History of the Great Empires HIS-SM>dziejeimpe

T_1. Introduction to the course - basic concepts, issues and methods of research on the history of great empires
T_2. Roman Empire
T_3. Carolingians
T_4. The Saxons and the Viking Empire
T_4. The Normans and the Angevin Empire
T_5. New World empires on the example of the Spanish Empire
T_6. Habsburg Empire
T_7. The Short Life of Napoleon Bonaparte's Empire
T_8. Second British Empire - "where the sun does not set"
T_9. Empire of modern Japan
T_10. Twilight of the British Empire - "The Troubles" and Brexit
T_11. Empire(?) of the United States

Wielkie Imperia (opracowanie zbiorowe), Warszawa 2000,
K. Dziewanowski, Brzemię białego człowieka. Jak zbudowano Imperium Brytyjskie, Warszawa 2021,
N. Ferguson, Imperium. Jak Wielka Brytania zbudowała nowoczesny świat, Warszawa 2013
I. Morris, Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire Miękka oprawa, London 2002
I. Morris, Heaven's Command : An Imperial Progress, London 2003
C. A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons, 2004
lecturer's own literature