HISTORY

CRN	90217	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 104
Title	American Bedrock
Professor	Myra Armstead
Schedule	Tu Th 8:30 am - 9:50 am OLIN 203

Cross-listed: American Studies

Related Interest: MES

This is a foundational course in the history of the United States from the start of the colonial period, 1607, through the Gilded Age, roughly 1890. We will focus on the following themes: the emergence of a national idea and tensions within it, industrialization and the emergence of the middle class, the reform/perfectionist impulse in American life, the evolution of ethnicity and race as socio-economic categories, and developing American imperatives in foreign relations.

CRN	90263	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 106
Title	From Empire to Superpower
Professor	Mark Lytle
Schedule	Wed Fr 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 202

Cross-listed: American Studies

This course examines the international role of the United States in the twentieth century. Special attention is given to the roles of corporations, the military, the intelligence community, and other special interest groups. The course covers Versailles, the rise of fascism, Pearl Harbor, the decision to drop the atom bomb, the Cold War, and Vietnam. Students will be asked to weigh the role of economic, strategic, and moral concepts in the formulation of American policy.

CRN	90229	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 111
Title	The High Middle Ages
Professor	Alice Stroup
Schedule	Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 107

Cross-listed: Medieval Studies

Related interest: French Studies

The rise of towns is one of many changes that transformed Europe after 1000. The High Middle Ages is an era of cultural flowering, population growth, and political consolidation, occurring between the two cataclysms of Viking invasions and bubonic plague. Primary sources and monographs help us understand this intriguing and foreign world. We will read modern analyses of medieval inventions, heretics in Southern France, the plague, and women's work. We will also examine medieval texts--including anticlerical stories, epic poetry, and political diatribes--to get a contemporary perspective on values and issues.

CRN	90125	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 127
Title	Crisis and Conflict: Introduction to Modern Japanese History
Professor	Robert Culp
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 203

Cross-listed: Asian Studies

Japan in the mid-19^th century was beleaguered by British and American imperialism and rocked by domestic turmoil. How, then, did it emerge to become one of the world's leading imperialist powers by the start of the 20^th century? And why did the horrible destruction and demoralization Japan experienced after World War II ultimately result in rapid economic growth and renewed superpower status for Japan after the 1950s? These questions provide the framework for our study of modern Japanese history. Throughout the course, we will focus special attention on Japan's distinctive urban culture, the changing role of women in Japanese society, the re-invention of Japan's imperial institution, the domestic and international effects of Japanese imperialism, and the question of America's role in Japan's post-war reconstruction. Readings of drama, fiction, satire, and memoir will contribute to our exploration of these and other topics. No prior study of Japan is necessary; first-year students are welcome.

CRN	90053	Distribution	C/D
Course No.	HIST 140
Title	Land of the Golden Cockerel: Introduction to Russian Civilization
Professor	Gennady Shkliarevsky
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 307

Cross-listed: Medieval Studies, Russian and Eurasian Studies

This course examines the origins and evolution of Russian civilization from the founding of the first Eastern Slavic state through the eighteenth century, when Russia began to modernize by borrowing from Western culture. Among the topics to be considered are the ethnogeny of early Russians, the development of state and legal institutions, the relationship between kinship and politics, the role of religion in public and private spheres, economic organization, social institutions, family, gender relations, sexuality, popular culture, and the impact of the outside world (both Orient and Occident) upon Russian society. The sources include a variety of Russian cultural expressions (folk tales, literature, art, film, music), original documents, and scholarly texts.

