The module considers the approach of transnational history utilizing key concepts of 'connections, circulations, relations, formations' (Saunier). These are then applied and critically examined through exemplars such as: The Atlantic world; Science and empire; Transnational nationalism; Transnational feminism; Transnational civil society. Across the timespan of these exemplars (early modern, modern and contemporary), the development of global interdependence and exchange is tracked through features such as commodities, cultural encounters, ideas and ideologies, migration, travel, telegraph and modern communications, transnational social movements in comparison and contrast to international organisations, and in so doing applying the transnational concepts of Saunier and others.

The first essay (20%, 1000 words) will require you to apply conceptual and theoretical insight to key concepts in the approach of transnationalism and aspects of global interdependence. [Learning Outcomes 1,5]

The second essay (50%, 3000 words) will require you to research further one of the exemplars of transnationalism and increasing global interdependence presented in the module, or, by negotiation, to research an additional exemplar. [Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,5]

The third essay (20%, 1000 words) will require you to formulate and present a research project exercise proposal that utilizes the approach of transnationalism and a measure of global interdependence. [Learning Outcomes 1,4,5]

PARTICIPATION 10%: Engagement with Blackboard Discussion Board through own posts and responses to the posts of others Learning Outcomes 1-4

The main focus will be on self-instruction, within a tightly structured framework and relying largely (but not exclusively) on materials supplied. Week by week you will work through self-instructional course material (delivered via blackboard), which provides the framework and focus for reading key texts and papers and undertaking the specific tasks set. This work will be undertaken on an individual basis, but at various points you will be expected to interact and share material with other students in your learning group and your tutor.

1. HAVE A CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPTS THAT INFORM THE APPROACH OF TRANSNATIONALISM AND GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE.

Knowledge and Understanding

2. HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF, AND ABILITY TO APPRAISE, SEVERAL EXEMPLARS OF FIELDS OF TRANSNATIONALISM THAT SHOW ASPECTS OF INCREASING GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE WITHIN THE TIMESPAN COVERED BY THE FIVE EXEMPLARS.

Analysis

3. FORMULATE A RESEARCH PROJECT PROPOSAL THAT UTILIZES THE APPROACH OF TRANSNATIONALISM AND A MEASURE OF GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE.

Application

4. DEMONSTRATE AN ABILITY TO RESEARCH FURTHER INTO ONE OF THE EXEMPLARS INTRODUCED IN THE MODULE, OR BY NEGOTIATION, AN ADDITIONAL EXEMPLAR (WITHIN THE TIMESPAN OF THE MODULE EXEMPLARS)

Reflection

Blackboard and library access online

Bayly, C. A. The Birth of the Modern World: global connections and comparisons 1780-1914, Blackwell, Oxford, 2004

Caine, Barbara & Sluga, Glenda (eds.) Internationalisms: A twentieth century history, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017

Iriye, Akira & Saunier, Pierre-Yves (eds.) The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009

Iriye, Akira & Osterhammel, Jurgen (Series eds.) A History of the World, Harvard University Press/Beck; Cambs., Mass. Including Vol. 4 Conrad, Sebastian & Osterhammel, Jurgen (eds.) An emerging modern world, 1750-1850 (2018); Vol. 5 Rosenberg, Emily (ed.) A world connecting, 1870-1945 (2012); and Vol. 6 Iriye, Akira (ed.) Global interdependence, the world after 1945 (2014) [Pioneering series with a transnational approach: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/collection.php?cpk=1493 ]

Paisley, Fiona & Scully, Pamela Writing Transnational History, Bloomsbury, London, forthcoming 2019

Saunier, Pierre-Yves Transnational History, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013