Year 2 Semester 2 (30 credits) HIST2096 -‐ Evolution of US Counterterrorism (Dr Chris Fuller) Module Overview Through examination of the aims and methods of a range of anti-‐American terrorist groups, such as the Libyan-‐sponsored campaigns of the 1980s, the Iranian-‐backed Hezbollah, Palestinian liberation movements, non-‐state Islamic terrorism, insurgent guerrilla forces such as the Taliban and more recently the Islamic State and the rising phenomenon of “lone wolf” terrorism, this module engages with the scholarly debates relating to what motivates such terrorist groups, and the best methods to counter the threat they pose. By developing a solid understanding of what motivates terrorist groups, you will be well placed to engage in a critical analysis of the evolving methods of counterterrorism adopted by the United States, from the formation of Delta Force under the Carter administration, to the Reagan administration’s use of the CIA to ‘neutralize’ anti-‐American terrorist groups, through Clinton’s use of rendition, to the more controversial practices of the “War on Terror” years, including mass surveillance, “Enhanced Interrogation”, and targeted killings. Indicative List of Seminar Topics • The conceptual debates surrounding terrorism 101 • The founding of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and the Eagle Programme • State sponsorship of terrorism • US counterterrorism tools from 1979 to the present day
% Contribution to Final Mark 15 35 50 • Terrorism and the media • The future of terrorism and counterterrorism Assessment Assessment Method 1 x 500 word commentary 1 x 500 word speech exercise Essay (3000 words) Exam (2 hours) Sample Source Burnt corpse of US Delta Force operator in the Iranian Desert, 25 April, 1980 Operation Eagle Claw was launched by President Jimmy Carter in April 1980 with the objective of freeing American hostages held by the new Iranian government following the 1979 coup. The mission, undertaken by America’s newly formed Delta Force counterterrorism unit, was a disaster, with a lack of experience resulting in the deaths of eight service personnel, killed in a fire caused by an aircraft collision. The flames were so intense the remaining soldiers had to withdraw without the bodies of their comrades, leaving the Iranians to discover the corpses and broadcast the images in a major propaganda victory. The humiliation destroyed Carter’s credibility, and triggered the transformation of America’s counterterrorism capabilities. 102
Year 2 Semester 2 (30 credits) HIST2036 – The Hundred Years War: Britain and Europe, 1259-‐1453 (Dr Rémy Ambühl) Full-‐page miniature of Edward III, wearing a blue Garter mantle, with his arms quartered with those of France, from Pictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book'). British Library, Mss Stowe, 594, fol. 7vo. (c. 1430 – c. 1440) Module Overview This module looks at the origins and developments of the Hundred Years War, and the ways it played out in Britain, France and the rest of Europe. The political, military and socio-‐cultural dimensions of this century-‐long conflict are closely examined. How did contemporaries think and justify war? What were the roots of this conflict? Why did it last so long? To what extent did a military revolution take place during the Hundred Years War? What principles governed the conduct of war? How did war impact on society? How did this conflict contribute to the rise of national identity and the birth of modern state? You will take both a chronological and a thematic approach to these questions. 103
Indicative list of seminar topics • The origins of the Hundred Years War: a feudal or a dynastic issue? • War heroes and the fabric of history: the Black Prince (1330-‐1376) • Battle analysis: Crécy (1346), Poitiers (1356) and Agincourt (1415) • Military technologies and the concept of military revolution • Chivalry and the laws of war • Sovereign interests and personal ambitions: the great companies • The rise of the ‘nation’ and ‘national identities’ Assessment Assessment Method % Contribution to Final Mark Essay (2000 words) 25 Commentaries exercise (1000 words) 25 50 Exam (2 hours) Sample source ‘…And whereas we have held out to the lord Philip many loving and reasonable offers of peace, to which he would not respond nor make any reasonable reply, nay rather, levying unjust war against us, he has striven with all his might for the complete subversion of our estate, we have necessarily been compelled to resort to arms, for our defence and recovery of our rights, not seeking the overthrow or depression of the good and the poor but rather striving heartily for their safety and convenience; wherefore we benignly wish that all and each of the natives of the kingdom who will subject themselves willingly to us, as the true King of France according to wise counsel, before next Easter, offering due fidelity to us.’ This is an extract from a manifesto issued by the English king, Edward III, at Ghent, in Flanders, on 8 February 1340, by which he officially assumed, for the first time, the title of king of France. The political manoeuvre had a huge impact on the course of the Hundred Years War. In challenging the legitimacy of the French King Philip VI, Edward transformed a quarrel which opposed the two kings over sovereignty rights in the French province of Aquitaine into an outright dynastic conflict. Edward III, who, until 1340, was perceived as a rebellious vassal of the French king, elevated himself as a rival claimant to the French throne, allowing the Flemish and many other French lords to embrace his cause and fight on his side. Political and military opportunism (working within the confines of law and chivalry) proved to be at the heart of the century-‐long conflict 104
Year 2 Semester 2 (30 credits) HIST2053 – Habsburg Spain, 1471-‐1700: The Rise and Decline of the First European Superpower (Dr François Soyer) Module Overview This module aims to introduce students to the history of Spain during its \"Golden Age\" under the Hapsburg Dynasty. During this period, Spain rose to become not only the most powerful kingdom in Christian Europe but also the first European state in modern history to establish a global empire over which \"the sun never set\". You will study the abrupt rise to supremacy and subsequent slow decline of Spain as a major actor on both the European and World stages in the early modern period. You will work with translated primary sources and examine the many problems that confront historians 105
when examining Imperial Spain, including the impact of Spain's foreign policy in Europe, its economic and fiscal woes as well as its persecution of religious minorities. Indicative List of Seminar Topics • The rise of Spain under Isabel of Castile and Fernando of Aragon, “the Catholic Monarchs”. • Charles V: European Emperor and Spanish Monarch. • Philip II: The First Bureaucrat. • Philip IV: Imperial Spain at Bay? • The “Black Legend” and “White Legend” of Early Modern Spain Assessment Assessment Method % Contribution to Final Mark Essay (4000 words) 50 Exam (2 hours) 50 Sample Source ‘His religion and faith were so great that he made perpetual war on the heretics in England, Flanders and France, and upon the idolaters and pagans in the Indies, and upon the barbarians and infidels in Turkey, and upon all the enemies of the Holy Catholic Faith everywhere in the world. He spent excessive amounts supporting the Catholic [cause], using up his patrimony with such generosity that, like another Josiah, he had to ask his vassals for contributions and to be perpetually in debt, despite being the most powerful of all the world’s kings.’ Baltasar Porreño: A Portrait of King Philip II (1628). As this excerpt from the encomiastic posthumous biography of Philip II by the Jesuit Baltasar Porreño reveals, the history of the Habsburg dynasty in Spain is one marked by war, crisis and debt. Ruling over an empire that expanded overseas into the Americas and Asia, the sixteenth and seventeenth century rulers of Spain strove desperately to defend their European dominions and Catholicism from the advances of Protestantism in Northern Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean as well as from their jealous Catholic rivals in France. The rise and decline of Spanish hegemony in Europe profoundly affected early modern Spanish society and also played a major role in the creation of modern political and religious boundaries in Western Europe. 106
