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3.00 Credits
Topic determined by student and faculty member.
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Tutorial or seminar study of special problems that meets needs of advanced students. Prerequisites: consent of instructor.
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The idea of history and historical writing in Egypt, the Near East (including the Bible), Greece and Rome through close reading of ancient historical records and the works of such writers as Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, Livy, Tacitus and Eusebius.
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Study of a selection of great historical novels to examine how such works blend historical figures and events with fictional ones to recreate and present important aspects of the past, difficult to grasp by straightforward historical works. Examines some difficult questions about the nature of historical truth and how we attempt to find it.
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3.00 Credits
This undergraduate seminar explores key issues and events in Soviet history, including the Revolutions of 1917, the Civil War, the NEP, the Cultural Revolution, Stalinism, political purges, the GULAG, World War II and its impact, the problem of national identities in a Communist state, the challenge of de-Stalinization and the tensions that ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet system.
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Examines issues of law and political justice as presented in the war crimes trials of the 20th century. After scrutinizing the legal and political consequences of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials held at the end of World War II, charts key moments in the development of international humanitarian concern over the remainder of the 20th century. Focuses on the behavior of policy makers during World War II, the Vietnam War, the "post-Cold War" criminal trials and the most recent "war on terrorism." Also addresses issues of individual vs. collective responsibility and war-crimes trials as media events. Enrollment restricted to seniors.
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A seminar designed to generate thinking about Japanese and American experiences of constitutionalism and democracy. Some of the main questions we shall discuss are: (1) What does ?democracy? mean and how do constitutions advance and at the same time restrict ?democratic governance?? (2) By what methods are rulers selected in ?democratic states?? (3) How can we assess whether a political order is democratic or its people ?sovereign?? (4) What concrete events catalyzed the formation of constitutions in the United States of the late 18th century? Japan toward the end of the 19th century? (5) After these constitutions were made, what experiences led to their transformations? (6) What roles have war and defeat played in advancing or retarding democracy?
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This seminar has two components: historiography and research. After completing intensive reading on Latin America-U.S. relations, the course goes step-by-step through researching, drafting, discussing and revising research papers. The sub-regional focus of the seminar may change from year to year (e.g., Central America). Prerequisite: a course in either U.S. history after 1877 or Latin American studies.
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The "long 16th century" (1450-1650 ) marked the beginning of the extension of European political and economy hegemony over the globe and the making of a European world economy. During this period Latin America became the first zone incorporated into the European world economy. This process marked the collision of two worlds that were radically foreign to one another. Europe's discovery of its "New World" brought it into contact with the vast and geographically diverse spaces of the Americas and with peoples and cultures whose existence it had never imagined. For inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere the arrival of Europeans was an event originating outside their world. With it, they experienced the shock of the intrusion of people, institutions, beliefs and practices for which they could have no reference. These profoundly different civilizations came into conflict under highly unequal conditions. The colonial power of Spain and Portugal sought to impose new forms of political organization, systems of belief, social domination, and economic activity and undermined indigenous institutions. Yet if their civilizations collapsed and their world turned upside down, indigenous peoples as well as the African slaves imported to the Americas as part of the colonizing project continued to interpret, adapt to and resist these new conditions. The seminar will examine how the encounter of Spanish and Portuguese colonialism with its Indian and African subject populations created this "New World." With special attention to Mexico, Central America, Peru and Brazil, the course will focus on law, religion, land and labor in order to better understand how integration into the European world economy created the diverse societies, new ethnic identities and social subjects of Latin Ame
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The study of popular texts of the period 1900 to 1945 projecting social issues such as sexuality, eugenics, the frontier, immigration and fascism onto the "animal estate." Lad, A Dog; Lassie Come Home; Western heroes and their horses are read as part of a process in which historical changes are explained as evolving laws of nature.
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