This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the MT. 10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT. 1 hour of lectures in the ST. There will be a reading week in the Michaelmas and the Lent terms and a revision session in the Summer Term.
Students will be required to submit three essays, the last one of which will be formally assessed. There will also be a mock exam in the Summer Term.
A detailed reading list will be provided at the start of the course. It will include William Hitchcock, France Restored: Diplomacy and the Leadership in Europe; Michael Hogan, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952; Marc Trachtenberg, A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement 1945-1963; Geir Lundestad, 'Empire by Integration': the United States and European Integration 1945-1997; Pascaline Winand, Eisenhower, Kennedy and the United States of Europe; Jeffrey Giauque, Grand Designs and Visions of Unity; N.Piers Ludlow, The European Community and the Crises of the 1960s; Timothy Garton Ash, In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent; Julius Friend, The Long Presidency, France in the Mitterrand Years; Phillip Gordon, A Certain Idea of France: French Security Policy and the Gaullist Legacy; Pekka Hamalainen, Uniting Germany; Kevin Featherstone, The Road to Maastricht
Exam (75%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period. Essay (25%, 3000 words).