Class Contemporary History (General)

Mastery of the main milestones, movements, characters and ruptures in the Contemporary World, making them functional in historical analysis.

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Part 1: The Construction of Modernity - The Enlightenment and the new conception of Man - The end of the Ancien Régime  - The Charter of Human and Citizen's Rights  - The rise of the bourgeoisie and its economic, social and political achievements - Liberalism, religion and culture Part 2: Liberal Society - The industrial revolution - The proletariat and social problems - Colonialism and European imperialism. The partition of Africa and the domination of Asia Part 3: The great contemporary revolutions - Nationalism - The unification of Germany and Italy - European fascisms - The Great Wars (I and II) - Decolonisation - The Cold War - The end of history and the return to the Cold War

The working sessions will be theoretical and practical. In the dynamics of the sessions, students will actively participate by reading some previously defined and distributed texts (Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen: Declaration of Independence of the USA; Communist Manifesto; Encyclical Rerum Novarum; Universal Declaration of the Rights of Humanity): The aim of these readings, connected in class. lies in the need to use the contexts of each document as a laboratory tool for understanding the changes, scope and implications of each one. The assessment, in addition to a written text, will involve participation in debates centred on these texts, as well as the preparation of an individual essay based on one of the texts mentioned, or one of the student's choice.

Duroselle, J. B. et al. - Histoire des Relations Internationales. Edition 12ª. Paris :Armand Colin, 2001, 2 Vols, Papel. ARMITAGE, David; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (2010). The Age of Revolutions in Global Context c.1760-1840. Nova York: Palgrave Macmillan. HEFFER, Jean; SERMAN, William (1999). O Século XIX, 1815-1914. Lisboa: Publicações D. Quixote. HOBSBAWM, Eric (1985). A Era das Revoluções (1789-1848). Lisboa: Presença. PORTER, Andrew (2011). O Imperialismo Europeu 1860-1914. Lisboa: Ec. 70.