Economic and Social History in the Early Modern Period

Code:

HISTO043

Acronym:

HESEMO

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	History

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of History, Political and International Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in History

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
HISTO	106	Study plan	2	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The main objective is to lead the student to acquire knowledge based on the understanding and interpretation of data. There are two complementary objectives: research, in the classroom, and research outside the classroom, in the library, in order to deepen the topics covered.

Learning outcomes and competences

General skills: ability to research, select and build knowledge
Specific skills:
. to acquire a language, strictly scientific and related terminology;
. to develop skills in the critical analysis of information to support the historiographical discourse;
. to analyse history beyond limited chronological milestones, formulating and questioning an overview of many events, distinguishing between the essential and the ancillary;
. to research and know the main characteristics of society in the Ancien Regime in order to interpret its structure and internal dynamics, assessing the contexts structuring the society and economics of modern times; . dominate the interpretation of historical sources which can contribute to clarify the themes proposed, justifying the existing historiographical concepts;
. to increase those skills in critical analysis of bibliography in order to apply to any professional situation, such as : teaching, work in archives, libraries or museums, in individual or group projects.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable

Program

Intoduction - the environmental conditions and their impacts; economic and social trends

1. Human Networks - looking for "the other" in a global framework under construction.


2. Resources, on land and at sea - exchange and discovery: opportunities and constraints.


3. Transform nature - rural work and urban work: organizational frameworks.

 
4. Of wealth and poverty: social order, overcoming heredity - accumulate and distribute.

Mandatory literature

ELIAS, Robert ; A sociedade de Corte, Estampa, 1987
BRAUDEL, Fernand ; Civilização Material, Economia e Capitalismo, D.Quixote, 1979, 1990
WALLERSTEIN, Immanuel ; O sistema mundial moderno, vol. I e vol. II, Afrontamento, 1990, 1994
CIPOLLA, Carlo M; História Económica da Europa Pré-Industrial, ed. 70, 1984 [1974]
Jutte Robert; Poverty and deviance in early modern Europe. ISBN: 0-521-42322-8
GOLDSTONE, Jack; História global da ascensão do ocidente, Edições de 70, 2010
Cavallo, Sandra & Evangelisti, Sandra; A cultural history of childhood and family in the Early Modern Age, v.3 , Bloomsbury, 2014
Scott, Hamist, ed.; The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1300-1750, vol. I Peoples & Placery, Oxford University Press, 2018

Comments from the literature

See Bibliography contained in the Programme.
Specific bibliography will be mentioned in each topic of the program.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Methodology: Theory-practical classes Students are required to present theme-related problems and seek answers in the proper educational supports, such as tables, graphs, printed documents, so that they may substantiate their hypotheses, and understand historiographical as syntheses. Consequently, for each theme, we propose a series of activities focused on the analysis and interpretation of practical situations. The tutorial classes will complement this methodology, focusing on the analysis of texts produced in the early modern period.

keywords

Humanities > History > Modern history
Humanities > History > Economic history
Social sciences
Humanities > History > Social history

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Participação presencial	0,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	60,00
Frequência das aulas	41,00
Trabalho laboratorial	61,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Not applicable for teams upper 30 students

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam: 100%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According with Assessment Rules

Classification improvement

Accordance with Assessment Rules