Courses of Study 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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HIST 2110 - [Black Religious Traditions: Sacred and Secular] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2110 , RELST 2110 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Next offered 2013–2014.
M. Washington.
A survey on the black religious and spiritual traditions during bondage and the early years of freedom. This course will examine slave religion, the rise of black churches in the North, the formation of black churches after the Civil War, the independent church movement and the churches’ role in social protest.
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HIST 2111 - Black History Topics Through Film (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2111 , ASRC 2211 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
M. Washington.
In this course black history will be approached through the thematic prisms of feature films and documentaries, and throughout various readings that topically reflect crucial periods in the black experience in the Americas. Topics include civil rights, revolutionary nationalism, race relations, slave rebellion, black politics, emancipation struggles, the black middle class, and black poverty.
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HIST 2122 - Darwin and the Making of Histories (crosslisted)
(also BSOC 2122 , STS 2122 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
P. Dear.
The power of a name is sometimes as great as that of an idea. This course will study who Darwin was in his own time, and how he became, then and now, an icon rather than just a Victorian naturalist. We will look at writings of Darwin himself, and attempt to understand what they meant in their own time, how Darwin came to write them, and how his contemporaries helped to shape their future. How did Victorian ideologies of gender, race, and class shape the production and reception of Darwin’s work? We will also examine the growth of “Darwinism” as a set of broader social and cultural movements, particularly in Britain and the United States. Were eugenics movements examples or perversions of Darwinism? Finally, we will consider how Darwin’s name has been used by more recent evolutionary biologists such as Steven Jay Gould, and by American anti-evolutionists.
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HIST 2152 - The “Jewish Question” in Nineteenth - Twentieth Century Europe (crosslisted)
(also JWST 2152 , NES 2152 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
H. Case.
The so-called “Jewish Question” was framed in 19th-century Europe around the issue of whether Jews should enjoy the full rights of citizenship, equal access to all the professions, and be considered part of “the nation.” Hitler’s “Final Solution” was one of many “solutions” conceived by Europeans to the “Jewish Question.” What gave rise to the “Jewish Question” and how was it understood by contemporaries? In this course we will discuss a variety of primary sources spanning roughly 1840-1950 by figures who set out to address the question (Karl Marx, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Theodor Herzl), as well as events that shaped opinions on the issue (pogroms in the Ottoman Empire, the revolutions of 1848, the Dreyfus Affair in France, the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and the Holocaust).
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HIST 2161 - [Iran and the World] (crosslisted)
(also NES 2616 ) (GB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next Offered 2013-2014.
J. Weiss.
An introduction to the history, culture, and current international relations of Iran. Course will treat Iranian history from the earliest times to the present and selected aspects of Iranian culture. Iran’s relations with other countries, including its war with Iraq and its confrontation with international actors over its nuclear development will also be covered. Course exercises will include exchanges with Iranians and Iranian–Americans.
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HIST 2162 - [Genocidal Regimes in Europe]
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
J. Weiss.
Investigation of the origins, ideology, and tactics of genocidal regimes, the actions of their targeted populations, and the responses of witnessing states and groups of citizens.
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HIST 2163 - History of the United Nations
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
J. Weiss.
A general history of the United Nations from its origins to the present. The course will deal with changes in the missions and operations of all the major departments of the UN and its associated organizations such as the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization, but the emphasis will be on the crisis activities of the Security Council and peacekeeping activities in the field.
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HIST 2170 - [Subversion as Foreign Policy]
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
T. Loos and R. Craib.
To what extent does the ideal of the US as a vanguard for democracy and freedom in the world match up with other aspects—military, economic, and humanitarian—of US foreign policy? We might ask the same question about the degree to which discourses and practices correspond with respect to countries like the former Soviet Union, China, and France. This seminar examines the ways in which foreign policy has been deployed over the course of the twentieth century. We will address particular case studies in Indonesia, Vietnam, Guatemala, Chile and others. Prominent themes will include forms of subversion, from military muscle to economic coercion, and how and why they have changed over time.
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HIST 2180 - Seminar on Genocide
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
I. Hull.
This course examines some of the most terrible events of the twentieth century, events such as the mass murders of the Armenians (1915-1918), the European Jews (1939-1945), the Cambodians (1975-79), and the Tutsis of Rwanda (1994). Students will apply historical methods to address such questions as the preconditions leading to genocide; the relation of genocide to war, revolution, nation-building, and ideology; the motivations of perpetrators; the limits to victim’s efforts at self-defense; the responses of the regional or world community; and the legal and political consequences of such acts.
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HIST 2190 - [Women and Gender in South Asia] (crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 2219 , FGSS 2190 ) (GB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
D. Ghosh.
This course is a discussion-based reading seminar on the history of women and the construction of gender in South Asia. The readings consider broad themes that have historically affected the status of South Asian women: discourses about backwardness, domesticity, nationalism, family and property rights, the law, violence, labor, and social activism. Working chronologically from the pre-colonial through the colonial and post-colonial periods, we will raise questions about the relative status of South Asian men and women within their communities. A significant theme of the course addresses the importance of gender to the making of South Asian nationalisms, and the forms of postcolonial governance it gave rise to after independence.
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HIST 2200 - [The Road Trip in American History and Culture] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2200 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
A. Sachs.
Gertrude Stein, describing America, said, “Conceive a space that is filled with moving….” This sophomore seminar journeys through U.S. history, from Puritan captivity narratives to the movie “Thelma and Louise,” to explore the many meanings of motion and mobility in American culture. Why is the road trip such an enduring trope in America? Do we live in a particularly unsettled nation? If mobility frees some people, does it trap others? What’s the difference between trips taken at the speed of nature (by river power or leg power, for instance) and trips taken at the speed of machines (by planes, trains, or automobiles)? Have road trips ever changed American history? Has American history changed the nature of road trips? We’ll read exploration narratives, novels of the high seas, tourist guides, histories of transportation, and theories of travel.
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HIST 2210 - Pop Culture in China (crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 2210 ) (GHB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
T. J. Hinrichs.
In this course we will explore the popular culture, society, and religion of Late Imperial China through the reading of a sixteenth century novel, The Journey to the West. Journey follows the adventures of a mischievous and powerful monkey king, Sun Wukong, in his quests for immortality, fun, and universal salvation. We will study the historical contexts in which this work was produced, performed, and read, and consider the emergence of a realm of “popular culture” in comparative perspective. We will also examine modern adaptations of the story for stage, film, and animation.
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HIST 2230 - [International Law]
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next Offered 2013-2014.
