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Introductory survey of United States history from pre-settlement of Europeans through the fall of Reconstruction. Examines the multicultural origins of the United States; the economic, social and political course to independence; the early national period; the Jacksonian era; and the causes and results of the Civil War. Also focuses on historical methodology. Sacks.
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Introductory survey of American civilization from Reconstruction to the present, encompassing the ways that Americans have responded to the rise of the city, industrialization, immigration, imperialism, world wars, the atomic bomb, racial turmoil, changing roles of men and women, rise of the welfare state and environmental controversies. Recommended for pre-law students. ($10 film fee.) Dick.
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Spanish America and Brazil since the first contacts between native peoples and Europeans to the nineteenth-century independence wars. Examines conquests, missionary work, slavery, silver mining, urban growth. Special focus on ethnic and gender relations. Not offered every year. Kanter.
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An introduction to Latin America from independence in the 1820s to the present. Native Americans, slaves and European immigrants struggled with elites to form societies of "order and progress." Films and oral histories show how the world economy affected working men and women and their responses: revolutions, religion, nationalism and popular politics. Kanter.
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A broad introduction to African history from 1500 to the present. Emphasis on African interactions with the rest of the world, especially issues such as the Atlantic slave trade and colonization. Other topics include African cultural diversity, geography and environment, conflict, and religious expression. Carotenuto.
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Europe from the French and Industrial Revolutions to the end of the First World War as reflected in history, literature and film. Cocks.
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Europe from the end of the First World War to the end of its Cold War partition reflected in history, literature and film. Cocks.
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The history of the Second World War and world films made about the war from the 1930s to the present. ($25.00 film fee) Offered in alternate years. Same as Political Science 229. Cocks, Grossman.
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America from 1929 to 1960: Stock market crash, Great Depression, Dust Bowl, New Deal, FDR and Hitler, "The Good War," Hiroshima and Nagasaki, McCarthyism and the Red Scare, Baby Boom and "We like Ike." Stress on historical controversies, the roles of workers, women and minorities and the significance of the environment. ($10 film fee.) Dick.
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A history of people of African descent in the United States from their African roots through the end of the Civil War. Stress on the development of slavery and racism in the colonial period; the tensions between slavery and freedom; slave culture, family and religion; race relations in the North; and the black experience in the Civil War. Readings will be drawn from slave narratives as well as historical monographs. Sacks.
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