AN-322.90
ANN-322.90, ZC-C02.15, ZAN-BS02.15, AKN-322.90, ANN-378.14, AKN-378.14
Great Britain and Central Europe (Nagy-Britannia és Közép-Európa) in autumn 2004
Lojkó Miklós, Fri 12:00–13:30, ADS 234, host: DES (R338)
description & set texts
The following syllabus illustrates the topics that will be discussed during this course: 1. Britain and the Lands Between. British interests in the centre of Europe at the time of the building of the system of European nation states, 1618-1713. 2. Britain, the Partitions of Poland, the Napoleonic wars and the Revolutions of Central Europe, 1793-1878. 3. Britain and the Heydays of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1880-1902. 4. Estrangement from the Monarchy: fears for the balance of power: 1905-1918 5. Integrated or Fragmented Central Europe? British, French and American Peace Planning, 1915-1920 . The role of R.W. Seton-Watson. 6. Britain and the New Poland. 7. Czechoslovakia: a the Pivot of Central Europe. 8. Britain and the Establishment of the Horthy régime in Hungary. 9. The early years of the peace settlement. British Money Diplomacy in Central Europe. The extraordinary Montagu Norman. The role of C.A. Macartney. 10. The Treaty of Locarno, Austen Chamberlain and the British Retreat from the Danube Region. 11. Appeasement and Central Europe 12. British Mediterranean Strategy During the Second World War; the SOE [Special Operations Executive] in Central Europe. British plans for a confederation. of Central Europe after the Second World War. Macartney again. 13. Vying for Spheres of Influence: The British and the Central European Peace Settlement after the Second World War. The Special Case of Poland. 14. The Activities of the British Component of the Allied Control Commission in Hungary. Abortive mediation by British agencies between integrationist liberal forces in the region. Texts: As some of the material consists of photcopies of orignal documents and as the books which will be used are not obtainable from the departmental library, all texts will be provided in photocopied form from time to time during the semester.
requirements & assessment
Two in-class papers and voluntary presentations will form the basis of the mark. Those who do not write both papers will be required to hand in a home essay on an agreed topic.