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Study Units

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Bachelor´s Degree, Political History

Bachelor´s Degree - Political History

Subunits

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Basic Studies in Social Science History
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Basic Studies in Social Science History
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Basic Studies in Social Science History

Basic Studies in Social Science History

Code: 760007 Credits: 25

1. Introduction to Social Science History

Code: 760000 Credits: 3

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination

Literature:

  • J. L. Anderson: Explaining Long-Term Economic Change
  • J. Tosh: Pursuit of History (2. ed.)
  • Peter Burke (ed.): New Perspectives on Historical Writing

2. The Global Economy

Code: 760009 Credits: 4

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination.

Literature:

  • Rondo Cameron: Concise Economic History of the World from Paleolithic Times to the Present
  • Stearns, Peter N.: Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire, 2001.
  • Ojala J., Eloranta J. & Jalava J. (eds): The Road to Prosperity. An Economic History of Finland, pages 33-63, 127-163 and 285-313. (These three articles are available for copying in the office of economic and social history).

3. Social Structures and Living Conditions

Code: 760010 Credits: 4

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination.

Literature:

  • Peter N. Stearns & Herrick Chapman: European Society in Upheaval. Social history since 1750
  • Marjatta Rahikainen (ed.): Austerity and Prosperity – Perspectives on Finnish Society

4. Power, Politics and Citizenship

Code: 760011 Credits: 4

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination

Literature:

  • Barbara Caine & Glenda Sluga: Gendering European History 1780–1920
  • Osmo Jussila, Seppo Hentilä & Jukka Nevakivi: From Grand Duchy to a Modern State. Finland’s Political History 1809–1999
  • Heikki Mikkeli: Europe as an Idea and Identity

5. World Politics

Code: 760012 Credits: 4

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination

Literature:

  • Eric Hobsbawm: The Age of Extremes
  • H.L. Wesseling: The European Colonial Empires 1815–1919

6. Practicum for Major Subject Students

Code: 760013 Credits: 6

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination.
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Intermediate Studies in Political History
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Intermediate Studies in Political History

Intermediate Studies in Political History

Code: 72000

7. Methodology of social science history

Code: 760015 Credits: 10

Content

  • 7.1 Method course (5 credits)
  • 7.2 Research method practicum for major subject students (5 credits)

7.1 Method course

Code: 760016 Credits: 3

Literature:

  • Peter Burke: History and Social Theory
  • Paula Saukko: Doing Research in Cultural Studies. An Introduction to Classical and New Methodological Approaches

7.2 Method practicum for major subject students

Code: 760017 Credits: 7

Mode of assessment

An active participation in the work-shop style practicum or faculty examination. Please discuss about the literature with teacher.

Literature:

Suggestions for literature:
  • Peter Burke: Eyewitnessing. The Uses of Images in Historical Writing
  • Larry J. Griffin and Marcel van der Linden (eds.): New Methods for Social History
  • Pat Hudson: History by Numbers. Introduction to Quantitative Techniques
  • Paula Saukko: Doing Research in Cultural Studies. An Introduction to Classival and New Methodological Approaches
  • Quentin Skinner: Visions of Politics. Regarding Method vol. 1

Courses:

8. Modern state and civil society

Code: 72006 Credits: 11

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination.
  • Unit 8.1 can be examined only in a faculty exam. Student reads all the literature listed in the unit.
  • For units 8.2a and 8.2b student selects two books from each unit.
  • Units 8.2a and 8.2b may not be divided in separate faculty examinations.
  • Units 8.2a and 8.2b can be completed either in a faculty examination or as a taught course.
  • In case the student completes only one of these units as a taught course, the remaining unit must be examined together with 8.1 in one faculty examination.

8.1 Modern state and civil society: Obligatory literature

Code: 72007 Credits: 5

Mode of assessment

See study unit 8.

Literature:

  • Risto Alapuro: State and Revolution in Finland
  • C. A. Bayly: The Birth of the Modern World 1780–1914. Global Connections and comparisons
  • Irma Sulkunen: Temperance as a civic religion
  • David Kirby: The Baltic World 1772-1992

8.2(a) Modern state and civil society: Optional literature a

Code: 72008 Credits: 3

Mode of assessment

See study unit 8.

Literature:

  • J. R. McNeill, William H. McNeill: The Human Web. A Bird's-Eye View of World History
  • Martin van Creveld: The Rise and Decline of the State
  • Alan Milward: The European Rescue of the Nation-State
  • Theda Skocpol: States and Social Revolutions. A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China
  • Charles Tilly: Contention & Democracy in Europe 1650-2000

Courses:

8.2(b) Modern state and civil society: Optional literature b

Code: 72009 Credits: 3

Mode of assessment

See study unit 8.

