Descriptif CM

Histoire politique, sociale et culturelle du Royaume-Uni au XXe siècle

Political, social and cultural history of XXth century Britain.

Valérie Morisson

valerie.morisson@univ-montp3.fr

 

The course will focus on XXth century Britain and explore successively the following topics :

 

-  1900-1920 : the Edwardian era, the Empire, the Great War, women’s suffrage ; 

- The Glasgow Empire exhibition of 1938 ;

- WW2, the creation of the Welfare state and the notion of public health ;

- Disindustrialization, trade unionism and the working class ;

- Thatcherism : the end of the post-war consensus, the ennemies within ;

- Thatcherism : foreign policy, the Falklands War, the Northern Irish question ;

- Migration policies, multiculturalism and its demise, Brexit ;

- Urbanism : from slum clearances to high-rise and creative cities, the persisting housing crisis, environmentalism.  

 

Assessment : Examen d’une heure en semaine 13 sur le créneau habituel. Question(s) de cours.

 

Bibliography

ADDISON, Paul & JONES, Harriet. A Companion to Contemporary Britain, 1939-2000. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

BEDARIDA, François. A Social History of England, 1851-1990. London: Routledge, 2013 (new edition).

G. Gordon BETTS. The Twilight of Britain: Cultural Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and the Politics of Toleration. London: Routledge, 2018.

BLACK, Jeremy. A History of the British Isles. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

BOURKE, Joanna. Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity. London : Routledge, 1994. 

BROWN, Judith M. & ROGER LOUIS, WM. The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Twentieth Century. Oxford: OUP, 1999.

CAWOOD, Ian. Britain in the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge, 2003.

CLARKE, Peter. Hope and Glory, Britain 1900-1990. London: Penguin, 1997.

COOK, Chris & STEVENSON John. Britain since 1945 (The Longman Companion to). London: Longman, 2000 (2d ed.).

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EVANS, Eric J. Thatcher and Thatcherism. London: Routledge, 2008.

KENNEDY, Dane. Britain and Empire, 1880-1945. Seminar Studies in History. London: Longman Pearson, 2002.

LLOYD, T.O. Empire, Welfare State, Europe. History of the United Kingdom 1906-2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

LYNCH, Michael. An Introduction to Modern British History 1900-1999. London: Hodder Murray, 2001.

MARWICK, Arthur. British Society since 1945. London: Penguin, (1982) 1996.

MCINTYRE, W. David. British Decolonization, 1946-1997. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1998.

MORGAN, Kenneth O. The People’s Peace. Britain since 1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

PANAVI, Panikos. An Immigration History of Britain: Multicultural Racism since 1800. London: Routledge, 2010.

PUGH, Martin. State and Society, A Social and Political History of Britain Since 1870. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

SCHNAPPER, Pauline. La Grande-Bretagne et l’Europe. Le grand malentendu. Paris : Presses de Science Po, 2000.

SHEAIL, John. An Environmental History of Twentieth Century Britain. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

WRIGLEY, Chris (ed). A Companion to Early Twentieth-Century Britain. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

 

 


Organisation semestrielle: Semestre pair