História Moderna e Contemporânea
Código
1410-173
Unidade Orgânica
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Departamento
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Créditos
7,5
Professor responsável
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Língua de ensino
English
Objectivos
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Pré-requisitos
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Conteúdo
1. Expansion
- A comparison between Europe and the rest of the world prior to the European
Discoveries
- The Discoveries and the expansion of Europe
2. Ancien Regime
- The political features of the world prior to the liberal revolutions: absolute monarchies,
intra-continental empires and aristocratic republics
3. Liberty
- The destruction of the Ancien Regime and the revolutions that created the political
contemporary world: the English, the American and the French Revolutions
4. From Napoleon to 1848
´ The Napoleonic invasions and the destruction of the old political order of Europe; the
spread of liberalism and nationalism in Europe
5. Empire
- Growth, development and stabilization of European imperialism, from the beginning to
the ´scramble for Africa´ at the end of the nineteenth century. The crisis of 1914 and
World War I
6. Total war
- The two world wars, the decline of European imperialism and of European influence in
the world and the new American order
7. Democracy and totalitarianisms
- The communist and fascist challenges to Western liberalism and democracy:
- The 1917 Russian revolution
- Italian fascism (1922)
- Nazism (1933)
- The Cold War (1945-1991)
8. Prosperity
- Economic growth in the world, from the British industrial revolution in the eighteenth
century to current global prosperity: three centuries of economic change
9. Crises
- Crises in Western economies, from the Tulip speculation to the current financial
crisis, with special attention to the 1930s crisis
10. Equality
- The process of income equalization since the beginning of the twentieth century until
the 1980s. Its current increase
11. Globalization
- The current process of globalization: opening of economic frontiers, freedom of
exchange and world prosperity
Bibliografia
Bibliography:
Davies, Norman, Europe, A History, London, Pimlico, 1997.
Gaddis, John Lewis, The Cold War, London, Allen Lane-Penguin, 2005.
Ferguson, Niall, Empire, How Britain Made the Modern World, London, Penguin, 2003.
Johnson, A History of the American People, New York, Harper, 1997.
Jones, E.L., The European Miracle, Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of
Europe and Asia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Kenyon, J.P., Stuart England, London, Penguin, 1978.
Kindleberger, Charles P., Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, Wiley, 2005.
Landes, David, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, Why Some are so Rich and Some so Poor, New
York, Abacus, 1998.
Maddison, Angus, Monitoring the World Economy, 1820-1992, Paris, OECD, 1995.
Malia, Martin, The Soviet Tragedy, A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991, New York, The Free
Press, 1994.
Parker, R.A.C., The Second World War, A Short History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989.
Payne, Stanley G., A History of Fascism, 1914-1945, Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press,
1995.
Strachan, Hew, The First World War, A New Illustrated History, London, Pocket Books 2003.
Método de ensino
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Método de avaliação
Three assessment elements will be used: a final exam (which will weigh 60% in the final grade), a
group presentation to be made in class (weighting 20% in the final grade) and a written essay by
the same group (also weighting 20% in the final grade). All grading elements are compulsory.
The essay must be handed in until November 26 2011 and must have about 1500 words (i.e.
approximately 3 to 4 A4 pages).
In the second turn of exams (and only in the second term), the exam can weigh 100% in the final
grade, as long as the student decides not to use the other assessment elements. If the student has
already taken the first turn of exams he can no longer use the other assessment elements in the
second turn of exams and the exam will be worth 100% of the final grade. To pass the course
students must have at least 9.5 (out of 20 points) in the final exam.