1. HTA101

2. HTA101 Introductions Course Materials Teaching Organisation Assessment
Unit Overview

3. Lecturers
Dr Gavin Daly
Dr Anthony Page
Tutor
Dr Philip Caudrey

4. Unit Coordinator
Gavin Daly
Rm 455 Humanities Building
Tel: (03)
Consultation: Thurs

5. Course Materials Unit Outline (MyLO)
Unit Reader: Making Modern Europe: Unit Reader [MyLO or purchase hardcopy at Uniprint]
Recommended Text: Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory: Europe (Penguin, 2007) [Co-op bookstore]

6. MyLO Unit Outline Lecture recordings Lecture outlines & slides
Assignment submission
Tutorial enrolment

7. Tutorial enrolment through MyLO
‘Groups’ on the Navigation Bar
‘Contents’ has a guide to tutorial enrolment
Tutorials start in week 2

8. Assessment Tutorial Participation 10% First assignment 10%
Second assignment 40%
Exam (2 hr) 40%

9. Written Assessment 500 word primary source analysis (wk 5)
2000 word research essay (wk 12)

10. Primary Source Analysis
Select one primary source document from the tutorial readings for one of the following topics: Louis XIV, The Glorious Revolution, or Russia under Peter the Great.
Write a short analysis of your selected primary source that assesses its strengths, limitations and value as a source of historical knowledge.

11. Late penalty policy

12. Academic Integrity Available on MyLO: Academic Honesty Module
Writing and Referencing Modules – History students
Essay Writing Guide

13. Three questions in two hours
Exam
Three questions in two hours

14. Arts Student Central

15. The misconception of history as dry old facts and dates

16. Why History Matters?
Long term perspective that allows us to see beyond the ‘parochialism of the present’
History as ‘looking critically at ourselves and seeing what we have become and where we came from.’ (historian, Simon Schama)

17. Historians critically assessing change and continuity over time

18. History helps us see beyond the ‘condescension of the present’.
‘Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent that the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.’ (George Orwell)
How did the world end up the way it is?
Was it inevitable?
What were the ‘roads less taken’, the ‘paths not travelled?

19. ‘Who controls the past controls the future
‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.’
George Orwell, 1984

20. First Year History Semester 1: HTA101
History 1A: Making Modern Europe,
Semester 2: HTA102
History 1B: Making the Modern World,

21. HTA101

22. Learning Outcomes
Students are introduced to the nature of History as a discipline: to its writing, practice and interpretation, and will develop basic skills in research, accessing library resources and databases, analysis, writing and reflection.
 Students learn about the nature of primary and secondary sources, and are introduced to differing conceptual approaches and types of history.
 Students begin to develop a sensitivity to historical change and continuity, and begin to develop a capacity to critically analyse and interpret historical evidence and scholarship.
 Students develop an understanding of major developments in the political, social, economic and cultural history of Europe in the “long eighteenth century” – the key period in transition from pre-modern to modern states and societies.

23. Historians and their centuries:
the long and short of it
The long eighteenth century,
The short twentieth century (Eric Hobsbawm)

24. Old Europe/New Europe Rural Agrarian Urban Industrial/commercial
Feudal
Religious
Privilege/hierarchy
Aristocracy and clergy
Divine Right Rule
Urban
Industrial/commercial
Secular
Rights/Liberties
The Middle Classes and the People
Representative Government
Modern State

25. Key problems Change versus continuity
Causality, action and consequence

26. The Age of Absolutism Divine Right Monarchy
Politics, War and State-Building
Social and Cultural Change
Religion and the Enlightenment

29. An Orrey was a mechanical planetarium depicting the movement of the planets around the sun - the sun being lit up.
‘A philosopher giving a lecture on the Orrery’ , Joseph Wright of Derby, 1766

30. Voltaire ( )

31. The Age of Revolution The Machine Age Natural Rights and Liberties
Modern Political Culture
The Modern State

32. Coalbrookdale

33. The American Declaration of Independence (1776)
Thomas Jefferson’s original draft with revisions by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin

34. ‘Let them eat cake’ Marie Antoinette (2006, Sofia Coppola)
Kirsten Dunst - Let them eat cake
Marie Antoinette
(2006, Sofia Coppola)

35. The Storming of the Bastille

36. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)

37. Whose rights?

38. Execution of Louis XVI

39. Napoleon crossing the Alps