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1.00 Credits
A survey of South Asian history before colonial rule. Central topics include the diversity and cosmopolitanism of pre-colonial South Asia, the development of Brahmanism and Buddhism, the dynamanism of the Indo-Persian culture of early modern South Asia, the slow pace of growth of agriculture and the majic of the Indian Ocean trading world. Lectures and discussion. Enrollment limited. (Satisfies requirements in the History major). 1.00 units, Lecture
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An investigation of the social , economic, cultural and political history of South Asia from the consolidation of British and French domination to the contemporary crises of the various South Asian states (notably India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). The main topics to be explored include: the deindustrialization of South Asia, the emergence of religion as the primary focus of Indian society, the development of South Asian feminism and the attempt by the various nations to negotiate a dignified place in the 20th century. Lecture and discussion. Enrollment limited. (Satisfies requirements in the History major). 1.00 units, Lecture
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Since its founding in 1703 as Russia's "window on Europe," St. Petersburg has been a lightning rod for the defining issues in Russian culture. For some, the "Venice of the North," with its stately columned buildings overlooking canals and waterways, symbolized utopian progress; for others, it stood for tyranny, domination and subjugation. Our exploration of St. Petersburg will lead us through these questions and others, including male-female relations, the socialist experiment, and the relationship of architecture to ideology. Lecture-discussion format; assignments will be drawn from literature, history, essays, and film. 1.00 units, Lecture
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We explore the urban dilemmas manifest in postwar global culture, from the vantage point of the arts, especially film. We study Hartford, New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Cape Town, Moscow, and Johannesburg through visual, literary, documentary, archival, and artistic media, with special concentration on the 1960s and after. 1.00 units, Lecture
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In the 19th century, many Europeans sought to overthrow the existing political, social, gender, and artistic order. This course will look at the dreams, plans, successes, and (more often) failures of revolutionary movements. The course will focus on examining revolutionary moments-in France, in 1848 across Europe, in Russia-as well as revolutionary movements, including nationalism, socialism, feminism, and anarchism. We will pay particular attention to primary sources in our investigation of this tumultuous century. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
An examination of the developing American political tradition with emphasis on economic and ideological factors. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
A continuation of History 201, examining the transformation of the divided and agrarian society of the 19th century into a highly organized, urban-industrial world power. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Magic seeks to influence the world through control of unseen forces. Medicine seeks health through manipulation of a materialistic understanding of the body. Or so we moderns draw the distinction, distinctly to the detriment of magic. Looking back on the ancient Greeks, still regarded in many quarters as the inventors of rationality, we prefer Hippokrates to Asklepios, Asklepios to Hermes Trismegistos, and Hermes to Hekate. But, as E. R. Dodds showed many years ago in his classic study The Greeks and the Irrational, matters weren't so doggedly differentiated in antiquity. Magic and medicine coexisted, even if some of the severer practitioners on both sides condemned the other. This course explores the interactions between both spheres, the common theories that underlay Hippokratic diagnosis and love potions, in order to reveal aspects of ancient Greek thought, science, religion, and culture not usually investigated in undergraduate survey courses 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
From the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Christians from Western Europe were pitted in a series of holy wars against their Islamic, Pagan, and even other Christian neighbors. This course offers a multi-faceted look at military, political, religious, and cultural themes from the era of the Crusades. The idea of "crusade" has survived to this day and has as much, if not more, cultural significance now than at its inception in 1095. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course will study the evolution of English law and government in the Middle Ages from the Norman Conquest to the Stuarts. It will emphasize key concepts of common law, the nature of English kingship, the development of Parliament, the status of particular groups in English society, the evolution of governmental power, as well as some comparative material from other medieval states. The course will be taught from primary source materials with supplementary readings from secondary scholarship. 1.00 units, Lecture
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