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3.00 Credits
This course surveys 1,000 years of Russian history, from the founding of the first state in Kiev in the 9th century to the end of the Great Reforms in the 19th century. Students read primary documents, recent scholarship, and Russian literature in an effort to understand Russia's old regime. Topics addressed include Russia's position in Asia and Europe, the nature of the autocracy, the impact of serfdom, and attempts to create a public sphere. Lecture/discussion. Sanborn
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the massive cultural and political transformation in 20th-century Russia. The first unit addresses the major changes in the Russian economy and society that occurred between 1891-1914 before moving to the years of war, revolution, and retreat from 1914-28. The second unit covers the Stalinist era from 1928-53, while the third deals with the decay of the Soviet Union, the Gorbachev Revolution, and the Boris Yeltsin era of the 1990s. Lecture/discussion Sanborn
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the colonial era of a region now called Latin America. It will begin with the period preceding the arrival of Christopher Columbus and end with the early nineteenth-century wars of independence. Focusing on the interactions between Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans, we will explore the evolution of a number of multiethnic societies. We will consider how colonialism survived for three hundred years, why the system collapsed, and what legacies it left behind. Pite
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history of Latin America from the early nineteenth century until the present by exploring the social, political, cultural, ideological, and economic issues that surrounded the development of modern nation states. We will not attempt the impossible task of "covering" all of modern Latin American history. Instead, we will focus on revealing case studies that help us to better understand the historical trends, power dynamics, and regional diversity of the Americas. Pite
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3.00 Credits
Survey of Japanese and Chinese prehistory and respective myths of origin. Introduction to canonical texts of each tradition. Course members analyze persistence, diffusion and change in the domains of East-Asian state-craft, economic life, social organization and culture. Barclay
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3.00 Credits
A comparative study of institution-building, economic life, and social history in China and Japan from 1600 to 1900. Themes include: impact of economic growth and urbanization on agrarian societies; the transition from empire to nation-state; and the interactions of China, Japan, and the Western powers on the eve of dynastic collapse. Barclay
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3.00 Credits
Comparisons and connections between Japan and China from the Meiji Restoration and Double-Ten Revolution to the present. Of special concern will be the often catastrophic interplay between Japan's imperial and China's anti-imperial aspirations since the late 19th century. Emphasis on political, diplomatic and intellectural history. Barclay
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3.00 Credits
Memoirs, diaries, fiction and documentary are utilized to probe the history of everyday life in modern East Asia. Persistence and change in so-called traditional patterns of economic, family and educational behavior in comparative perspective. The problem of "culture" as an explanatory device for behavior in each country will frame our approach to the materials. Barclay
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3.00 Credits
A study of the growth of the city in the United States and its impact upon American history with emphasis on social and ethnic developments, politics, city planning, and urban decay. Miller
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the relationship of environment (and environmental change) to American history. Topics include the growth of urban industrial areas and the transformation of rural hinterlands, the effect of transportation technologies (e.g. railroads and automobiles) on land use, the conflict between "environmental protection" and "conservation" as exemplified in the progressive era battle over construction of Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National Park, and the environmental movement of the 1960-70sJackson
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