COURSEWORK weighted at 100%.
Comprising of:
TOPIC AND SOURCES ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT COMPONENTS, 7000 words in total.
[Learning Outcomes 1-4]

Key Information Set:
100% coursework

Indicative topics for the French Revolution include: Absolutism and the rise of the Enlightenment public sphere; the outbreak of the French Revolution; the reforms of the National Assembly; political clubs and the rise of the Girondins and Jacobins; the fall of the monarchy and declaration of the Republic; war and revolutionary armies; the Terror; the fall of Robespierre and the Thermidorean reaction. Indicative topics for Napoleon include: Napoleon in Italy and Egypt; the Napoleonic consulate 1799-1804; France and the Napoleonic Empire – military organisation and civil administration; the Empire at its height in 1808; Spain and guerrilla resistance; the Russian campaign; the ‘100 days’; exile, myth and legacy. The module would also consider the wider impact of the French Revolution outside Europe and the lasting impact of Napoleon on European history.
In the topic assignment students can follow up topics in more depth from the module content; for the sources assignment there is a choice of source documents, written and visual, with guidance on how to provide a historical commentary on them. Students will do assessed work on both the French Revolution and Napoleon.

Workshops introduce the main themes and arguments of the module content together with discussion and analysis of a range of written and visual source materials. The independent study element should be used for background reading, reading for the workshops, and research and preparation of the written assignments.

Key Information Set:
16% scheduled learning and teaching and activities
84% guided independent learning

French Revolution
Andress D. (ed.) [2015]: The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, Oxford)
Campbell, P (ed.) [2005]: The Origins of the French Revolution (Palgrave, Basingstoke)
Hanson P. R. [2009]: Contesting the French Revolution (Wiley-Blackwell) [Series: Contesting the Past]
Israel J. [2014]: Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre (Princeton Univ. Press, NJ)
Linton M. [2013]: Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution (O.U.P., Oxford)
Scurr R. [2006]: Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (Chatto & Windus, London)

Napoleon
Broers M. [2014]: Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny (Faber & Faber, London)
Broers M. [2010]: Napoleon's Other War: Bandits, Rebels and Their Pursuers in the Age of Revolutions (Peter Lang, Oxford)
Dwyer P. [2008]: Napoleon: Path to Power 1769-1799 (Bloomsbury, London)
Dwyer P. [2013]: Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815 (Bloomsbury, London)
Esdaile C. [2014]: Women in the Peninsular War (Univ. Oklahoma Press, Norman)
Grab A. [2003]: Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke)

Library for books, journals, newspapers and periodicals including subscription online resources such as Blackwell Reference Online and Oxford Reference Online.

The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

In taking this module students must not have and cannot take:
HIPO50500
HIPO50429
HIPO60020