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Contemporary Political History

Code 12251
Year 1
Semester S2
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area História
Entry requirements It doesn´t have.
Mode of delivery Theoretical and practical lessons, and also tutorial sessions.
Work placements Not applicable.
Learning outcomes 1. Enlarge the reflexive knowledge of the world political evolution during the XIX and XXI centuries;
2. Stimulate the academic debate, the contact with different kinds of sources, individual and collective search of bibliography about issues under discussion.

By the end of this course, students will be able to: analyze, characterize and understand the emergence and formation of Contemporary Era, especially in what concerns its political contemporary aspects.
Syllabus Introduction

The “Long” Nineteenth Century: a glance
1. Revolutions.
2. Liberalism; Democracy and Socialism.
3. The nationalities emergency and the nationalisms clashes.
4. Colonization and Imperialism.

The “Brief” Twentieth Century
1. The First World War and the weakening of Europe.
2. Communism and the Soviet Union.
3. The crisis of the liberal democracies.
4. Fascisms.
5. 1939-1945: the weight of an "even more total war".
6. Cold War and the Soviet Bloc collapse.
7. Decolonization.
8. The awakening of Asia.
9. The european building.
Main Bibliography BERSTEIN, Serge; MILZA, Pierre — História da Europa. Do Século XIX ao Início do Século XXI, Lisboa, Plátano Editora, 2007.
DROZ, Bernard; ROWLEY, Anthony — História do Século XX, Lisboa, D. Quixote, 1988-93, 4 vols.
GILBERT, Martin — História do Século XX, 2.ª ed., Alfragide, D. Quixote, 2011.
GRENVILLE, J. A. S. — A History of the World in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.
HEFFER, Jean; SERMAN, William — O Século XIX, 1815-1914, Lisboa, D. Quixote, 1999.
HOBSBAWM, E. — A Era dos Extremos. História Breve do Século XX, 1914-1991, 4.ª ed., Barcarena, Presença, 2008.
JUDT, Tony — Pós-Guerra. História da Europa desde 1945, Lisboa, Edições 70, 2011.
RÉMOND, René — Introdução à História do Nosso Tempo. Do Antigo Regime aos Nossos Dias, 4.ª ed., Lisboa, Gradiva, 2011.

Other bibliography will be opportunely recommended during the semester.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2021-06-08

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