B.A. History
5th Semester Syllabus
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MJC-8 : History of Modern World: 1919-1945
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Unit 1: 1919 A New World Order
◦Formation of the League of Nations: Organizations
◦Achievements & Failures
◦Formation of ICJ & ILO
◦New Imperialism: Mandate System
◦Democracies between the wars
Unit 2: Rise of Totalitarianism
◦Failure of Weimar Republic & Rise of Nazism in Germany
◦Factors leading to the Growth of Fascism in Italy and the Concept of Corporate state
◦Rise of Totalitarianism in Russia & Stalin
◦Rise of Militarism in Japan
Unit 3: Anti-Imperialist Movements between the Great Wars
◦Arab Nationalism
◦Nationalist Movement in China with reference to The role of Dr.Sun Yat-Sen
◦Anti-Imperialist Movement in Indo-China
◦Anti-Imperialist Movement in Egypt
Unit 4: Challenges to Capitalism
◦Rise and Role of trusts in USA
◦The progressive Movement and Foreign Policy of USA
◦The Great Economic Depression: 1929
◦Reconstruction and New Deal Policy of F.D Roosevelt
Unit 5: Quest for security and road to Second World War
◦French quest for security: Locarno Pact-1925
◦Causes and Consequences of Second World War
◦O its Organization and Achievements
◦Cold War and Emergence of New Bi-Polar world
Reference Books:
- Barzun Jacques from Dawn to Decadence 500 years of western Cultural life : 1500- present New York, Harper Collins 2001
- Benns F. Lee : Europe Since 1914
- Car, E.H (1948) International Relations between two World Wars (1919-1939), Delhi, Macmillian & Co.
- Carsten. F.L (1982) : The Rise of Fascism University of California Press
- Cayley, E.S (1856) The European revolutions of 1848, London Smith Elder & Co. Vol I and II
- Contemporary History of the World by Edwin Augustus Grosvenor
- Crawley C.W (1965) The new Cambridge modern History Volume 9. War & Peace in an age of upheaval. 1793-1830. Cambridge University Press.
- Dhar, S.N (1967) : International Relations and World Politics since 1919, Bombay, Asia Publish House
- Doenecke Justus D. Stoler Mark A (2005). Debating Franklin D Roosevelt's Foreign
- Rowman & Little field, Policies. 1933-1945
- Dunan Marcel Larousse: Encyclopaedia of Modern History from 1500 to the Present day, New York Harper & Row, 1964.
- Duruy V & Grosvenor E.A (1894) History of modern times: From the fall of Constantinople to the French Revolution, New York H Holt and Company
- FP Walters: A History of the League of Nations (oxford 1965)
- Gaddis John Lewis (1972) The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 Columbia University Press
- Grosvenor, Edwin A Contemporary History of the World New York and Boston T.Y Crowell & Co. 1899
- Henry Kitchell Webster : Early European History
- Jules Michelet, Mary Charlotte, Mair Simpson : A summary of Modern history
- Joll James: Europe Since 1870