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3.00 Credits
This course approaches 1 9th-century African history from the perspective of Africans' continuing efforts to initiate and control the economic and political processes within the continent. The course examines the creation of large-scale political empires and pays close attention to the impact of revolutionary Islam in 1 9th-century Africa. The course closely examines the internal processes underway in African societies as Africans reorganized their political economy to counter the increasing penetration of the African continent by Europeans. The course explores the nature of the interaction between Europeans and Africans and seeks to explain why, in the last quarter of the 1 9th century, Africa's political and territorial integrity collapsed before the force of European imperialism.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the imposition of white rule in South Africa, the development of apartheid, and the African challenge to white domination between 1 900 and 1 994. The course takes the view that the collapse of apartheid in the late 20th century did not begin with Nelson Mandela but was the culmination of multiple forms of struggle involving trade unionists, peasant activists, women's groups, intellectuals, community organizations, church groups, as well as the better-known formal political and military organizations. The course thus approaches black emancipation in South Africa as a process whose roots go back to the beginning of the 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
As the United States enters into a post-industrial age, it is worth revisiting the issues and problems associated with the nation's evolution into a post-agrarian society during the late 1 9th century. Issues of labor, race, gender, foreign affairs, and the role of government were quite contested as the United States entered this new economic reality. Through a selection of books and primary sources, the following topics will be explored: industrialization; the labor movement; the Populist movement; women's suffrage and the birth of modern feminism; the rise of segregation; American imperialism; progressivism; World War I; the Great Depression and the New Deal; and World War II.
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This course examines the events, ideas, and conflicts surrounding the American Revolution. It begins with an overview of British foreign policy during the period of "salutary neglect" and ends with ratificationof the Constitution in 1 789. Among the themes treated are the political, economic, and religious causes; popular and elite views of the conflict; popular mobilization; changes in social structure; dissent from/alternatives to the Revolution; how the Revolution was both a conservative and a radical movement.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the history and problems of colonial Latin America by focusing on particular themes and issues related to the Spanish and Portuguese colonization and rule of the Americas. Students will learn how those issues changed throughout the colonial period (1492- ca 1 820), understand some of the more general theoretical questions related to colonialism, and prepare to study modern Latin America with an eye for the way it is shaped by its colonial past.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the main events in the history of Latin America from Independence to the present. The class is organized around certain themes that cut across the Latin American continent: the development of political cultures, liberalism, neocolonialism, Majors, Minors, Other Programs of Study, Course Descriptions industrialization, nationalism, etc. We will explore the impact of these events on people's lives, paying special attention to geographical regions, class, gender, race, and ethnicity.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the cultural and economic aspects of Greek life as well as on the political and military conflicts within and without Greece. The time period begins with the Homeric era, continues through the flowering of Classical Greece in 5th-century Athens, covers the conquests of Alexander the Great, and concludes with the collapse of Hellenistic kingdoms in the face of Roman expansion at the time of Cleopatra. The settings extend from Greece to Persia, Anatolia, Syria, and Egypt.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the cultural and economic aspects of Roman life as well as on the political and military expansion of the Roman state. The time period covered extends from the founding of the Republic through the "fall" of the Roman Empire in the West in 476A.D. The setting is the entire Mediterranean world as it came under the influence of Roman power.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers Byzantine history from the reign of Constantine (306-336 A.D.) and concludes with the fall of Constantinople in 1 453 A.D. Byzantine civilization, founded on the classical heritage of Greece and Rome, evolved into a unique culture which profoundly affected the medieval world in both East and West. The pervasive role of religion, the development of an extraordinary artistic and legal tradition, and the interaction with "barbarians," Muslims,and Crusaders will be examined from primary sources as well as recent studies.
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3.00 Credits
An attempt to re-examine the "Dark Age" inEuropean history to show that it was an age of vitality, change, and diversity. Primary and secondary sources are used to explore the political, economic, religious, social, and cultural forces that shaped the Middle Ages. Topics of study include feudalism and the search for political order, courtly society, religious life and the work of medieval theologians, popular and aristocratic culture, and the waning of the Middle Ages.
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