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  • HIST 218: From Ghettos to Nation-States:Jews in the Modern World

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Malino NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course explores the revolutionary social, economic, and cultural transformation of Jews living in Europe and America. Topics include struggles for emancipation, enlightenment and mysticism, immigration, acculturation and economic diversification; also the emergence of anti-Semitism in the West and East, Zionism, the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 219: The Jews of Spain and the Lands of Islam

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Malino The history of the Jews in Muslim lands from the seventh to the twentieth century. Topics include Muhammed's relations with the Jews of Medina, poets, princes and philosophers in Abbasid Iraq and Muslim Spain, scientists, scholars and translators in Christian Spain, the Inquisition and emergence of a Sephardic diaspora. Twentieth-century focus on the Jewish community of Morocco. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 222: The Barbarian Kingdoms of Early Medieval Europe

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Ramseyer This course examines the Barbarian successor states established in the fifth and sixth centuries after the disintegration of the Roman Em-pire in the west. It will focus primarily on the Frankish kingdom of Gaul, but will also make forays into Lombard Italy, Visigothic Spain, and Vandal North Africa. In particular, the course will look in-depth at the Carolingian empire established c. 800 by Charlemagne, who is often seen as the founder of Europe, and whose empire is often regarded as the precursor of today's European Union. Political, cultural, reli-gious, and economic developments will be given equal time. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 224: Zionism and Irish Nationalism:A Comparative Perspective

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Malino NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Emergence and evolution of Zionism and Irish nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Poets, ideologues, charismatic leaders; immigration and diaspora. Political, social, religious and ideological trends in modern Israel and in Ireland. Comparisons and contrasts. Distribution: Historical Studies Prerequisite: None. Not open to students who have taken HIST [327]. Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 227: The Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Frace NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. The legendary rebirth of classical learning coincided with an era of global expansion, the religious Inquisition, and civil unrest. While placing Renaissance Europe into its wider historical context, this course will emphasize cultural developments and intellectual innovations. While ranging between London, Oxford, Rotterdam, Paris, Florence, and Venice, we will interrogate the minds of distinguished scholars and the world of the common crowd. How did they redefine what it meant to be human What were the heated de-bates over the roles of women or sexuality, or over the nature of God and religious heresy How did the accumulation of wealth and the exploration of ?new worlds? change society Prerequisite: Not open to students who have taken [228]. Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 229/329: Alexander the Great:Psychopath or Philosopher King

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Rogers NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Alexander the Great murdered his best friend, married a Bactrian princess, and dressed like Dionysus. He also conquered the known world by the age of 33, fused the eastern and western populations of his empire, and became a god. This course will examine the personality, career, and achievements of the greatest conqueror in Western history against the background of the Hellenistic World. This course may be taken as either 229 or, with additional assignments, as 329. Prerequisite: 229: None; 329: Permission of the instructor. Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 230: Greek History from the Bronze Age to the Death of Philip II of Macedon

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Rogers NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. The origins, development, and geographical spread of Greek culture from the Bronze Age to the death of Philip II of Macedon. Greek colonization, the Persian Wars, the Athenian democracy, and the rise of Macedon will be examined in relation to the social, economic, and religious history of the Greek polis. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 231: History of Rome

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Rogers Rome's cultural development from its origins as a small city state in the eighth century B.C.E. to its rule over a vast empire extending from Scotland to Iraq. Topics include the Etruscan influence on the formation of early Rome, the causes of Roman expansion throughout the Mediterranean during the Republic, the Hellenization of Roman society, the urbanization and Romanization of Western Europe, the spread of ?mystery? religions, the persecution and expansion of Christianity, and the economy and society of the Empir e. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 232: The Transformation of the Western World:Europe from

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Frace This course will provide a dynamic overview of the intellectual, sociopolitical, and cultural movements and events that defined Europe dur-ing its turbulent shift into modernity. From the Black Plague to the French Revolution, we will focus on: the secular humanism of the Re-naissance; the Reformation and the resulting Wars of Religion; the emergence of absolutist autocracies and modern liberal states; the radical Enlightenment; feminism, and the dueling ideologies of embryonic capitalism and socialism. By including documents ranging from private diaries and letters to political treatises and popular publications, this course will bring to vivid life a world that is at once foreign and familiar. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 236: The European Enlightenment:A Revolution in Thought,Culture,and Action

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Frace NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. The Enlightenment has been alternately demonized and revered for its prominent role in forging Western modernity. Was it the harbinger of modern democracy, secularism, and feminism Or of ethnocentric racism, sexism, and the terror This course will examine the works of the most innovative and controversial writers in the canon, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Kant, Montes-quieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke, and Diderot. We will also address the forgotten legions of men and women who comprised the interna-tional republic of letters, and who frequented the (sometimes respectable, often scandalous) coffeehouses, salons, and secret societies of the eighteenth century. Our discursive focus will be on political hegemony, civil liberties, religious toleration, gender, social development, sexuality, and race. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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