(History 3H may not be taken in addition to 2Н) Dr Donna Merwick
A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
Problems in the social, intellectual and political history of the United States 1800-1970 will be considered in relation to major questions of social development and intellectual change. Emphasis will be placed on three major topics: the development of American institutions from 1800 to 1865; slavery and the Black Experience; 20th century liberalism, intellectuals and foreign policy.
BOOKS
Prescribed books (in paperback):
••Nye R B and Morpurgo J E History of the United States, Pelican
•Calhoun John C Disquisition on Government and Selections from the Discourse, Bobbs
•Cooper James F Home as Found, Capricorn
•Miller Perry ed The American Transcendentalists Their Prase and Their Poetry, Anchor Doubleday
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•Stowe Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harper-Row
"Jones Leroi Home, Apollo
•King Martin Luther Why we can't Wait, New American Library
•The Trial Record of Denmark Vesey, ed J 0 Killens, Beacon
•Bourne Randolph War and the Intellectuals, Harper Torchbook
•Lippmann Walter Preface to Politics, U of Mich.
'Latham Earl ed The Meaning of McCarthyism in Problems in Ameri- can Civilization, Heath & Co.
'This general text is recommended for preliminary reading and is used throughout the course.
WRITTEN WORK
Students will be required to submit, at specified times, five critical reviews of 1,300 words.
EXAMINATION
Not more than one 3-hour paper. Written work done during the year will constitute part of the examination.
131-203 HISTORY 2J (EAST ASIAN HISTORY) (PASS) (History 31 may not be taken In addition to History 2.1)
Dr Sow-Theng Leong
A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
Select problems in the history of East Asia. Problems
will
concern the traditional society and politics of China, China's subsequent moderniza- tion and emergence as a world power.BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Li D J The Essence of Chinese Civilization, Van Nostrand Reinhold paperback
(b) Prescribed textbooks:
•Reischauer E O & Fairbank J K East Asia: The Great Tradition, Allen and Unwin
• De Bary W T Sources of Chinese Tradition, Columbia UP
•Fairbank J K Reischauer E 0 and Craig A M East Asia: The Modern Transformation, Allen and Unwin
(c) Full tutorial guides will be Issued each term.
WRITTEN WORK
Students will be required to submit, at times specified, two essays of 3,000 words each and two class exercises of 1,000 words each.
EXAMINATION
Not more than two 3-hour papers. Written work done during the year will constitute part of the examination.
131-204 HISTORY 2K (MODERN EUROPEAN) (PASS) Dr J. H. Foster, Dr C. Sowerwlne
A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year.
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SYLLABUS
Studies in European History since 1860, especially in the history of Germany and France. Themes and topics, and optional units of speciali- zation, may include nationalism; socialism; revolutions of the Left and Right.
BOOKS
Detailed reading lists will be available at the History Office.
WRITTEN WORK
Students will be required to submit written work at times specified during the year. This will consist of one short exercise (1,200 words), not more than 3 class papers (800 words) and one essay of 3,000 words.
EXAMINATION
Not more than two 3-hour papers. Written work done during the year will constitute part of the examination.
131-205 HISTORY 2L (MODERN BRITISH HISTORY) (PASS) Dr D. F. Mackay, Dr G. J. Davison, Dr N. D. McLachlan, Dr D. Philips
A course of two lectures and not more than one tutorial per week through- out the year.
SYLLABUS
A study of British History from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Most emphasis is given to social, political and economic changes and their relationships, e.g. the social and political consequences of indus- trialization; but some developments In literature and religion will also receive attention, as will Anglo-Irish relations and the changing fortunes of the empire.
This course is not designed as a background to Australian History, but aspects of it will prove useful to students who subsequently take that subject.
BOOKS
(a) Prescribed for preliminary reading:
Hobsbawm E J Industry and Empire: An Economic History of Britain since 1750, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Also available in Pelican.
Kitson Clark G $ R An Expanding Society, MUP (b) Prescribed textbooks:
'Webb R K Modern England, Dodd lead & Co
'Thompson E P The Making of the English Working Class, Pelican 'Briggs A The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867, Longmans
'Ensor Sir Robert England 1870-1914, Oxford 'Houghton W E The Victorian Frame of Mind, Yale
'Thornton A P The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies, Macmillan paperback 'Taylor A J P English History 1914-1945, Oxford
(c) Reference books:
Reading guides will be issued during the year.
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Students will be required to submit written work at times specified during 194
the year. This will consist of one exercise of 2,000 words, one essay of 3,000 words and either one class paper of 2,000 words or one report as part of a group project.
