Course Objective:
The objective of this course is to help the students
(i) To be acquainted with the various factors that led to the French Revolution of
1789
(ii) The Art and Culture of the R evolution
(iii) The Restoration of royal dynasties , the radical movements , the evolution of
social classes, Industrialization, the First World War and Administrative
Reorganization in Italy and Germany.
Unit-1 The French Revolution and its European repercussions
[a] Crisis of Ancient Regime
[b] Intellectual Currents.
[c] Social Classes and Emerging Gender Relations.
[d] Phases of the French Revolution 1789 - 99.
[e] Art and Culture of French Revolution.
[f] Napoleonic Consolidation - Reform and Empire.
Unit-2 Restoration and Revolution: c. 1815 - 1848
[a] Forces of conservatism and Restoration of Old Hierarchies.
[b] Social, Political and Intellectual Currents.
[c] Revolutionary and Radical movements, 1830 - 1848.
Unit-3 Capitalist Industrialization and Social and Economic
Transformation: Late 18th century to AD 1914
[a] Process of Capitalist development in Industry and Agriculture: Case
Studies of Britain, France, the German States and Russia.
[b] Evolution and Differentiation of Social classes: Bourgeoisie, Proletariat,
Land Owning Classes and Peasantry.
[c] Changing Trends in Demography and Urban patterns.
[d] Family, Gender and process of Industrialization.
Unit-4 World War I :
Causes. Courses and Consequences
Unit-5 Varieties of Nationalism and the Remaking of States in the 19th and
20th Centuries.
[a] Intellectual currents, popular movements and the formation of National
identities in Germany, Italy, Ireland and the Balkans.
[b] Specificities of Economic Development, Political and Administrative
Reorganization - Italy; Germany.
Recommended Readings:
Gerald Brennan: The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background
of the Civil War.
C.M. Cipolla: Fontana Economic History of Europe, Volume III: The Industrial Revolution.
Norman Davies: Europe: A History
J. Evans: The Foundations of a Modern State in 19th Century Europe.
T.S. Hamerow: Restoration, Revolution and Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany
E.J. Hobsbawn: The Age of Revolution.
Lynn Hunt: Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution.
James Joll: Europe Since 1870.
David Landes: Prometheus Unbound.
George Lefebvre: Coming of the French Revolution.
George Lichtheim : A Short History of Socialism.
Peter Mathias: First Industrial Revolution.
Alec Nove: An Economic History of the USSR.
Andrew Porter: European Imperialism, 1876-1914
Anthony Wood: History of Europe, 1815-1960
Stuart Woolf: History of Italy, 1700 - 1860.
G. Barrowclough, An Introduction to Contemporary History.
Fernand Braudel, History and the Social Science in M. Aymard and
H. Mukhia Ed. French Studies in History, Vol. I (1989).
Maurice Dobb: Soviet Economic Development Since 1917.
M. Perrot and G. Duby [eds.]: A History of Women in the West, Volumes 4 and 5.
H.J. Hanham; Nineteenth Century Constitution, 1815 - 1914.
E.J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism.
Charles and Barbara Jelavich: Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1840 û 1920.
James Joll, Origins of the First World war (1989).
Jaon B. Landes: Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution.
David lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country.
Colin Licas: The French Revolution and the Making of Modern Political Culture, Volume
Nicholas Mansergh: The Irish Question, 1840 û 1921.
K.O. Morgan: Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Volume 3 [1789 -1983].
R.P. Morgan: German Social Democracy and the First International.
N.V. Riasanovsky: A History of Russia.
J.M. Robert, Europe 1880 û 1985.
J.J. Roth (ed.), World War I : A Turning Point in Modern History.
Albert Soboul: History of the French Revolution (in two volumes).
Lawrence Stone, History and the Social Sciences in the Twentieth Century The Past and the
Present (1981).
Dorothy Thompson: Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution.
E.P. Thompson: Making of the English Working Class.
Michel Vovelle, fall of the French Monarchy.
