Course	HIST 102 Europe from 1815 to present
Professor	Gennady Shkliarevsky
CRN	16020
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: C/D	NEW: History

Related interest: GISP, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Victorian Studies

The course has two goals: to provide a general introduction to European History in the period from 1815 to 1990 and at the same time to examine a number of especially important developments in greater depth. The first half of the course will range in time from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914. The following issues will be emphasized: the rise of conservative, liberal and socialist thought; the establishment of parliamentary democracy in Great Britain; the revolutions of 1848; Bismarck and the Unification of Germany; European imperialism; and the origins of World War I. The second half of the course will stress the following problems: World War I; the Russian Revolution and the emergence of Soviet Russia; the Versailles Treaty; the Great Depression; the rise of fascism, especially Nazism; the Holocaust; the emergence of a new Europe with the "European Community"; the Cold War; the fall of communism in Eastern Europe; and the reunification of Germany. On-line

Course	REL / HIST 130 History of Islamic Society
Professor	Nerina Rustomji
CRN	16018
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 305
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Humanities

Cross-listed: GISP, Middle East Studies, Medieval Studies

The rise of Islam in Arabia affected dramatically the historical landscape of territories stretching from Spain to the Indus Valley and from Central Asia to Yemen. This course surveys the political, social, religious, and cultural developments of these Islamic worlds from the seventh to sixteenth centuries AD. We examine each region’s initial encounter with Muslims, investigate the process by which it transformed into an “Islamic” society, and determine how its particular cultural and dynastic forms evolved and eventually influenced the idea of the “Islamic World.” The course addresses topics such as the process of conversion, the relationship between Muslim rulers and their Muslim and non‑Muslim subjects, the maturation of Islamic theology and sciences, the formation of Islamic art, and the growth of political and religious institutions. Special attention will be paid to the different forms of narrating history. Readings from the course include historical monographs, biographical traditions, poems, epic tales, mirrors for princes, political and religious manuals, and philosophical treatises. On-line

Course	HIST 170 The French Revolution
Professor	Alice Stroup
CRN	16021
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 308
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: French Studies

Related Interest: Human Rights

Was the French Revolution a bloodbath or an affirmation of human rights?  Who led it, who benefited from it, and why did it evolve as it did?  Did Napoleon consolidate or conclude the revolution?  We will read contemporary historical analyses and examine the documents left by eye-witnesses, participants, partisans, and opponents. On-line

Course	HIST 190 The Cold War
Professor	Gennady Shkliarevsky / Mark Lytle
CRN	16019
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

PIE core course

Cross-listed: GISP; Human Rights, Russian & Eurasian Studies

Like two scorpions, the Soviet Union and the United States warily circled each other in a deadly dance that lasted over half a century. In a nuclear age, any misstep threatened to be fatal not only to the antagonists but possibly also to the entire human community. What caused this hostile confrontation to emerge from the World War II alliance? How did Soviet-American rivalry affect the international community? And why after more than fifty years did the dance end in peace rather than war? Traditionally historians have approached those questions from a national point of view. Their answers had political as well as academic implications. To blame the Soviet Union was to condemn Communism; to charge the United States was to find capitalism as the root cause of international tensions. In this course we try to reconsider the Cold War by simultaneously weighing both the American and Soviet perspective on events as they unfolded. We will look at Stalinism, McCarthyism, the nuclear arms race, the space race, the extension of the Cold War into the third world, the rise of American hegemony, Vietnam and Afghanistan, Star Wars, and the effort to reach strategic arms limitation agreements. Finally, we will challenge the claims of American conservative ideologues that the Reagan arms buildup "won the cold war." Students will examine key documents of the Cold War era and prepare several papers on world areas or events that they chose to explore. On-line

Course	HIST 2035 The Wars of Religion
Professor	Tabetha Ewing
CRN	16446
Schedule	Tu Th 5:30 – 6:50 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: Gender & Secuality Studies, Human Rights

