| Module Identifier |
IP35320 |
| Module Title |
WARFARE AFTER WATERLOO: MILITARY HISTORY 1815 - 1918 |
| Academic Year |
2006/2007 |
| Co-ordinator |
Professor Martin S Alexander |
| Semester |
Semester 1 |
| Course delivery |
Lecture | 16 Hours. (16 x 1 hour) |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 8 Hours. (5 x 90 mins) |
| Assessment |
| Assessment Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
|---|
| Semester Exam | 2 Hours | 60% |
| Semester Assessment | Essay: 1 x 2,500 word coursework | 40% |
| Supplementary Exam | Students may, subject to Faculty approval, have the opportunity to resit this module. For further clarification please contact the Academic Administrator in the Department of International Politics. | |
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Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- critically assess the legacies of Napoleonic warfare for a range of European countries and their armed services
- discuss the challenges encountered by European forces in operating in non-European contexts in the age of imperialism
- describe and analyze the key factors, agents historical trends and structural dynamics that influenced the changing shape, doctrines and fighting styles of various European and non-European armed forces in the period examined
- evaluate critically the roles of naval and land forces and their structure and recruitment in relation to differing national politico-strategic cultures and ways of war.
Brief description
This module allows students to examine the legacies of the Napoleonic Wars for the structures, recruitment and strategic thought of European armed forces, and to identify and illustrate trends in these areas and in technological changes impacting on armed forces, in and outside Europe, down to and during World War One (1914-18)
Aims
The aim of this module is to provide students with the opportunity to study military developments, and historiographical debates about them, relating to warfare, the recruitment and organization of armed forces, the development of strategy and the impact of technological changes on armed forces and the conduct of operations, from the Napoleonic Wars' end (1815) to the close of World War One (1918).
Content
This module will take stock of the effects of the Napoleonic Wars on the organization of armed forces and the conduct of war; then discuss the impact of major 19th century technological changes including the coming of the electric telegraph, railways, steamships, and repeating, breech-loading rifles, machine-guns and artillery; examine the conduct of war in Europe and the United States in the 1850s-1870s; the experience of European armies in colonial 'small wars'; the evolution of general staffs and national conscription after 1871; concluding by examining strategy, doctrine, logistics and the use of new technologies in the Boer and Russo-Japanese wars and the First World War.
Transferable skills
Students will be required to work independently on their preparation for seminars and the assessed elements of the module and make critical use of web-sites in their research and data-collection.
Students will be required use IT in the module to word-process their essays and pre-circulate by e-mail attachment their bullet-point presentations for seminars.
Students will be encouraged to use numerical data where appropriate in support of their oral and written arguments
Students will be expected to contribute to seminar discussions and to facilitate this, the Module Convenor assigns students into syndicate-teams of three or four students persons to prepare in advance, and distribute electronically, short bullet-point summaries of aspects of the seminar topic and to introduce their team's topic by a short non-assessed presentation. General discussion is opened for all seminar group members.
Throughout the module students will need to manage their time effectively.
10 ECTS credits
Reading Lists
Books
** Recommended Text
David Gates (2001) Warfare in the Nineteenth Century
Palgrave
Reid, Brian Holden. The Civil War and the wars of the nineteenth century /Brian Holden Reid.
0304363642
Trevor Royle (1999) Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-56
Little, Brown & Co
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6