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4.00 Credits
This course surveys the history and development of modern Latin America and the Caribbean. We begin with a brief overview of the colonial and early national periods, but the main focus of the course is from 1870 to the present. Some of the issues that concern us include the historical roots of the human and cultural diversity of modern Latin America, the region's relationships to a changing world economy, politics and human rights, and migration and diasporic cultures. Also offered through Caribbean and Latin American Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course considers Spain as both an agent and an object of colonization. Its chronological sweep is broad, from ancient times through the 19th century. The central portion of the course focuses on Spain at the height of its imperial power, from the mid-16th to the mid-17th centuries, with Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote (in a modern English translation) as an important source. Themes include religious, cultural and racial diversity in Spain and its empire, and the price of empire for Spanish development.
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4.00 Credits
Since its creation, the United States has been connected with the wider world through trade, immigration, territorial expansion and war. This course examines the roots and characteristics of American foreign policy and foreign relations from colonial times through the 19th century, while giving attention to how domestic politics, public opinion, society and culture responded to and shaped government policies and international relations. We also consider how ideas about race and gender influenced policies and relations with other nations; how the territorial expansion of the United States affected Native Americans; and how the peoples of other nations responded to U.S. policies.
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4.00 Credits
A history of the development and prosecution of American foreign policy following the emergence of the United States as a world power. Particular attention is focused on the effort to rationalize traditional democratic ideals with the expanding role of the United States as an imperialist world power. Much of the latter half of the course is devoted to an examination of the causes and consequences of the rivalry between the United States and the USSR and the post-Cold War era. History 243 or 104 is recommended but not required.
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4.00 Credits
In this course we examine the lives of the Native American, European and African inhabitants of Colonial British America. The history of colonial British America includes more than stereotypes of Puritans, Plymouth Rock, Thanksgiving and witches. By focusing on the social, economic and intellectual factors that comprised the colonial world, we will come to understand the influences that reach beyond this era into the present day.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides an upper-level survey of French history from the Restoration through the Fifth Republic. The legacy of the 1789 Revolution, the origins of the Dreyfus Affair, the Vichy Regime and the Resistance, de Beauvoir's feminism, de Gaulle's and Mitterand'presidencies, the rise of the National Front and the confrontation between Islam and republicanism are among many topics explored. The course includes cultural and social history as well as politics and foreign policy. Also offered through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course surveys the genesis, and dissolution of the transatlantic slave trade and the slave societies that created the demand for this trade in both North and South America and the Caribbean. The perspective is Atlantic in scope, trying to understand the impact of this forced migration on Africa and Africans and on American societies, defined as all of the Americas, not just the U.S. We also discuss some of the movements to abolish the slave trade and slavery itself, examining how the people involved defined freedom. Also offered through Caribbean and Latin American Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This first course of a two-course sequence surveying the history of the Middle East from World War I to the present examines the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism, and the development of modern Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Israel, and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The second course in the sequence continues this study in the post-1967 War period. Also offered as Religious Studies 266.
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4.00 Credits
A broad introduction to Islamic civilization from its origins on the Arabian peninsula to its diverse contemporary settings. Though the course roughly follows the history of the Islamic states, it is organized around themes including the development of Islamic law, theology and mysticism (Sufism), as well as around the social, cultural and political dimensions of Islam.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the social, political, cultural and economic history of African Americans from the 1600s to the end of the Civil War. Topics include the Atlantic slave trade, colonial and antebellum slavery, family life, resistance to slavery and African-Americans' participation in the Civil War and contributions to the building of the nation. Also offered through U.S. Cultural and Ethnic Studies.
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