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3.00 Credits
In the second half of the 19th century, industrial, social, and scientific progress enables the West to conquer the globe.But the increasing mechanization of society brings the alienation of the individual and the growth of class and racial antipathies.A wave of isms (Marxism, nationalism, imperialism, etc.) increases the stress.Ultimately the impact of two world conflicts demonstrates the fragility of Western supremacy and raises major problems of relationships with the Third World and the social revolutions within the old system.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the social history of Europe from the barbarian migrations of the fifth century until the end of the Hundred Years War.From feudalism and the concept of courtly love, to the bitter power struggles of popes and monarchs, the course emphasizes emerging institutions - secular and religious - that came to define Western Europe in this and subsequent ages and to provide its most enduring rifts and hatreds.The course offers in-depth consideration of the role of women in medieval society, the persecution of Jews and other minorities, the Crusades, and the Black Death, with particular focus on their impact on the lives of average Europeans.Students read from primary and secondary sources.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course surveys the history of Jewish-Christian interaction in Europe from late antiquity until the Dreyfus Affair, with emphasis on the 10 centuries between the ninth and the 19th.Using primary and secondary sources, literature, and film, students explore the complex relationships between Jews and Christians in these years, including often overlapping instances of persecution, segregation, disputation, coexistence, assimilation, and cooperation.The major political events, social shifts, and intellectual trends that profoundly altered European society in this extended period provide the backdrop against which the changing lives of Jewish and Christian Europeans are studied.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the origins and legacy of the Nazi dictatorship of 1933 to 1945.Students explore the wide range of factors that paved the way for Nazism by examining the long-term peculiarities of German history, the short-term crises of the years 1918 to 1933, and the pivotal role of Hitler and the German people in bringing the Nazis to power.Thereafter, students examine the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the Third Reich before turning to Hitler's unleashing of World War II and the Holocaust.The course concludes by surveying the lingering legacy of the Third Reich in postwar German and European memory.Formerly HI 310.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the turbulent history of modern Germany from the Second German Empire, or Kaiser Reich, to the present-day Federal Republic.Themes include the destabilizing emergence of Germany as a great power in the late 19th century, the outbreak of World War I, the collapse of the Empire, and the revolutionary upheaval of 1918 to 1919.The course examines the birth of the ill-fated Weimar Republic, the rise of Nazism, and the establishment of the Third Reich before moving to Hitler's unleashing of World War II, his genocidal campaign against the Jews, and Germany's ensuing wartime devastation, occupation, and division.The course concludes with an examination of the postwar political, social, and cultural development of West and East Germany through the nation's unification in 1990.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits
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This course surveys the major political, social, and cultural trends that have swept Europe since 1945.Themes include the struggle to reconstruct a stable political order in the immediate aftermath of WWII, the conservative retrenchment of the 1950s, the New Left radicalism of the 1960s, the neo-conservative reaction of the late 1970s and 1980s, the alleged "end of history" following the revolutions of 1989, and the question of Europe's political future in an anxious, post 9/11 age of globalization.Against the backdrop of these political trends, we examine how the trauma of war, the achievement of economic prosperity, the upsurge in anti-establishment radicalism, the emergence of a multicultural European society, and fears of decline have affected a wide range of cultural realms, spanning literature, philosophy, art, architecture, and film.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits
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This course examines political, religious, economic, and social developments in the Irish island from early medieval times to the present day.Topics include Celtic culture and civilization, the coming of Christianity, the Viking and Norman invasions, the English conquests in the 16th and 17th centuries, the 18th-century Protestant ascendancy, the subsequent struggle for Catholic emancipation and home rule, the Potato Famine of 1845 to 1850, the struggle for independence during the early 20th century, the ultimate establishment of the Irish republic, the current problems in Northern Ireland, and the historical ties between Ireland and the United States.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines British overseas expansion between 1500 and 1815: the Tudor-Stuart conquest of Ireland; the establishment of the North American colonies and West Indian plantations; the growth of British power in India during the 18th century; and the early phases of British rule in Canada, Australia, and South Africa.Students study the causes and effects of imperial expansion from the standpoints of British political development, British society, the English-speaking colonists, and the native peoples of the empire.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the British Empire from its great 19th-century expansion into Africa and Asia to its eventual crumbling under the impact of 20th-century independence movements and global war.Students compare the various independence movements, from the relatively peaceful transitions of Canada and Australia to the more violent ones by Ireland, South Africa, and India.The course finishes with an examination of the current racial and cultural conflicts that beset Britain's former colonies, with particular focus upon Ireland and South Africa.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the invention of the individual in the Italian Renaissance and further developments by the great Northern humanists (Petrarch, Boccaccio, Castiglione, Erasmus, Montaigne, Cervantes).Topics include visions of society and the realities (Dante, Marsiglio of Padua, Machiavelli, More, Rabelais); God and man (Erasmus, Luther, Calvin, Trent, the Jesuits, the Radicals); and the expanded universe - the discovery of America and the new astronomy.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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