Literature:

  • Keijo Korhonen: Autonomous Finland in the Political Thought of Nineteenth-Century Russia
  • Juhani Paasivirta: Finland and Europe 1808–1914
  • Tuomo Polvinen: Imperial Borderland
  • Robert Schweizer: The Rise and Fall of Russo-Finnish Consensus
  • Charles Tilly: European Revolutions, 1492-1992 (Making of Europe Series)

Courses:

9. The international and the global system

Code: 72011 Credits: 11

Objectives

Faculty examination.
  • Unit 9.1 can be examined only in a faculty exam. Student reads all the literature listed in the unit.
  • For units 9.2a and 9.2b student selects two books from each unit.
  • Units 9.2a and 9.2b may not be divided in separate faculty examinations.
  • Units 9.2a and 9.2b can be completed either in a faculty examination or as a taught course. In case the student completes only one of these units as a taught course, the remaining unit must be examined together with 9.1 in one faculty examination.

9.1The international and the global system: Obligatory literature

Code: 72012 Credits: 5

Mode of assessment

See study unit 9.

Literature:

  • David Held: Democracy and the Global Order. From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance
  • Sally Marks: The Ebbing of European Ascendancy. An International History of the World 1914-1945
  • A. Best, J. M. Hanhimäki, J. A. Maiolo & K. E. Schulze : International History of the Twentieth Century

9.2(a) The international and the global system: Optional literature a

Code: 72013 Credits: 3

Mode of assessment

See study unit 9.

Literature:

  • Paul W. Schroeder et al: Systems, Stability and Statecraft. Essays on the International History of Modern Europe
  • Michael J. Hogan & Thomas G. Paterson: Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations (2. ed.)
  • John Lewis Gaddis : We Now Know. Rethinking Cold War History
  • Jussi Hanhimäki : Scandinavia and the United States. An Insecure Friendship

Courses:

9.2(b) The international and the global system: Optional literature b

Code: 72014 Credits: 3

Mode of assessment

See study unit 9:

Literature:

  • Richard F. Hamilton & Holger Herwig (eds.): The Origins of World War I
  • Robert W. D. Boyce & Joseph A. Maiolo (eds.): The Origins of the World War Two: The Debate Continues.
  • Tuomo Polvinen: Between east and west. Finland in international politics 1944–1947
  • Odd Arne Westad: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times: The Global Cold War

Courses:

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10. Political thought and the conceptuality of politics

10. Political thought and the conceptuality of politics

Code: 72015 Credits: 11

Mode of assessment

Unit 10.1 can be examined only in a faculty exam. Student reads all the literature listed in the unit. For units 10.2a and 10.2b student selects two books from each unit. Units 10.2a and 10.2b may not be divided in separate faculty examinations. Units 10.2a and 10.2b can be completed either in a faculty examination or as a taught course. In case the student completes only one of these units as a taught course, the remaining unit must be examined together with 10.1 in one faculty examination.
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10.1 Political thought and the conceptuality of politics: Obligatory literature

10.1Political thought and the conceptuality of politics: Obligatory literature

Code: 72017 Credits: 5

Mode of assessment

See study unit 10

Literature:

  • Terence Ball and Richard Bellamy (eds.): The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Political Thought
  • John Schwarzmantel: The Age of Ideology. Political Ideologies from the American Revolution to Postmodern Times
  • Joan W. Scott: Gender and the Politics of History (rev.ed.)
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10.2(a) Political thought and the conceptuality of politics: Optional literature a

10.2(a) Political thought and the conceptuality of politics: Optional literature a

Code: 72018 Credits: 3

Mode of assessment

See study unit 10.

Literature:

  • Rogers Brubaker: Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
  • Dario Castiglione and Ian Hampsher-Monkin (eds.): The History of Political Thought in National Context
  • Mark Mazower: Dark Continent. Europe’s Twentieth Century
  • Edward W. Said: Orientalism

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10.2(b) Political thought and the conceptuality of politics: Optional literature b

10.2(b) Political thought and the conceptuality of politics: Optional literature b

Code: 72019 Credits: 3

Mode of assessment

See study unit 10.

Literature:

  • Donald Sassoon: One Hundred Years of Socialism
  • Stanley G. Payne: A History of Fascism 1914–1945
  • Pierre Manent: An Intellectual History of Liberalism
  • Pekka Suvanto: Conservatism from the French Revolution to the 1990s

Courses:

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11. Fields of specialization in political history

11. Fields of specialization in political history

Code: 72020 Credits: 10

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination. The student chooses two of the units 11.1 - 11.8.

