The Modern World: Global History since 1760

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: Unknown

所在平台: CourseraArchive

课程类别: 人文

大学或机构: University of Virginia(弗吉尼亚大学)

授课老师: Philip Zelikow

课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/modernworld

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This is a survey course in modern world history for students, beginning or advanced, who wish to better understand how the world got to be the way it is today. In order to understand modern history, a global perspective is essential. This is true whether you are interested in economics, warfare, philosophy, politics, or even pop culture. This course can therefore be essential for students in many fields, a base equipping them with tools for lifelong learning. 

In its current form, the course on Coursera is not offered for college credit. But it is a vital part of the for credit course on this topic being offered at the University of Virginia in the spring semester of 2013. Both the Coursera and the UVA students will use the same online material as a common foundation for their different learning experiences.  This is the material to survey 'what happened' and the big questions about how to explain so many changes – some of those questions that start with:  "Why?"  (The students in the UVA course then supplement this online material with a lot of additional reading, research projects about the histories of particular communities around the world, in-person tutorials and discussions both with me and with their graduate teaching assistants, and examinations.)

It is tempting to think that if we can just understand the big patterns, we don't have to get too caught up in the details. In this course, though, we care about chronology. We care about individuals. Without some careful attention to sequences of cause and effect, without tracing how big changes come from the choices made by particular people, history can turn into just a series of descriptions, a somewhat tiresome recitation of one thing after another. Not this course. So a big part of what we will do is not only offer a set of remarkable stories, but also offer you training in how to analyze a situation and how to think about problems of explaining change.

课程大纲

In the outline that follows, the chronological periods being covered are approximate:

1. Week of January 14: From the Traditional to the Modern: Commercial and Military Revolutions (1760-1800)

2. Week of January 21: Democratic Revolutions of the Atlantic World (1760-1800)

3. Week of January 28: Revolutionary Wars (1800-1830)

4. Week of February 4: The World Transformed (1830-1870)

5. Week of February 11: The Rise of National Industrial States (1830-1871)

6. Week of February 18: The Rise of National Industrial Empires (1871-1900)

7. Week of February 25: The Great Acceleration (1890-1910)

8. Week of March 4: Crackup (1905-1917)

9. WEEK OF MARCH 11 - SPRING RECESS

10. Week of March 18: New Orders Emerge (1917-1930)

11. Week of March 25: The Crisis of the World (1930-1940)

12. Week of April 1: Total War and Aftermath (1940-1950)

13. Week of April 8: The Return of Wartime (1950-1968)

14. Week of April 15: Decay and Renaissance (1969-1991)

15. Week of April 22: The Next Phase (1991-2013)  

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This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. It begins with the revolutions of the late 1700s, tracks the transformation of the world during the 1800s, and analyzes the cataclysms of last century, concluding with the new phase of world history we are experiencing today.

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