HISTORY

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr J Walker

Pre-requisites

None

Overview

Major events in European history and structures in European societies will be examined thematically. Topics covered include war and peace, democratic and totalitarian regimes, including the rise and fall of communism in Eastern Europe; the Holocaust and ethnic cleansings; the comparative role of women and the family in European societies; the World Depression; social policies and the emergence of welfare states and consumer societies.

Structure

3 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (50%) and in-course assessment (50%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr R O'Connor

Pre-requisites

None.

Overview

Vikings (Scandinavian pirates, traders, and migrants) emerge into history in the last decade of the eighth century AD. Their activities extended westwards to North America, eastwards to Russia, and southwards to the Black Sea, Istanbul, and the Mediterranean Basin. They established colonies in many places: in Iceland they created a republic which has remained Scandinavian in culture; elsewhere they adopted and modified the host-culture, as in (for example) Ireland, Britain, France, Russia, and Ukraine. By the twelfth century Christian national kingdoms had been created in Scandinavian and the Viking-Age came to an end.

Structure

3 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written exaination (50%); continuous assessment (50%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr A Mackillop

Pre-requisites

None.

Notes

This course will not be running in 2007/08.

Overview

The cours will run over the eleven weeks of first half-session and comprise the following themes taught via a 'Medieval', 'Early Modern' and 'Modern' lecture 1. Chronologies: 2. Land: 3. People: 4. Politics: 5. Economics: 6. Social Structures: 7. Religion: 8. The Highlands (or The Regions): 9. Towns: 10. Emigration/Immigration: 11. Art. Each theme has a dedicated tutorial in the week following the three lectures.

Structure

3 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (50%) and in-course assessment (50%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examinatoin (100%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr K Friedrich

Pre-requisites

None.

Overview

The course provides a broad overview of the changes which the Renaissance and Reformations introduced to European culture, politics, religion, society and people's understanding of their role in the world. It traces these developments in a comparative way, from Europe's Atlantic cost to East Central Europe and Russia, throughout the time of unrest brought on by the European Reformations, radicalism, the scientific revolution, the growth of monarchies and republics, and the wars of religion of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Structure

3 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial (to be arranged) per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (50%); examination (50%).

Resit: Examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M-L Ehrenschwendtner

Pre-requisites

None.

Overview

Between 1100 and 1500 western Europe was undergoing fundamental transformations: new technical, economic and political challenges, fresh developments in religious and intellectual life and catastrophes like wars, diseases and climate change fundamentally shaped European societies for centuries to come. This course offers a thematic survey of medieval western societies with lectures and tutorials focussing on religion, kingship and warfare, economy and environment, cultural renaissances and intellectual novelties, the emergence of national states and identities and the discovery of new worlds.

Structure

3 one-hour lectures (tbc) and 1 one-hour tutorial (to be arranged) per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (60%); examination (40%).

Resit: Examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Brown

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 2 or above.

Overview

This course introduces students to the crucible of the modern age. Hinging on the American, French and 1848 Revolutions, it explores how men and women in elite and popular communities generated new modes of living, experience and expression and how they understood and manipulated the natural world. Attention will be given to the Enlightenment, Revolution, Romanticism and Ideology with interrelated developments in politics, culture and science also being explored. Students will be introduced to the works of figures such as Newton, Voltair, Paine, Goethe, Marx, Darwin and Nietzsche. Topics will include Salons, the Terror, nationalism and secularisation.

Structure

3 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial (to be arranged) per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (60%); examination (40%).

Resit: Examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr E Macknight

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 2 or above.

Overview

What does it mean to be a 'man' or a 'woman' in Western societies and how have the definitions and expectations of 'manliness' and 'womanliness' changed over time? This course addresses those questions for the period from 1750 to the present. It begins with the late eighteenth-century transition in scientific understanding from the one-sex to the two-sex model of human biology. Students are then introduced to the use of gender as a tool of historical analysis through chronological case studies drawn chiefly from Europe, Britain, and America. The course concludes with an examination of sex and gender issues in Scotland today.

