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91191 |
HIST 101 Making of Europe to 1815 |
Alice Stroup |
. T . Th . |
10:10 - 11:30 am |
Olin 205 |
HIST |
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.
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91204 |
HIST / JS 115 The Culture of Yiddish |
Cecile Kuznitz |
. T . Th . |
3:10 -4:30 pm |
Olin 307 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Russian & Eurasian Studies 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 introduce students to Yiddish language, literature and culture. 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 assignments will be in English translation and will include Yiddish fiction, poetry, theater, and film as well as primary and secondary historical sources.
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91201 |
HIST 141 A Haunted Union: 20th Century
Germany and the Unification of Europe |
Gregory Moynahan Writing Lab: |
M . W . . . T . . . |
3:10 -4:30 pm 5:00 – 6:00 pm |
Olin 201 Olin 202 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: German Studies, GIS, Human Rights;
Related Interest: STS The
development of the German nation-state has been at the center of nearly every
dystopian reality and utopian aspiration of modern continental Europe. This
course will examine the history of the German-speaking lands from Napoleon's
dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, through the development of the
German state in 1871, the cataclysmic initiation by this state of the two
twentieth-century World Wars, and the creation of the new political entity of
the European Union. Attention will
placed throughout on the dialog of Germany and Europe in relation to regional
structural issues, particularly state form and Realpolitik, capitalism
and communism, the 'second-industrial revolution' and institutional development,
and state control or surveillance and systems of rights. Using an array of primary documents,
including an optional weekly film series, we will examine Germany's pivotal
place in the ideological divisions, political catastrophes, and -- more
optimistically -- theoretical, political, and scientific innovations of modern
Europe. As a guiding theme, we will use the paradox that even as Germany is
chronologically perhaps the most 'modern' of European states, its definition -
and with it the identity of its citizens - has been haunted since inception by
its heterogeneous past. Topics of
particular importance will include: the multiple 'unifications' of Germany (as
a culture, a state, a racist 'greater' Germany, a reunified power within the
European Union), the role of 'German' and 'European' identity in colonial
expansion and Nazi propaganda, 'scientific' racism and the Holocaust, the
development of the DDR and BRD, the consolidation of the European Union since
1951, and the student protests of 1968. No previous courses in history are
required, but if space is limited preference will be given to history majors or
potential majors. This
is a writing intensive course. Most weeks we will meet for an extra hour
writing lab, and regular short writing assignments will be required. The
general goals of these labs are to help with the development, composition,
organization, and revision of analytical prose; the use of evidence to support
an argument; strategies of interpretation and analysis of texts; and the mechanics
of grammar and documentation.
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91207 |
HIST 150 The American West in Film, Fiction and History |
Mark Lytle
Screenings: |
. T . . . M . . . . |
3:10 -4:30 pm 7:00 -9:00 pm |
Olin L. C. 115 Preston 110 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
American Studies, Film Through
weekly screenings and lectures, the course will offer an in-depth examination
of one of the richest of American film genres, the Western. The films, which
make up the central focus of the course, will be studied from a number of perspectives,
as characteristic examples of popular narrative cinema and as attempts to
understand the complex dynamic of this country's westward expansion in the
nineteenth century, the actual history of which will serve as a background for
viewing the films. At its best, popular culture serves as a means for society
to explain itself to itself. By tracing a number of recurring elements (e.g.
the heroic individual, the Western landscape), an attempt will be made to find
the redeeming quality of these essentially commercial films, in their ability
to forge a national myth and in their unique handling of the contradictions
within a democratic society. We will also examine how some of the films use the
West as a metaphor to address contemporary political and social issues, as well
as compare the filmic treatment of the West with similar themes as evidenced in
painting and literature. Though the familiar Hollywood genre film will comprise
the bulk of the course, most notably the films of John Ford (Stagecoach, The
Searchers, etc.) we
will equally emphasize such works of fiction as The Deerslayer, The VirginIan,
The Big Sky, Little Big Man, and All the Pretty Horses.
