15425

HIST 102 Europe since 1815

Gennady Shkliarevsky

M . W . .

11:50am-1:10pm

HEG 106

HIST

Cross listed: 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: 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. Class size: 22

15357

HIST 120 War and Peace

Mark Lytle / Richard Aldous

M . W . .

11:50am-1:10pm

RKC 103

HIST

Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies, Human Rights This global course surveys the history of the international system since the outbreak of war in 1914. We will give particular attention to the three great conflicts of the twentieth century – World War I, World War II, and the Cold War – and the shifting balance of power in Europe and Asia. We will also explore the historiographic controversies that surround these events. Special prominence is given to the policies and strategy of the Great Powers, and the major ideological forces that defined them. In that way, our survey will help you achieve an understanding of the broad sweep of international history, and to be able to differentiate among the forces—including imperialism, fascism, communism, liberal capitalism, science, and globalism—that have disturbed the peace and shaped the world order. (Global Core Course for History) Class size: 45

15424

LAIS 120 ModERn Latin america since IndepENDENCE

Miles Rodriguez

M . W . .

10:10am- 11:30am

OLIN 305

HIST/DIFF

Cross-listed: History This is an introductory survey of the history of Modern Latin America since Independence. The course traces the process of Independence of the Latin American nations from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires in North and South America in the early nineteenth century, and the long-term, contested, and often violent processes of nation-formation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Primary source and historical texts examine the region’s main challenges in this period, including persistent inequality, regional disintegration, endemic violence, elite political control, revolution, military rule, and civil reconciliation. Major historical issues and debates for study and discussion include the meaning and uses of the idea of “Latin America,” slavery and empire in nineteenth-century Brazil, and the roles of race, religion, women, and indigenous peoples in Latin American societies. Class size: 20

15417

HIST 124 Early Modern French Empire

Tabetha Ewing

M . W . .

11:50am-1:10pm

OLIN 205

HIST/DIFF

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, French Studies, Global & Int’l Studies 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. Class size: 40

15422

HIST 141 A HAUNTED UNION: TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMANY AND THE UNIFICATIONS OF EUROPE

Gregory Moynahan

. T . Th .

1:30pm- 2:50pm

OLINLC 206

HIST

Cross-listed: German Studies, Human Rights 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, 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. Class size: 22

15421

HIST 144 The History of Experiment: EXPERIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN WESTERN SOCIETY

Gregory Moynahan

. T . Th .

10:10am- 11:30am

HEG 106

HIST

Cross-listed: Experimental Humanities (core course), Science, Technology & Society (core course) The scientific method and the modern form of the scientific experiment are arguably the most powerful inventions of the modern period. Although dating back in its modern form to only the sixteenth century, the concept of the experiment as an attempt to find underlying continuities in experience has numerous origins stretching back to earliest recorded history. In this course, we will look at several different epochs' definition of experiment, focusing on the classical, medieval, and finally renaissance era to the present. Throughout, we will understand the concept of experiment as closely connected with an era's broader cosmology and definition of experience, and as such will see the epistemological problem of the experiment in a framework that includes aesthetics, theology, ethics and politics. We will also assume that "experiment" has taken different forms in the different sciences, and even in fields such as art and law. Authors read will include Aristotle, Lucretius, DaVinci, Leibniz, Newton, Goethe, Darwin, Curie, Tesla, Einstein, Schroedinger, Pasteur and McClintock. Class size: 22

15420

HIST 181 Jews in the Modern World

Cecile Kuznitz

. T . Th .

3:10pm-4:30pm

HEG 201

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. Class size:18

15415

HIST 185 Making of Modern Middle East

Omar Cheta

M . W . .

11:50am-1:10pm

HEG 308

HIST/DIFF

Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies; Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies This course is a general historical survey of the Middle East since the late 18th century. It covers the major transformations that the region witnessed, especially, the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, European imperialism, nationalism (including the Arab-Israeli conflict), political Islam and, most recently, the Arab Spring. The course emphasizes the interaction between society, culture and politics. Therefore, in addressing each of these broad themes, it pays particular attention to their social and cultural aspects such as, gender, labor, popular culture and forms of protest. The geographic focus of the course is largely the Eastern Mediterranean (including Egypt and Turkey), Iran and, to a lesser extent, the Gulf. While emphasizing the history of the modern Middle East, the course is meant to help students acquire critical tools necessary for the study of history more generally. For example, students will be required to examine primary texts and to reflect on the uses of history in contemporary contexts.

Class size: 22

15414

HIST 2007 The World of James Bond

Richard Aldous

M . W . .

