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2020/2021

20th Century Dictatorships and Democracy

Code: 100383 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2500501 History OT 4 0
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Martí Marin Corbera
Email:
Marti.Marin@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
Yes
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
No

Other comments on languages

The subject will have bibliography in this language

Prerequisites

They do not exist

Objectives and Contextualisation

The objective of the subject is to analyse the relations between dictatorship and democracy in the 20th. century, both at the level of international relationships between states governed by different political systems of both kinds, and at the level of internal political development. The common thread will be the use of the example of the United States of North America as a model of democracy, its internal evolution and its international relationships.

Competences

  • Applying the main methods, techniques and instruments of the historical analysis.
  • Critically assessing the fonts and theoretical models in order to analyse the different historical periods.
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  • Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Appropriately identifying and using information sources for the historical research, specially about contemporary political regimes.
  2. Communicating in your mother tongue or other language both in oral and written form by using specific terminology and techniques of Historiography.
  3. Critically summarising the various historiographical explanations about the emergence and evolution of political regimes in the contemporary era.
  4. Engaging in debates about historical facts respecting the other participants' opinions.
  5. Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
  6. Organising and planning the search of historical information.
  7. Properly using the specific vocabulary of History.
  8. Recognising diversity and multiculturalism.
  9. Solving problems autonomously.
  10. Submitting works in accordance with both individual and small group demands and personal styles.
  11. Using the characteristic computing resources of the field of History.

Content

Introduction: dictatorships and democracies, general concepts.

1. The construction of the USA in the XIX Century.

2. The USA in the Interwar period.

3. América in the Asian and Latin American scene until World War II

4. World War II: the turning point.

5. The Cold War: Empire by Invitation?

6. Epilogue: from supremacy to chaos (from 1991 to the present)

Methodology

The exam will focus on the analysis of materials and can be done with notes, books and computer support.

The article will talk about a fictional film, from a pre-established list that will be available from the first day of the course on the Virtual Campus.

The reduced dimensions work will deal with one of the topics in a pre-established list that will be available from the first day of the course on the Virtual Campus.

Depending on the evolution of the course, a maximum of three significant short texts of the period will be selected, which must be read. The exam may refer to them.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Theoretical classes 45 1.8 1, 6, 4, 3, 7, 11
Type: Supervised      
Theoretical classes 15 0.6 2, 1, 6, 4, 10, 7
Type: Autonomous      
Elaboration of a paper (30.000 characters) 15 0.6 9, 2, 4, 10, 8, 3, 7
Elaboration of a work of reduced dimensions (10.000 characters) 5 0.2 9, 2, 5, 10, 8, 3, 7, 11
Personal study 40 1.6 9, 1, 5, 3
Reading texts 8 0.32 9, 5, 3

Assessment

At the time of completion/delivery of each assessment activity, the teacher will inform (Moodle, SIA) of the procedure and date of revision of the grades.

All assessment activities will be reassessed independently, maintaining their weight in the final grade.

The student will be classified as Non-evaluable when he has not delivered more than 30% of the evaluation activities.

In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.

 

 

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Elaboration of a paper (30.000 characters) 35% 15 0.6 9, 2, 4, 10, 8, 3, 7
Elaboration of a work of reduced dimensions (10.000 characters) 15% 5 0.2 9, 2, 5, 6, 10, 8, 3, 7, 11
Exam 50% 2 0.08 2, 1, 5, 3, 7

Bibliography

- General and collective manuals and works on the universal history of the 20th century:

ALDCROFT, D.H.; De Versalles a Wall Street, 1919-1929; KINDLEBERGER, C.P.; La crisis económica, 1929-1939; MILWARD, A.S.; La Segunda Guerra Mundial, 1939-1945; VAN DER WEE, H.; Prosperidad y crisis. Reconstrucción, crecimiento y cambio, 1945-1980, vols.3 a 6 de la "Historia Económica Mundial del Siglo XX", Crítica, Barcelona, 1986.