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91205 |
HIST 181 Jews in the Modern World |
Cecile Kuznitz |
. T . Th . |
10:10 - 11:30 am |
Olin 107 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed:
Jewish Studies, Religion In
the modern period Jews faced unprecedented opportunities to integrate into the
societies around them as well as anti-Semitism on a previously unimaginable
scale. In response to these changing conditions they reinvented Jewish culture
and identity in radically new ways. This course will survey the history of the
Jewish people from the expulsion from Spain until the establishment of the
State of Israel. It will examine such topics as the expulsion and its
aftermath; social, intellectual, and economic factors leading to greater toleration at the start of the
modern period; the varying routes to emancipation in Western Europe, Eastern
Europe, and the Islamic world;
acculturation, assimilation, and their discontents; modern Jewish nationalist movements such as Zionism; the
Holocaust; the establishment of the
State of Israel; and the growth of the
American Jewish community.
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91492 |
HIST 185 The Modern Middle East: The End of Empire, Colonialism, Revolution, and
the Fate of Modern Nation-States |
Jennifer Derr |
. T . Th . |
11:50 - 1:10 pm |
ASP 302 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed:
GIS, Human Rights, Middle Eastern Studies, STS. During the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, the regions of the Middle East ruled by the Ottoman Empire
experienced great political transformations. This region’s historical
trajectory included the imposition of European colonialism, the emergence of
nationalism(s), the break-up of empire, and the eventual division of the region
into individual nation-states. A series of cultural and social transformations,
including shifts within political, religious, and communal identities, shaped
these political moments. Beginning in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire,
this course critically analyzes the historical moments and trends comprising
the history of the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa.
Among the topics we will explore are: Political and legal shifts in the
late Ottoman Empire; the break-up of the Ottoman Empire; the legacies of WWI and WWII; the impact of
French and British colonial projects; the emergence of nationalism(s) and the
shape of anti-colonial movements; changing cultural and social norms, included
those related to gender ; the emergence of independent nation-states and the
shape of post-colonial politics; regional conflicts in the late twentieth
century.
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91605 |
HIST / LAIS 203 Latin American Nations: Emergence and Distinctive Trajectories |
Monique Segarra |
. T . Th . |
4:40 – 6:00 pm |
Olin 205 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed: GIS This course deals with the birth, rise, and
consolidation of Latin American nations since their birth in the 19th
century, focusing on their distinctive trajectories and specific national
patterns of politics, conflicts, identity, and culture. The “long nineteenth
century”, from 1810 to 1930, is the century that shaped Latin American nations
as we know them today. This key era is also when the slavery of people of
African descent was abolished but racial inequalities remained, and when
liberal projects were attempted for transforming indigenous people into
“national citizens”. The long 19th century was marked by the
conflicts and civil wars between liberals and conservatives, with liberals
gaining the upper hand by the end of the 19th century.
Paradoxically, however, the meaning of liberalism in Latin America varied
greatly: anti-clericalism (Colombia), capitalist “science and progress”
(Mexico, Brazil), civilized culture against “native barbarism”
(Argentina). The course’s brief
starting point is independence of the Americas through Enlightenment Creole
leaders using military means. As a product, Spanish America exploded from four
Vice-Royalties to 16 countries--and entirely new nations. We then turn to the
controversial and distinctive period of caudillo rule in Latin America.
Third, we explore the very different forms taken by the conflict between
Liberals and Conservatives in these new Latin American nations –a conflict that
would shape, thoroughly and negatively, the future of these nations’ society, culture,
and politics. We then deal with the apex of liberalism in the last third of the
19th century—a period of free trade associated with spectacular
economic growth, dispossession of indigenous people and peasants, massive
European working-class immigration, and increased power of foreign capital and
landowners. At the same time, this apex saw the establishment of constitutional
rule and the notions of citizenship, individualism, and secularism. Finally, under either revolutionary forces, as in Mexico in the 1910s, or
the devastating impact of the 1930 crash, the liberal era collapsed. The course
also examines cultural expressions of the various time periods, from gaucho
poetry, to anti-modernist religious messianism, to tango, to the birth of
soccer. The course is open to any
and all interested students. Chronologically, it is the second of a
“three-course” sequence: LAIS 110, LAIS 203, and PS 253.
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91252 |
HIST / ANTH 207 Cultural Politics of Empire: The Case of British India |
Laura Kunreuther |
M . W . . |
10:10 - 11:30 am |
RKC 200 |
SSCI/DIFF |
See
Anthropology section for description.
