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Fall 2006. DAVID HECHT. Uses controversial legal cases to explore changing notions of justice, rights, and equality in twentieth-century America. Focuses on issues of race, class, science, Cold War politics and foreign policy. Trials discussed include Sacco & Vanzetti, the Scopes Monkey Trial, the Rosenberg spy case, Watergate, and O. J. Simpson. Uses a variety of primary and secondary sources, such as trial transcripts, news coverage, memoirs, film, and literature.
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d.Medieval China
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3.00 Credits
From Home Front to Frontline:Gender and War in the Twentieth Century
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. RACHEL STURMAN. Examines the history of modern global imperialism and colonialism from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focuses on the parallel emergence of European nationalism, imperialism and ideas of universal humanity, on the historical development of anti-colonial nationalisms in the regions ruled by European empires, and on the often-contentious nature of demands for human rights. Emphasis on the history of South Asia, with significant attention to Latin America, Africa and other regions of Asia. (Same as Asian Studies 230.)
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2008. THOMAS CONLAN. Seminar. Japan's courtly culture spawned some of the greatest cultural achievements the world has ever known. Using the Tale of Genji, a tenth-century novel of romance and intrigue, attempts to reconstruct the complex world of courtly culture in Japan, where marriages were open and easy, even though social mobility was not; and where the greatest elegance, and most base violence, existed in tandem. (Same as Asian Studies 281.)
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Spring 2007. RACHEL STURMAN. Explores the vibrant social world created by movements of people, commodities, and ideas across the contemporary regions of the Middle East, East Africa, and South and Southeast Asia from the early spread of Islam to the eighteenth century. Key topics include the formation of communities, pre-modern material cultures, the meanings of conversion and religious change, and the production and transformation of systems of knowledge and modes of social relations in the era before the rise of European colonialism. (Same as Asian Studies 236.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006 and Spring 2008. THOMAS CONLAN. How do a culture, a state, and a society develop Designed to introduce the culture and history of Japan by exploring how "Japan" came into existence, and to chart how patterns ofJapanese civilization shifted through time. Attempts to reconstruct the tenor of life through translations of primary sources, and to lead to a greater appreciation of the unique and lasting cultural and political monuments of Japanese civilization. (Same as Asian Studies 283.)
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. THOMAS CONLAN. What constitutes a modern state How durable are cultures and civilizations Examines the patterns of culture in a state that managed to expel European missionaries in the seventeenth century, and came to embrace all things Western as being "civilized" in the mid-nineteenthcentury. Compares the unique and vibrant culture of Tokugawa Japan with the rapid program of industrialization in the late nineteenth century, which resulted in imperialism, international wars, and ultimately, the post-war recovery. (Same as Asian Studies 284.)
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3.00 Credits
d.Conquests and Heroes
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3.00 Credits
d.Japan and the World
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