DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Kitto, H. D. " F.—The Greeks. ( Pelican. )

Samuel, A. E.—The Mycenaeans in History. (Speetsum book. ) (b) Prescribed textbooks:

*Herodotus and Thucydides in translation.

*Plutarch's Lives in translation.

*Hignett, C.—A History of the Athenian Constitution. ( Oxford, 1962.)

*Вury, _J. B.—A History of Greece. ( 3rd ed. Macmillan, 1981.) Jones, A. H. M.—Athenian Democracy. ( Blackwell, 1964.)

*Gardiner, A. H.—Egypt of the Pharaohs. ( Oxford, 1961.)

*Gadd, C. J.—The Dynasty of Agade. (Cambridge Ancient History fase.)

*Kkk, G. S. The Homeric Poems as History. ( Cambridge Ancient History fase. ) EXAMINATION

One 3-hour paper with questions under the fallowing headings: The Bronze Age; Archaic Greece; 5th Century Greece; 4th Century Greece. Written work done during the year will be considered in determining the final result.

34. BRITISH HISTORY

Dr. D. E. Kennedy, Mr. L. R. Gardiner, Mr. J. R. Parris 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.

Smith, A. G. R.—The Government of Elizabethan England. (Arnold.) (b ) Prescribed textbooks:

*Elton, G. R.—The Tudor Constitution. (C.U.P.)

*Kenyon, J. P.—The Stuart Constitution. ( C.U.P.) Elton, G. R. England Under the Tudors. ( Methuen.)

Tanner, J. R. English Constitutional Conflicts of the Seventeenth Century.

(C.U.P.)

(c) Further reading will be suggested during the course.

EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper. Written work done during the year will be considered in determining the result.

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1. EUROPEAN HISTORY A

Mr. J. R. Parris, Mr. L. R. Gardiner

A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year.

SYLLABUS

A study of some major themes in European History from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation. This study will concentrate on the problems of bringing order, stability, reform and profit into a discordant society and on the attempted solutions of men of enterprise.^,

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. ) 116

HISTORY (b) General textbooks:

*Davis, R. H. C.—A ^History of Medieval Europe from Constantine to St. Louis.

(Longmans. )

Wallace-Hadrill, 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.) ( c ) Special Studies:

*Easton, S. C., and Wieruszowski, Н.—The Era of Charlemagne. (Anvil Pape- back, Van Nostrand.)

*Strayer, J. S.—Feudalism. ( Anvil Paperback, Van Nostrand. )

*Barraclough, G.—The Origins of Modern Germany. (Blackwell.) Fawtier, R.—The Capetian Kings of France. ( Macmillan Papermac.) (d) Source readings:

*Cantor, N. F. (ed.)—The Medieval World 300-1300. (Macmillan.)

*Tierney, В.—The Crisis of Church and State 1050-1300. (Prentice-Hall.)

*Bainton, R. 1.—Age of Reformation. ( Anvil Books, Van Nostrand.)

EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper. Written work done during the year will be considered in determining the result ^.

36. AMERICAN HISTORY Professor N. D. Harper

A course of two lectures and not more than one tutorial per week throughout the year.

Prerequisite: a grade I History subject.

SYLLABUS

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:

Nye, R. В., and Morpurgo, J. E. History of the United States. (Pelican.) glum, j. et al. The. American Experience. ( Macmillan. )

(b) Prescribed textbooks:

Morison, S. E., and Conunager, 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 Нistory ( Holt. )

or Turner, F. J.—Frontier and Section. ( Spectrum Books.)

*Hacker, L. M., and Kendrick, B. B.—The United States since 1865. ( Crofts.) Bailey, T. A. Diplomatic History of the United States. ( Crofts.)

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Hofstadter, R.—Great Issues in American ^Нistoтy. 2 Vols. (Vintage.)

Billingtоп, 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. Written work done during the year will be considered in determining the result.

37. AUSTRALIAN HISTORY Dr. L. L. Robson

Prerequisite: a grade I History subject.

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.

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 cen- tu

ry

(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.

Н.—А

History of Australia, vols.

I

and II. (M.U.P. )

*Clark, C. M. H.—

А

Short History of Australia. (Mentor Books.) Hancock, W. k.—Australia. ( Jacaranda Press. )

La Nauze, J. A.—"Т

he Study of Australian listory, 1929-1959." (Reprint from Historical Studies, Australia 'md New Zealand, separately available in Baillieu Library.)

Shaw, A. G. L.—The Story of Australia. (Faber.)

kiddie, Margaret-Men of Yesterday, A Social History of

the

Western District of Victoria. ( M.U.P. )

Grattan, C. Hartley—The South-West Pacifie to 1900. (U. of Michigan P., ,.

1963.)

Grattan, C. Hartley—The South-West Pacific Since 1900. ( U. of Mich. P., 1963.) ( b ) Prescribed textbooks:

*Clark, C. M. H. ( ed. )—Selecš 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—A Social and Political History. (Angus &

Robertson.)

Collan, R.—Radical and Working Class Politics. A Study of Eastern Australia 1850-1910. (M.U.P.)

( c ) Reference books:

Reading guides will be issued during the course.

EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper. Written work done during the year will be considered in determining the result.

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B

Professor

J.

R. Poynter, Mr. R. Isaac Prerequisite: a grade I History subject.

A course of two lectures and not more than one tutorial per week throughout

the year.

SYLLABUS

A study of political change in Europe between the outbreak of the French Revolution and the outbreak of the Second World War, with emphasis on the origins, course and results of revolutionary movements.

Lectures will begin with the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period; and will be devoted largely to France, Germany and Russia to 1914, with emphasis on liberal, nationalist and socialist influences, and on the causes mid results of the international crisis of 1914. The course will conclude with a study of the origins and development of the socalist revolution in Russia and nationalist revolution in Germany and Italy between 1917 and 1939.

Students will be required to submit written work during the year. This will

consist of one short paper (1,200 words ), one essay ( 2,500 words ), one class test

(to be written in class, about 1,000 words) and several brief class papers of not more

than 800 words to be based on weekly tutorial reading. Class papers will be arranged

in tutorials; the dates on which all other written work must be submitted will be

announced early in first term.