10:10am- 11:30am

OLIN 203

HIST

The character of James Bond has played a defining role in creating our understanding of what it means to be a spy and an Englishman. This course looks at the reality behind the fiction of one the Britain’s most glamorous and enduring exports, as well as the author who created him and the context of the postwar world. Background reading: Ian Fleming, The Blofeld Trilogy (Penguin, 2010); Simon Winder, The Man Who Saved Britain (Picador, 2006). Class size: 22

15541

HIST 2015 WHEN RACE MORPHED: UNDERSTANDING THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1900 TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA

Joel Perlmann

. T . Th .

4:40pm-6:00pm

OLIN 201

HIST/DIFF

Cross list: American Studies, Human Rights, Sociology This course traces the ethnic and racial divisions among Americans during much of the twentieth century.  The non-white racial groups we speak of today are part of this history: blacks, Asians and native Americans.   But so too are the many European immigrant groups who arrived in their tens of millions by the 1920s: Italians, Slavs, Jews; and so too are Mexicans, Chinese and others.  The course has two goals.  First, it traces the social history of these peoples across the years of mass immigration, Depression, two world wars and the Civil Rights era (1950s and 1960s).  Second, it also traces the ways in which these peoples were in fact understood -- especially by intellectuals and in government classifications like the Census.  For example, immigration authorities regularly classified the European peoples mentioned above as races, and many Americans thought some of these races much more suited for America than others. So too did most of the Congressmen who voted to end unrestricted immigration in the twenties.   Or to cite another example, the 1930 U.S. Census enumerated 'Mexicans' as a distinct race.   And finally, federal concern with discrimination against American "minorities" developed from the forties to the sixties changing who was included among the minorities.  In taking up such topics, we will also confront how and how much 'whiteness' was changing. Class size: 22

15011

HIST 2111 THE High Middle Ages

Alice Stroup

. T . Th .

10:10am- 11:30am

OLIN 203

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. Class size: 22

15361

HIST 2238 Africa and the Indian Ocean

Drew Thompson

M . W . .

11:50am-1:10pm

HEG 204

HIST/DIFF

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, Asian Studies, Environmental & Urban Studies, Human Rights The Indian Ocean travels along Africa’s Swahili Coast, and for some time has facilitated the movement of people, goods, and ideas between Africa and Asia. In addition to being an oceanic divide, the Indian Ocean is a historiographical tradition through which to think about Africa’s historical past in ways not permitted by the Black Atlantic tradition. This course seeks to engage the Indian Ocean as both an object of study and a theoretical lens onto Africa’s history. In turn, it will consider the ways that populations in Africa and Asia even before European colonization engaged with the Ocean in their daily lives as well as how such activities like fishing, sailing and farming reshaped geographies of colonization and resistance in East and Central Africa. Students will use architectural plans and traveler accounts to reconstruct the historical origins of slave and trading towns on the Swahili Coast. Participants will also consider how this early history set the backdrop against which not only nationalist movements fought for Southern Africa’s independence but the Cold War played out in Africa. This colonial and nationalist context offers an analytical space to revisit more recent engagements with the Indian Ocean, particularly China’s and Brazil’s renewed interest with the region, the mineral wars of the Great Lakes, and the identity politics at play around displaced migrant communities. This course seeks to use the history of the Indian Ocean as it relates to Africa in order to prompt a rethinking of the geographical and theoretical axes along which we engage with African histories of colonialism, nationalism, and decolonization.

Class size: 22

15358

HIST 2241 Contemporary Russia

Sean McMeekin

M . W . .

10:10am- 11:30am

HEG 204

HIST

Cross-listed: Russian & Eurasian Studies This course provides an introduction to contemporary Russia and the CIS. After examining the dilemmas of reform in the 1980s and the collapse of the Soviet Union, we will trace the different paths of Russia and the other successor states up to the present day. Key themes include the command economy and efforts to liberalize it; the nature of the Soviet collapse and whether it was “inevitable”; market reforms and “shock therapy”; the hyperinflation of the early 1990s and its consequences; the rise of the mafia; the war(s) in Chechnya; the transition from Yeltsin to Putin, and the current scene. Class size: 25

15362

HIST 2271 Black Modernism

Tabetha Ewing

M . W . .

