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[B]PMS HISTORY PAPER SYLLABUS [/B]

[B]SYLLABUS FOR THE SUBJECT OF HISTORY OF MODERN WORLD
Total Marks: 100[/B]

History: Various Concepts of perceiving History.
Modern: Connotation of the terminology.
World: How the idea of world is perceived. Implications of world history.

[B]1. TOWARDS GLOBALIZATION[/B]
Old Regimes and Archaic Globalization: Peasants and Lords, Dynamics of New
Politics, Archaic and Early Modern Globalization.
[B]2. TRANSFORMATION FROM OLD REGIMES TO MODERNITY[/B]
The Last Great Domestication and Industrious Revolutions, New Patterns of Afro-
Asian Material Culture, Production and Trade, Trade Finance and Innovation: European
Competitive advantages, the development of Asian and African Publics.
[B]3. CONVERGING REVOLUTIONS[/B]
Anatomy of the World Crisis (1720-1820), Sapping the legitimacy of the State:
From France to China Ideological origin of the modern left and the modern state,
Nationalities VS States and Empires. The Third Revolution: Polite and Commercial
Peoples Worldwide.
[B]4. MODERN WORLD IN GENESIS[/B]
World revolutions (1815-1865), Emigration, New World Order: 1815-1865, Wars
of Legitimacy in Asia, Economic and Ideological Roots of Asian Revolutions, Hunger
and Rebellion in Europe (1848-1851), American Civil War as a Global Event.
[B]5. INDUSTRIALIZAION AND THE NEW CITY HISTORIANS[/B]
Industrialization, and Cities The Progress of Industrialization Poverty and the
Absence of Industry, Cites as Centers of Production, Consumption, and Politics The
Urban Impact of the Global Crisis, 1780-1820. Race and Class in the New Cities,
Working-Class Politics, Worldwide Urban Cultures and their Critics.
[B]6. NATION, EMPIRE, AND ETHNICITY, C. 1860-1900[/B]
Theories of Nationalism, When was Nationalism Born? Perpetuating
Nationalisms: Memories, National Associations, and Print, From Community to Nation:
The Eurasian Empires Where we Stand with Nationalism, Peoples without States:
Persecution or Assimilation? Imperialism and its History: The Late Nineteenth Century
Dimensions of the “New Imperialism”. A World of Nation-States? The Persistence of
Archaic Globalization From Globalization to Internationalism in Practice.
[B]7. MYTHS AND TECHNOLOGIES OF THE MODERN STATE DIMENSIONS OF[/B]
THE MODERN STATE
The State and the Historians, Problems of Defining the State, The Modern State
Takes Root: Geographical Dimensions Claims to Justice and Symbols of Power, The
State’s Resources, The State’s Obligations to Society Tools of the State, State,
Economy, and Nation.
[B]8. THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LIBERALISM, RATIONALISM,[/B]
SOCIALISM, AND SCIENCE
Contextualizing Intellectual History, The Corruption of the Righteous Republic: A
Classic Theme. Righteous Republics Worldwide, The Advent of Liberalism and the
Market: Western Exceptionalism? Liberalism and Land Reform: Radical Theory and
Conservative Practice, Free Trade or National Political Economy? Representing the
Peoples Secularism and Positivism: Transnational Affinites The Reception of Socialism
and its Local Resonances. Science in Global Context. Professionalization at World
Level.
[B]9. SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENTS[/B]
Revolutionary Ideas, Philosophical and social trends.
[B]10. Clash of Civilizations[/B]
[B]11. Neo-Conservation[/B]

[COLOR="Blue"][B]RECOMMENDED TEXTS AND LITERATURE REVIEWS[/B][/COLOR]
1. Dorinda Outram, The Body and the French Revolution
2. Frenc Feher, French revolution and the Birth of Modernity
3. H Kissinger, Diplomacy
4. J M Thompson, Napoleon Bonaparte: His Rise and Fall
5. E J Hobsbawn, The Age of revolution, 1789-1848
6. E J Hobsbawn, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth,
Reality
7. P Pilbeam, The 1830 Revolution in France
8. Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
9. Owen Chadwick, The Secularization of European Mind in the Nineteenth
Century (1976)
10. Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (1978)
11. Marc Bloch, Feudal Society
12. M W Beresford, New Towns of the Middle Ages (1988)
13. Rosalind B and Christopher Brooke, Popular Religion in the Middle Ages
(1984)
14. Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-
Century Miller (1982)
15. Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination; City-States in Renaissance Italy
(1988)
16. Karl Marx, Das Capital
17. Herbert Butterfield, The Origins of Modern Science, 1300-1800 (1965)
18. A R Hall, The Revolution in Science, 1500-1750: The Formation of the
Modern Scientific Attitude (1983)
19. Londa Schiebinger, The Mind Has no Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern
Science (1990)
20. Barbara Taylor, Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the
Nineteenth Century (1983)
21. Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization
22. Asa Briggs, Victorian People (1954)
23. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution (1968)
24. Raymond Betts, The False Dawn: European Imperialism in the Nineteenth
Century (1975)
25. Timothy Mitchell, Colonizing Egypt (1988)
26. Edward Said, Orientalism (1979)
27. WD Smith, European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries