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3.00 Credits
Examines the gendered roles of women and men in Latin American society from the colonial period to the present. Explores a number of themes, including the intersection of social class, race, ethnicity, and gender; the nature of patriarchy; masculinity; gender and the state; and the gendered nature of political mobilization. - N. Milanich General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Explores major themes in Latin American history from independence to the present, with a special focus on the evolution of socio-racial inequality, political systems, and U.S.-Latin America relations. We will discuss not only "what happened" in Latin America's past, but how historians know what they know, the sources and methods they use to write history, and the theoretical frameworks they employ to interpret the past. - N. Milanich General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Examines law as a critical site from which to explore changing conceptions of self and community from the pre-colonial to the post-colonial periods. - A. Rao Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Examines caste and gender as an important lens for understanding the transformations of intimate life and political culture in colonial and post-colonial India. Topics include: conjugality; popular culture violence, sex and the state; and the politics of untouchability. - A. Rao Prerequisites: Some background in non-Western history is recommended. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Introduction to visual and material cultures of China, including architecture, food, fashion, printing, painting, and the theatre. Using these as building blocks, new terms of analyzing Chinese history are explored, posing such key questions as the meaning of being Chinese and the meaning of being modern. - D. Ko Prerequisites: An introductory Asian history course preferred but not required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points All seminars require permission of the instructor. Enrollment is limited to 15.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of human migration from pre-history to the present. Sessions on classical Rome; Jewish diaspora; Viking, Mongol, and Arab conquests; peopling of New World, European colonization, and African slavery; 19th-century European mass migration; Chinese and Indian diasporas; resurgence of global migration in last three decades, and current debates. - J. Moya General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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4.00 Credits
Traces the development of economic enterprises and techniques in their cultural context: agricultural markets, industry, commercial partnerships, credit, large-scale banking, insurance, and merchant culture. Examines usury and just price theory, the scholastic analysis of price and value, and the recognition of the market as a self-regulating system, centuries before Adam Smith. - J. Kaye Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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The evolution of scientific thinking from the 12th to the 16th centuries, considering subjects such as cosmology, natural history, quantification, experimentation, the physics of motion, and Renaissance perspective. At every point we link proto-scientific developments to social and technological developments in the society beyond the schools. - J. Kaye Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Traces the lively debates amongst the major European Enlightenment figures about the formation of capitalism. Was the new market society ushering in an era of wealth and civilization or was it promoting corruption and exploitation Particular emphasis on debates about commerce, luxury, greed, poverty, empire, slavery, and liberty. - C. Wennerlind Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
A social history of the city in Europe from early modern times; the economic, political, and intellectual forces influencing the growth of Paris, London, Vienna, and other urban centers. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preference to upper-class students. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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