G3051103 - Historia del Mundo Contemporáneo (Formación básica) - Curso 2012/2013

Información

• Créditos ECTS
• Créditos ECTS: 6.00
• Total: 6.0
• Horas ECTS
• Clase Expositiva: 30.00
• Clase Interactiva Seminario: 15.00
• Horas de Tutorías: 2.00
• Total: 47.0

Otros Datos

• Tipo: Materia Ordinaria Grado RD 1393/2007
• Departamentos: Historia Contemporánea y de América
• Áreas: Historia Contemporánea
• Centro: Facultad de Geografía e Historia
• Convocatoria: 1º Semestre de Titulaciones de Grado/Máster
• Docencia y Matrícula: null

Profesores

Nombre	Coordinador
BARRAL MARTINEZ, MARGARITA.	NO
Cabo Villaverde, Miguel.	SI

Horarios

Nombre	Tipo Grupo	Tipo Docencia	Horario Clase	Horario exámenes
CLIS03	Horarios	Clase Interactiva Seminario	SI	NO
Grupo CLE01	Ordinario	Clase Expositiva	SI	SI
Grupo CLIS_01	Ordinario	Clase Interactiva Seminario	SI	NO
Grupo CLIS_02	Ordinario	Clase Interactiva Seminario	SI	NO
Grupo TI-ECTS01	Ordinario	Horas de Tutorías	SI	NO
Grupo TI-ECTS02	Ordinario	Horas de Tutorías	NO	NO
Grupo TI-ECTS03	Ordinario	Horas de Tutorías	NO	NO
Grupo TI-ECTS04	Ordinario	Horas de Tutorías	NO	NO
Grupo TI-ECTS05	Ordinario	Horas de Tutorías	NO	NO
Grupo TI-ECTS06	Ordinario	Horas de Tutorías	NO	NO

Programa

Existen programas da materia para los siguientes idiomas:

Castellano

Gallego

Inglés

Course objectives
The Student must:

1- To know the General Diachronic Structure of Universal Contemporary History, with Emphasis in the European Continent.
2- To know the Processes of Continuity and Change of the last Centuries: Political, Economic, Social and Cultural.
3- To understand critically the Factors/ Agents that were forming the Contemporary Society, and with them the main explanatory Keys of the Past.
4- To know the Different Perspectives and Main Historiographic Debates according to the Periods and Contexts, can develop a critical attitude and take Conscience that the Historical Knowledge is a Discipline in Permanent Construction.
5- To know how to analyze the Present in a critical Way through its Historical Perspective. The Characteristics of the Current Society take roots in the Recent Past; the Dominant Economic System (capitalist) formed in its current Shape along the Centuries XIX and XX; the Doctrines and Basic Political World Views proceed of the XIX Century (Socialism, Liberalism, Nationalism…)

Contents
1- Crisis of Ancient Regime. Society, Policy and Economy.
- Structural Transformations (Demographic, Agrarian, Industrial and Transport Revolution).
- Overcoming of Ancient Regime: French Revolution and Napoleonic Europe.
- Social Changes in the Long XIX Century: Emancipation of the Slaves, the Back Movement of the Slavery, of Vassals to Citizens.

2- Ideologies and Political Systems (I): The Advancement of Liberalism.
- Ideological Bases and the Antecedents of Liberalism: Natural Law, English Revolution, the Reform, the Enlightenment.
- Restoration and the Vienna System.
- Liberal Revolutionary Cycle: 1820s, 1830, 1848.

3- Ideologies and Political Systems (II): Growth of Democracy. Nationalist Ideas.
- Democracy and Liberalism.
- Types of Nationalism since the Point of Ideological View.
- Nationalism of Unification (Germany, Italy) and the Disaggregation in the last Third of the XIX Century.

4- Class Society and Social Movements. Labour Movement and Socialist Project.
- Labour Movement: National Variants. The Internationals.
- Marx and the Marxism.
- Anarchism.
- Other Variants: Radical Republicanism, Social-Catholicism.
- Social Movements and Mass Society.

5- International Relations and Imperialist Expansionism: the Armed Peace (1871-1914).
- Colonialism.
- Blocks Balance. The Armed Peace and the Way towards Sarajevo.

6- First World War. Peace Treaties and the Territorial Reorganization of Europe.
- The Great War: a New Type of Conflict; Development; Rear; Social and Cultural Consequences.
- Consequences of the War to end all Wars.
- Peace Treaties and the New Europe Map.

