Module Descriptors
EUROPE IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS 1750 - 1850
HIPO40303
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 4
15 credits
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 24
Independent Study Hours: 126
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- ASSIGNMENT weighted at 30%
- ASSIGNMENT - SECOND ASSIGNMENT weighted at 70%
Module Details
Module Indicative Content
The module examines a period of fundamental importance for understanding the development of modern European society, with the combined impact of the French Revolution and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The module considers themes such as the nature of 'ancien regime' society; impact of the Enlightenment; causes and significance of the French Revolution; changes arising from Napoleon's attempted 'integration' of Europe; Congress of Vienna and the extent of the Restoration; Liberalism and Romanticism as cultural and political movements; the socio-economic causes and political features of the 1848 revolutions.
Module Resources
Recommended Library books and journals and videos/dvd's in the University library and use of online resources.
University Slide Library.
Internet access data projection in lectures if available.
University Slide Library.
Internet access data projection in lectures if available.
Module Learning Strategies
The lectures will introduce the main themes and arguments of the module content including video extracts and slides. The seminars will provide for follow-up discussion of the themes from the lectures and some analysis of primary source extracts and video extracts and guidance on research. The independent study element should be used for background reading, reading for the seminars, and preparation of the written assignments.
Module Texts
Berlanstein, Lenard (ed) The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Routledge, 1992
Censer, Jack & Hunt, Lynn Liberty, Equality and Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, Pennsylvania Univ. Press, Pennsylvania, 2001 [with cd-rom]
Doyle, William The Old European Order 1660-1800, OUP Oxford 1992 2nd ed
Forrest, Alan The French Revolution, Blackwell, Oxford, 1995
Gildea, Robert Barricades & Borders: Europe 1800-1914, OUP Oxford, 3rd edn. 2003
Lyons, Martyn Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution, Macmillan, London, 1994
Outram, Dorinda The Enlightenment, CUP, Cambridge, 1995
Porter, Roy The Enlightenment, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2nd ed, 2001
Smith, Bonnie Changing Lives: Women in European History Since 1700, D.C. Heath, Lexington Mass., 1989
Sperber, Jonathan The European Revolutions, 1848-1851, CUP, Cambridge, 1994
Sperber, Jonathan Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850, Longman, Harlow, 2000
Woolf, Stuart J. Napoleon's Integration of Europe, Routledge, London, 1991
Censer, Jack & Hunt, Lynn Liberty, Equality and Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, Pennsylvania Univ. Press, Pennsylvania, 2001 [with cd-rom]
Doyle, William The Old European Order 1660-1800, OUP Oxford 1992 2nd ed
Forrest, Alan The French Revolution, Blackwell, Oxford, 1995
Gildea, Robert Barricades & Borders: Europe 1800-1914, OUP Oxford, 3rd edn. 2003
Lyons, Martyn Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution, Macmillan, London, 1994
Outram, Dorinda The Enlightenment, CUP, Cambridge, 1995
Porter, Roy The Enlightenment, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2nd ed, 2001
Smith, Bonnie Changing Lives: Women in European History Since 1700, D.C. Heath, Lexington Mass., 1989
Sperber, Jonathan The European Revolutions, 1848-1851, CUP, Cambridge, 1994
Sperber, Jonathan Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850, Longman, Harlow, 2000
Woolf, Stuart J. Napoleon's Integration of Europe, Routledge, London, 1991
Module Additional Assessment Details
Assignment Length [Learning outcomes 1,2,3] (Module summary assignment)
Assignment - Second Assignment [Learning outcomes 1,2,4] (Topic assignment)
Assignment - Second Assignment [Learning outcomes 1,2,4] (Topic assignment)