Structure

3 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial (to be arranged) per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (60%); examination (40%).

Resit: Examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr T Heywood

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 2 and above.

Overview

This will provide students with a broad comparative understanding of the emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as the first two global superpowers by 1945 and their subsequent Cold War confrontation. It concentrates on seven main sections (the Age of Empire; World War I and the Russian Revolution; Economic Crisis and the Crisis of Imperialism; World War II; the Cold War; Détente; the Triumph of the West?) introducing essential knowledge and key concepts concerning the development of their military and economic strength, together with their respective ideologies of capitalism and communism.

Structure

3 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial (to be arranged) per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (60%); examination (40%).

Resit: Examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr K Friedrich

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the second half-session of 2008/09 as HI 351A.

Overview

Composed of hundreds of principalities, cities, bishoprics and other territories, the ‘Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation’ seemed an incoherent patchwork, but functioned as a political entity for centuries. This course studies the diversity of German history at a time of profound transformation, from the Reformation to Napoleon’ destruction of the Empire in the early nineteenth century. Topics covered include religious conflict, social rebellion, warfare, the role of cities, the relationship between Empire and territorial states, Baroque culture, the impact of the early Enlightenment, the changing idea of Empire and the development of early national identity.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture per week; 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Resit: Examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr K Friedrich

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the first half-session of 2008/09 as HI 301B.

Overview

Modern Germany has often been called the ‘belated’ nation-state. During the first half of the nineteenth century three main political ideologies proved influential: liberalism, socialism and nationalism. Prussia’s successful domination of German politics led to the creation of the ultimately ill-fated German Empire in 1871. This course analyses the Empire’s political structures and institutions, the influence of the Kaiser and his ‘court camarilla’, the military, the composition of imperial German society, its unprecedented industrial and economic expansion in the 1890s, and the origins of the First World War, with particular emphasis on the lively fin-de-siècle culture, the history of ideas and political and social movements.

Structure

2 x 1-hour lectures per week; 1 x 1-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Atttempt: 1 three-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Resit: Examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor D Dumville

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

The English arrived in Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries. But English history (as opposed to prehistory) traditionally begins with the arrival of Christian missionaries from Rome in 597; and the kingdom of England was not created until 927. The three intervening centuries saw the building of a new culture in ‘South Britain’ (including a large part of what is now Scotland) which laid the foundations for the English nation-state. We study all this with close reference to original source-materials.

Structure

1 x 1-hour lecture per week; 1 x 1-hour tutorial per week; 1 x 1-hour source-class per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (100%).

Resit: Examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr C Dartmann

Pre-requisites

Avaialble only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the first half-session 2008/09 as HI 301D.

Overview

Some selected major issues of domestic policies, important in a common way to the three countries, will be examined in a comparative way. Themes may include: social policies, threat of instability/civil war, political parties, experiences of demobilisation and mobilisation, reactions to the world depression, reactions to international developments, in particular eg the Spanish Civil War, developments in art.

Structure

2 one-and-a-half hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment (100%) NB new in-course assessment work must be submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor J Stevenson

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the first half-session of 2008/09 as HI 301E.

Overview

1. Introduction
2. Library session
3. what was a man? legally, socially and culturally
4. What was a woman? legall, socially and culturally
5. Medical theories of gender and sexuality
6. Christianity and sexuality
7. Case study: St Augustine's Confessions
8. Sex and sainthood
9. Virgins: a 'third sex', or superwoman?
10. Subwomen: prostitutes, actresses
11. Eunuchs, legally, socially and culturally
12. Eunuchs in fantasy: Case study: Claudian, In Eutropium
13. Eunuchs in fact
14. 'Eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven'
15. Angels
16. The Virgin Mary
17. Motherhood
18. 'Transcending her sex'
19. Basileus/basilissa: women as rulers
20. 'Passing for a man'
21. Case study: Perpetua's Prison Diary
22. Male homosexuality
23. Lesbianism
24. Deviance and Identity
Both selections from primary texts (in translation) and visual material (slides of portraits, coins, mosaics, statues, ikons, etc) will be used throughout.