HOBSBAWM, E.; Historia del Siglo XX, Crítica, Barcelona, 1995.

KRUGMAN, Paul; El internacionalismo "moderno". La economía internacional y las mentiras de la competitividad, Crítica, Barcelona, 1997.

LEFFLER, M.P. & PAINTER, D.S. (eds.); Origins of the Cold War. An International History, Routlegde, Nova York/Londres, 2005 ed.revisada i augmentada [1994].

LEFFLER, M.P. i WESTAD, O.A. (eds.), The Cambrigde History of the Cold War, 3 vols., Cambrigde University Press, 2010

VEIGA, F., El desequilibrio como orden. Una historia de la Posguerra Fría, 1990-2008, Alianza, Madrid, 2009.

VEIGA, F.; DA CAL, E.U.; DUARTE, Á., La paz simulada. Una historia de la Guerra Fría, Alianza, Madrid, 1997.

WESTAD, O.A.; The Global Cold War, Cambrigde University Press, 2007.

- Handbooks on US History

ADAMS, W.P.; Los Estados Unidos de América, Siglo XXI, Madrid, 1977.

JONES, M.A.; Historia de Estados Unidos, 1607-1992, Cátedra, Madrid, 1996.

East Asia:

BEASLEY, W.G., Historia contemporánea de Japón, Alianza, Madrid, 1995.

BICKERS, R.; Out of China. How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination, Allen Lane, London, 2017.

Chung, D.; Élitist Fascism. Chiang Kai-shek’s Blueshirts in 1930s China. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2000.

CLARK, D.N., Living Dangerously in Korea. The Western Experience, Eastbrigde, Norwalk, 2003.

DALLOZ, J.; La guerre d’Indochine, 1945-1954, Du Seuil, París, 1987.

Eastman, Ll.E.; The Abortive Revolution. China under Nationalist Rule, 1927-1937, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1990.

GERNET, J.; Le Monde Chinois. 3. L'époque contemporaine. Xxème. Siècle, Armand Colin, París, 2005.

GRAVEREAU, Jacques; Le Japon au XXème Siècle, Du Seuil, París 1993.

HALL, M.K.; La guerra del Vietnam, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2003.

JIAN, C.; La China de Mao y la Guerra Fría, Paidós, Barcelona, 2005.

The Soviet Union and the Eastern Europet:

LEFFLER, M.P.; La guerra después de la guerra. Estados Unidos, la Unión Soviética y la Guerra Fría, Crítica, Barcelona, 2008.

MEYER, J.; Rusia y sus imperios (1894-2005), Tusquets, Barcelona, 2007.

MINER, S.M., Stalin's Holy War. Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941-1945, University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

NAIMARK, N. & GIBIANSKII, L. (eds.), The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949, Westview Press, Boulder (Colorado), 1997.

POWASKI, R.E.; La Guerra Fría: los Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética, Crítica, Barcelona, 2000.

ZUBOK, V.M. & PLESHAKOV, C., Inside the Kremlin's Cold War. From Stalin to Khrushchev, Harvard College, 1996.

ZUBOK, V.M., Un imperio fallido. La Unión Soviética durante la Guerra Fría, Crítica, Barcelona, 2008.

Occidental Europe:

ALEXANDER, G.M., The Prelude to the Truman Doctrine. British Policy in Greece, 1944-1947, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1982.

CHARLE, C.; La crise des societés impériales. Allemagne, France, Grande-Bretagne, 1900-1940, Seuil, París, 2001.

Gerwarth, R.; Los vencidos. Por qué la I Guerra Mundial no terminó del todo (1917-1923), Galaxia Gutemberg, Barcelona, 2017.

JUDT, T., Postguerra. Una historia de Europa desde 1945, Taurus, Madrid, 2006.

KERSHAW, I.; Descenso a los infiernos. Europa, 1914-1949, Crítica, Barcelona, 2016.

