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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The decline of the Mughal Empire and the competition for succession won by the British East India Company; the structure and ideology of the Raj; social, economic, and cultural changes during the Raj including the role of race and the changing place of women. Rise of Indian nationalism and Muslim separatism viewed from above and below. Leadership, organization and ideology of early nationalists and the Congress party under Gandhi. Partition and independence of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
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3 hours; 3 credits Ottoman and colonial heritage of the Middle East; competing ideologies; oil and its impact, origins and development of the Arab-Israeli conflict; Iran under shahs and clergy; roots of radical nationalism in Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, and Syria, sectarianism and class conflict in Lebanon; Islamic reform and revivalism; changing role of women and minorities. (Not open to students who have completed History 57.3 or 57.4.)
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3 hours; 3 credits The Jewish experience in Muslim countries. Analysis of Jewish communities in all aspects of life and the upheaval caused by mass emigration, to Israel and the United States in particular. (This course is the same as Judaic Studies 40.5. Not open to students who have completed Judaic Studies 75.1,The Sephardic Heritage.) Prerequisite: Judaic Studies 11 or Core Studies 9 or permission of the chairperson. History 217
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3 hours; 3 credits Themes in the history of Africa south of the Sahara from earliest times to 1800. Salient themes include Nile Valley civilizations, trans-Saharan trade, early social and economic systems,West African states, especially the Empire of Mali, Islamic influences, state formation, Swahili coastal city states and Indian Ocean trade. Origins, development and consequences of the Atlantic slave trade. (This course is the same as Africana Studies 11.1.) Prerequisite: one of the following: Africana Studies 0.12, Core Studies 4 or 9, Core Curriculum 2.2, History 1, 2, 3, 4, 41.8, or 41.9, or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Themes drawn from all regions of the continent of Africa south of the Sahara from 1800 to the present. The Islamic revolutions, the Zulu Empire and political evolution in South Africa, the rise of legitimate trade, the impact of European missionaries and explorers, imperialism, the colonial state, nationalist independence movements, and post-independence challenges. (This course is the same as Africana Studies 11.2.) Prerequisite: one of the following: Africana Studies 0.12, Core Studies 4 or 9, Core Curriculum 2.2, History 1, 2, 3, 4, 41.8, or 41.9, or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Topics vary from term to term. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics.
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3 hours; 3 credits Religious beliefs, organizations, and communities in historical context. Cross-cultural influences in religious history. Use of historical, literary, and artistic records. Topics may include martyrdom, gender and the body, monasticism, and mysticism in early and medieval Christianity, Jewish-Christian encounters, and revivalism in America and Europe. Prerequisite: History 10; junior or senior standing; and permission of the chairperson.
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3 hours; 3 credits The individual life in relation to historical change. Topics may include the life of the revolutionary, the hero in history, collective biography, and the biographer as historian. Prerequisite: History 10; junior or senior standing; and permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Classes, groups, and mass movements in history. Topics may include the European nobility, growth of the modern labor movement, immigration and migration, the history of childhood and the family, the bourgeoisie, frontiers in history, urbanization, and industrialization. Prerequisite: History 10; junior or senior standing; and permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Historical scholarship since Herodotus. Topics may include narration and the problem of historical knowledge, the American patrician historians, the Renaissance idea of history, and revisionism in recent historical thought. Prerequisite: History 10; junior or senior standing; and permission of the chairperson.
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