HIU12028: War and Peace in Modern Europe
In this module, we discuss how Europe was defined through war, military occupations, civil conflicts,
and peace agreements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Module Coordinator:
- Dr Patrick Houlihan
- Duration:
- Michaelmas term
- Contact Hours:
- TBC
- Weighting:
- 10 ECTS
- Assessment:
- TBC
Drawing on examples of various—
through often interrelated—conflicts, we discuss several major questions: How did international and
civil conflicts shape European culture and politics? Why was the twentieth century so violent? How
did Europe become divided into “right” and “left,” and “East” and “West”? How are these conflicts
and political extremes remembered or forgotten today? Comparing writings and films from across
the continent, including Britain, Poland, Spain, Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany, we
ask how the map of the continent has changed over the past century and whether it is possible to
write a single history of Europe.