Germany, Europe and the World
Course Convenor: Dr Gavin Rand
Course Code: HIST 0042
This course explores the emergence of new powers within Europe and analyses the impacts of European power on the rest of the world, charting the expansion of German and European empires in the late 19th century to the crises of the European order after World War I. It then considers the cultural and diplomatic impacts of the Great War through the economic, social and political turbulence of the 1930s to the conflict and mass killing of WWII. In order to understand how the Nazi-directed genocide become possible, the course investigates the historiographical debates surrounding German history. In exploring European history through the late 19th and 20th centuries, the course considers not only what happened in the most violent periods, but also the ways in which the European world understood and responded to this history.