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4.00 Credits
The history of Western scientific thought from its origins in the ancient Near East until the death of Isaac Newton. Covers the development of science as a distinctive way of understanding the natural world, Department of History as well as the relationship between science and Western society.
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Following an analysis of cultural, social, political, and economic conditions in France before 1789, the course follows the Revolution through its successive phases. Narrates and analyzes the rise of Napoleon and his consolidation of France, his conquests and the spread of his system, and his eventual overthrow.
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4.00 Credits
Study of major themes in European intellectual history from the end of the Enlightenment to the last decades of the 19th century, considered in the light of the social and political contexts in which they arose and the cultural backgrounds that helped shape them. Topics include romanticism, liberal and radical social theory, aestheticism, the late 19th-century crisis of values, and the rise of modern social science.
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4.00 Credits
Study of major themes in European intellectual history from the fin de siècle down to the 1980s, considered in the light of the social and political contexts in which they arose and the cultural backgrounds that helped shape them. Topics include new Marxisms, avant-gardes, Weimar and Bauhaus, André Malraux, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Habermas, and Foucault.
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4.00 Credits
Covers the impact of World War II, the postwar division of Europe, the onset of the Cold War, the economic recovery and transformation of Western Europe, Stalinism in Eastern Europe, the 1960s and events of 1968, the origins and development of the European community, and the cultural and intellectual life of European nations in this period. Ends with a discussion of the Eastern European revolutions of 1989 and their significance, together with the reunification of Germany, for the future of the continent.
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4.00 Credits
Examines Greece's transformation from a traditional Ottoman society into a modern European state, the parallel evolution of Greek diaspora communities, and the changes in homeland-diaspora relations. Topics include state building, relations with Turkey and the Balkan states, emigration, liberalism and modernization, the old and new diaspora, interwar authoritarianism, occupation and resistance in the 1940s, the Greek civil war, Greece and NATO, the Cyprus crisis, the Greek American lobby, and Greece and European integration.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces major developments and themes in British history since 1688. During this period, Britain emerged as the world's first industrial nation and a primary imperial power, fought two world wars partly in an effort to maintain that position, and unevenly accommodated the changed realities of the late 20th century. This course situates the social and political history of Britain within these wider European and global contexts.
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4.00 Credits
Covers the political, cultural, economic, and social history of Italy since World War II. Starting with the transition from fascism to democracy, examines the Cold War, the growth of a mass consumer society, the social and political movements of the late 1960s and 1970s, the battle against the Mafia, postwar emigration, the rise and fall of postwar Christian Democracy and Italian communism, and the emergence of new parties in the 1990s such as Berlusconi's Forza Italia, Bossi's Northern League, and Fini's neofascist Alleanza Nazionale.
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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary examination of the cultural production of the fascist period. Students examine the image that the fascist regime produced of itself through the study of popular novels, architecture, film, and political speeches.
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4.00 Credits
Studies representations of Italian history through Department of History the medium of film from the unification of Italy to the present. Fascism, the resistance, 1968, and other events are covered, as are questions of how film functions with respect to canonical national narratives and dominant systems of power.
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