Religion and revolution have formed an unholy alliance at several distinct moments in history. This course is a journey across the motley religious landscape of early modern Europe in which the ideas and practices of heretics, infidels, and unbelievers nestled in the spaces where orthodox Catholicism held sway. Periodically, heads of state or household sought to bring order to it; and people –royal subjects, wives, children, servants-- resisted. The 16th and 17th centuries were a time in which religious revolution and new ways of ordering spiritual life exploded in a fashion that no one could have anticipated. In the period we now term "the Reformations" Europe would reinvent itself at home and discover itself in the New World. Also, the power of women as a source of threat and of sectarian strength emerges as a primary site for reformation processes. From the expulsion of Iberian Jews and Muslims to European contact with "cannabalism," from Luther in Germany to Carmelites nuns in Canada, from witchcraft to the cult of Mary, from incantation to exorcism, students will trace the personal stories of real people through Inquisition records, diaries and conversion tales, early pamphlets, and accounts of uprisings. We will look at how radical religious ideologies sustained themselves in the face of official repression and, more challenging still, official approval. OPEN TO FIRST YEAR STUDENTS. On-line

Course	HIST 2110 Early Middle Ages
Professor	Alice Stroup
CRN	16030
Schedule	Tu Th 9:00 - 10:20 am OLIN 308
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: Classical Studies, Medieval Studies

Related interest: French Studies

The European "middle ages" -originally so called as a term of derision—are more complex and heterogeneous than is commonly thought. This course surveys seven centuries, from the Germanic invasions and dissolution of the Roman Empire to the Viking invasions and dissolution of the Carolingian Empire. Topics include early Christianity, "barbarians," Byzantine Empire, Islam, monasticism, the myth and reality of Charlemagne. Readings include documents, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, and selections from Ammianus Marcellinus's The Later Roman Empire and Gregory of Tours's History of the Franks. Open to first year students. On-line

Course	HIST 2136 Liberty, Reason & Power: European Intellectual and Cultural History
Professor	Gregory Moynahan
CRN	16027
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 205
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: French Studies, German Studies, Science, Technology & Society, Victorian Studies

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 suggest 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 main themes of nineteenth century thought, using as our guide a close reading of texts from writers such as Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Burke, Kant, Fourier, Darwin, Marx and Schopenhauer. The course will focus on textual analysis and interpretation, but texts will be read in conjunction with a selected study of contemporary political forces, institutional settings, and scientific, social, or artistic practices. Major topics of interest include skepticism, enlightenment, women's rights, romanticism, utopian socialism, conservatism, nationalism, colonialism/ anti-colonialism, and anarchism. On-line

Course	HIST 2137 Jewish Women:Gender Roles and Cultural Change
Professor	Cecile Kuznitz
CRN	16025
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 – 4:20 pm OLIN 304
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: History / Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Gender & Sexuality Studies, Jewish Studies, Religion

This course will draw on both historical and memoir literature to examine the changing economic, social, and religious roles of Jewish women, exploring the intersection of gender with religious and ethnic identities across the medieval and modern period. The course will begin by considering the status of women in Jewish law and then looking at issues including forms of women’s religious expression; marriage and family patterns; the differing impact of enlightenment and secularization on women in Western and Eastern Europe; and the role of women in the Zionist and labor movements in Europe, Israel, and the United States. Among the central questions we will ask is how women’s roles changed from the medieval to the modern period. Did modernity in fact herald an era of greater opportunity for Jewish women? How did their experiences differ from those of Jewish men? On-line

Course	HIST / SOC 214 American Immigration
Professor	Joel Perlmann
CRN	16053
Schedule	Tu Th 4:30 -5:50 pm OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Social Science / Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, American Studies, Human Rights, Social Policy, SRE

This course examines the huge contemporary immigration

(since the 1960s) -- its effect on both the immigrants and the society they have entered.    Throughout, we will ask how the present American experience is similar to, and how it differs from, the earlier American experience as "a country of immigrants"; to this end, we will compare the present to the last great period of American immigration, 1890-1920.  We will also cast a comparative eye on the contemporary European experience with immigration. Specific topics include 1) immigrant origins and reasons for coming, because today great numbers enter the upper-middle class and millions more enter (as in the past) at the bottom of the economic ladder; 2) immigrants’ efforts to preserve or shed cultural distinctiveness and ethnic unity;  3) how the children of the immigrants are faring; 4) American politics and legislation around immigration restriction 4) the economic and cultural impact of the immigrants on American society and 5) how a largely-non-white immigrant population is influencing the political culture of American racial divisions and the economic position of the native-born poor, among whom blacks are especially concentrated.    Readings will be mostly from social science and history but will also include memoirs, fiction, and policy debates. On-line

