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  1. 5d ago

    A historiographical look at the creation of Israel (Year 12 History)

    Useful resources and some of the historians mentioned in this episode: United Nations. “History of the Question of Palestine.” United Nations, Question of Palestine. United Nations. “About the Nakba.” United Nations, Question of Palestine. United Nations General Assembly. Resolution 181 (II): Future Government of Palestine, 29 November 1947.  United Nations General Assembly. Resolution 194 (III): Palestine—Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator, 11 December 1948.  British Government. The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917.  British Government. Palestine White Paper, 1939.  Flapan, Simha. The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities. London: Croom Helm, 1987.  Gelber, Yoav. Palestine 1948: War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2001.  Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State. 1896.  Khalidi, Rashid. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.

  2. 5d ago

    The role of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" on the rise of Deng Xiaoping (Year 12 History)

    A brief discussion of the syllabus point about socialism with Chinese characteristics. Historians mentioned in the podcast: Deng Xiaoping, “Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth from Facts and Unite as One in Looking to the Future” (speech, 13 December 1978) Vogel, Ezra F. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. Harvard University Press, 2011.read.dukeupress+1  MacFarquhar, Roderick, and Michael Schoenhals. Mao’s Last Revolution. Harvard University Press, 2006.reviews.history.ac+1  Goodman, David S. G. Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: A Political Biography. Routledge, 1994.oxfordbibliographies+3  O’Halloran, Louis. “Deng Xiaoping and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: a Capitalist Revolution?” The Manchester Historian, 2020.

  3. 5d ago

    Mao's Cult of Personality and Socialist Education Movement (Year 12 History)

    A brief discussion of Mao's use of the cult of personality and the SEM Historians discussed in the podcast: MacFarquhar, R. The Origins of the Cultural Revolution.  MacFarquhar, R. & Schoenhals, M. Mao’s Last Revolution.  Meisner, M. Mao’s China and After.  Walder, A. Fractured Rebellion.  Teiwes, F. & Sun, W. The Tragedy of Lin Biao.  Chang, J. & Halliday, J. Mao: The Unknown Story.  Perry, E. Anyuan: Mining China’s Revolutionary Tradition.

  4. 5d ago

    The EU and Eurozone: a historiographical look (Year 12 History)

    A discussion of the different historiographical views on the creation of the EU Reference list European Central Bank, “History,” https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/history-arts-culture/history/ec/html/index.en.htmlecb.europa  European Union, “History of the European Union – 1945–59,” https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/history-eu/1945-59_eneuropean-union.europa  Europa, “Key dates in the history of European integration,” https://europa.eu/abc/12lessons/key_dates_en.htmeuropa  European Parliament, “The First Treaties,” Fact Sheets on the European Union, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/1/the-first-treatieseuroparl.europa+1  European Parliament, “The enlargement of the Union,” Fact Sheets, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/167/the-enlargement-of-the-unioneuroparl.europa  European Commission, “History of enlargement: From 6 to 27 members,” https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/enlargement-policy/history-enlargement-6-27-members_enenlargement.ec.europa  European Union, “History of the European Union – 1980–89,” https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/history-eu/1980-89_eneuropean-union.europa  Britannica, “European Union – Creation of the European Economic Community,” https://www.britannica.com/topic/European-Union/Creation-of-the-European-Economic-Communitybritannica  Chatham House, “Date with history: The birth of the European Union,” https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2024-02/date-history-birth-european-unionchathamhouse  Academic overview on integration theories: “Theories of European integration” (PDF), https://www.ucg.ac.me/skladiste/blog_13577/objava_47295/fajlovi/Theories%20of%20European%20integration.pdfucg.ac  Analysis of historiography beyond Milward vs federalism: “European Integration History: Beyond the Milward Vs. Federalism Debate,” https://hal.science/hal-04672237/documenthal  On Maastricht: “Thirty years since the Maastricht Treaty,” Yearbook of European Law, https://academic.oup.com/yel/article/doi/10.1093/yel/yeac008/6967127academic.oup  On Maastricht’s consequences: “The Maastricht Treaty: Negotiations and Consequences,” Nomos, https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0947-9511-2013-1-5.pdfnomos-elibrary  Encyclopedia.com, “Treaty On European Union 1992,” https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/modern-europe/treaties-and-alliances/treaty-european-u-nion-1992encyclopedia  On the Single European Act: Oxford Academic, “The Single European Act,” https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34380/chapter/291561559academic.oup  On EU enlargement economics: “The Economic Dynamics of European Union Enlargements,” Springer, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-20186-7_3link.springer+1  On Eurozone crisis interpretations: “The Political and Economic Dynamics of the Eurozone Crisis,” Oxford Academic, https://academic.oup.com/book/26087/chapter/194052417academic.oup  On ordoliberalism and the crisis: “Mediating ‘the German ideology’? Ordoliberalism and the Euro Crisis,” https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/44692540/Harjuniemi_Ojala_European_Studies.pdftuhat.helsinki  Critical/core–periphery perspectives: “Europe’s Twin Crises: The Logic and Tragedy of Contemporary …,” https://academics.hamilton.edu/documents/Cafruny%20Valdai.pdfacademics.hamilton  On crisis as historical legacy: CFR, “Eurozone Crisis as Historical Legacy,” https://www.cfr.org/reports/eurozone-crisis-historical-legacycfr  On Brexit interpretations: EUI Cadmus, “Why did the UK leave the EU? The state of the …,” https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstreams/4579b9e9-5ebf-5f2f-a502-550e8a63b562/downloadcadmus.eui  EUI Cadmus, “Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?,” https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/77500/Brexit_EU_2024.pdf

