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The 15th, 16th and 17th centuries were years of turmoil, excitement and change. Europeans were swept up in elevated struggles for religious, political and intellectual freedom on the one hand, and furious hunts for witches and heretics on the other. Course examines the nature of these struggles and the people who shaped them. But to recapture the pre-industrial world we have lost, it also probes the lives of ordinary citizens. To this end, the course considers such aspects of daily life as marriage and the family, medicine and magic, farming and soldiering. I
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Embraces the scientific and philosophic revolutions of 17th- and 18th-century Europe, from the Age of Genius, with its roots in the Baroque, to the Romantic reaction at the end of the 18th century. Emphasizes the works of the writers and thinkers who shaped so much of the structure of modern thought, and their impact on their own age as well as ours. Includes the political and social history of the major movements in Europe. I
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Examines the development of political ideas and attitudes as they manifested themselves in the revolutions of Western Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics include such fundamental concepts as liberalism, constitutionalism, nationalism and democracy as they were shaped and modified in the world of action from the Puritan Revolution in England to the Napoleonic era. I
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Extends from the Napoleonic period to the early 20th century. Includes such topics as French hegemony, continental blockage, and the fall of the Empire; English sea power and her colonial strength; Eastern European strength and tsarist Russia; revolutions of the mid-century; American Civil War; Industrial Revolution; liberalism and the growth of socialist ideology; and the Romantic movements. I
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Prerequisite(s): HI 102 or HI 111 Covers the first World War and its background, and cracks in Western domination of world affairs. Goes on to the boom of the 1920s and the economic crisis of the 1930s; the Russian Revolution and establishment of communism under Lenin, Stalin, Krushchev and contemporary Russian effects; World War II; the Cold War; Western losses in world politics; and 20th-century cultural growth and fragmentation. I
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Provides a historical overview of women in European history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. It asks: 1) What work did women do or what were they expected to do 2) What roles did women play within family structures 3) What relationships existed between women's family and work lives and 4) What ideas existed about women and what ideas did women have about themselves, their work, their roles D I
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Introduces the main currents of Soviet history from the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. Treats social and cultural factors and their interrelation with politics, Stalinism, World War II, growth and expansion of the Soviet bloc, and the post-Stalin era. Discusses the breakup of the Soviet Union and the development of the successor states. I
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Analyzes the processes by which European states discovered, explored and colonized the Western Hemisphere. The political, economic and cultural expansion of Europe, the development of intercolonial rivalries and a comparison of imperial systems are some areas of inquiry.
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This course investigates colonial history with particular emphasis on three nearby communities-Concord, Lexington and Lincoln- that played a decisive role in the opening battle of the American Revolution. The class will not only study traditional accounts but also learn how historians, archaeologists and architects are uncovering that history. Students will have the opportunity to handle original source materials and discuss with experts the policy debates about the preservation of this 18th-century heritage and its presentation to the 20th-century public.
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3.00 Credits
Studies intensively the causes, course and result of the War for Independence. Examines the formation of the national state.
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