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Root number
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520512 |
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Semester
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HS2026 |
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Type of course
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Seminar |
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Allocation to subject
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History |
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Type of exam
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| Title |
Borders and Borderlands in the Age of Revolutions (Late 18th to Mid-19th Century) |
| Description |
Shifting borders and human fates in borderlands have turned into hot-button issues again – certainly since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and Donald Trump centered his first presidential campaign in 2015–16 on the project of a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. In this seminar, we will gain historical distance as well as fresh perspectives by focusing on the Age of Revolutions as an earlier period of dramatic territorial shifts, social transformations, and colonial and racialized conflicts in border regions. Based on European (Rhineland, Tyrol, …) and North American case studies, we will tackle several key questions: in what ways and why did people on territorial peripheries support – or resist – disruptions such as the American War of Independence or the French Revolution of 1789? How were borderlands affected by these revolutions and by the imperial dynamics emerging from them (westward expansion of the U.S., Napoleonic expansion across Europe)? Does our bigger picture of the revolutionary era change when we view it more from the territorial margins than from the centers of power? And finally, how to fruitfully relate historiographical debates on European and North American borderlands to each other? |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
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Lecturers
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ECTS
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7 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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No |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Wednesday 10:15-15:00 Weekly
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