SYLLABUS FOR THE SUBJECT OF HISTORY OF MODERN WORLD
History of Modern World Total Marks: 100
History: Various Concepts of perceiving History.
Modern: Connotation of the terminology.
World: How the idea of world is perceived. Implications of world history.
Table of Contents
1. TOWARDS GLOBALIZATION
Old Regimes and Archaic Globalization: Peasants and Lords, Dynamics of New Politics, Archaic and Early Modern Globalization.
2. TRANSFORMATION FROM OLD REGIMES TO MODERNITY
The Last Great Domestication and Industrious Revolutions, New Patterns of AfroAsian Material Culture, Production and Trade, Trade Finance and Innovation: European Competitive advantages, the development of Asian and African Publics.
3. CONVERGING REVOLUTIONS
Anatomy of the World Crisis (1720-1820), Sapping the legitimacy of the State: From France to China Ideological origin of the modern left and the modern state, Nationalities VS States and Empires. The Third Revolution: Polite and Commercial Peoples Worldwide.
4. MODERN WORLD IN GENESIS
World revolutions (1815-1865), Emigration, New World Order: 1815-1865, Wars of Legitimacy in Asia, Economic and Ideological Roots of Asian Revolutions, Hunger and Rebellion in Europe (1848-1851), American Civil War as a Global Event.
5. INDUSTRIALIZAION AND THE NEW CITY HISTORIANS
Industrialization, and Cities The Progress of Industrialization Poverty and the Absence of Industry, Cites as Centers of Production, Consumption, and Politics The Urban Impact of the Global Crisis, 1780-1820. Race and Class in the New Cities, Working-Class Politics, Worldwide Urban Cultures and their Critics.
6. NATION, EMPIRE, AND ETHNICITY, C. 1860-1900
Theories of Nationalism, When was Nationalism Born? Perpetuating Nationalisms: Memories, National Associations, and Print, From Community to Nation: The Eurasian Empires Where we Stand with Nationalism, Peoples without States: Persecution or Assimilation? Imperialism and its History: The Late Nineteenth Century Dimensions of the “New Imperialism”. A World of Nation-States? The Persistence of Archaic Globalization From Globalization to Internationalism in Practice.
7. MYTHS AND TECHNOLOGIES OF THE MODERN STATE DIMENSIONS OF THE MODERN STATE
The State and the Historians, Problems of Defining the State, The Modern State Takes Root: Geographical Dimensions Claims to Justice and Symbols of Power, The State’s Resources, The State’s Obligations to Society Tools of the State, State, Economy, and Nation.
8. THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LIBERALISM, RATIONALISM, SOCIALISM, AND SCIENCE
Contextualizing Intellectual History, The Corruption of the Righteous Republic: A Classic Theme. Righteous Republics Worldwide, The Advent of Liberalism and the Market: Western Exceptionalism? Liberalism and Land Reform: Radical Theory and Conservative Practice, Free Trade or National Political Economy? Representing the Peoples Secularism and Positivism: Transnational Affinites The Reception of Socialism and its Local Resonances. Science in Global Context. Professionalization at World Level.
9. SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENTS
Revolutionary Ideas, Philosophical and social trends.
- Clash of Civilizations
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Neo-Conservation
RECOMMENDED TEXTS AND LITERATURE REVIEWS
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Dorinda Outram, The Body and the French Revolution
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Frenc Feher, French revolution and the Birth of Modernity
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H Kissinger, Diplomacy
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J M Thompson, Napoleon Bonaparte: His Rise and Fall
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E J Hobsbawn, The Age of revolution, 1789-1848
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E J Hobsbawn, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
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P Pilbeam, The 1830 Revolution in France
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Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
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Owen Chadwick, The Secularization of European Mind in the Nineteenth Century (1976)
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Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (1978)
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Marc Bloch, Feudal Society
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M W Beresford, New Towns of the Middle Ages (1988)
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Rosalind B and Christopher Brooke, Popular Religion in the Middle Ages (1984)
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Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and The Worms: The Cosmos of a SixteenthCentury Miller (1982)
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Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination; City-States in Renaissance Italy (1988)
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Karl Marx, Das Capital
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Herbert Butterfield, The Origins of Modern Science, 1300-1800 (1965)
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A R Hall, The Revolution in Science, 1500-1750: The Formation of the Modern Scientific Attitude (1983)
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Londa Schiebinger, The Mind Has no Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science (1990)
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Barbara Taylor, Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century (1983)
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Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization
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Asa Briggs, Victorian People (1954)
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Gertrude Himmelfarb, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution (1968)
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Raymond Betts, The False Dawn: European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (1975)
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Timothy Mitchell, Colonizing Egypt (1988)
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Edward Said, Orientalism (1979)
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WD Smith, European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.