This course focuses on issues of state formation and nationalism since the 12th century in (Western-) Europe, concentrating on developments in the Low Countries, Germany, France and Britain.
Rooster
Semester I, see timetables.
Onderwijsvorm
Literature Seminar; attendance is compulsory ( see the rules and regulations of the Department of History, art. 2).
Leerdoelen
Students acquire a thorough knowledge of the history of states and nations in Europe.
Literatuur
See programme
Toetsing
*Participation (10 %) and paper (90 %) *Paper of 4.000-5.000 words based on about 500 pages extra literature.
Informatie
With coördinator: H.J.Storm@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
Blackboard/webpagina
No.
Overzicht
Week 1: Prof. Dr. W. Blockmans:
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities. Reflections on the origin and Spread of Nationalism (Revised edition. New York: Verso, 1991).
Hagen Schulze, States, nations and nationalism: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Oxford: Blackwell 1998).
Charles Tilly, Coercion, capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 (Oxford: Blackwell; 2e ed. 1992).
Week 2: Dr. R. Stein:
J. Israel, The Dutch Republic; its rise, greatness and fall 1477-1806 (Oxford 1995): Chap. 2, ‘On the threshold of the modern era’, 9-40; Chap. 4, ‘Territorial consolidation’, 55-73.
Week 3: Prof. Dr. J. Pollmann
Alastair Duke, ‘From King and Country to King or Country. Loyalty and Treason in the Revolt of the Netherlands’ , Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, 32 (1982), pp. 113-35 (reprinted in Alastair Duke, Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries London,1990, chapter 8).
J.L. Price, The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century (Basingstoke 1998), chapters 1-4 (107 pp.).
Week 4: Dr. P. Dassen
A. Labrie, ‘Kultur and Zivilisation in Germany during the nineteenth century’, in: Yearbook of European Studies 7 (1994) 95-120.
D. Blackbourn, History of Germany 1780-1918. The Long Nineteenth Century (2nd ed., Oxford 2003)
B. Waller, ‘Germany: independence and unification with power’, in: B. Waller (ed.), Themes in modern European History 1830-1890 (London & New York 2002), 99-122.
Week 5: Dr. H.J. Storm
Eric J. Hobsbawm, Nations and nationalism since 1780. Programme, myth, reality (Cambridge 1990).
Anthony D. Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998) Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 8.
Week 6: Dr. J. Augusteijn
G. Esping-Anderson, The three worlds of welfare capitalism (Princeton University Press 1990) p. 1-138.
Rodney Lowe, ‘Torn between Europe and America. The British Welfare State from Beveridge to Blair’ in Anneke Ribberink and Hans Righart (eds.), The Great, the New and the British (Utrecht 2000).
John Gelissen, Worlds of Welfare, Worlds of Consent? Public Opinion on the Welfare State (Tilburg 2001) Chapter 2, pp. 21-50.
Opmerkingen
This literature seminar is part of the Europaeum-programme European History and Civilisation and is only open to students participating in this specialisation.
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