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4.00 Credits
This course seeks to outline the major transformations of the Middle East over the past two centuries, giving due weight to both internal changes and the influence of the global power structure. Although the main emphasis is on such traditional concerns as high politics and economics, changes in the cultural and social lives of Middle Eastern peoples are also addressed. In particular, the course examines how the large-scale developments in the region- those at the state or empire level - affected ordinary people of both sexes and all ethnicities and religious affiliations, through reading and discussing the life stories of a number of individuals from all walks of life. Students will use primary-source materials to gain an appreciation of how historians do their work and to reach their own interpretations of Middle Eastern history.
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4.00 Credits
A preliminary examination of medieval contributions to the Renaissance is followed by a thorough analysis of the Age of Discoveries and the rise of capitalism; the new political structures of the Italian city-state and the northern monarchies; the new diplomacy; the papacy and the Church in an era of change; the revival of art and the classics; humanism in Italy; and humanism and Christian humanism in the North.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines humanism and the Devotio Moderna as a basis for the Reformation. