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Survey of African history from the 18th century to the contemporary period. We will explore six major themes in African History: Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World, Colonialism in Africa, the 1940s, Nationalism and Independence Movements, Post-Colonialism in Africa, and Issues in the Making of Contemporary Africa. - A. George Corequisites: Students who take this course may also take Introduction to Africa Studies: Africa Past, Present, and Future. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 3 points
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Introduction to South Asian history (17-20 c.) that explores the colonial economy and state formation; constitution of religious and cultural identities; ideologies of nationalism and communalism, caste and gender politics; visual culture; and the South Asian diaspora. - A. Rao General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Examines how women experienced empire and asks how their actions and activities produced critical shifts in the workings of colonial societies worldwide. Topics include sexuality, the colonial family, reproduction, race, and political activism. - A. Rao General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). 3 points
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Development over three centuries of a language of the heart, of the intellect, and of the polity. Primary readings in devotional and courtly literature, university speculation, and political thought, discussed in their historical and cultural contexts. - J. Kaye General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Examines how the Atlantic Ocean and its boundaries were tied together through the flow of people, goods, and ideas. Studies the cultures of the communities formed by merchants, pirates, and slaves; investigates how their interactions and frictions combined to shape the unique combination of liberty and oppression that characterizes early modern capitalism. - C. Wennerlind General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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The making and re-making of Central Europe as place and myth from the Enlightenment to post-Communism. Focuses on the cultural, intellectual, and political struggles of the peoples of this region to define themselves. Themes include modernization and backwardness, rationalism and censorship, nationalism and pluralism, landscape and the spatial imagination. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Situates key scientific and technological innovations of the modern era in their cultural context by focusing on the interactions between bodies and machines. Through our attention to bodily experience and material culture, we will explore the ways in which science and technology have shaped and been shaped by the culture of modernity. - D. Coen General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 3 points
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Examines the shaping of European cultural identity through encounters with non-European cultures from 1500 to the post-colonial era. Novels, paintings, and films will be among the sources used to examine such topics as exoticism in the Enlightenment, slavery and European capitalism, Orientalism in art, ethnographic writings on the primitive, and tourism. - L. Tiersten General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 3 points
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Exploration of the origins of the "modern" European woman: changing political and legal definitions of women; new concepts of women's work and authority during industrialization; women's involvement in religion and reform; and emergence of socialist and feminist critiques of 19th-century womanhood. - D. Valenze General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Emphasis on foreign policies as they pertain to the Second World War, the atomic bomb, containment, the Cold War, Korea, and Vietnam. Also considers major social and intellectual trends, including the Civil Rights movement, the counterculture, feminism, Watergate, and the recession of the 1970s. - M. Carnes General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 3 points
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