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4.00 Credits
Prereq: Hist 273 or 274 and junior status or permission of instructor. Examines the Incaic period (1400-1532) and the Inca "legacy" from the colonialperiod to the present from an ethnohistorical perspective.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: HIST 273 or 274 and junior status. Mexican history from pre-conquest Aztec culture to the present.
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4.00 Credits
Explores various topics in the colonial and post-independence regions of Latin America. Topics will vary. See department for specific topic.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: HIST 277 or permission of instructor and junior status. An examination and interrogation of the transformative power of the first world war upon Canada's social, cultural, and national development, with special attention to gender, class, ethnicity, crisis in French-English relations, nationalist ideologies, cultures of war, and construction of collective memory.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: HIST 372 or 281 or EAST 202. A comprehensive exploration of key themes and topics in the social, cultural, economic, and political histories of late-imperial and modern China. Long-term processes such as China's interaction with the West, the demise of the imperial system and the creation of a Western-influenced structure of government, the globalization of the economy, the rise of a Western- oriented bourgeoisie, and an agrarian crisis form the backdrop to the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, the Boxer Uprising, the 1911 Revolution, the Chinese Renaissance, and the rise of the Nationalist and Communist parties.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: HIST 372 or 281 or EAST 202. Explores key passages in China's long revolutionary struggle, including Sun Yat-sen's 1911 Revolution, the May 4th Movement, Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolution of 1925-27, Mao Zedong'speasant-based Communist revolution, the Cultural Revolution, and the prodemocracy movement at Tiananmen in 1989. Social, cultural, and political perspectives emerge from first-person and scholarly accounts, novels, and films that students use to explore this vast and still controversial topic.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: junior status and HIST 280 or HIST 281 or EAS 201 or EAS 202 or permission of instructor. This course investigates the Edo period in depth by looking at Tokugawa society. Daily life, legal codes, official dogma and ideologies are examined. Topics include Tokugawa religions and politics, popular culture, Western Studies, Tokugawa social structure, education, women's political involvement, Bushido, the family, art and literature, science, and the economic sphere.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: junior status and HIST 280 or HIST 281 or EAS 201 or EAS 202 or permission of instructor. Examines the diverse roles and fluctuating status of Japanese women from the beginnings of history to modern times. Possible topics: women and Japanese religions, women's political involvement, education and indoctrination, family roles, Japanese feminism, contributions to art and literature, and economic roles.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: junior status and HIST 280 or HIST 281 or EAS 201 or EAS 202 or permission of instructor. Evolution and influence of Japan's military from the beginnings of history to modern times. Dispels popular misconceptions about Japanese warriors and Japan's martial traditions, and addresses military realities as well as formal ideologies. Topics include the evolution of the military class, important battles, translated war tales ( gunki monogatari), the evolution of military skills and technology, the military's political involvement over time, the myth of Bushido, martial traditions, cultural contributions and influences, and the relationship between Japan's religious and martial spheres.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: junior status and HIST 280 or HIST 281 or EAS 201 or EAS 202 or permission of instructor. An examination of the symbiotic relationship between state and religion throughout Japanese history. Although basic doctrines will be considered, emphasis of the course will be sociopolitical rather than metaphysical. Examples of topics: the formation of the Shinto tradition, Millenarianism, Buddhist institutions and temporal power, women and evolving religious tenets, European missionaries and Sengoku politics, Yasukunijinja and modern politics, and the religio-political nature of the Imperial institution.
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