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1.50 Credits
Kumar This course is the second of two parts of an introduction to the civilization(s) of historical India, or present-day status of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. These three hundred years consist of complex changes in the economy, social structure, and the values of this life and an after life. The course looks at the agencies of change such as colonial law and education, mass media and technology, and demography. The main focus, however, will be on the experiences of people of this change and the emergence of new identities. Offered every spring semester.
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1.50 Credits
Khazeni This survey is an introduction to the pre-modern history of the peoples of the classical Islamic lands, from North Africa to Central Asia. The course will cover the time period from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions of the 13th century and their aftermath, examining topics such as geography and environment, relations between nomadic and sedentary peoples, the formation of Islamic law, science and philosophy, and the relation between the rulers and the ruled, the state and its subjects. Offered every fall semester.
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1.50 Credits
Khazeni A survey of the social, political, and economic history of Islamic societies since ca 1500. Beginning with an examination of the Turkic "gunpowder empires," thecourse then explores how capitalist market economies, European penetration, and nation building projects transformed the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Subjects include state and society under the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals; colonialism and imperialism; capitalism and the integration of the region into the world system; responses to the West; the territorial settlement of the Middle East; the emergence of the Mandate System after the first World War; nationalism; the question of Palestine; and the modern revival of Islamic movements. Offered every spring semester.
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1.50 Credits
Khazeni This course is an introduction to the history of the regional Islamic empires of the early modern period: the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals. Beginning with the settlement of the Turko-Mongol steppe peoples, the course goes on to examine the formation of Islamic states and societies in the years 1400 through 1900. Topics to be studied include: frontier warriors (ghazi) and the Turkic military patronage system; the creation of Sunni and Shi'i Islamic empires; ethnic and religious communities; the making of frontiers and borderlands; and the changing relations between Islamic states and the West. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which early modern empires ruled over heterogeneous populations before the transformations of the 19th century and the rise of nation states. Offered every fall semester.
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1.50 Credits
A. Park The rise and development of Chinese (Sinitic/Confucian) civilization from neolithic origins to its full maturation in the 18th century and the struggle of countries on the periphery of the Chinese cultural zone - primarily Japan and secondarily Korea and Vietnam - to retain distinct cultural and political identities while borrowing aspects of Chinese culture. Themes include state building, the changing role of women, cultural and aesthetic traditions, religious values, and political patterns. Special attention is given to divergent paths of pre-modern development which helped condition 20th-century approaches to political/economic modernization. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Rosenbaum Revolution, state building, modernization and sociocultural change in three representative cultural zones of Asia. The first part of the course examines imperialism and de-colonization, socio-religious reform movements, changing gender roles, and dynamics of political revolution. The second part explores the new forces which have reshaped the countries: the passing of charismatic leaders and revolutionary development strategies, the Japanese/East Asian economic model, and problems defining culture. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff This course offers a broadly based inquiry into the Greco-Roman, Germanic, Judeo-Christian, and Islamic cultures that constituted the western world from the late Roman empire of the 4th century to the height of medieval Christendom in the 14th century. Designed to provide students with an overview of the history of the Mediterranean world from ca. 337-1300, the course will explore such topics as the "fall" of Rome and theemergence of the Church as a governing institution, the rise and importance of monasticism, medieval notions of sexuality, ethnicity and identity, the transformation of the feudal state into a commercial economy, Byzantine, Islamic and Western Christian scholarship, kingship, knighthood and the crusades. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Cody This course provides an introductory overview of European society from the late middle ages to the end of the French Revolution. The major events examined include the Black Death in the 14th century and the spread of smallpox in the New World in the 16th; the Renaissance, Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the place of Jews and Muslims in the European imagination; intellectual and scientific movements; colonization of the Americas; the French Revolution and the rise of nationalism; and changes in gender relations and the family. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Petropoulos An examination of the major issues in the rise of modern Europe from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Major topics include the secularization of culture, the industrial revolution, imperialism, the rise of the modern nation state, and rise of new political-economic systems such as capitalism, democracy, fascism, and communism. The course concludes by examining the devastation of two world wars, Europe's post-war recovery, and Europe'snew relationship with the world. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Lofgren Focusing primarily on political and institutional development from the founding of the English colonies to the establishment of a federal union and the emergence of a continental nation, the course also examines pervasive historical myths, changing interpretations, and the present relevance of the American past. Offered every fall semester.
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