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This introductory course explores Latin American and Caribbean societies and cultures from the perspectives of various disciplines, and focuses on a wide range of themes. The course will enjoy the presence of some of the College's experts, from historians to ethnomusicologists. The goal here is for the students to acquire a panoramic view of the Latin America and the Caribbean worlds while getting acquainted with various basic issues that are explored more deeply in 200- and 300-level courses at Trinity. We will touch on issues of demography, geography, basis historical periods processes, particular anthropological and cultural debates, fundamental political and gender, sociological approaches to daily life, aesthetic and literary movements, and the regions positions within the historic and contemporary world economy. (Also offered under Latin American and Caribbean studies.) 1.00 units, Lecture
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Warfare is a fundamental part of the human condition. This course examines the phenomenon of warfare from a wide variety of angles. Through a comparison of warfare in different societies and cultures, the course studies the ways that governments, commanders, combatants, and civilians have experienced and reacted to war. Topics to be explored include: evolution in military technology, experience of combat, role of women and civilians, peacemaking, and comparative military cultures. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course provides a survey of Greek and Roman history. After an overview of political developments and chronology, the course focuses on topics in social, economic, and cultural change in the ancient world, with particular emphasis on differences and similarities across the societies studied. No previous knowledge of Greek and Roman history is required. The course serves as a foundation course of advanced work (200-400 level) in Greek, Roman, or medieval history, or as an introduction to Greek and Roman history for students with a primary interest in literature, art history, philosophy, or other disciplines. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will introduce students to the major themes of medieval history from the fall of the Carolingian Empire to the beginning of the Reformation with an emphasis on how a distinctively European society takes shape. We will study feudalism, the papacy, the Holy Roman Empire, the formation of medieval states and law, kingship, Crusades, plague, famine, elite and popular religious movements, and major political and national conflicts. The course will be taught largely from primary documents. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Topics in the history of Western Europe in the late Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment. 1.00 units, Lecture
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In this course we will investigate the works of the major Greek and Roman historians in translation. Authors will include Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, Livy, Sallust and Tacitus. We will consider various topics, including the origins of ancient historiography; the relationship of history to other genres such as tragedy and epic; the sources available to ancient historians; the role of myth in history; issues of gender and ethnic identity; and various stylistic issues such as narrative techniques, the use of speeches and quotations, anecdotes, and characterization. The course requires no prior knowledge of Greek and Roman history or classical languages. Readings will consist of the ancient historians themselves along with some modern studies on classical historiography. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course covers the history of the Greek world-Greece, the Aegean islands, western Asia Minor, the Black Sea, and southern Italy and Sicily-in the period between the end of the Bronze Age and the arrival of the Romans (c. 1500-200 BCE). The emergence of the polis, the Greek city-state, as the predominant way to organize political, social, economic, religious, and cultural life, and the spread of these institutions, form the central foci of the course. There will be emphasis on the reading and interpretation of primary source material through lectures, discussions, and analytical writing. 1.00 units, Lecture
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By about 300 BCE the Roman state had in place its republican institutions, and began the expansionist process by which the Romans came to control the Mediterranean basin. Four hundred years later, the Roman empire extended from Britain to Egypt, but the state running that empire had undergone fundamental social, political, and cultural changes. This course traces the processes that created the empire and transformed the Roman world, with special emphasis on the interplay of political and social phenomena. We will look closely at primary sources on which our knowledge of these changes is based. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course explores the historical development of Tokyo, from its obscure, medieval origins to its present status as one of the world's most populous and cosmopolitan cities. In spite of being destroyed on average once every 30 years by fires, natural disasters, and war-or perhaps because of this-Tokyo has sprung eternal, constantly transforming itself within shifting political, economic, and cultural contexts. This course examines the constantly transforming urban landscape and its impact on the structure of the city and the lives of its inhabitants. Topics of particular interest include: the rise of capitalism and its impact on early-modern urbanization, the impact of Western-style modernization on the organization of urban life in the 19th and 20th centuries, labor migration and its impact on urban slums, the impact of the economic "high growth" years on Japanese urban lifestyles, and the rise of Tokyo as a symbol of post-modern urban culture. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An introductory survey of Jewish history from the Biblical period to the beginnings of the Enlightenment. The course will study the evolution of Israelite identity, Jewish life in the classical world, creation of rabbinic Judaism, the Jewish experience in medieval Europe and the Islamic world, and the effect on Jews and Jewish culture of the expulsions and resettlements in early modern Europe. 1.00 units, Lecture
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