  5. 6d ago

    The Prague Spring and the Brezhnev Doctrine (Year 12 History)

    A discussion about the significance of the Prague Spring and Brezhnev Doctrine. Further resources: Brown, A. (2009). The Rise and Fall of Communism. London: Bodley Head.  Gaddis, J. L. (2005). The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin.  Judt, T. (2005). Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. London: Penguin.  Kenez, P. (2006). A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  McCauley, M. (2014). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. London: Routledge.  Service, R. (2015). The End of the Cold War: 1985–1991. London: Pan Macmillan.  Westad, O. A. (2017). The Cold War: A World History. New York: Basic Books.  Navrátil, J. (Ed.). (1998). The Prague Spring 1968: A National Security Archive Documents Reader. Budapest: Central European University Press.  Williams, K. (1997). The Prague Spring and its Aftermath: Czechoslovak Politics, 1968–1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Prague Spring." https://www.britannica.com  Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Brezhnev Doctrine." https://www.britannica.com  United States Department of State, Office of the Historian. The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968. https://history.state.gov  Wilson Center Digital Archive. Prague Spring and Soviet Intervention Collection. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org  National Security Archive, George Washington University. Prague Spring Archive. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu

  6. 6d ago

    Difficulties faced by peasants and workers during the Great Leap Forward (Year 12 HIstory)

    Resources for Further Study  Yang Jisheng, Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962* (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) .digitalcommons.usf  Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962* (Bloomsbury, 2010) "China's Great Famine: 40 Years Later" – Article in British Medical Journal (1998) by Ashton et al.pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih   Justin Yifu Lin and Dennis T. Yang, "On the Causes of China's Agricultural Crisis and the Great Leap Famine" – Economic analysis of the policy failures.public.wsu+1  Roderick MacFarquhar, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. 2: The Great Leap Forward, 1958–1960* (Oxford University Press, 1983).digitalcommons.usf

  7. Sep 25

    Significance of the arms race on the changing cold war in Europe (Year 12 History)

    A discussion of how the arms race reflected the cold war militarily, economically, and psychologically in Europe. Historians referenced in the episode: Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. Penguin, 2005.  Leffler, Melvyn P. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford UP, 1992.  Mastny, Vojtech. The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity. Oxford UP, 1996.  Reynolds, David. One World Divisible: A Global History since 1945. Penguin, 2000.  Trachtenberg, Marc. A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945–1963. Princeton UP, 1999.  Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War. Cambridge UP, 2005.  Garthoff, Raymond L. Détente and Confrontation. Brookings Institution, 1985.  Young, John W. Cold War Europe, 1945–1991. Arnold, 1996.  Service, Robert. Comrades: Communism: A World History. Harvard UP, 2007.  Taubman, William. Gorbachev: His Life and Times. Simon & Schuster, 2017.  MacMillan, Margaret. Cold War: A World History. Allen Lane, 2023.

  8. Sep 25

    The Wuhan Affair (Year 12 History)

    A brief discussion about one of the turning points in the Cultural Revolution.

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