Professor of History:
Professor R. M. CRAWFORD, B.A. (Syd. ), М.A. (Oxon and leib.) Ernest Scott Professor of History
ORDINARY DEGREE
(Details for the honours degree are set out at the end of this section.) Students are advised to watch the notice boards in the department of History.
Group 2 Ma f ors:
.One of Ancient History, British History, European History A, followed by
Two of American History, Australian History, Far Eastern History, Later British History, European History B, Economic History I.
Economic History I may not be taken as the third part of the major, and may not be taken if Later British History is taken.
For combinations of History with Political Science, see pp. 32 and 33.
Pre-requisites:
For all History subjects, other than. Ancient History, British History, European History A, the pre-requisite is a grade. I History subject.
Students who take a History major or follow a History Honours course are ex- pected to possess an historical atlas. The following atlas is prescribed:
Fullard, H., and Treharne, R. F.—Muir's Historiсal Atlas, Mеdievаl and Modern.
(9th ed., Philip.)
58. ANCIENT HISTORY (previously Ancient History part I. )
A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year. Students will be required to submit written work during the course.
SYLLABUS
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:
(1) The period from Palaeolithic savagery down to the establishment of the settled urban bronze-working societies of the third millenium B.C. This section will Include lectures on archaeological method and interpretation.
(ii) The period from the Bronze Age civilization of Crete down to the Hellenistic Empires. The emphasis here will be upon cultural developments and the organization of government.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Bibbу, G..—The Testimony of the spade. (Collins.) Lloyd, S.—Foundations in the Dust. ( Pelican.) -
*Clark, J. D.
C.—Archaeology
and Society. ( lethuen. ) Clark, J. D. C.—World Pтеhistоry—aп Outline. ( C.U.P. )*Chide, V.
G.—What
Happened in History. (Pelican.)*Kitto, H. D. F.—The Greeks. (Pelican.)
• Bloch, R.—The Origins of Rome. (Thames & Hudson.) (b) Prescribed textbooks:
• Hawkes, J., Woolley, L.—Prehistory and the Beginnings of Civilization. (Allen
& Unwin. )
Gadd, C.
J.—The
Dynasty of Agade. (Cambridge Ancient History, fase.) Kirk, G. S.—The Homeric Poems as History. (Cambridge Ancient History,fast.)
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FACULTY OF AВTs ØB005 Gardiner, A. 1.—Egypt of the Pharaohs.
(Oxford
paperback.)Jones, A. H. 1.—At
henianDemocracy.
(Blackwell.)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
A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year.
SYLLAВUs
The history of England, 1485-1689, 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:
*Вindоff, 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.
)— Śelections
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) Guides to reference books will be issued from time to time during the year.
EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper.
60. EUROPEAN HISTORY A ( previously Modem History A)
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 royal government in Germany and France;
(b) the г81е of religion in society together with Church-State relations, and with reference to the Papacy, the Reformation, and the Wars of Religion;
(c) movements of European expansion, including German colonization eastward, the crusades, the Spanish conquistadores, and the Portuguese in Asia.
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.
BOOKS
Prescribed textbooks:
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
*Moss, H. S. В.—The Birth of the Middle. Ages. (Oxford Paperback.) 106
(b) General textbooks:
*Davis, R. H. C. A History of Medieval Europe from Constantine to St. Louis.
( Longmans).
*Waley, D.—Later Medieval Europe from St. Louis to Luther. (Longmans.)
*Раrry, J.
H.—Europeand a Wider World 1415-1715. ( Hutchinson.) . Chadwick, O. The. Reformation. (Penguin.)
*Elton, G. K—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, H.-The Carolingian Empire. ( Harper Torchbooks. )
*Barraclough, G.—The Origins of Modern Germany. (Blackwell.)
Williams, S.—The Gregorian Epoch, Reformation, Revolution, Reaction in Problems in European Civilization. (Heath.)
Fawtier, R.—The Capetian Kings of France. ( Macmillan Papermac.)
Рerrоy, E.—The Hundred Years War. (
Еуге& Spottiswoode. ) (d) Source readings:
*Cantor, H. F. (ed. )—The Medieval World 300-1300. (Macmillan.)