6:20pm-7:40pm

OLIN 101

HIST/DIFF

Cross-listed: Human Rights This course is a grounding in the foundational literature of 20th-century anti-colonial and post-colonial thought as they buttressed, abraded, or rejected prevailing notions of the modern. It is an intellectual history exploring African diasporic political and social movements from revolutionary and anti-colonial resistance to pan-Africanism and négritude.  Theorizations of diaspora and exilic identities emerge in tension with the contemporary understanding of national identity, where birthplace, homeland, natal language, and loss became rival terms in the struggle for territorial- and self-sovereignty. By focusing on the francophone world, students will follow developments in Paris, Marseilles, Saint Domingue/Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Senegal enabling them to assess heterogeneous responses to a single imperial framework. We read across genres --history by C.L.R. James, poetry of Aime Césaire, essays of Léopold Senghor and Suzanne Césaire, psycho-social theory of Frantz Fanon, and a novel by Maryse Condé. We will frame readings of this primary literature with more recent conceptualizations of the French Atlantic, the black-Atlantic, -Caribbean, and -diaspora. Class size: 20

15870

HIST 2315 HOW TO WAGE WAR IN COLONIAL AMERICA

Christian Crouch

M . W . .

11:50am-1:10pm

OLIN LC 206

HIST

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, American Studies, Experimental Humanities, French Studies, Human Rights, LAIS Thousands of men march in a line towards cannons and muskets at point blank range. Abenakis watch the snow accumulate around the walls of an English fort, then scale over the defenses silently in the night to attack. En route to find the "Lost City of Gold," Spanish soldiers sack Acoma Pueblo and then flee. "Coromantees" and Irish servants challenge English slaveholders' dominion in Barbados and nearly succeed. Colonial America existed in a constant state of war. This course is a close study of formal and informal military conflicts from the 16th to the early 19th centuries, looking at well-known engagements such as the so-called "French and Indian War" and lesser known episodes, like the French and Abenaki raid on Deerfield in 1704. Students will learn how European and indigenous American rules of violence developed, shifted, and adapted in response to the Columbian Exchange, and how war came to shape contemporary American identity. In addition to primary sources, we will consider literary, cinematic, and live reenactment interpretations of colonial conflicts and consider what these tell us about the relationships of history and memory. Class size: 22

15364

HIST 2356 Native american History

Christian Crouch

M . W . .

1:30pm-2:50pm

HEG 102

HIST/DIFF

Cross-listed: American Studies; Human Rights 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.  Class size: 22

15359

HIST 240 20th Century Diplomatic History

Sean McMeekin

M . W . .

3:10pm-4:30pm

RKC 103

HIST

Cross-listed: Political Studies This course examines in depth the tumultuous history of the “short twentieth century.” While one cannot understand the period without grappling with social movements and ideas, our emphasis will be primarily on high politics, war and diplomacy from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, with a brief epilogue on the post-Cold-War era. Class size: 25

15426

HIST 242 20th C Russia: from Communism to Nationalism

Gennady Shkliarevsky

. T . Th .

3:10pm-4:30pm

OLIN 305

HIST

Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies, Human Rights, Russian and Eurasian Studies 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. Class size: 18

15418

HIST 2701 The Holocaust, 1933-1945

Cecile Kuznitz

. T . Th .

11:50am-1:10pm

OLIN 301

HIST/DIFF

Cross-listed: Human Rights, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Science, Technology & Science 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. Class size: 20

15596

HIST 280B AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY: THE AGE OF ECOLOGY

Mark Lytle

M . W . .

3:10pm-4:30pm

HEG 102

HIST

Cross-listed: American Studies, Environmental & Urban Studies (core course) 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. Class size: 22

15384

HIST / EUS 305 EUS Practicum: Environmental and Urban Disasters

Myra Armstead

. . . . F

11:50am-2:20pm

OLIN 201

SSCI

See EUS section for description.

15355

HIST 3060 Entrepreneurs, Intellectuals and the history of the Global South

Omar Cheta

. . . Th .

1:30pm-3:50pm

ALBEE 106

HIST/DIFF

Cross-listed: Asian Studies, Global & Int’l Studies, Middle Eastern Studies This seminar explores the circulation of goods and ideas in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds from ca. 1750 until ca. 1950. Rather than studying the history of the colonized non-West in relation to Europe, this course brings to the forefront the connections between different parts of the colonized world, most notably the Middle East and South Asia. It does so through studying economic and intellectual developments. The two centuries under consideration witnessed major reorientations of the trade networks that tied together the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean economies, as well as the making (and re-making) of economic enterprises of global significance such as the East India Company in the 1700s, the Suez Canal in the 1800s and the discovery of oil in the 1900s. Along the same trade routes, and in response to the radically changing economies of the colonized world, emerged a plethora of ideas (and ideologies) such as nationalism, Islamism, anti-capitalism and, in the twentieth century, Third-Worldism.

Class size: 15

15013

HIST 3121 The Case for Liberties

Alice Stroup

M . . . .

