Lesson plan / POLITICAL HISTORY-I

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 5.0
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Compulsory
Mode of Delivery Blended (face-to-face & Distance Learning)
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The course is intended to provide the participants with a comprehensive and systematic knowledge on political history of the World. The course also aims to provide the students with a framework of analysis that allows them to study the main facts and notions of political science and international relations from a historical perspective.
Course Content The course is planned to provide students with fundamental notions on historical facts from the American Revolution to the end of the First World War. The economic and social framework of political developements will be stressed within the course. The historical narrative, which will cover the main political events and facts of the 18th & 19th &20th century, will be reinforced with data on social, economic, and ideological structures of the period.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction: Contents, Conceptual Framework and Methodology of the Course
2The World in 18th Century - American Revolution
3The French Revolution
4Aftermath of the French Revolution - First Empire Era (1789 -1815)
5The Vienna Congress and the Restoration Era
6QUIZ 1 EXAM The Revolution of 1830
7The Revolution of 1848
8The World in 19th Century
9MIDTERM EXAM
10The American Civil War
11Bismarckian Era
12QUIZ 2 EXAM The Age of Empire (1875 - 1914)
13The First World War
14OVERVIEW

Resources

Bayly, C. A. (2004) The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons, Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Blanning, T. C. W. (ed.) (2000) The Oxford History of Modern Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Harman, Chris (2002) A People’s History of the World, London: Bookmarks.

Hobsbawm, Eric J. (1996) The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848, New York: Vintage Books.

Hobsbawm, Eric J. (1995) The Age of Capital, 1848-1875, New York: Vintage Books.

Hobsbawm, Eric J. (1989) The Age of Empire 1875-1914, New York: Vintage Books.

Lee, Stephen J. (2007) Aspects of European History, 1789-1980, London: Routledge.

Woodruff, William (2002) A Concise History of the Modern World, 1500 to the Present: A Guide to World Affairs, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

Sander O, “Siyasi Tarih, 1918-1994”, Ocak 2010, İmge Kitabevi Yayınları.

Armaoğlu, Fahir, “19. Yüzyıl Siyasi Tarih (1789-1914), 2006, Alkım Yayınevi

Findley, Carter Vaughn & John Alexander Murray Rothney (2011) Twentieth-Century World, Belmont: Wadsworth.