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4.00 Credits
This course reviews the history of interactions and negotiations between Native Americans and European Americans. It emphasizes that conquest was a complicated process, incorporating both violence and negotiation, with results that continue to shape relations between Native and Euro-Americans. Rather than developing a linear narrative from contact to the present, the course examines episodes in which new social organizations between multiple Indian and white groups developed and the historical consequences of these episodes. Of special interest is the question of how power differentials between various groups shaped interaction and negotiation. Above all, the course investigates attempts by both Indians and Euro-Americans to shape and control the space around them in the face of larger social forces.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Environmental Studies At first glance, nature and technology appear to be stark opposites-the first created by long-term ecological processes, the secondmade by humans. Lookmore closely, however, and the line between the two blurs. Is electricity generated at hydroelectric dams a function of nature or technology? What about farm-raised salmon? Genetically modified foods? The American suburb? The Nature Company?? This class investigates interconnections between natural and technological systems from post-CivilWar America to the present day. Students concentrate on three broad sets of questions. First, how have historians from a variety of backgrounds understood the intersection of nature and technology? Second, how have these systems structured and shaped human ideas about nature and technology? Third, how have they changed the social experiences of humans and animals?
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4.00 Credits
American Studies Historians have claimed that the American West has played a unique role in American history- a frontier of opportunity and a legacy of American conquest. At the same time, "the West," as represented in novels and films, has exerted a compelling hold on how Americans imagine themselves as a people. This course examines the interplay between the historical development of the AmericanWest and the historical development of the "West of the Imagination."It explores the interaction between native societies and the settlers and their cities; considers the environment of the modern American West; and investigates the politics of how these historical events have been remembered through fiction, film, and memory, as well as through the writing of historians.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Human Rights The frontier is one of the great underlying constructs of North American identity. This nebulous, turbulent borderland has been marshaled to defend everything from the natural expansion of the United States to the hallowed memory of our colonial past. But what was the violence of colonial America really like? Who participated, who suffered, who fought, and what did it all mean?What constituted "exceptional" or "dailyviolence? This seminar investigates the violent interactions between Native Americans and Europeans, between competing European empires, and between slaves and masters. Primary and secondary colonial sources are reviewed in order to understand the role that violence plays in social and cultural formations.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights This course considers the same historical period through Japanese as well as U.S. eyes. Source materials include histories, eyewitness accounts, novels, and films made during the war itself and afterwards. Various types of propaganda, as well as national and political biases, are analyzed. Controversial events, such as the Nanjing Massacre and the bombings of Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki are studied from different national and political perspectives. The course reviews U.S. debates on the first atomic bombing and the continuing controversies in Japan over school textbooks and memorials. Books include John Dower'sWarWithout Mercy, Ian Buruma's Inventing Japan, and novels by Shusaku Endo and Kenzaburo Oe. Wartime Japanese films, such as Sea Battle in Hawaii and Malaya ( about Pearl Harbor), are analyzed, as are postwar anime films, such as Grave of the Fireflies, and others.
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4.00 Credits
Historical Studies For nearly one thousand years Yiddish was the primary language of European Jewry and its emigrant communities. This class explores the role of Yiddish in Jewish life and the rich culture produced in the language. Topics include the sociolinguistic basis of Jewish vernacular languages; medieval popular literature for a primarily female audience; the role of Yiddish in the spread of Haskalah (the Jewish enlightenment); attempts to formulate a secular Jewish identity around the Yiddish language; the flourishing of modern Yiddish press, literature, and theater and their intersection with European modernism; contemporary Hasidic (ultra-Orthodox) culture; and the ongoing debate over the alleged death of Yiddish.
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4.00 Credits
GIS This course explores the history of infrastructures- e.g., communication/information, transportation, energy, and military organization-to introduce pivotal themes in the contemporary history of science and technology, science studies, and social-institutional history. Its definition of infrastructure embraces both the explicit set of practices, systems, and technologies that provide the conditions for the possibility of modern social life and the implicit contexts (environmental, cultural, and psychological) that these planned structures reveal. General themes include the increasing place of ethics in constructing infrastructures, the role of the arts in revealing the "forgotten" infrastructures onwhich modern life is based, and the problem of complexity in contemporary historiography. Some specific infrastructures studied include those relating to the modern financial system, the urban newspaper, the concentration camp, and the Internet. Among the authors read are Edwards, Habermas, Haraway, Hughes, Latour, Luhmann, Rabinbach, and Simmel.
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4.00 Credits
GIS, STS This research course addresses the coercive and violent powers of the modern state as they were refined through technologies and techniques in National Socialist Germany, and then alternately condemned and utilized in the two German nations of the (East) German Democratic Republic (DDR) and the (West) German Federal Republic (BRD). Topics range from the development of new techniques of propaganda to the manipulation of social technologies such as identification papers, the census, racial pseudoscience, and, most horrifically, the concentration camp system.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights This course traces the history of the militarization of European society and its close relationship to the rise of new media on the eve of the modern era. Against the backdrop of its unspeakable enactment, war incited discourse and, perhaps, invented the modern public. Students explore how that invention and how the ethos of war entered into such everyday and pleasurable practices as listening to music, theatergoing, dancing, sex, and gambling. The first half of the seminar is structured around intensive readings; the second half focuses on student projects.
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4.00 Credits
The villa or country house, as opposed to a working farm, embodies a city dweller's idyllic interpretation of country life. Built more to embody an idea than fulfill a function, it encourages innovation in expressing the patron's or architect's views on the relationship between man and nature. The architecture of the Hudson Valley played a critical role in the development of the country house and landscape garden in the United States. This seminar, through site visits and primary source research, studies local developments within the larger context of the history of villa architecture.
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