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11417 |
HIST / JS 101 Introduction to Jewish Studies |
Cecile Kuznitz |
. T . Th . |
2:30 - 3:50 pm |
OLIN 307 |
HUM/DIFF |
See Jewish Studies section for description.
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11008 |
HIST 102 Europe from 1815 to the Present |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
. T . Th . |
4:00 -5:20 pm |
OLIN 301 |
HIST |
Related
interest: Global & Int’l Studies, Human Rights, 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.
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11424 |
LAIS / HIST 102 "Latin" American History: From Ancient Native Civilizations to National
Independence |
Pierre Ostiguy |
. T . Th . |
4:00 -5:20 pm |
OLIN 204 |
HIST/DIFF |
See LAIS section for
description.
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11419 |
HIST 124 France and Empire in the Early Modern World |
Tabetha Ewing / Christian Crouch |
. . W . F |
10:30 - 11:50 am |
HEG 200 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed: Africana Studies, French Studies, SRE The Early Modern World encompasses the histories of peoples and economies, and the circulation of ideas, products, and humans through long-distance oceanic travel. It helped to formulate the globalized, modern world we live in today. To study greater France is an opportunity to consider how the language of nation and empire overlays complex networks of contact, exchange, and identity between metropolitans, indigenous peoples, and those without states. What sustained supra-national connections between, for example, Quebec, Senegal, Pondichery, St Domingue (Haiti), the French state in Paris and French port cities such as Nantes and Marseilles? How did their peoples resist or encourage ties around the empire? Much of our work will focus on the Atlantic Ocean, its trade, and how the societies that developed (or were destroyed) on its shores experienced pain and promise on a new human scale. Open to 1st Year Students; History Global Core Course.
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11422 |
HIST 127 Crisis and Conflict: Introduction to Modern Japanese History |
Robert Culp |
M . W . . |
12:00 -1:20 pm |
OLIN 202 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
Asian Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Japan in the mid-19th
century was beleaguered by British and American imperialism and rocked by domestic
turmoil. How, then, did it become an emerging world power by the early 20th
century? Why did Japan’s transformations during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries lead to the total war of the 1930s and 1940s? And why did
the horrible destruction experienced after World War II ultimately result in
rapid economic growth and renewed global importance 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 the United States’ 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.
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11415 |
HIST 161 Introduction to the History of Technology |
Gregory Moynahan |
M . W . . |
12:00 -1:20 pm |
OLIN 301 |
HIST |
Cross-Listed:
Global & Int’l Studies; Science, Technology & Society (core
course), Related interest: Human Rights This course will survey the history and
historiography of technology in the late modern period. The course will begin by studying how a
separate domain of technology first came to be defined, in theory and practice,
during the eighteenth century within such diverse activities as agriculture,
time measurement, transport, architecture, and warfare. We will then address how institutional
forces such as law, academia, business and government came to define and
influence technological change and scientific research during the industrial
revolution. Throughout the course, we
will avoid casting the history of technology solely as a history of 'things'
and instead focus on technology as a process embedded within research agendas,
institutions, social expectations, economics, and specific use -- and thus as
part of a broader 'socio-technical system.'
Case studies ranging from the bicycle and nuclear missile targeting to
public health statistics and the birth control pill will allow us to develop
'internal' accounts of the development of technology and science in conjunction
with 'external' accounts of the historical context of technologies. The course will conclude with an assessment
of recent approaches to the history of technology, such as the influence of
systems theory or actor-network theory.
Authors read will include Hacking, Heidegger, Hughes, Landes, Latour,
Lenoir, Luhmann, Mokyr, Spengler, and Wise. If course space is limited,
preference will be given to History and History of Science concentrators.
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11560 |
HIST 185 History of the Modern Middle
East |
Mouannes Hojairi |
M . W . . |
10:30 -11:50 am |
HEG 201 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Middle Eastern Studies This course is required for Middle Eastern
Studies; it is designed to introduce students to the history of the region
commonly known as the Middle East, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to
Central Asia. It will cover the period from the end of the fifteenth century
AD, eve of the Ottoman conquest of the Levant and North Africa, until the
present. The course is designed to familiarize students with the social,
political, as well as the intellectual history of the region in the period
spanning from the rise of the modern Muslim Sultanates until the contemporary
era. The course will explore the emergence of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal
empires as world powers and the intellectual, social, and geopolitical changes
they set in motion; it will also address colonialism and its characteristic
political, social, and cultural institutions and the intellectual traditions
that resisted it and emerged in its wake. We will be examining a multitude of
sources such as Sufi poetry from Anatolia, modern novels from Egypt, memoirs of
political leaders, as well as treaties and works of Muslim reformers. Our
secondary sources for social, political, and intellectual history will include
works such as Albert Hourani’s “Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age”, William
Cleveland’s “A History of the Modern Middle East” as well as Rashid Khalidi’s
“Resurrecting Empire”. This course is
open to first-year students.
