DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
58. ANCIENT HISTORY
Ir.
W. Culican, Mr. R. BidleyA course of two lectures and one tutorial or discussion class per week throughout the year. Students will
be
required to submit written work during the course.SYLLАВUs
A study of the origin and development of the ancient civilizations of the Middle and Near East and the Mediterranean. Special attention will be given to two main subjects:
(i) Prehistoric and Early Dynastic chronology in the Old World as elucidated by archaeological studies and the earliest records of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
(ii) Greek social and political history from Mycenaean times to ca. 300 B.C.
with special reference to Athens.
Books
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Bibby, G.—The Testimony of the Spade. (Collins.)
Lloyd, S.—Foundations in the Dust. (Pelican.) .
•Clark, J. D.
G.—Archaeology
and Society. ( Methuen.) Clark, J. D. G.-World Prehistory—an Outline. ( C.U.P. )*Childe, V. G.—What Happened in History. (Pelican.)
•Kitto, H. D. F.—The Greeks. ( Pelican. ) (b) Prescribed. textbooks:
Clark, J. D. G. and Piggott,
S.-Prehistоrtc Societies.
(Hutchinson.)Hawkes, J., Woolley,
L.—Prehistory
and the Beginnings of Civilization. (Allen& Unwin. )
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Gadd, C. J —The Dynasty of Agade. (Cambridge Ancient History, fasc.) Kirk, G.
S.—The
Homeric Poems as History. (Cambridge Ancient History,fasc.)
Gardiner, A. H.—Egypt of the Pharaohs. (Oxford paperback.) Jones, A. H. M.—Athenian Democracy. (Blackwel.)
Bury, J. B.—History of Greece. (3rd ed., Macmillan, 1951.) (c) Recommended for reference:
Reading guides will be issued during the year.
EXAMINATION
One or two 3-hour papers; the number to be set will be notified to students during the first term.
59. BRITISH HISTORY Dr. D. E. Kennedy
A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
The history of England within the period 1485-1700, with special regard to the period from 1603-1660.
Students will be required to submit written work during the course. The Rosemary Merlo Prize for the best essay in the subject will be awarded annually.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
*Вindoff, S. T.—Tudor England. ('Penguin.)
*Trevelyan, G.
M.-England
under the Stuarts (1603-1714). (Penguin.) ( b ) Prescribed textbooks:*Stephenson, C., and Marcham, F.—Sources of English Constitutional History.
(Harper.)
*Hill, Christopher—The Century of Revolution 1603-1714. (Nelson.)
*Elton, G.
R. England
Under the Tudors. ( Methuen.)*Tanner, J. R. English Constitutional Conflicts of the Seventeenth Century.
(C.U.P.)
Huehns, G.
(ed. )—Selections
from Clarendon. ( World's Classics.) Hill,C.—Puritanism
and Revolution. ( Mercury Books. )Firth, C.
H.—Cromwell's
Army. ( Methuen, University Paperbacks. ) Tawney, R.1.—Religion
and the Rise of Capitalism. (Penguin & Murray.) Firth,C.—Oliver
Cromwell. (World's Classics.)(c) Further reading will be suggested during the course.
EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper.
60. EUROPEAN HISTORY A Dr. C. B. McCullagh, Mr. J. Parris
A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
A survey of European - history between the fourth and the mid-seventeenth centuries which will concentrate on
(a) the development of government in Germany and France;
(b) the development of Church government and relations between Church and State.
Students will be required to submit written work during the course.
The Felix Raab Prize for the best essay in the subject will be awarded annually.
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Books
Prescribed textbooks:
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
*Moss, H. S. В.—The Birth of the Middle Ages. ( Oxford Paperback.) ( b ) General textbooks:
*Davis, R. H. C.—A Histогy of Medieval Europe from Constantine to St. Louis.
(Longmans. )
Wallace-Hаdrill, J. 1.—The Barbarian West, 400-1000. ( Hutchinson s Univer- sity Library.)
*Waley, D.—Later Medieval Europe from St. Louis to Luther. (Longmans.)
