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  • HIST 276: The City in South Asia

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Rao NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. South Asian cities are currently undergoing massive demographic and spatial transformations. These cannot be understood without a consideration of both the specific history of South Asia and a broader account of urban change. This course ex-amines these changes in historical perspective and situates urban South Asia within a global context. How did colonial rule transform old cities such as Delhi and Lahore How were the differing ideologies of India and Pakistan mapped onto new capitals such as Chandigarh and Islamabad How are ethnic pasts and techno futures reconciled in booming cities such as Bangalore and Mumbai What are the con-nections between the urban environment and political mobilization We consider a range of sources, including scholarly literature, films and short stories. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 277: China and America:Evolution of a Troubled Relationship

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Giersch NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. A survey of China's economic, cultural, and political interactions with the United States from 1784 to present with a focus on developments since 1940. Principal themes include: post-imperial China's pursuit of wealth and power, changing interna-tional conditions, military strategy, the influence of domestic politics and ideology, and the basic misunderstandings and prejudices that have long plagued this critical relationship. Topics include: trade throughout the centuries; American treatment of Chinese immigrants; World War II and the Chinese Revolution; the Cold War; Taiwan, and the ongoing instability of relations since 1979. Sources include the ever-increasing number of declassified U.S. documents as well as critical materials translated from the Chinese . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 278: Reform and Revolution in China,1800-Present

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Giersch From shattering nineteenth-century rebellions that fragmented the old empire to its emergence as a twenty-first-century superpower, few places have experienced tumult and triumph in the same massive measures as modern China. To understand China today, one must come to terms with this turbulent history. This course surveys China's major cultural, political, social, and economic transformations, in-cluding failed reforms under the last dynasty; the revolutions of 1911 and 1949; the rise of the Communist Party and Mao's transformation of society and politics; the remarkable market reforms of recent decades; the contentious issue of Taiwan's democratic transition; and Chi-na's ongoing effort to define its position within East Asia and the wo rld. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Spring Unit: 1
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  • HIST 279/379: Heresy and Popular Religion in the Middle Ages

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Ramseyer NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course looks at popular religious beliefs and practices in medieval Europe, including miracles, martyr-dom and asceticism, saints and their shrines, pilgrimages, relics, curses, witchcraft, and images of heaven and hell. It seeks to understand popular religion both on its own terms, as well as in relationship to the Church hierarchy. It also examines the basis for religious dissent in the form of both intellectual and social heresies that led to religious repression and the establishment of the Inquisition in the later Middle Ages. This course may be taken as 279 or, with additional assignments, as 379. Prerequisite: 279: None; 379: Permission of the instructor. Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 284: The Middle East in Modern History

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Kapteijns NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Themes in the history of the Modern Middle East from 1914 to the present. After World War I, European powers dominated the area and carved it up into the modern nation states that we know today. We will study the political history of these states up to the present, but will focus especially on the historical roots and causes of crucial social developments and conflicts. Thus we will study the impact of the oil boom, labor migration, urbanization, the changing roles of women, and the emergence of politicized funda-mentalist Islam, as well as aspects of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Iranian Revolution, the Lebanese Civil War, and the Gulf War. Our emphasis will be on the Arab Middle East. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 285: Social Protest and Political Opposition in the Islamic Middle East and North Africa in the Twentieth Century

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Rollman NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Using primary sources in translation and related readings, the course will critically analyze the programs, leadership, and strategies of protest and reform movements in the modern Middle East and North Africa. Through a selection of case stu-dies, (e.g., Algeria, Afghanistan, Egypt) students will develop an understanding of the historical roots, theoretical bases, and social dynam-ics of these movements and the salience of Islamic ideology and practice in contemporary political and cultural discourses in the region. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 286: History of the Middle East,c.600-1918

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Rollman NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Introduction to the political, religious, cultural and social history of the Middle East from the emergence of Islam to the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Themes include: pre-Islamic Arabia, the life of the Prophet, the expan-sion of Islam, the Umayyad Empire, Shi'ism and other movements of political and religious dissent, the Abbasid Empire and its successor states, and the expansion of Europe into the Middle East . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 287: History of Everyday Life in the Modern Middle East and North Africa

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Kapteijns NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Using sources such as legal documents, memoirs, chronicles, literature, and monographs from several dis-ciplines, the course will explore in depth the quality and rhythms of life in a variety of urban and rural settings through an investigation of specific institutions, patterns of behavior, modes of work and residence, popular entertainment and popular culture. Students will study specific cases to develop an appreciation of how people of all classes experienced and responded to critical issues in modern history, such as the growing power of the centralizing state, urbanization, economic scarcity and opportunity, changing patterns of religious practice, gender relations, identity, the challenge of western secular values, the impact of national and regional politics, and the uneven, but inexor-able integration of the region into the global economy. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 290: Morocco:History and Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Rollman NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. An introduction to Moroccan culture, history, and society through experiential and classroom learning. Stu-dents will participate in seminars and attend lectures given by Moroccan faculty at the Center for Cross-Cultural Learning in Rabat. Pro-gram themes include: women in private and public life, Berber culture, Islam, Arabic, Morocco's Jewish heritage and history, and the lega-cy of European cultural rule. Students will travel as a group to the central and southern regions of the country to study historic sites and contemporary life and culture in a variety of rural and urban settings. Not offered every year. Subject to Dean's Office approval . Prerequisite: None. Application required. Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • HIST 291: Marching Toward 1968:The Pivotal Year

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Auerbach NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Within a single year, the Tet offensive in Vietnam, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and the election of Richard M. Nixon transformed American foreign and domestic policy, ending an era of liberal international-ism, domestic reform, and generational protest. Exploration of how, and why, ?The Sixties? happened. Consideration of recent political and intellectual trends that reflect the continuing impact of the 1960s on American public life . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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