General description

History of the modern world.

Learning outcomes

To be familiar with the main trends of the economical, political and cultural development of the world history.

Contents

An introduction to the connections of world cultures and economies from the early modern age to the present world.

Teaching language

Finnish

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

The lectures and practice classes can be replaced with the following literature: Hobson John M., The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation (2004); McNeill J.R. & McNeill W.H., The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History (2003) (also the Finnish translation Verkottunut ihmiskunta (2005)) and Black Jeremy, Europe and the World (2001).

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