CRN	90226	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 146
Title	Bread & Wine: A Cultural History of France from the Middle Ages to the 18th Century
Professor	Tabetha Ewing
Schedule	Tu Th 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm OLIN 201

Cross-listed: French Studies

Related interest: Religious Studies

Today the artisanal baguette represents the un-exportable French past; the rich, bottled bordeaux the easy export of the French territorial patrimony. This course is an exploration of early practices of making bread, breaking bread, and bread-winning, drinking wine, quaffing ale, sipping coffee, tea, and chocolate. Alimentation, in general, and bread and wine, in particular, is the central metaphor for consuming or understanding humanistic, religious, and political culture. We will read of medieval and early modern land cultivation (grape and grain); of eating and not eating in medieval women's religious culture; of new seasonings brought to French culture by returning merchants and explorers; from Rabelais on the gargantuan devouring of liberal education; of massacre and spiritual renewal in the Protestant and Catholic reformations with Montaigne's retort in his essay "On Cannibals"; of a transfigurative, divine-right kingship under Louis XIV that made into gods men of royal lineage. We will conclude in the 18th century, with the rise of the café as a space in which elites met and critiqued politics and culture, with taverns and bread riots as sites in which the poor met and critiqued elites. Tastings. No prior course in French Studies required.

CRN	90235	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST / AADS 148
Title	Creating Modern Africa: Migrations, Empires, and Exchange
Professor	Wilmetta Toliver
Schedule	Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 204

Cross-listed: AADS

This course offers a historical survey of sub-Saharan Africa from 1800 to the present. Because the scope of the course is so broad and because African history is such a vast and complex subject, we will inevitably leave a great deal unexplored. However, a primary aim of the course is to provide you with a foundation of knowledge upon which you can continue to build long after the semester has ended. To this end, the course has been designed to introduce you to the outlines of African history and to help you cultivate an appreciation of Africa, its peoples, cultures, expressions, and experiences. Major themes include slavery in Africa; the decline of the trans-Atlantic slave trade; trade; African state formation; the Islamic revolutions of the 19th century; Mfecane: colonial rule; nationalism; and contemporary issues in Africa. Within the context of each of these themes, we will consider the importance of factoring gender into historical analysis.

CRN	90171	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 160
Title	Education and the Construction of American National Identity
Professor	Rona Sheramy
Schedule	Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 202

Cross-listed: American Studies

Related interest: MES

For more than two centuries, Americans have looked to schools as a means of inculcating its youth with civic and

national values, ideals, and interests. But these values, ideals, and interests have never been uniform nor uncontested; as a result, the history of education in the United States bears the imprint of shifting and competing notions of what it means to be an American. This course will offer a historical inquiry into the relationship between the American primary and secondary school system and the construction of national culture and identity. After an overview of the educational system in colonial America and the early years of the republic, we will turn our attention to the common school and public school movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and their attempt to create a unified national culture out of a diverse native and immigrant population. We will also explore the emergence of segregated and private school systems in this period in the context of debates over who should be incorporated into the national community, and by what means. Finally, we will consider the impact of the civil rights movement, multiculturalism, and the culture wars on American education in the latter part of the twentieth century. Course material will include extensive use of primary source material, such as school readers, textbooks, and children's literature.

CRN	90453	Distribution	C
Course No.	LAIS / HIST 202
Title	Colonial Latin America
Professor	David Tavarez
Schedule	Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 306

See LAIS section for description.

CRN	90172	Distribution	C
Course No.	JS / HIST 205
Title	The Holocaust and the Problem of Representation
Professor	Rona Sheramy
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 202

Related interest: Religion

See Jewish Studies section for description.

CRN	90447	Distribution	C/D
Course No.	LAIS / HIST 206
Title	Latin American Revolutions
Professor	David Tavarez
Schedule	Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 201

See LAIS section for description.

CRN	90227	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 2114
Title	Women, Identity & the Erotic: Female Authorship up to the Women's Movement
Professor	Tabetha Ewing
Schedule	Wed Fr 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 305

Cross-list: Gender Studies

Women, Identity, and the Female novelists, diarists, poets, and mystics narrate gendered personae, articulate sexualized selves and autonomy-through-desire; they negotiate through religious ecstasy the divide between the spiritual and the corporal. And through their expression, they denounce by word and deed the cultural, sometimes legal, limitations on women's self-expression. They call into question roles prescribed for them as "natural," determined by divine authority or by political/social institutions. Their writings should inform us, in turn, of the ideologically-determined and historically-specific institutions of marriage, inheritance, and land distribution as well as the repartition of political power. Working primarily with European texts (and images), this course is nevertheless designed as cross-cultural. From the Venetian courtesan Veronica Franco to England's Aphra Behn to the great Vietnamese poet Ho Xuan Huong to Chinese poet and painter Luo Qilan to the eroticized feminist politics of Marguerite Durand in late 19^th-century Paris. This course serves as an introduction to Gender Studies.

