Postgraduate Prospectus

This course has a start date in September  

The MA Politics and Contemporary History is well established and attracts applicants of exceptional quality from the UK and abroad.

This interdisciplinary course is explicitly historical in scope, having particular focus on those things within living memory. It reflects the vast upsurge of interest in contemporary history following the end of the Cold War and the attendant opening of much of the hidden history of the 20th century.

The course will address contending approaches to recent events which have shaped your own life and the lives of those immediately around you.

Areas of special interest include:

• 20th-Century American History
• 20th-Century Chinese History
• Anglo-American Relations
• Art and Politics
• Cold War History
• Communism and Fascism
• Contemporary British Political History
• Film History
• Intelligence and National Security
• Labour and Urban History, especially in Britain and Europe
• Modern German History including the Holocaust
• Modern Russia, especially imperial, diplomacy and war
• Modern War in Europe, Asia and the Pacific
• Religion and Conflict in the Middle East
• South East Asia, especially social movements
• United States foreign and security policy
• Women`s History

Download the MA Politics and Contemporary History leaflet for more information.

• The University of Nottingham boasts one of the highest concentrations of research expertise in contemporary history in the UK. Staff in the School of Politics and International Relations are actively engaged in contemporary historical research and further expertise is found in the schools of American and Canadian Studies, History, the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and the Institute for Contemporary Chinese Studies.
• The Research Assessment Exercise 2008 ranked the School of Politics and International Relations in the top ten in the UK for research power
• In the last independent subject level review of teaching, the School was awarded the maximum of 24 out of 24 (Quality Assurance Agency, 2001)
  

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