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HIS500B4(史学 / History 500)
Detailed Study on European History Ⅳ

篠原 琢

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Faculty/Graduate school Graduate School of Humanities
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Year 2021
Class code X0365
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Term 秋学期授業/Fall
Day/Period 金1/Fri.1
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Campus 市ヶ谷
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Credit(s) 2
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Class taught by instructors with practical experience
Category 史学専攻(修士課程)-専門科目

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Outline (in English)

We will survey basic historical development of Habsburg Monarchy in the "long Nineteenth century" from the time of French Revolution to the First World War to analyze more general notions such as nation-building, nationalism, civil society etc. The purpose of the course is not only to understand the most recent trends of historiography on the Monarchy, but also to get critical approach to the teleologicl concept of modern history of Europe.
Habsburg Monarchy was a mere amalgam of defferent territories acquired and inherited by the house of Habsburgs through marriages and wars. Therefore it was anachronistic exixtence by itsself, lacking a potentiality to develop to an integrated modern state. The Long Nineteenth century was for it a process of decay leading to an inevitable dissolution, a process driven by nationalism, nationality conflicts... Such an argument is based on a view which presupposes a centralized homogeneous nation-state as a normality of modern state, and depicts history the Habsburg monarchy as an anormality deviated from the "normal" development of European modernity. As its succeeding states in Central and Eastern Europe legitimates their existing by stressing their "national" characters, such vision of history often constructed basic pattern of historical narrative. Can we still understand history of the Monarchy in such a way? In this lecture, after summerizing historiography of Habsburg monarchy and more important theoretical problems, we will investigate some of the most essential topics of history of the Monarchy.

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日本語 / Japanese