HTA 101 HTA 101 Introductions Course Materials Teaching

HTA 101

HTA 101 • Introductions • Course Materials • Teaching Organisation • Assessment • Unit Overview

Lecturers • Dr Gavin Daly • Dr Anthony Page Tutor • Dr Philip Caudrey

Unit Coordinator Gavin Daly Rm 455 Humanities Building Tel: (03) 6226 2297 Email: Gavin. Daly@utas. edu. au Consultation: Thurs 10. 00 -12. 00

Course Materials • Unit Outline (My. LO) • Unit Reader: Making Modern Europe: Unit Reader [My. LO or purchase hardcopy at Uniprint] • Recommended Text: Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648 -1815 (Penguin, 2007) [Coop bookstore]

My. LO • Unit Outline • Lecture recordings • Lecture outlines & slides • Assignment submission • Tutorial enrolment

Tutorial enrolment through My. LO • ‘Groups’ on the Navigation Bar • ‘Contents’ has a guide to tutorial enrolment • Tutorials start in week 2

Assessment • Tutorial Participation 10% • First assignment 10% • Second assignment 40% • Exam (2 hr) 40%

Written Assessment • 500 word primary source analysis (wk 5) • 2000 word research essay (wk 12)

Primary Source Analysis Select one primary source document from the tutorial readings for one of the following topics: Louis XIV, The Glorious Revolution, or Russia under Peter the Great. Write a short analysis of your selected primary source that assesses its strengths, limitations and value as a source of historical knowledge.

Late penalty policy

Academic Integrity Available on My. LO: • Academic Honesty Module • Writing and Referencing Modules – History students • Essay Writing Guide

Exam Three questions in two hours

Arts Student Central

The misconception of history as dry old facts and dates

Why History Matters? • Long term perspective that allows us to see beyond the ‘parochialism of the present’ • History as ‘looking critically at ourselves and seeing what we have become and where we came from. ’ (historian, Simon Schama)

Historians critically assessing change and continuity over time

History helps us see beyond the ‘condescension of the present’. ‘Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent that the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ’ (George Orwell) How did the world end up the way it is? Was it inevitable? What were the ‘roads less taken’, the ‘paths not travelled?

‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ’ George Orwell, 1984

First Year History • Semester 1: HTA 101 • History 1 A: Making Modern Europe, 1660 -1815 • Semester 2: HTA 102 • History 1 B: Making the Modern World, 1500 -1900

HTA 101

Learning Outcomes 1. Students are introduced to the nature of History as a discipline: to its writing, practice and interpretation, and will develop basic skills in research, accessing library resources and databases, analysis, writing and reflection. 2. Students learn about the nature of primary and secondary sources, and are introduced to differing conceptual approaches and types of history. 3. Students begin to develop a sensitivity to historical change and continuity, and begin to develop a capacity to critically analyse and interpret historical evidence and scholarship. 4. Students develop an understanding of major developments in the political, social, economic and cultural history of Europe in the “long eighteenth century” – the key period in transition from pre-modern to modern states and societies.

Historians and their centuries: the long and short of it • The long eighteenth century, 1648 -1815 • The short twentieth century (Eric Hobsbawm)

Old Europe/New Europe • Rural • Agrarian • Feudal • Religious • Privilege/hierarchy • Aristocracy and clergy • Divine Right Rule • • • Urban Industrial/commercial Secular Rights/Liberties The Middle Classes and the People • Representative Government • Modern State

Key problems • Change versus continuity • Causality, action and consequence

The Age of Absolutism • Divine Right Monarchy • Politics, War and State-Building • Social and Cultural Change • Religion and the Enlightenment

‘A philosopher giving a lecture on the Orrery’ , Joseph Wright of Derby, 1766

Voltaire (1694 -1778)

The Age of Revolution • The Machine Age • Natural Rights and Liberties • Modern Political Culture • The Modern State

Coalbrookdale

The American Declaration of Independence (1776) Thomas Jefferson’s original draft with revisions by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin

‘Let them eat cake’ Marie Antoinette (2006, Sofia Coppola)

The Storming of the Bastille

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)

Whose rights?

Execution of Louis XVI

Napoleon crossing the Alps