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3.00 Credits
The Holocaust demands, yet stubbornly resists, historical understanding.This course addresses the Nazis' genocidal assault upon European Jewry and others by examining a wide range of factors that contributed to it.The course explores the roots of modern German anti-Semitism, the origins of Nazism, the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, the sharpening of anti-Jewish measures during the Third Reich, and the escalation of persecution following the outbreak of World War II that culminated in the so-called Final Solution.Students consider the legacy of the Holocaust after 1945 by examining the postwar struggle to preserve its lessons in memory, the difficulty in finding adequate cultural means of representing its extreme dimensions, and the challenge of understanding the lessons that the event left for the postwar world.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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This course examines European peasant life from the Middle Ages until roughly 1900, with particular emphasis on historians' views of the topic.Based on historical studies of the peasantry, beginning with those of a pivotal group of 20th-century French scholars who transformed the study of European history and of history in general, the course considers how peasants lived, worked, and raised families; how they practiced religion; and how they related to political change in their communities.The course introduces students to various important scholars' treatments of peasant culture, and when and how peasants were moved to acts of violence.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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This course is an in-depth examination of political, social, religious, and economic developments in Ireland from 1850 to the present day.Up to 1921 the focus is on the entire island including Ulster.After 1921 the focus turns to the Irish Free State and later Republic (Eire), although developments in Northern Ireland are studied as they compare with the history of the southern republic and as they bear upon relations with it.Students examine the interaction of politics with religious and ethnic divisions, international relations, economic conditions, and cultural patterns, including education and social mores.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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The course considers the causes of the Revolution, the move from moderate to radical change, the dynamics of the Terror, the roots of counterrevolution, and the reaction that led to military dictatorship.It also analyzes Napoleon's career, the basis of his empire and its relationship to the satellite kingdoms, and the effects of French hegemony upon Europe.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
The course explores the role of religious minorities, including Protestants, Jews, and Catholic splinter groups, from 1492 to the French Revolution, with emphasis on the political and social aspects of each group's existence.Students examine images of religious minorities and forms of oppression and persecution to determine the boundaries of authority and the nature of belonging in European society, and how these aspects were changing during this period.Students use primary and secondary sources.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Students obtain an extended introduction to the classic philosophies of the European Enlightenment: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Helvetius, Diderot, Rousseau, d'Holbach, Hume, Beccaria, Lessing, and Kant, and their notions of empiricism, utilitarianism, liberalism, and human rights.Students undertake primary source readings on the philosophes' views of women and human sexuality, the other (Jew, African, Muslim, American Indian), and colonialism (Adam Smith).Major texts of Diderot, Gibbon, and Condorcet conclude the survey.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Students undertake primary source readings in the late 18th-century founders of European romanticism (Rousseau, Goethe, Blake, Schiller, and Lessing) and extended readings in the classic romantics (Chateaubriand, Constant, de Maistre, Byron, Shelley, Büchner, Mazzini, and Newman).The course requires further primary source readings to consider the romantics' views of society, religion, women, Negroes, slavery, American Indians, and Arabs.Shelley's Defense of Poetry and a Balzac novel complete the survey.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the changes in church, state, and society that took place in the British Isles from the accession of Henry VII to the death of Queen Anne.These centuries saw the unification of England, Ireland, and Scotland under a single government, the development of that government from feudal kingship into Parliamentary-based bureaucracy, and the shattering of medieval Catholicism into a variety of different churches and doctrines.The course also examines the structure of Tudor-Stuart society and the cultural changes resulting from the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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An examination of the coming of the American Revolution and the transition from colonial to national status, this course discusses the military struggle itself and provides an assessment of the political, social, and economic effects of the Revolution.Topics include the Confederation period, the forming of the 1787 Constitution, and the Federalist era.Figures such as John Adams, Tom Paine, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Washington receive special attention.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This research seminar explores the history of U.S.society and politics from the Great Depression to the Great Society and considers the reasons for the successes and failures of public policy during these times.After considering economic and social changes from 1930 to 1980, the course examines the history of domestic social policy topics such as unemployment relief, economic planning, industrial relations, and the welfare state.The course also considers initiatives generated by politicians, business groups, government planners, labor movements, and community movements.(Prerequisites: HI 30 and one 200-level course) Three credits.
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