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4.00 Credits
The rise of industrial capitalism in the late 19th century deeply transformed the United States. Railroad and telegraph lines linked the nation, connecting small towns to urban centers. Factories grew in size and number. Millions of immigrants fromAsia, LatinAmerica, and Europe settled in the States, and cities grew in size and increasingly dominated the surrounding countryside. At the same time, the country pursued, for the first time, overseas imperial ventures. All of these changes provoked conflict. This course explores how different Americans dealt with this new world in the first part of the 20th century. It focuses on Americans' interactions with industrial capitalism and the changes, crises, and inequalities that stemmed from it. Readings are drawn from a variety of sources, including histories of black women in North Carolina, gay men in New York, workers in Chicago, and farmers on the Great Plains, along with novels, poems, paintings, and films.
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4.00 Credits
A topical and thematic approach to post-1940 United States history, including Cold War politics and culture, the rise and decline of New Deal liberalism, the power shift to the suburbs and Sunbelt, social movements of the Left and the Right, the triumph of marketing and consumer culture, and the era of globalization and its discontents. The main emphasis is the intersection of politics, culture, and society in recent U.S. history. The course addresses questions such as: Why did consumerism triumph in postwar America? What happened to the power base of organized labor? How have civil rights, feminism, environmentalism, the Christian Right, and other grassroots movements/interest group politics changed American society? How are Latinos and other new immigrant groups changing contemporary politics? Class materials include primary and secondary historical sources, short fiction, films, and documentaries.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the period from Peter the Great to the 1917 revolution. Among the topics studied are reforms of Peter the Great and their effects; the growth of Russian absolutism; the position of peasants and workers; the rift between the monarchy and educated society; the revolutionary movement, particularly Russian Marxism; and the overthrow of the Russian autocracy. Readings include contemporary texts, literary works, and documents from the period.
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4.00 Credits
French Studies Was the French Revolution a bloodbath or an affirmation of human rights? Who led it, who benefited from it, and why did it evolve as it did? Using Hilary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety for its narrative, this course examines the documents left by eyewitnesses, participants, partisans, and opponents.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights This course introduces students to the ideological, historical, and political development of communism in the Soviet Union from its inception in 1917-18 to Stalin's death in 1953.Readings include works by Marx, Lenin, Gorky, Stalin, and Trotsky, and a variety of secondary texts by Richard Pipes, Robert Tucker, and Robert Conquest.
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4.00 Credits
This course offers a survey of Western medicine from its beginnings in ancient Greece to the 19th century. The history of psychiatry is considered an integral aspect of the history of medicine: the class charts the development of psychiatry through the key concepts that have shaped assumptions about the nature of emotion, mental illness, and the relation of the brain and the mind. The class addresses the role of the history of reason in identifying correlations between symptoms and causes and in understanding those in whom health or reason has failed. Sessions are mainly conducted on the basis of the study of assigned primary texts and informed by relevant secondary literature. They are structured chronologically but focus on such key concepts as psyche, pneuma, humor, spirit, vital force, nerves-all presented as markers to identify the continuities and ruptures in the beliefs that have informed the theory and practice of medicine and psychiatry.
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4.00 Credits
Building on an understanding of the nation-state as largely a 19th-century invention, this course explores the efforts of Britons to create a stable definition of their nation and themselves in response to such fundamental changes in their society as industrialization, an expanded middle class, constitutionalmonarchy, and the establishment of the largest empire that the world has ever known. The course also charts developments in the post-World War II era, when Britain slowly lost its position as the industrial, cultural, and colonial power of the world.
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4.00 Credits
Jewish Studies A survey of the history of the Jewish people from the expulsion from Spain until the establishment of the State of Israel. The course examines such topics as the expulsion and its aftermath; social, intellectual, and economic factors leading to greater toleration at the start of the modern period; the varying routes to emancipation in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Islamic world; acculturation and assimilation; modern Jewish nationalist movements such as Zionism; the Holocaust; the establishment of the State of Israel; and the growth of the American Jewish community.
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4.00 Credits
GIS, Human Rights, RES Like two scorpions, the Soviet Union and the United States warily circled each other in a deadly dance that lasted more than half a century. In a nuclear age, any misstep threatened to be fatal-not only to the antagonists, but also, possibly, to the entire human community. What caused this hostile confrontation to emerge from the World War II alliance? How did the Soviet- American rivalry affect the international community, and why, after more than 50 years, did the dance end in peace rather than war? This course reconsiders the Cold War by simultaneously weighing both the American and Soviet perspectives on events as they unfolded. It examines key documents of the era and looks at Stalinism, McCarthyism, the nuclear arms race, the space race, the extension of the Cold War into the ThirdWorld, the rise of American hegemony, Vietnam and Afghanistan, "Star Wars,"and the effort to reach strategic arms limitation agreements.
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4.00 Credits
GIS A thematic survey of the modern period. Each week the class uses methodologies and historiographies ranging from gender and demographic history to diplomatic and military history. The course thus offers both an in-depth presentation of key aspects of modernity and a survey of contemporary historiography. Key issues discussed include the relation of the industrial revolution to the creation of new institutions of invention and patent, the role of colonialism in shaping domestic social relations and definitions of race, the role of gender in relation to the demographic explosion of the European population and to new attempts at state control of human activity, the development of the "military industrial academic complex," the role of institutional struture in diplomacy, and the effect of new mass media on citizenship.
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