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Duration
The course comprises of one lecture per week
over one twelve-week term commencing
Monday, 12 January 2015. There is a one week
break from 23-27 February 2015 when no
lectures will take place.
American History: A Survey
An introduction to the main events of American
history from the beginnings of English
colonisation in the early seventeenth-century to
the present, this lecture-only course places
emphasis on the territorial expansion of the
English colonies and the political and cultural
developments which accompanied that process;
the establishment of American independence;
the writing of the U.S. Constitution; slavery; the
origins of the Civil War; industrialisation,
urbanisation and the problems of a multi-ethnic
society. The evolution of American society as a
multi-ethnic community with substantial and
increasing divergences in wealth and income is
traced. Changes in American popular culture are
considered. The emergence of the US as a
world power, and America’s foreign policy and
relations with the rest of the world is also given
prominence.
Lecturers
Professor Ciaran Brady, Professor Daniel Geary
How to apply
You may register and pay by credit/laser card
online at
after 5 August 2014 or you can
download an application form and send it with a
cheque/draft/postal money order made payable
to Trinity College no. 1 account to: Dr Patricia
Stapleton, Extramural Administrator, School
of Histories and Humanities, room 3141,
Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
Applications may be made in person after
Tuesday, 5 August 2014, in room 3141, Arts
Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2 from 2.30 p.m.
to 4.30 p.m. between 5 and 29 August 2014 only
or by appointment (phone 01 896 8589).
Fee
€150 for the course. A concession rate of €75 is
available to second and third level students and
people whose primary source of income is social
welfare, health board or a government-
sponsored employment scheme.
Time and place
This is a day-time course. Time and venue to be
confirmed, please check our website:
after 5 August 2014 for update or text ‘INFO’
followed by your name and address to
087 2572015.
Duration
The course comprises of two lectures per week
over one twelve-week term commencing
Monday, 12 January 2015. There is a one week
break from 23-27 February 2015 when no
lectures will take place.
Cataclysm and Renewal:
History of Continental Europe
1914
to the Present
This lecture-only course encompasses some of
the most dramatic events in European and world
history: the rise of fascism and communism, the
Second World War, the Holocaust. It explains
how democracy and European civilisation,
almost entirely defeated and destroyed, made
an extraordinary recovery in the period since
1945.
The course provides an overall view of
the history of modern Europe since the later
nineteenth-century and the foundations of
contemporary Europe.