Index Compulsory** HIST2008 Group Project – **compulsory for all single honours history students…………………………….87 Ancient HIST2045 -‐ Cleopatra’s Egypt……………………………………………………………………………………………………………89 HIST2055 -‐ Ancient Rome: The First Metropolis………………………………………………………….……………………21 HIST2085 -‐ Rebels with a Cause: The Historical Origins of Christianity …………….………………………………53 HIST2103 -‐ Self-‐inflicted: Extreme Violence, Politics and Power …………….………………………………….……19 HIST2109 -‐ Ancient Greeks at War…..…………………………………………………………………………..…..…………..…71 HIST2XXX~ – Myth and the Ancient World……………………………………………………………………………………….83 ARCH2003 -‐ The Power of Rome: Europe’s First Empire………………………………….……………………………….75 ARCH2017 -‐ Maritime Archaeology………………………………………………………………………………………………....39 Medieval HIST2049 -‐ Sin and Society: 1100-‐1520…………………………………………………………………………………………….61 HIST2069 -‐ Knights and Chivalry…………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 HIST2076 -‐ The First British Empire: The beginnings of English dominance, 1050-‐1300……………………73 HUMA2008 -‐ The Life and Afterlife of Vikings………………………………………………………………………………….41 HIST2036 -‐ The Hundred Years’ War: Britain and Europe, 1259-‐1453……………………………………………103 HIST2219 -‐ Ritual Murder: The Antisemitic Blood Libel ……………………………………………………….............25 Early Modern HIST2003 -‐ Power, Patronage and Politics in Early Modern England 1509-‐1660………………………………63 HIST2051 -‐ The British Atlantic World………………………………………………………………………………………………47 107
HIST2053 -‐ Habsburg Spain: 1471-‐1700: The Rise and Decline of the First European Superpower...105 HIST2084 -‐ Accommodation, Violence and Networks in Colonial America……………………………………….65 HIST2086 -‐ Building London 1666 – 2012…………………………………………………………………………………………95 HIST2094 -‐ Wellington and the War against Napoleon…………………………………………………………………….15 HIST2100 -‐ Retail Therapy: A Journey Through the Cultural History of Shopping……………………………..27 HIST2102 -‐ Discipline and Punish: Prisons and Prisoners in England 1775-‐1898……………………………….29 HIST 2215 -‐ The Age of Discovery? c.1350-‐c.1650…………………………………………………………………………...23 HIST2219 -‐ Ritual Murder: The Antisemitic Blood Libel …………………………………………………………………..25 HIST2XXX~ -‐ Witchcraft in England, 1542-‐1736……………………………………………………………………….......…79 Modern/Contemporary HIST2004 -‐ The Making of Englishness: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration in British Society, 1841 to the Present…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….93 HIST2031 -‐ Stalin and Stalinism………………………………………………………………………………………………………..91 HIST2039 -‐ Imperialism and Nationalism in British India………………………………………………………………….45 HIST2064 -‐ The Space Age………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..49 HIST2071 -‐ Celebrity, Media and Mass Culture: Britain 1888-‐1952………………………………………………….11 HIST2073 -‐ Jews in Germany before the Holocaust………………………………………………………………………….33 HIST2082 -‐ Nelson Mandela: A South African Life…………………………………………………………………………….13 HIST2086 -‐ Building London 1666 – 2012…………………………………………………………………………………………95 HIST2087 -‐ Islamism: From the 1980s to the Present…………………………….…………………………………………97 HIST2090 -‐ Britain's Global Empire, 1750-‐1870………………………..…………….………………………………………..99 HIST2091 -‐ Underworlds: A Cultural History of Urban Nightlife in the 19th and 20th Centuries…………67 HIST2096 -‐ Evolution of US Counterterrorism……………………………………………………………………………….101 HIST2097 -‐ Napoleon and his Legend..................................................................................................17 108
HIST2100 -‐ Retail Therapy: A Journey Through the Cultural History of Shopping……………………………..27 HIST2106 -‐ In Hitler’s Shadow: Eastern Europe 1918-‐1939…………………………………………………………..….51 HIST2107 -‐ Terror and the Fall of Imperial Russia…………………………………………………………………………….55 HIST2108 -‐ The Making of Modern India………………………………………………………………………………………….69 HIST2110 -‐ The Global Cold War…..……..………………………………………………………………………………..…………35 HIST2216 -‐ Oil Burns The Hands: Power, Politics and Petroleum in Iraq………………………………….……….57 HIST2217 -‐ From The Mafia to the Ultras………………………………………………………………………….……………..59 HIST2218 -‐ Sex, Death and Money: the United Kingdom in the 1960s……………………….………………..….31 HIST2219 -‐ Ritual Murder: The Antisemitic Blood Libel …………………………………………………………………..25 HIST2XXX~ -‐ Children in Europe 1933-‐1950: Holocaust, War, Death, Displacement and Survival…….77 HIST2XXX~ -‐ Ragtime! The Making of Modern America…………………………………………………………………...81 HIST2XXX~ -‐ Modern Germany 1870-‐1945…………………………………………………….…………………………….....37 ARCH2012 -‐ Archaeology and Society………………………………………………………………………………..…………….85 GERM 2006 -‐ Vienna and Berlin: Society, History and Culture 1890-‐present………………………..……….…43 ~Module code not allocated at time of print 109
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