This course is devoted to the global history of the long nineteenth century, mainly focusing on how global imperial situations have shaped politically, culturally, and
economically our contemporary world. Here, the European History course, common to first-year students of all campuses, will be critically incremented with histories of
the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Studying the increasingly Western European expansion around the globe and observing responses and conflicts from various
states and societies from North Africa to the Middle East, without forgetting Southern Europe.
This perspective intends to blur the boundaries of so-called European Modernity. We will discuss, for example, how the ideas of the Enlightenment and Revolutions were formed and how they were translated and implemented within societies considered peripheries, how colonial encounters and their conflicts formed
ideas of racial and civilizational differences, and the appearance of national states as a form of responding to global and local claims of sovereignty. In sum, this is a
course about a connected history of Europe, which includes its mediterranean surroundings within the globalizing and imperial nineteenth century.
Anthony CREZEGUT,Augusto PETTER,Catherine CORNET,Anna DAMON
Cours magistral et conférences
English
Autumn 2024-2025
1°) A "mid-term" is scheduled after the 6th session. It takes the same form as an exam (50% of the seminar
grade).
2°) A presentation based on a power-point will count for 25% of the seminar grade. It consists of a synthetic
presentation of a topic, from a problematic axis, dealing with between 4 and 6 themes of the course.
3°) Class activities from the seminars count for 25% of the seminar grade. The activities are offered in class
or homework and are designed and requested by each seminar teacher.
4°) A “final exam” is scheduled at the end of the semester. It counts as 33,3% of the final grade – the seminar
grade (points 1, 2 and 3 together) counts as 66,7% of the final grade.
Jürgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2014)