11.1 Nationalism and nation

Code: 72024 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (rev.ed.)
  • Vijay Prashad: The Darker Nations. A People’s History of the Third World
  • Anthony D. Smith: Nationalism and Modernism
  • Nira Yuval-Davis: Gender and Nation

Courses:

11.2 Political history of the welfare state

Code: 72025 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Niels Finn Christiansen (ed.): The Nordic Model. A Historical Reappraisal
  • Theda Skocpol and Dietrich Ruesschemeyer (eds.): States, Social Knowledge and the Origins of Modern Social Policies
  • Peter A. Swenson: Capitalists against Markets. The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the Unites States and Sweden
  • Pat Thane: Foundations of the Welfare State

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11.3 The politics and uses of history

Code: 72026 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • John Torpey (ed.): Politics and the Past. On repairing Historical Injusteces
  • Joyce Appleby et al.: Telling the Thruth about History
  • Marc Ferro: The Use and Abuse of History
  • Robert Gildea: The Past in French History

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11.4 Conceptual history of politics

Code: 72027 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Terence Ball, James Farr, Russell L. Hanson (eds.): Political innovations and conceptual change
  • Albert O. Hirschman: The Rhetorics of Reaction
  • Reinhart Koselleck: Futures past. On the semantics of historical time
  • Melvin Richter: The History of Political and Social Concepts. A Critical Introduction

Courses:

11.5 Imperialism, integration and globalization

Code: 72028 Credits: 5

Literature:

Choose four books:
  • P. J. Cain & A. G. Hopkins: British Imperialism 1688-2000
  • Edward W. Said: Culture and Imperialism.
  • David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt, Jonathan Perraton: Global Transformations. Politics, Economics and Culture
  • Lydia He Liu: The Clash of Empires. The Invention of China in Modern World Making
  • Desmond Dinan: Europe Recast. A History of European Union

Courses:

11.6 The cold war period

Code: 72029 Credits: 5

Literature:

Choose four books:
  • Olav Njolstad (toim.): The Last Decade of the Cold War. From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation
  • Odd Arne Westad (ed.): Reviewing the Cold War. Approaches, Interpretations, Theory
  • Marc Trachtenberg: A Constructed Peace. The Making of the European Settlement 1945-1963
  • Jeremi Suri: Power and Protest. Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente
  • Antohi Sorin – Vladimir Tismaneanu (eds): Between Past and Future. The Revolutions of 1989 and their Aftermath
  • Juhana Aunesluoma: Britain, Sweden and the Cold War. Understanding Neutrality

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11.7 History of gender system

Code: 72030 Credits: 5

Literature:

Choose four books:
  • Sara Ahmed: Strange Encounters. Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality
  • Barbara Evans Clements: Bolshevik Women
  • Cynthia Cockburn: The Space Between Us. Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict
  • Robert D. Dean: Imperial Brotherhood. Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy
  • Karen Hagemann & Stefanie Schuler-Springorum: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany
  • Helga Maria Hernes: Welfare State and Woman Power
  • Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon & Janice Monk (eds.): Women of the European Union. The Politics of Work and Daily Life

Courses:

11.8 Other studies in political history taken elsewhere

Code: 72032 Credits: 5

Mode of assessment

Studies relevant to political history may be included in the curriculum. Please, consult the foreign adviser of the subject.

12. Proseminar

Code: 72137 Credits: 4

Objectives

The objective is to develop the student’s skills in scientific thinking, research, presentation and debate. The duration of the course is one term (two periods). In the seminar, each studen writes a paper based on her own research, which will be submitted as her Bachelor’s thesis in revised form after the seminar.

13. Bachelor’s thesis

Code: 72060 Credits: 6

Mode of assessment

The Bachelor’s thesis will be submitted by the end of the following period to proseminarium.
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Master´s Degree in Political History

Master´s Degree in Political History

Code: 72033 Credits: 120

Subunits

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14. The Politics of Memory: The Use of History in Society
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14. The Politics of Memory: The Use of History in Society

14. The Politics of Memory: The Use of History in Society

Code: 760018 Credits: 5

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination.

