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Relations between men and women are the basis of any human society, but the exact nature and interpretation of these relations differ from time to time and from place to place. The concepts of Yin (female) and Yang (male) were integral to the theory and practice of Chinese gender relations during the late imperial period, influencing marriage, medicine and law. This course examines the historical significance of late-imperial gender relations across these, and other, categories from both traditional and modern perspectives. Bello.
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HIST 289 - Topics in Asian, African, or Islamic 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 Asian or African history. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
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Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and completion of preliminary research. An examination of the history of Washington and Lee University concentrating on the period between 1910 and 1945, and applying interpretations from general literature on the history of higher education in America. Several papers are required. During the fall term prior to enrollment, interested students should consult with the instructor about their research project. Sanders.
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Prerequisites: Junior standing and permission of the instructor. A consideration of the major Greek and Roman historians, and the influence of various literary and philosophical conventions on the development of their method, and their approach to selected problems in ancient history evaluated in the light of modern historical research. Sanders.
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Prerequisite: HIST 100, 201 and 202, or 203, or permission of the instructor. The seminar draws on primary and secondary sources to examine the rise of Christianity in Europe, church-state relations, scholastic theology, mendicant piety, lay religious life, mysticism, heresy, humanism, gender and religion, urban and rural contexts, and church reform. Peterson.
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Prerequisite: HIST 100, or 201 and 202, or 203, or permission of the instructor. The seminar draws on primary and secondary sources to survey the evolution of legal and political thought from St. Augustine to Machiavelli. Topics include church-state relations, scholasticism, the revivals of Greek and Roman thought, and humanism. Readings include St. Augustine, John of Salisbury, Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padua, Leonardo Bruni, and Niccolò Machiavelli. Peterson.
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Prerequisite: HIST 214 or 224 or permission of the instructor. Common readings introduce students to some of the most lively debates among scholars about the causes of the failure of democracy in the Weimar Republic, the mentality of Nazi leaders and followers, the nature of the regime created by the Nazis in 1933, the impact of the Third Reich on the position of women in German society, and the degree to which the German people supported this regime’s policies of war and racial persecution. Students develop a research topic related to one of these debates for analysis in a substantial research paper utilizing both primary and secondary sources. Patch.
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Prerequisite: One course chosen from HIST 213, 218, and 223, or permission of the instructor. An advanced seminar in which students analyze different kinds of written accounts of the First World War (memoirs, autobiographical novels, poems, and diaries) by different kinds of participants, including common soldiers, government leaders, and women who worked on the “home front.” In class discussions and two short papers, students evaluate the reliability of these witnesses and what the historian can learn from them about the psychological, cultural, and political consequences of the First World War in Great Britain, France, and Germany. Students choose one question raised in our common meetings for more detailed investigation in a substantial research paper integrating primary and secondary sources. Patch.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HIST 102, 221, or permission of the instructor. Selected topics in Russian history, including but not limited to heroes and villains, Soviet biography, Stalin and Stalinism, the USSR in the Second World War and origins of the Cold War, the KGB, and the decline and fall of the Soviet Union and the re-emergence of Russia. May be repeated for degree and major credit if the topics are different. Bidlack.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of diverse people’s historical interactions with Latin American environments to show how people created environments and how nature affected human history. Probes social, spiritual, economic, political, and intellectual forces influencing human?environment relations over time. Delves into many geographical areas and themes, including Amazon rainforests, Andean farms, Patagonian peaks, the Panama Canal, Costa Rican national parks, and Caribbean sugar plantations, as well as U.S. coffee shops, supermarkets, and fast food chains. Carey.
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