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  • HST U393: Islam and Empires

    4.00 Credits
    Northeastern University

    Surveys Middle Eastern history from the era of Sulayman the Magnificent, the sixteenth-century Ottoman sultan, to the end of the twentieth century. Geographically, focuses on the lands of the former Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Iran. Thematically, focuses on the transformation of state and society under the impact of a changing world economy and European colonialism. Traces the transformation of powerful world empires in the sixteenth century, based on religious and dynastic authority, into secular, often military-ruled nation-states in the twentieth century. Also follows the Islamic fundamentalist backlashes that these developments provoked.
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  • HST U394: Islamic Nationalism

    4.00 Credits
    Northeastern University

    Traces the historical antecedents to contemporary resurgent Islamic nationalism.
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  • HST U395: Middle East in the Twentieth Century

    4.00 Credits
    Northeastern University

    Tackles major questions and debates, such as Orientalism, Arab and local nationalism, Zionism, gender relations, labor relations, religious revival, colonial legacies, and civil society.
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  • HST U396: The Middle East and Modernity

    4.00 Credits
    Northeastern University

    Examines Middle Eastern history since the sixteenth century in the light of the current literature on the meanings and trajectories of modernity. Analyzes the processes of transformation in different spheres of social organization (state, family, and so on), the economic modernization paradigm, and cultural expressions of modernity through literature and architecture, as well as the Islamic discourse on modernity, and the ongoing debate on the relationship between "tradition" and "modernity.
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  • HST U397: Colonialism and Contemporary Africa

    4.00 Credits
    Northeastern University

    Considers several questions on the path toward a better understanding of the contemporary condition of Africa and the West's relation to it. Considers why and how outsiders subjugated a continent. How did European rule affect African economies, social organization, and ethnic identities How did Africans adapt to, manipulate, and ultimately overthrow the systems developed by Europeans to control them What is the heritage of colonialism in contemporary Africa
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  • HST U398: Radicals,Terrorists,and Insurgents

    4.00 Credits
    Northeastern University

    Analyzes various movements that have turned to violence as a means of achieving political ends. Traces the history of political violence from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing on the ideologies and tactics employed by anti-colonial, anti-imperial, and other movements. The terms "radical," "terrorist," and "insurgent" have become catchphrases almost devoid of meaning. We attempt to understand what rationales lead people to political violence as well as what commonalities are shared by diverse moveme
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  • HST U411: Environment in the Age of Discovery

    4.00 Credits
    Northeastern University

    Explores the statement "There are two Europes and there are two Africas," which describes the essence of this course, the exchange of people and all of the materials found in nature that we associate with people. Their migration across the Atlantic since the "discovery" of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492 has been one of the most significant continuing events in human history. We may dispute the notion of discovery by Europeans in the fifteenth century, since many millions of people inhabited North and South America at the time of Columbus's arrival. His arrival, however, signaled the beginning of an exchange that has never end
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  • HST U412: Global Environmental History

    4.00 Credits
    Northeastern University

    Examines the impact of four significant human transitions on the environment of the planet Earth. They include the transition from hunter/gathering to settlement and the invention of agriculture about 10,000 years ago. The agricultural or neolithic revolution was followed thousands of years later by the urban revolution and ultimately the Industrial Revolution. These three important developments in world environmental history happened within specific millennia and simultaneously in different parts of the world. In the beginning, they were not the product of physical or cultural diffusion. Urbanization and industrialization, however, promoted worldwide migration that disrupted and changed the world's ecology and environment in significant ways. Also explores the electronic revolution of the past centuries, which has had its own set of environmental impacts.
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  • HST U421: History through Film

    4.00 Credits
    Northeastern University

    Explores various historical issues as seen through the eyes of historians and filmmakers. Presents both acted and documentary films in combination with readings from a variety of sources and interpretive materials. Through a series of case studies, the first half of the course looks at the ways in which filmmakers use (and abuse) history as a source of dramatic "stories," while the second uses the same approach to understand the ways that historians use visual media to understand the politics and culture of the times they were made and as historical evidence.
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  • HST U422: Recitation for HST U421

    0.00 Credits
    Northeastern University

    Provides small-group discussion format to cover material in HST U421.
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