Literature:

  • Howard, Peter: Heritage. Management, Interpretation, Identity.
    • Francois Bèdarida: The Social Responsibility of the Historian
    • Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (eds): Invention of Tradition.
    • Wolfgang Schivelbusch: The Culture of Defeat. On national trauma, mourning and recovery.
    • Winter, Jay: Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning.
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15. Master studies in political history

15. Master studies in political history

Code: 72035 Credits: 15

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination
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15.1 Classical interpretations of history and politics

15.1 Classical interpretations of history and politics

Code: 72036 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Aristotle: Politics
  • Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Philosophy of History
  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Manifest of the Communist Party
  • Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

AND

  • Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism

OR

  • Karl Popper: Open Society and its Enemies

15.2 Historiography

Code: 72038 Credits: 5

Objectives

The aim of the study unit is to deepen the expertise on historiography and strengthen the methodological abilities. The study unit orientates to the most important traditions, research tendencies and approaches of the 19th and 20th centuries' historical research.

Mode of assessment

Please note! Always mention the books you have read in the exam registration.

Literature:

  • Peter Burke (ed.): New Perspectives on Historical Writing
  • B. Fay et al (eds.): History and Theory
  • Georg G. Iggers: Historiography in the Twentieth Century. From Scientific Objectivity to Postmodern Challenge
  • Jack Goody: The Theft of History

15.3 Theory and methodology of history

Code: 72039 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Jörn Rüsen (ed.): Meaning and Representation in History
  • Mary Fulbrook: Historical Theory
  • Christopher Lloyd: The Structures of History
  • Alun Munslow: The New History
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16. Research Cource

16. Research Cource

Code: 72400 Credits: 10

Content

  • 16.2 Preparatory examination for the research seminar (3 credits)
    • 16.3 Research seminar (6 credits)
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16.1. Guidance in research course

16.1. Guidance in research course

Credits: 2
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16.2 Preparatory examination for the research seminar

16.2 Preparatory examination for the research seminar

Code: 72040

Literature:

  • Craig Calhoun: Nationalism
  • John S. Dryzek: The Politics of the Earth. Environmental discourses
  • Fred Halliday: Rethinking International Relations
  • Gerhard Lehmbruch & Philippe C. Schmitter (eds.): Patterns of Corporatist Policy-Making
  • Alexander Wendt: Social Theory of International Politics

Courses:

  • Discourse analysis: logics, hegemony and ideology >>

16.3. Research Seminar

Code: 72412 Credits: 5
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17. Master's Seminars I-II

17. Master`s Seminars I-II

Code: 72415, 72416 Credits: 10

Mode of assessment

Attendance during two academic terms is required. During the first term the student presents her research proposal; during the second term she presents a part of the manuscript. Before taking part in the seminar the student must have completed the intermediary studies and the topic of the Master’s thesis has to be proved by the professor.
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18. Master's Thesis

18. Master´s Thesis

Code: 724130 Credits: 40
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19. Practical Training, Tutorial or Optional Studies

19. Practical Training, Tutorial or Optional Studies

Code: 72041 Credits: 5
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Post-graduate Studies in Political History

Post-graduate Studies in Political History

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3a) Relevant Methodological Literature in Regard to Student's Own Research Topic

3a) Relevant Methodological Literature in Regard to Student's Own Research Topic

Code: 72420
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3b) Relevant Studies in Regard to Student's Own Research Topic

3b) Relevant Studies in Regard to Student's Own Research Topic

Code: 72421
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Bachelor´s Degree, Economic and Social History

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Intermediate Studies in Economic and Social History
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Intermediate Studies in Economic and Social History

Intermediate Studies in Economic and Social History

Code: 76022 Credits: 63

7. Methodology of social science history

Code: 760015 Credits: 10

Mode of assessment

Mode of assesment (7.1): Faculty examination

Mode of assesment (7.2): An active participation in the work-shop style practicum is required. There will be no faculty examination but the e.g. following literature may be used during the course. 7.1 Method course:

Literature:

7.1 Method course:
  • Peter Burke: History and Social Theory
  • Paula Saukko: Doing Research in Cultural Studies. An Introduction to Classical and New Methodological Approaches
  • Francois Bèdarida: Social Responsibility of Historian
  • Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier: From Reliable Sources. An Introduction to Historical Methods

7.2 Research method practicum for major subject students:

  • Peter Burke: Eyewitnessing. The Uses of Images in Historical Writing
  • Larry J. Griffin and Marcel van der Linden (eds.): New Methods for Social History
  • Pat Hudson: History by Numbers. Introduction to Quantitative Techniques
  • Paula Saukko: Doing Research in Cultural Studies. An Introduction to Classival and New Methodological Approaches
  • Quentin Skinner: Visions of Politics. Regarding Method vol. 1

8. Megatrends

Code: 76171 Credits: 36

Mode of assessment

Faculty examinations or lecture courses. Study units 8.1–8.4 are for everyone. Study units 8.5-8.12 are optional: select two of them.

