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3.00 Credits
Origins, character, role and operation of law in societies of ancient Near East (Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Hittites and Israelites), Greece and Rome. Sources of authority and law; legal codes; law and social norms and values; role of women, children, slaves; constitutions and legislation; custom and tradition; philosophy of law.
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Europe from the 1760s to 1820s. Collapse of Old Regime, revolutionary ideologies and revolutionary waves, Napoleon ù savior or dictator? Napoleonic Europe and the nationalist reaction, classicism and romanticism, a world restored.
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3.00 Credits
Ranging from the end of the Enlightenment to the present, examines how "race" has constructed European identity and how it informed Western social theories that aided in the construction of racial others. Considers in detail the doctrines of scientific racism and eugenics, colonial racism, racial anti-Semitism and xenophobic nationalism to study how race has structured the colonial enterprises of modern European states, fascist ideology, popular and political discourse about immigration, and the intersection of race with national and gender identities. Ends with a consideration of diaspora and hybridity by exploring the life of former colonials in the metropole and their influence on European politics and culture.
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This course explores the political, social and cultural life of France in the 20th century. Themes include French participation in the two World Wars; how decolonization, immigration and Americanization have challenged traditional understandings of French national identity; the neo-fascist response to diversity; the place of Islam in the Republic; Gaullism; May 1968 and its aftermath; Franco-American relations in the contemporary world.
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The combination of slave labor, the production of tropical and sub-tropical staple crops, and the plantation were central to the making of the Atlantic world between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries. Nonetheless, the relation between them can by no means be taken for granted. Particular crops only grow in certain regions or under certain environmental conditions. At the most elemental level, the relation of the value of the labor input to the value of the product determined the suitability of slave labor in a given territory. At the same time, the first slave crops created new needs and drew consuming populations into new market relations. Specific combinations of material processes and social relations of slave production created distinctive complexes of export agriculture in particular environmental zones. These zones and the wealth created in them were the objects of intense imperial rivalry especially between Portugal, Holland, Britain and France. This course examines the interrelation of natural environments, the social organization slave plantation production, and the politics of empire as integral parts of the Atlantic plantation complex.
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Explores the complicated history of human rights ideas, institutions and laws since their first implementation after the traumas and tragedies of the Second World War. Traces the many historical struggles at particular moments across the globe, which made human rights an increasingly important component of international relations and public debate worldwide by the 21st century. Discusses the founding of the United Nations and passage of early human rights and humanitarian conventions, including those against genocides, torture and disappearance. Assesses the successes and failures of the transnational movements for human rights, including grass roots anti-racist campaigns, the movements for gender equality and immigrant rights and the legal efforts to hold individuals accountable for war crimes.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines interactions between the peoples, governments and economies of the Middle East and the United States since 1800.áTopics include the Ottoman Empire, American missionaries and merchants, the Armenian massacres, Great Power Partitions, Cold War, formation of Israel, Mossadeq crisis, Egyptian Revolution, crises in Lebanon and Iraq (1958), Iranian Revolution, the Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq. Prerequisites: sophomore standing and a previous course in either U.S. or Middle Eastern history.
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3.00 Credits
Study of key junctures in history of direct and indirect relations between China and Europe from antiquity to mid-19th century. Ancient trade and origins of Silk Route in antiquity; Ibn Batuta, Marco Polo, William of Rubruck and other traveler-authors of medieval times; pre-European world trading order; expansion of Europe and role of Jesuits as cultural intermediaries; opium and coming of imperialism. Ample attention paid to political and economic patterns of interaction. Primary focus upon cultural perceptions and (mis)understandings. Readings include both primary accounts (Chinese and Western) and secondary studies.
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3.00 Credits
Study of extermination of six million Jews by Nazis and their allies during World War II. History of anti-Semitism, rise of fascism, political structure of Nazi rule, nature of pre-war Jewish communities. Jewish resistance and response, post-war attempts to understand the Holocaust (through literature, films, theology).
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3.00 Credits
Situation of land of Israel, from Ottoman times to present, including rise of Jewish nationalism (Zionism), World War I diplomacy, British Mandate, emergence of State of Israel.
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