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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Within a generally chronological framework, this course will focus on the social and cultural history of the French Revolution. Particular attention will be given to the ideological origins of the Revolution, the question of class, the popular movement, revolutionary culture, gender and citizenship, the role of terror, and the nature of counterrevolution. Another focus of the course will be the historiography of the French Revolution. Works from both traditional historiography and contemporary revisionist historiography will be included on the syllabus. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. An examination of the uneven development of a revolutionary tradition in France. We will follow the attempts to define, deny, foreclose, and revive the Revolution from its inception in 1789 through the final stabilization of a republican government in the mid-1870s. A strong historiographic focus will direct our attention to the gendered nature of the revolutionary project; the tension between liberty and equality that runs throughout French revolutionary history; and the plausibility of competing social, political, and cultural interpretations of the Revolution. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. This course considers the significance of space and geography to the history and historiography of colonial America. Major questions include: Why is geography such an important-perhaps the most important-organizing principle in early American historiography How important should it be How did cartographic knowledge shape colonial power, and vice versa How did Indians, Africans, and Europeans give meaning to the various "new worlds" in which they found themselves How did the convergence of different peoples in key locations give rise both to hybrid cultures and devastating violence How did the diverse peoples of colonial America seek to order not only the physical landscape, but also domestic spaces and human bodies This course focuses on negotiations for space and power in British North America, alongside comparative perspectives from other colonial contexts, including New France, New Spain, the Caribbean Islands, South Africa, and the early United States. Conferenc
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Full course for one semester. In the late 18th century, 13 North American colonies severed their colonial ties to Britain and constituted a new nation. This course will assess the causes of these changes, as well as the extent to which they altered the political, economic, social, and cultural landscape of North America. We will address major conflicts of the period from 1763 to 1815, including the tensions between libertarian ideology and institutionalized slavery, household dependence and national independence, centralized authority and local control, enlightenment rationalism and evangelical religion, private property and communal interests, and Indian sovereignty and American expansionism. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Countless 19th-century Americans participated in movements for social reform. What made it possible for ordinary people to believe that they should and could change their world What were the boundaries of their reformist visions How did reformers balance radical and conservative impulses within their movements This course considers these questions with reference to temperance, abolitionism, women's rights, health reform, and other reform agendas. In contextualizing these movements, the course will consider the transnational dimensions of American reform, as well as connections between social reform and the rise of market capitalism, evangelical Christianity, and democratic politics in the early republic. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. We will examine the ways in which historians have employed various theories about the economic, social, and culture meanings of consumption and commodities to describe the material worlds and mentalities of the past. Historians' debates about when identifiable consumer cultures emerged will be explored, with emphasis on how these debates illuminate our understanding of the development of Western capitalism. We will consider changes in production as well as consumption, and how such developments altered peoples' understandings of self, class, and community. Readings focus on cases in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries, with some comparative material from earlier periods and Britain. The course is open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors, with preference given to majors in history and the social sciences. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. What do historians know about the early African American past (c. 1619-1865), and how do they know it This course will explore major problems in African American historiography, including the relationship between the rise of slavery and the development of racial ideology; the nature of slave resistance, rebellion, and revolution; the transmission of African cultural forms and the creation of black culture(s); the social dynamics of the slave plantation; and the significance of regional differences in the historical experience of African Americans. We will study various historians' interpretations of these problems, as well as the primary sources that form the basis of those interpretations. While analysis of written texts remains a mainstay of historical practice, scholars in this field have also drawn on less traditional forms of evidence, such as DNA, demography, folklore, oral history, material artifacts, and human remains. We will critically assess the possibilities and pitfalls of using these diverse sources to reconstruct the early African American experience. Students will apply what they have learned from other scholars' methods to produce their own primary source-based research papers. Conferenc
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Full course for one semester. Why is prosperity a problem This course surveys the development of modern political economy in search of an answer: from its beginnings in 18th-century liberal thought to the radical permutations prompted by the industrial revolution and finally to some of its 20th-century, postindustrial incarnations. The bulk of the course considers in historical context the work of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim. We will also explore their contemporary relevance by considering more recent debates about neoliberal globalization, labor rights and practices, capitalism and religion, and the relationship between wealth and democracy. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. With its majestic beauty, strange landscapes, and abundant natural resources, the American West has inspired wonderment, desire, and fear in many who traveled there. This course will examine concepts and representations of Western nature and Western peoples in the late 19th and 20th centuries. We will ask how the Western landscape, environment, and economy have been shared and shaped by a diverse array of individuals, communities, and institutions. Topics will include land rights, wilderness and frontiers, urbanization, conservation, extractive economies, disease and the body, and the rise of green politics in the postwar West. We will ask how environmental history contributes to our understanding of the political, social, and cultural history of the American West, and how, in turn, the history of the West contributes to our understanding of the environment. Conference.
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Full course for one semester. This course examines transformations in women's economic status, political participation, educational opportunities, and familial and reproductive lives from the late 19th to the late 20th century in the United States. We consider how structural changes and political movements involved and affected women of different classes, races, and ethnic groups. Major topics will include: women's increased participation in the paid labor force, especially wage work by married women with children; political struggles for equal rights (e.g., woman suffrage, pay equity); the separation of sexuality and reproduction; and the intellectual origins and development of feminism, as well as the arguments of those opposed to it. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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