8.1 Global Development

Code: 76172 Credits: 6

Literature:

  • Kenwood, A.G. and A.G. Lougheed: Growth of the International Economy, 1820-2000: An introductory text.
  • Easterlin, Richard: The Growth Triumphant. The 21st century in Historical Perspective (1998).
  • Jones, Eric: The European miracle: environments, economies and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia (2003).

8.2 Man and Nature

Code: 76173 Credits: 6

Literature:

  • McNeill, William: Plagues and Peoples.
  • Crosby, Alfred W.: Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe 900–1900.
  • Opie, J.: Nature’s Nation. An Environmental History of the United States.

8.3. Gender and Society

Code: 76174 Credits: 6

Literature:

  • Wiesner-Hanks M E: Gender in History.
  • Simonton, Deborah: A History of European Women’s Work. 1700 to the Present.
  • Tosh, John: Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-century Britain.
  • Zemon-Davis, Natalie: Women on the margins: three seventeenth-century lives.

Courses:

8.4. Work and Livelihood

Code: 76175 Credits: 6

Literature:

  • Hobsbawm, Eric: Workers. Worlds of labour.
  • Donkin, Richard: Blood, sweat and tears: the evolution of work.
  • Whiteside, Noel: Bad times: unemployment in British social and political history.
  • Scholliers, Peter & Swarz, Leonard (eds): Experiencing Wages. Social and Cultural Aspcredits of Wage Forms in Europe Since 1500.

8.5. History of Everyday Life

Code: 76176 Credits: 6

Literature:

  • Levi, Giovanni: Inheriting Power.
  • Thompson, E.P.: Customs in Common.
  • Spierenburg, Pieter: The Broken Spell.
  • Ginzburg, Carlo: The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller.

Courses:

8.6. History of Population and Family

Code: 76177 Credits: 6

Literature:

  • Lovell, Stephen (ed.): Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe.
  • Lynch, Katherine: Individuals, Families and communities in Europe, 1200-1800. The Urban foundations of Western Society.
  • Livi-Bacci, Massimo: A Concise History of World Population. Seccombe, Wally: A Millenium of Family Change.

Courses:

8.7. The Birth of the Consumer Society

Code: 76178 Credits: 6

Literature:

  • McKendrick, Neil, John Brewer and J. H. Plumb: The Birth of a Consumer Society. The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England.
  • Ross, Kristin: Fast Cars, Clean Bodies. Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture
  • Roche, Daniel : A History of Everyday Things. The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800
  • Cross, Gary: An All-Consuming Century. Why Commercialism Won in Modern America.

Courses:

8.8. History of Management

Code: 76090 Credits: 6

Literature:

  • Cassis, Youssef: Big Business. The European Experience in the Twentieth Century.
  • Wilson, John F. and Andrew Thomson: Making of Modern Management. British Management in Historical Perspective.
  • Nelson, Daniel: Managers and Workers. Origins of the Twentieth Century Factory System in the United States. 1880-1920.

8.9. The Economic History of the European Intergration

Code: 76146 Credits: 6

Literature:

  • Aldcroft, Derek and Sutcliffe, Anthony: Europe in the International Economy 1500 to 2000.
  • Eichengreen, Barry. The European Economy since 1945. Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond. 2007.
  • Fellman, S., Iversen M, Sjögren, H.and Thue, L.(eds.), Creating Nordic Capitalism – The Development of a Competitive Periphery, 2008 (chapters 1,2,5,8,11,14)

Utvecklingstrender inom företagsledarskap (JOS13)

Code: 76078 Credits: 6

Literature:

  • Cassis, Youssef: Big Business. The European Experience in the Twentieth Century.
  • Wilson, John F. and Andrew Thomson: Making of Modern Management. British Management in Historical Perspective.
  • Nelson, Daniel: Managers and Workers. Origins of the Twentieth Century Factory System in the United States. 1880-1920.

8.10. (E)

Code: 76205 Credits: 6

Literature:

  • Freeman, C. and F. Louca: As Times Goes Bye.
  • Misa, Thomas J.: Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present
  • Cooper, Gail: Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900–1960.

8.11. (E)

Credits: 6

Literature:

  • McKeown, Niall: The Invention of Ancient Slavery
  • Parsons, Peter: City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Papyri Beneath the Egyptian Sand Reveal a Long-Lost World.
  • Reynolds, Susan: Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpretated

8.12. (E)

Code: 76207 Credits: 6

Literature:

  • Roesdahl, Else, Sue Margeson and Kirsten Williams: The Vikings.
  • Lindqvist, Herman: A History of Sweden: From Ice Age to Our Age.
  • Helle, Knut, Torkel Jansson and E. I. Kouri (eds.): The Cambridge history of Scandinavia. Vol. 1 : Prehistory to 1520.
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9. Research approaches and schools in economic and social history

9. Research approaches and schools in economic and social history

Code: 76170 Credits: 5

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination. Choose four from options a-f.

