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3.00 Credits
Recasting mid-19th-century U.S. society and culture, course studies work of slavery and King Cotton, winning and losing the West, the Cherokee Removal and how "Irish became white" in making of democratic national identity. Struggle of industrial artisans and workers for share of industrial abundance, men and women in "age of reform" creating utopian communities, "American" arts and sciences, free schools, abolition societies, women's rights, religious revivals and popular cultures. Study of secession, Civil War as fought on home fronts and moment of Jubilee as transformations of peoples and nation.
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Constructing of American culture and its diverse human identities, including African Americans, European Americans, Asian Americans and Native Americans through close readings in 19th-century literature and recent historical studies. Recasting Civil War period in history and memory, issues familiar to 19th-century America emerge, including romantic and positivist views of domesticity, childhood, race, slavery/abolition, individualism, rights of man and woman, progress, frontier, manifest destiny. Sources include Uncle Tom's Cabin, Our Nig, Benito Cereno, abolitionist romances.
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Focus on the transformation from Victorian to modern culture and society. Topics include the "genteel tradition" and "roughing it" on the frontiers of the Western United States and emerging modernist phenomena, including the "new man" and "the new woman," eugenics, the "new Negro," Freud in America, consumerism, pragmatism, the "leisure class" and the "working masses," all part of a "new empire." Readings include Tarzan of the Apes, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Call of the Wild, Riders of the Purple Sage and Roughing It.
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Examines topics in American legal history that illuminate the social, political and economic influences on the development of the law: the relationship between the state and individuals; private property rights and the public interest; the shifting meaning and implementation of due process rights; and class, race and gender as factors in shaping the law. Examines how the law dealt with outsiders and "deviants," from the Salem "witches" through slaves, aliens, dissenters, radicals and such religious sects as Jehovah's Witnesses.
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3.00 Credits
Development of liberal national consensus for social reform, coupled with dynamic foreign and national security policies, followed by breakdown of consensus by decade's end. Topics include civil rights movement, New Left, feminism, New Frontier and Great Society, Vietnam, anti-war movement, resurgence of conservatism.
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3.00 Credits
Examines America's longest war and only defeat. Topics include Cold War; actions of Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon; problems of defeating guerrilla war; anti-war movement; campaigns of McCarthy and McGovern; consequences of war and defeat.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of Mexico's history from pre-Hispanic to recent past, emphasis on period after 1824. Pre-Hispanic civilizations; general characteristics of colonial period; achievement of independence; 19th-century politics and society; regime of Porfirio Diaz ( 1876-1910); Mexican Revolution ( 1910-1920); Mexican politics and society since 1920.
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The establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate (military hegemony) at the beginning of the 17th century put an end to the nearly five centuries of strife and bloodshed. For 285 years, the Tokugawa dynasty was the de facto ruler of Japan. It was an era of comparative peace and stability; near total isolation from the outside world, cultural growth, the ?taming? of the samurai warriors, the development of a nationalist scholarship that re-imagined Japanese history, urbanization and, ultimately, a stagnation that led to its downfall.
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3.00 Credits
Equips students with basic information about Japan and its importance to Americans. General introduction to Japan's 20th-century history from the 1890s up to the present day. Traces Japan's transformation into a powerful nation-state capable of competing with the Western powers and its experiences of war, Cold War and post-Cold War development. Particular attention given to nationalism, the wars of the late 1930s and early 1940s, the construction of the post-war state and economy and Japanese recollections of the past. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors.
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3.00 Credits
This course historicizes race by tracing its origins in colonialism and the Enlightenment. We ask whether colonial racial dynamics persisted or changed in modern Latin America. Topics include slavery and emancipation, eugenics, sexuality, racial democracy and social movements. Comparisons to the U.S. are emphasized. Prerequisites: sophomore standing and a previous course in either Latin American studies or history. HIST 374
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