I. Hull.
The customs and laws of war provided the first arena in which international law was systematically codified. This seminar therefore focuses on the laws of war as a means to introduce students to how international law develops, widens, and changes over time. We begin in the 17th century with the Thirty Year’s War and then examine specific problems or events that illustrate the difficulties of regulating deadly conflict: forging international agreement, providing sanctions, establishing courts, responding to changes in technology or to new political challenges raised by colonial campaigns, guerilla warfare, or terrorism. Students will study examples drawn from the 19th-century codifications (Geneva & Hague Conventions), World Wars I & II, and from the postwar period. Students will only be required to stay in class until 3:45.
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HIST 2250 - [The U.S.-Mexico Border: History, Culture, Representation] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2250 , LATA 2250 , LSP 2250 ) (CA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M. C. Garcia.
A writing-intensive, interdisciplinary sophomore seminar on the United States-Mexico border. The study of borders, and specifically of the United States-Mexico border, requires us to cross the disciplinary and methodological borders of academe itself. The proliferation of provocative writings on the border in recent years bears this assumption out: in no other field of study has the literature been so remarkably interdisciplinary; so methodologically eclectic; nor so theoretically provocative. This seminar intends to tap that literature to help students analyze and understand the histories, cultures and representations of the border that are so important to contemporary self-fashioning and policy-making in the United States and Mexico. Students can expect to write several papers of varying lengths that will develop their skills in historical research and textual criticism.
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HIST 2271 - Family Life in Renaissance Italy (crosslisted)
(also ITAL 2270 , MEDVL 2271 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
J. Najemy.
The seminar explores the structures and sentiments of family life in Renaissance Italy, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, through a combination of translated primary sources and modern studies. Chief among the primary sources are the fifteenth-century dialogues On the Family by the humanist Leon Battista Alberti, supplemented by diaries and memoirs, letters, sermons, and prescriptive writings by fathers, humanists, and churchmen. Among the topics to be investigated are the variety of family structures, marriage, sexual relations, wives and husbands, parents and children, families in politics, and family memory and commemoration in art and religious life.
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HIST 2272 - [Study of Terrorism]
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
C. Verhoeven.
This seminar examines approaches to the study of European terrorism. By the end of the semester, students should have a grasp of 1) the history of terrorism as it developed over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries (learning in the process how to distinguish terrorism from other forms of modern political violence, e.g. partisan warfare, state terror, etc.) and 2) the ways terrorism has been perceived, presented, and remembered by contemporaries and subsequent generations. Questions, therefore, will include the following: How has terrorism been approached by political theory, history, literature, etc.? How have these approaches constructed terrorism as an object of scientific investigation? How were terrorists perceived and represented by their contemporaries (in the press, literature, art)? How did terrorists represent themselves (in political pamphlets, autobiographies, fiction)? Readings will include archival materials, manifestos, memoirs, and novels, as well as classic pieces of political writing (e.g. Lenin, Schmitt, Arendt).
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HIST 2273 - [Russian Revolutionary Intelligentsia]
(HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
C. Verhoeven.
This seminar examines the writings of the Russian intelligentsia in relation to the idea of revolution (approximately from the Enlightenment to the Revolution of 1917). How did the intelligentsia constitute itself as the revolutionary force through its writings? What were the ways it imagined revolution, a revolutionary party, and a revolutionary people? And, finally, what role did the intelligentsia play in Russian revolutionary history? Readings will include works from the ‘golden age’ of Russian literature (e.g. Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy) as well as classic pieces of political writing (e.g. Herzen, Bakunin, Lenin), and examine the era’s major politico-cultural trends (Nihilism, Anarchism, Populism, Terrorism, Bolshevism, Pacifism, etc.).
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HIST 2280 - [Indian Ocean World] (crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 2228 ) (GHB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
E. Tagliacozzo.
This course looks at the many intersecting histories of the Indian Ocean. The Indian Ocean was the first oceanic basin that supported large-scale cross-cultural contact for mankind. These warm tropical waters saw peoples from East Africa, the Middle East, the Indian Sub-Continent and Southeast Asia all meet and mix over many centuries. The course will look at these histories of contact, spanning maritime studies, archaeological perspectives, winds and weather patterns (including the vital monsoons), religious migrations (including Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam), and the history of commerce (such as the Spice Trade). We will ask how the Indian Ocean became a crucial canvas for painting human history over vast, oceanic distances. Open to students interested in world history and its regional variants.
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HIST 2290 - [Jefferson and Lincoln: American Ideas about Freedom] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2290 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
E. Baptist.
Jefferson and Lincoln are two of the most-admired – and two of the most criticized – figures in the history of the United States. The word “freedom” is probably both the most widely used and the most widely misused term in American political debate. This seminar will study the ways in which these two figures used and reshaped the idea of freedom, both in their words, and in their political actions.
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HIST 2292 - [American Capitalism] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2292 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next Offered 2014-2015.
E. Baptist.
What is capitalism? How has it shaped the history of the United States? In this course, we’ll try to answer those questions. We’ll read books by famous supporters and opponents of the expansion of capitalism. We’ll try to find out if the U.S. is more capitalist than other countries, and whether or not capitalism shaped American political ideals.
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HIST 2300 - [Seminar in History and Memory: The Asia-Pacific War] (crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 2230 ) (GB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
J. V. Koschmann.
This seminar will examine what is at stake when the fighting between Japan and its former enemies in the Pacific during World War II is remembered, memorialized, and reconstructed as historical narrative. By exploring events such as the Nanking massacre, systems of sexual slavery, mistreatment of POW’s, and bombing of civilians, the seminar will offer an opportunity to reflect on war crimes, public memory, and responsibility.
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HIST 2321 - [Introduction to Military History]
(HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
B. Strauss.
An introduction to basic themes of military history, e.g., battle, strategy, tactics, war and society, as well as classic works, e.g. Sun Tze, Thucydides, Clausewitz, Jomini. Recent theories in scholarship will also be emphasized.
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HIST 2330 - [Origins of the Social] (crosslisted)
(also ANTHR 2130 , COML 2330 , GOVT 2729 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014. Permission of instructor required.
C. Robcis.
Political philosophy has often been preoccupied with the problem of “the social”: how is society born? How do individuals come together and what allows gives their actions and discourses an overall framework? How does a population become a community governed by explicit and implicit rules, norms, mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion? And how does this social formation address questions of power and law, state and nation, equality and justice, identity and difference, citizenship and civility? This seminar provides an introduction to some of the major figures of European intellectual history who have attempted to think and rethink this problem of “the social.” The class will focus on the close reading and the historicization of each text. Readings will include Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Stuart Mill, Durkheim, Mauss, Freud, Levi-Strauss, Derrida, Gayle Rubin, Monique Wittig, Carole Pateman, Judith Butler.
