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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the political, social, and cultural history of the Islamic World from the 7th to 15th centuries, with particular attention paid to the diverse geographical and cultural contexts in which pre-modern Islamic civilization flourished. Topics include the origins of Islam in late Antiquity; the development of Islamic religious, political, and cultural institutions; the flourishing of medieval Islamic education, science, and literature; the tension among state, ethnic, sectarian, and global Muslim identities; and the emergence of a distinctly Muslim approach to historiography. Hatcher.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the political, social, and cultural history of the Islamic World from the 16th to 21st centuries, with particular attention paid to the diverse experiences of the various regions that make up the Islamic world. Topics include the emergence of the early modern centralizing states in Iran, Turkey, India, and elsewhere; the spread of Islamic religious and political practices in Africa and Asia; the colonial and post-colonial confrontation between the Islamic World and Europe; and the evolution of new political, cultural, and intellectual movements as Muslim nations in the context of globalization. Hatcher.
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3.00 Credits
History of humanity from the Mongol conquests to the present. Focus on large-scale transformation, cross-cultural interaction, and the relationship between human history and natural history. Equal emphasis on Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Jennings.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the history and historiography of Africa from the origins of humankind to the abolition of the trans- Atlantic slave trade. Topics include human evolution in Africa, development of agriculture and pastoralism, ancient civilizations of the Nile, African participation in spread of Christianity and Islam, empires of West Africa, Swahili city-states, and African participation in the economic and biological exchanges that transformed the Atlantic world. Jennings.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the history and historiography of Africa from the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Topics include precolonial states and societies, European colonial intrusions and African responses, development of modern political and social movements, decolonization, and the history of independent African nation-states during the Cold War and into the 21st century. Jennings.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: First-year standing. Topic for Fall 2010:
HIST 180: FS: The Civil Rights Movement, Brown to Bakke (3). First-year seminar. This course surveys the Civil Rights movement in the United States from 1954 to 1978, It exposes first-year students to the major civil rights issues and demonstrates the problems of this period through examination of selected manuscript documents, and assigned readings of selected primary and secondary literature pertaining to this period. Class discussion and three essay assignments. (HU) DeLaney.
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1.00 Credits
Corequisite: Enrollment in a history course requiring a research paper. An introduction to bibliographical tools and their use, including finding aids to the historical literature of various countries and periods. Most class meetings and assignments take place in the first half of the term in order to permit completion of a specialized bibliography essential to the preparation of the research paper in the corequisite course. Degree credit is given for only one 190 course, regardless of academic discipline. Directed by the history faculty and the library staff.
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3.00 Credits
Selected topic or problem in history. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and successful completion of HIST 109, 110, or 111. The crucial period encompassing the collapse of the Bronze Age in the Levant and in Greece saw the fall of powerful kingdoms (the Myceneans, the Hittites, individual states on the Syrian coast) and the weakening of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. A long dark age followed. When the dust cleared new peoples and states emerged on the scene (Hebrews, Assyrians, Philistines, Phoenicians, Phrygians, Dorian Greeks, etc.) The causes of the crisis are still hotly debated as is the chronology of the period. The era, which also saw the fall of Homer’s Troy, played a key role in later foundations myths (Greek, Italian, North African, even British). This course focuses on the various historical controversies that vie to explain the problem (climate change, system collapse, changes in military technology, disease, barbarian raids, piracy, “failure of nerve,” etc.) Sanders.
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3.00 Credits
Examines, through lectures and discussions, the culture and society of late Roman antiquity, the rise of Christianity and the formation of the Western church, Europe’s relations with Byzantium and Islam, Germanic culture, monasticism, Charlemagne’s empire, the Vikings, feudalism, manorialism, agriculture and the rise of commerce, gender roles and family structures, warfare and the Crusades, the growth of the papacy and feudal monarchies, the conflict between church and state, the revival of legal studies and theology, and the development of chivalric and romantic ideals in the cultural renewal of the 11th and 12th centuries. Peterson.
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