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This course studies, across time, the notion of the Islamic city from its invention in the French colonial period, through its debunking in the 1980s, to its revival and appropriation by urban planners, social scientists and architects in the Islamic world today, ranging from Rabat, Morocco to Ahmadabad, India. Issues to be explored include public and private space, gendered space, notions of real estate and ownership, and various social and public institutions that were thought to characterize a city as Islamic. We will first examine how these topics were conceived by medieval and early modern Muslim scholars in different geographical places and different historical periods. Then we will study how French and British colonial scholars developed a set of criteria for evaluating the "Islamicness" of a city as they worked alongside and within colonizing projects. Finally, we will see how these issues and criteria have been re-interpreted and embraced as a vernacular urban planning style. The course will draw upon passages from translated Arabic texts that discuss and describe historical cities, writings by historians on cities in the Middle East and the Islamic world, and critiques of the concept of the Islamic city. Throughout the course references will be made to the other conceptions of the urban environment that existed alongside the so-called Islamic city in any specific region under consideration. (Also offered under History.) 1.00 units, Lecture
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This survey examines the new era of American global hegemony following World War II as it defined international affairs and domestic life. Major topics include the Cold War, McCarthyism, the rise of American mass culture in the 50's and 60's, the Kennedy and Johnson Administrators, the Vietnam War, and the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s (including the Civil Rights, New Left, Black and Brown Power, and Women's and Gay Liberation Movements). We will also consider the major foreign policy challenges of Carter, Reagan, and Bush administrations with special emphasis on development in the Middle East and Latin America. In the last quarter of the course we will attempt to make sense of the state of global conflict since 9/11 through a study of the immediate historical antecedents to our contemporary crisis. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will explore the ways in which governing elites have used the powers of the state to suppress dissent and limit political thought and expression at some of the most important moments in U.S. history. Students will also explore the effects that these repressive measures have had on the lives of American dissidents and, more broadly, American political thought and debate. The goal of this course is to enhance student's understanding of U.S. history and democracy through a detailed examination of the repressive activities of certain governing institutions. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Up to the advent of the modern era, most people preserved their historical memory and produced historical narratives and interpretations of the past through oral traditions, since written texts were generally accessed only by educated elites. With the advent of the printing press and later the emergence of professional history as an academic discipline, the modern era witnessed the rise of printed historical scholarship as the principal medium for accessing historical memory and historical interpretation. However, the 20th century saw the emergence of new forms of communication through cinema and television that produced a multitude of texts that came to be the primary form through which large segments, if not the majority, of people the world over gained knowledge of the past. For example, from D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, to Ken Burns' The Civil War and beyond, millions of Americans came to experience cinema and television as the principal form of historical knowledge-production and dissemination. This course will explore the relationship between history as written by historians and history as represented in cinema. We will study both fiction and documentary films framed by debates between historians, film scholars, and filmmakers. In the process, students will be introduced to film analysis as a form of literacy. 1.00 units, Lecture
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We explore life passages and political culture in New York, Berlin, London, Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Cape Town, as portrayed in memoir, fictional, narrative, and visual sources. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course is a comprehensive examination of European life from the Reformation to the end of the Thirty Years War. It explores a vibrant 150 years fraught with conflict, but also characterized by an ever-present desire for peace. We will begin by considering the roots of European belligerence, which can be situated at the intersection of confessional conflict and nation building. Ranging from Spain to Sweden, our major topics will include cultural responses to war and peace, military history, the history of religion, gender, urban history, conflict with the Ottomans, and differences between Mediterranean and Continental Europe. Students will read mostly primary sources, including works of literature. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This interdisciplinary course examines United States-Latin American relations, from state-to-state interactions at the level of diplomacy and military intervention, to questions of culture and perception by everyday actors. As the eras characterized by the Monroe Doctrine, the Big Stick and Dollar Diplomacy, the Good Neighbor policy, the Alliance for Progress, human rights concerns, the Reagan Doctrine of counterinsurgency, and debates over neoliberal economic policy are examined, critical attention will be paid to consistencies and changes over time. The roles of ideology, national security, economic interests, and cultural factors will be weighed in the creation and outcomes of policy and interpersonal negotiations. This course will evaluate influences at work on officials in Washington, and will consider Latin American initiatives and responses. Issues ranging from attempts by nationalist regimes in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to find an alternative to the traditional model of dependence on the United States, to critiques by intellectuals such as Jose Marti and Jose Enrique Rodo at the turn of the century and Eduardo Galeano and Subcomandante Marcos today will be discussed. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will introduce students to the study of American suburban history and contemporary realities in comparative perspective. We will examine the origins and evolution of the suburban ideal, from earlier European precedents, to the "garden city" and "street car" trolley & train suburbs of the 19th century, to the automobile suburbs, and to the "post-suburban" communities that have emerged since the late 20th century. Geographical coverage will extend from Hartford to Orange County, California. Topics include race and class, gender and sexuality, and the politics of space and place, among others. This is a fully interdisciplinary course. Sources include works from history, anthropology, literature, geography, built environment, philosophy, and cinema, for example, starting with a look at "The Truman Show" (1998). 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course begins with an examination of the central themes of the French Enlightenment and contrasts them with the politics of court life under Louis XV and Louis XVI. It will then explore the causes and the trajectory of the Revolution (1789-1799) through the use of primary documents. We will consider the shifts from absolutism to constitutional monarchy to radical republic in terms of the development in France of a modern political culture. The course will conclude with a discussion of Napoleon's rise to power in 1799 and the meaning of the Napoleonic Empire, which collapsed at Waterloo in 1815, as well as a consideration of the legacy of the French Revolution in politics today. 1.00 units, Lecture
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