Course	HIST 101 The Making of Europe to 1815
Professor	Alice Stroup
CRN	90027
Schedule	Tu Th 9:00 - 10:20 am OLIN 308
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

The millennium opened a new era of European ascendancy. For three hundred years, Europe basked in warmer weather. Northern Europeans improved agriculture and lived longer, and a new middle class revived cities as centers of commerce and culture, on both sides of the Alps. Inventions like mechanical clocks, cannons, and mills inaugurated a first industrial revolution (complete with water- and air-pollution). Then came the apocalypse: a little ice age and the Black Death shaped the material conditions of life for the next five centuries. After fifty percent of Europeans died (1340-1350), famine and epidemic kept the population in check until the 1700s. Yet we associate these five hundred years with the invention of the printing press and the rise of literacy; with socio-intellectual ferments associated with Renaissance, Reformations and Counter-Reformations, Enlightenment, and Scientific Revolution; with socio-political revolutions that modernized the Netherlands, England, and France; and with the creation of a global empire. How can we explain the continued ascendancy of Europe in such hard times? To understand the paradoxical making of Europe, we will read primary sources and modern historical analyses.

Course	HIST 106 From Empire to Superpower
Professor	Mark Lytle
CRN	90021
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: American Studies, GISP

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.

Course	JS / HIST 115 The Golden Tradition: Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture
Professor	Cecile Kuznitz
CRN	90457
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 – 4:20 pm OLINLC 210
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Yiddish was primary language of European Jewry and its emigrant communities for nearly one thousand years. This class will explore the role of Yiddish in Jewish life and the rich culture produced in the language. Topics will include the sociolinguistic basis of Jewish languages; medieval popular literature for a primarily female audience; the role of Yiddish in the spread of haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment); attempts to formulate a secular Jewish identity around the Yiddish language; the flourishing of modern Yiddish press, literature, and theater and their intersection with European modernism; contemporary Hasidic (ultra-Orthodox) culture; and the ongoing debate over the alleged death of Yiddish. All readings will be in English translation. Our class will work collaboratively with students in “THTR 310 H  Survey: Yiddish Theater”. Students may enroll in both classes for additional credits with consent of the instructors.

Course	HIST 119 U. S. History to 1865
Professor	Christian Ayne Crouch
CRN	90084
Schedule	Tu Th 9:00 - 10:20 am OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: American Studies

This course is designed to introduce students to the major themes and events in American history from the colonial era up until the end of the Civil War and beginning of Reconstruction.  The history of colonial America and, later, the United States up through the Civil War is one of immigration, movement, and economic transformation -  a history that is similar to what we are more familiar with after 1865.  This course will focus on particular themes such as the definition of those "outside" of European empires, the contest over American continental "imperialism" between European and Indians, the definition and production of an "American (US)" identity, and the economic and political ramifications resulting from the transition of a household mode of production to a factory mode of production.  Students will learn about both the development of American regionalism and the United States as a nation as well as the major events in American history, such as the American Revolution  and the Civil War.   The combination of these events will be understood in the context of changes that were shaped by the lives of everyday people and this will show the multi-textured roots of American history and of America today.

Course	HIST 146 Bread & Wine
Professor	Tabetha Ewing
CRN	90042
Schedule	Tu Th 4:00 -5:20 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: French Studies, Theology

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.

Course	HIST / CLAS 157 The Athenian Century
Professor	James Romm
CRN	90058
Schedule	Mon Wed 12:00 -1:20 pm OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: Classical Studies

In the fifth century BCE, Athens dramatically developed from a small, relatively unimportant city-state into a dominant power in the Aegean basin. Athenian political, artistic, literary, and intellectual traditions continue to reverberate through the world today: democracy, tragedy and comedy, rhetoric, philosophy, and history itself, as well as the classical style of sculpture and architecture stem from this remarkable culture. The course will confront some of the ambiguities and tensions (slavery, exclusion of women and non-citizens from political power), as well as the glories, of Athenian art, literature, and history during this period. We will read selections from the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, many of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the comedies of Aristophanes, and one or two dialogues of Plato.

Course	HIST 176 Modern British History: 1789 to 2003
Professor	Lia Paradis
CRN	90460
Schedule	Mon Wed 9:00 – 10:20 am OLIN 307
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Building on an understanding of the nation-state as largely a nineteenth-century invention, this course will first explore the efforts of Britons to create a stable definition of their nation and of themselves in response to such well documented, rapid and fundamental changes in their society as industrialization, an expanded middle class, constitutional monarchy, and the establishment of the largest empire that the world has ever known. The course will also chart developments in the post WWII era when Britain slowly lost its position as the industrial, cultural, and colonial power of the world to examine Britons’ efforts to find a new identity for themselves and their nation in the face of this change in global status. While British colonialism and its post-colonial era are important concerns with this survey, the course should be understood as a prequel to my course next semester, which will focus entirely on British imperialism.