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91203 |
HIST 2034 The Weary Titan: Britain in the 20th Century |
Richard Aldous |
. T . Th . |
1:30 -2:50 pm |
Olin 303 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: GIS 'The weary Titan,' said the leading British politician, Joseph Chamberlain, in 1902, ‘struggles under the too vast orb of its fate'. This course offers a survey of Britain in the twentieth century. We start with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and move chronologically towards the election of Tony Blair as prime minister in 1997. Particular emphasis is given to political history, the three global conflicts of the century (WW1, WW2 and the cold war), the end of the empire, and the changing role of the state in the lives of ordinary citizens. Suggested reading: Peter Clarke, Hope and Glory: Britain, 1900-2000.
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91208 |
HIST 213 Immigration & American Society:
Colonial Times to the 1960s |
Joel Perlmann |
. T . Th . |
3:10 – 4:30 pm |
Olin 304 |
HIST/DIFF
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Cross-listed: American Studies, Human Rights,
Sociology This
course examines the role of immigration in American life through the
1920s, when federal legislation ended the great waves of European immigration (Congress
had earlier restricted Asian immigration). The end of the
course will also consider the four decades that followed, a period of little
immigration. Major themes include:
who came and why; the immigrants’ economic impact on American society (including
the economic impact on the native-born poor); how the children of the
immigrants have fared; whiteness, multiculturalism and assimilation; and
finally immigration policy and politics. We will also follow
the descendants of the European immigrants into our own time, as they evolve
from “immigrants” to “ethnics” to “whites” and then to…to
what? This course is the first part of a two-semester
sequence (history 213, sociology 214); the second semester of the course
follows developments through the contemporary immigrations (since
1965). Either half of the two-course sequence may be taken
independently. Readings will be mostly from social
science and history but will also include memoirs, fiction, and policy debates.
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91493 |
HIST 2252
Conquest, Empire, and Revolution in
the Ottoman Middle East |
Jennifer Derr |
. T . Th . |
3:10 – 4:30 pm |
Heg 300 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
Middle Eastern Studies This course explores the history of the
Ottoman Empire with an emphasis on the Arab provinces of the empire. Beginning
in the fourteenth century, we will examine the rise of the Ottomans in Anatolia
and explore their expansion into southeast Europe. In the sixteenth century,
the Ottomans conquered the Arab provinces of the empire. The main focus of the
course will be the Ottoman history of these provinces. In addition to exploring
the political trajectory of the empire, we will interrogate questions of
community organization, economic interactions, and the significance of religion
within the Ottoman realm. Among the questions that we will explore in this
course are: How did regional conflicts shape the history of the empire? How were communities
structured within the Ottoman realm?
What was the role of religion in organizing the empire? What patterns shaped Ottoman interactions
with Europe? What
was the impact of the rise of nationalism in the nineteenth century on the
organization of the empire? How
did the rise of European colonialism impact the empire? Why did the Ottoman Empire come to an end?
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91489 |
HIST 2318 Pre-Colonial and Colonial Africa |
Priya Lal |
M . W . . |
1:30 -2:50 pm |
Heg 300 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
Africana Studies, Anthropology, GIS This course provides an overview of the
history of sub-Saharan Africa during the pre-colonial and colonial periods,
with an emphasis on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We will
organize our study by focusing on several major themes: the relationship
between Africa’s linkages to the world and local historical dynamics on the
continent; changing political structures and popular agency within them;
slavery, empire, and economic transformations; gender and social change;
shifting constructions of race, ethnicity, and identity; and the stakes of
conceptualizing African history in the present. To ground our analysis we will
pay particular attention to a number of case studies from across the
sub-Saharan African continent, and draw upon a range of materials including
secondary historical literature, primary sources, novels, and visual arts.
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91512 |
HIST 2357 Jerusalem: History, Theology, and Contemporary Politics |
Mustafa Abu Sway |
. T . Th |
11:50 – 1:10 pm |
Olin 202 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: GIS;
Human Rights, Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies This course surveys past events that
contributed to the making of the history of Jerusalem; the theologies that make
it a Holy City for Judaism, Christianity and Islam; and the Israeli and Palestinian
national narratives that make it a contested capital. In addition to Israeli policies regarding Jerusalem and
Palestinian responses, international initiatives and third party plans that
present solutions to the problem of Jerusalem will be discussed.
