MSc Global History

Full-year programme. Students must take compulsory courses to the value of 2.5 units, and either optional courses to the value of one unit and a half-unit dissertation, or optional courses to the value of 0.5 units and a full unit dissertation.

Paper

Course number and title

1

EH481

Economic Change in Global History: Approaches and Analysis

2&3

Two of the following:

 

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

 

EH479

Dissertation: Global History (H) and courses to the value of one full unit from the following (if not already taken under paper 2)

Or

 

EH480

Dissertation: MSc Global History and courses to the value of 0.5 units from the following (if not already taken under paper 2):

EH402

Research Design and Quantitative Methods in Economic History (H)

EH404

India and the World Economy (H) (n/a 11/12)

EH408

International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum (H)

EH412

Research Topics in Economic History A (H)

EH413

African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H)

EH417

Political Economy of Late Industrialisation (H) (n/a 11/12) 

EH418

Research Issues in African Economic History* (H) (n/a 11/12)

EH419

Research Topics in Economic History B (H) (n/a 11/12)

EH422

Topics in Quantitative Economic History

EH423

Japan and Korea as Developing Economics (H) (n/a 11/12)

EH424

The British Economy in Global Perspective, 1000-2000 (H)

EH426

Quantitative Topics in Economic History I: Cross-section and Panel Data (H)**

EH427

Quantitative Topics in Economic History II: Time Series and Economic Dynamics (H)**

EH446

Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (n/a 11/12)

EH447

Great Depressions in Economic History (H)

EH451

Latin American Development: political economy of growth (H)

EH452

Latin American Development: case-studies in growth, poverty and social change (H)

EH453

Economic Globalisation: Long-term trends and consequences (H) (n/a 11/12)

 

EH463

The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries (H) (n/a 11/12)

EH464

The Historical Context of Business (H)

EH466

Labour and Work in Preindustrial Europe (H)

EH467

Epidemics: epidemic disease in history, 1348-2000 (H) (n/a 11/12)

 

EH475

The Rise and Decline of Economic Policy in Twentieth Century Western Europe (n/a 11/12)

EH477

History of Economics: From Moral Philosophy to Social Science

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

 

EH485

Scientific, Technical and Useful Knowledge from Song China to the Industrial Revolution (H) (n/a 11/12)

 

EH486

Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c1600-1860 (H)

 

EH487

International Economic Institutions since World War I (H)

EU438

Turkey: Political Economy and European Integration (H) 

EU461

Economic History of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, 1820-1970 (H)

* Please note that EH413 is a pre-requisite of this course
** These courses cannot be combined with EH422

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