Course: History of the Modern Era I

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Course title History of the Modern Era I
Course code KHI/0402A
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Koumar Jiří, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Content of lectures Czech history lectures 1. Economic and social conditions after the Thirty Years' War 2. The problem of serfdom. Analysis of corvée documents. 3. The religious situation from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the middle of the 18th century in the Czech lands compared with the other lands of the Habsburg monarchy. 4. Participation of the Habsburg monarchy in international conflicts and its reflection in the internal problems of the second half of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century. 5. The struggle over the Spanish inheritance and its implications for the Habsburg monarchy. 6. The political development of Hungary after the Treaty of Szatmár in 1711. 7. Proto-industrialization in the Habsburg monarchy and the idiosyncrasies of manufacturing production in our lands in comparison with eastern and western Europe. 8. The Czech lands in the age of enlightened absolutism / 1740-1792/. Struggle over Habsburg Josephinism. 9. The essence and the results of the Theresian and Josephine reforms. 10. Our land in the age of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. 11-12. The relationship between the industrialization process and national revival. 13. Political conditions in the pre-March age. 14. An evaluation of the basic tendencies of development in 1648-1848. Seminar Content Seminars in Czech History can be directed toward problems of proto-industrialization and industrialization in our lands, toward peasants' uprisings in the 17th and 18th centuries, toward religious questions, and toward the problems and significant personalities of the national revival. Lectures ? 1. Introduction - Europe in 1600 - the groundwork for later centuries 2. Economics in the 17th and 18th centuries - categories, context 3. The Netherlands and England - 17th and 18th centuries 4. The problem of absolutism - the cases of France, Brandenburg-Prussia, ? 5. America - common and unique developments to the end of the 18th century 6. The specific position of central Europe - general characteristics, development in Saxony, the Habsburg monarchy, ? 7. The shortcomings of state power - the example of Poland 8. America and France - revolution at the end of the 18th century 9. Great empires on the borders of Europe - Russia, Ottoman Empire 11. Far East - special features 12. Forms and goals of colonial politics in the 17th-18th centuries 13. Every day life in the 17th and 18th centuries

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
Czech history of the Modern Era I includes the period from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the revolutionary events of 1848. Lectures include broader context of the Habsburg monarchy. This applies in particular foreign policy, with its implications for internal ratios. Emdhasis is put on issues which are currently engaged in our and world historiography. The results and methods of this research are available to students.
Graduates gain the basic foundation for understanding the historical process during this period and for functioning in their profession.
Prerequisites
Must be in connection with the History of the Modern Era II.

Assessment methods and criteria
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This course is completed with a credit, which certifies the successful fulfillment of assignments in both parts: General and Czech history. Requirements for credit from Czech History: Active participation, the completion and submission of a report and the study of a minimum of five recommended historical books besides the textbook (of these, one book should be about the problem of peasants' uprisings in the 17th and 18th centuries and one should be about the national revival). Credit requirements: The credit certifies the successful fulfillment of assignments in both parts: General and Czech history. Requirements for credit from Czech History: Active participation, the completion and submission of a report and the study of a minimum of five recommended historical books. Requirements for the examination: The examination presupposes that credits from both parts of the course have been obtained. Like the credit, the exam will also be comprised of two parts. The examiner will assign a mark for each. The mark for the whole course, which will be entered in STAG and in the index, will be the accumulated result. Part of the exam in General History is oral and is comprised of two rounds. In the first, the student must demonstrate knowledge of the period 1648-1800. In the second round, the student answers about the period1848-1918.
Recommended literature
  • Dějiny obyvatelstva českých zemí. Praha, 1996.
  • Dějiny Rakouska. Praha, 2002.
  • Napoleonské války a české země. Ed. I. Šedivý - P. Belina - J. Vilím - J. Vlk. Praha, 2001.
  • Přehled dějin Československa, I / 2 /1526 - 1848 /. Praha, 1982.
  • Bělina, P. - Kaše, J. - Kučera, J. P. České země v evropských dějinách III (1756-1918). Praha - Litomyšl, 2006.
  • Bělina, P. - Kaše, J. - Kučera, J. P. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české, X 1740-1792. Praha, 2001.
  • Bělina,P.- Kaše,J.- Mikulec,J.- Veselá,I.- Vlnas,J. Veliké dějiny zemí Koruny české,IX 1683-1740. Praha, 2011. ISBN 978-80--7432-105-.
  • Hlavačka, M. - Kaše, J. - Kučera J. P. - Tinková, D. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české, XIb, 1792-1860. Praha-Litomyšl, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7432-348-5.
  • Hledíková, Z. - Janák J. - Dobeš, J. Dějiny správy v českých zemích od počátku státu po současnost. Praha, 2007.
  • Hroch, M. Na prahu národní existence. Praha, 1999.
  • Jakubec, I. - Jindra, Z. Dějiny hospodářství českých zemí od počátku industrializace do konce habsburské monarchie. 2006.
  • Klíma, A. Manufakturní období v Cechách. Praha, 1955.
  • Klíma, A. Na prahu nové společnosti /1781-1848/. Praha, 1979.
  • Kořalka, J. Češi v habsburské říši a v Evropě 1815 - 1914. Praha, 1996.
  • Křen, J. Konfliktní společenství. Češi a Němci 1780 - 1918. Praha 1990. Praha, 1990.
  • Kvaček, R. a kol. Dějiny Československa /1648 - 1918/ II. Praha, 1990.
  • Lněničková, J. České země v době předbřeznové 1792 -1848. Praha, 1999.
  • Malý, K. a kol. Dějiny českého a česko - slovenského práva do roku l945. Praha, 1997.
  • Sked, A. Úpadek a pád habsburské říše 1815 - 1918. Praha, 1995.
  • Švankmajer, M. Čechy na sklonku napoleonských válek. Praha, 2004.


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