Structure

1 one-hour lectures, 1 two-hour lecture and seminar.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (100%).

Resit: 1 essay (5,000 words).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor R Frost

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the frist half-session of 2008/09 as HI 301F.

Overview

The course will look at the development of warfare in early modern Europe in the light of the theory that Europe in this period saw a military revolution which had profound effects not just on the way wars were fought, but on European state formation and social development. It will look at the supporters and opponents of the theory, examine the technological changes seen in warfare in this period, and look at the conduct of war at the tactical and strategic levels, before going on to examine the changing culture of war and its impact on state and society. The course will consider a range of military conflicts across the whole continent of Europe, and will also consider the impact of European warfare outside Europe in the first great age of European imperial expansion.

Structure

Two seminars of one and a half hours each per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Resit: 1 three-hour examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr E Macknight

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

Experiences and memories of conflict have played an important role in shaping the development of France from 1900 to the present. This period of French history is marked by two world wars, Occupation and Liberation, colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, the student revolt of May 1968, the strike wave of 1995, and the riots of November 2005. In this course we study the underlying causes and nature of the wars and civil unrest. We investigate links between conflict, cultural production, and social change; and we examine the legacies of conflict in debates about what it means to be 'French' and France's relationships with other parts of the world.

Structure

2 one-and-a-half hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (60%); continuous assessment (40%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Mr M Brown

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

The Enlightenment represents a key moment in the emergence of a recognisable modernity. Thinkers like Voltaire, Rousseau, Hume, Smith and Burke provide a distinct approach to society, politics, gender, culture and ethics. Celebrated and condemned, Enlightenment still remains a hotly contested term. This course investigates the Enlightenment across a series of national contexts. It highlights similarities in thought while remaining sensitive to regional variation. The course introduces students to the main thinkers and themes, and examines current debates about the content and legacy of the movement. Lecture topics include anti-clericalism, coffee shop culture, rethinking domestic life, and Enlightenment and Revolution.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminars.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous Assessment (100%).

Resit: Continuous Assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr C Dartmann

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

This course may not be included in a graduating curriculum with HI 3049 / HI 3549. Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Overview

This history of the Holocaust will be studied through a detailed analysis of contemporary sources, as well as of the major debates and analyses since 1945. Specific emphasis will be placed on the historiographical development of the subject.

Structure

Two 1½ hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment (100%) NB new in-course assessment work must be submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr J Stevenson

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

This course introduces students to the formation of Europe, analysing how, in the East, the Roman Empire became the Byzantine Empire and how modern political units such as Spain, France and Germany came to exist in the West. The Roman Empire was bureaucratic, centralised and highly organised. In the West, its collapse and the developments which followed eventually produced what is now called the Middle Ages, and also the forms and foundations of the modern world.

Structure

2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor T Bartlett

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Overview

This course offers a study of the main political, constitutional, social and economic developments in the history of the United States from the ratification of the US constitution in 1787 to reconstruction after the Civil War in 1870. Within these broad themes, special attention will be devoted to the paradox of the existence of slavery in a nation dedicated to freedom and to the huge sectional tensions, ending in Civil War, that these gave rise to. Detailed attention will also be paid to the Civil War itself: was this the real American Revolution?

Structure

1 one-hour lecture per week; 1 one-hour tutorial per week; 1 one-hour source-class per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (60%) course work (40%).

Resit: Examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr E Macknight

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Overview

Questions about who exercised power and why resonated at every level of nineteenth-century French society. The Revolution of 1789 had brought about fundamental reforms to the political and social order in France. It set down the roots of the French republican tradition whose supporters became locked in an ongoing ideological struggle against conservative political and social elites. This course examines the myriad forms that power took in French society, from Napoleon's coup d'état of 18 Brumaire to the early Third Republic. It deals with the power of political and military leaders to legislate and lead armies. It investigates the gendered implications of power operating within families and between men and women. It also unpacks the ways in which class shaped power relations, and the significance of class-based traditions, within the social fabric of nineteenth-century France.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (60%); continuous assessment (40%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor S Brink

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Overview

This course offers a study of the society, culture and religion in Viking Age Scandinavia. Within these broad themes, special attention will be devoted to the impact from the continent and the Isles, especially regarding the change of religion, the introduction of literacy and the social links between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe. Detailed attention will also be paid to the Christianization process.

