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3.00 Credits
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This course examines the lives of American workers under wage labor and slavery since the advent of industrialization in this country. Trade unions and industrial relations are important parts of this story, but the focus will also include politics, culture, and everyday life.
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In this analysis of the American Revolution and the establishment of the American Republic, special attention will be given to Anglo-American ideas and institutions, British imperial policies and colonial reaction, Revolutionary ideology, and the social and political consequences of the Revolution, including confl icts and factionalism in the Washington, Adams, Jefferson administrations.
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This course investigates Eastern European History from the Enlightenment: a period which saw the birth of the Eastern European national states, the expansion of imperial power and its destruction, the socialist experiment, globalization, "reintegration" with Europe writ large, and the possibility that Eastern Europe as an idea may no longer be tenable (or at least losing its explanatory power). Area Studies.
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This course explores the Cold War as a global struggle over differing visions of the "good life." Each actor in the Cold War was continually defi ning what it meant to live well: how to balance the needs of the individual and society, how to understand consumption and leisure, how to balance public and private needs. Our investigation will focus on how these defi nitions were envisioned, enforced, and transformed through culture. How did people live the Cold War? What were its comforts and horrors? How were the intentions of Moscow and Washington met in the streets of Kabul, Prague, and Paris? How were these conceptions of the good life expressed through offi cial, unoffi cial, and dissident culture?
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This course will examine the "dual revolution" - the near simultaneous Industrial Revolution in Great Britain the French Revolution in France. The course begins by surveying the histories of the Industrial and French Revolutions. The second half of the course investigates and questions the nature of Europe's political, economic, and social transformations after the rapid and shocking developments of the eighteenth century.
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A multidimensional survey of the Second World War. The course will examine the major strategic choices which confronted the Axis and Allies 1939-1945 and the campaigns that followed; the unique Anglo-American alliance; relations with Soviet Russia and China; and the major wartime conferences. Topics of special interest will include American war mobilization, economic warfare; the role of women on the home front, the fi lm and propaganda war, the strategic bombing controversy, and the atomic bomb decision.
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A study of the research, analysis, and implications in all stages of community development. A historical survey will be presented as a means of examining the present sociological, political, and economic state of American communities. Although Northeastern Pennsylvania subject matter will be utilized, the course approaches the material in a general and multi-regional manner. Direct student participation in selected scholarly projects will be emphasized. Cross-listed as SOC 403.
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