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HIST 2331 - [French Thought after May 68] (crosslisted)
(also COML 2331 , GOVT 2626 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
C. Robcis.
The expression “May ’68” is often used as a synonym for what has come to be known as “French Theory,” encompassing the works of authors such as Derrida, Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze, Althusser, and Lacan, and generating new conceptual models to rethink power relations, gender, language, and subjectivity more generally. Less well-known perhaps, is the reaction on the part of many French intellectuals against this current of “French Theory” and its philosophical, social, and political implications. In this seminar, we will begin by reading some of the foundational texts that emerged out of the events of May ’68, before turning to authors such as Lefort, Clastres, Gauchet, Furet, and Rosanvallon, who have all written about the limitations of the pensée 68.
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HIST 2350 - [Antisemitism and Crisis Modernity: From Enlightenment to the Holocaust] (crosslisted)
(also JWST 2350 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
V. Caron.
This course will examine the role of antisemitism in nineteenth and twentieth century European ideological, political and socioeconomic developments. Attention will be paid to the way in which antisemitism illuminates the underside of European history, allowing us to see how anti-Jewish intolerance and prejudice becomes embedded in the world views of significant sectors of the European populations, culminating in the Holocaust. Topics will include: the Christian roots of antisemitism and the extent to which modern antisemitism marks a break with the medieval past; the politicization of antisemitism by both Left and Right; the role of antisemitism in socioeconomic conflicts linked to the rise of capitalism; Jewish responses to antisemitism; antisemitism in the Nazi and Fascist revolutions; and contemporary interpretations of antisemitism.
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HIST 2360 - [Native People of the Northeast] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2360 , AIS 2360 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
J. Parmenter.
This seminar examines the history and culture of the indigenous peoples of northeastern North America, from ancient times through the era of contact with Europeans to the present day. The course emphasizes the fascinating and dramatic series of transformations and adaptations (undertaken) by the Native peoples of the Northeast which have contributed to their survival in the twenty-first century. Readings and discussions will be drawn from a variety of sources, including historical documents, traditional narratives, archaeological reports, enthnography, literature, online resources, and museum exhibits of material culture.
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HIST 2390 - Seminar in Iroquois History (crosslisted)
(also AIS 2390 , AMST 2390 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
J. Parmenter.
This seminar explores the history and culture of Iroquois people from ancient times, through their initial contacts with European settlers, to their present-day struggles and achievements under colonial circumstances in North America. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, students will be exposed to a variety of methodologies and approaches to reconstructing the Iroquois past. Readings and discussions will be drawn from a range of sources, with special emphasis on historical documents. In addition to these texts, we will read traditional narratives, archaeological reports, ethnography, contemporary Iroquois literature, online resources, and museum exhibits of material culture.
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HIST 2410 - [Riot and Rebellion in Nineteenth Century Africa] (crosslisted)
(also ASRC 2303 ) (GHB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
S. Greene.
The beginning of the 19th century witnessed the rapid and often times forceful expansion of Islam in West Africa, the end of the Atlantic slave trade, the transformation of the Zulu from a small, inconsequential people to the largest and most powerful ethnic group in South Africa, and the wild fire spread of Swahili as a lingua franca in east and central Africa. This course explores these revolutionary changes and the upheavals that accompanied them as Africa remade itself to face the modern era. Lectures, readings and discussions will focus on the causes and consequences of these events and their significance for understanding contemporary Africa.
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HIST 2411 - Enslaved! Then and Now
(HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
S. Greene.
In this course, we will read and analyze select texts (both oral and written) that were composed between the late 18th century and 2005 by individuals who were enslaved. For whom were these texts produced and for what purpose? How much in these texts is history, how much is fiction, and how do we determine the difference? What can these texts tell us about the individual authors and the political, economic and cultural contexts in which they were written? These and other related questions will structure this seminar.
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HIST 2412 - [The White Image in the Black Mind] (crosslisted)
(also ASRC 2307 ) (GB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
S. Greene.
Much has been written about European images of Black men, African women and their cultural practices (whether they were in African or in the African Diaspora) during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, but how did Africans view Europeans during these periods? How did these images influence the ways Africans saw themselves and how did these images change over time? These questions and others will be explored in this course by examining a variety of historical, literary and cinematic texts. It will also explore for comparative purposes the image of Europeans held by other peoples of color in East and Southeast Asia.
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HIST 2422 - [The History of the U.S. Prison]
(HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next Offered 2014-2015.
J. Kohler-Hausmann.
Examines how the United States came to rely primarily on the prison to address crime and social disorder, and ultimately arrived at a scale of incarceration without international or historic precedent. Scrutinizes how racial hierarchies, social movements, the political economy, and prisoners themselves influenced the development of the penal system and in turn, how the growth in the carceral system has reshaped U.S. society. Will focus on key turning points in the history of the U.S. prison, such as the birth of the prison in the late 18th century, the Jacksonian and Progressive era prison reforms, and the convict leasing system in the south after the Civil War. We will give particular attention to the period since 1945 and the roots of today’s hyper-incarceration, such as “law and order” politics and the “War on Drugs.”
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HIST 2423 - Dazed and Confused: The Politics of Drug and Alcohol in US History
(HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
J. Kohler-Hausmann.
This lecture course explores the dramatic cultural, economic, and social upheavals in U.S. society during the 1960s and 1970s. It will primarily focus on the dynamic interactions between formal politics, the state, the economy, and the era’s mass movements on the right and the left. Among other things, we will explore the history and legacy of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, the Vietnam War, deindustrialization, “white flight,” the War on Poverty, the War on Crime, Watergate, the “rise of the right,” and women’s changing roles.
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HIST 2430 - [History of Things]
(GB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
E. Tagliacozzo.
This course will examine material culture as an avenue of looking at history in broad and comparative ways. The course is global in shape and unrestricted temporarily; it asks how “things” make up our world, and how they affect our lives historically and help shape the human story. Glass, dyes, opium, salt, coal, sugar, tea and even shrunken heads will all be considered.
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HIST 2431 - [Postcolonial Memories and Politics of History]
(GB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
K. Hirano.
Postcolonial studies, which seek to uncover and (re-)articulate repressed voices, memories, and experiences of colonized peoples around the world, have altered the way we understand history. They have brought about the recognition that the historical profession and its mode of knowledge production have been deeply complicit with colonial strategies of domination and violence. This new recognition challenges the normative understanding of history as a discipline devoted to the objective reconstruction of the past enabled by scrupulous efforts to gather data and facts. If historical knowledge is not as “objective” as assumed, it follows that “date” and “facts” are not free from values and subjective judgment. Nor can history reveal the truth about the past. Rather, data/facts themselves constitute a certain type of narrative (that is, they are always already value-ridden) and authors of history select facts and data according to their judgments and criteria in order to explain the causes, effects, processes, and consequences of events they study. In this seminar, by paying attention to this epistemological predicament of history, we will examine the relationship between history and colonialism, and try to imagine a critical and self-reflective mode of historical inquiry based on the insights of Postcolonial Studies.
