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08F, 09F: D.F.S.P. Through lectures, readings, discussions, and fieldwork this course explores aspects of London's history from medieval to modern times. Using the city itself as a living laboratory for historical thinking, the course relates the development of London and its neighborhoods to the larger concentric histories of nation, region, empire, and world. Prerequisite: membership in the Foreign Study Program. Dist: SOC; WCult: W. Major Dist: EUR. Nelson.
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08F, 09F: D.F.S.P. Graded credit for this course is awarded to students who have successfully completed an approved course offered by the History faculty of University College London while a member of the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program in History. Selections for 2008 include: "The Remaking of the English Working Class, 1660-1785"; "Remembering Slavery: Britain, Colonial Slavery and Abolition"; "The Human and its Others: Enlightenment Ideas of Ethnicity and Race"; and "Marx and HistPrerequisite: membership in the Foreign Study Program. Nelson.
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10W: 12 This course examines the roles of women and men in Western Europe from Antiquity through the Reformation period. Emphasis will be placed on the intellectual and social structures that had a long-term effect on the concept and role of gender in European society. Topics included are biological and mythological foundations of gender concepts, attitudes toward the body and sex in pre-Christian and Christian culture, sin and ecclesiastical legislation on sex and marriage, family life and education, the individual and kinship, heresy and charismatic religion, and the impact of social-economic development on gender in professional life. We will discuss the textual and visual sources for our inquiry, as well as the changing contemporary views on gender roles in pre-industrial Europe. Open to all classes. Dist: TMV; WCult: CI. Major Dist: EUR; <1700, <1800.
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09W: 12 10W: 10 A course on the intellectual and cultural origins of European civilization, from the fall of Rome to the advent of the Renaissance. After a review of the Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman, Celtic, and Germanic components of medieval culture, we will examine the rise of the Christian Church and its impact on values and behavior of Europeans during the middle ages. Of special interest will be the relationship between medieval thinkers and the society in which they lived, the role of ritual, ceremony, and magic, and the persistence of heresy. Along with the products of high culture associated with such intellectuals as Augustine, Peter Abelard, Hildegard of Bingen, and Thomas Aquinas, we will thus review the fundamental values of medieval society at large and explore ways in which popular and elite culture converged or contrasted. Open to all classes. Dist: TMV; WCult: W. Major Dist: EUR; <1700, <1800. Simons.
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Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S The course traces the medieval foundations of the French nation, from the Roman Era to the end of the fifteenth century, with emphasis on institutional, social, and cultural development. Topics include: the Merovingian origins of 'France,' the construction and impact of feudal relationships, the emergence of French vernacular culture, regional diversity within centralized rule, and the formation of a French national identity. In addition we will examine how French medieval history became a testing-ground for innovative research on the Middle Ages, and to what extent these views have changed our concept of medieval France in the last decades.Open to all classes. Dist: SOC; WCult: W. Major Dist: EUR; <1700, <1800.
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Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S A study of Western Europe's transition from medieval to modern times, tracing the impact of new forces on traditional structures. Among the topics covered are Italian culture and society in the 14th-15th centuries; the concept of the Renaissance; intellectual and religious themes of the Reformation; the emergence of the basic forms of the modern state; developments in warfare and international relations; the political and ideological polarization of Europe after Luther; the 'general crisis' of the mid-17th centuryOpen to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Dist: SOC; WCult: W. Major Dist: EUR; <1700, <1800.
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09X: 12 The course deals with the unification of Spain under Ferdinand and Isabella, its rise to world primacy in the sixteenth century, and its decline in the seventeenth. Among topics examined are the development of a system of imperial government, the impact on Spain of colonial empire, the problems of multi-cultural society within the Iberian peninsula, the struggle against heresy, and the political challenges of the great European powers. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Dist: SOC; WCult: W. Major Dist: EUR; <1700, <1800. Lagomarsino.
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10S: 10 The course studies the French Revolution and its implications for Europe and the world. It considers the social, political and ideological causes of the Revolution in 1789 and then pays close attention to the successive stages of revolution from the experiment with constitutional monarchy to the radical republic and the Terror to Napoleon's popular dictatorship. The revolutionary wars, the development of democratic and nationalist ideology and their spread beyond France and beyond Europe, and also beyond elite men to peasants, city workers, Blacks and women are important themes. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Dist: SOC; WCult: W. Darrow. Major Dist: EUR; <1800.
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Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S This course traces the transformation of Western European society through the industrial period from the mid-18th century to the mid-20th century. Focusing upon social class and gender, it examines how economic and social change intertwined to produce the world's first industrial societies. Work, family, leisure and nationalism are topics of specific attention. Although the course deals primarily with the core societies of Western Europe-France, Germany and Great Britain-it provides the opportunity for student research in other areas such as Italy, Ireland, Spain and Eastern EuropeOpen to all students. Dist: SOC; WCult: CI. Major Dist: EUR.
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08F, 09F: 10 This course explores the relationships among economic, social, cultural and political developments in England during the Tudor, Stuart, and Hanoverian periods. Topics for discussion include: family and gender; village and city life; religious reformation and the reformation of government; the Elizabethan renaissance; responses to poverty, crime, and nonconformity; the development of political parties; the British enlightenment; commercialization and consumerism; the interaction of 'plebeians' and 'patricians'; rebellions and civil wars; and radicalism, conservatism, and imperialisOpen to all classes. Dist: SOC; WCult: W. Major Dist: EUR; <1700, <1800. Estabrook.
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