*Elton, G. R.—Reformation Europe 1517-1559. (Collins Fontana Library.) Neale, J. E.—The Age of Catherine de Medici. ( Cape Paperbacks.) ( c) Special Studies:
*Ganshof, F. L.-Feudalism. ( Longmans Paperback. )
Fichtenau, 1.—The Carolingian Empire. (HØer Torchbooks. )
*Rarraclough, G.—The Origins of Modern Germany. ( Blackwell. )
Williams, S.—"Thе Gregorian Epoch, Reformation, Revolution, Reaction" in Problems in European Civilization. (Heath.)
Fawner, R.—The Capetian Kings of France. (Macmillan Papermac.) (d) Source readings:
*Cantor, H. F. (ed.) —The Medieval World 300-1300. (Macmillan.)
*Tierney, B.—The Crisis of Church and State 1050-1300. (Prentice-Hall.)
*Downs, N. (ed.)—Basic Documents in Medieval History. (Anvil Books, Van Nostrand.)
*Bainton, R. H.—Age of Reformation. (Anvil Books, Van Nostrand.) EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper.
63. AMERICAN HISTORY Professor N. D. Harper, Mr. P. F. Bourke
A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year.
SYLLAВUs
The social and economic history of the United States from the American Revolution to 1941. Little attention , will be paid to state political history, and federal political problems - will be considered in relation to major questions of social development or national history. Some emphasis will be placed on western expansion, the causes of the Civil War and American foreign policy.
Students will be required to submit written work during the course.
BOOKS
(a) Prescribed for preliminary reading:
Faulkner, H. U. Economic History of the United States. (Macmillan.) Nye, R. B., and Morpurgo, J. E.--History of the United States. (Реlican.) ( b ) Prescribed textbooks:
*Morison, S. E., and Commager, H. S.—Growth of the American Republic.
(O.U.P.)
*Fine, S. and Brown, G. S.-The American Past. (Macmillan, N.Y.) Turner, F. J.-The Frontier in American History (Holt.)
or Turner, F. J.—Frontier and Section. ( Spectrum Books.)
*Alexander," F.—Moving Frontiers. (M.U.P. )
*Hacker, L. M., and Kendrick, B. B.-The United States since 1865. ( Crofts.) Bailey, T. A.-Diplomatic History of the United States. ( Crofts.)
*Birlev, R.—Speeches and Documents in American History, 4 vols. (O.U.P. ) Killington, R. A.—The Westward Movement in the United States. (Anvil: Van
Nostrand.)
A supplementary reading guide will be issued at the beginning of first term.
EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper.
62. AUSTRALIAN HISTORY Mr. W. Bate, Dr. L. L. Robson
A course of two lectures per week and one tutorial per fortnight throughout the year.
Students will be required to submit an essay and two class papers during the course.
SYLLABUS
The history of Australia, 1788-1939. The course will consist of two main sec- tuns: a study—largely comparative—of the Australian colonies in the nineteenth cen- tury (with emphasis on the period after 1850), and an examination of selected social and political problems in the Commonwealth period.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
*Crawford, R.
M.—Australia.
( Hutchinson.)Clark, C. M. H.—А History of Australia, vol. I. (M.U.P. ) Clark, C. M. H.—А Short History of Australia. ( Mentor Books.) Hancock, W. k.—Australia. ( Jacaranda Press. )
La Nauze, J. A.—"The Study of Australian History, 1929-1959." (Reprint from Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand, separately available in Baillieu Library.)
Shaw, A. G. L.-The Story of Australia. (Faber.)
Kiddie, Margaret—Men of Yesterday, A Social Hirtory of the Western District of Victoria. ( M.U.P. )
Grattan, C. Hartley-The Southwest Pacific to 1900. (U. of Michigan P., 1963.) The South-West Pacific since 1900.
(b) Prescribed textbooks:
*Clark, C. M. H.
( е d.)—Select
Documents in Australian History. 2 vols., 1788- 1850, 1851-1900. ( Angus & Robertson.)*Clark, C. M. H.
(ed. )-Sources
of Australian Нistory. ( World's Classics.) Greenwood, G. (ed.)—Australia-A Social and Political History. (Angus áRobertson. )
Collai, R.—Radical and Working Class Politics. A Study of Eastern Australia
1850-1910. ( M.U.P. )
Deakin, A.—The Federal Story. (M.U.P., paperback, 1964. This edition is essential.)
(c) Reference books:
Reading guides will be issued during the course.
EXAMINATION One 3-hour paper.