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HIST 2440 - [The United States in Vietnam] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2440 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next Offered 2013-2014.
R. Vanderlan.
The long U.S. involvement in Vietnam has been the subject of endless controversy and scholarly analysis in recent decades, and the debate shows little sign of ending anytime soon. This seminar will look closely the origins and course of the war, and at its impact on American politics and society. Though our focus will be on the U.S. side of the story, some attention will be paid also to Vietnamese perspectives. Course materials will include recent monographs as well fictional accounts, primary sources, and occasional films.
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HIST 2452 - [Dress Cloth and Identity] (crosslisted)
(also ASRC 2452 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
J. Byfield.
This course uses a multi-disciplinary approach to examine the importance of textiles in African social and economic history. It combines art history, anthropology, social and economic history to explore the role of textiles in marking status, gender, political authority and ethnicity. In addition, we examine the production and distribution of indigenous cloth and the consequences of colonial rule on African textile industries. Our analysis also considers the principles of African dress and clothing that shaped the African diaspora in the Americas as well as the more recent popularity and use of African fabrics and dress in the United States.
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HIST 2470 - [The Age of Charlemagne]
(HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
P. Hyams.
Charlemagne (Charles the Great, 775–814) is still revered as “the Father of Europe.” In his time as king of the Franks and then emperor of the West, we see for the first time with any clarity the shape of Europe as it would remain for a millennium and more, also of the structures and cultural mix that would characterize the West before there were a France, Germany, or United Kingdom. The “Carolingian Renaissance” promoted a brief but fruitful burst of writings and artifacts, including an intimate if slippery Life of Charlemagne and much better documentation of the public and to an extent even the everyday life of the age. By reading primary sources in translation, students can grasp a pivotal moment in Western Civilization, see how historians construct their categories, and learn the limitations of the historical craft.
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HIST 2480 - [Ghosts and Legacies: The Construction of Public Memory]
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
J. Weiss.
Focusing principally on instances of guilty and divisive pasts produced by genocide, civil war, or colonial struggles, this course will investigate how contemporary politics, in Europe and America, shaped the perception of past events; how strategies of forgetting succeeded in repressing the memory of guilty pasts and what happened when they failed; and how the public memory of traumatic events was shaped in films, literature, and other cultural locations.
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HIST 2492 - [Europes Asia: Modern European Discourse on History and Subjectivity] (crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 2292 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
J. V. Koschmann.
Integral to modern European philosophies of history and the human subject is an image of Asian societies (or the “Orient”) as static and despotic. G. W. H. Hegel posited that China was the “childhood of history,” a land where “nothing subjective is recognized.” Marx tried to account for the apparent absence of historical change in India by developing the model of an “Asiatic mode of production,” and Max Weber searched in vain through Chinese religion and ethics for an analogue to the Protestant ethic. In this seminar, we will consider the Hegelian, Marxian, and Weberian theses in some detail, and then turn to some more recent Western constructs of East Asia. Along the way, we will reflect critically upon intellectual history as an approach to the past, the epistemological and ideological functions of cultural opposites, the relationship between theories of history and the practice of imperialism, and other relevant questions. The seminar is meant to provide an open and nonthreatening context in which students can gain experience in the interpretation and analysis of complex texts that are not only difficult and problematical but of seminal importance in the ongoing process of human self-understanding.
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HIST 2510 - Race and Popular Culture (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2501 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
M. Washington.
This course examines the intersection of race and popular culture in America, historically and thematically, focusing primarily on the black-white experience, Genres of minstrelsy, radio, film & music provided forms of entertainment that were also mediums through which the racial “other” was often ridiculed and denigrated in order to promote and sustain “whiteness.” However some appropriation of the “other” might involve genuine regard/appreciation of diverse cultural forms. This course explores the intersection of racial imagery, racial stereotypes, cultural borrowing and the cultural diffusion in 19th and 20th century America.
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HIST 2511 - Black Women to 1900 (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2511 , FGSS 2511 , ASRC 2511 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
M. Washington.
This course explores the social, cultural and communal lives of black women in North America, beginning with the transatlantic slave trade, and ending in 1900. Topics include Northern and Southern enslavement, first freedoms in the North, Southern emancipation, color consciousness, gener-cross racially and issues of class.
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HIST 2512 - [Black Women in the 20th Century] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2512 , ASRC 2512 , FGSS 2512 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M. Washington.
This course focuses on African American women in the 20th century. The experiences of black women will be examined from a social, practical, communal, and gendered perspective. Topics include the Club Woman’s movement, suffrage, work, family, black and white women and feminism, black women and radicalism, and the feminization of poverty.
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HIST 2520 - [Modern East-Central Europe]
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
H. Case.
This course covers the key events, political ideologies, social and cultural trends, and definitions of East-Central Europe from 1848 to the present. Themes will include experiences of empire, war and revolution, the rise of nationalism, liberalism, fascism, and communism, totalitarian regimes, dissident movements, the post-communist transition, the experiences and roles of women in the region’s history, the fate of minorities and multi-national states, European integration, and the future of the region.
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HIST 2530 - Introduction to Islamic Civilization (crosslisted)
(also MEDVL 2655 , NES 2655 , RELST 2655 ) (GHB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 3 credits.
D. Powers.
For description, see NES 2655 . (NE)
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HIST 2541 - Caribbean History (crosslisted)
(also ASRC 2308 , LATA 2308 ) (GB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
J. Byfield.
This course provides an historical overview of the Caribbean beginning with a brief examination of indigenous society and the impact of European colonization. Most of our attention will focus on the development of the plantation economy, slavery, post-emancipation and post-colonial society. Readings pay particular attention to the ways in which race, gender, and ethnicity shape the histories of the peoples of the region. The course uses a pan-Caribbean approach by focusing on three islands –Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica - that belonged to competing empires. Although their histories are shaped in distinct ways by their former metropoles, they share certain common features. Therefore, we examine the differences and similarities of their histories as they evolved from plantation based colonies to independent nations.
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HIST 2550 - [The Past and Present of Precolonial Africa] (crosslisted)
(also ASRC 2306 ) (GB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
S. Greene.
How has Africa’s pre-colonial past influenced current events in Africa and elsewhere? To answer this question, this course explore the pre-19th century histories of four different cultural areas in Africa (e.g. Ancient Egypt, the West African coast.) Using both ancient and more recent oral traditions, travelers’ accounts and visual images, we link these histories to current debates about the role of history in contemporary politics, the significance of race, class and gender in times past and present, and the role of Africa in world affairs.