Course	HIST 2112 The Invention of Politics
Professor	Tabetha Ewing
CRN	90436
Schedule	Tu Th 6:00 -7:20 pm OLIN 201
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: Human Rights

Individuals and groups spoke, wrote, and fought to make their claims to public power in the period between 1500 and 1800 in ways that forced a reimagining of political relationships. The greatest institutions in place, particularly monarchies and the papacy, used their arsenals of words, documents, symbols, and ritual to maintain their legitimacy in the face of subtle or uproarious resistance. The tension between or, more accurately, among groups created new political vocabularies to which we, in our present, have claimed historical ownership or explicitly rejected.

Course	HIST 2122 The Arab-Israel Conflict
Professor	Joel Perlmann
CRN	90023
Schedule	Tu Th 4:30 -5:50 pm OLIN 205
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: GISP, Human Rights, Jewish Studies, Middle East Studies

This course is meant to provide students with an understanding of this conflict from its inception to the present. Considerable attention will be given to the present; nevertheless, the conflict is simply incomprehensible without a solid understanding of its evolution ‘ incomprehensible not merely in terms of details, but in terms of broader themes and aroused passions. Among the themes to be discussed are the following. A Jewish national movement arose in the late nineteenth century to oppose the conditions of Jewish life in Europe, and an Arab national movement (as well as a specifically Palestinian movement) arose to oppose Ottoman and European rule of Arab peoples. Out of the clash of these movements emerged the State of Israel and the Palestinian refugees in 1948. The political character of the conflict has changed over the decades: first it involved competing movements (before 1948), then chiefly a conflict of national states (Israel vs. Egypt, Syria, Jordan, etc), and now it is conceived as chiefly a conflict between Israeli military rule of territories (occupied since the 1967 war) and an insurgent Palestinian independence movement. Military realities also changed greatly, as did the accusations about the role of ‘terror’ as a tactic (from the Jewish Irgun to Hamas). And not least, the conflict has been shaped by strategic and economic considerations of the great powers (Ottoman, British, American/Soviet, hegemonic American) as well as by considerations of domestic political culture in Israel and in the Arab world.

Course	HIST 229 Confucianism: Humanity, Rites, and Rights
Professor	Robert Culp
CRN	90421
Schedule	Mon Wed 12:00 -1:20 pm OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History / Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Asian Studies, Religion, Human Rights, Philosophy

Confucianism is one of the most venerable, diverse, and dynamic intellectual and cultural traditions in human history. This course explores the transformations of Confucian philosophy, social ethics, and political thought, from its ancient origins through the present, focusing on five key moments of change. Close readings in seminal Confucian texts provide a foundation in the earliest Confucian ideas of benevolence, rites, and righteousness. We then delve into the ideas of China’s middle-period Neo-Confucian thinkers Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming, who pondered universal principle, the Great Ultimate, and innate human goodness. The third segment of the course analyzes the globalization of Confucian thought during the 16^th through the 19^th centuries, as Jesuit missionary translations of Confucian texts inspired the European Enlightenment and European imperialism sparked Chinese thinkers’ reformulation of “Confucianism” as a bounded, continuous tradition. The fourth segment of the course reconstructs how Confucian thought shaped Western ideas of rights as they entered East Asian politics and explores how Confucian concepts of humanity, relational ethics, and social responsibility may offer alternatives to Euro-American rights discourse. Finally, the course considers the contemporary Confucian revival as manifested in popular culture, tourism, neo-liberal economic discourse, and East Asian state authoritarianism. No prior study of Chinese language or history is required; first-year students are welcome.

Course	HIST 230 The Fabulous Fifties
Professor	Mark Lytle
CRN	90022
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: American Studies

The course measures the impact of the Depression and New Deal legacies and the Cold War consensus on the United States after World War II. It examines areas of popular culture (rock and roll), intellectual trends, social trends (conformity), and politics (the Fair Deal and McCarthyism) as they were affected by American efforts to find security in the face of rising prosperity and the communist menace.

