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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. The United States from the 1890s through 1920 used to be characterized by historians as "the Progressive era." Yet a look at the social and political history of this epoch reveals much that seems contradictory or even repressive. Direct democracy was established, even as Jim Crow laws, enforced by lynchings, shored up racial segregation. Women emerged as reform professionals and wageworkers, yet lacked full suffrage. Recent immigrants and their children were sought out by settlement house workers who wanted to "Americanize" them, and vilified by nativists who wanted to restrict immigration. Proponents of war and imperialism met opposition. To understand these tensions, the course will compare old and new secondary works on this period, and make extensive use of primary documents and key works published at the time. Conference.
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Full course for one semester. Examination of the changing ideas about gender and sex roles in the context of key transformations from the late 19th through the late 20th centuries in America. These include the second industrial revolution, which enabled women and men to live on their own outside of household economies, the emergence of modern consumer culture, service in same-sex militaries during two world wars, the rise of social scientific and psychological experts who named and quantified "deviant" and "normal" sexual practice, and the so-called sexual revolutions of the 1960s and beyond. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-1
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Full course for one semester. A global revolution or an interpretation in need of an event The year 1968 has been characterized as both and much in between. This course situates the tumultuous events of the late 1960s in a broader story about the evolution and transformation of movements for social change in Europe and the U.S. following the Second World War. We will trace its intellectual roots in debates about decolonization, civil rights, the welfare state, and the Cold War. We will also pursue some of its legacies: left-wing terrorism, the global environmental movement, the neoconservative reaction, and the myth of the 1960s itself. Reading includes memoirs, manifestos, political philosophy, and social thought, complemented by classic secondary accounts, music, and film. Conference. Not offered 2008-09. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. The course begins with the rise and spread of waged labor, with emphasis on how new economic structures altered household and familial life. Families under slavery will be considered, especially African Americans under slavery and in transition to freedom. Migration and resettlement in the West shaped families on the frontier and workers in male-dominated mining towns. The legal and political meanings of marriage also changed; we will examine arguments for and against married women's ownership of property, and Mormon polygamy, to see how 19th-century Americans understood the relationship between patriarchy (legal rights of fathers and husbands over children and wives) and democracy. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or consent of the instructor. Conference.
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Full course for one semester. This course examines the breakdown of colonial rule in Latin America from the 1750s through independence in the 1820s. Starting with a brief examination of the late colonial societies and economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, and their relations to European powers, the course focuses on violent opposition and resistance to the colonial order by different sectors of society. We will study in detail indigenous and peasant rebellions in central Mexico and highland Peru, the slave rebellion and struggle for independence in Haiti, and the wars of independence in Spanish America. The course pays particular attention to the different social, economic, and political objectives of the various movements, the different manners in which they articulated their grievances and demands, and the complex interplay between racial and class dynamics within Latin American societies and tensions in the metropolis-colony relationship. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Few moments have so radically altered the course of history as Spain's encounter with the Americas. The first century of contact changed Europe's economy, agriculture, and diet; it altered the balance of power between European empires, and upset European ideas about history, geography, and nature. The effects on the Americas were even more profound: European diseases decimated indigenous populations while Spain's people, language, and religion spread throughout the western hemisphere. Spain built its American empire on a foundation of Inca and Aztec civilizations, making Peru and Mexico its new-world capitals and co-opting native leaders into the colonial hierarchy. Missionaries spread literacy among indigenous elites, initiating an exchange of ideas still accessible to historians. This course will study early Spanish and indigenous writings about the conquest, and the conditions of life in the hybrid society that emerged thereafter. Conference. Not offered 2009-10
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course examines the development and maturation of counterreform Catholicism in the Spanish world during the 16th and 17th centuries. Topics include the collapse of religious pluralism in medieval Iberia and the emergence of militant intolerance, the intellectual and theological challenges provoked by the conquest of the Americas, the varieties and gendering of elite religiosity, church-state relations, and popular religion in both Spain and the Americas. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course focuses on Andean society from the rise of the Inka Empire in the 14th century through the Spanish conquest and the establishment of the colonial order in the 1500s. Topics include the political and material organization of the Inka Empire, ideology and religious practice, and the impact of conquest and disease on the indigenous societies of the Andes. We then examine the effects of Spanish attempts to "re-form" indigenous societies by the forcible introduction of Catholicism and Spanish understandings of property and exchange, the imposition of Spanish imperial government, and the dismemberment and reorganization of indigenous polities. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. The term "borderlands" usually describes the southern frontier of Anglo-America and the northern frontier of Mexico-a crossroads for indigenous and European cultures. This course seeks a broader understanding of Spain's many borderlands, taking into account colonial experience in North America, South America, and Asia. We will study Spain's encounters with Comanches and Apaches, but also with Mapuches and Filipinos. Chile's BÃo-BÃo river was the dividing line between Spanish colonial governance and the lands of the Mapuche-a place of violence but also of cultural and economic exchange. The Philippines was a frontier for Spain and later for the United States-a vast archipelago whose complex population included Chinese merchants, Muslim princes, farmers, fishermen, and small bands of hunter-gatherers. We will consider these and other "borderlands" raising comparative questions about war, trade, and colonization on the unstable periphery of empire. Conference. Not offere
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3.00 Credits
See Classics 371 for description. Classics 371 Description
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