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4.00 Credits
Students examine classic texts in Enlightenment studies as well as interpretations of the Enlightenment that place these texts in cultural context and larger historical perspective. Topics include the philosophes and the gods, the social and political sciences, ethical thought, utopian literature, and popular culture.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the causes of and responsibility for the war. Topics include the diplomatic crises before 1914, the internal situation of Austria, the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, and the varying interpretations of the causes of the war.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar has two objectives: (1) an in-depth survey of the events, personalities, and interpretations of the Russian Revolution through a close analysis of numerous and varied sources and (2) a workshop in the writing of history through the preparation and criticism of short papers and written exercises.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces techniques and approaches used by the humanities and social sciences in studying science, technology, and medicine. Investigates how historians, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists apply their methodological toolkit in investigating scientific, technological, and medical knowledge. Invites students to think synthetically, organically, and creatively across several disciplines.
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4.00 Credits
Social and political history of France from the French Revolution to the late 19th century. Topics include the French Revolution and its legacy; the Empire; movements of the right and the left; urbanization; the Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune; the Dreyfus Affair; colonization; and the question of nationhood, citizenship, and the emergence of a French identity.
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4.00 Credits
The transformation of French society since the beginning of the 20th century. Topics include nationalism, socialism, labor conflict, economic crisis, war and collaboration, colonialism and decolonization, student uprising, immigration, the establishment of a presidential regime, and regional and ethnic militancy.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to key texts in and critical methodologies for the study of modern world history from the perspective of two of its dominant themes: imperialism and colonialism. Helps students theorize and historicize these seemingly well-known and self-explanatory concepts by introducing them as historically specific theories for understanding the very notion of "modern world history." The broad theoretical consideration is accompanied by a consideration of specific texts from Asia and the United States, although not confined to such a bilateral view of the "world."
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4.00 Credits
See description under Asian/Pacific/American Studies.
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4.00 Credits
Is capitalism a set of global arrangements superimposed on a set of local cultures, a long-term tendency of South Asian societies, or something that has entered into the very structure of modern South Asian society? This course explores a series of topics including the Indian Ocean trading world; "protoindustrialization" in pre-colonial India; the East India Company; deindustrialization, peasantization, and traditionalization; continuity and transformation in peasant society; developmentalist theories and pro-industrialization policies; nationalism, decolonization, and political economy; and neo-liberalism.
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4.00 Credits
Topics vary from semester to semester.
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