De2RC_19ST History of the 19th Century

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0/40. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. František Čapka, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Jaroslav Vaculík, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jaroslav Vaculík, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Klára Grimmová
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Inform about problems in society`s development during the “long century” in the world and in the Czech lands, from the national and international complex point of view. Explain all the complications and peripatia in societyś development during the so called "long century" in the world and in the Czech lands from the complex point of view of home-made and foreign political connections. Characterize the basic changes of old feudal corporative society into modern civil society and formation of the modern Czech (Czechoslovak) state.
Syllabus
  • Great French revolution. Napoleonic wars. Europe after Vienna congress. Revolution in 1848. Europe 1848 – 1870. Unification of Italy and Germany. Secession war in USA. seminars: Revolution and counter-revolution in France. Napoleon`s regime. End of Napoleonic war. Holy alliance. Revolution 1848 in German union. Crimean war. Italian risorgimento. Unification of Germany. Civil war in USA. Lectures: The Czech lands during Napoleonic wars. The years of Francis-Metternichś absolutism. The expansion movement. Industrial revolution in the Czech lands. Political crisis in 1848 and 1849 ("the spring of nations", revolution in the Czech lands). Restoration of the constitutional life and the establishmnet of dualism. Czech questition "from Palacký to Masaryk". Formation of political system. Czech lands on the way to independency.
Literature
  • DRŠKA, Václav, Aleš SKŘIVAN and František STELLNER. Kapitoly z dějin mezinárodních vztahů 1648-1914. Praha: Institut pro středoevropskou kulturu a politiku, 1994, 217 s. ISBN 80-85241-57-9. info
  • Čapka, František: Dějiny českých zemí 1800-1918. Brno 2003. 228 s. ISBN: 80-210-3078-X.
Assessment methods
oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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