8433014 Contemporary History
| Numbering Code | U-LET35 18433 LJ38 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Second semester | |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | special lecture | |
| Target Year | Target Student | |||
| Language | Japanese | Day/Period | Wed.4 | |
| Instructor name | KOSEKI TAKASHI (Institute for Research in Humanities Professor) | |||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course | This lecture examines the wartime experiences of Ireland or Eire, which remained neutral during the Second World War, and attempts to understand the meaning of its neutrality. | |||
| Course Goals | To understand the difficulties and possibilities of keeping neutral during the global upheaval. | |||
| Schedule and Contents |
(1) Neutral states in the Second World War. (Week 1) (2) From the Irish Free State to Eire. (Week 2) (3) The arrival of the "Emergency" and the declaration of neutrality. (Week 3) (4) The IRA and Nazi Germany. (Week 4) (5) The threat of invasion and the pressure for entry. (Weeks 5-6) (6) America and neutral Ireland. (Week 7) (7) "Friendly neutrality" or "unneutral neutrality" (Weeks 8-9) (8) Censorship (Weeks 10-11) (9) Life under neutrality (Week 12) (10) Northern Ireland as a belligerent.(Week 13) (11) The aftermath (Week 14) (12) Concluding remarks (Week 15) |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Reports to be written at the end of the term are evaluated. | |||
| Course Requirements | None | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Takashi Koseki, The Irish Revolution (in Japanese, Iwanami-Shoten, 2018) is recommended as a preliminary text. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References | Hand-outs are distributed. | ||