CRN	90411	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST / SOC 213
Title	Immigration and Contemporary American Society
Professor	Joel Perlmann
Schedule	Tu Wed 5:00 pm - 6:10 pm OLIN 204

Cross-listed: American Studies, MES, Sociology

Related Interest: AADS

The recent immigration to the United States is as large a movement of peoples as any in American history. This course examines the contemporary immigration, in terms of the dynamics of contact between the immigrants themselves and the society they have entered. We will explore where the immigrants come from, how and why they come; the radically different ways they enter the American economy (many, as in the past, entering at the bottom but many others entering into solidly middle-class positions); how they seek to preserve, or in some cases shed, cultural distinctiveness and ethnic unity; and how the children of the immigrants are faring. We will also examine the changes in American politics and law that made the immigration possible; the political movements that have opposed the immigration; the social and public policy issues involved in how immigrants actually influence the larger American society -- in both economic terms (drain or boon?) and in cultural terms (the evolution of multicultural and assimilatory tendencies). Finally, we will examine the experience of the largely-non-white immigrant population with American racial divisions, as well as competition and alliances between immigrants and native-born blacks. Readings will be from social science, memoirs, fiction, policy debates, etc.

CRN	90232	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 2136
Title	Reason & Revolution: Modern European Cultural & Intellectual History to 1870
Professor	Gregory Moynahan
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 101

Cross-listed: History and Philosophy of Science

The course will outline some of the principle transformations in the modern understanding of society and nature within a political, cultural, and institutional framework. An initial reading of Descartes, Leibniz, and Vico will allow us to sketch the framework out of which the Enlightenment arose, while also suggesting some of the period's fundamental tensions and contradictions. The course will then follow the development of these tensions through the nineteenth century, using as our guide a close reading of texts from writers such as Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Burke, Kant, Mill, Marx, and Schopenhauer. Throughout the course, the key texts will be read in conjunction with a selected study of contemporary political forces, institutional settings, and artistic, social, or scientific practices.

CRN	90224	Distribution	B/C
Course No.	HIST 2191
Title	Women in Antiquity
Professor	Barbara Olsen
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 204

Cross listed: Classical Studies, Gender Studies

This course will investigate images and realities of women from archaic Greece (c. 800 BCE) to the Roman Empire in the third century CE using literary, historical, legal, and archaeological sources. In the process it will also provide an introduction to the methods and goals of social history: research into the institutional and ideological structures by which people live and interact. Topics will include: early Greek sources; women's lives in classical Athens; women in Greek drama, religion and mythology; women within the state and women as outsiders; imagined women; women in Roman myth, literature, and history; and women in their own voices. All texts will be read in English. Open to first year students.

CRN	90126	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 2304
Title	Making Modern China
Professor	Robert Culp
Schedule	Mon Wed 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 309

Cross-listed: Asian Studies

This course concentrates on perhaps the most dramatic and traumatic period of Chinese history, spanning the meteoric rise and rapid disintegration of China's last empire-the Manchu Qing (1644-1911)-and the national and communist revolutions of the early twentieth century. Our main concern will be to understand how patterns of social, political, and economic transformation begun during the Qing interacted with outside forces of change that were introduced to China through European and American imperialism. Drawing on literature, memoirs, various forms of visual culture, and a range of other primary sources, we will explore how elite reformers, radical revolutionaries, and a range of traditionally disenfranchised groups, including women, peasants, and workers, constructed competing visions of a modern China. Collectively, we will try to answer the question of why the revolutionary project of the Chinese Communist Party was so successful, culminating in the formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

CRN	90225	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 2361
Title	Magic, Mysteries and Cult: The Practice of Greek and Roman Paganism
Professor	Barbara Olsen
Schedule	Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 205

