Universität Wien

070304 SE BA-Seminar - Industrialism and imperial economy of fuels and ores (2023S)

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

LV-Leiter: Mag. Peter Svik, PhD.

Termine werden durch einen Freitag-Block im Juni ergänzt.

  • Dienstag 18.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
  • Dienstag 25.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Dienstag 02.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Dienstag 09.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Dienstag 16.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Dienstag 23.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Dienstag 06.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Dienstag 13.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Dienstag 20.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Freitag 23.06. 09:00 - 17:00 Digital
  • Dienstag 27.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 10, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This seminar problematizes traditional periodization of history into the long 19th and short 20th centuries. It examines how the interplay between industrialism and imperialism has driven the quest for raw materials (natural rubber), fossil fuels (oil and gas) and strategic metals (copper, cobalt) and colonialism from the mid-19th century to the present day.

Further description of course objectives and methods will be provided in a week beginning 27 February 2023.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

1. Attendance and informed participation in classes (15%)
2. Completion of the assigned reading and 1 oral critique of a scholarly article or book excerpt (15%)
3. Outline of seminar paper (1-2pp.) and its presentation (20%)
4. Seminar paper up to 15-20 pp. (50%)
(Die Seminararbeit kann auch auf Deutsch verfasst werden)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Students must fulfill all the above-mentioned requirements while their overall score must be above the 60% threshold at the same time.
The grading of seminar papers will be weighted according to the study year of individual students.
Grades will be assigned in accordance with the following scale:

A 90-100
B 80-89
C 70-79
D 61-69
F 0-60

Prüfungsstoff

There are no intermediate or final exams for this class.
However, should a student fail to meet requirements 1-3, s/he will not be permitted to submit a seminar paper

Literatur

The provisional list of compulsory and recommended readings. Participants are expected to read up to 40-50 pages per week. A full breakdown of the required reading for each week will be provided at the first session on 18 April.

Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, vol. I. New York: Harper and Row, 1972, 17-22.
Black, Magan. The Global Interior. Mineral Frontiers and American Power. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Diogo, Maria P., and Dirk van Laak, Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging. Basingstoke – New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Ferguson, Niall et al. eds., The Shock of the Global: the 1970s in Perspective. Cambridge, MA – London: Harvard University Press, 2011, 418 p.
Foreign Policy Analytics, ‘Mining the Future: How China is set to dominate the next Industrial Revolution’, Foreign Policy Analytics Special Report, May 2019. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/01/mining-the-future-china-critical-minerals-metals.
Headrick, D. R. The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Helmreich, Jonathan E. Gathering Rare Ores. The Diplomacy of Uranium Acquisition, 1943-1954. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Revolution: Europe: 1789-1848. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962.
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975.
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Empire 1875-1914. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987.
Hobsbawm, Eric. Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1918. London: Joseph, 1994.
Högselius, Per. Engergy and Geopolitics. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.
Iriye, Akira ed., Global Interdependence. The World After 1945. Cambridge, MA – London: Harvard University Press, 2014.
Mark, James, and Tobias Rupprecht. “The Socialist World in Global History: From Absentee to Victim to Co-Producer.” In The Practice of Global History: European Perspectives, edited by Matthias Middell, 81-113. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Mark, James, Artemy M. Kalinovsky, and Steffi Marung. “Introduction.” In Alternative Globalizations. Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World, edited by James Mark, Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Steffi Marung, 1-31. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.
Osterhammel, Jürgen. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Perović, Jeronim, ed. Cold War Energy: A Transnational History of Soviet Oil and Gas. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Reinhard, Wolfgang. Die Unterwerfung der Welt. Globalgeschichte der europäischen Expansion 1415-2015. München: C.H.Beck, 2016
Rosenberg, Emily S. ed., A World Connecting 1870-1945. Cambridge, MA – London: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Williams, Susan. Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore That Built the Atomic Bomb. London: Hurst&Company, 2016.
Williams, Susan. White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa. London: Hurst, 2021.


Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

BA Geschichte: 10 ECTS
BEd UF Geschichte: 9 ECTS

Letzte Änderung: Do 11.05.2023 11:27