7- The Russian Revolution and the Construction of the Soviet Regime.
- Final Phase of the Russian Empire. Decline or Renewal?
- Intervention in the Great War. February Revolution.
- October Revolution and Civil War.
- International Dimension of Russian Revolution.
- Consolidation of Revolution: the NEP.
- Stalinism. Historiographic Readings.

8- Economy and Society in the Interwar Period.
- Difficulties of Post-war.
- Roaring Twenties.
- The Great Depression and the Abandonment of the Liberal Orthodoxy. National Ways to get out the Crisis.
- Social Transformations: Leisure Industry and Consumer Society; the Changes in the Social Roles of Woman; the New Mass Phenomena (Cinema, Sport, Radio…).

9- The Crisis of Democracy and the Irruption of Fascisms.
- Fascism: General Concept and National Variants.
- The Crisis of the Liberal Democracy before the Growth of Fascism and Communism.
- The Historiographic Debates on the Fascism: the Consensus, the Modern Character or reactive, the Role of the Different Social Groups, etc.

10- International Relations and the Second World War.
- The First Cracks in the Versailles System.
- The Failure of the League of Nations. The Accumulation of Challenges (Abyssinian, Manchuria).
- The German Expansionism.
- The Non-Intervention Policy in the Spanish Civil War as Paradigm.
- The Appeasement: The Munich Conference.
- The Second World War: Development of the Conflict; the War Crimes; the Holocaust; the total War.
- A New World Order: Yalta and Potsdam.


Basic and complementary bibliography
- Artola, M., Pérez Ledesma, M., 2005, Contemporánea: la historia desde 1776, Madrid, Alianza.
- Heffer, J., Serman, W., 1989, De las Revoluciones a los imperialismos, Madrid, Akal.
- Miralles, R., 1996, Equilibrio, hegemonía y reparto. Las relaciones internacionales entre 1870 y 1945, XX Madrid, Síntesis.
- Villares, R., Bahamonde, A., 2001, El Mundo contemporáneo, siglos XIX y XX, Madrid, Taurus.
- Zamagni, V., 2001, Historia económica de la Europa Contemporánea, Barcelona, Crítica.

Unit 1
- Baldó i Lacomba, M., La revolución industrial, Madrid, Síntesis, 1993.
- McPhee, P., La revolución francesa, una nueva historia, 1789-1799, Barcelona, Crítica, 2003.
- Hobsbawm, E. J., Industria e Imperio, Barcelona, Ariel, 1988, 3ª ed.

Unit 2
- Cabeza Sánchez-Albornoz. Los movimientos revolucionarios de 1820, 1830 y 1848 en sus documentos, Barcelona: Ariel, 1988.
- Rudé, G. (1982), Europa desde las guerras napoleónicas a la revolución de 1848, Madrid: Cátedra.
- Todd, A., Las revoluciones, 1789-1917, Madrid, Alianza, Madrid.

Unit 3
- Hobsbawm, E. J. Naciones y nacionalismo desde 1789, Barcelona, Crítica, 1999.
- Núñez Seixas, X. M. Los movimientos nacionalistas en Europa, Madrid, Síntesis, 1999.
- Smith, A. Nacionalismo y Modernidad, Madrid, Itsmo, 1999.

Unit 4
- Hobsbawm, E. J. (comp.), Historia del marxismo, Barcelona, Bruguera. 1979-1981.
- Páez Camino, F. y Llorente, P.: Los movimientos sociales (hasta 1914), Akal, Madrid, 1984.
- Piqueras Arenas, J. A., El movimiento obrero, Madrid, Anaya, 1992.

Unit 5
- Comellas, J. L. (2001), Los grandes imperios colonials, Madrid: Rialp
- Ferguson, N. El imperio británico: cómo Gran Bretaña forjó el mundo, Barcelona, Debate, 2003.
- Zorgbibe, Ch. (1997), Historia de las relaciones internacionales, Madrid: Alianza.

Unit 6
- Howard, M. , La Primera Guerra Mundial, Barcelona, Crítica, 2004.
- Morrow, J. H. La Gran Guerra, Barcelona, Edhasa, 2008.
- Neiberg, M. La Gran Guerra: una historia global (1914-1918), Barcelona, Paidós, 2006.

Unit 7
- Carr, E. H., La revolución rusa, de Lenin a Stalin (1917-1929), Madrid, Alianza, 1988.
- Figes, O. Interpretar la revolución rusa: 1891-1924, la tragedia de un pueblo, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2000.
- Taibo, C., La Unión Soviética (1917-1991), Madrid, síntesis, 1993.

