Dr Antony Best SAR 3.14

This course is available to General Course ‘Spring Semester’ students.

An introductory survey of events outside Europe in the twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on the development of relations between the West and the new states within Latin America, Asia and Africa, revolutionary developments in Latin America, and the rise of non-Western models of political development. The course includes the Japanese developmental state; the rise of the non-aligned movement; the development of the Arab and non-Arab Middle East; American and Soviet relations with the Third World; the modernization and underdevelopment debates; post-independence Africa; China under Mao and Deng; the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Students will engage with lecture content through recorded lectures and external content, as well as through live Q&A sessions.

Students will engage with class content in a variety of ways, including live sessions, small group meetings, asynchronous moodle posts, and short presentations.

Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6 of the Lent Term. 

Students will be asked to write at least one essay and to present a number of brief class reports.

W G Beasley, The Rise of Modern Japan (1990); A Best, J Hanhimaki, J Maiolo and K Schulze, International History of the Twentieth Century (2001); J Darwin, Britain and Decolonization (1988); J P Dunbabin, International Relations since 1945, Vol 1, The Cold War, the Great Powers and their Allies (1994) Vol 2, The Post-Imperial Age, The Great Powers and the Wider World (1994); D Fieldhouse, Black Africa, 1945-1980 (1986); Goldschmidt, A Concise History of the Middle East; R Holland, European Decolonization, 1918-81 (1985); W Keylor, The Twentieth Century World (1984); S Sarkar, Modern India, 1885-1947 (1983); J Spence, The Search for Modern China (1990); M Yapp, The Near East since the First World War (1991); Skidmore and Smith, Modern Latin America (2005).

Take-home assessment (100%) in the ST.