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3.00 Credits
From the time of the Hippocratic medical text Airs, Waters, and Places, the natural and built environments were understood to shape the states and characteristics of human bodies. This connection is evident through many centuries of medical theory and practice, as well as in arguments advanced for the climatic and geographical determination of racial traits. The relationship between the body and the environment became a matter of particularly intense political struggle in nineteenth-century England and has become so again in our own time. This course examines the history of conceptions of the environmental shaping of human bodies with particular attention to nineteenth- and twentieth-century conflicts over sanitation, disease theories, and poverty, as well as to contemporary debates over toxic contamination and health. A. Gugliotta. Winter.
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This course examines a series of episodes in the history of the understanding of autobiographical memory. We begin with the emergence of academic psychology, and also psychoanalysis, in the late nineteenth century. We end with the "memory wars" of the 1980s and 1990s. We also examine beliefs about individual and "collective" memory; the impact of memory therapies during World War I and II; the impact of innovations in brain surgery on beliefs about the physiological memory record and the neurophysiology of remembering; and the impact of the rise of forensic psychology on the popular, scientific, and legal understanding of memo ry. A. Winter. Sprin
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This survey course covers the period from approximately 1700 AD to the present. We emphasize the genesis of the modern nations of Central Eurasia, including the post-Soviet republics and adjacent areas in the periphery of Central Eurasia. K. Arik. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the period from ca. 600 to 1100, including the rise and spread of Islam, the Islamic empire under the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs, and the emergence of regional Islamic states from Afghanistan and eastern Iran to North Africa and Spain. F. Donner. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence surveys the main trends in the political history of the Islamic world, with some attention to economic, social, and intellectual history.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the period from ca. 1100 to 1750, including the arrival of the Steppe Peoples (Turks and Mongols), the Mongol successor states, and the Mamluks of Egypt and Syria. We also study the foundation of the great Islamic regional empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Moghuls. J. Woods. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
Some knowledge of primary languages (i.e., Arabic, French, German, Greek, Latin, Persian, Spanish, Turkish) helpful. This course examines responses to the Mongol destruction of the Abbasid caliphate in 1258 and the background to formation of regional Muslim empires. Topics include the opening of confessional boundaries; Ibn Arabi, Ibn Taymiyya, and Ibn Khaldun; the development of alternative spiritualities, mysticism, and messianism in the fifteenth century; and transconfessionalism, antinomianism, and the articulation of sacral sovereignties in the sixteenth century. Readings in English. C. Fleischer. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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3.00 Credits
J. Woods. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the period from ca. 1750 to the present, focusing on Western military, economic, and ideological encroachment; the impact of such ideas as nationalism and liberalism; efforts at reform in the Islamic states; the emergence of the "modern" Middle East after World War I; the struggle for liberation from Western colonial and imperial control; the Middle Eastern states in the cold war era; and local and regional conflicts . H. Shissler. Spring.
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This colloquium explores selected aspects of the social, economic, and cultural history of tropical export commodities from Latin America (e.g., coffee, bananas, sugar, tobacco, henequen, rubber, vanilla, cocaine). Topics include land, labor, capital, markets, transport, geopolitics, power, taste, and consumption. E. Kouri. Winter.
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