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  • HIST 390P: Prelude to the Civil Rights Movement

    15.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This course explores the forgotten years of the civil rights movement, the seedtime of black protest and insurgency, from the New York Riot of 1900 to the Supreme Court's landmark desegregation decision in 1954. Emphasis is placed upon the development of protest techniques, conflicting organizational strategies of advance, leadership struggles, and the flowering of distinct and innovative cultural forms. Harlem, the cultural capital of black America, is examined as a paradigmatic case study of the effects of northern migration, urbanization, and proletarianization on America's bellwether minority. Enrollment limited to 15. (United States.) [W2] H. Jensen.
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  • HIST 390S: Colonies and Empires

    15.00 Credits
    Bates College

    After 1492, European empires staked claims to vast American territories. Despite the existence of several colonial cities as large as many in Europe, the improvisational and often forlorn character of many American outposts seemed to mock the idea of empire. Whatever their situation, American subjects proved to be ambivalent members of these new global entities, and the challenges of travel and communication only complicated matters. This seminar explores the paradoxes of imperial authority and local autonomy with a comparative look at the Spanish and British empires, from the early explorers to the first intimations of American independence. Enrollment limited to 15. (United States.) [W2] J. Hall.
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  • HIST 390W: The Civil Rights Movement

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    Between 1954 and 1968, the civil rights movement rearranged the terrain and composition of American social relations, altered the domestic agenda of American politics, created a hopeful climate for change, unleashed hidden turbulences of racial nationalism and gender division, and broached still-unanswered questions about the nation's uneven distribution of wealth. It enunciated the moral vocabulary of a generation. By critically examining primary documents, film, audio records, social history, and participant testimony, this course seeks to deflate the mythology surrounding this subject and comprehend it as "living history" infused with new meaning for the present. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor permission is required. (United States.) [W2] H. Jensen.
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  • HIST 457: Senior Thesis

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    The research and writing of an extended essay in history, following the established practices of the discipline, under the guidance of a departmental supervisor. Students register for History 457 in the fall semester and for History 458 in the winter semester. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both History 457 and 458. [W3] Normally offered every year. Staff.
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  • HIST 457,458: Senior Thesis

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    The research and writing of an extended essay in history, following the established practices of the discipline, under the guidance of a departmental supervisor. Students register for History 457 in the fall semester and for History 458 in the winter semester. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both History 457 and 458. [W3] Normally offered every year. Staff.
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  • HIST 458: Senior Thesis

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    The research and writing of an extended essay in history, following the established practices of the discipline, under the guidance of a departmental supervisor. Students register for History 458 in the winter semester. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both History 457 and 458. [W3] Normally offered every year. Staff.
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  • HIST S20: Visions of the Past:Political Film and Historical Narrative

    15.00 Credits
    Bates College

    History need not be done on a page. Visual imagination-captured in photographs and documentary film-has often proved an indispensable pathway to historical, social, and political understanding. But have historians been well-served by Hollywood feature film portrayals of politically charged situations "based on a true story" that mix fact and consumer titillation to sell tickets This course compares representative films of the "historical" genre to traditional written evidence about some controversial events in recent history. Can cinematic techniques truthfully illuminate dimensions of moral imperative and resonances of the human condition that printed words cannot Enrollment limited to 15. (United States.) H. Jensen.
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  • HIST S27: Destination Latin America:Travelers and Tourists

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    Ecotourists, explorers, revolutionaries, wives of foreign diplomats, members of scientific expeditions, missionaries, and fun-seeking spring breakers these are just some of the travelers who have provided eyewitness accounts of Latin America's peoples and regions. This unit centers on different types of travelers and their destinations, asking how travelers' purposes and perspectives affected what they saw and decided to record. More generally, it examines how travel has affected Latin American culture and society, such as in the promotion of "authentic" indigenous cultural events or in the building of new cities, like Cancun, as tourist resorts. New course beginning Short Term 2008. K. Melvin.
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  • HIST S28: Wabanaki History in Maine

    25.00 Credits
    Bates College

    The peoples of Maine known as the Wabanakis, including the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Micmac, and Maliseet nations, are pivotal players in Maine's history. Their early relations with Europeans shaped the colonization of the region and their more recent legal efforts to regain land and build casinos have affected everyone in the state. This course looks at the long history of Maine's Wabanakis, examining the ways that they have adapted to, fought with, and lived alongside European invaders and their descendants. Students examine some of the ways that European-Americans' racism has erased Wabanakis' presence in the state and its history, the meanings of sovereignty in a state that still retains a great deal of influence over native peoples, and the role of environmental change in shaping Wabanakis' changing cultural practices. Students are strongly encouraged to link their final research project to contemporary Wabanaki efforts to recover their past. Enrollment limited to 25. (United States.) J. Hall.
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  • HIST S34: Rousseau and Jean-Jacques

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) led a bohemian life without steady employment, settled family, or significant achievement before his late thirties. Then he suddenly became a literary celebrity by attacking more or less everything that sophisticated Frenchmen most admired: arts and letters, private property, the theater, the aristocracy, institutional schooling, the Catholic Church, the monarchy. Of course, such a life and such writings exposed him to censure and ridicule. He responded with defiant if posthumous Confessions in which he told his sad story and proclaimed his essential goodness. This course begins with Jean-Jacques's life story and tests the historical hypothesis that Rousseau's various attacks were so many defenses of the "dear self." But they make him the first modern democrat. Prerequisite(s): French 202 or higher, or one of the following: Politics 191, History 223, 224 or 390c. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 15. (European.) J. R. Cole.
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