Europe, Empire, and the World
This course will introduce you to world history from approximately 1450 to the eve of the Great War. While the course’s scope is global, its focus is on Europe. In this period, Europe explored and conquered new worlds: new worlds of religion, art, science, politics, production, and consumption, as well as the “New World” of the Americas, and large parts of Africa and Asia. We will examine the wrenching effect these explorations had on Europe and on the world. Alongside the momentous, we will consider the mundane: changes in daily lives of or-dinary people. We will study the interaction between high culture and low culture, and exam-ine ways in which ordinary men and women shaped and responded to the emerging modern world.
The course provides a general introduction to global history for students enrolled in the degree of Bachelor of International Studies. It also prepares students for the wide variety of more specialized courses in British, European, American, Australian and Asian history of-fered at Level II, III and IV (Honours). The course is designed to complement “The Twentieth Century: A World in Turmoil‚” the Department’s Semester Two course at Level One (HIST 1106).
The goal of the course is to provide students with a university-level introduction to European history. Students who successfully complete the course will develop their skills as writers and historians. They will learn to evaluate historical evidence, analyse historical problems, and make coherent arguments, both orally and in writing.
Department: Discipline of History
University: University of Adelaide
Years offered: 2006
- HIST1105 – 2006 – 1 – Lambelet