List of textbook topics for the exam

Abbreviations

NCMH9 – Crawley, New Cambridge Modern History: War and Peace in an Age of Upheaval,
1793-1830, vol. 9
NCMH10 – Bury, New Cambridge Modern History: The Zenith of European Power, 1830-
1870, vol 10
NCMH11 – Hinsley, New Cambridge Modern History: Material Progress and World Wide
Problems, 1870-1898, vol 11
NCMH12 – Mowat, New Cambridge Modern History: The Shifting Balance of World Forces,
1898-1945, vol. 12.
Diplomacy – Kissinger, Diplomacy
Kennedy – Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers: Economic Change and Military
Conflict from 1500 to 2000
International History – Best and al., International History in the Twentieth Century and
Beyond

Topics

1. The expansion of European powers in Asia: India, China, Japan, Central Asia in the 19th and
20th centuries.
Readings
NCMH9 – pp. 552-558
NCMH10 – pp. 685-713
NCMH11 – pp. 411-436, 437-463, 464-486, 658-662
International History – 115-119

2. Near and Middle East (Palestine, Caucasus, Central Asia) 1870-1914

Readings
NCMH11 – pp. 323-351, 567-592

3. Three Emperors League

Readings
NCMH11 – pp. 542—563

4. Balkans 1870-1914
Readings
NCMH11 – 544-550

5. Panama Canal question

Readings
NCMH11 – 671-679
NCMH12 – 556-560, 593-594
International History -148
6. International relations in North and South America in the 19th century and during the First
World War
Readings
NCMH11 – 516-541, 668-679
International History – pp. 143-158

7. Polish borders after the First World War

Readings
International History – 48-49

8. Conferences: Genoa, Rapallo, Locarno, Geneva and disarmament

Readings
International History – 49-59
NCMH12 – pp. 242-253

9. Briand-Kellog Pact
Readings
NCMH12 – pp. 242-253
International History – pp. 55-57

10. French policy in Central and Eastern Europe 1919-1939

Readings
NCMH12 – pp. 687

11. International relations in America 1919-1939

Readings
International History – pp. 149-163

12. Asia in the years 1919-1939

Readings
International History – pp. 63-84