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Glosser Content: Political, economic, and cultural history of China, traced through the lives of individual Chinese, including the mighty and the low: venerable philosophers and historians, powerful women, mighty emperors, conscientious officials, laboring women and men, evangelizing missionaries, zealots of all political persuasions. Sixth century B.C.E. to late 20th century, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Lectures cover the historical milieu in which the various subjects lived. Through class discussion and essay assignments, students unite their knowledge of particular individuals and the broad sweep of events to form a rich and lively familiarity with Chinese history. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Bernstein Content: History of Japan from earliest times to Tokugawa Ieyasu's victory at Sekigahara. Cultural foundations; mythology; literature; aesthetics; religion; philosophy; key economic, social, political institutions. The production of and relationship between culture and politics in premodern Japan. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Campion Content: The social, economic, and political history of the Indian subcontinent from the 18th century to the present. The cultural foundations of Indian Society; the East India Company and the expansion of British power; the experience of Indians under the British Raj; Gandhi and the rise of Indian nationalism; independence and partition; postcolonial South Asian developments in politics, economy, and culture. Thematic emphasis on the causes and consequences of Western imperialism, religious and cultural identities, and competing historical interpretations. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Staff Content: A broadly humanistic and introductory perspective on the problem of the Vietnam War. Root causes of the war from Vietnamese and American perspectives; the nature of the war as it developed and concluded. The war as a problem in American domestic politics. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Campion Content: The development of the British Isles from the late medieval period to the Glorious Revolution. The church and state in late medieval Britain; the English and Scottish reformations; Elizabeth and her realm; the evolution of monarchical and aristocratic power under the Tudors and Stuarts; Shakespeare, Milton, and the English literary renaissance; the conquest and settlement of Ireland; Cromwell, the Puritans, and the English Civil War; life in the villages and the growth of the mercantile economy; the Glorious Revolution and the shaping of constitutional monarchy. Prerequisite: None. History 120 recommended. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Campion Content: A history of Britain and its people from the Glorious Revolution to the end of the Napoleonic War. The end of absolutism and the rise of the constitutional monarchy; the Augustan Age: arts, letters, and religion; the Atlantic world and British overseas expansion; the Enlightenment and scientific revolution; the American Revolution and its aftermath; union with Scotland and Ireland and the creation of the British national identity; the revolution in France and the wars against Napoleon; the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. Prerequisite: None. History 121 recommended. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Campion Content: The history of Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Industrialization and its social consequences; the shaping of Victorian society; the rise and fall of the British Empire; the Irish question and the emancipation of women; political reform and the rise of mass politics; Britain in the age of total war; popular culture, immigration, and the making of multicultural Britain. Themes include the growth of the social and economic class structure, the shaping of national and regional identities, cultural exchanges with the empire. Extensive use of primary sources, literature, music. Prerequisite: None. History 121 recommended. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Healy Content: Social, economic, and intellectual origins of the revolution of 1789; major developments in France; the spread of revolution to the remainder of Europe. European responses to the threat of revolution, defeat of the Napoleonic armies, the attempt to return to normalcy after 1815. Prerequisite: None. History 121 recommended. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Healy Content: Origins and consequences of World War I; attempts to develop a republican government; Nazism; evolution of the two Germanies after 1945 and their reunification. Readings on relationship between individual and state, pressures for conformity, possibility of dissent. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Westervelt Content: Social, intellectual, political, and cultural elements of European life during the period from about 800 to 1400. Emphasis on Christianity as a dominant aspect of public life; feudalism and other forms of economic and social life; developing conflicts between secular and ecclesiastical institutions; emergence of European nation-states; contacts with the non-European world; high medieval culture. Prerequisite: None. History 120 recommended. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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