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HIST 2560 - War and Peace in Greece and Rome (crosslisted)
(also CLASS 2680 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
B. Sullivan.
In ancient Greece and Rome, government did little besides wage war and raise taxes, culture focused on war, warriors gloried in battle, and civilians tried to get out of the way. This course surveys the impact of war and the rarity of peace in the ancient world. Topics include: “why war?”; the face of battle; leadership; strategy, operations, and tactics; women and war; intelligence and information-gathering; diplomacy and peacemaking; militarism; war and slavery; the archaeology of warfare. Readings in translation include selections from Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Caesar, Livy, Tacitus, Josephus, and Ammianus Marcellinus.
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HIST 2571 - China Encounters the World (crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 2257 , CAPS 2570 ) (GB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
J. Chen.
This is a lecture and discussion course focusing on how China has encountered the world since the 17th century, with an emphasis on the late 19th and 20th-centuries. In particular, it will analyze the age-old Chinese “Central Kingdom ” conception and how the conception was challenged during modern times as the result of Western and Japanese incursion and China’s inability to deal with the consequences of the incursion. It will further analyze the impact of the Chinese “victim mentality” in order to pursue a deeper understanding of why radical revolutions have dominated China’s modern history. While the emphasis of this course is China’s external relations, foreign policy issues will be examined in the context of China’s political, economic and social developments in broader terms. The course’s purpose is not just to impart information but also to cultivate a basic understanding of the significance of the Chinese experience in the age of worldwide modernization. Grade in this class will be calculated on the basis of class participation, quizzes, midterm and final exams, and one essay assignment.
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HIST 2580 - [Periclean Athens] (crosslisted)
(also CLASS 2676 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2014-2015.
Staff.
For description, see CLASS 2676 . (EA)
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HIST 2581 - Environmental History (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2581 , BSOC 2581 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
A. Sachs.
This lecture course serves as an introduction to the historical study of humanity’s interrelationship with the natural world. Environmental history is a quickly evolving field, taking on increasing importance as the environment itself becomes increasingly important in world affairs. During this semester, we’ll examine the sometimes unexpected ways in which “natural” forces have shaped human history (the role of germs, for instance, in the colonization of North America); the ways in which human beings have shaped the natural world (through agriculture, urbanization, and industrialization, as well as the formation of things like wildlife preserves); and the ways in which cultural, scientific, political, and philosophical attitudes toward the environment have changed over time. This is designed as an intensely interdisciplinary course: we’ll view history through the lenses of ecology, literature, art, film, law, anthropology, and geography. Our focus will be on the United States, but, just as environmental pollutants cross borders, so too will this class, especially toward the end, when we attempt to put U.S. environmental history into a geopolitical context. This course is meant to be open to all, including non-majors and first-year students. There are no prerequisites.
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HIST 2590 - The Crusades (crosslisted)
(also MEDVL 2590 ) (GHB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
P. Hyams, O. Falk.
This Lecture Course examines the Crusading Movement and the States it produced from the eleventh century to the fall of the mainland Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1292. Central themes include but are not limited to the following: the Medieval Conquest, Settlement & Loss by Europeans of “Latin” lands in the Mid-East, the associated history of the Church and its contextual intellectual history, political narrative and military history, social and economic analysis, together with an elementary understanding of Islam and the conflict of cultures and religions during a formative period in Western Civilization.
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HIST 2620 - [Medieval Sampler]
(HB) (CA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
P. Hyams.
This course targets the intelligent student seeking an accelerated entrance to the formative period of Western Civilization during the Middle Ages. It therefore aims to convey what was significant in that area of the “West” that became Europe, between the end of the Roman Empire in the West and the Renaissance, say 395-1450. Students may expect to gain a basic knowledge of the events and institutions of Medieval Christendom. The real and more ambitious goal is, however to introduce some of the choicer aspects of the medieval world, those judged most likely to intrigue, delight and satisfy. This Medieval Sampler is like a classic French Hors d’oeuvre, in that it presents for the discriminating palate some of the very best dishes known to the chef. Among these dishes figure Beliefs, Gender and Power Relations, Economics (Greed and Subsistence), Arts and Entertainments (Architecture, Literature, Music, Painting), even some Deviance and Protest. There are some interesting assignments too.”
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HIST 2640 - Introduction to Asian American History (crosslisted)
(also AAS 2130 , AMST 2640 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
D. Chang.
An introductory history of Chinese, Japanese, Asian Indians, Filipinos, and Koreans in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s. Major themes include racism and resistance, labor migration, community formation, imperialism, and struggles for equality.
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HIST 2650 - [Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander the Great] (crosslisted)
(also CLASS 2675 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
B. Strauss.
A survey of Greece from the earliest times to the end of the Classical period in the late fourth century B.C. The course focuses on the Greek genius: its causes, its greatness, its defects, and its legacy. The Heroic Age, the city-state, ancient democracy, and the intellectual ferment of the Greek Enlightenment are the main topics of study. Readings in translation from Homer, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and from the evidence of ancient inscriptions, coins, art, and architecture.
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HIST 2660 - Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong: Unlearning Native American History (crosslisted)
(also AIS 2660 , AMST 2660 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
J. Parmenter.
One thing many Americans think they know is their Indians: Pocahontas, the First Thanksgiving, fighting cowboys, reservation poverty, and casino riches. Under our very noses, however, Native American history has evolved into one of the most exciting, dynamic, and contentious fields of inquiry into America’s past. It is now safer to assume, as Comanche historian Paul Chaat Smith has pointed out, that everything you know about Indians is in fact wrong. Most people have much to “unlearn” about Native American history before true learning can take place. This course aims to achieve that end by (re)introducing students to key themes and trends in the history of North America’s indigenous nations. Employing an issues-oriented approach, the course stresses the ongoing complexity of Native American societies’ engagements with varieties of settler colonialism since 1492 and dedicates itself to a concerted program of myth-busting. As such, the course will provide numerous opportunities for students to develop their critical thinking and reading skills.
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HIST 2670 - History of Rome I (crosslisted)
(also CLASS 2681 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Open to first-year students.
E. Rebillard.
For description, see CLASS 2681 .
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HIST 2671 - History of Rome II (crosslisted)
(also CLASS 2682 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
HIST 2670 is not a prerequisite for HIST 2671. Open to first-year students.
E. Rebillard.
For description, see CLASS 2682 .
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HIST 2672 - History of Modern Egypt (crosslisted)
(also ASRC 2670 , NES 2670 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 3 credits.
Z. Fahmy.
For description, see NES 2670 .
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HIST 2674 - History of the Modern Middle East: Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries (crosslisted)
(also ASRC 2674 , GOVT 2747 , JWST 2674 , NES 2674 ) (GHB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 3 credits.
Z. Fahmy.
For description, see NES 2674 .
