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4.00 Credits
This course concerns itself with addressing and familiarizing students with some of the major issues, debates, problems, themes, and methods, adopted and adapted by historians of the Middle Ages.
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4.00 Credits
Despite the growing importance of native-place identities during the late Imperial era, China had an increasingly mobile population. This course examines the movement of people in China approximately from 1500 to 1900, including voluntary and forced migration; travel associated with trade; travel for civil service examinations and official postings; exile; urban sojourning; religious pilgrimages; and touring. In addition, this course focuses on relations between locals and sojourners or migrants, as well as the perceived dangers that geographical mobility posed for the state and the social order.
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4.00 Credits
The topic of this seminar is the kingdoms formed as successor states to the Western Roman empire by the Gothic, Frankish, and Lombard peoples in the territories of modern France and Italy. The course compares the varied models used in these kingdoms for the accommodation of Roman and Germanic cultures.
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4.00 Credits
A research and writing seminar on a specific topic chosen by the student. The course introduces students to the scholarship on the history of law and examines certain key cases or questions as examples of the field and its potential.
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4.00 Credits
This course aims to explore the intersections of gender relations, work, and property in law, custom, and culture from the colonial period to the late 20th century. We read a wide range of articles and books, all of which in some way address the relationships among gender ideologies, social practices, and property relations in American society.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar is an interdisciplinary examination of how Americans represented the Civil War during and after the titanic conflict, with special attention given to the period between 1865 and 1915. The course explores how painters, novelists, photographers, sculptors, essayists, journalists, philosophers, historians, and filmmakers engaged the problems of constructing narrative and reconstructing national and individual identity out of the physical and psychological wreckage of a war that demanded horrific sacrifice and the destruction of an enemy that could not be readily dissociated from the self.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar challenges the popular Western view that the African continent is a single place and that Africans are homogenous or inherently tribal. Focusing on the lived experiences of imperial rule, the struggle for independence, and the process of nation building, it explores the development of an African country. The seminar focuses on how common men, women, and adolescents wrestled with the problem of turning a colony into the modern Kenyan nation. Admission to the seminar requires permission of the instructor and at least one previous upper-level course in African history.
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4.00 Credits
By focusing on the complex historical dynamics of race, gender, and class in South Africa over the past 120 years, this course is aimed at understanding the development of segregation, apartheid, and racial capitalism, as well as the emergence of multiple forms of resistance to counter white minority rule. Topics include: white settler expansion and the defeat of the African peasantry; the rise of mining capital and the emergence of a racially divided working class; the origins of African and Afrikaner nationalisms; migrant labor and the subordination of African women; and the prospects for a nonracial, nonsexist democracy in a unified South Africa.
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4.00 Credits
This course offers a historical perspective on the modern international human rights regime, using materials drawn from diplomatic, legal, political, and cultural studies. Successful completion of this seminar involves designing, researching, and writing a 25- to 30-page paper on a historically oriented, human rights-related topic of your choice.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the lives of women in East Asia during a period when both local elites and central states sought to Confucianize society. We focus on Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) China, but also examine these issues in two other early-modern East Asian societies: Yi/Choson (1329-1910) Korea and Tokugawa (1600-1868) Japan.
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