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3.00 Credits
This course examines movements of artistic, intellectual, renewal that first developed in Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, spread throughout western Europe after 1500, and were together named "The Renaissance." The course will examine the Renaissance in its birthplace, the hustling, aggressive communes (citystates) of Trecento and Quattrocento Italy, giving special attention to the republic of Florence. It will consider the Renaissance in its social, economic, and political contexts, and expose its roots in medieval high culture and in the Commercial Revolution of 1000-1350.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the sixteenth-century European Christian reform movements that established the Protestant churches and reinvented the Roman Church. It considers the Reformation not just as a religious transformation, but as a process of profound and violent social, political, and cultural upheaval in Early Modern Europe. Topics addressed will include the Reformation's roots in medieval Christian theology and Renaissance humanism, the role of religious reform in the construction of modern states and notions of family and gender, reformed theology as a spur to violent class conflict, the formation of radical Christian theocratic communities, and the civil and international religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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3.00 Credits
War was a chronic condition of western Europe from the fourteenth century through the seventeenth. It was also a fundamental cultural institution and big business. This course examines war as a social, cultural, and economic construct in Early Modern Europe. While the course will hardly ignore such topics as weapons, tactics, and combat operations, these are not its primary concerns. Rather, it focuses upon military culture and military institutions, and how they were determined by - and in turn determined - broader religious, political, social, and economic trends. Special attention will be paid to mercenary companies and their captains as both products and drivers of early capitalism, particularly in Italy, and to the experience of chronic war in the Low Countries in the latter half of the sixteenth century, as the formidable Army of Flanders struggled to quell Dutch revolt against Spanish rule.
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3.00 Credits
The history of China from its beginnings to the eve of its clash with the West in the nineteenth century. The course examines the development of premodern China's political, social, and economic institutions, many of which lasted into the twentieth century. Special emphasis will be given to premodern religion, popular culture, and daily life.
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3.00 Credits
The history of China's tumultuous entry into the modern world. The course examines China's struggle to adjust its traditions to the reality of Western dominance and the radical changes in Chinese society that this adjustment caused. Emphasis will be given to the failure of the 1911 Revolution, the rise and victory of the Communist Party, the Cultural Revolution, and the regime of Deng Xiaoping
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3.00 Credits
This course looks at the history of the caravan trade routes across Eurasia that have become known as "The Silk Road." The significance of these trade routes lies in the fact that they ensured the distribution and mixing of luxury goods, religions, technologies, literatures, and peoples from one end of Eurasia to another. In fact, many scholars argue that these trade routes created a unified economic world system, which has made the cultures of Eurasia materially much stronger than those of any other continent. Moreover, the wealth generated by the silk roads often inspired the creation of nomadic empires that had an immense effect on the great agrarian civilizations that bordered the steppes. Through their immense military strength and prowess, these nomadic empires often significantly affected the history of the outlying sedentary civilizations. Thus, this course's focus will be the Central Eurasian nomads and oasis-dwellers who played a central role in the functioning of the Silk Road and their impact on their agricultural neighbors.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of Japan's history from its prehistoric origins to its postwar economic miracle. Topics such as the "Horserider Theory," Heian court life, samurai rule, Japanese "feudalism," Shintoism, Japanese Buddhism, the Meiji Reform, the prewar militarization, and the postwar transformation into an economic superpower will all receive special attention.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the early Islamic world roughly from 600 through 1800. There will be geographical emphasis on the Middle East, but the class will also examine North Africa, Spain, Central Asia, and India. The course examines, but is not limited to: Muhammad and the foundations of Islam, Islamic conquests, early dynasties, rise of independent kingdoms, Islamic Spain, Islamic North Africa, Crusades, Mongol invasions, Moghuls, Safavids, and Ottomans.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Middle East history with an emphasis upon those events that provide historical background and context for current affairs in the region. It covers from around 1800 to the present, with an emphasis on the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, beginning with the decline of the Ottoman Empire, and goes on to cover the impact of WWI and WWII, Zionism, the rise of modern Middle East states, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Arab nationalism, the rise of political Islam and Islamic fundamentalism, a brief history of U.S. interest and activity in the region, the advent and rise of terrorism in the Middle East, and both Gulf Wars.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Middle East history with an emphasis upon those events that provide historical background and context for current affairs in the region. It covers from around 1800 to the present, with an emphasis on the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, beginning with the decline of the Ottoman Empire, and goes on to cover the impact of WWI and WWII, Zionism, the rise of modern Middle East states, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Arab nationalism, the rise of political Islam and Islamic fundamentalism, a brief history of U.S. interest and activity in the region, the advent and rise of terrorism in the Middle East, and both Gulf Wars.
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