Wars and Postwars

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This course focuses on the study and analysis of the political and social challenges posed in, and faced by, post-war societies in the modern period, 1800-1950. Casting a large net from the early nineteenth century to the twentieth century it looks at the process of rebuilding after wars, both international and civil wars. The course will be organized thematically – Conducting War; Reconstructions; Vengeance and Justice; Public Memory. Cases will include the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, and WWII, with references to other conflicts in various world regions.