Structure

2 hours of lecture contact and 1 hour of tutorial contact per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (100%).

Resit: Examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr L Carter

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Overview

How were British men and women expected to respond to the conflicts and imperial adventures carried out in their nation's name? How did these events in turn influence ideas about appropriate gender roles and national identity at home? What do contemporary debates about gender reveal about the aspirations or fears of British society as it engaged with war and empire? This course will consider how ideas about gender were utilised to propel and legitimise Britain's martial and imperial projects, yet simultaneously also had the potential to undermine these ventures. It will also explore the roles that actual men and women played in these endeavours at home and abroad. The course will take a chronological path from the 1760s to the 1930s considering themes such as propaganda, sexually, consumption, slavery, migration and pacifism in comparative aspect. Students will be encouraged to assess the benefits and limitations of analysing war and empire through a gendered lens, and to evaluate the fresh and vibrant historiographical debates on this topic. The course will also provide students with the opportunity to critically evaluate and assess a range of visual and textual primary sources.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (100%).

Resit: Continuous assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr B Bonnyman

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Overview

The 18th century was time of dramatic political, economic and cultural change in Scotland. By the 1707 Act of Union Scotland had surrendered its sovereignty as an ancient independent kingdom, and while some Scots enthusiastically embraced participation in the newly formed British state, others actively (and sometimes violently) resisted the very idea of 'Britain'. This course charts the key political and cultural events of the century, from the Union and the Jacobite risings to the Scottish Enlightenment and the drive for 'improvement', with particular emphasis on the changing nature of political, cultural and national identities during this period.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar and 1 one-hour lecture per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (100%.

Resit: Continuous assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr J A Walker

Pre-requisites

Available to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Overview

How and why was American foreign policy formulated and applied throughout the 20th century? This course will look at all the main aspects of the implementation of American foreign policy, but particular attention will be paid to lesser known areas of US involvement: Latin and South America; Africa (pre- and post-colonial periods) and the Far East. Major (and therefore better known) events such as the two World Wars and Vietnam will be included, of course, but less emphasis will be placed on them than is perhaps usual. The roles of the President and Secretary of State will be examined; further, the role of external influences (geographical, military, business, economic, social, etc) in the formulation of foreign policy will be considered. The course will take a chronological path where possible so that, by the end of the course, an overview of American foreign policy, its formulation and success/failure in the 20th century will have been achieved.

Structure

Two 1½ hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (50%) and in-course assessment (50%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (100%) and satisfactory completion of all continuous assessment.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr T Heywood

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the second half-session of 2008/09 as HI 3590.

Overview

This course examines the main political, social and economic problems confronting the Russian Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: should government be by an enlightened bureaucracy or by representative institutions? To what extent is modern warfare, which seemingly demands the mobilisation of the whole population, compatible with an autocratic framework? Is democracy a stimulus or a handicap to rapid industrialisation? How important are individual/social/moral values to the modern state? The format of the course is chronological but these and similar questions constantly recur.

Structure

2 one-and-a-half-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Primary source exercise (1,500 words) (20%); Annotated bibliography (1,500 words) (20%); Essay (4,500 words) (60%).

Resit: Primary source exercise (1,500 words) (20%); Annotated bibliography (1,500 words) (20%); Essay (4,500 words) (60%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr C Brennan

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the first half-session 2008/09 as HI 3089.

