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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The seminar examines Gandhi's political life extending from his campaign for the rights of Indians in South Africa to his leading role in the struggle for Indian independence from British rule. In doing so, it focuses on those historical processes that turned M. K. Gandhi into a major 20th-century figure -- the Mahatma. Issues relating to imperialism and nationalism form the context in which the seminar looks at Gandhi's life and seeks to understand Gandhi's thoughts on the modern nation, community, religious state, and sexuality.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
"Cairo writes, Beirut prints, Baghdad reads." As this maxim suggests, Egypt has long been considered a Rosetta Stone of sorts, offering a cipher for understanding general trends and challenges in the Arab world and beyond. Yet Cairo's position as the once undisputed cultural, political, social, and religious capital of the Middle East has been threatened from various directions. What explains Egypt's regional importance and its partial decline? "Reading" Egyptian novels, films, music, pyramid graffiti and Islamic ringtones, we will examine this question in Egyptian history from the late 18th century to the present.
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The seminar examines social, political, and cultural arrangements generated by different energy sources. Moving in the first part of the course from the rise of Islam in Arabia, via the Dutch Golden Age, to colonial India, we explore various polities sustained by different driving forces. We then examine the multifaceted history of fossil fuels, from the adoption of coal to the shift to oil, and the political ramifications of such transitions. As we prepare for another shift, away from depleting fossil fuels and back to some of the energy sources that carbon-based energy supplanted, this history is timelier than ever.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to Modern Intellectual History. It will examine the period from 1880-1960 focusing on several main trends and key figures. Late nineteenth century authors like Nietzsche, Weber, and Freud will be examined against the backdrop of the classical social theories of Marx and Mill. The era of totalitarianism after World War I will be examined with particular attention to Communism, Nazism (Carl Schmitt), and the debates over humanism and existentialism. The course will conclude with discussions of thinkers during the Cold War including, Raphael Lemkin, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Hannah Arendt.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course examines the processes, causes, and effects of environmental change. Drawing on different historical periods and world regions, including Africa, the Americas, and Asia, class readings expose participants to different models and approaches to the study of environmental change. The course focuses on such themes as environmental determinism, ethno-ecology, biological imperialism, deforestation and desertification, the history of famine and food, and the impact of war, technology, population growth, market forces, and globalization on earth's ecosystem.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar will examine the histories of China's frontier areas, particularly Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan, and the southwest. Topics will include: ethnic identity and nationalism, religion and culture, and contested historical claims over territory and sovereignty. Some basic knowledge of Chinese history is helpful but not required.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Through an examination of medieval saints, this seminar explores the construction of sanctity from the early Christian period to the later Middle Ages. Beginning with the martyrs of the early Church, the course explores evolving models of sanctity in relation to changing social contexts in the medieval world. In addition to saints and their stories, particular attention will also be given to canonization, relic veneration, miracle collections, pilgrimage accounts, and vernacular religion.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course, designed for seniors and juniors in the History Department but open to others, will offer an introduction to the discipline of history. Through a series of case studies, students will learn how historians frame problems, ranging in scale from the history of the world to the lives of individuals, and in time from millennia to single years; examine the kinds of evidence and argument that historians employ; study the intellectual and literary problems involved in constructing a substantial piece of historical writing; and investigate the relations between history and memory in the late twentieth century.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The French Enlightenment was one of the most intensely creative and significant episodes in the history of Western thought. This course will provide an introduction to its major works. Each class meeting will consist of a two-hour discussion, followed by a 45-minute background lecture for the subsequent week's readings.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The corporation is today perhaps the most powerful institution in American public life. This seminar studies the history of the American corporation--from its colonial origins to its present form as a major actor on the American, indeed, the world stage. Moving across centuries, the course has two focuses. First, we trace the development of the corporation as a legal institution, examining its growing, while contested, economic, political, and cultural power. Second, we look inside the walls of the institution, examining the social life of the corporation.
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