Great Britain and the World 1875-1975. Since the apogee of Colonialism up to the end of decolonisation

B.Sc. seminars
elective courses
Master's seminars

(in Polish) W przypadku studiów I stopnia, warunkiem jest zaliczenie II roku studiów.

W przypadku studiów II stopnia, nie ma wymagań formalnych

Nieodzownym wymogiem uczestnictwa w tym seminarium jest bardzo dobra znajomość języka angielskiego.

Great Britain and the World 1867-1981. Since the Peak of the European Colonialism up to the end of Decolonisation.

The central topic of this seminar is 19th and 20th century world history with a special attention to Anglo-Saxon and extra-European states. The emergence of the global political system. And deliberations on the causes of the rise and fall of contemporarty empires.

- Peter Calvocoresi, Polityka międzynarodowa, 1945-2000, Warszawa 2002;

- John Charmley, Splendid Isloation? Britain and the Balance of Power 1874-1914, London 1999;

- John Darwin, Britain and Decolonisation. The Retreat from Empire in the Post-War World, London 1988;

John Darwin, The Empire Project. The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970, Cambridge 2011;

- Marek Deszczyński, Robert Kupiecki, Tomasz Moszczyński, Historia Polityczna Świata. Kalendarium wydarzeń, 1945-1995, Warszawa 1995;

- The Expansion of International Society, red. Hedley Bull, Adam Watson, Oxford 1989;

- Daniel R. Headrick, The Tools of Empire. Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford 1981;

- Ronald Hyam, Ged Martin, Reappraisals in British Imperial History, Plymouth 1975;

- Paul Kennedy, Mocarstwa Świata. Narodziny, rozkwit, upadek, Warszawa 1994;

- Paul Kennedy, The Realities Behind Diplomacy: Background Influences on British External Policy 1865-1980, London 1989;

- Henry Kissinger, Dyplomacja, Warszawa 1996;

- Thomas McCarthy, Race Empire and the Idea of Human Development, Cambridge 2010;

- R.K. Massie, Dreadnought. Brytania, Niemcy i nadejście wielkiej wojny, t. I-II, Gdańsk 2004;

-Philip Norton, The British Polity, New York, London 1993;

- The Oxford History of British Empire, t. III-V, Oxford 1999;

- Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa. White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent form 1876 to 1912, London 1992;

- Richard Price, British Society, 1680-1880, Cambridge 1999;

- Ronald Robinson, John Gallagher, Alice Denny, Africa and Victorians. The Official Mind of Imperialism, New York 1967;

- Stosunki międzynarodowe. Geneza, struktura, dynamika, red. Edward Haliżak, Roman Kuźniar, Warszawa 2001;

- H.L. Wesseling, Divide and Rule. The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914, Westpoert CONN., London 1996.