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3.00 Credits
This class explores the history of Argentina during the past two centuries. We will analyze specific topics including: Independence, Immigration, Peronism, Consumption, and Political Violence. In so doing, we will encounter several intriguing historical figures, including Juan and Evita Peron. In considering their stories alongside others, we will focus on the ways in which Argentines have sought to create a sense of national community deeply inflected with gender, class, race, and ethnic markers. Prerequisite: History 245 or History 246 or permission of instructor Pite
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This seminar is centered around reading and working with primary sources from the European Enlightenment. It culminates in the writing of a lengthy research paper. Prerequisite: History 206 and 225, or permission of instructor [W] Fix
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3.00 Credits
This seminar allows students with training either in modern European history or in gender studies to engage in a semester-long research project on topics related to European gender history. We begin with an overview of core theoretical texts before developing individual projects based on the intensive study of primary sources. Students will not only write an original research paper but will also make several oral presentations over the course of the semester. Prerequisite: History 206 and one of the following: History 225, 227, 228, 243, 244, 254, WGS 101 or permissions of instructor [W] Sanborn
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3.00 Credits
Each year, this course addresses a major theme in the history of modern Russia. Students work with the latest scholarship in the field of Russian history and explore primary sources before writing a substantive research paper. The topic of the course in 2000 was Stalinism, but future topics may include: imperialism in tsarist Russia, the Soviet experience in World War II, or Tolstoy's Russia. [W] Prerequisite: History 206 and either History 243 or History 244 or permission of instructor {W} Sanborn
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This seminar focuses on American social and cultural history in the tumultuous years between World War I and II. Topics include the new American Automobile culture, the rise of advertising, the evolution of radio, Prohibition and organized Crime, Architecture and Urban Planning, Visions of Cities of the Future, immigration restriction, the Klu Klux Klan, the controversy over teaching Darwin in public schools, major fiction and films of the period, racial tension and violence, and radicalism and reform during the Great Depression. Students will be introduced to these topics through primary sources, including newspaper, magazines, novels, and films. This is a seminar. Heavy emphasis is placed on written assignments and in-class discussion. [W] Prerequisite: History 206 or permission of instructor Miller
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3.00 Credits
Each year this course addresses a major topic in early American history. The course may examine a particular time period in depth or it may focus on a theme in early American history. In this seminar, students will read and discuss historical literature on the chosen topic, and they will write a research paper based on extensive use of primary sources. Prerequisites: History 206 and one of the following: History 230, 232, 233 or permission of instructor [W] Rosen
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3.00 Credits
Course participants will examine the various causes of the Boxer Rebellion in China ca. 1897-1901. Were Boxer atrocities an outbreak of irrational violence (terror), or acts of local self-defense against over-bearing imperialists This seminar emphasizes historical analysis of the Boxers and current debates about the nature of documentation and historical memory. Prerequisite: History 206 and one of the following: History 231, 243, 246, 248, 249 or permission of instructor [W] Barclay
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3.00 Credits
Course participants will assess the violence unleashed by Japanese forces in wars against China (1931-45) and the United States (1941-45). Global imperialism, Japanese domestic political history, US-Japanese diplomacy, and Sino-Japanese relations will be considered as causal forces and explanatory devices. Prerequisite: History 206 and one of the following: History 237, 248, 249, 250 or permission of instructor [W] Barclay
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3.00 Credits
The growth of American technology is examined from the early years of the Republic through the twentieth century. Topics include interchangeable parts and the implementation of mass production; the factory as system and community, the transportation revolution, regional electric power systems, communication technologies, the process of corporate invention, and the role of the military in developing "modern" technologies. Extensive readings from recent important books and articles in the history of technology are the basis for class discussion. [W] Prerequisite: History 206 and either History 215 or History 252 or permission of instructor Jackson
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the development of the trans-Mississippi American West from the time of the earliest Anglo explorations through the flourishing of major urban centers in the late twentieth century. A range of readings and films focus discussion on social, economic, and technological factors shaping the West's culture. [W] Prerequisite: History 206 or permission of instructor Jackson
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