*Elton, G. R. (ed. )—Renaissance and Reformation 1300-1648. (Macmillan.)
*Bainton, R. H.—Age of Reformation. ( Anvil Books, Van Nostrand.) EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper.
63. AMERICAN HISTORY
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.—EconoinicHistory of the United States. ( Macmillan. ) Nye, R. B., and Morpurgo, J. E.
Нistory of the United States. (Pelican.)(b) Prescribed textbooks:
*Morison, S. E., and Commager, H. S.—Growth of the American Republic.
(
О.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. )
*Bogart, E. L., and Kemmerer, D. L.—Economic History of the American People.
(Longmans.)
Hacker, L. M., and Kendrick, B. B.—The United States since 1865. (Crofts.) Bailey, T. A.—Diplomatic History of the United States. (Crofts.)
*Barley, R.—Speeches and Documents in American
History,4 vols. (O.U.P.)
Вilliпgtоп , 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
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.
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FACULTY OF ARTS HANDBOOK
SYLLABUS
The history of Australia, 1788-1939. The course will consist of two main sea tions: a study—largely comparative—of the Australian colonies in the nineteenth ce
п- tuтy ( with emphasis on the period after 1850 ), and an examination of selected social and political problems, in the Commonwealth period.
BOОKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
*Crawford, R. M.—Australia. (Hutchinson. )
Clark, C. M. H.—А Нistоry of Australia, vol. I. ( M.U.P. ) Clark, C. M. H.—А Short Histог y of Australia. ( Mentor Books. ) Hancock, W. K. Australia. ( Jacaranda Press.)
La Nauze, J. A.—"Тhe Study of Australian History, 1929-199." (Reprint from
Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand, separately available
inBaillieu Library.
Shaw, A. G. L.—The Story of Australia. (Faber.)
Kiddie, Margaret—Men of Yester'ky, A Social History 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. (ed. )—Select Documents in Australian History. 2 vols., 1788- 1850, 1851-1900. (Angus & Robertson.)
*Clark, C. M. H. ( ed. )—Sources of Australian History. (World's Classics.) Greenwood, G. ( ed. )—Australia—А Social and Political History. ( Angus &
Robertson.)
Golan, 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 or two 3-hour papers; the number to be set will be notified to students during first term.
64. FAR EASTERN HISTORY
During 1966 only, this course will not be available. Teaching will resume in 1967.
A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year. Students
will be required to submit written work during the course.
SYLLAВUs
The history of China and Japan mainly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After some introductory study of their history and social structure before the nineteenth century, the main theme of the course will be the changing relationship between these two countries and Western powers, and their differing responses to the pressure of Western influences.
Books
(a) Suggested preliminary reading:
Reischauer, E. O., and Fairbank, J. K.—East Asia: the Great Tradition. (Allen
& Unwin. )
*Fairbank, J. K.-The United States and China. ( Harvard U.P. )
*Bodde, D.—China's Cultural Tradition. (Source Problems in World Civilizations Series.) (Rinehart.)
(b) Prescribed textbooks:
Fairbank, J. k., and Teng Ssu-yü—Chinas Response to the West. (Harvard U.P.) Beckmann, G.—The Modernization of China and Japan. ( Harper & Row.)
Beasley, W. G.—The Modern History of Japan. (Weidenfeld & Nicolson.)
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(c) Recommended for reference:
Detailed reading guides will be issued during the year.
EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper. Written work done during the year will also be taken into account.
59-1. LATER BRITISH HISTORY
A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
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.
BOOKS
(a) Prescribed for preliminary reading:
Butler, Sir James-A History of England 1815-1939. (Home University Library.) Chambers, J. D.—The Workshop of the World. (Home University Library.)
(b) Prescribed textbooks:
*Briggs, A.—The Age of Improvement 1783-1867. (Longmans.)
*Enson, Sir Robert—England 1870-1914. (O.U.P.)
*Mowat, C. L. Britain Between the Wars 1918-1940. (Methuen.)
Bennett, G. (ed.)—The Concept of Empire: Burke to Attlee 1774-1947. (A.
