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1.00 Credits
A selective introduction to the methods and practice of studying urban life from an historical perspective. The focus of the course is the crucial development in Euro-America which culminated in the modern 20th-century city. The purpose is to prepare students to participate in a discussion of the nature and fate of urban life in today's interdependent world by giving them the European context and theory which that discussion may challenge and amend. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Long neglected in the traditional American historical retrospective of pre-modern Western Europe, the peoples of this corner of Europe enjoyed an exceptionally diverse and cross-fertilized culture with a unique historical trajectory. We will survey the history of the Iberian Peninsula form the end of the Roman Empire in the West (5th century AD) to the golden age of Spanish unification and global expansion under Fernidad and Isabella one thousand years later. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course offers a history of animal protection in Europe and America which will be of interest to students wondering how our current debates on the status of animals in law and society have come about. Because of the important role women played in the animal protection movements of the nineteenth century and the strong gender component to anti-vivisection arguments in the same era, the course may interest Women, Gender and Sexuality students as well as students in History, Public Policy and Law, and Philosophy Topics include: (1) Puritan arguments about the human/animal divide, which led to the English Ordinance of 1654, Europe's first animal protection law. (2) The bestiality scandals of early America (3) The Game Laws of early modern Europe (4) Colonial and nineteenth-century American issues concerning hunting and the protection of game. (5) Nineteenth-century animal protection societies in Europe and the U.S. (6) The anti-vivisection movement (7) Nazi animal protection and the 'new chain of being' (8) Cold -war animal liberation movements (9) Further development of legal arguments about the rights of animals in the late twentieth century (10) The importance of new work in biological anthropology, ethnology and cognitive science in shaping future debate on the subject of animals in human societies 1.00 units, Lecture
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Set in scenes ranging from the battlefields of Waterloo to the barricades of revolutions, the 19th-century French novel firmly situated itself in the history of the age. But how realistic are the descriptions presented in the great novels of events leading up to the century's political cataclysms This course will explore answers to this question (and the relationship between history and literature in general) by establishing the context within which the novels of Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Zola, and Proust were conceived. Attitudes towards women, religion, the poor, crime, ambition and politics, the Jewish minority, Paris life and the provinces will be analyzed to gain understanding of French culture during a period when rapid modernization appeared to threaten traditional norms. The course will end with a consideration of the current appeal of Les Miserables. Like the novel itself, the musical was greeted initially with disdain by critics but was an enormous popular success. What accounts for our interest in the French past 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course is the first part of a two-part introductory survey of African history. We will explore the rich and varied civilizations and cultures in Africa, as well as how elements of these cultures have been carried throughout the world. Because "African" as a uniform term is a creation of a later time, this course seeks to distinguish among various populations and regions on this immense continent. Beginning with human origins on the continent, we will address the major social, economic, religious, and political movements in Africa through the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Topics will include the peopling of Africa; ancient societies and African empires; African technology such as tools, weapons, art, and music; African religions and the spread of Islam and Christianity; famous early Africans such as Mansa Musa, warrior queen Nzinga, and Shaka Zulu; trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean trading routes; and the development and impact of the Atlantic slave trade. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course is the second part of a two-part introductory survey of African history. With a focus on "Black Africa" south of the Sahara, we will begin by exploring the impact of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa and move to the establishment of-and resistance to-European colonial rule. We will then look at the impact of the two world wars on Africa as well as the rise of nationalism and movements for independence. In the postcolonial period, we will explore Cold War politics in Africa, and address issues including the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the politics of foreign aid and military interventions, global health, and resource wars 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course surveys the transformation of the Middle East into an Islamic civilization from the life of Muhammad in the early 7th century through the collapse of the Mamluk Empire in 1517. It focuses on social, cultural, and political history and addresses regional variations from Morocco to Iran. Topics include women, religious minorities, and slavery, as well as Islamic education, mysticism, and literature. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Western Europe reached a cultural zenith in the period 1000 to 1300--the 'Romanesque' and 'Gothic' eras. This course explores the cultural flowering of this period, focusing on the great architectural and religious structures--cathedrals and monasteries--as microcosms of medieval society on many levels. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 - 19.00 Credits
In the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of people were "disappeared," tortured and murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean, mostly by military regimes and by para-military death-squads. The period is often characterized as perhaps the lowest point in the modern abuse of "Human Rights" in the region. This course explores how these central notions, the human and rights, have evolved in theory and in practice in the history of the Americas. The course begins with the 16th-century debates among the Spaniards over the "humanity" of Indians and enslaved Africans; it then covers distinguishing elements of the human and rights within the legal structures of the nations created after independence from Spain in the 1820s and before the more contemporary conceptions of human rights in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the crimes against humanity during WWII. Finally, the modern conception and practice of human rights defense and legal monitoring are explored in case studies in the region from the late 1940s to the 19 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
The idea of nations and the ideology of nationalism emerged as powerful political, social and cultural forces in the Middle East at the end of the 19th century. Nationalisms in the Middle East took on various guises, sometimes representing perceived ethnic communities, sometimes linguistic ones, and sometimes religious groups. In addition, nationalisms never existed insulated from other alternative ideologies for community organization, and thus nationalism incorporated, rejected or otherwise responded to other competing ideas and agendas. Benedict Anderson argues that "to understand [nations and nationalisms] properly we need to consider carefully how they have come into historical being, in what ways their meanings have changed over time, and why, today, they command such profound emotional legitimacy." This course aims to do just that with specific reference to the Middle East. We will look at both theories of nations and nationalisms and explore specific historical instances, including Ottomanism, Zionism, Arab nationalism, Turkish nationalism and Arab socialism. We will also look at some competing ideas, such as Berber trans-nationalism and the ascendance of political Islam. 1.00 units, Lecture
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