This unit examines the processes, experiences and events that transformed key features of world history in the period c.1789 to 2002. Core themes include 'Revolutions' (industrial, political and cultural); 'Ideologies' (political and gender); 'Violence and Conflict' (international, environmental and interpersonal); 'Citizenship, Power and Enfranchisement'; and 'Identities and Communities' (national, colonial, urban and suburban). Subjects studied include political ideas and mass movements; social change and the expansion in consumer culture; war and its legacy; the transformation of the public and private spheres; and behavioural, cultural and environmental change in the nineteenth and... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr David Barrie