Literature:

a. Institutionalism in Econmic and Social History
  • North, Douglass C.: Institutions, institutional change and economic performance

or

  • Anderson J.L., Explaining Long-term Economic Growth.

b. Comparative approach:

  • Cohen, Deborah & O’Connor,Maura (eds): Comparison and History: Europe in cross national perspective.

c. Macrohistory

  • Wallerstein, I: World-systems Analysis: An introduction

or

  • Heikkinen & van Zanden, eds, Exploring Economic Growth: essays in measurement and analysis (chapters 3, 9, 12 ja 13).

d. The Annalists

  • Burke, Peter: French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1929-1989 [152s]

or

  • Hunt & Revel: Histories: French Constructions of the past (pages1-63; 115-147; 241-308; 479-503).

e. Microhistory

  • Ginzburg, Carlo: Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

f. Oral history

  • Perks, Robert & Thomson, Alistair (eds): The Oral history reader (pages ix–171)
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Master´s Degree - Economic and Social History

Master´s Degree in Economic and Social History

Code: 76180, 76199 Credits: 120

Subunits

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12. History of Social Science History

12. History of Social Science History

Code: 76181 Credits: 5

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination or lecture course.

Literature:

  • Coleman, D.C.: History and the Economic Past
  • Thomas G. Rawski et al: Economics and the Historian.
  • Iggers et al.: A Global History of Modern Historiography
  • Peter Burke: What is Cultural History?
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13. Questions of History Theory

13. Questions of History Theory

Code: 76182 Credits: 5

Objectives

Faculty examination or lecture course.

Literature:

  • Carrard, Philippe: The Poetics of New History. French historical discourse from Braudel to Chartier.
  • Burke, Peter: History and Social Theory (2005).
  • Castren, Anna-Maija, Markku Lonkila ja Matti Peltonen (eds.): Between Sociology and History.
  • Scott, Joan Wallach: Gender and the Politics of History.

15. Method Course

Code: 76183 Credits: 10
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16. The Historical Background of Social Questions

16. The Historical Background of Social Questions

Code: 76184 Credits: 10/20

Mode of assessment

Faculty examinations or lecture courses. Four study units are selected from 16.1-16.11.

16.1 The Agrarian Society and its Demise

Code: 76185 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Ladurie E L R: Peasants of Languedoc.
  • Howkins, Alun: The Death of Rural England. The Social History of the Countryside Since 1900.
  • Blum, Jerome: The End of Old Order in Rural Europe
  • Collins, E.T.J. (ed): The Agrarian History of England and Wales. Volume VII. 1850-1914, I-II (selected parts)

16.2 The Global Economy and Changes in Living Standards

Code: 76186 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Pomeranz, Kenneth: The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World.
  • Bordo, Michael D., Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson (eds): Globalization in Historical Perspective.
  • Åslund, Anders: How Capitalism was built. The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

16.3 Population and History

Code: 76187 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Thane, Pat: Old Age in English Society [pages 257–536].
  • Spellman, W. M.: The global community: migration and the making of the modern world.
  • Israel, Betsy: Bachelor girl: 100 years of breaking the rules: a social history of living single.
  • Levi, Giovanni & Schmitt, Jean-Claude(eds.): A history of young people in the West (Volume II. Stormy evolution to modern times)

Courses:

16.4 Economic Growth and Crises

Code: 76188 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Crafts, Nicolas and Toniolo, Gianni (eds): Economic Growth in Europe Since 1945.
  • Temin, Peter: Lessons from the Great Depression or Feinstein, Charles H., Temin, Peter & Toniolo, Gianni: The European Economy Between the Wars.
  • Harrison, Mark (ed): The Economics of World War II.
  • Kiander, Jaakko (toim): 1990s Economic Crisis. Luvut I.2 ja III.12.

16.5 History of Work and Labour Market

Code: 76189 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Heikkinen, Sakari: Labour and the Market.
  • Rahikainen, Marjatta: Centuries of Child Labour.
  • Goldin, Claudia: Understanding the Gender Gap

or

Scholliers, Peter and Swarz, Leonard (eds): Experiencing Wages. Social and Cultural Aspects of Wage Forms in Europe Since 1500.

  • Grint, Keith: The Sociology of Work. 2. ed.

16.6 Poverty and History

Code: 76190 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Steadman Jones, Gareth.: An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate (2004).
  • Jütte, Robert: Poverty and Deviance In Early Modern Europe.
  • O’Connor, Alice: Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History.
  • Puuronen, Vesa et al.(eds.): New challenges for the welfare society.

