HIS41930 First World War

Academic Year 2018/2019

Often described as the ‘seminal catastrophe’ of the twentieth century, the First World War constituted the political, cultural, and economic rupture between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This module will examine how people thought about this rupture, their experiences, the meaning of the war, and its implications for the reordering of the world. The experience of war, in particular the shock of violence, mass death, and cultural and social mobilization, challenged conventional ideas about political institutions, social relationships, and even human nature.

This module is considered equivalent to the Module M-04 - The history of dictatorships, violence and conflicts in the Joint Masters in European History.