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11600 |
HIST 192
“The Age of Extremes”: Topics in Modern European History 1789 -
Present |
Gregory Moynahan |
M .
W . . |
3:00 -4:20 pm |
OLIN LC 208 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies This course will present a thematic survey of European history in the modern period. Each week we will illuminate pivotal transformations in the era using different methodologies and forms of history, ranging from demographic and gender history to diplomatic and military history. The class will thus offer an in-depth presentation of key aspects of modernity and a survey of contemporary historiography. Issues discussed will include: the relation of the agricultural and industrial revolutions to long-term ecological and demographic change; the intensification of capitalism as the basis of social organization; the coextensive development of competing ideologies of conservatism, anarchism, socialism, communism and liberalism; the role of Europe in the global economic system, “scientific racism,” and neo-colonialism; the creation of new institutions of technological research, patent, and communication; the wars of the twentieth century, systematic genocide, and the development of a military-industrial technocracy; the transformation of the state system through the European Union; and the effect of mass media on definitions of the public sphere and political action. A rudimentary grasp of modern European history is assumed, but supplemental reading will provide a broad narrative base for students with no background in the field.
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11112 |
HIST 201 Alexander the Great |
James Romm |
M . W . . |
1:30 -2:50 pm |
OLIN 203 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Classical Studies Alexander the Great changed the world more completely than any other
human being, but did he change it for the better? How should Alexander be
understood -- as a tyrant of Hitlerian proportions, or as a philosopher-king
seeking to save the Greek world from self-destruction, or as an utterly deluded
madman? Such questions remain very much unresolved among modern
historians. In this course we will attempt to find our own answers (or
lack of them) after reading the ancient sources concerning Alexander and examining
as much primary evidence as can be gathered. Students will attain insight
not only into a cataclysmic period of history but into the moral and
ideological complexities that surround the assessment of historical
personality, whether in antiquity or in the modern world. No
prerequisite, but students will be greatly helped by some familiarity with
Greek history or civilization.
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11810 |
HIST
2138
Perpetual Peace: War, Pacifism |
Gregory
Moynahan |
.
T . . . |
4:00
– 6:20 pm |
RKC
200 |
HIST |
Immanuel Kant began his famous essay “Perpetual Peace” by
noting that for the cynic the topic of his essay could only apply to a
graveyard. Yet he proposes that through a better constitution of human institutions
a realistic alternative, and a real peace, could be developed. Can
it? Germany, the country that was perhaps responsible for the most
horrific wars of the twentieth century, has certainly provided some of the
bleakest responses to this question, but also some of the more constructive and
utopian. In this course, we will examine the dialectic of war and peace
in Germany, and later the European Union, from the Thirty Years War to the
present. Topics will include: the relation of peace treaties (Westphalia,
Congress of Vienna, the Versailles treaties) to subsequent wars; the military
realism of Clausewitz and Bismarck; the development of feminism, psychoanalysis
and socialism as modes of pacifism; the relation of the holocaust to war
ideologies; the post-war attempts in both Germanys to create a culture in which
war was abhorrent; and finally the successes and failures of the European Union
in relation to the problem of war. Students will write a short 1-2 page
paper each week in addition to a longer paper. Class format will
frequently involve strategic games, role-playing and exercises in
communication.
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11601 |
SOC
/ HIST 214
Contemporary American Immigration |
Joel
Perlmann |
.
T. Th . |
4:00
– 5:20 pm |
OLIN
202 |
SSCI/DIFF |
Cross-listed: American Studies, Human Rights, Social Policy, SRE This course will include a backward glance at American immigration in the period 1930 through 1965, but it focuses primarily on the contemporary immigration (1965-2010) that began arriving after immigration law was changed in the later year. Major themes include similarities and contrasts to earlier periods of American immigration, who comes 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. This is the second part of a year-long course which deals with both past and present; either half may be taken separately.
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11421 |
HIST 229 Confucianism: Humanity, Rites, and Rights |
Robert Culp |
M . W . . |
10:30 - 11:50 am |
OLIN 308 |
HUM/DIFF |
Cross-listed:
Asian Studies, Gender and Sexuality 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 16th
through the 19th 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.
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11019 |
HIST 2356 Native Peoples of North America |
Christian Crouch |
. . W . F |
1:30 -2:50 pm |
OLIN 204 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed: American Studies From
Sacajawea's appearance on the dollar coin to Squanto's role in elementary school
classrooms teaching the first Thanksgiving, Americans obsess, discuss,
question, imagine, construct, impose, and ponder the role and place of the
indigenous population in this country. Of less awareness is the
history of interactions between indigenous Americans and the Africans and
African Americans after the Columbian exchange. This course provides an
overview of the history created by and between native peoples, Africans, and
Europeans from the fifteenth through the twentieth century. Special attention
will be paid to the exchanges and contests between Native Americans and African
Americans in the colonial and early national period, as well as today.