Course	JS / HIST 215 From Shtetl to Socialism: East European Jewry in the Modern Era
Professor	Cecile Kuznitz
CRN	16026
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 – 11:50 HDR 302
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: Humanities

Cross-listed: Russian & Eurasian Studies

Eastern Europe was the largest and most vibrant center of Jewish life for three hundred years prior to the Holocaust. In that period East European Jewry underwent a wrenching process of modernization, creating radically new forms of community, culture, and political organization that still shape Jewish life today in the United States and Israel. Yet this rich history is often obscured by nostalgic stereotypes of the shtetl in popular culture. We will begin by dissecting such stereotypes and comparing them to the realities of traditional Jewish society. We will then consider topics including the rise of Chasidism and Haskalah (Enlightenment), modern Jewish political movements including Zionism, and pogroms and Russian government policy towards the Jews. Course materials will include both primary and secondary historical sources, as well as literature and film of the period under study. On-line

Course	HIST 2306 Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Modern China
Professor	Robert Culp
CRN	16023
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History / Rethinking Difference

Cross list: Asian Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies,

GISP
This course explores the roles of gender and sexuality in the construction of social and political power in China over the last 500 years. Our point of departure will be traditional areas of focus for scholars of gender and sexuality in China: footbinding, the cloistering of women, and the masculinization of public space; the transformations of Confucian age-sex hierarchies within the family; the women’s rights movements of the early twentieth century; and the Chinese Communist revolution’s ambivalent legacy for women in the People’s Republic of China. By drawing on recent historical and anthropological literature, we will also analyze gender’s functions in many other aspects of modern Chinese life. These topics will include constructions of masculinity and male identity during China’s late imperial period (1368-1911), the role of gender categories in constructions of Han Chinese relations with both Inner Asian nomadic peoples and Euro-American imperialists, the gendering of citizenship and comradeship in twentieth century China, the impact of global capitalism on gender constructions and sexual relations in contemporary China, and the relation of China’s women’s movement to recent trends in Euro-American feminism and gender studies. This course is open to all students. On-line

Course	HIST 2530 China in Revolution: Nationalism to Maoism
Professor	Robert Culp
CRN	16439
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 201
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: Asian Studies, GISP, Human Rights

In October 1949 Mao Zedong stood at the Gate of Heavenly Peace outside the old imperial palace and proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Mao’s declaration was the culmination of several generations’ efforts to create New China. This course explores the intertwined processes of nationalism and revolution that drove this transformation. Studying China’s successive republican, cultural, nationalist, "fascist," and communist revolutions will allow us to explore the causes and effects of different kinds of revolutionary movements. We will trace China’s revolutionary process from the beginnings of modern mass mobilization at the start of the twentieth century to the revolutionary cataclysms of Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution during the 1950s and 1960s. At the same time, we will explore how novels, films, and folk songs, hairstyles and popular fashions, mass protests and state-run spectacles transformed Chinese culture and taught China’s people to think of themselves as citizens of a nation for the first time in their 3,000-year history. No prior study of Chinese history is necessary for this class; first-year students are welcome. HIST 2530 forms a sequence with PS130 “Introduction to Chinese Politics”, which analyzes modern Chinese politics in comparative perspective. On-line

Course	HIST 2702 Liberty, National Rights and Human Rights: The Origins and Implications of Human Rights Law, Institutions and Policy in the Modern Period
Professor	Gregory Moynahan
CRN	16028
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

PIE core course

Cross-listed: GISP

The history of 'human rights' can formally be said to 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. On-line

Course	HIST 280B American Environmental History I: Conservation Era to the Present
Professor	Andrew Needham
CRN	16029
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 101
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: American Studies, Social Policy

