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This course focuses on the origins and development of monasticism as one of the central institutions of medieval Europe. Topics include the appeal of asceticism in late antique society; the role of the monasteries in the collapse and preservation of European civilization; the social, economic, and political impact of Benedictine monasticism on the development of Western Europe; and the progressive reforms of this institution from Benedict to Francis. R. Fulton. Spring.
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R. Fulton. Spring.
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PQ: Advanced standing. Never an easy task, debating Hannah Arendt is particularly difficult when it comes to her "Jewish writings." Although sometimes she is outright wrong, some of her philosophically or historically more challenged expositions (e.g., Eichmann in Jerusalem) turn out to contain brilliant insights. This course reads and discusses as many o f Arendt ? texts as possible. Inasmuch as anti-Semitism is part of this complex, we also discuss anti-Semitism, but our focus is on Jews and Jewishness in the Diaspora, in Palestine, and in Israe l. M. Geyer, P. Mendes Flohr. Winter
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This course is designed to provide students with an overview of major themes in the history of Western Europe between approximately 1000 and 1500 AD. Topics include the Gregorian reform movement, the rise and decline of Papal Monarchy, the Crusades, urbanization, the development of universities, the Black Death, the Hundred Years War, and the growth of national monarchies. Although primarily a lecture course, students analyze primary and secondary works during occasional classroom discussions. J. Lyon. Spring.
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J. Lyon. Spring.
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This is the first course in a three-quarter sequence, which introduces the processes and events that constituted the passage to modernity in Europe: monarchical absolutism as a means to state-building on the Continent and its parliamentary alternative in Britain; the intellectual and cultural transformations effected by the Enlightenment, including the creation of a liberal public sphere; the French Revolution and its pan-European implications; the rise of the laissez-faire market and the Industrial Revolution; and the emergence of feminism and socialism. Primarily a lecture course, readings include both primary and secondary sources. J. Goldstein. Autumn.
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This is the second course in a three-quarter sequence, which surveys the history of Europe from the era of its greatest hegemony in the world to the eve of the depression of the 1930s. Topics include industrialization; the revolutions of 1848; the formation and consolidation of modern nation-states; the rise and travails of political liberalism and laissez faire; the spread of socialism in its various guises; international rivalries, alliances, and imperialism; and the causes, character, and effects of World War I. J. Craig. Winter.
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This lecture course introduces European history in the twentieth century. Topics include the causes, experiences, and effects of World War I and II; the wars of decolonization; the Cold War and conflict in the former Yugoslavia; transformations in society and economy, including the Depression, the making of the welfare state, changes in gender relations, the changing place of religious belief, and the consequences of post-colonial immigration; political contestation, particularly conflict between Left and Right in the 1930s, protests of workers, students and women in the 1960s and 1970s, and anti-globalization mobilization at the end of the twentieth century; issues of national sovereignty, raised by the Europeanism, Bolshevism and Americanism as well as the changing relations between European metropoles and peripheries. A reflection on the state of Europe today concludes the course. L. Auslander. Spring.
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This course investigates the beginnings of the modern global economy by analyzing the environmental basis of Western expansion from 1492 to 1800. The power and wealth of early modern empires rested on the massive reordering of the natural world. We track this process in multiple and interconnected dimensions: ecological, social, scientific, and political. In terms of geographic scope, we look at a series of concrete case studies in colonization, from medieval Iceland to seventeenth-century Barbados and eighteenth-century Lapland, Mauritius, and New South Wales. Readings include a variety of primary sources as well as such scholarly classics of the field as Alfred Crosby's Ecological Imperialism and Richard Grove' s Green Imperialism. F. Albritton Jonsson. Autumn.
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This course focuses on the interaction of religious controversy and political development in sixteenth-century Europe, with attention also given to the varieties of political thought that emerged in this time. H. Gray. Winter.
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