MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation

Programme Code: TMHYEMCOGL

Department: International History

This information is for the 2016/17 session.

Full year programme. Students must take courses to the value of four full units, comprising one compulsory paper, a dissertation and optional course as shown.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Paper

Course number and title

1

HY423

Empire, Colonialism and Globalization

2 & 3

Either two courses from list A, alternatively one course from list A and one course or two half-unit courses from list B.
List A

 

HY424

The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Modern Europe?

 

HY429

Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War

HY432

From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999

HY434

The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe 1917-1990 (n/a 16/17)

HY436

Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa

HY439

War Cultures, 1890-1945

HY440

The Emergence of Modern Iran: State, Society and Diplomacy (n/a 16/17)

HY441

Islam, State and Rebellion in the Indonesian Archipelago (n/a 16/17)

HY444

The Cold War in Latin America

HY459

The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950

HY460

Ideologies and Political Thought in Germany in the Era of Extremes (1914-1990) (withdrawn 16/17)

HY461

East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945 

HY463

The Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962

HY469

Maps, History and Power: The Spaces and Cultures of the Past

HY471

European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948

HY472

China and the External World, 1711-1839

 

List B

 

DV400

Development: History, Theory, Policy

EH404

India and the World Economy (H)

EH408

International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum* (H) (n/a 16/17)

EH413

African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H)*

EH446

Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia

EH451

Latin American Development: Political Economy of Growth (H)* (n/a 16/17)

EH452

Latin American Development and Economic History (H)

EH467

Epidemics: Epidemic Disease in History, 1348-2000 (H)* (withdrawn 16/17)

EH482

Pre-Modern Paths of Growth: Europe and the Wider World, 11th to 19th Centuries *

EH483

The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries*

 

EH486

Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c1600-1860 (H) (n/a 16/17)

EU426

The West: Identity and Interests (H)

EU475

Muslims in Europe (H)

GI409

Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (H)

GI411

Gender, Postcoloniality, Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (H)

GV442

Globalization and Democracy (H) * (n/a 16/17)

GV465

War, Peace and the Politics of National Self-Determination (H) *

GV4C7

Warfare and National Identity (H)

GV4H7

Subnational Politics in Comparative Perspective (H) (n/a 16/17)

GY464

Race and Space (H) (n/a 16/17)

GY467

Global Migration and Development (H) 

 

A course from another Masters programme taught at LSE which is complementary with the other courses chosen, is suitably timetabled and has the approval of the teacher concerned and the Programme Director.

4

HY499

Dissertation

 

* means subject to space.