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91173 |
HIST/ LIT 255 The Victorians: British History and
Literature 1830-1901 |
Deirdre d'Albertis / Richard Aldous |
. T . Th . |
10:10 - 11:30 am |
Olin L. C. 115 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Victorian Studies Through interdisciplinary study of culture,
politics and society in the British Isles, we will consider the rise and fall
of Victorian values with particular attention to nationalism, imperialism,
government, and domestic ideology. Consulting a variety of texts – novels,
plays, essays, music, poetry and historical works – we will also examine
changing (and often conflicting) conceptions of crime, sexuality, race, social
class, the position of women, the vote, and the crisis of faith in
nineteenth-century Britain.
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91200 |
HIST 2702 Liberty, National Rights, and Human Rights |
Gregory Moynahan |
M . W . . |
11:50 -1:10 pm |
Olin 203 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
GIS, Human Rights (core course), STS The history of 'human rights' can formally be said to have come
into existence only with the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and the
successor conventions that ultimately formed the International Bill of Human
Rights. Both the declaration and its later instantiations were created in
reaction to the problems of genocide and mass population transfers (and
consequent loss of citizenship) during the Second World War. This course will
begin by examining the fatal gaps in the previous system of nationally
instantiated “universal” rights as they were initially developed in Europe and
selectively applied to or adopted by its colonies. Beginning with the pursuit
of liberties in peasant communes and early modern law, we will examine the
creation of national rights from the treaty of Westphalia through the British,
American, and French revolutions, and the relation of these rights to colonial
administration. The post-war institutions of human rights provided a new
justification for a universal and 'open' standard of laws and fealty (often
compared to imperial Rome) and ultimately provided new legitimation for the
selective intervention of stronger powers in the affairs of weaker political or
legal entities. By focusing on case studies, particularly those from the
contrasting cases of the European Union and United States, the relation of
human rights to hegemonic power will be examined in detail. The course will
also examine the relation of politics to the infrastructures that made both
widespread human rights infractions and their curtailment possible. The role of
media (telegraph, radio, etc.), systems
of organization (passports, criminal archives) and police (secret police,
international monitors) will be considered as modern transnational phenomenon
that are intimately connected with the development and fate of enforcing human
rights norms. The final section of the course will look at the role of
international NGO's in both monitoring human rights and criticizing the state
of existing human rights law, particularly in their criticism of human rights
as a product of a particular north Atlantic perspective and set of biases.
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91206 |
HIST 280A American Environmental History I |
Mark Lytle |
. . W . F |
10:10 - 11:30 am |
Olin 205 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: American
Studies, Environmental & Urban Studies;
Human Rights; Social Policy 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.
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91209 |
HIST 3109 Dewey & His Contemporaries |
Ellen Lagemann |
. T . . . |
1:30 -3:50 pm |
Olin 308 |
HIST |
In this class, we will deal with the social history
of ideas at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries,
mostly in the United States. We will
focus on the emergence of progressivism in politics, social policy, the arts,
and education. To do that, we will
explore the lives and ideas of such significant American social thinkers as
Jane Addams, John Dewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, William James, and George Herbert
Mead. There will be common readings,
several short papers, and one longer research paper.
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91199 |
HIST 3117 The High Middle Ages |
Alice Stroup |
M . . . . |
1:30 -3:50 pm |
Olin 308 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
French Studies, Medieval 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. This is a writing intensive
course. Students will spend an extra hour a week in a writing lab. The writing
component will focus on helping students to develop, compose, organize, revise,
and edit analytical prose; to develop the ability to identify and articulate a
thesis; to construct an argument; to collect and present evidence and
documentation; to interpret and analyze texts; and to become proficient in the
mechanics of writing, revision, grammar, and editing. Regular short writing
assignments will be required. Enrollment limited to 14.
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91005 |
CLAS / HIST 315 Decline & Fall of Roman Empire |
William Mullen |
M . W . . |
3:10 -4:30 pm |
Dubois |
HIST |
See
Classical Studies section for description.