Syllabus
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Course Code: HIS-E-23 Course Name: Rise of Modern West |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Age of Renaissance and Reformation: The ‘Total History’ Approach to the Study of Renaissance and Reformation; Renaissance: Humanism, Rationalism and Individualism; Renaissance in Culture and Visual Arts; Society: Families, Sexualities and Gender Relations; Reformation and the Protestant Movements; Intellectual Debates on Religion, God and Holy Book; Social Repercussions of Reformation; Counter-Reformation | |
| 2 | Geographical Discoveries and Rise of Mercantilism and Colonialism: Cartography, Cosmology and Navigation; Discovery of New Lands: Africa, America, Asia; Mercantile Revolution: Origins, Theories and Results; Mercantilism and European Economics; Earlier Colonial System and Colonization of North & South America | |
| 3 | The Growth of Modernity: Transition from Tradition to Modernity; Mapping Mentalities 1500-1700: Printing Revolution, Books and Reading Habits; Changing Popular Culture in Europe – Debates, Manners and Festivals; Witchcraft, Magic and Science; Crisis in Europe in the 17th Century; Scientific Revolution – Philosophical Foundations, Nature and Results | |
| 4 | Rise of Modern West: Origins of Enlightenment; Democratic Ideas and the Growth of Liberalism – Parliamentary Monarchy and Enlightened Despotism; State, Religion and Secularism; Technological Revolution and Structural Change in Industrial Production; Revolution in War Techniques; Emergence of Industrial Capitalism; Rise of Middle and Working Classes and Growth of Socialism; Women, Witch Trials and Genesis of Feminism | |
