HIB003b Forming of the Nations of the Modern Balkans (19th Century - 1918)

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Hladký, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Lucie Janků, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Hladký, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 16:00–17:40 B1.41, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 22/22, only registered: 1/22
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • History (programme FF, B-HI_) (3)
Course objectives
The aim of the cycle of lectures is to acquaint the students with the characteristic features of the proces of the creation and formation of the modern Balkan nations and states in the crucial periods of their history in the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
Learning outcomes
The students are acquainted with the main facts and personalities of the history of the Balkannations in the course of the “long” 19th century and with the crucial demands of the individual national programmes.
The information on the development in the Balkans will expand their knowledge of general (European) history.
Through the comparison of the studied problems, they will learn to distinguish between the general features, with which the nation-forming development in the Balkans was the same with the development of the nations of Western and Central Europe, and the specific features, by which the Balkans differed from the more advanced areas of Europe.
They will understand the historical roots of Balkan nationalisms and will be able to take a critical position to the expressions of national tensions and stereotypes, which appear in the Balkans even in the present.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction (models of the formation of nations in Western and Central Europe at the turn of the 18th and 19th century, specific features of the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans;
  • 2. Serbians, Serbia (Serbian uprisings in the years 1804–1813, 1815); 3. Greeks, Greece (Greek uprising 1821–1829);
  • 4. Croatians (Illyrism movement, revolution years 1848/1849); 5. Romanians, Romania (unification of the Danube principalities, 1850’s to 1860’s);
  • 6. Bulgarians, Bulgaria (so-called April Uprising 1876, the period of Large East Crisis 1875–1878);
  • 8. Albanians, Albania (Albanian national liberation efforts at the turn of the 19th and 20th century);
  • 9. Macedonian Slavs (the Macedonian question in early 20th century); 10. Turks, Turkey (Yung Turks’ revolution 1908–1909, Pan-Turkism, end of the Ottoman Empire);
  • 11. Summary (general and specific aspects of the formation of nations and states in the Balkans in 19th and 20th century).
Literature
    required literature
  • KABRDA, Josef, Josef KOLEJKA and Richard PRAŽÁK. Dějiny národů střední a jihovýchodní Evropy. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1966, 186 s. info
  • KABRDA, Josef, Josef KOLEJKA and Richard PRAŽÁK. Dějiny národů střední a jihovýchodní Evropy : v období od Velké francouzské revoluce do roku 1918. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1963, 174 s. URL info
    recommended literature
  • HRADEČNÝ, Pavel, Ladislav HLADKÝ, Virgjil MONARI, František ŠÍSTEK and Pavla HRADEČNÁ. Dějiny Albánie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2008, 716 s. ISBN 9788071069393. info
  • HRADEČNÝ, Pavel. Dějiny Řecka. 2., dopl. a rozš. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2007, 768 s. ISBN 80-7106-192-1. info
  • THIESSE, Anne-Marie. Vytváření národních identit v Evropě 18. až 20. století. Translated by Pavla Doležalová. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury (CDK), 2007, 263 s. ISBN 9788073251185. info
  • HOBSBAWM, Eric J. Národy a nacionalismus od roku 1780 :program, mýtus, realita. Translated by Pavel Pšeja. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2000, 207 s. ISBN 80-85959-55-0. info
  • HROCH, Miroslav. V národním zájmu :požadavky a cíle eropských národních hnutí devatenáctého století ve srovnávací perspektivě. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1999, 199 s. ISBN 80-7106-298-7. info
  • ŠESTÁK, Miroslav. Dějiny jihoslovanských zemí. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1998, 756 s. ISBN 80-7106-266-9. info
Teaching methods
The course in taught in the form of a lecture. To obtain the “kolokvium”, students must attend at least two thirds of all lectures and demonstrate adequate knowledge of the issues at hand.
Assessment methods
To obtain the “kolokvium”, students must attend at least two thirds of all lectures and demonstrate adequate knowledge of the issues at hand.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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