MSc Global History

Full-year programme. Students must take compulsory courses to the value of 2.5 units, optional courses to the value of one unit and a half-unit dissertation as shown.

Teaching terms (MT: Michaelmas Term; LT: Lent Term) are shown for half course units.

Paper

Course number and title

1a

EH481 Economic Change in Global History: Approaches and Analysis (MT) (H)

1b

EH479 Dissertation in Global History (10,000 words) (H) (LT)

2

Either EH482 Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West compared, c1000-1800
or
EH483 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th centuries

3

One of the following (if not taken under paper 2):
EH411 Epidemics and Economic and Social History: From the Black Death to the Present
EH482 Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West compared, c1000-1800
EH483 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th centuries
HY423 Empire, Colonialism and Globalization

4

Either one full unit from (i) (if not already taken under paper 2 or paper 3 above) OR two half-units, one from (ii) and one from (iii) below:
(i) Full unit course:
EH411 Epidemics and Economic and Social History: from the Black Death to the Present
EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (n/a 08/09)
EH462 Latin American Development in the Twentieth Century: From Liberalism to Neo-Liberalism (n/a 08/09)
EH482 Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West compared, c1000-1800
EH483 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th centuries
(ii) Half units to be taken in the Michaelmas Term:
EH412 Research Topics in Economic History (H) (n/a MT 08/09)
EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H) (MT)
EH417 Political Economy of Late Industrialisation (H) (MT) (n/a 08/09)
EH447 Great Depressions in Economic History (H) (MT)
EU461 Economic History of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, 1820-1945 (H) (MT)
(iii) Half-unit to be taken in the Lent Term:
EH404 India and the World Economy (H) (LT)
EH408 International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum (H) (LT)
EH412 Research Topics in Economic History (H) (LT)
EH418 Research Issues in African Economic History* (H) (L) (n/a 08/09)
EH485 Scientific, Technical and Useful Knowledge from Song China to the Industrial Revolution (H)
EH486 Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c1600-1860(H) (LT)
EH487 International Economic Institutions since World War I (H) (LT)
EU438 Turkey: Political Economy and European Integration (H) (LT)

* Please note that EH418 is a pre-requisite of this course

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