History MScR

Central Campus, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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12 monthsProgram duration

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Program overview

Main Subject

History

Degree

MScr

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Research interests within History are extremely wide-ranging. They include:

medieval culture, religion, gender, and law
historical theory
early modern witchcraft and the occult
the Italian Renaissance
North America from the colonial era
intellectual history from Machiavelli to Marx
genocide
Nazi and post-war Germany
Russia and the Soviet Union
the Cold War
political, social, and cultural aspects of the history of China, Japan, Africa, India, Latin America and the Caribbean in the modern era

In particular, we host expertise in:

Pre-modern and early-modern history:

the social, political, religious and cultural history of Europe, from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance
England
France
Italy

Modern British and Irish history:

early modern religion, belief and intellectual history (including the Scottish Enlightenment)
social, economic and political history
relations between Britain and Ireland
Second World War Studies
international relations

Modern European history:

18th-century political and intellectual history
genocide
France
Germany
Russia and the Soviet Union
Spain

American history:

revolutionary and early national America
the Civil War
US diplomatic history in the 19th and 20th centuries
politics in the 20th century
African-American history and the civil rights movement

Global and Transnational history:

African history
Caribbean and Latin American history
the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth
modern India, Pakistan, and China and Japan from the early modern period to the contemporary world
the history of global connections and the movement of people, objects, images and ideas

Program overview

Main Subject

History

Degree

MScr

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Research interests within History are extremely wide-ranging. They include:

medieval culture, religion, gender, and law
historical theory
early modern witchcraft and the occult
the Italian Renaissance
North America from the colonial era
intellectual history from Machiavelli to Marx
genocide
Nazi and post-war Germany
Russia and the Soviet Union
the Cold War
political, social, and cultural aspects of the history of China, Japan, Africa, India, Latin America and the Caribbean in the modern era

In particular, we host expertise in:

Pre-modern and early-modern history:

the social, political, religious and cultural history of Europe, from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance
England
France
Italy

Modern British and Irish history:

early modern religion, belief and intellectual history (including the Scottish Enlightenment)
social, economic and political history
relations between Britain and Ireland
Second World War Studies
international relations

Modern European history:

18th-century political and intellectual history
genocide
France
Germany
Russia and the Soviet Union
Spain

American history:

revolutionary and early national America
the Civil War
US diplomatic history in the 19th and 20th centuries
politics in the 20th century
African-American history and the civil rights movement

Global and Transnational history:

African history
Caribbean and Latin American history
the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth
modern India, Pakistan, and China and Japan from the early modern period to the contemporary world
the history of global connections and the movement of people, objects, images and ideas

Admission Requirements

Program Duration

1 Year

Starting Month(s)

Sep

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