Course	HIST 2302 Shanghai and Hong Kong: China’s Global Cities
Professor	Robert Culp / May-bo Ching
CRN	90044
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 101
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: Asian Studies, GISP

The towering glass high-rise office buildings of Hong Kong island face the stately, colonial-era Peninsula Hotel across Victoria Harbor, and Shanghai’s new wealthy middle-class elite choose between coffee at Starbucks or cocktails on the verandas of Jazz-era villas. Shanghai and Hong Kong, as international industrial and business centers, and the main conduits for overseas direct investment, are China’s global cities, but they are cities with long, cosmopolitan pasts. This course explores the history of Hong Kong’s and Shanghai’s current economic, social, and cultural dynamism, and in doing so probes the historical roots of globalization. It analyzes how nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonialism and semi-colonialism both drove and conditioned, in somewhat different ways, the development of these two cities. It also asks how this earlier phase of integration into global networks of commerce and culture relate to the patterns of the present. Through diverse sources such as fiction, film, drama, advertisements, photography, memoirs, and comics, we will delve into how economic and cultural flows have affected politics, economics, and the culture of everyday life over the past century and a half. Central points of focus will include these cities’ spatial organization, infrastructure, and architecture, social organization and class relations, changing economic foundations, and patterns of consumer culture. No prior study of urban history or Chinese studies is required; first-year students are welcome.

Course	HIST 242 20th Century Russia: From Communism to Nationalism
Professor	Gennady Shkliarevsky
CRN	90026
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: C/D	NEW: History

Cross-listed: GISP, Human Rights, Russian and Eurasian Studies, SRE

There has hardly been a period in Russian history which would be more abundant in upheavals and paradoxes than the country's evolution in the 20th century. In its search for an elusive balance between modernity and tradition, Russian society has experienced many radical transformations that will be the subject of this introductory survey. In addition to the discussion and analysis of the main internal and external political developments in the region, the course will also include extensive examination of different aspects of the rapidly modernizing society, such as the Soviet command economy; the construction of national identity, ethnic relations and nationalism; family, gender relations, and sexuality; the arts, etc. Course materials will include scholarly texts, original documents, works of fiction and films.

Course	HIST 263 Slavery
Professor	Myra Armstead / Carolyn Dewald
CRN	90016
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 201
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: Classical Studies, Africana Studies, Human Rights, SRE

Slavery can be defined as an institution in which an individual's labor is extracted--usually for the duration of his/her life, usually with the imprimatur of recognized legal authorities, and usually with some sort of social stigma attached to enslaved status. This system of inequality has touched every human civilization; since ancient times, societies in Asia, Africa, pre-Columbian America, and Europe have all practiced various forms of slavery. Debt/poverty, war victories, ideology, religion, race, and/or sex have provided avenues and reasons for the enslavement of human populations. This course will focus mainly on the ideas, practices, and experiences of slavery in Greek and Roman societies in the eighth century BCE through the second century CE, and then later in the Americas, particularly North America, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. But it will also briefly consider indigenous African slavery and medieval, Islamic slavery. The historical "progression" of slavery forms, the relationship among types of slavery, and the differences among slavery systems will be discussed as well.

Course	HIST 2701 The Holocaust, 1933-1945
Professor	Cecile Kuznitz
CRN	90458
Schedule	Tu Th 9:00 – 10:20 am OLIN 205
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History / Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Human Rights, German Studies, Jewish Studies

This course will provide an overview of the Nazi attempt to

exterminate the Jewish people during the Second World War. We will examine topics including the background of modern antisemitic movements and the aftermath of World War I; the reactions of German Jews during 1933-1939; the institution of ghettos and the cultural and political activities of their populations; the turn to mass murder and its implementation in the extermination camps; the experiences of other groups targeted by the Nazis; the reactions of “bystanders” (the populations of occupied countries and the Allied powers;) and the liberation and its immediate aftermath. Emphasis will be on the development of Nazi policy and Jews’ reactions to Nazi rule, with special attention to the question of what constitutes resistance or collaboration in a situation of total war and genocide.

Course	HIST 3106 Gender in Inter-War Britain
Professor	Lia Paradis
CRN	90571
Schedule	Mon 1:30 – 3:50 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Humanities

Cross-listed: Gender and Sexuality Studies

AfterWorld War I, full suffrage was given to British women in 1928. Although many relinquished their roles as wartime workers, they did not forget the financial and social independence of their war experiences. Many men returned from the war mutilated, whether physically or psychologically and became dependents, unable to support their families. Other men never returned. This course explores how men and women were affected by and moved forward from these kind of wartime experiences. Transformations in British inter-war society include the emergence of competing critiques of socialism and fascism, a rush of prosperity followed by the Depression, and the growth of suburbs and infrastructure. British people tried to understand their respective places as men and women in this new Britain. We will examine the day-to-day influences on gender identity formation through such sources as advertising, fashion, vaudeville tunes, and newspaper features. We will read contemporary fiction by Robert Graves, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Virginia Woolf, as well as the historical analysis of Jay M. Winter and Susan Kingsley Kent, as the background material for gendered readings of flapper culture, the Spanish War, and other significant events of the period.