Unit 8
- Cabrera, M. et al. (eds.), Europa en crisis, Madrid, Siglo XXI, 1991.
- Galbraith, J.K. El crac del 29, Barcelona, Ariel, 1989.
- Kindleberger, Ch. P., La crisis económica 1920-1939, Barcelona Crítica, 1984.

Unit 9
- Evans, R. j., El Tercer Reich en el poder (1933-1939), Barcelona, Península, 2007.
- Maier, Ch., La refundación de la Europa burguesa, Madrid, Ministerio de Trabajo y SS, 1991.
- Payne, S., Historia del Fascismo, Barcelona, Planeta, 1995.

Unit 10
- Mazower, M., El imperio de Hitler. Ascenso y Caída, Barcelona, Crítica, 2008.
- Weinberg, G. L. Un mundo en armas. La Segunda Guerra Mundial, una visión de conjunto, Barcelona, Grijalbo, 1995.
- Williamson, M., La guerra que había que ganar, Barcelona, Crítica, 2007.


Competence
Specific:

The Student will be able to:
1- To contextualize in Historical Terms the Political, Social, Economic and Cultural Contemporary Reality and the Current Events and Problems.
2- To analyze critically Past and Present Complex Social Realities of the Contemporary World.
3- To explain in Historical Terms the Diversity of the Current World, finding the Roots of the Contemporary World as the Migratory Movement, the Ecological Crisis, the Economic Inequality, the Coexistence of Different Cultures, etc.
4- To compare in Historical Terms Different Historical and Space Realities from the Complexity and the Diversity that form the Evolutive Processes.
5- To domain the Specific Conceptual Base of the Historical Processes referred to the Transit and more to the Field of Contemporaneity.

Transversal:

The Student will be able to:
1- To locate and to select in a Critical Way the Information that is necessary of Bibliography and Historical Sources, so the correct Use of the Digital Resources, Cleaning, Arranging in Order and Organizing in a Critical and Correct Way the Information and Available Material.
2- Autonomous Learning.
3- To elaborate by Written and to expose orally Historical Contents with Conceptual Rigor and the Formalities of Presentation of Historical Science.
4- To reason critically from a reflexive Reading so much the Events as the Available Information- Sources, Monographs, Expositions, etc.
5- To organize and to work in Group.


Teaching methodology
With the Objective of facility and rationalize the Giving of the Subject will use the next Techniques:
- Expositive Classes in which will explain the Theoretical Contents.
- Interactive Classes in which the Activities will be Practice and relation with the Theoretical Contents of the Subject.
- Personalized Tutorship.

In the Next Table it will point out the Distribution of the Activities.
Type Teaching Total Hours/Subject
Exp. Teach. 30
Inter. Teach. 15
Pers. Tutor. 2

Assessment system
The Assessment will consist of 3 Parts: Written Exam, Participation in Seminars and Personal Works. The Written Exam will suppose the 40% of the Final Qualification. The Seminars and Works will suppose each one of them the 30% of the Final Qualification. As the Assessment is Continuum the Attendance to the Classes is Compulsory, that’s why a Repetitive Absence, Superior to the 20%, will suppose the Impossibility that the Student can be assessed.

The written exam will include a short essay and the analysis of a text, both in February and July.

- Criteria to qualify the Student Works.

1- Level of Domain of the Contents.
2- Level of Domain of the General and Specific Historical Terminology of the Subject or Period approached.
3- Capacity of Synthesis and Hierarchical Structure of the Relevant Aspects in the Elaboration of a Theme.
4- Capacity of Critical Analysis and Interpretative Reasoning.
5- Capacity of Relation and/or Comparison, to elaborate a Theme.
6- The Presentation and Organization in General of the Exercises.
7- The Level of Domain of the Techniques of Formal Presentation of the Works.
8- It will penalize the Uncritical Thinking and without citing of Material obtained in the Net.

Mechanisms of Control:
- Text Comments.
- Tutorials.
- Participation in the Class.


Study time and individual work
It depends on a lot of Inherent Factors to the Student (Capacity of Reading, Interest for the Subject, and Enthusiasm for the Learning…). In spite of the Excessive Bureaucracy- Pedagogical the University must insist on Results and Non in the Personal Effort, that is a necessary Step but not enough. So, it is considered Totally Indifferent, impossible and Unnecessary quantify the “Study Time and Personal Work” that is necessary for each Student in this Subject.


Comments
To achieve the estimated Objectives for this Subject will facility good Results in other Subjects of the Degree, as obviously Contemporary History of Spain but also in others: Geography of the Inequality, European Union, etc.