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In which year did the Universitat de Barcelona syllabus’s period end, the closing date this course takes for contemporary history?
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- It is the end of the Second World War, not the end of the century.
- Nineteen forty-five.
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1945
Why
1945. The choice is itself a periodisation claim: it treats 1914–1945 as a single catastrophe with an end, and everything after as a different problem. Historians who prefer Hobsbawm’s short twentieth century would run on to 1991 instead, and would be making a different argument about what the wars were part of.
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