Overview

Initial discussion will focus on the revolutions of February and October 1917, the ensuing Civil War and foreign intervention. Thereafter attention will shift to the emergent Soviet state: its institutions, the New Economic Policy, and the leadership struggle, which paved the way for Stalin’s assumption of power. Stalin’s regime and its policies within Russia, including collectivization, industrialisation and terror, will be analysed before the focus shifts to the Second World War (the Red Army after the purges, the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and Soviet Russia’s prosecution of ‘total war’). The final topics to be addressed will include the Cold War, social economic and political developments during the Khrushchev-Brezhnev years and the rise and fall of Gorbachev.

Structure

2 one-and-a-half-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Presentation (10%); portfolio based on the presentation (10%); essay (2,500 words maximum) (30%); essay, (3,500 words maximum) (50%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr A Newby

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Overview

This course will examine the way in which various forms of identity developed in Scotland after the extension of the franchise in 1832. This will include political identities - in particular regional identification and forms of nationalism and unionism - as well as gender- and class-based identify, as manifest through popular protest, political participation, sport, leisure, and various areas of civil society. Furthermore, there will be an examination the construction of identity in Scotland, through art, archaeology and antiquarianism, literature (including travel literature) and the development of 'scientific' historical writing. Students will also be invited to consider how these nineteenth century identities survived and made and impact in the twentieth century, and indeed in the present day.

Structure

2 one and a half hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st attempt: In-course assessment (100%), includes book review (25%), 3000 word essay (75%).

Re-sit: In-course assessment (100%), includes book review (25%), 3000 word essay (75%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr C Dartmann

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09. This course may not be included in a graduating curriculum with HI 301L / HI 351L.

Overview

To study the on-going historical debates on the Third Reich. In this course we will study political, social, and economic aspects of the history of Germany between 1933 and 1945, and put them into a historical, comparative, and European background. Recent historiographical trends and conceptual attempts to grasp the history of the Third Reich will form an integral part of this course.

Structure

2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment (100%). NB: new in-course assessment work must be submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr D Ditchburn and Dr A Macdonald

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2007/08.

Overview

This course seeks to investigate Anglo-Scottish relations in the period between Malcolm III’s enigmatic submission to William the Conqueror in 1072 and the Anglo-Scottish treaty of 1560. The emphasis will be on political and diplomatic developments, especially those of the mid-thirteenth to early sixteenth centuries, but attention will also be given to economic, social, religious and cultural interaction between the two kingdoms, especially those which occurred in the frontier regions.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

This course examines the political, social and diplomatic history of the United States from the Age of Jackson to the Spanish-American War. Major themes will include: the rise and fall of political parties; the impact of key Supreme Court decisions; sectionalism, expansion and the frontier thesis; the causes and consequences of the Civil War; slavery, abolition and changing race relations; military and naval affairs; foreign relations and changes in the diplomatic policy and international standing of the United States.

Structure

3 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

The nature and problems of military and naval history with special reference to the United States. The European military background. Technological impact. The US military and naval experiences wars covered include:

Indian and colonial wars; War of Independence; Barbary Wars; War of 1812; Mexican War; The American Civil War; Spanish-American War; 19th century Indian Wars; World Wars I and II; Korea; Vietnam; and the Gulf War.

There will be stress on the “New Military History” involving an examination of the role of the military in American society and economy.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr W G Naphy

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

The course begins with a brief examination of the classical medical tradition which underpins the whole period examined. Attention will shift to a detailed study of specific geographical areas (Italy, France, Germany and the British Isles) in the period from the Black Death to the last major outbreaks of plague. Special attention will be given to the questioning of previous medical theories. The use of plague regulations as tools of social control, and the scapegoating of groups such as Jews and Homosexuals. Through-out the course will stress those socio-anthropological responses and behaviours which are a common feature of reactions to epidemics, including comparisons with modern attitudes to HIV/Aids, BSE/VCSD.

Structure

2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M ÓSiochrú

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be not available in session 2008/09.

Overview

The course examines the politics, economy and culture of Ireland at the end of the Middle Ages; the impact of the Protestant reformation and counter reformation; the wars and rebellions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; ‘colonisation’ and ‘civilisation’ of Ireland by the English and the Scots; the Cromwellian and restoration land settlements; the ‘Protestant Ascendancy’; the Formation of ‘Irish’ and ‘British’ national identities; Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Scottish relations; and the demise of Gaelic Ireland.