16.7 Key Issues in Business History

Code: 76191 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • O’Sullivan, Mary: Contests for Corporate Control.
  • Jones, Geoffrey: Multinationals and Global Capitalism. From the Nineteenth to the Twenty First Century.
  • Jonathan Zeitlin and Gary Herrigel (eds): Americanization and its limits

16.8 Gender History

Code: 76192 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Clarkin, Anna: The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class.
  • Frader, Laura and Rose, Sonya: Gender and Class in Modern Europe.
  • Östman, Ann-Catrin: Mjölk och jord: om kvinnlighet, manlighet och arbete i ett österbottniskt jordbrukssamhälle ca 1870-1940.
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16.9 Interpretations of the History of the Finnish Society

16.9 Interpretations of the History of the Finnish Society

Code: 76193 Credits: 5

16.10. Environmental History

Code: 76194 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Fagan, Brian: The Little Ice Age. How Climate Made History 1300-1850.
  • McNeill, John R.: Something New Under the Sun. An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World.
  • Myllyntaus Timo and Saikku Mikko (eds.): Encountering the Past in Nature. Essays in Environmental History.

16.11. History of the Developing Countries (5 cr)

Code: 76208 Credits: 5

Literature:

  • Findlay, Ronald and Kevin H. O’Rourke: Power and plenty: trade, war, and the world economy in the second millennium.
  • Allen, Tim and Alan Thomas (eds.): Poverty and Development into the 21st Century (1997).
  • Marc Ferro: Colonization: A Global History.
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17. Studies Supporting Masters Thesis

17. Studies Supporting Masters Thesis

Code: 76195 Credits: 10/20

Content

  • 17.1. Seminars (10 credits)
  • 17.2. Research Methodology (5 credit)
  • 17.3 Master’s Thesis Literature (5 credits)

17.1. Seminars

Code: 76410 Credits: 10

Mode of assessment

Participation to seminars for three semesters.

Literature:

Master's seminar in economic and social history (in English) Thursdays at 12-14, Department seminar room, 2nd floor. Starting September, 18th. Teacher: professor Susanna Fellman

17.2. Studies on Methodology

Code: 76196 Credits: 5

Mode of assessment

Optional course on research methodology.

Courses:

  • Päiväkirjat arjen, kokemuksen ja tunteiden historian tutkimuksessa >>

17.3. Masters Thesis Literature

Code: 76197 Credits: 5

Mode of assessment

Essay or lecture course.

18. Master´s Thesis

Code: 764130 Credits: 40
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19. Apprenticeship, Tutorial or Optional Studies

19. Apprenticeship, Tutorial or Optional Studies

Code: 76198 Credits: 5

Elective studies

Credits: 10
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Post-graduate Studies in Economic and Social History

Post-graduate Studies in Economic and Social History

Content

1. Fördjupade studier i ekonomisk och socialhistoria

2. Aktivt deltagande i seminariet för påbyggnadsstudier i minst tre terminers tid

3. Postgradualt förhör (i essäform)

  • Förhörets allmänna del Den allmänna delen tenteras under den första påbyggnadsstudieterminen.
  • Förhörets individuella del för den studerande Enligt överenskommelse.

4. Påbyggnadsstudier i ekonomisk och socialhistoria samt studier som stöder dessa så, att studierna i punkterna 2-4 i regel motsvarar minst 35 studieveckor

Courses:

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As a Minor Subject

As a Minor Subject

Content

  • Basic Studies in Social Science History
    • Intermediate Studies in Political History
    • Intermediate Studies in Economic and Social History

Subunits

Courses

(Re)Quest for Chinese Nationalism

20. vuosisadan historiankirjoitus

American Cultural History of Alcohol and Drugs

American media and journalism

An Introduction to the History of Ideas

Approaches to evil and wickedness

Business, Technology and Cold War: from the "hidden integration" of Europe to the enlargement process

Caught in Own Past. Post-Communist Neoliberal Politics of the Past in Central and Eastern European (CEE) Context 1990s - 2000s

Comparative Perspectives on Andean Democracies: Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela

Conflict and Politics in Contemporary Balkans

Construction of gender - a Latin American perspective

Contemporary Issues in Southeast Asia

Cultural Diversity in Asian Context

Development and Structure of the World Financial System

Discourse analysis: logics, hegemony and ideology

Elections and Democracy in Southeast Asia

Erasmus-harjoittelijavaihto

Euroopan taloudellisen ja poliittisen integraation kehitysvaiheita

Eurooppalaisia kysymyksiä

Finland in the Cold War

Finland in the Cold War: international economy

Formation of Britain and Ireland

Från skandinavism till nordiskt samarbete

Globaali ja vertaileva oikeushistoria

Global Cities from Medieval Times to present: Europe, the Middle East, Asia

Historiallisen ajattelun historia

Historiateorian nykykysymyksiä

Historiekultur, kulturarv och historiebruk

Images of the north

International Post-Conflict Governance in the Balkans

Introduction to American Studies: Key Events in American Cultural History

Introduction to comparative historical and transnational approaches

Johdatus Neuvostoliiton historiaan

Kandidaatintutkielman tarkastukseen jättäminen webOodissa

Kapitalismin historia

Kolonialismista jälkikolonialismiin

Konsensuksesta Koijärvelle - 1970-luvun historiaa

Kulttuurimaantieteellisiä katsauksia saksankieliseen Eurooppaan

Kuninkaan kirkosta uskontulkintojen temmellyskentäksi

Kuviteltu ja todellinen Balkan: jatkuvuuksia, murroksia ja historiapolitiikkaa

Latinalaisamerikkalaisen ajattelun klassikoita I

Leisure and culture in Europe

Linnoituksista kaasuputkiin. Venäjän Itämeren-politiikkaa uusimmalla ajalla

Maailman taloushistoria

Major Issues in US Policy towards the Broader Middle East: From the Cold War to the War on Terror

Master's Seminar in Social Science History

Mediahistoria

Metodipraktikum

Multidimensional security issues in the wider Black Sea region

Muut mahdollisuudet harjoitteluun

Naisten työt ja toimeentulo 1600-2000

Neighbourhood relations across the EU's Eastern borders: concepts and case studies

Non-western Perspectives on Human Communication: Implications for Theory and Practise

Nordic Democracy

Nordic Societies and Cultures

Offentlighet och ideologi

Ohjausta graduntekijöille

Oikeus ja historiapolitiikka

Papit Suomen sisällissodassa

Pitkä kesto: yhteiskunnan rakenteet Euroopassa 1500-luvulta 1900-luvulle

Poliittisen historian proseminaari kevät I

Poliittisen historian proseminaari kevät II

Poliittisen historian proseminaari syksy I

Poliittisen historian proseminaari syksy II

Political violence in Europe after the Second World War

Praktikum pääaineopiskelijoille

Proseminaari

Päiväkirjat arjen, kokemuksen ja tunteiden historian tutkimuksessa

Russia and East Asian Countries: Historical Background and Future Perspectives

Sellaiseksi on Suomen historia kirjoitettu

Seminaari

Seminaari I (syksy)

Seminaari I kevät

Seminaari II (kevät)

Seminaari II (syksy)

Seminar on the microeconomic history of poverty, welfare and development

Sotiemme 1939-1945 veteraanit – sukupolvi- ja selviytymistarina 1900-luvun Suomessa

Soviet Union and Finland 1917-1939

Sukupuoli yhteiskunta- ja politiikan teorioissa

Sukupuoli, kulttuuri ja historia

Suomalaisen kuoleman historiaa 1800-luvulta nykypäivään

Suomalaisen talouspolitiikan historiaa

Suomen ja Euroopan vuorovaikutus

Suomen puoluehajaannusten historiaa

Svenskt i Finland

Talous- ja sosiaalihistorian jatkokoulutusseminaari

Talous- ja sosiaalihistorian tutkimuskurssi

Ten generations - Finnish history as family stories

Terveyden lähteillä

The Development of Financial Markets and their Relation to Financial Crises

The Kosovo Myth in Balkan History

Theories and Methods of History

Tieteellinen historiakirjoittaminen - esseeseminaari

Toisen maailmansodan historian politiikkaa: Venäjä, Suomi ja Viro eurooppalaisessa kontekstissa

Tutkimusseminaari (syksy)

Tutkimusseminaari kevät

Työharjoittelu 2010 (Internship 2010)

Understanding Culture and Communication - Focus on Asian-Pacific

Uuden ajan alun valtio ja yhteiskunta

Uuden ajan alun valtio ja yhteiskunta

Uudistushalun historiaa Anders Chydeniuksesta tuntemattomaan innovaatiokonsulttiin

Vallat, eliitit, ideologiat

Vapaus, veljeys ja tasa-arvo. Antiikista Ranskan vallankumoukseen

Varhaismoderni poliittinen ajattelu

Yhteiskuntahistorian johdantokurssi

Yhteiskuntahistorian johdantokurssi kevät

Yhteiskuntahistorian menetelmäkurssi