Cross listed: Classical Studies, Gender Studies, Religion

This course examines the ways in which polytheism was practiced by the ancient Greeks and Romans from the Mycenaean period until the 2nd century C.E. and acts as a complement which may be taken before or after Classics 242 Greek Mythology. It will combine material deriving from art and archaeology with the reading of original texts as sources and will emphasize the ritual aspects of Greco-Roman polytheism through the analysis of religious symbols, institutions, beliefs, and rites in their wider socio-cultural contexts. After surveying the earliest evidence for Greek religion, we will turn from the role that cult played in creating a national consciousness in Classical Athens, to the export of Greek religion following the conquests of Alexander the Great, and to the relationship between religion and Empire in Rome. We will conclude with an examination of the various Mystery cults in practice at the end of the 2nd century CE. Throughout the course, we will address problems such as the tensions between the community-oriented state cults and the individual-based Mystery cults, issues of syncretism and resistance in the introduction of foreign religious practices, the intersection of religion and politics in the Imperial cult, the practice of magic from healing rituals to curse tablets, and the role played by gender in structuring religious observance. All texts read in English. Open to 1st year students.

CRN	90052	Distribution	C/D
Course No.	HIST 279
Title	East Central Europe since 1945
Professor	Gennady Shkliarevsky
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 309

Cross Listed: Russian and Eurasian Studies

The course will cover the history of East Central Europe from 1945 to the present. After a brief summary of the history of the region before and during World War II, the course will concentrate on the region's evolution since the war. In addition to surveying the period and examining the turning points in its evolution (for example, the Berlin uprising of 1953, the Hungarian revolution and reforms in Poland in 1956, the "Prague spring" of 1968, the Solidarity movement in Poland, and

the revolutions at the end of the 1980s), we will explore a variety of specific topics, including political systems, economic organization, ethnic conflicts, and gender relations. Readings will include a textbook, specialized studies, original sources, and works of fiction.

CRN	90262	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 280A
Title	American Environmental History I: The Wilderness Era
Professor	Mark Lytle
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 202

Cross listed: American Studies, CRES

Since the Old World first encountered the New, a struggle has taken place over what this new world might become. For some, it meant moral and spiritual rejuvenation. For most, it meant an opportunity to tap a natural warehouse of resources that could be turned into wealth. At no time have those two visions been compatible, despite the efforts of politicians, artists, and scientists to reconcile them. This course is about that struggle. It looks specifically at the United States from the colonial era until the early Twentieth Century-a period in which one of the world's most abundant wildernesses was largely transformed into an urbanized, industrial landscape. We will study the costs and consequences of that transformation while listening to the voices of those who proposed alternative visions.

CRN	90430	Distribution	C/D
Course No.	HIST 2811
Title	Senegal: Language, History and Culture
Professor	Wilmetta Toliver
Schedule	Wed 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm OLIN 201

Cross-listed: AADS, French Studies, MES

2 credits, The class prepares the group of students who will study in Dakar during the January intersession. It is an introduction to Senegalese life and society and chronicles societies, which span from the Medieval Empires through the formation by French traders of the Four Communes. The class, then, moves to explore the Senegal's unique position as the founding place of two major Islamic brotherhoods and the legacy of France's assimilation policy (Dakar and Saint Louis were important capitals of French West Africa). Students will also learn about the Senegalese Diaspora in France, Italy, and especially the large community in New York City. Important themes will be formation of empires, Islamic revolution, societal castes, signares, French colonialism, assimilation, negritude, and Dakar: the summit of Franco-African culture. Readings will include works by Leopold Senghor, Sembene Ousmane, Joe Lunn, A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War,

D.T. Niane's Sundiata, Mariama Ba's Scarlet Song, and films by Sembene Ousmane, Djibril Diop Mambety, and Safi Faye.

This class is limited to those students who will take the trip in January. Details to follow.

