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  • HIST 206: From Conquest to Revolution:A History of Colonial Latin America

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Osorio The ?discovery? by Christopher Columbus in 1492 of the ?New World? unleashed a process of dramatic changes in what we now call Latin America. Spanning roughly from the fifteenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, this course examines the ideological underpinnings of the Spanish Conquest, the place of the Americas in a universal Spanish empire, and the role of urban centers in the consolidation of Span-ish rule. Emphasis is placed on indigenous societies and the transformation and interactions with Africans and Europeans under colonial rule; the role of Indian labor and African slavery in the colonial economy; the creation, consolidation, and decline of colonial political institu-tions; and, finally, the role of religion and baroque ritual in the creation of new hybrid colonial cultures and identiti es. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Fall Unit: 1.
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  • HIST 207: Contemporary Problems in Latin American History

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Osorio NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. In this problem-centered survey of the contemporary history of Latin America we will critique and go beyond the many stereotypes which have inhibited understanding between Anglo and Latin America, cultivating instead a healthy respect for com-plexity and contradiction. Over the course of the semester we will examine key themes in current history, including the dilemmas of uneven national development in dependent economies; the emergence of anti-imperialism and various forms of political and cultural nationalism; the richness and variety of revolution; ethnic, religious, feminist, literary, artistic, and social movements; the imposing social problems of the sprawling Latin American megalopolis; the political heterodoxies of leftism, populism, authoritarianism, and neoliberalism; the patterns of peace, violence, and the drug trade; the considerable U.S. influence in the region, and finally, transnational migration and globalization. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 208: Society and Culture in Medieval Europe

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Ramseyer This course examines life in medieval Europe c. 750-1250 in all its manifestations: political, religious, social, cultural, and economic. Top-ics to be studied include the papacy, the political structures of France, Germany, and Italy, monks and monastic culture, religion and spiri-tuality, feudalism, chivalry, courtly love and literature, the crusading movement, intellectual life and theological debates, economic struc-tures and their transformations, and the varied roles of women in medieval life. Students will learn to analyze and interpret primary sources from the period, as well as to evaluate critically historiographical debates related to medieval history. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 209: The British Isles:From Roses to Revolution

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Frace By the late seventeenth century, the British Isles were poised to compete for European (and soon global) dominance, yet their unsteady road to power and stability was precarious at every turn. This course will thus explore a period that is often as renowned as it is misunders-tood, and whose defining events and personalities have long captured the historical imagination: the Wars of the Roses; King Henry VIII; Queen ?Bloody? Mary and Elizabeth; the British Civil War/Puritan Revolution; and the Royal Restoration. While moving across time, we will also focus on the broader socioeconomic, religious, and intellectual changes that defined each monarch's reign. The course centers onEngland, but integrates Scotland's and Ireland's particular histories of conquest and resistance . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 210: The British Isles:From Glorious Revolution to Global Empire

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Frace NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Between the seventeenth century and Queen Victoria's reign, Britain transformed itself from a relatively minor European kingdom into the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world, ruling over a quarter of the earth's population. This course will explore Britain's often tumultuous history while addressing several major themes, such as: the creation of a modern consumer society; secularization; the radical mobilization of the working class; abolitionism; questions of social and sexual hierarchies raised at home by an expanding empire abroad; and the birth of liberal, conservative, and socialist ideologies. This course will center on England, but will also look at Scotland and Ireland's particular histories of resistance, conquest, and integrati on. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.
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  • HIST 211: Bread and Salt:Introduction to Russian Civilization

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Tumarkin NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. For centuries Russians have welcomed visitors with offerings of bread and salt. This introductory course is an earthy immersion in Russian life and culture from the age of Tolstoy to Putin's dissonant new Russia. Black bread, dense and pungent, is central to our exploration of food, feasting, fasting, and famine in the Russian experience. We will weave in both related and contrapuntal themes, such as: religious practice, folk beliefs and peasant life; surviving Stalinism in the age of terror; making do in the surreal ?era of stagnation? under Brezhnev; and the splendor and agony of Russian high culture. Guest lectures by Russianists in disciplines other than histor y. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 213: Conquest and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean

    0.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course examines life in the Mediterranean from the disintegration of the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries through the Latin Crusades of the Holy Land in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Readings will focus on the various wars and conflicts in the region as well as the political, religious, and social structures of the great Christian and Muslim kingdoms, including the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic caliphates of the Fertile Crescent and North Africa, the Turkish emirates of Egypt and the Near East, and the Latin Crusader States. Attention will also be paid to the cultural and religious diversity of the medieval Mediterranean and the intellectual, literary, and artistic achievements of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 214: Medieval Italy

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Ramseyer This course provides an overview of Italian history from the disintegration of the Roman Empire in the fifth century through the rise of urban communes in the thirteenth century. Topics of discussion include the birth and development of the Catholic Church and the volatile rela-tionship between popes and emperors, the history of monasticism and various other forms of popular piety as well as the role of heresy and dissent, the diverging histories of the north and the south and the emergence of a multi-cultural society in southern Italy, and the de-velopment and transformation of cities and commerce that made Italy one of the most economically advanced states in Europe in the later medieval period. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 215: Gender and Nation in Latin America

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Osorio NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Since their invention in the early nineteenth century, nations and states in Latin America have been con-ceived of in gendered terms. This has played a key role in producing and reproducing masculine and feminine identities in society. This course examines the powerful relationship between gender and nation in modern Latin America. Topics include patriarchal discourses of state and feminized representations of nation; the national project to define the family as a male-centered nuclear institution; the idealiza-tion of motherhood as a national and Christian virtue; the role of military regimes in promoting masculine ideologies; state regulations of sexuality and prostitution; changing definitions of the feminine and masculine in relation to the emergence of ?public? and ?private? spheres; and struggles over the definition of citizenship and nationali ty. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.
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  • HIST 216: Revolution in Latin America

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Osorio NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. In Latin America, the twentieth century was indelibly marked by revolution and counterrevolution. Any analy-sis of the recent history of the peoples and states of Latin America must focus on the conditions, desires, and perils that have shaped the revolutionary experience. We will examine the main historical currents of armed revolution in Latin America, including instances of suc-cessful armed revolution, post-revolutionary state-making and nation-building, and the many guerrilla movements. Revolution in the Ameri-cas was not only about seizing state power, but about making ?the new man? and reinventing society. We will consider the past, present, and possible future of revolution in the Americas . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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