LOWE, K., Continente salvaje. Europa después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Galaxia Gutenberg, Barcelona, 2015.

MAZOWER, M.; La Europa negra. Desde la Gran Guerra a la caída del comunismo, Barlin Libros, Madrid, 2018.

TOOZE, A.; El diluvio. La Gran Guerra y la reconstrucción del Orden Mundial (1916-1931), Crítica, Barcelona, 2018.

LAtin America:

BETHELL, L. (ed.); Historia de América Latina, diversos vols., Crítica, Barcelona, 1992.

CARMAGNANI, M.; Estado y sociedad en América Latina, 1830-1950, Crítica, Barcelona, 1992.

SKIDMORE, T.E. i SMITH, P.H.; Historia contemporánea de América Latina. Siglo XX, Crítica, Barcelona, 1999.

Middle East:

AL-RASHEED, M.; Historia de Arabia Saudí, Cambrigde Univ. Press, 2003.

CORM, G.; Le Proche-Orient éclaté, 1956-2003, Gallimard, París, 2002.

KEDDIE, N.R.; El Irán Moderno, Vértice, Barcelona et al, 2007.

PAPPE, I.; Historia de la Palestina Moderna.Un territorio, dos pueblos, Akal, Madrid, 2007.

SAYIGH, Y. i SHLAIM, A.; Cold war and the Middle East, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997.

SHLAIM, A. i ROGAN, E.L. (eds.); La guerra per la Palestina. Riscrivere la storia del 1948, Il Ponte, Bologna, 2004.

TRIPP, Charles, Historia de Iraq, Cambrigde University Press, 2003.

VIORST, M.; Tormenta en Oriente Próximo. El choque entre el oriente musulmán y el occidente cristiano, Debate, Barcelona, 2006.

Africa:

HUBAND, M.; África después de la Guerra Fría: la promesa rota de un continente, Paidos, Barcelona, 2004.

MARTÍNEZ CARRERAS, J.U.; Africa subsahariana, 1885-1990. Del colonialismo a la descolonización, Síntesis, Madrid, 1993.

WESSELING, H.L.; Divide y vencerás. El reparto de África (1880-1914), Península, Barcelona, 1999.

-The II World War:

BOURKE, J.; La Segona Guerra Mundial. Història de les víctimes, Empúries, Barcelona, 2003.

CALVOCORESSI, P. / WINT, G.; Guerra total, 2 vols., Alianza, Madrid, 1979.

COLLOTTI, E.; L’europa nazista. Il progetto di un nuovo ordine europeo (1939-1945), Giunti, Florència, 2002.

LOWE, K., El miedo y la libertad. Como nos cambió la Segunda Mundial, Galaxia Gutenberg, Barcelona, 2017.

PARKER, R.A.C.; Historia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 1998.

TOOZE, A.; The Wages of Destruction. The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, Penguin Books, London et al, 2007.

- Society, politics, and culture in the United States:

ISENBERG, N.; White Trash. The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Atlantic Books, London, 2016.

LEFFLER, M.P.; A Preponderance of Power. National Security, Truman Administration and the Cold War, Stanford University Press, 1992.

PETIGNY, A.; The Permissive Society. America, 1941-1965, Cambrigde University Press., 2009.

Documentary series:

- Pat MITCHELL & Jeremy ISAACS (eds.), Cold War, 1998, CNN, 24 episodes. Available in original version at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22KIQ1QNnhE&list=PL3H6z037pboGWTxs3xGP7HRGrQ5dOQdGc and dubbed in Spanish at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXeNFCTfbU0&index=1&list=PLqAiJ3i-9oRq5E1FfC1dayk1Q6jdau_46

- John ELSE, The Great Depression, 1993, Blackside, 7 episodes. Available in original version at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjH4pCatx0I&list=PLNKKKWWQywFNZh4xL9Okf3xkZc0g0spND