1:30pm-3:50pm

OLIN 308

HIST

Related interest: French Studies; Human Rights What is tyranny? When is rebellion justified? What defines a nation? Given human nature, what is the ideal government? Is there a human right to free trade? Is commerce compatible with art and philosophy? Such questions prompted Netherlanders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to carve a Dutch Republic out of the Spanish Empire, and to create a "Golden Age" of capitalism, science, and art. We will supplement monographs on Dutch history with paintings, scientific treatises, and the literature of rebellion and republicanism (including Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise). Class size: 12

15416

HIST 3142 Violence in Colonial america

Christian Crouch

. T . . .

10:10am- 12:30pm

OLIN 305

HIST/DIFF

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Human Rights, 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. This course counts as an American Studies Junior Seminar and a History Major Conference. Class size: 15

15419

HIST / JS 315 The Culture of Yiddish

Cecile Kuznitz

. . W . .

1:30pm-3:50pm

HEG 201

HIST

Cross-listed: Jewish Studies For nearly one thousand years Yiddish was the primary language of European Jewry and its emigrant communities. 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 vernacular 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. Familiarity with the Hebrew alphabet and/or Jewish history helpful but not required. Class size: 15

15356

HIST 3151 “WE MAKE OUR OWN HISTORY”: * A Practicum on Eleanor Roosevelt

Cynthia Koch

. . . . F

1:30pm-5:30pm

OLIN 309

HIST

Cross-listed: American Studies, Human Rights In this practicum, students will use the archives of the FDR Presidential Library, the resources of the Eleanor Roosevelt NHS, Val-Kill, and secondary sources to develop an online exhibit using the theory and practices of public history. Students will study and interpret the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, each choosing a topic to fully develop, including, but not limited to, Eleanor Roosevelt and: UN and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Civil Rights, Role of the First Lady, Val-Kill Industries, New Deal Arts programs, National Youth Administration, Resettlement Communities, "My Day" column, and her authorship of 27 books. The practicum is being offered in collaboration with the Center for Civic Engagement’s international student conference on Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights to be held in the summer of 2015. Guest speakers or a partner from the NPS Eleanor Roosevelt site will be involved.

*”One Thing I believe profoundly: we make our own history.” Eleanor Roosevelt, Tomorrow is Now. Class size: 10

15591

HIST 3229 BEFORE BARD: A PUBLIC HISTORY PRACTICUM iII

Cynthia Koch

M . . . .

1:30pm – 3:50pm

HDR 101A

HIST

Cross-listed: American Studies In this practicum, students will study and interpret the history and historic context of Bard College, dating from prehistory and including early estates, local farms, and the industrial development of the river; the Romantic and Picturesque landscape and architectural movements; and culminating with St. Stephens College and the early history of Bard College. Community-building tools of oral history and local history will be woven by students from archival and secondary research. Students will use selections from the Preservation Master Plan for Bard College, the Bard College Archives, and independent research in primary and secondary sources to add to the College’s student-developed online exhibit, “Before Bard: A Sense of Place” that is available on the Bard Archives website: http://omekalib.bard.edu/exhibits/show/before_bard. This is an on-going public history project. Each semester the website is elaborated based on student research. (Before Bard can be scheduled as a tutorial.)

15363

HIST 339 Cuba & THE Spanish Caribbean in global perspective: sugar, slavery & revolution

Miles Rodriguez

. . W . .

1:30pm-3:50pm

HEG 200

HIST/DIFF

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, American Studies, Global & Int’l Studies, Human Rights, LAIS The Americas began in the Caribbean and its islands were at the origin of Latin America. In the Caribbean, global empires established African slavery and the first sugar plantations in the “New World.” Sugar soon became a tropical commodity for local production and global consumption. The Spanish Empire, the first major empire in the Caribbean in the sixteenth century, reasserted its power there in the nineteenth century. The Spanish colonial legacies of sugar, slavery, and revolution influenced Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico through the twentieth century and continue to influence these countries today. This seminar explores global connections and hybridities involving sugar, slavery, and revolution in the Spanish Caribbean, from the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The seminar focuses on the worlds sugar made after slavery in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico under United States influence in the first half of the twentieth century to the Cuban Revolution. Class size: 15

15427

HIST 347 1917 Revolution in Russia

Gennady Shkliarevsky

M . . . .

4:40pm-7:00pm

OLIN 301

HIST

Cross-listed: Human Rights, Russian & Eurasian Studies The subject of the seminar will be the 1917 revolution in Russia. The topics under consideration will include: the economic and social developments which preceded the revolution, intellectual and cultural background of the revolutionary movement, ideology and practice of major political parties which participated in the revolutionary events, the role of women in the revolutionary movement, the political dynamics of the revolution and the reasons for the Bolshevik victory, as well as the effects of the revolution on Russian society. Readings will include original works and scholarly studies. Class size: 15