- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
The main issues of the European politics in the 19th century 3104-WH19TKIZ-OG
This lecture course will examine the main issues of the European politics from the French Revolution to the First World War. Political matters will be presented with a special emphasis on their social and cultural context. A focus of attention will be modernization and its political consequences.
1. Revolution as an idea.
2. Revolution as political praxis.
3. Revolution as trauma and mith.
4. Ideologies: „opium of the people”?
5. Commumities: between village and nation.
6. Power: legitymization, participation, loyalty.
7. Politics and private life: the old and the young, family, gender, sex.
8. Religion and politics.
9. Empires and nations: the Habsburg Empire.
10. Empires and nations: Russia.
11. Towards nation state: Italy.
12. Towards nation state: Germany.
13. Colonialism.
14. World politics: Great Britain and its rivals.
15. War in 19th-century Europe.
Type of course
elective courses
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
Students should identify crucial events and processes in 19th-century Europe, analyse historical matters in cause-and-effect categories and in a comparative way.
Assessment criteria
Student attendance (80%), test exam passed.
Bibliography
H. Kissinger, Diplomacy, New York 1994 {parts].
P. Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflicts from 1500 to 2000, New York 1987 [parts].
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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