Courses

Prerequisites: NONE, but HIST 2432 recommended for undergraduates.

This course attempts to see what can be gained by working across the usual field designations of time and space to identify perseverant challenges posed in, and faced by, societies during and after civil wars.  Casting a large net from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s it looks at the process of waging civil wars and the challenges of making peace and rebuilding in the aftermath.  The course is organized chronologically and thematically.  This year it focuses on four main themes:  Occupations and Political Reconstructions; Reconstructing Lives; Vengeance and Justice; Memory and History.  The reading list includes readings on the American Civil War, the Irish Civil War, the Spanish Civil War and the Algerian War.