Credit Points 10

Legacy Code 102341

Coordinator Gregory Barton Opens in new window

Description The subject considers the history of the ways that different regions of humanity have interacted, since 1400. The subject will consider such topics as: ethnic-centrism (how to address it in historical and political knowledge?); the era of 'Pan Asia' (what does the rise of China and India mean for historical and political studies?); the prominence of 'nation' in historical knowledge (how to treat human history as 'global'?); the relationship of ethno-nationalism to globalization; the periodization of global history (turning points in the emergence of a global humanity); the determinants of difference and commonality in human history; the characteristics of 'empires'; the natural limits of humanity.

School Humanities & Comm Arts

Discipline History

Student Contribution Band HECS Band 4 10cp

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Level Postgraduate Coursework Level 7 subject

Restrictions

Students must be enrolled in a postgraduate program.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Analyze the debates among historians that explain globalization
2. Apply an understanding of the competing paradigms of Global History to historical practice.
3. Distinguish regions of the world in terms of their relationship with 'modernity'.
4. Evaluate globalization as a cultural phenomenon through the use of key theoretical texts
5. Construct persuasive arguments around major debates in Global history

Subject Content

1. Global Debates: an overview
2. Ecumenical Integrations
3. Exchanges and Encounters
4. Enlightenment and Globalization
5. Afro-Eurasian and Atlantic Worlds
6. Globalization and The Great Divergence
7. Global Governance and Informal Empire
8. Globalizations and its Discontents
9. The Rise of Asia
10. The Natural Limits of Homo Sapiens