Structure

2 one-and-a-half to two-hours seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment (100%). NB: New in-course assessment work must be submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr A Macdonald

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

This course seeks to examine the practice and concept of kingship and queenship, between the dark ages and the renaissance. Lectures will concentrate on the exercise of monarchical power, as exemplified by kings and queens in the British Isles, and associated historiographical issues. Seminars will address the subject through a study of the expectations of contemporaries making use of visual representations (in the form of painting, seals and architecture) and written evidence (including the bible, chronicles, biographies, literature and theoretical tracts).

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Resit: Examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%). NB: new in-course assessment work must be submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr F Pedersen

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the second half-session of 2008/09 as HI 3568.

Overview

This course is divided into four sections. The first examines medieval attitudes to sex, marriage and the family while consideration during the second is devoted to the church and the law of marriage in the middle ages. These are followed by an exploration of sex roles and sexual differences, including discussion of prostitution, homosexuality and the concept of childhood. The course concludes with an examination of modern interpretations of the medieval evidence.

Structure

2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%). NB: new in-course assessment work must be submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr O Walsh

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the first half-session of 2008/09 as HI 3069.

Overview

This course will examine the development of popular culture in the US since c1865. It will investigate changing attitudes to race and gender and the later growth of a youth culture (or counter-culture). Attention will be given to the growth of sport and recreation (and the roles of race and gender therein); to the history of entertainment as a reflection of and influence upon society (including the circus/Wild West show, radio and TV, the movies) to the growth of a popular press and advertising; to fashion; to the rise and fall of popular heroes/heroines; to popular religion. Also the American fascination with technology and its effects on popular culture will be discussed - the bicycle craze, automobiles, the telephone, etc.

Structure

2 one and a half to two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment: 2 essays of c3000-3500 words each (100%). NB: new in-course assessment work must be submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr O Walsh

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

This course will trace the various developments in medical practice throughout the nineteenth century. It will be divided into sections, which will include Lunacy, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Midwifery, and the professionalisation of Medicine. The course will also discuss the gendering of the profession, in terms of recruitment of women to the major teaching hospitals, as well as the differing experiences of males and females within the hospital and asylum systems in terms of admission rates, treatment and diagnosis.

Structure

2 one-hour lectures and 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%). NB: new in-course assessment work must be submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr A Macdonald

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the first half-session 2008/09 as HI 3074.

Overview

This course seeks to investigate the impact of war on society in the medieval west between c1300 and c1450. Those were years when warfare was frequent and its impact profoundly altered the societies of western Europe. Emphasis will be placed on the experience of war in Scotland, England, France, Spain and Ireland, although not exclusively on those areas. The course will seek to explore the impact of war physically and mentally on the people who had to endure it. Cultural developments, concepts of national identity and collective mentalities will be explored, as well as more conventional societal developments.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%). NB: new in-course assessment work must be submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Harper

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

Large-scale demographic upheaval has been a major feature of the social, economic, political and cultural history of the modern world. This course examines the causes and repercussions of emigration and immigration over more than two centuries, looking primarily at the British Isles, but also considering other European countries. Particular attention will be paid to the expectations and experiences of participants, and themes to be examined include exploration, military service, the transportation of convicts, indentured servitude, persecution and migration, famine-induced migration, and the impact of immigration on Britain since the late 19th century.

Structure

2 two-hours seminars weekly.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Harper

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the first half-session 2008/09 as HI 3078.

Overview

Although clearance policies were effectively over by the 1850s, the ‘Highland Problem’ re-emerged in the 1880s, with the Crofters’ War and the appointment of a Royal Commission of Enquiry. The course covers a period of unprecedented government investigation and legislation in respect of the Highlands and Islands, and detailed attention will be paid to the effects of this involvement on economic and social developments in the region. Themes to be examined include land legislation, fishing, industrial developments, tourism, transport, migration and emigration.

