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3.00 Credits
American workers in the industrial and post-industrial eras, eras in which their history was embedded in global processes of human, economic, technological, and cultural mobility, migration and exchange. Examines, among other subjects, ethnic, racial and occupational characteristics of workers; their changing quality of life and their efforts to build organizations; and workers' politics, culture, religion, family life and recreation.
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3.00 Credits
Compares and contrasts the experiences of immigrants and African Americans in the United States from the first arrival of English settlers in early 17th century to contemporary issues of ethnicity and multiculturalism in the United States today. Drawing extensively on first-person accounts ù letters, diaries, reminiscences and fiction ù the course explores this history from the perspective of ordinary Americans. Readings trace the experiences and interactions of Europeans, Africans, Asians and Latin Americans in the United States over almost four centuries.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes how women shaped and how women's lives were affected by large economic, social and political changes in U.S. history, including the Industrial Revolution, labor organizing, migration and immigration, social reform, civil rights and changes in race and class structures and in family and personal identities. Compares the experience of working-class and middle-class women and women of different ethnic groups, including African American, Asian American, Hispanic and white women.
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3.00 Credits
Comparative histories of Asian Americans in the U.S. from 1850 to present. Asian migration to the Americas; work and labor systems; gender; family and community formation; Asian Americans in popular culture; Asian American cultural expression and social organization; racial ideologies and anti-Asian movements; and nationalism and debates over citizenship.
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3.00 Credits
A narrative of U.S. history, emphasizing dynamic relationship of Native American cultures and history to European Americans, African Americans and Latinos in development of American pluralism. Focus on aboriginal cultures of North America and social and cultural changes that resulted from interactions with other ethnic/racial groups in U.S. Comparison and contrast of dynamics and results of Native American cultures' interactions with European American, African American and Latino groups through time. Evaluation of impact of Native American cultures on global and national processes of change and how that impact altered over time. Role of Native Americans in American institutions, ideology and belief.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the history of Spanish America from the arrival of people in the Americas to the emergence of the Spanish American republics in the first third of the 19th century. Emphasis on the pre-Hispanic civilizations of Meso-America and the Andean region and the evolution of colonial society to the beginnings of the 17th century. Not for students who have taken or are taking HIST 370, History of Mexico.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of major political, social, economic and intellectual developments in Japan, through a reading of major primary sources in translation, from earliest written records through establishment of Tokugawa hegemony. Topics include mytho-historical justifications of dominance of Yamato clan, Heian society and culture, emergence of samurai and the revolution in land tenure, Zen Buddhist thought and practice.
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3.00 Credits
Political, social, economic and cultural survey of Chinese history from beginnings of Chinese civilization in second millennium BCE to the end of Ming dynasty. Topics include early formation of Chinese civilization, flowering of philosophy during the Zhou, impact of Buddhism, impact of alien dynasties, changes in landholding, southward expansion of Chinese culture and evolution of examination system. Readings draw primarily from Chinese historical, philosophical and literary texts in translation.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of Chinese history from beginning of Manchu rule (Qing dynasty) in 1644 to present. Topics include state and society in High Qing; population pressures, corruption and rebellion in 19th century; Western imperialism and attempts at reform; revolutionary movements; militarism and warlords; nationalism, Communism and anti-imperialism; conflict and accomplishment during the People's Republic. Readings draw primarily from Chinese writings in translation, from government documents to novels.
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6.00 Credits
Examines contemporary Middle East from perspective of its history in 20th century. Begins by studying period between 1917 and 1952, when Great Britain and France directly controlled most of region and only Iran, Turkey and parts of Arabian peninsula were independent, then studies establishment of independent states and legacy of Great Power influence. Particular attention to domestic developments in various states, emergence of mobilized peasant and worker groups and their struggles with existing elites. In given semester, focus is on several different countries, e.g. Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon; topics include Iranian Revolution and collapse of Lebanon since 1975. Also assesses international politics of region, intra-Arab struggles, Arab-Israeli conflict, rise of Palestinian activism and emergence of United States-Soviet interests.
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