64. FAR EASTERN HISTORY Dr. J. S. Gregory
A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year. Student' will be required to submit written work during the course.
SYLLABUS
The history of China and Japan, mainly in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries. The lectures will concentrate on China, but students will be required to make a parallel study of Japan with tutorial and bibliographical ,guidance.
After some introductory study of their traditional societies and development, the main aims of the course will be to examine the Western impact upon them and their contrasting responses to the problems of modernization.
ВООКs
(a) Suggested preliminary reading:
*Fairbank, J. K.—The United States and China. ( Harvard U.P. )
*Bodde, D.—China's Cultural Tradition. (Source Problems in World Civilizations Series.) (Rinehart.)
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Beasley, W. G.—The . Modern iwtorg of Japan (Weidenfeld & Nicolson. )' (b) Prescribed textbooks:
Fairbanlc, J. К. and Teng Ssu-yii---Chšпa'в Response to the West. ( Harvard U.P.) Reischauer, E., Fairbank, J. K., and Craig, A. 1.—East Asia: The Modern
Traпsf ormatioп. (Alen & Unwin.)
or Beckmann, G.—The Modernization of China and Japan. (Harper & Row.) (c) Recommended for reference:
Detailed reading guides will be issued during the year.
EXAMINATION. One or two 3-hour papers; details will be announced during the first term. Written work done during the year will also be taken into account.
59-1. LATER BRITISH HISTORY During 1967 only, this subject will not be available.
A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year.
SYLLAВUs
The history of England from 1760 to 1940, with emphasis on social, political and economic changes in the period. The course will include a study of some aspects of the development of the empire and the relationship between Britain and the colonies.
Students will be required to submit written work during the course.
61. EUROPEAN HISTORY B Professor J. R. Poynter, Mrs. A. Patrick,. Mr. R. Isaac A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUs
A study of some main developments in the political history of Europe from the French Revolution to 1939. The lectures during first term will be devoted to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period; those of second term mainly to the development of Liberal, Nationalist and Socialist movements in France, Germany and Russia to 1914; and third term lectures mainly to the history of Bolshevism in Russia and Nazism in Germany.
Students will be required to submit written work ( normally one essay of 2,500 words and two shorter papers of 1,200 words each) during the year. Detailed reading guides will be distributed in lectures.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Shaw, A. C. L.—Modern World History. (Cheshire.) (b) Recommended for reference:
Full reading guides will be distributed in lectures and tutorials. The following works, to which extensive reference will be made during the year, are now available in paperback editions, and students may find them useful to own:
*Rudé, G.—Revolutionary Europe 1783-1815. (Fontana.) Goodwin,
A.—The French Revo
lution. ( Grey Arrow.)*Сobban, A.—A History of Modern France, 2 vols. (Pelican.)
*Stewart, J. H.—A Documentary Survey of the French Revolution. (Paperback еd )
Lefebvre, G.--The Coming of the French Revolution. (Vintage Books.) Palmer, R. R.—Twelve Who Ruled. ( Paperback edn. )
Mayer, J. P. (ed.)—The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville. (Meridian Books.)
Wilson, E.—To the Finland Station. (Fontana Library.)
Robertson, P.—Revolutions of 1848: A Social History. ( Harper Torchbooks. ) Binkley, R. C.—Realism and Nationalism, 1852-1871. (Harper Torchbooks.) Taylor, A. J. P.—Bismarck. (Grey Arrow. )
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Bullock, A.--Нitler. A
Study
in Tyrаnny. (Pelican.)Seton-Watson, H.—The Decline of Imperial Russia. (Praeger.)
Schapiro, L. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (Methuen University Paperbacks.)
Florinsky, M. T.—The End of the Russian Empire. (Colter.) Trotsky, L.—The Russian Revolution. (Doubleday Anchor Book)
Some of the volumes hi the series Problems in European Civilization (D. C.
Heath and Co.) will also be found useful.
*The following pamphlets published by the Historical Association should be purchased:
Cobban, A.—Historians and the Causes of the French Revolution.
Collins, I.—Liberalism in Nineteenth Century Europe.
Eyck,
E.—Bismarck
after Fifty Years.Schmitt, E. Е..—The Origins of the First World War.
Ryder, A. J.—The German Revolution, 1918-19.
EXAMINATION. One or two 3-hour papers (to be announced during year).