Structure

2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Mr T Brotherstone

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the second half-session of 2008/09 as HI 3582.

Overview

Britain c1956-c1999….a United Kingdom? The Suez fiasco signalled post-imperial status, unconcealed behind World War II narratives. From c1966 to c1985 consensus was challenged by class struggles. The Atlee-Wilson Labour Party decayed, to be reborn….via the Thatcherite 1980’s attacks on the unions and the end of much traditional industry….as Blair’s ‘New Labour’. Inter-generational conflict stirred, provoked by the sexuality of 1950s rock-and-roll and the association of pop music with drug culture. Racial conflict became endemic. Women identified men as an obstacle to progress, even the main enemy. Gays demanded rights and parliament usually resisted. ‘Europe’ (in some minds, not others) moved from holiday destination to political bogeyman. Northern Ireland became a war zone. The Scots and the Welsh….centuries on….sought a post-Westminster constitutional settlement. Why?

Structure

2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr O Walsh

Pre-requisites

Only available to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

This course will examine key aspects of modern Irish history, using gender as an analytical tool. Events such as the Great Famine will be assessed in terms of its impact upon changes in family structure, employment and emigration. The emergence of constitutional and militant nationalism will be examined in terms of male and female responses and participation, and Partition and the creation of the Free State studied to determine their respective impact upon the societies created in the ‘Two Irelands’ after 1921. Non-Irish perspectives will also be drawn upon in determining the extent of social and political change in Ireland during this period.

Structure

2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr D Smith

Pre-requisites

Only available to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

This course will focus on the history of medicine during the twentieth century, and will cover such topics as the shaping of the health services, successive therapeutic revolutions, medicine and war, the eugenics movement, the sciences of food and food safety, the rise of patient power and developments in medical ethics, and the trend towards alternative approaches to medicine. A variety of recent approaches to the history of medicine will be discussed.

Structure

2 one-hour lectures and 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%). NB: new in-course assessment work must be submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr W G Naphy

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

This course will examine differing types of sexual behaviour that were often labelled ‘against nature’ and usually punished by the death penalty in the early modern period. These include: incest, child abuse, bestiality, sodomy, prostitution, adultery, lesbianism and violent sexual assault or rape. The course will focus on changes to social and legal attitudes to these crimes from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. Special emphasis will also be placed on views expressed by defendants in trials and stereotypes presented in the literature of the period.

Structure

Introductory lectures followed by 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

This course seeks to provide an introduction to two important related phases of continental European intellectual history, the Renaissance and Reformation, with particular attention to the century around 1500. The series of specific movements discussed include Renaissance humanism, Florentine Neo-Platonism, Erasmus and Northern Humanism, Luther, the radical reformation, and the civic reformations of Zwingli and Calvin. Comparison and contrast of these movements is facilitated by focussing on certain aspects common to each, including their differing social context, their conceptions of human nature, reformation, and the past as well as their expectations for the future.

Structure

2 one-and-a-half to two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment: 1 essay (30%), 1 documentary commentary (10%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (100%). NB: new in-course assessment work must be submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Mr T Brotherstone and Mr H Manson

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

The course will provide a basic training in the practice of oral documentation. It will include a practical exercise in the researching, recording and processing of interviews. Practical work will be set in the context of discussions about the history of oral history, about its relationship to historiography more generally, and about relevant, current, theoretical and ethical issues (such as: public and private memory, mythology and false narrative, ideology and social purpose, personal and collective identity).

Structure

2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M ÓSiochrú

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the second half-session of 2008/09 as HI 3593.

Overview

This lecture and seminar course offers a chronological survey of Ireland’s political, social and economic history from the Union with Britain. It will focus on a number of issues: how confessional differences, especially between Catholics and Protestants, have influenced the course of Irish history; the slippery concept of Irish national identity; Anglo-Irish relations; the rise of Irish nationalism; and finally the role of the Irish migrant, especially in America.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment: (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment: (100%). NB: new in-course assessment work must be submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr R Perren

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the second half-session of 2008/09 as HI 3594.

