Contemporary European History

Code:

FLUP0540

Acronym:

HECONT

Instance: 2004/2005 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of History, Political and International Studies
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EE	21	Official Study Plan - LEE	3	2,5	5	-
		Plano oficial a partir de 2002	3	2,5	5	-
EECIT	10	Official Study Plan - LEECIT	1	2,5	5	-
EEFA	0	Official Study Plan - LEEFA	3	2,5	5	-
EEFI	0	Official Study Plan - LEEFI	3	2,5	5	-
EEIA	0	Official Study Plan - LEEIA	3	2,5	5	-

Objectives

By the end of the semester, students should be able to:
1. Acknowledge the emergence of mass society at a European scale, by means of perceiving phenomena such as industrialization, urbanization, widespread schooling and the creation of mass socio-political organizations;
2. Systematize the great changes of Europe’s position within the world after the two world wars as well as the changes within Europe’s structure and internal organization, from a political, economic and social point of view;
3. Explain the emergence of contemporary European colonialism within the historic context of industrial capitalism and relate it with ideological phenomena such as nationalism and racism.

Program

1. INTRODUCTION: diagnosis test and propaedeutical reflection on the subject’s role within the course syllabus, students’ expectations and the historical meaning of contemporaneity.

2. EUROPEAN SOCIETY AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH CENTURY:
2.1 Democratisation and social massification.
2.2 The working class movement.
2.3 Nationalisms and «national construction».
2.4 Contemporary European colonialism and imperialism.

3. GLOBAL WARS AND IDEOLOGICAL CONFRONTATION IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY:
3.1 The two world wars: war of masses, ideological war.
3.2 The great crisis of the European capitalist civilization:
3.2.1 The Soviet revolution and the first democratic movements.
3.2.2 The crisis of the liberal models in the economy and in political conceptions.
3.2.3 The ascension of fascisms, political polarization and «totalitarianisms».
3.3 From the first European unification projects («collective safety») to the national-socialist «New European Order».
3.4 Portugal and Europe during the first half of the 20th century: the Republic and Salazar's regime.

4. THE END OF EUROPEAN SUPREMACY:
4.1 A Europe divided between a bipolar world: the Cold War and the atomic age: the opposing military and political-economic blocks.
4.2 Decolonisation and the change in Europe’s relationship with the world.
4.3 The new era of crisis: the western welfare state and the Soviet «real socialism» crises. The end of the bipolar conflict.
4.4 The end of the millennium in Europe: from the E.E.C. enlargement (with Portugal becoming a member-state) to the European Union; the new nationalist conflicts. New freedom and new intolerance.

Main Bibliography

BARRETO, António; MÓNICA, Maria Filomena (coords.) (1999-2000). Dicionário de História de Portugal, vols. VII-IX (Suplemento). Porto: Figueirinhas.
DROZ, Bernard; ROWLEY, Anthony (1988- ), História do Século XX, 4 vols., trad. port.. Lisboa: Pubs. Dom Quixote.
HOBSBAWM, Eric J. (1990), A Era do Império, 1875-1914, trad. port.. Lisboa: Presença.
HOBSBAWM, Eric J. (1996), A Era dos Extremos. História breve do séc. XX, trad. port.. Lisboa: Presença.
REIS, António (dir.) (1989-90), Portugal Contemporâneo, 6 vols. Lisboa: Publicações Alfa.
ROSAS, Fernando; BRITO, J. M. Brandão de (dir.) (1996-97). Dicionário de História do Estado Novo, 2 vols.. S.l.: Círculo de Leitores.

Complementary Bibliography

BESSIS, Sophie (2002). Occidente y los otros. Historia de una supremacía. Trad. esp. [ed. ori.: (2001). Paris: Editions La Découverte & Syros]. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
CHARNY, Israel (dir.) (2001), Le livre noir de l'humanité, trad. fr.. Paris.
COLLOTTI, Enzo (1992), Fascismo, fascismos, trad. port.. Lisboa: Caminho.
GINER, Salvador (1994). Historia del pensamiento social. 9ª ed. aumentada e actualizada. Barcelona: Editorial Ariel.
JIMÉNEZ REDONDO, Juan Carlos (1996), El ocaso de la amistad de las dictaduras ibéricas, 1955-1968. Mérida: U.N.E.D./Centro Regional de Extremadura.
LEWIN, Moshe (2003). Le siècle soviétique, trad. fr.. Paris: Fayard.
LIPGENS, Walter (ed.) (1985- ), Documents on the History of European Integration, 4 vols.. Berlim/Nova York/Florença: Walter de Gruyter/European University Institute.
LLOBERA, Josep R. (2000), O Deus da Modernidade. O desenvolvimento do nacionalismo na Europa Ocidental. Trad. port.. Oeiras: Celta.
MARTÍNEZ CARRERAS, José U. (1987), Historia de la descolonización, 1919-1986. Las independencias de Asia y Africa. Madrid: Istmo.
MAZOWER, Mark (1998), Dark Continent. Europe's 20th Century. Londres: Allen Lane/The Penguin Press.
MICHEL, Henri (1977), Os Fascismos, trad. port.. Lisboa: Pubs. Dom Quixote.
MIEGE, Jean-Louis (1973), Expansion européenne et décolonisation de 1870 à nos jours. Paris: P.U.F..
PINTO, António Costa; TEIXEIRA, Nuno Severiano (org.) (1998), «Portugal e a unificação europeia», nº 18 da revista Penélope (Maio de 1998), Lisboa: Edições Cosmos.
RÉMOND, René (1994), Introdução à História do Nosso Tempo. Do Antigo Regime aos nossos dias. Lisboa: Gradiva.
ROSAS, Fernando (1994), «O Estado Novo (1926-1974)», in MATTOSO, José (dir.), História de Portugal, vol. VII. S.l: Círculo de Leitores [ou Lisboa: Editorial Estampa].
SALMON, T.; NICOLL, W. (ed.) (1997), Building European Union. A Documentary History and Analysis. Manchester.
TERNON, Yves (1995), El Estado criminal. Los genocidios en el siglo XX, trad. esp.. Barcelona: Ediciones Península.
THIESSE, Anne-Marie (2001). La création des identités nationales. Europe, XVIIIe-XXe siècle. Paris: Seuil.
TORRE, Hipólito de la (1991), Portugal, España y Europa. Cien años de desafío (1890-1990). III Jornadas de Estudios Luso-Españoles. Mérida: U.N.E.D./Centro Regional de Extremadura.
WILLIAMS, Allan M. (1992), A Comunidade Europeia. As contradições do processo de integração, trad. port. (ed. ori.: 1991). Oeiras: Celta Editora.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Classes will consist of a set of coursework activities comprising illustration of information blocks, eventually included in the photocopied texts that students have at their disposal beforehand; analysis of written documents or videographs, occasionally of data collected in field trips; and analysis of bibliographic and/or documentary research work undertaken by students according to indications provided at the beginning of the semester.

Software

No specific software required.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Students must obtain a minimum pass mark in one of the alternative assessment tasks mentioned above.

Calculation formula of final grade

Mark obtained in one of the alternative assessment tasks.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Please see 'Evaluation Components' above.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the Assessment Regulations in force

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations in force.

Observations

Language of instruction: Portuguese. Students may submit assignments and exams in English, French, Spanish and Italian.