CURSUS : Cours en ligne de l'Université Rennes 2

Civilisation des États-Unis - The 1920s – Licence 3 –

The 1920s, often called the Roaring Twenties, was a decade of change and tension. It was an age of mass production and mass consumption, which meant progress but also social anxiety. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of the country led to economic prosperity but the decade ended with a major economic crash in 1929. Social progress was genuine but reactionary forces fueled the Prohibition as well as the nativist movement and the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. In addition to that, the fear that Communism and Socialism might spread in the United States led the government to take drastic measures, curtailing freedom of expression. The 1920s was a contrasted era, a decade of reform and reaction.

Frederick Lewis ALLEN, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s, New York, HarperCollins, Perennial Classics, [1931] 2000.
André KASPI, Les États-Unis au temps de la prospérité, 1919-1929, Paris, Hachette, 1994.
Sylvia LE BARS, The American Twenties, PUR, 1993

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Programme du Capes 2027
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CHERCHER 1 - Les différentes étapes d'une recherche-action

Introduction à l'épistémologie (Jean-Charles SACCHI)

La recherche-action, problèmes épistémologiques et méthodologiques (Claude MARTIN)

Introduction aux méthodes de la recherche-action (Alain PENVEN)

Le sujet
- Les principales pratiques liées aux étapes d’un projet (conception, développement, production, postproduction, diffusion, valorisation)
- L’apport des institutions à ces différentes étapes (aides, financements, gestion des droits, etc.)

La méthode
- Alternance de « cours magistraux » et de « master class » avec des professionnels

Évaluation
- QCM en fin de semestre sur les notions abordées

This survey course focuses on Britain in the long nineteenth century, a period when the United Kingdom experienced remarkable prosperity at home and hegemony on the world stage.

In 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Britain was already industrialized. This technological and economic advantage allowed her to supplant her European neighbours and become the “Workshop of the World”. Britain’s economic supremacy was paralleled on sea as its naval domination enabled the expansion of the Empire which evolved into two distinct sets of colonies (the white “dominions” on the one hand, the “tropical” colonies on the other) where different policies were pursued. At home, economic prosperity brought unprecedented changes which threatened the traditional order and inspired the Establishment with fear of revolution. As reform and continuity were deemed preferable to revolution and chaos, the electorate was gradually expanded to appease the radicals while preserving the Constitution. At the same time, social reforms were introduced to improve the living and working conditions of the working classes without compromising the social and political domination enjoyed by the élite.

Nonetheless, the end of the century was characterized by a declinist and pessimistic mood about the country’s future: Britain’s industrial lead was now challenged by rising powers such as the United States or Germany while in South Africa and Ireland, rival settlers and nationalists tried to throw off the yoke of the Empire “on which the sun never set”. On the home front, the struggles of the suffragettes coupled with the “Labour Unrest” further reinforced the impression that, on the eve of the First World War, Britain had become a weakened and dis-United Kingdom.