The focus will be on both primary sources and historical interpretations
of interactions in order to provide a context for evaluating questions
of current Native American politics and the question of financial and land
reparations.
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11020 |
HIST 237 The Sixties |
Mark Lytle |
. T . . . |
2:30 -3:50 pm |
OLIN 205 |
HIST |
|
|
|
|
M . . . . |
7:00 - 10:00 pm |
OLIN 205 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
American Studies, Environmental &
Urban Studies, Human Rights This course will examine
the irony of increasing political dissent and violence in an era of relative peace
and prosperity. It will touch on such topics as civil rights, media and
politics, narcissism, the Cuban missile crisis, youth alienation, popular
culture, the feminist movement, and Watergate. It will take an in-depth look at
the three presidents who left their mark on the era--John Kennedy, Lyndon
Johnson, and Richard Nixon--as well as the most disruptive crisis of the
post-war years, the Vietnam War.
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11009 |
HIST 241 Czarist Russia |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
M . W . . |
3:00 -4:20 pm |
OLINLC 120 |
HIST |
Cross
listed: Russian and Eurasian Studies A semester-long survey will
explore Russian history from Peter the Great to the 1917 revolution in a broad
context of modernization and its impact on the country. Among the topics of special interest
are: reforms of Peter the Great and
their effects; the growth of Russian absolutism; the position of peasants and
workers; the rift between the monarchy and educated society; the Russian
revolutionary movement and Russian Marxism; the overthrow of the Russian
autocracy. The readings will include
contemporary studies on Russian history and works by nineteenth-century Russian
writers.
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11582 |
HIST 2701 The Holocaust, 1933-1945 |
Cecile Kuznitz |
. T . Th . |
10:30 -11:50 am |
HEG 200 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed: Human Rights,
German Studies, Jewish Studies, STS 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.
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11555 |
HIST 280B American Environmental History II: The
Age of Ecology |
Mark Lytle |
. . W . F |
10:30 - 11:50 am |
OLIN 101 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
American Studies, Environmental & Urban Studies (core course);
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.
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11613 |
HIST
2812
The History of International Institutions |
Jonny
Cristol |
M
. . . . . . W . . |
3:00 -4:20 pm 3:00-4:20
pm |
OLIN 202 RKC
115 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Political Studies This class will trace the history of international institutions from the Concert of Europe to the European River Commissions to the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. It will examine the internal political debates and the geopolitical context that led to the demise of the League of Nations and the rise of the United Nations. Special attention will be paid to: the roles of Wilson, FDR, and Truman; the Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta, and San Francisco Conferences; the historical role of regional organizations such as CARICOM and ASEAN; and the rise and consequence of the international financial institutions created at Bretton Woods. We will also look at the major successes and failures of these institutions over the last 200 years. The class will end with a discussion of the future of these organizations and a look at alternative models of organization.
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11572 |
SST 298 Exiles, Refugees, and Survivors: The
Exodus from Hitler’s Germany |
David Kettler |
. . . Th . |
4:00 -6:20 pm |
OLIN 306 |
SSCI |
See Social Studies section
for description.
|
11416 |
HIST 3142 Violence in the Early Americas |
Christian Crouch |
. . . Th . |
9:30 - 11:50 am |
OLIN 309 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed: Africana Studies, American Studies, Gender and
Sexuality Studies, Human Rights, SRE, French Studies The frontier is one of the great
underlying constructs of identity in the Western Hemisphere. This nebulous, turbulent borderland has been
marshaled to defend everything from the natural expansion of the United States
to the hallowed memory of a colonial past to the current political rights of
indigenous groups. But what was the
violence of the colonial Americas really like? Who participated, who suffered,
who fought, and what did it all mean? What constituted "exceptional"
or "daily" violence? This seminar investigates the violent
interactions between Native Americans and Europeans, between competing European
empires, between slaves and masters, and all the categories in between - that
shaped life in the colonial Americas.
Theories of violence will be considered in addition to the primary and
secondary colonial sources in order to understand the role violence plays in
social and cultural formations.
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11420 |
HIST 316 The History of Education in the US, 1636-2002 |
Ellen Lagemann |
. T . . . |
1:30 -3:50 pm |
HEG 200 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies In this class, we will examine the history of
American education, broadly conceived (to include not just schooling, but also
education within families, religious institutions, places of work, and via the
mass media – as Bernard Bailyn has put it, “all that is involved in the
transmission of culture across the generations”). Our consideration of the history of education will be set within
the context of U.S. political, social, economic, and cultural history. The purpose of the class is to help students
understand how pivotal education has always been in all aspects of the history
of the United States, especially the history of U.S. social policy.
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11587 |
HIST 324 Society, Politics, Racialization and the
Transformation of Immigration Policy in the U.S. and other Western Countries,
1870-1930 |
Joel Perlmann |
. . W . . |
4:30 -6:50 pm |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI/DIFF |