Overview

This course offers students an opportunity to study World War One in a comparative context. Following a series of introductory lectures on various aspects of the causes, course and consequences of the war, a series of seminars will enable students to analyse either specialised themes or particular perspectives which may include Britain, France, Germany, the United States, and Russia.

Structure

12 x 1-hour lectures in weeks 1-4 and 10 x 2-hour seminars in weeks 5-12.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor R Frost

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

The Thirty Years War was one of the most protracted and devastating conflicts played out in central Europe before the twentieth century. Its conclusion in the Peace of Westphalia (1648) marks the single greatest watershed between the Reformation and the French Revolution, neatly dividing the early modern period of European history in half. This course will examine the causes, course and consequences of this great conflict, placing each of these topics in a broad chronological, geographical and thematic framework. Particular attention will be given to exploring the international ramifications of the conflict on politics, society and culture.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Resit: 1 three-hour examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%). NB: new in-course assessment work must be submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Mr T Brotherstone

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Overview

Detailed research on an historical topic agreed by the School and the home university.

Structure

4 one-hour supervision sessions.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr A Macdonald

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in session 2008/09.

Overview

This course invites students to consider the study of sport as a way of trying to understand the past. A broad chronological framework is adopted, tracing sporting activity and pastimes from the medieval period to contemporary times. The geographical scope is also wideranging, covering developments in Scotland, and elsewhere in Europe, as well as the relevance of sport to the British Empire and to twentieth-century American society. Issues addressed include social class, gender, race, morality and the efforts of various governments to control and use sport for political purposes.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr A MacKillop

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the first half-session of 2008/09 as HI 3098.

Overview

This course examines the development of British imperial interests in Asia. It begins by charting the development of the East India Company, examining its commercial activities and its impact on England. The Company was then colonised by Scots and Irish, whose contribution and impact will be considered in detail. Gradually the Company's Empire developed territorial interests and these, together with imperial interests in the Persian Gulf, Indonesia and China, are discussed. The final part of the course involves consideration of the impact of this Asiatic Empire on the politics, economy and society of the British Isles.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr C Dartmann

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in the first half-session of 2008/09 as HI 3099.

Overview

This course offers students an opportunity to study World War Two in a comparative context. Following a series of introductory lectures on various aspects of the causes, course and consequences of the war, a series of seminars will enable students to analyse either specialised themes or particular perspectives which may include Britain, France, Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union and Japan.

Structure

12 one-hour lectures in weeks 1-4 and 10 two-hour seminars in weeks 5-12.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr A Mackillop

Pre-requisites

Available only to Senior Honours candidates in History.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Overview

An intensive study of a limited historical theme, problem or period on the basis of prescribed primary sources and other materials. Precise details of the subjects available reflecting current research interests of staff, will be announced to Honours candidates during the preceding session. Topics covered in previous years include: Vikings c800-1200; Canon Law and Lawyers in the Middle Ages; Scotland, England and Ireland 1286-1329; The Anglo-Scottish Frontier in the Later Middle Ages; The Revival of Millenariansism in Post-Reformation Britain, Europe & America; Irish Political Thought; Scotland, England and The Acts of Union, 1707; The American Revolution; The French Revolution; The Scot in Canada; The Indian Mutiny, 1857; Women, Work and Welfare in Europe c1918-39; The USA in the 1920s; Politics and Culture during the Wilson Years: Britain c1956-76.

Structure

2 one-and-a-half to two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Ehrenschwendter

Pre-requisites

Available only to Senior Honours candidates in History.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Overview

A dissertation of about 10,000 words on a topic normally related to that studied in HI 4015.

Each student will be assigned a supervisor, who will make available regular consultation times.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Dissertation (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr E Macknight

Pre-requisites

Available only to Senior Honours candidates in History.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Overview

Problems of historical scholarship including the history of historical research, historiography, philosophy of history, links with other academic disciplines, and the relevance of history to the outside world.

Structure

6 two-hour seminars.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (40%) and continuous assessment (60%).