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4.00 Credits
This introductory survey course considers empire as a feature of globalization in the long term and in the present. First, we establish a critical perspective on modern world history. Next, we explore British imperialism. Finally, we analyze the problem of imperialism in a world covered with legally sovereign nation-states. Throughout, historical capitalism provides a concept that connects empire and globalization.
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4.00 Credits
Covers (1) traditional African religions, including the myths of origin; concepts of the individual and Department of History the Supreme Being; the individual's relation to the universe; links between the world of the living and the spiritual; ancestral worship, divinities, witches, and sorcerers; and sacrifice, prayer, birth, and death; (2) the impact of Islam on traditional African religions, and the spread of Islam; (3) the impact of Christianity and missionary enterprise in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in sub-Saharan Africa; and (4) the impact of secular culture on religions in sub-Saharan Africa.
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4.00 Credits
Examines how Africa got to be where it is now. Covers the period from the beginning of the crisis that shook colonial empires in the 1940s through the coming to power of independent African governments on most of the continent in the 1960s to the fall of the last white regime in South Africa in 1994, by which time the already independent countries of Africa had found themselves in deep crisis. By bridging the conventional divide between "colonial" and "independent" Africa, the course opens up questions about the changes in African economies, religious beliefs, family relations, and conceptions of the world around them during the last half century. Students read political and literary writings by African intellectuals, as well as the work of scholars based inside and outside Africa, and view and discuss videos. The course emphasizes the multiple meanings of politics-from local to regional to Pan-African levels-and aspires to give students a framework for understanding the process of social and economic change in contemporary Africa.
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4.00 Credits
Exploration and analysis of the political, social, and economic development of African nations south of the Zambezi River from 1700 to the present. Focuses on South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Mozambique.
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4.00 Credits
Topics vary from semester to semester.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates topics in the environmental history of New York City from the 1600s to the present. From the city's origins as a harbor city at the intersection of the Hudson River and the Atlantic, to the Manhattan bedrock that anchors modern skyscrapers, natural geography has determined urban possibility. Infrastructure that has become "second nature" brings water and electricity to the city and carries its waste to distant landfills. The park lands that dot the city have become both playgrounds where New Yorkers seek green space and battlefields where they fight over the proper ways to enjoy those spaces. Through readings, site visits, and original research, the course introduces students to the environmental history of New York.
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4.00 Credits
Critically examines a number of important cities, towns, and states that flourished before the period of external, mainly European, control. The course explores the key reasons for their emergence, dynamism, and demise. Considers such factors as governance, commerce, the arts and architecture, social organization, and religion. The period covered extends from the New Kingdom in Egypt (1550 B.C.E.) to the forest kingdoms of West Africa on the eve of the Atlantic slave trade in the mid-15th century.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces the central themes, issues, and controversies in American education. What is the purpose of "school"? How did schools begin in the United States, and how have they evolved across time? How do children learn? How are they different from each other, and why and when should that matter? How should we teach them? And how should we structure schools and classrooms to promote learning? We explore these questions in readings, class discussions, and short essays.
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4.00 Credits
Examines European expansion in the early modern period and the creation of an interconnected Atlantic world with particular emphasis on North America and the Caribbean. Attention to the roles of Europeans, American natives, and Africans in forming systems of trade and patterns of settlement, as well as the evolution of slavery and the development of new political structures, changing religious beliefs, and evolving family relationships in America. Assesses the imperial context of these developments.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the relationship between Indians and Europeans roughly within the future United States from first contact through the period of Indian removal. Examines colonialism's impact on Indian societies and the broad variety of techniques native leaders used in attempting to control the relationship. Looks at changing Euramerican attitudes through the colonial period and the role of imperial conflict and American independence on policy development. Assesses the pressure created by Euramerican westward migration before and after the War of 1812, Indian resistance, and the campaign for removal of Indians beyond the Mississippi.
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