This course will investigate the history of Americans’ interaction with their environment from roughly 1890 to the present. It will explore different strategies that historians have used to examine environmental history. It will also investigate question such as how the role of the federal government has changed from the “conservation” to the “environmental” eras, why the Dust Bowl occurred, how chemical warfare changed the life span of bugs, whether wilderness should be central to the environmental movement, whether you can be an environmentalist if “you work for a living,” whether Sunbelt cities are part of the environment, if blocking dams in the Grand Canyon was good for the environment, how the environmental justice movement and Earth First! have impacted the environmental movement, whether you can find “nature” at Yosemite National Park, Sea World, and the Nature Company, and other topics central to how we live in the world. It will include reading of both primary and secondary historical sources as well as two short papers and one longer research project. On-line

Course	HIST / CLAS 300 Major Conference: Creating History
Professor	Carolyn Dewald
CRN	16032
Schedule	Mon 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 306
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: Classical Studies

The word history comes from the first sentence of the Histories of Herodotus, the Greek father of history, writing in the fifth century B.C.E. This course looks closely at how history as a field of inquiry came about and the way that the early Greek historians, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, shaped its identity. We will consider how the first historians thought about such things as data (when is it trustworthy?), narrative structure (does it inevitably distort data?), depiction of character (what role does the individual play in shaping events?), and the usefulness of the discipline that the early historians invented (do they tell a true story?). Some theoretical readings, both traditional and poststructuralist, will be used to help us begin to answer these questions. About halfway through the semester, students will be encouraged to pick a historian not in the original triad (either ancient -- Polybius, Tacitus, Livy are possible choices -- or more recent, writing in a period germane to the student's senior project interests) to study in detail, using the same criteria that we have used to consider Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. Two papers will be required; all required reading will be in English. On-line

Course	HIST 302 The Age of the Roosevelts
Professor	Mark Lytle
CRN	16033
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm PRE 110
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: American Studies, Social Policy

The course covers the period of Franklin Roosevelt’s public life, with special emphasis on the Depression era and World War II. It is designed to allow students to take advantage of the rich body of private papers and public documents in the Roosevelt Library in nearby Hyde Park and to learn how to do basic research in a presidential archive. Research topics are not limited to Roosevelt and public politics, but extend to other major public figures, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, and New Deal figures, and to relevant topics in cultural, social, military, and other fields of history. On-line

Course	HIST 3104 British Empire and Imperialism
Professor	George Robb
CRN	16478
Schedule	Mon 1:30 – 3:50 pm OLINLC 208
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

This course is not a comprehensive history of the British Empire, but an attempt to examine the concept of “Imperialism” in its many guises—as a cluster of historically identifiable ideologies and as a possible mode of analysis in the study of history. We will confine ourselves primarily to the political, economic, and cultural relations between Great Britain and its non-European subject peoples in the period since the American Revolution.

Course	HIST 3111 The Arts of Diplomacy
Professor	Tabetha Ewing
CRN	16036
Schedule	Fr 10:00 am – 12:20 pm OLIN 201
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: GISP

We are aware of the dramatic power of the state to make war and dispense punishment. Too often neglected is the story of the state's emergence as the primary agent of conciliation between individuals and groups within and beyond its borders. In this capacity, its power has increased in manifold ways. Here, the executive power of pardon and the criminalization of the duel are examples within the domestic context. Internationally, the rise of diplomatic institutions featuring negotiations in the name of the state paralleled internal developments. Although dueling pens would replace dueling swords, insult -the word- would remain one of the greatest forms of injury. Perhaps as a result, political and social theorists would redouble their concern with the power of language. What entities preceded the state in the task of calming discord? What new and old entities (the Republic of Letters and the Church, for example) would come to compete with its authority to establish mutual understanding and cooperation? Together they fashioned a modernity founded upon belief in the possibilities of negotiation through the power of reason and facilitated by the use of new communications technologies. Yet, to rectify the ills of social and political dissension, the state and its competitors often created new divisions and ossified old ones between nations and among its own people. Our work of the semester will be to place early modern ideas on peace, sovereignty, international protocols, sociabilité, and civilité within a cultural framework. Readings range from Machiavelli to Grotius to Rousseau and, in-between, a variety of entertaining diplomatic manuals, treatises on the laws of war and peace, and political theater. On-line

Course	HIST 3115 Japan: From Feudal Isolation to Modern Democracy
Professor	Ian Buruma
CRN	16425
Schedule	Mon 4:00 -6:20 pm OLIN 203
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: Asian Studies, GISP