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HIST 2680 - The United States in the 1960s and 1970s
(HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
J. Kohler-Hausmann.
This lecture course explores the dramatic cultural, economic, and social upheavals in U.S. society during the 1960s and 1970s. It will primarily focus on the dynamic interactions between formal politics, the state, the economy, and the era’s mass movements on the right and the left. Among other things, we will explore the history and legacy of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, the Vietnam War, deindustrialization, “white flight,” the War on Poverty, the War on Crime, Watergate, the “rise of the right,” and women’s changing roles.
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HIST 2690 - [History of Terrorism]
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next Offered 2013-2014.
C. Verhoeven.
This lecture course examines approaches to the study of European terrorism. It will cover 1) the history of terrorism as it developed over the course of the modern era (in the process distinguishing terrorism from other forms of modern political violence, e.g. partisan warfare, state terror, etc.) and 2) the ways terrorism has been perceived, presented, and remembered by contemporaries and subsequent generations. Questions, therefore, will include the following: How has terrorism been approached by political theory, history, literature, etc.? How have these approaches constructed terrorism as an object of scientific investigation? How were terrorists perceived and represented by their contemporaries (in the press, literature, the arts)? How did terrorists represent themselves (in political pamphlets, autobiographies, fiction)? Readings will include archival materials, manifestos, memoirs, and novels, as well as classic pieces of political writing (e.g. Lenin, Schmitt, Arendt).
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HIST 2710 - Introduction to the History of Medicine (crosslisted)
(also BSOC 2071 , STS 2071 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
S. Seth.
For description, see STS 2071 .
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HIST 2711 - Politics of Violence in Twentieth Century Europe (crosslisted)
(also GOVT 2716 , JWST 2711 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
H. Case.
This course provides a survey of Europe’s 20th-century history with special emphasis on violence and its interpretation. Types of violence to be considered include warfare, terrorism, genocide, uprisings, and assassination, among others. Discussions of the First and Second World Wars and the political and ethnic clashes of the Cold War and decolonization will be supplemented by less familiar instances of violence in the European context. Lectures, readings and written assignments will focus on deciphering the various political motivations behind calls for and interpretations of violence.
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HIST 2720 - [The Atlantic World from Conquest to Revolution] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2720 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
M. B. Norton and R. Weil.
After Europeans first crossed the Atlantic in the late fifteenth century, the ocean became a vast highway linking Spain, France, Britain and the Netherlands to the Americas and Africa. In this course we will examine the lives of the men and women who inhabited this new world from the time of Columbus to the 18th century revolutions in Haiti and North America. Topics will include the destruction and reconfiguration of indigenous societies; slavery and other forms of servitude; the resistance, rebellion and accommodation of indigenous groups and slaves; religion; and the construction of gender, race and ethnicity. Emphasis will be on reading and analyzing primary sources.
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HIST 2730 - [Women in American Society, Past and Present] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2730 , FGSS 2730 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M. B. Norton.
A survey of women’s experiences in America from the seventeenth century to the present. Among the topics to be discussed are women’s familial roles, the changing nature of household work, the women’s rights movement, employment of women outside the home, racial and ethnic differences in women’s experiences, and contemporary feminism.
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HIST 2731 - The French Modern (crosslisted)
(also FREN 2731 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
C. Robcis.
This course will explore some of the major developments in French history, from 1789 to the present. We will focus in particular on the political, social, economic, and cultural constructions of a “French Republican model.” Among other themes, we will explore the revolutions of the nineteenth century; the consolidation of bourgeois power and socialist challenges; imperial expansion and decolonization; the impact of the two World Wars and the contested memory of Vichy; anti-Semitism, nationalism, and the rise of the new Right; immigration policies, May 68, and contemporary challenges to the Republican universalism.
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HIST 2742 - Cultures of the Middle Ages (crosslisted)
(also MEDVL 2130 ) (HB) (CA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
O. Falk.
Topic: Medieval Frontier Societies
It’s bad enough to run up against a border: at least you know where you stand. The frontier, however – that fuzzy, murky zone that envelops the border while making its precise contours invisible – is far more ambiguous, dangerous ground to tread. People, ideas, and other contraband criss-cross it; men (and sometimes women) make their own law; cultures clash and conspire together. At the margins of Europe – Ireland, Wales, Scandinavia, Poland, Germany, the Low Countries, Spain, Sicily, the Levant – medieval people discovered what every Trekkie knows: final frontiers, spaces of both oppression and opportunity. This course will explore some of the exchanges, friendly and otherwise, that took place at the edges of the medieval world, seeding many of the most radical developments which shaped the modern world.
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HIST 2749 - [Mughal India and the Early Modern World, c. 1500-1800] (crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 2274 ) (GHB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next Offered 2013-2014.
D. Ghosh.
Starting with the appearance of European trading companies and the establishment of the Mughal empire around 1500 and ending with the establishment of British dominance by 1800, the readings focus on recent debates over India’s place in a global economy in the early modern period. The three major themes emphasize 1) state-formation on the Indian subcontinent; 2) encounters with peoples from beyond the subcontinent through commercial, diplomatic, military and maritime activities; and 3) exchanges of consumer goods and aesthetic practices.
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HIST 2750 - [History of Modern India] (crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 2275 ) (GHB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
D. Ghosh.
This introductory course is a broad survey of the history of the Indian subcontinent from remnants of the Mughal empire through the end of the British empire into the postcolonial present. Prominent themes include the emergence of nonviolent protest, religious and regional identities, ethnic rivalries, social reform and the “woman question,” deindustrialization, nationalism and the place of democracy and militarism in a region that includes two nuclear powers, India and Pakistan.
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HIST 2760 - [The British Empire]
(HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next Offered 2013-2014.
T. R. Travers.
This course considers how a small northern European kingdom acquired and then governed a vast global empire. Beginning with the navigators, pirates and settlers of the Elizabethan era, and ending with the process of decolonization after World War Two, we will explore the diverse character and effects of British imperialism in the Americas, in Asia, in Africa, and the Pacific, and consider the legacies of the British empire in the contemporary world.
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HIST 2770 - [Getting Medieval I: The Early Middle Ages]
(HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Fulfills prerequisite for HIST 2771 . Next offered 2013–2014.
O. Falk.
Spanning the period ca. 300 to 1100 AD, this course surveys European history between the twilight of Classical antiquity and the dawn of the second millennium. Although we focus primarily on what would later become Western Europe, we also pay close attention to the neighbors of Latin Christendom, Byzantium and the Muslim world. Social, cultural, and institutional developments are emphasized, as is the variety of historical methodologies used to study the early Middle Ages. Were the “Dark Ages” a tailspin of hopeless decline? Or did medieval Europe embody new alternatives to a monolithic ancient world? Who or what drove the changes, and why?
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HIST 2771 - [Getting Medieval II: The Age of Cathedral, Cartel, and Crossbow]
(HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: HIST 2620 /HIST 2770 or permission of instructor. Next offered 2013–2014.
