TRN250Y1
TRN250Y1: Empire, Nationalism, and the History of International Relations
Course Description
This course offers an introduction to the history of international relations by exploring the transition from a world of empires to our contemporary world of nation-states. Adopting a global historical perspective, this course surveys every region of the world and pays special attention to the ideas that connect them. This course will also introduce students to historical research and writing by guiding them through the stages of producing an independent research paper based on primary and secondary sources.
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Felix Cowan Felix Cowan is a historian of modern Europe specializing in the history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, with research interests in political culture, urban history, and everyday life. His first book, The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908-1918, was published by University of Toronto Press in 2025. This monograph uses tabloid newspapers to explore an emerging democratic political culture in the early twentieth century Russian Empire. Dr. Cowan’s other published work explores themes of civil society, gender identity, and lower-class politics and culture, and he is in the early stages of a new project on the history of democratic ideas, experiments, and reforms in Russia. In addition to Russian, Soviet, and European history, Dr. Cowan also teaches the global Cold War and the complex historical relationship between empire and nation. |
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