H. Seton Watson: The Russian Empire.
Raymond Williams: Culture and Society
The objective of this course is to help the students
(i) To be acquainted with the various factors that led to the French Revolution of
1789
(ii) The Art and Culture of the R evolution
(iii) The Restoration of royal dynasties , the radical movements , the evolution of
social classes, Industrialization, the First World War and Administrative
Reorganization in Italy and Germany.
Unit-1 The French Revolution and its European repercussions
[a] Crisis of Ancient Regime
[b] Intellectual Currents.
[c] Social Classes and Emerging Gender Relations.
[d] Phases of the French Revolution 1789 - 99.
[e] Art and Culture of French Revolution.
[f] Napoleonic Consolidation - Reform and Empire.
Unit-2 Restoration and Revolution: c. 1815 - 1848
[a] Forces of conservatism and Restoration of Old Hierarchies.
[b] Social, Political and Intellectual Currents.
[c] Revolutionary and Radical movements, 1830 - 1848.
Unit-3 Capitalist Industrialization and Social and Economic
Transformation: Late 18th century to AD 1914
[a] Process of Capitalist development in Industry and Agriculture: Case
Studies of Britain, France, the German States and Russia.
[b] Evolution and Differentiation of Social classes: Bourgeoisie, Proletariat,
Land Owning Classes and Peasantry.
[c] Changing Trends in Demography and Urban patterns.
[d] Family, Gender and process of Industrialization.
Unit-4 World War I :
Causes. Courses and Consequences
Unit-5 Varieties of Nationalism and the Remaking of States in the 19th and
20th Centuries.
[a] Intellectual currents, popular movements and the formation of National
identities in Germany, Italy, Ireland and the Balkans.
[b] Specificities of Economic Development, Political and Administrative
Reorganization - Italy; Germany.
Recommended Readings:
Gerald Brennan: The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background
of the Civil War.
C.M. Cipolla: Fontana Economic History of Europe, Volume III: The Industrial Revolution.
Norman Davies: Europe: A History
J. Evans: The Foundations of a Modern State in 19th Century Europe.
T.S. Hamerow: Restoration, Revolution and Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany
E.J. Hobsbawn: The Age of Revolution.
Lynn Hunt: Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution.
James Joll: Europe Since 1870.
David Landes: Prometheus Unbound.
George Lefebvre: Coming of the French Revolution.
George Lichtheim : A Short History of Socialism.
Peter Mathias: First Industrial Revolution.
Alec Nove: An Economic History of the USSR.
Andrew Porter: European Imperialism, 1876-1914
Anthony Wood: History of Europe, 1815-1960
Stuart Woolf: History of Italy, 1700 - 1860.
G. Barrowclough, An Introduction to Contemporary History.
Fernand Braudel, History and the Social Science in M. Aymard and
H. Mukhia Ed. French Studies in History, Vol. I (1989).
Maurice Dobb: Soviet Economic Development Since 1917.
M. Perrot and G. Duby [eds.]: A History of Women in the West, Volumes 4 and 5.
H.J. Hanham; Nineteenth Century Constitution, 1815 - 1914.
E.J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism.
Charles and Barbara Jelavich: Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1840 û 1920.
James Joll, Origins of the First World war (1989).
Jaon B. Landes: Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution.
David lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country.
Colin Licas: The French Revolution and the Making of Modern Political Culture, Volume
Nicholas Mansergh: The Irish Question, 1840 û 1921.
K.O. Morgan: Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Volume 3 [1789 -1983].
R.P. Morgan: German Social Democracy and the First International.
N.V. Riasanovsky: A History of Russia.
J.M. Robert, Europe 1880 û 1985.
J.J. Roth (ed.), World War I : A Turning Point in Modern History.
Albert Soboul: History of the French Revolution (in two volumes).
Lawrence Stone, History and the Social Sciences in the Twentieth Century The Past and the
Present (1981).
Dorothy Thompson: Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution.
E.P. Thompson: Making of the English Working Class.
Michel Vovelle, fall of the French Monarchy.
H. Seton Watson: The Russian Empire.
Raymond Williams: Culture and Society