O. Falk.
This course surveys European history in the period ca. 1000 to 1500 AD. from inauspicious beginnings as Eastern Christendom and Islam’s ragged cousin, Western Europe was able to bootstrap itself into the position of a dominant world civilization. We will look at developments in government, economy, technology, religious institutions and faith, cultural media and social ideals. What enabled the “European miracle” of the later Middle Ages? How was it implemented and manifested? What were the costs of progress, and who bore them? Who reaped the benefits?
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HIST 2773 - Violence & Order in the North (crosslisted)
(also ENGL 2773 , MEDVL 2773 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
O. Falk, T. Hill.
Beginning about 1200 AD, Iceland – an impoverished island on the margin of European civilisation – became a hothouse for one of the most innovative prose genres of the Middle Ages. The Icelandic sagas recount in rich and subtle detail the histories of the authors’ predecessors, at a remove of two, three, or even more centuries. How might we read the Icelandic sagas (and related medieval texts)? Are they works of great literature or records of history? Can they serve both literary and historical purposes? Should we take different approaches to them, depending on our orientation? And did medieval Norsemen regard them as fact or fiction, or both? This course challenges students to pursue these questions, using readings from some of the classic sagas, as well as less well-known texts.
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HIST 2791 - International Humanitarianism
(GB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
J. Weiss.
This course studies international humanitarian and human rights activites from their origins to the present. The ideological and social roots of humanitarian thought and action receive attention, as does the often-overlapping, sometimes conflictual relationship between humanitarianism and human rights advocacy. Case studies will include the anti-slavery movement, the activities of faith-based groups, biographical studies of pioneering individuals, and the international response to various genocides.
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HIST 2820 - Science in Western Civilization: Newton to Darwin, Darwin to Einstein (crosslisted)
(also BSOC 2821 , STS 2821 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
S. Seth.
This course aims to make comprehensible both to science majors and to students of the humanities the historical structure and development of modern science and to show sciences as cultural phenomena. Changing perceptions of nature and human knowledge from Greek Antiquity to the twentieth century form the framework for current Western views of the world, while the roots of the present-day dominance of “science” as a symbol of progress and modernity lie in an alliance between knowledge of nature and power over nature that took shape in the nineteenth century after a long period of emergence. This course covers the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
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HIST 2830 - [English History from Anglo-Saxon Times to 1485]
(HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
P. Hyams.
A survey of the government, social organization, and cultural and religious experience of the English people. Particular stress is laid on land settlement, the unification of the realm, the emergence of state institutions such as Parliament, and changes in economic organization (manors, towns, and commerce). The approach will be comparative within a context of contemporary European developments. The course offeres students who wish to work on their writing skills an opportunity to do so, espeically in the second paper.
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HIST 2850 - [From Medievalism to Modernity] (crosslisted)
(also JWST 2850 , NES 2645 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
V. Caron.
This course examines the history of European Jewry during the centuries of transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era. We examine the extent to which traditional Jewish life began to break down during this period and thus paved the way for the emergence of modern Jewry. Topics include the Spanish Expulsion of 1492, religious, intellectual, and socioeconomic dimensions of the Marrano dispersion, including Lurianic Kabbalah and the messianic movement of Shabbetai Zevi; the establishment of Jewish communities in the West; the end of the “Golden Age” of Polish Jewry and the rise of Hasidism; the changing economic and political role of Jews in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and the impact of the Enlightenment.
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HIST 2861 - [History of Zionism and the Birth of Israel] (crosslisted)
(also JWST 2670 , NES 2690 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2014–2015.
V. Caron.
This course will examine the history of Zionism as an ideology and political movement from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present. Attention will be paid to situating Zionism within the context of modern Jewish, European, and Middle Eastern History. Topics will include: the ideological foundations of Zionism; the role of Theodor Herzl and the rise of political Zionism; the Balfour Declaration; the development of the Yishuv; Zionism as a cultural identity for Diaspora Jewry; the British mandate; the Arab-Zionist encounter; Zionist responses to the Holocaust; and Zionism and contemporary Israeli society.
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HIST 2890 - The U.S. - Vietnam War (crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 2298 ) (GB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
F. Logevall.
For description, see ASIAN 2298 .
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HIST 2891 - [Script and Culture in East Asia] (crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 2209 , ARTH 2801 ) (GHB) (LA-AS)
Fall. 3 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
B. Rusk.
For description, see ASIAN 2209 .
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HIST 2910 - Modern European Jewish History, 1789 - 1948 (crosslisted)
(also JWST 2920 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
V. Caron.
Jewish life in Europe experienced a profound transformation as a result of the process of Jewish emancipation which began at the end of the 18th century. While emancipation offered Jews unprecedented social, economic and political opportunities, it also posed serious challenges to traditional Jewish life and values by making available new avenues of integration. This course will examine the ways in which Jewish and non-Jewish society responded to these new developments from the 18th century Enlightenment to the post–World War II era. Topics will include Jewish responses to emancipation, including assimilation and new varieties of religious accommodation; the development of modern antisemitism; the rise of Zionism and the creation of the state of Israel; the modernization of Eastern European Jewry; the impact of mass immigration; and the Nazi era.
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HIST 2960 - East Asian Martial Arts (crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 2290 ) (GB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
TJ. Hinrichs.
East Asian martial arts are often portrayed as ancient, timeless, and even mystical, but they have a history. In this course we explore how military techniques intended for use in war, policing, and banditry came to be practiced as methods of moral, spiritual, and physical self-cultivation. We examine the historical dynamics that shape martial arts transformation, transmission, and spread. All students conduct at least one field trip to a local martial arts demonstration or school, and consider the question: “What is East Asian about East Asian martial arts in Ithaca?”
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HIST 2969 - [Soviet History]
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
C. Verhoeven.
This course surveys the history of the world’s first socialist society from its unlikely beginnings in 1917 to its unexpected demise in 1991. Traditional topics such as the origins of the revolutions of 1917, Stalin’s Terror, WW II, Khrushchev’s Thaw, etc., will be covered, but lectures will emphasize the interaction between the political, socio-economic, and especially the cultural spheres. A good deal of the materials we will study in this course will be drawn from the realm of literature, cinema, and art.
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HIST 2970 - [Imperial Russia: Peter the Great to the Revolution of 1917]
(HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next Offered 2014-2015.
C. Verhoeven.
This course surveys the history of Imperial Russia, with an emphasis on the empire’s recurrent experience of revolutionary change in the political, socio-economic, and cultural spheres. Topics include such remodeling projects as Peter the Great’s westernization and Alexander II’s “Great Reforms”; military upheavals like 1812, nineteenth century imperialist warfare, the Revolution of 1905, World War I, and the Revolution of 1917; late, and therefore very rapid industrialization and urbanization; and the attempts by successive generations of rebels and revolutionaries to put their political theory into practice. A good deal of class readings will be drawn from Russia’s rich literary heritage, especially its ‘golden age’ (e.g. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, etc.).
