Course Details
Country:
Netherlands
Institution:
Free University of Amsterdam
Course Title:
Themes in Political History
Course Number:
L_GABAGES228
Course Description:
This course offers students an introduction to ‘big’ themes in modern political history that might include violence, (in)equality, freedom, citizenship, regime change, ideologies or social movements. The course explores the themes through historical case studies from Europe, Asia and Oceania to underline the global and transnational connections as well as specificities of political histories. Each topic is examined at three levels: first, historical actors’ understandings of the politics of their own actions; second, how scholars have explained ‘the political’ in these histories; and third, how the past is mobilised in the present for contemporary political purposes. We therefore examine primary sources, historiography and contemporary representations and debates around each major theme. The course encourages students to critically evaluate the political as a category of historical action, as well as an approach to the past, and a way of understanding its relevance to the present.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Attachment Files:
Studyguide (2)_20.pdf
