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3.00 Credits
A study of the making of the Old South. Slavery. Antebellum political, economic, social, and cultural developments. The origins and growth of sectionalism. Merchant.
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3.00 Credits
Restoration of conservative control. The New South Creed. Tenant farms and mill villages. The agrarian revolt and the Populist party. Racial segregation. Progressives and Dixie demagogues. The Great Depression and the New Deal. The crusade for civil rights. Economic and political transformation since 1945. Merchant.
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4.00 Credits
This course provide students with an opportunity to consider the major spatial processes in 20th-century metropolitan history through a local lens by using historical maps, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis techniques to understand and map 20th-century Roanoke history. Specific topics may include “white flight,” industrial deconcentration, deindustrialization, suburbanization, segregation, transportation and urban renewal. Students learn to develop and test research questions as well as the foundations of geographic information science. Michelmore.
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3.00 Credits
Together, the overdevelopment of the suburbs and the underdevelopment of urban centers have profoundly shaped American culture, politics and society in the post-WWII period. This course examines the origins and consequences of suburbanization after 1945. Topics include the growth of the national state, the origins and consequences of suburbanization, the making of the white middle class, the War on Poverty, welfare and taxpayers “rights” movements, “black power,” and how popular culture has engaged with questions about race and class. In the process of understanding the historical roots of contemporary racial and class advantage and disadvantage, this course will shed new light on contemporary public policy dilemmas. Michelmore.
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3.00 Credits
HIST 269 - Topics in United States, Latin American or Canadian History FDR: HU Credits: 3 A course offered from time to time, depending on student interest and staff availability, on a selected topic or problem in United States, Latin American or Canadian history. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topic for Winter 2011
HIST 269: Political Murder in Modern Latin America (3). Latin American societies are notorious for their traditions of political murder. This course explores how messengers of change (popular political leaders, labor organizers, human rights activists, journalists, revolutionaries, etc.) have been systematically assassinated whenever their efforts to alter the status quo have shown signs of success. The course also examines how this practice expanded to full-blown dirty war in the second half of the 20th century, when governmental and extra-governmental elites strove to exterminate the followers, as well as the leaders, of popular movements. Justified as struggles against “subversion” and “internal enemies,” these covert “wars” featured the disappearance, torture, and extrajudicial murder of hundreds of thousands of people deemed threats to the status quo. (HU) Green.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines climate change from a historical and social perspective, two approaches to this critical international environmental issue that receive limited attention in academic research, media reporting, and policymaking. The course focuses on four topics: historical understandings of climate; societal responses to climatic fluctuations; global warming in historical context; and adaptation to climate change. The interdisciplinary approach and world environmental history perspective provide diverse context s for understanding climate issues today - not only the changing climate itself but also the social, cultural, scientific, political, economic, and environmental aspects that underlie how societies grapple with climate change. Carey.
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4.00 Credits
Intensive reading and analysis of diverse works of world history and “universal history.” Students develop understanding of historiographical traditions and develop their own framework for thinking about the human past. Jennings.
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3.00 Credits
History of warfare from its first appearance in human societies to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Focus on military systems as constantly evolving blends of organization, technology, strategy, and tactics. We also study how these systems have influenced - and been influenced by - politics, economics, religion, culture, and the environment. Substantial time is devoted to nonwestern military systems of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Jennings.
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3.00 Credits
A specialized survey. The emergence of indigenous Japanese society and its adaptation to cultural and political influences from mainland East Asia, including Buddhism, Confucianism, and Chinese concepts of empire. The course also focuses on the development of a uniquely Japanese model of social organization, samurai society, from these earlier influences. Bello.
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3.00 Credits
A specialized survey. Pre-modern Chinese civilization arguably invented and certainly reinvented the theory and practice of empire. This course follows the ebb and flow of imperial political, economic and cultural power across China and as it periodically spilled over into Southeast Asia and Inner Asia to include parts of the histories of Mongolia, Vietnam, and Korea, as well. Themes include the inventions of Confucianism; the popular culture of the civil service exam; Mongol apartheid; relating to the barbarians; keeping Chinese men and women in their places; Chinese Buddhism’s Silk Road; traditional religion and popular revolt; premodern bureaucracy in action and stagnation. Bello.
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