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Blanning:
Sheehan:

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Autumn Term

1

Introductory week - No seminar but start reading!

Core reading: Chapter 1, Blanning (ed.), John Roberts, 鈥楻evolution from Above and Below: European Politics from the French Revolution to the First World War鈥�, pp.15-45

2

Lecture: Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars

Seminar: Writing the history of war

Core reading: Sheehan, Prologue, 鈥榃ar and Peace in the Twentieth Century鈥�, pp.xiii-xx

3

Lecture: The wars of German unification

Seminar: War, citizenship, and the nation state

Core reading: Sheehan, Ch. 1 鈥樷�淲ithout War, There Would Be No State鈥濃��, pp.3-21

4

Lecture: The birth of industrial warfare

Seminar: The Russo-Japanese war

Core reading: Chap. 2, Blanning (ed), Clive Trebilcock, 鈥楾he Industrialization of Modern Europe, 1750-1914鈥�, pp.46-75

5

Lecture: Colonial warfare

Seminar: 鈥淢artial Races鈥� and demographic anxieties

Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 3 鈥楨uropeans in a Violent World鈥�, pp.42-65

6

~ Reading Week: no lectures or seminars ~

7

Lecture: Pacifism in the nineteenth century

Seminar: Is war good for business?

Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 3, 鈥楶acifism and Militarism鈥�, pp.22-41

8

Lecture: The First World War and the totalization of warfare

Seminar: How to fight on the Western Front (1914-1918)

Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 4, 鈥榃ar and Revolution鈥�, pp.69-91

9

Lecture: Home fronts and social mobilization in WWI

Seminar: Gender in wartime

Core Reading: Blanning (ed.), Chap. 4, Pamela Pilbeam, 鈥楩rom Orders to Classes: European Society in the Nineteenth Century鈥�, pp.101-125

10

Lecture: Environmental Warfare

Seminar: Remembering the First World War

Reading: Blanning (ed.), Chap. 3, Hew Strachan, 鈥楳ilitary Modernization, 1789-1918鈥�, pp.76-100

Spring Term

11

Lecture: Regulating and preventing war (1899-1939)

Seminar: Disease, Disability, and the Humanitarian Impulse

Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 5, 鈥楾he Twenty-Year Truce鈥�, pp.92-118

12

Lecture: The Spanish Civil War

Seminar: Fascisms and war

Core Reading: Blanning (ed.), Chap. 6, Paul Preston, 鈥楾he Great Civil War: European Politics, 1914-1945鈥�, pp. 153-85

13

Lecture: The Second World War: a "thirty years' war"?

Seminar: Economic mobilization

Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 6, 鈥楾he Last European War鈥�, pp.119-44

14

Lecture: War and genocide in Europe (1915-1945)

Seminar: Was the Holocaust an act of war?

Core Reading: Blanning (ed.), Chap. 8, Richard Overy, 鈥榃arfare in Europe since 1918鈥�, pp.214-33

15

Lecture: Warfare and Welfare

Seminar: The World Wars and Citizenship

16

~ Reading Week: no lectures or seminars ~

17

Lecture: From war to civil wars: resistance, collaboration, and the aftermath of WWII

Seminar: Violence and the transition to peace

Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 7, 鈥楾he Foundations of the Postwar World鈥�, pp.147-71

18

Lecture: A Cold War?

Seminar: The meaning of deterrence

Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 8, 鈥楾he Rise of the Civilian State鈥�, pp.172-97

19

Lecture: Wars of decolonization

Seminar: The War of Algerian independence

Core Reading: Chap. 9, Richard Bessel, 鈥楨uropean Society in the Twentieth Century鈥�, Blanning (ed.), pp.234-59

20

Lecture: The dividends of peace

Seminar: The Euromissiles crisis

Core Reading: Chap. 11, David Reynolds, 鈥楨urope Divided and Reunited, 1945-1995鈥�, Blanning (ed.), pp.282-306

Summer Term

21

Lecture: Yugoslavia and the return of war in Europe

Seminar: Humanitarianism and Liberal interventionism

Core Reading: Sheehan, Chap. 9, 鈥榃hy Europe Will not Become a Superpower鈥�

22

Lecture: Transformations of war in Modern Europe

Seminar: Military history, the history of war, and Modern Europe

Core Reading: Sheehan, Epilogue