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4.00 Credits
A general survey of Latin American history from independence to the present day. The course will focus on problems of political instability, economic development and the role of the United States in the region. Prerequisite: none. SILVA.
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4.00 Credits
During the 20th century, Latin America has witnessed both peaceful leftist mobilizations and violent revolutions. All of these movements aimed at redressing inequalities and creating more just societies. This course will consider several of these movements in comparative perspective. Prerequisite: none. SILVA.
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4.00 Credits
Examines selected topics in the colonization of the New World with emphasis on the interactions between Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans in the French, Spanish, and English colonies. The course then focuses on the American Revolution with special attention to transformations in ideology and politics. Students investigate how social, gender, and racial hierarchies were defined and rearranged in colonial and post-colonial America. Prerequisite: History 105, or 111, or permission of instructor. PURCELL.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the tensions caused by the simultaneous development of political democracy in the United States and the demands for rights by those who continued to be excluded from various forms of power. Topics include: the creation of party politics, reform movements, economic growth, class conflict, expansionism, race, slavery, gender, and material culture. Prerequisite: History 111 or permission of instructor. PURCELL.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys the causes, progress, and consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Examines American history from the mid-1840s through the late 1870s with a focus on race, politics, economics, gender, and military conflict to uncover how and why the United States tore itself apart, whether the fundamental conflicts of the war were solved by Reconstruction, and why the Civil War has occupied such an important place in American history and imagination. Prerequisite: none. PURCELL.
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4.00 Credits
Examines two basic themes of the trans-Mississippi-West frontier: the actual experiences of men and women pioneers (explorers, cowboys, miners, farmers, soldiers, entrepreneurs, lawmen, and outlaws) and popular myths and misconceptions about the "wild West." Sources for the course include historicalaccounts, novels, primary sources (diaries and oral histories), films, and slides. Prerequisite: none. STAFF.
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4.00 Credits
Examines basic themes and issues that have dominated the lives of women in the United States since the colonial period. Focuses on the interaction of economics and ideology, relationships between production, reproduction, and sexuality in defining women's status, development of female culture and feminism, and the role of race, class, and ethnicity in shaping women's experience. Prerequisite: second-year standing; and History 111, or 112, or Gender and Women's Studies 111; or permission of instructor. BROWN.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the African-American experience in slavery and freedom, with a primary emphasis on the struggle for racial justice and equality since the Civil War. Assignments stress primary sources as well as scholarly studies, films, and recordings. Prerequisite: second-year standing or permission of instructor. STAFF.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines variations and commonalities in the experiences of those who have voluntarily emigrated to the United States since the mid-19th century. The focus of the course is on the lives of immigrants themselves, but it also examines U.S. immigration from the standpoint of those already settled in the United States and from the standpoint of popular culture and public policy. Prerequisite: History 105, or 112, or permission of instructor. BROWN.
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4.00 Credits
See Economics 229.
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