Selected Topics in General History of the 19th Century

The course examines the general history of the nineteenth-century, with particular emphasis on global demographic, economic, social, and cultural processes such as the demographic revolution; urbanisation (the town–countryside relationship) and migration (forms and directions); the agrarian revolution; proto-industrialisation; the Industrial Revolution; the emergence of national markets and colonial policy; changes in the structure of classes and estates; the development of the bourgeoisie (with particular emphasis on new professions, nineteenth-century bourgeois professional culture, and bourgeois sociability); national movements and the nationalisation of the masses; liberalism and the emergence of mass political parties; women’s political movements; secularisation; and the emergence of antisemitism and racism.

The content is drawn from the broadest framework of the course and considers all major political, social, economic, cultural, and intellectual processes; it is then thematically integrated and developed. In principle, each semester focuses on different thematic units, selected either for their significance within the period or for their contemporary relevance. From a wide range of possible topics: the formation of modern non-dominant nations; a comparison of British, French, and Russian imperialism; the Catholic Church’s responses to the social question in the nineteenth century; the impact of technological change on ways of life; the historical memory of the First World War; etc.

Osterhammel, Jürgen. The transformation of the world: a global history of the nineteenth century. America in the world. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. COBISS.SI-ID – 3228020
G. Bock, Ženske v evropski zgodovini, Ljubljana 2004, 432 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 215367936
J. Fontana, Evropa pred zrcalom, Ljubljana 2003, 191 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 126688768
R. Sieder, Socialna zgodovina družine, Ljubljana 1998, 382 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 74776320
H. Schulze, Država in nacija v evropski zgodovini, Ljubljana 2004, 353 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 126441728
P. Aries, G. Duby (ur.), Histoire de la vie privée, Pariz 1986, III. del., 634 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 17999202
G. L. Mosse, Nationalization of the Masses, Ithaca 1991, 252 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 11793250
J. Kocka, Burgertum im 19. Jahrhundert, München 1995 COBISS.SI-ID - 106906883
P. Hudson, The industrial revolution, London 1992 COBISS.SI-ID – 2065811