This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
Lectures will be online. The School aims to run in-person classes, subject to circumstances, with some online provision if and where necessary.There will be a reading week in the Michaelmas and the Lent Terms.
Students are expected to submit two 2000-word essays (one in MT, one in LT), give an oral presentation in class, and sit a 1-hour mock exam in ST.
Christopher A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (Oxford, 2004)Stephen F. Dale, The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals (Cambridge, UK, 2010)Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765 (Allen Lane, 2019)Joseph F. Fletcher, ?Integrative history: Parallels and interconnections in the early modern period, 1500-1800?, Journal of Turkish Studies 9 (1985), 37-57Colin Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power (2nd edn, New York, 2009)Ira M. Lapidus, ?State and religion in Islamic societies?, Past & Present 151 (1996), 3-27Rudi P. Matthee, Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan (London, 2012)Donald Quataert, The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 (Cambridge, UK, 2005)David Morgan, Medieval Persia, 1040-1797 (London, 1988)John F. Richards, The Mughal Empire (Cambridge, UK, 1993)Francis Robinson, ?Ottomans-Safavids-Mughals: Shared knowledge and connective systems?, Journal of Islamic Studies 8:2 (1997), 151-184Gagan D. S. Sood, India and the Islamic Heartlands: An Eighteenth-Century World of Circulation and Exchange (Cambridge, UK, 2016)
Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period.