Course	HIST 3112 PLAGUE!
Professor	Alice Stroup
CRN	90028
Schedule	Mon 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 308
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: Human Rights; Medieval Studies

The cry “Plague!” has struck fear among people around the world, from antiquity to the present. What is plague? How has it changed history? Starting with Camus’ metaphorical evocation of plague in a modern North African city, we will examine the historical impact of plague on society. Our focus will be bubonic plague, which was epidemic throughout the Mediterranean and European worlds for four hundred years, and which remains a risk in many parts of the world (including the southwestern United States) to this day. Topics include: a natural history of plague; impact of plague on mortality and socio-economic structures; effects on art and literature; early epidemiology and public health; explanations and cures; the contemporary presence of bubonic plague and fears about “new plagues.” Readings include: literary works by Camus, Boccaccio, Manzoni, and Defoe; historical and philosophical analyses by ancients Thucydides and Lucretius; contemporary literature on history, biology, and public health. Upper College Seminar: open to fifteen moderated students.

Course	HIST / SOC 3125 Immigration and American Society: Racializing and De-racializing the Immigrant, 1880-1940
Professor	Joel Perlmann
CRN	90024
Schedule	Wed 7:30 -9:50 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: American studies, Human rights

Related interest: Africana Studies, SRE, Jewish Studies

Between 1880 and 1920, new immigrant groups - Slavs, Italians and Jews in particular - came in unprecedented numbers to the United States. Americans - radicals, liberals and progressives as well as conservatives - worried about how these new peoples would be absorbed into American life, and whether America's unique culture and political arrangements would not be hopelessly distorted by the change. The terms in which this discussion was carried on - in history, the social sciences and in imaginative literature - were changing too. Explicitly racial thought ("scientific racism") helped cast the new European immigrant groups as members of different races. There is a debate among historians of our own time over whether those European immigrants of 1880-1920 were "racialized" in the same way as blacks were racialized. Did the new immigrants (and their descendants) have to "become white" over the years (in part by distancing themselves from blacks) or were they "white on arrival"? By the 1920s the United States had adopted very restrictive anti-immigration laws, not merely meant to keep the number of immigrants low but also aimed explicitly at keeping the number of Slavs, Italians and Jews low. In addition, the new law continued the bar on Asians. The seminar will examine these developments, with extensive readings from the time (imaginative as well as social scientific) -- as well as from the historical debate of our own time about the whiteness of the immigrants. We will also study how the racialized view of the immigrant came to decline at the end of the time period covered. Each student will also chose a particular research topic that will culminate in a term paper, also based on extensive readings from the period as well as on recent historical studies. Enrollment limited to 12.

Course	HIST 340 The Politics of History
Professor	Robert Culp
CRN	90018
Schedule	Th 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 303
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: Human Rights, SRE

Cross-listed: GISP

What are the origins of history as a modern discipline? How have particular modes of history developed in relation to nationalism, imperialism, and the emergence of the modern state? How have modern historical techniques served to produce ideology? Moreover, how has history provided a tool for unmasking and challenging different forms of domination and the ideologies that help to perpetuate them? This course will address these questions through theoretical readings that offer diverse perspectives on the place of narrative in history, the historian's relation to the past, the construction of historiographical discourses, and the practice of historical commemoration. Other readings will critically assess the powerful roles that historical narrative, commemoration, and institutions like the museum have played in the processes of imperialism and nation building, as well as in class and gender politics. Some of the writers to be discussed will be Hayden White, Dominick LaCapra, Michel Foucault, G.W.F. Hegel, Walter Benjamin, Joan Wallach Scott, and theorists active in the Subaltern Studies movement. In addition to our common readings, students will write a research paper that builds on the critical perspectives we have discussed during the semester. Students who have moderated in history are particularly welcome.

Course	HIST 365 Russian Intellectual History
Professor	Gennady Shkliarevsky
CRN	90029
Schedule	Th 4:00 -6:20 pm OLIN 303
Distribution	OLD: C/D	NEW: History

Russia’s modernization generated many dramatic conflicts in Russian society and culture. Few of them could rival those associated with the growing awareness of autonomy and agency. This awareness undermined the familiar notions of universal truth and challenged many traditional values. Russian 19th century secular thought became the scene of intense debates centered around this modern predicament, as well as tensions that it generated in the spheres of morality, social justice, aesthetics, to name just a few. Following a brief introduction dealing with the modernization of Russia, as well as the origins of Russian secular thought and intelligentsia’the social group which was the carrier of the secular intellectual tradition’the class will focus on major trends and personalities in 19th century Russian thought. Topics under consideration will include: continuity and change in Russian culture, debates between Westernizers and Slavophiles, the relationship between art and reality, revolutionary populism and socialism. Extensive readings will be the basis of weekly discussions and will include works by Chaadaev, Gogol, Herzen, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chernyshevsky, Dostoevsky, as well as contemporary studies on Russian intellectual history. The requirements include a research paper, a presentation, and participation in weekly discussions.