C. Black.)
Keith, A. B. (ed. )—Selected Speeches and Documents on British Colonial Policy 1763-1917. (O.U.P. )
(c) Reference books:
Reading guides will be issued during the year.
EXAMINATION: One or two 3-hour papers (to be announced during the year.) 61. EUROPEAN HISTORY В
(previously Modern History B.)
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 during the year. Detailed reading guides will be distributed in lectures.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Shaw, A. G. 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 Revolution. (Grey Arrow.)
*Сobban, A.—A History of Modern France, 2 vols. (Pelican.)
Lefebvre, C.
—The
Coming of the French Revolution. (Vintage Books.) Mayer, J. P. (ed.)—The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville. (MeridianBooks. )
Wilson,
E.—To the
FinlandStation.
(Fontana Library.)Robertson, P.—Revolutions of 1848: A Social History. (Harper Torchbooks.) 109
FACULTY OF ARTS HANDBOOK
Binkley, R.
C.—Realism
and Nationalism, 1352-1871. (Harper Torchbooks. ) Taylor, A. J. P.—Bismarck. (Grey Arrow.)Bullock,
A.-Hitler.
A Study in Tyranny. (Pelican.)Seton-Watson, Н.—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. (Collier.) Trotsky, L. The Russian Revolution. (Doubleday Anchor Books.)Some of the volumes, in 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, B. E..—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).
65. SOCIAL HISTORY ( This subject will not be offered in 1966.) (DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES )
This is a course conducted in the Department of Social Studies. Though it may not form part of a major in History ( except in the combined course for Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Social Studies) it may be taken otherwise as a Group II subject. Credit will not be given for both Social History and Later British History. Inquiries about the course should be addressed to the Department of Social Studies.
A course of two lectures each week and tutorial classes throughout the year.
No external enrolments are accepted in this subject.
SYLLABUS
A. The social history of Britain in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This will include economic development; changes in popula- tion and class structure; the emergence of the party system of democratic govern- ment; the growth of state bureaucracy; the changing role of local government.
Attention will be paid to public health; education both schools and universities);
the maintenance of order and systems of penal detention; the Poor Laws and their
`break up" in the early twentieth century; political and social thought and ways in which it may, or may not, be related to social change ( Burke, Paine, Bentham, Mill, Disraeli, the Fabians); the role of the Churches and religious beliefs, and the challenge of science to religion; theories and practice of town planning considered in relation to the economic and social environment.
B. A special comparative study of the development of social welfare work as sponsored by both governments and voluntary bodies in Britain, the U.S.A. and Australia, with particular reference to the emergence of the profession of social work and the factors responsible for its changing character from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War.
BOOKS .
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Trevelyan, G. M. English Social History. ( Longmans.
Plumb, J. H. England in the Eighteenth Century. (Pe ,guin. ) Thomson,
D. England
in the Nineteenth Century. ( Penguin.) (b) Recommended for reference (section A only):Note: No textbooks are prescribed for this subject, but duplicated lists of references are issued to students from time to time, and at the beginning if each term the questions set for the weekly tutorials are issued with relevant reading for each. The following short list includes only major works of general reference.
Clark, G. Kitson—The Making of Victorian England. (Methuen.) Watson—The Reign of George III, 1760-1815. (Oxford.)
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Woodward—The Age of Reform 1815-1870. (Oxford.) Ensor, E. C. K.—Engltznd 1870-1914. ( Oxford. ) Briggs, A.—The Age of Improvement. (Longmans. )
Marshall, D.-English People in the Eighteenth Centurg'. (Longmans. ) Young, G. M. (ed.)—Early Victorian England, 2 vols. (Oxford.)
Наlevy, E.—А History of the English in the Nineteenth Century. 6
vols.
(Benn.) Aspinall, A., and Smith, E. R.—English Historical Documents, Vol. XI, 1783-1832. (Eyre & Spottiswoode. )
Young, G. M., and Handcock, W. D.—English Нistoricаl Documents, Vol. XII (i ), 1833-1874. (Еуге & Spottiswoode.)
Cole, G. D. ' H., and F' son, A. W. (
eds.
)—Britůh Working Class Movements, Select Documents, 1789-1875. ( Масшшап.)EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper and essays as required.