This course will take Japan as an example of modernization in the non-Western world. The main question to be explored is to what extent modernization means Westernization, or democratization. This would contribute to the discussion today about the possibility of building liberal democratic institutions in the Middle East, and other parts of the non-Western world. Starting with the arrival of Commodore Perry's "black

ships" in 1854, and ending with the state of Japanese democracy today, we will look at various stages of the Japanese confrontation with a dominant West. This will take in the establishment of Japan's Asian Empire - following European examples; the wars with Russia and China; the civil rights movements of the late 19th century; the budding democracy of the 1920s; the Japanese varieties of fascism, the war with the West, and the US occupation. Japan, given different Western models to follow, often opted for the least liberal ones, as was true in other countries. But this was not inevitable. Post-war Japanese democracy was largely home-grown and not an American imposition. Throughout the course, we will look at Japan in comparison with other parts of the non-Western world, including South Asia and the Middle-East. Course material will include history, as well as novels, films, and further examples from popular culture. Not open to first-year students. On-line

Course	HIST 3129 The American West: The History of a Region and an Image
Professor	Andrew Needham
CRN	16035
Schedule	Tu 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 308
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: American Studies

From the earliest days of the American historical writing, historians have claimed that the American West has played a unique role in American history. Historians have portrayed the West as a frontier of opportunity and as a legacy of American conquest. At the same time, “the West,” as represented in novels and films, has occupied a vital hold on how Americans imagine themselves as a people. This course will examine the interplay between the historical development of the American West and the historical development of the “West of the Imagination.” It will examine topics in the history of the American West from the interaction between native societies to the cities and environment of the modern American West. At the same time, it will investigate the politics of how these historical events have been remembered through fiction, film, memory, and history. On-line

Course	HIST 3234 Your Papers Please? Technocracy, Technology, and Social Control in Nazi Germany, the DDR and BRD
Professor	Gregory Moynahan
CRN	16034
Schedule	Tu 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 303
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: GISP; Science, Technology & Society

In this research course, we will address the coercive and violent powers of the modern state as they were refined through technologies and techniques in National Socialist Germany, and then alternately condemned and utilized in the two German nations of the (East) German Democratic Republic (DDR) and the (West) German Federal Republic (BRD). Topics will range from the development of new techniques of propaganda and military oversight to the manipulation of social technologies such as identification papers, the census, racial pseudo-science, and, most horrifically, the concentration camp system. At the end of the Nazi period, the DDR defined itself through its resistance to the Nazi party, and nearly the entirety of its ideology was grounded in anti-Fascism and cosmopolitanism.  The means of organizing and controlling society were often directly carried over from the Nazi past. Similarly, the liberal capitalist ideology of the BRD defined itself in complete opposition to the Nazi past, but here as well there were surprising number holdovers from the Nazi era, ranging from the system of registering with the police to the retention of leading bureaucrats. By comparing the two movements, ideologically complete opposites yet organizationally often surprisingly similar, we can address some of the most disturbing issues of modern techniques of social control.  Similarly, protests within each system against specific moments of state power – ranging from issues such as the use of the census and identity cards to methods of police surveillance and conscription – were frequently couched in terms of their links with the Nazi era. Please note that the core of this course will be spent writing and refining an independent historical research paper of approximately 30 pages in length. No previous knowledge of German history is required, although students without such knowledge will need to set aside time for some background reading. On-line

Course	HIST 371 The Civil Rights Movement
Professor	Myra Armstead
CRN	16031
Schedule	Mon 9:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 310
Distribution	OLD: C	NEW: History

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, Human Rights, Social Policy, SRE

The intense decade of political ferment surrounding the struggle for black rights in the United States, stretching roughly from 1954 (Brown v. Board of Education) to 1964 (Civil Rights Act), will be contextualized in this course. This period will be explored longitudinally—against a longer history of Constitutionally-based precedents and legislation—and against the backdrop of such other pertinent developments following World War II as the rise of a human rights movement, the Cold War, decolonization of Africa and a growing Pan-African sensibility, northward migration, and simultaneous domestic social movements. The course will also address explanations for the attenuation of the Movement. Readings consist of a variety of primary sources including autobiographies, speeches, legal documents, memoirs and secondary material by several historians who have produced important monographs on the Movement. Students will be expected to produce a long research paper in this course. On-line