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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. A historical investigation of Japan's competing modernities, 1870-1960. Major topics will include Meiji Westernization and its critics, statist narrations of modern Japanese subjectivity, hierarchy and individualism in modernist reform ideologies, territorial and ethnic displacements within the Japanese empire, cosmopolitan literariness and nostalgia for cultural and spiritual homelands, ethnic nationalism in the cultural sciences, and transcendence of the past in Japanese painting and films. Conference.
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Full course for one semester. This course examines the complexities of Chinese rural society and culture during the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the interactions between farm households and the state-relationships that were mediated by rural elites, market forces, political brokers, and Maoist activists, among others. Major topics include: dissemination and domestication of popular deities; commercialized agriculture before its time; antimodern/anti-Christian rural protests; intellectual apprehensions of rural communities; the gendering of rural industrialization; central state penetration and rural defenses; and farmer narratives of bygone eras. This course assumes some familiarity with at least one of the following subjects: Chinese history, popular culture, village society, or peasant studies. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. This course explores the visions and myths, manifestations and transformations of the family in China and Japan from the 17th century to the present. Major topics will include: classical statements on filiality, ancestors, and the family as paradigm for social and political theory; demographic change and family "life cycles"; household and lineage interactions; marriage and adoption practices; familial authority, inheritance regulations, and household management strategies; domestic rituals; child rearing and child-parent relations; gender and generational conflicts; social impact of population control; the effect of modern revolutions on the family and its manifestations. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. This course will introduce some of the theoretical literature on imperialism and colonialism before examining East Asian experiences with such exploitation and control in the 19th and 20th centuries. Major topics will include imperialist policies; economic imperialism; colonialism as a system of values and social relations; the relationship of culture and power in the colony; colonial elites and nationalist movements; gender, race, and class in both colonial and nationalist agendas; colonial writers and their literature; and the promises of decolonization and postcoloniality. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. Few events in Japanese history receive more attention than the Meiji Restoration (or Revolution). A critical marker in Japanese political history, the restoration is also perceived as a major watershed in economic, social, and cultural developments. This course will examine the specific drama of imperial restoration, the modernizing revolution initiated from above thereafter, and the historical contexts that help to explain both. Major topics will include agrarian uprisings, new religious movements, and ee ja nai ka dancing; nativism and world rectification thought; the "opening" of Japan and the effect of international trade and diplomacy on internal Japanese conflict s;bakaf u attempts at political reform and the avoidance of foreign invasion; the military rebellion of "loyalist" samurai; and the transformative changes initiated by the Meiji oligarchy after 1868. Readings will include both participant observations and post-Meiji assessments. Conference. Not offered 2009-1
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Full course for one semester. After 1400 Chinese explorers and traders increasingly extended the limits of the "known world" in their search for profit, knowledge, tribute, and exotica; large-scale Chinese emigration followed in their footsteps. Conceptual and physical boundaries were also challenged by Manchu troops from the north and European traders and diplomats from the south. This course will explore the nature of this geographical and epistemological boundary transgression from 1400 to 1800. After a brief examination of Zheng He's great explorations in the early 15th century, we will discuss Chinese practices of charting and mapping physical frontiers. Official and private attempts to represent and domesticate cultures and societies on China's periphery will be the focus of our second exploration, and the effect of this conceptual and physical "travel" upon accepted notions of ethnicity, gender, and self-identity will make up the final leg of our voyage. Conference. Not offered 2009
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Full course for one semester. This course seeks to examine questions about the development of national, regional, and religious identities, as well as the growth of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, through accounts of early modern Europeans who moved beyond their borders as missionaries, colonists, naturalists, soldiers, tourists, and emigres. Through primary and secondary sources, we will consider how transnational movement in the 17th and 18th centuries influenced the rise of nationalism, as well as the expansion of international commercial and scholarly networks; we will also explore approaches to history that transcend the traditional borders of the nation. Conference.
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Full course for one semester. From the outbreak of religious violence in the 16th century to the terror of the French Revolution, the early modern period in Europe gave rise to dramatic violence that brought tensions between cultures, classes, and faiths to the fore. This course will examine the issue of violence in early modern Europe, with a particular focus on how histories of violence have been written. We will consider various forms of violence including popular violence, symbolic violence, execution, and war, in an effort to investigate the relationship between violence and authority, legitimacy, and society in this period. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. This course focuses on the history of rural and urban communities in the context of the great religious, political, social, and cultural upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries: the Reformation, the political revolutions of the 17th century, and the development of commercial society and empire. Drawing on a wide range of historical and literary sources, we will pay special attention to examining the processes of social, political, and cultural change that helped the British Isles emerge from the 17th century with a powerful state and a modernizing economy, both centered in England. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course focuses on the history of the Atlantic peoples, nations, and states from the earliest period of contact, conquest, and colonial settlement to the growth of settled commercial networks and systems of communication, the establishment of formal and informal imperial regimes, and the emergence of new societies with their own regional and cultural identities. Topics examined will include the impulses behind early European voyages of "discovery," the sociopolitical and cultural characteristics of native peoples living in the Americas, the history of first encounters and the development of social and cultural relations between indigenous peoples and Europeans, the place of slavery as a system and the development of new patterns of enterprise in the Atlantic world, and the effects of contact on the social, political, and cultural life of Europe and the Americas. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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