CRN	90264	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 301
Title	The Big One: World War II
Professor	Mark Lytle
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm OLIN 107

Cross-listed: American Studies

The course will examine all aspects of American involvement in the Second World War - the origins of the war, wartime diplomacy, the home front, race relations, scientific and technological innovations, military strategy, and the consequences of the peace. Readings will include novels, biographies, and social histories as well as more standard treatments. We will pay special attention to the experience of minorities, women, and the cultural and institutional impact of the war on American society.

CRN	90236	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 3110 / AADS
Title	"Our Ancestors, the Gauls": France's West African Empire
Professor	Wilmetta Toliver
Schedule	Wed 10:30 am - 12:50 pm LC 208

Cross-listed: AADS, French Studies

The class chronicles the history of l'Afrique Occidentale Francaise (AOF), or French West Africa from 1895-1960. We begin by examining the French imperial mission civilisatrice or "civilizing mission" in theory. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship between France and Africa, particularly the French colonial objective of "civilization" and assimilation and association policies, which distinguished colonial rule in French African territories. African societies in these territories established a unique society due to the role of the signares in the creation of the Four Communes, specific forms of resistance, the "Africanization" of certain institutions, and the merging of two cultural ideas. Equally, the course will investigate African interpretations of this relationship through themes of resistance, literary expression, religion, and the ambiguities of education. Readings include colonial reports and correspondences as well as historical monographs (including Alice Conklin, A Mission to Civilize, Myron Echenberg, Colonial Conscripts, and Cheikh Amadou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure).

CRN	90228	Distribution	B/C
Course No.	HIST 358 / LIT
Title	Paris & the Lost Generation, 1925-1935
Professor	Donna Grover / Tabetha Ewing
Schedule	Tu 10:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 305

Cross-list: AADS, American Studies, French Studies, Literature

Related interest: MES

Paris was a curious space of freedom for ex-patriot American writers to "come of age" and to come to know their American-ness. We will read writers of the so-called "Lost Generation" including Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But in our reexamination of "The Lost Generation" we will also include expatriate writers best known for their participation in the Harlem Renaissance, such as Jean Toomer and Claude McKay. The African-American presence in Paris, which included the iconic figure Josephine Baker as well as jazz great Louis Armstrong altered this picture in ways that we are only beginning to appreciate. This course looks at a period in which American culture found roots abroad in the strange cauldron of Paris. Important to our work is how this American invasion impacted the French intellectual scene as well as French culture in general.

CRN	90218	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 369
Title	A Maniac's Scrapbook: Reading the Postmodern Urban Landscape
Professor	Myra Armstead
Schedule	Wed 8:30 am - 10:50 am OLIN 107

Cross-list with: American Studies

This is an advanced reading course in American urban history. Its point of departure, however, are the works of a variety of contemporary social theorists who target mainly Los Angeles and southern California as case studies of the contemporary "postmetropolis." These works will be explored, not only for the perspectives they offer on U.S. cities since 1970, but for the interpretive lens they offer for viewing this country's longer urban past. Among the authors we will read are Mike Davis, Michael Dear, Steven Flusty, Charles Jencks, Edward Soja, and Michael Sorkin. The prerequisite for this course in History 232 ("American Urban History") or the consent of the instructor. May be used as a major conference.

CRN	90127	Distribution	C
Course No.	HIST 374
Title	Ethnography of China
Professor	Robert Culp
Schedule	Tu 4:00 pm - 6:20 pm OLIN 304

Cross-listed: Anthropology, Asian Studies

This course provides a basic introduction to the changing patterns of Chinese culture and society during the twentieth century. Using ethnographic readings from throughout the century, we will explore a range of anthropological issues, including family and lineage organization, gender relations, changes in village society before and during communism, popular religious practice, relational and market networks, internal migration, urban society in post-Mao China, and studies of so-called "minority" cultures. A primary concern will be to analyze the approaches taken by anthropologists of China in relation both to China's fluid political circumstances during the twentieth century and changes in the conceptual paradigms of anthropology, social theory, and cultural studies. Prior course work in anthropology, sociology, and/or Chinese history will be helpful preparation for this course.