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2.00 Credits
(Grinnell-in-London ONLY) This course explores the history of London from its Roman origins to the present day and examines how royalty, trade, religion, and transport have shaped the city's pattern of growth over 2,000 years. Coursework consists of weekly lectures, guided walks, and discussions of readings from contemporary sources. Students are given an opportunity to investigate an aspect of London history of particular interest to them. Prerequisite: none. BOWERS ISAACSON.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the interplay between institutions (such as the church, monarchy, and lordship), economic trends, and society in Western Europe between 800 AD and 1450 AD. While providing a general survey of the Middle Ages, this course will focus particular attention on village life and rural society, migration and military expansion, how members of ethnically and religiously mixed communities lived with each other, and whether women experienced a "golden age." Prerequisite: none. Option of doing some reading in French,Latin, and Spanish. STAFF.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the powerful and often unpredictable influence of ideas and the role of economic developments in shaping institutions and people's experiences in early modern Europe. Special attention is given to the interplay of popular and high culture; the effect of commercial capitalism on women and on society as a whole; the emergence of powerful monarchies; and the tensions between reason and folly, and between dreams of a godly society and fears of demonic forces. Prerequisite: none. Option of doing some reading in French, Latin, or German. STAFF.
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4.00 Credits
While surveying the main outlines of British history, these courses emphasize the development of political institutions within the context of economic, religious, and intellectual movements, and with regard to Britain's relations with the rest of the world. History 235: Anglo-Saxon settlements to 1660. History 236: 1660 to the present century. May be taken separately. Prerequisite: none. DRAKE, PREVOST.
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4.00 Credits
Employs theories of Marx, Max Weber, and Freud to analyze the tension between nationalist ideology and the realities of social conflict in Bismarck's Empire, the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich; the success of democratic institutions in the Federal Republic; and the failure of the German Democratic Republic. Students who took History 238, Modern European Cultural History, may enroll in this course. Prerequisite: History 101 or permission of instructor. PEGELOW.
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4.00 Credits
Studies the "New Imperialism" of the 1880s; causes of the First World War;the impact on international relations of communism, fascism, and the Great Depression; appeasement and the outbreak of the Second World War; the emergence of the United States and the U.S.S.R. as "superpowers;" and the dissolutionof the colonial empires. Prerequisite: History 101, or 105, or permission of instructor. PEGELOW.
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4.00 Credits
Focusing upon the medieval origins of early East Slavic societies and the formation of the Muscovite state and Russian Empire, this course examines the political, economic, and social components of pre-revolutionary Russia from the 10th through the 19th centuries. The dynamics of ethnicity, the multiple forms of state-building, and the role of gender, class, and ideology receive special attention. Prerequisite: none. Option of doing some work in Russian. KAISER.
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4.00 Credits
Examines 20th-century Russia, focusing upon the causes, course, and consequences of the 1917 Revolution, and the development and dissolution of the Soviet Union. Allots special attention to urbanization, industrialization, Marxist-Leninist ideology, new definitions of gender, national, and class identity. Prerequisite: none. Option of doing some work in Russian. KAISER.
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4.00 Credits
Also listed as Classics 255. The political, military, social, economic, and intellectual history of the Greeks in the Archaic and Classical periods and their relationship with other peoples of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Focus on the evolution of the Athenian and Spartan constitutions, the Persian War, Athenian imperialism and the Peloponnesian War, the rise of Macedon, and Alexander's conquest of Egypt and the Near East. Prerequisite: none. M. CUMMINS (Classics).
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4.00 Credits
Also listed as Classics 256. Rome's rise, maturity, and decline; emphasis on the republican constitution, organization of Italy, Rome's relationship with other peoples of Europe, Africa, and Asia during the republic and the empire. Focus on the Roman Revolution, the Augustan Age, the "Pax Romana," the spreadof Christianity, and the transition to the Middle Ages. Prerequisite: none. M. CUMMINS (Classics).
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