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HIST 2971 - [Crisis of Authority]
(HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
D. Corpis.
This course offers an overview of the “early modern” period of European history (c. 1500–1800) by charting the shifts and changes in religion, culture, politics, and economics during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Specific topics explored in weekly lectures will include the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, political centralization, intellectual fragmentation, the institutionalization of science, the Enlightenment, and political rebellion and revolution. In addition to focusing on some of the key developments in European history during this period, the design of the course recognizes the necessity of locating European history within a broader geographic world, so we will also explore the question of European contacts with other cultures, colonial expansion, and Atlantic slavery.
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HIST 2981 - [Power, Culture, and Heterogeneity in Premodern Japan, 1200 - 1800] (crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 2295 ) (GHB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
K. Hirano.
This course covers the history of the peoples living in the Japanese archipelago from 1200 to 1800. The history of pre-modern Japan is usually presented as a story of the origins and development of a homogeneous ethnic group called the Japanese. This kind of history always results in reinforcing the view that the Japanese were and will continue to be a unitary entity in that particular geographical place. Our emphasis, instead, will be on history as a process of struggle and creative activities of heterogeneous social groups or individuals. We will neither assume the unity of the “Japanese nation” nor the homogeneity of the “Japanese people.” Rather, we will look at the many different ways that people identified themselves in multiple spatial and temporal contexts, “Japanese” being only one of many possible categories of identification.
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HIST 3002 - Supervised Research - Undergraduate
Fall, spring. 3-4 credits, variable.
Permission of instructor required.
Staff.
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HIST 3030 - [African American Women in Slavery and Freedom] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 3030 , FGSS 3070 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
M. Washington.
Historical exploration of African-American women from a sociopolitical perspective. Topics include women in Africa, slavery and freedom, labor, the family, gender cross-racially that begins with the African background and ends at 1900.
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HIST 3031 - Race and Revolution in the Americas: 1776-1900 (crosslisted)
(also AMST 3032 , ASRC 3031 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
M. Washington.
This course will examine the “age of democratic revolutions” in the Americas from the perspective of the Black Atlantic. During this momentous era, when European monarchies were successfully challenged and constitutional governments created, Blacks fomented their own American revolutions both in the outside of evolving “New World democracies.” This course examines the black trajectory in British North America, Latin America, the French (especially Haiti,) the British and the Spanish Caribbean. The course begins with black participation in the U.S. independence War (1776-1781) and concludes with black (non-U.S.) participation in the independence wars against Spain. The course will also briefly address post-emancipation race relations in these American countries.
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HIST 3050 - [Eighteenth-Century Britain]
(HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next Offered 2013-2014.
R. Weil.
The British Isles from the Restoration of Charles II through the Napoleonic wars. We will consider the domestic effects of war and Empire; luxury, commerce and the public sphere; continuing conflicts over religious toleration, popular politics, and the relation of England to Ireland and Scotland. Readings include works by John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, and Jane Austen.
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HIST 3080 - [History of Post War Germany, from 1945 to the Present]
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next Offered 2013-2014.
I. Hull.
This course examines modern Germany in the aftermath of World War II. It compares the experiences of East and West Germany, their state forms and cultures. It explores the collapse of East Germany and the continuing effects of the hurried reunification. The course poses many questions, among them: How did the victorious allies try to administer the defeated land? How did Germans, East and West, try to come to grips with the Nazi past and its crimes? How does one reconstitute civil society after dictatorship and war? How did the communist regime function? Why did it fall? What are the main challenges Germany now faces in building a unified society and in regaining its place as a power in Europe?
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HIST 3101 - [British History, from 1870 to the Present]
(HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next Offered 2013-2014.
T. R. Travers.
An introduction to British history in the twentieth century with a focus on political change. Topics will include: the growth of mass politics, democracy and the welfare state; the impact of world wars, imperialism and decolonization on domestic politics; and Britain’s changing relations with the US and Europe.
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HIST 3130 - U.S. Foreign Relations, 1750-1912 (crosslisted)
(also AMST 3130 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
A. S. Miller.
Examines the development of the US continental and global empires by analyzing policy and policy makers from Benjamin Franklin to Williard Straight. Emphasis is placed on domestic events that shaped foreign policy.
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HIST 3140 - U.S. in the World (crosslisted)
(also AMST 3140 , CAPS 3140 ) (HA-AS)
Spring, summer. 4 credits.
When offered in Summer Session, course is a Summer-in-Washington course.
Staff.
Students examine the emergence of the United States as a world power in the twentieth century. The course focuses on the domestic sources of foreign policy and the assumptions of the major policy makers (Wilson through Clinton). Important themes include the American response to a revolutionary world since 1912, the role of American racial views in the making of foreign policy, and the increasingly dominant role of the president in the making of U.S. foreign policy.
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HIST 3150 - [Environmental History: The United States and Beyond] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 3150 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
A. Sachs.
This lecture course serves as an introduction to the historical study of humanity’s interrelationship with the natural world. Environmental history is a relatively new and quickly evolving field, taking on increasing importance as the environment itself becomes increasingly important in world affairs. During this semester, we’ll examine the sometimes unexpected ways in which “natural” forces have shaped human history (the role of germs, for instance, in the colonization of North America); the ways in which human beings have shaped the natural world (through agriculture, urbanization, and industrialization, as well as the formation of things like wildlife preserves); and the ways in which cultural, scientific, political, and philosophical attitudes toward the environment have changed over time. This is designed as an intensely interdisciplinary course: we’ll view history through the lenses of ecology, literature, art, film, law, anthropology, and geography. Our focus will be on the United States, but, just as environmental pollutants cross borders, so too will this class, especially toward the end, when we attempt to put U.S. environmental history into a geopolitical context.
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HIST 3160 - American Political Thought from Madison to Malcolm X (crosslisted)
(also AMST 3665 , GOVT 3665 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
I. Kramnick.
For description, see GOVT 3665
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HIST 3170 - [British French North America] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 3170 ) (HB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014.
J. Parmenter.
Following exploratory voyages during the sixteenth century, both England and France established permanent colonies in North America during the first decade of the seventeenth century. For the next two hundred and forty years, these two European powers each strove to displace the other as master of northeastern North America. This course compares the political, economic, and social patterns in the development of British and French colonial America in order to better understand the divergent traditions, approaches, and experiences that have resulted in multiple nations inhabiting the North American continent. Emphasis will be placed on critical comparative analysis of documentary sources.
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HIST 3181 - Living in an Uncertain World: Science, Technology, and Risk (crosslisted)
(also BSOC 3181 , STS 3181 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
S. Pritchard.
For description, see STS 3181 .
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