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4.00 Credits
Historical Studies This course surveys the history of the Jews of Eastern Europe from the partitions of Poland until the Holocaust. It goes "beyond the shtetl" (small town), first by consideringnostalgic stereotypes of East European Jewish life in American popular culture and comparing them to the realities of traditional Jewish society. It then looks at how that society underwent profound changes in the modern period, creating radically new forms of Jewish community, culture, and political organization. Topics include the rise of Hasidism and Haskalah (enlightenment); pogroms and Russian government policy toward the Jews; modern Jewish political movements such as Zionism and the socialist Jewish Labor Bund; literature in Hebrew and Yiddish; urbanization and emigration; and Polish and Soviet Jewries in the interwar period.
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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
This course is an introduction to the major issues in the historical and anthropological study of Middle America, the Caribbean, and South America, from the early 1300s until the early 20th century. It begins with an overview of two influential pre- Columbian states-the Mexica and the Inca-and an examination of the Christian reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula. It examines the consolidation of Spanish and Portuguese political and economic domination in the 16th and 17th centuries; the "spiritual conquest" of native Americans; the institution of slavery in the New World;and the legal, social, and economic organization of colonial indigenous communities. The independence movements that swept the Americas in the early 19th century are studied, along with the various dynamics of nation-building and the economic and political influence of foreign powers on Latin American nations before the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
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4.00 Credits
Historical Studies, SRE This course examines the development of political and sociocultural notions of collective identity in Latin America from late colonial times until the present, the impact of U.S. and European political and economic domination in these processes, and the multitude of discourses on national identity. Case studies include the U.S. and French wars of intervention in Mexico, the Cuban wars of independence, and foreign intervention and nationalist responses throughout the Americas.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the history, politics, and societies of "Latin" America, from thetime this hemisphere was "discovered" and first conquered by Christian Iberian men,to the rise of Latin America in the capitalist world economy. The course starts with the main pre-Colombian civilizations, covers the conquest of what is now Mexico and Andean South America by conquistadores in the 16th century, and deals with the religious and administrative systems of colonial Spanish America and Brazil as well as the introduction of African slaves in the plantation economies. Topics explored include the importation of Enlightenment ideas, the lofty independence ideals, the later social and cultural emergence of macho caudillos, and the liberal era of constitutional rule.
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4.00 Credits
See Social Studies 140 for description.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the changing rapports among political authority, social status, and the use of pictographic and alphabetic writing in indigenous societies in pre- Columbian, colonial, and national Latin America. It explores the appropriation of alphabetical writing by preexisting historical and ritual genres, traces the emergence of novel colonial genres-legal records, annals, devotional writings, etc.-and considersthe social and political aims that these native genres served. Readings include translations of recent works in Nahuatl, Quechua, Yucatec Maya, Quiché, Zapotec, and Spanish.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the recurrent problems of the transition to "modernity" from thelate 19th century until the transition to democratic regimes in South America in the 1980s: social and economic inequality, conflicts between native peoples and the state, the tensions between popular Christianity and secular nationhood projects, and populist and nationalist movements. Emphasis is placed on the transition from rural to urban and industrial modes of production, revolution, and armed insurrection movements as well as the emergence of militaristic and socialist regimes during the latter half of the 20th century. Lectures and readings are complemented by a selection of films.
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4.00 Credits
From the 1720s until the early 20th century, hundreds of regional rebellions shook the countryside in Latin America, threatening the stability of colonial and national governments. This course considers the relationships among spontaneous armed rebellions, political ideology, and organized insurrection in contemporary Latin America. Case studies include the Mexican revolution (1910), Bolivian revolution (1952), Cuban revolution (1959), Nicaraguan revolution (1979), and the ongoing symbolic duel between the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the Mexican state, which began in 1994.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the procedures, methods, and institutional history of both the Inquisition and the Extirpation (the episcopal campaigns to uproot native ritual practices) in colonial Spanish America. It analyzes the diversity and dynamics of the responses of indigenous peoples, Jews, women, Africans, mestizos, and Spanish men to inquisitorial investigations and punishment. Studies cover inquisitorial efforts in 16thcentury Spain and Italy, the early development of such efforts in Mexico and the Andes, the emergence of Inquisition tribunals in Mexico and Peru after 1571, and various trends in the prosecution of Jews, Protestants, and "illuminated" men and womenin the 17th and 18th centuries.
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