From the history of cultural capital
in Europe to the analysis of the
global-city, students are
encouraged to think beyond
national and to question the
cultural centrality of metropolis.
Through the case studies of three
cities the challenge of globalisation
in its first phase of emergence will
be examined.
THEMES AND PROBLEMS IN LATIN
AMERICAN HISTORY (AM 101)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/undergraduate/modules/am101/
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Lecture Times:
Tuesdays, 2-3pm
Seminar provision:
Fortnightly, usually
on Wednesdays,
Thursdays or
Fridays.
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This team taught course offers an
introduction to the history of Latin
America, focusing on the worlds
created by the interaction of Spanish
and Portuguese settlement with
Native American peoples and African
slaves. Themes include the Inca and
Aztec Empires; the Spanish Conquest
of Mexico and Peru; the beginnings of
African slavery; the revolutions of
independence; Latin America in the
global economy; the Mexican and
Cuban Revolutions; the development
of modern Brazil, Argentina, Chile and
Central America.
WAR, REVOLUTON, AND REFORM:
CHINA SINCE 1900 (HI 168)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/war_revo
Lecture Times:
Tuesdays at 10.00
Seminars: Weekly, hourlong seminars
This module examines
the interrelated themes
of war, revolution, and
reform and traces how
they impacted the
complex process of
forging new social,
political, and cultural
identities in China from
the late 1800s through
the present day.