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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Did the English experience a "renaissance" in the Tudor and Stuart age Through examination of a variety of 16th- and 17th-century writings and artifacts, the course explores the cultural history of England and the English from the time of King Henry VIII to King Charles II. Particular attention will be paid to works concerned with the representation of authority, community, gender, social rank, and personal identity. The course will analyze the role of the literary and visual arts in the shaping of culture, the relationship between elite and popular cultural forms, and the development of new religious ideas and practices and new ideologies and mentalities. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course focuses on British sociocultural and political history, and to a lesser extent on British religious and intellectual history, as Britain changed from an agrarian and preindustrial society in the 17th century to a commercial and industrial society in the early 19th century. It analyzes the development of the British state and British empire during the "long 18th century," focusing especially on the formation of political hierarchies and social classes and the growth of characteristic political, economic, and cultural institutions from the Revolution of 1688 to the Napoleonic wars and the beginnings of Reform. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course will introduce students to the 18th-century enlightenment(s) and counterenlightenment in Europe, focusing especially on Britain and France. Integrating both primary and secondary sources, the class will engage with debates about what the Enlightenment was, and what its legacies continue to be. We will consider the ideas, practices, and social spaces of the Enlightenment, and integrate scientific inquiry, aesthetics, and literature into our discussion of the 18th-century public sphere. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Concentrating on the history and culture of northern Europe (especially the British Isles, France, the Netherlands, and Germany) between 1500 and 1700, this course focuses on the formation of the characteristic ideologies and mentalities regarding society, politics, religion, culture, and the person in the era of Europe's "Wars of Religion." Using documents, texts, and visual sources from the period as well as modern historical interpretations, the course will introduce students to the major developments and the historical interpretations and controversies they have generated. Conference. Not offered 2009-10
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Between 1720 and 1870, a series of natural and manmade crises disrupted the political and intellectual worlds of Europeans, threatening and transforming their ideas about progress, religion, and political authority, and restructuring the relationships between man and the natural world. This course will consider the political, religious, intellectual, and cultural ramifications of disaster and crisis, including financial collapse, revolution, war, earthquakes, disease, and famine. We will explore religious and scientific explanations for these crises, consider their representations in the artistic and literary spheres, and examine the changing relationship between state and society, and metropole and colony, in the wake of disaster. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. In each semester a different topic will be used to examine the traditions, practices, and methods of historical study and historical writing in Europe since ca. 1500. A central aim of the course will be to study the evolving characteristics of history as a discipline, the development of its distinctive methods and interpretative schools, and its relationships to neighboring disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Prerequisite: at least one semester of Humanities 210, 220, or 230 and at least one history course. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Hear the word "Earth" or "world" and the image likely to flash through the mind is a photo known as "Whole Earth" (1972), which reveals the disk of our terraqueous planet suspended alone in the void. It is reputed to be the most widely distributed photograph in human history, and together with other views of the Earth from beyond has prompted a revolution in the global imagination. The aim of this research seminar is to assess the plausibility of that claim, by situating these images in their diverse historical contexts. These contexts include the history of humankind's imaginative self-projection into the beyond from ancient times to our day; how the "whole earth" image has been mobilized by environmental campaigns, political movements, and commercial enterprises; how the view of Earth has figured in economics, aesthetics, anthropology, philosophy, and the natural sciences; and how this pictorial imaginary has become integrated into the unthought ways we inhabit our natural and human-built worlds. Confe
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. "The fully enlightened Earth radiates disaster triumphant." So the German philosophers Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer argued in 1944, just before Hiroshima provided an eerilyliteral proof. Their unease was shared by many. Something about humanity's attempt to master the world by technological means had gone seriously awry. This course will examine how European intellectuals of the 20th century revisited notions of culture, nature, politics, economics, and religion as part of a wide-ranging reassessment of the modern age prompted by the rise of technocracy. Conference. Not offered 2009-10
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course traces the complex and often tumultuous processes that established France as one of the preeminent political, cultural, and economic powers in Europe and the Atlantic in the 17th century, and its gradual decline during the first half of the 18th century. In the process, we will analyze the causes and consequences of the royal state's expansion under Richelieu, Mazarin, and Louis XIV; the ideology and realities of "absolute monarchy"; the vexing religious problems posed by Huguenots and Jansenists; and transformations in elite and popular culture. Particular attention will be devoted to the constantly evolving relationship between center and periphery, both in the French provinces and the kingdom's growing colonies in North America (Canada, the Illinois Country, and Louisiana) and the Caribbean, where divergent economic, social, racial, and political imperatives often strained royal authority, and even the very notion of French identity, to its limits. Conference
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Full course for one semester. This course will examine France's rise from the devastation of the Hundred Years' War to a position of prominence in early 16th-century Europe, focusing particular attention on the reign of Francis I, when France became a center of Renaissance culture and a major rival to the Habsburgs. From there we will trace the spread of the Reformation in France and the subsequent crises that spawned four decades of religious civil wars, two royal assassinations, and the near collapse of the monarchy, culminating in a religious and political settlement that promised toleration for France's Protestant minority and the accession of the Bourbon dynasty to the throne. The course will also examine French explorations of the Americas; the effects of religious and political tensions on efforts to establish settlements in Canada, Florida, and Brazil; and the influence of these experiences on French culture and society. Conference.
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