EXAMINATION
Not more than two 3-hour papers. Written work done during the year will constitute pert of the examination.
131-206 HISTORY 2M (PRE-CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY) (PASS) (History 3M may not be taken if History 2M is taken)
Mr W. Culican
A course of two weekly lectures and one tutorial throughout the year devoted to expanding themes studied in History 1C and to examining source materials in selected topics in Ancient History and Archaeology.
The topics are:
(i) Early Sumerian History; (ii) The Early Dynastic Period in Egypt;
(iii) The Annals of Sargon I1 of Assyria; (iv) The Behistun Inscription of Darius I; (v) Hekataeus and Herodotus; (vi) The Archaeological and Textual Evidence for Greek and Phoenician Colonisation; (vii) The Decrees of the Athenian Empire; (viii) Lydia, Phrygia and the Ionian Greeks; (ix) The Biographers of Alexander the Great.
BOOKS
(a) Prescribed textbooks:
'Translations of Herodotus, Thucydides, and Livy
Gomme A W A Historical Commentary on Thucydides, Oxford 1958 How W and Wells J A Commentary on Herodotus, Oxford 1928
•Kramer S N The Sumerians, Chicago 1963
•Gardiner A Egypt of the Pharaohs. Oxford 1961 Huxley G L The Early Ionians, London 1965
•Gadd C J The Dynasty of Agade, Cambridge Ancient History fasc Blazquez J M Tartessos y los Origenes de la Colonizacion Fenicia en
Occidente, Madrid 1968 .
•Brea L B Sicily Before the Greeks, London 1957
•Boardman J The Greeks Overseas, Pelican 1964
•Edwards 1 E S The Early Dynastic Period in Egypt, Cambridge Ancient History fasc
(b) Reference works:
Kent R G Old Persian: Grammar, Texts, Lexicon, Oriental Society, New Haven 1950
Jacobsen T The Sumerian King List, Chicago 1966 Dunbabin T J The Western Greeks, Oxford 1948
Merritt B D et al The Athenian Tribute Lists, Princeton 1950
Griffith G T ed Alexander the Great: The Main Problems, Cambridge 1966
Compernoiie R van Etude de chronologie et d'historiographie siciliates, Brussels 1960
WRITTEN WORK
Students will be required to submit two essays, each of 3,000 words, at times specified during the year.
EXAMINATION
Not more than two 3-hour papers. Written work done during the year will constitute part of the examination.
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131-210 HISTORY 20 (ROMAN HISTORY) (PASS) {History З0 may not be taken if 20 is taken)
Mr R. Ridley
A course of two seminars a week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
The course is predominantly a seminar course devoted to select periods of Roman history with special reference to source criticism:
(i) From Monarchy to Republic;
(ii) The Julio Claudians;
(iii) The period of Diocletian and Constantine.
BOOKS
Livt' Books 1-6, of which the first five are translated as The Early History of Rome by de Selincourt, Penguin
• Cicero The Republic and The Laws, Loeb Classical Library
• Scullard H A A History of the Roman World 753-146 B.C., 3rd ed Methuen 1962
All students are required to read the first six chapters before the begin- ning of term 1 as a general background knowledge will be presupposed in lectures.
Careful note should also be taken of Appendix 1.
• Scullard H A The Etruscan Cities and Rome, London 1967 Alfoldi A Early Rome and the Latins, Michigan 1965 Brunt P & Moore J eds Res Gestee Div! August?, OUP
•Tacitus Annals, tr Dudley, Mentor
• Suetonius Lives of the Caesars, tr Graves, Penguin syrne R The Romen Revolution, OUP 1939
Jones A H M Studies in Roman Government and Law, Blackwell 1960
• Parker H M D History of the Roman World, A.D. 138-337, Methuen
• Eusebius The History ot the Church, Penguin Classic WRITTEN WORK
Students will be required to submit two essays (3,000 words) and one class paper (1,500 words) in the course of the year.
EXAMINATION
Not more than two 3-hour papers. Class work and written work done during the year will constitute part of the examination.
131-301 HISTORY 3G (AUSTRALIAN HISTORY) (PASS) (History 3G may not be taken if 20 is taken.)
Mr W. A. Bate, Dr L. L. Robson, Dr Joy Parnaby
A course of two lectures and not more than one tutorial per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
For details of this subject see History 2G, but additional research work will be required.
WRITTEN WORK
Students will be required to submit written work at times specified during 196
the year. This will consist of at least two essays (3,000 words each) and two class papers (800 words each).
EXAMINATION
Not more than two 3-hour papers. Written work done during the year will constitute part of the examination.