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A study of the character and range of activities undertaken by historians. Students will critically evaluate the way in which historians treat evidence and draw conclusions. Topics considered will include an introduction of some of the subdisciplines within the field and an examination of a number of important exchanges on matters of substance and method currently under debate among historians. This course open to History majors only. 1.00 units, Lecture
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A study of the character and range of activities undertaken by historians. Students will critically evaluate the way in which historians treat evidence and draw conclusions. Topics considered will include an introduction of some of the subdisciplines within the field and an examination of a number of important exchanges on matters of substance and method currently under debate among historians. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This discussion course will examine topics in the intellectual and cultural history of the "long 19th century" (1789-1914) in the United States, with emphasis on relations among culture (ideas, values, myths), society, and political economy (structures of production and power). We will use works of literature, film, and propaganda as channels of inquiry into the historical record, and we will assess the evidentiary value and "representativeness" of the texts we analyze. All the works we examine will be ones that were designed to make history as well as to reflect on it. They will include titles by Franklin, Tocqueville, Martineau, Douglass, Pennington, Stowe, Bellamy, Riis, and Griffith. 1.00 units, Lecture
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In 1815, while such other major European countries as England and France had grown into centralized, relatively modern nation-states, Germany remained a loose conglomeration of independent and generally underdeveloped kingdoms, duchies, and free cities. Indeed, before Napoleon there were 300 of them, and it is more fitting to speak of "German Central Europe" in 1815 than of "Germany." The purpose of this course is to understand why. Topics include the formation of the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" in the tenth century, the Investiture Controversy (which greatly weakened the German emperors), the German Renaissance, the Lutheran Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, the nature of the Hapsburg monarchy, the rise of Prussia, and the effect of the Napoleonic Wars on the German states. Readings will include both primary and secondary works. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An exploration of the politics and culture of Jacksonian America, 1828-1848. Topics will include the Second American Party System; the public career of Andrew Jackson, Protestant revivalism; abolitionism; the women's rights movement; the politics of slavery and race; westward expansion; the culture of "democracy;" and competitive capitalism. Readings will include works on or by leading figures such as Frederick Douglas, Henry Clay, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and "Old Hickory" himself. History 201 is highly recommended, but not required. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course explores the origin, distinctiveness, and importance of the Italian Renaissance. It is also about culture, society, and identity in the many "Italies" that existed before the modern period. Art, humanism, and the link between cultural patronage and political power will be a focus, as will the lives of 15th- and 16th-century women and men. Early lectures will trace the evolution of the Italian city-states, outlining the social and political conditions that fostered the cultural flowering of the 1400s and 1500s. We will consider Florence in the quattrocento, and subsequently shift to Rome in the High Renaissance. Later topics will include the papacy's return to the Eternal City, the art of Michelangelo and Raphael, and the ambitions of the warlike and mercurial Pope Julius II. Italy was a politically fragmented peninsula characterized by cultural, linguistic, and regional differences. For this reason, other topics will include: the fortunes of Venice, the courts of lesser city-states like Mantua and Ferrara, the life of Alessandra Strozzi, and the exploits of the "lover and fighter" Benvenuto Cellini. We will also look at representations of the Renaissance in fi 1.00 units, Lecture
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History of Disease, Race and Colonialism in the Americas. Colonialism in the Americas has traditionally been studied from different historiographical perspectives. However, what Arjun Appadurai has called the number in the colonial imagination has usually been excluded from serious attention. This course will place issues about numbers in the colonial imagination and key processes at the center of major historical problems of the period between the 1490s and 1820s. These will focus especially on the introduction of European diseases, and the categorization and counting of colonized peoples into races. Among the questions to be addressed are: How many peoples lived in the Americas before Columbus How do we know How many died from imported diseases How do we know How many enslaved Africans did the Europeans transport to the Americas How do we know How did colonial officials count different races Why was this important 1.00 units, Lecture
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This seminar will study the history of anti-Semitism in European culture. We will consider the evolution from pre-modern religious anti-Judaism to modern racial anti-Semitism and how such animus can coexist with tolerant attitudes towards Jews and Judaism. The course readings will be largely primary sources supplemented by some articles and monographs. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An introduction to Russian history from earliest times through the death of Tsar Alexander II. This course explores the social, cultural, and political development of medieval and early modern Russia; the significance and impact on Russian society of the revolutionary reforms of Tsar Peter the Great; the flowering of Russian learning and culture under the "enlightened" Empress Catherine the Great; Russian imperial aspirations in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and the social upheavals and revolutionary movements of the nineteenth century that paved the way for the October Revolution of 1917. Emphasis is on intellectual, cultural and social history, particularly of the 18th and 19th centuries. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. 1.00 units, Lecture
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