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Spring 2008. SARAH MCMAHON. A social history of the founding and growth of the colonies in British North America. Explores the difficulties of creating a new society, economy, polity, and culture in an unfamiliar and already inhabited environment; the effects of diverse and often conflicting goals and expectations on the early settlement and development of the colonies; the gradual adaptations and changes in European, Native American, and African cultures, and their separate, combined, and often contested contributions to a new "provincial," increasinglystratified (both socially and economically), and regionally disparate culture; and the later problems of maturity and stability as the thirteen colonies began to outgrow the British imperial system and become a new "American" society.
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. CONNIE CHIANG. Survey of what came to be called the Western United States from the early sixteenth century to the present. Topics include Euro-American relations with Native Americans; the expansion and growth of the federal government into the West; the exploitation of natural resources; the creation of borders and national identities; race, class, and gender relations; the influence of immigration and emigration; violence and criminality; cities and suburbs; and the enduring persistence of the "frontier" myth in American culture. Students write several papersand engage in weekly discussion based upon primary and secondary documents, art, literature, and film. (Same as Environmental Studies 232.)
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Fall 2006. SARAH MCMAHON. A social history of the United States from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson. Topics include the various social, economic, cultural, and ideological roots of the movement for American independence; the struggle to determine the scope of the Constitution and the political shape of the new republic; the emergence of and contest over a new social and cultural order and the nature of American "identity"; and the diverging social, economic, and politicalhistories of regions (North, South, and trans-Appalachian West) and peoples in the early to mid-nineteenth century. Topics include urbanization, industrialization, and the development of new forms of social organization in the North; religion and the Second Great Awakening; the westward expansion of the nation into areas already occupied; the southern plantation economy and slave communities; and the growth of the reform impulse in Jacksonian America.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2008. JENNIFER SCANLON. The suburbs, where the majority of the nation's residents live, have been alternately praised as the most visible sign of the American dream and vilified as the vapid core of homogeneous Middle America. How did the "burbs" come about, and what is their significancein American life Begins with the history of the suburbs from the mid-nineteenth century to the post-World War II period, exploring the suburb as part of the process of national urbanization. In the second part, explores more contemporary cultural representations of the suburbs in popular television, film, and fiction. Particular attention is paid to gender, race, and consumer culture as influences in the development of suburban life. (Same as Gender and Women's Studies 235.)
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3.00 Credits
ESD.Green Injustice:Environment and Equity in North American History
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2008. PATRICK RAEL Examines the history of African Americans from the origins of slavery in America through the death of slavery during the Civil War. Explores a wide range of topics, including the Old World contexts for slavery in North America, the Atlantic slave trade, the emergence of plantation society, control and resistance on the plantation, the culture and family structure of enslaved African Americans, free black communities, and ending with the coming of the Civil War and the death of slavery. Sources include important slave narratives and several films. (Same as Africana Studies 236.)
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. PATRICK RAEL. Explores the history of African Americans from the end of the Civil War to the present. Issues include the promises and failures of Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, black leadership and protest institutions, African American cultural styles, industrialization and urbanization, the world wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and conservative retrenchment. (Same as Africana Studies 237.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. PATRICK RAEL. Seminar. Close examination of the decade following the Civil War. Explores the events and scholarship of the Union attempt to create a biracial democracy in the South following the war, and the sources of its failure. Topics include wartime Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan, Republican politics, and Democratic Redemption. Special attention is paid to the deeply conflicted ways historians have approached this period over the years. (Same as Africana Studies 238.) Prerequisite: One previous course in history.
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3.00 Credits
d.Violence and Memory in Twentieth-Century India
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3.00 Credits
Every year. Spring 2007. MATTHEW KLINGLE. Explores relationships between ideas of nature, human transformations of the environment, and the effect of the physical environment upon humans through time in North America. Topics include the "Columbian exchange" and colonialism; links between ecological changeand race, class, and gender relations; the role of science and technology; literary and artistic perspectives of "nature"; agriculture, industrialization, and urbanization; and the rise ofmodern environmentalism. Assignments include a research-based service learning term project. (Same as Environmental Studies 203.) Prerequisite: Environmental Studies 101 or permission of the instructor.
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