Over the centuries – even in the present – how have the people living in Europe developed a separate “European” identity by contrasting themselves with an external (and/or internal) “other”, defined religiously, culturally, racially, or any other way?

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European History

and Civilization

Transformation of the International System

Course Description

The collapse of the communist Eastern Bloc and the subsequent westward expansion of the EU have reignited a debate suspended by fifty years of European division – What is Europe? This question goes back at least a millennium to the split between Rome and the Eastern Orthodox world and before that to the expropriation of the mantle of the Roman Empire by barbarian tribes. In an attempt to answer this question, we will also look at those political, social and economic movements associated most closely with Europe and the “West” – democracy, the Scientific Revolution, capitalism, secularism – and ask whether these are inherently “European” or “western” in nature. We will look specifically at the relationship between Europe and the “West” because the Europe/non-Europe dichotomy cannot be addressed outside of the West/East dichotomy. Finally, we will look briefly at the last 60 years of European integration in hope of answering the question with which we began the course: what (and where) is Europe?

Course Objectives:

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

· Have a solid understanding of the history of Europe, broadly defined.

· Comprehend the historical approach to regional studies and understand the historical method as an academic discipline.

· Gather, organise and use data and evidence from a variety of secondary and primary sources to engage confidently and effectively on issues and processes relevant to the subject.

· Deliver clearly –in oral and written form – syntheses of relevant information, using reasoned argument and critical judgement at an advanced level.

Required Readings :

European History & Civilization Course Reader – to be sent by the professor.

Course Requirements

Attendance & Punctuality: Attendance in UNYT classes is mandatory. I will keep track of your attendance and punctuality every hour of class. Absences will generally not be excused, since students are allowed to miss one day (four hours) without it affecting the attendance grade. In addition, students should refrain from arriving late without prior approval from the professor (or the hour will be counted as an absence). The grades for attendance will be as follows:

Hours Missed	Grade
0-4	100%
5	95%
6	90%
7	85%
8	80%
9	70%
10	60%
11	50%
12	40%
13	30%
14	20%
15	10%

Participation and Exams: There will be two Midterm Exam Essays and a Final Exam Essay (1500-1700 words each) based on readings discussed in class. The exams will be take-home essays. In a MA class like this one, participation is clearly important, and so will be evaluated with a relatively high percentage.

Assessment Criteria

Attendance	5%
Essay I	35%
Essay II	45%
Participation	15%

Academic Dishonesty: UNYT does not tolerate academic dishonesty. Read the UNYT Student Honor Code for a more detailed description of plagiarism and cheating. Please be aware that assignments submitted via Turnitin must not receive a plagiarism mark of over 10% or they will be marked down significantly.

General Information

Student Conduct: Students are expected to behave with appropriate etiquette in the classroom. Please set your cell phones on silent before class begins and refrain from using them until class is over.

Office Hours: For Master’s students, these should be arranged independently (although there are office hours posted on my office door).

Letter	%	Generally Accepted Meaning
A	96-100	Excellent
A-	90-95
B+	87-89	Good
B	83-86
B-	80-82
C+	77-79	Acceptable
C	73-76
C-	70-72
D+	67-69	Not Acceptable (not passing)
D	63-66
D-	60-62
F	50-0	Failing Grade

Schedule

Session

Dates

Topics, Readings & Exams

Friday,

June 17

(16.00-20.00)

The Idea of Europe

Readings: Davies, Delanty, Fernandez-Armesto, Pocock

Saturday,

June 18

(11.00-15.00)

Europe and the Islamic “Other”

Readings: Appiah, Lewis, Abulafia, Ballard, Bugge

III

Friday,

July 1

(16.00-20.00)

The Making of Europe in the Middle Ages Europe in a Eurasian Context

Readings: Christiansen, Moore, Farmer, Hobson

Saturday,

July 2

(11.00-15.00)

The Concept of Europe in the Enlightenment

Readings: Burke, Schmidt, Thompson, Stock

Sunday,

July 3

(11.00-15.00)

The Limits of Europe Imagined: East/West & North/ South

Readings: Wolff, Michaud, Todorova, Lewis/Wigen, Bassin

Full List of Readings

Weekly readings consist of abridged excerpts from the following articles/books:

· Norman Davies, Europe: A History (1998).

· Gerard Delanty, “The Origins of the Idea of Europe,” in Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality (1995).

· Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, “A European Civilization: Is There Any Such Thing?” European Review, 10 (11), 2002.

· J. G. A. Pocock, “Some Europes in Their History,” in The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union (2002).

· Kwame Anthony Appiah, “How Muslims Made Europe,” The New York Review of Books, November 6, 2008.

· Bernard Lewis, “The Muslim Discovery of Europe”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 20 (1/3), 1957.

· David Abulafia, “Islam in the History of Early Europe,” Itinerario, 20 (3), 1996.

· Roger Ballard, “Islam and the Construction of Europe,” in Shadid, W. and van Koningsveld, P. (eds.), Muslims in the Margin: Political Responses to the Presence of Islam in Western Europe (1996).

· Peter Bugge, “Asia and the Idea of Europe: Europe and its Others,” in Asian Values and Vietnam’s Development in Comparative Perspective (2002).

· Eric Christiansen, “How Europe Became Europe,” The New York Review of Books, October 21, 1993.

· R. I. Moore, “The Birth of Europe as a Eurasian Phenomenon,” Modern Asian Studies, 31 (3), July, 1997.

· Edward Farmer, “Civilization as a Unit of World History: The Place of Eurasia and Europe,” The History Teacher, 18 (3), 1985.

· John Hobson, “The Eastern Origins of European Civilization,” in Delanty, G. (ed.), Europe and Asia beyond East and West (2012).

· Peter Burke, “Did Europe Exist Before 1700?” History of European Ideas, 1 (1), 1980.

· H. D. Schmidt, “The Establishment of ‘Europe’ as a Political Expression,” The Historical Journal, 9 (2), 1966.

· Martyn Thompson, “Ideas of Europe during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 55 (1), January, 1994.

· Paul Stock, “’Almost a Separate Race’: Racial Thought and the Idea of Europe in British Encyclopedias and Histories, 1771-1830,” Modern Intellectual History, 8 (1), 2011.

· Larry Wolff, “Voltaire’s Public and the Idea of Eastern Europe,” Slavic Review, 54 (4), 1995.

· Eric Michaud, “Barbarian Invasions and the Racialization of Art History,” October (139), Winter, 2012.

· Maria Todorova, “The Balkans: From Discovery to Invention,” Slavic Review, 53 (2), 1994.

· Martin Lewis and Kären Wigen, “The Spatial Constructs of Orient and Occident, East and West,” in The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography, 1997.

· Mark Bassin, “Russia between Europe and Asia: The Ideological Construction of Geographical Space,” Slavic Review, 50 (1), 1991.

Semester: June 17-July 3, 2022

Professor: Dr. Adam Ehrlich

E-mail/Cell: [email protected] / 069 36 44 904

Office Hours: By appointment

Turnitin ID/Pass: 34938882 /adam

Course Type: (A)

Study Program: MA in International Relations

Credits: 6 ECTS

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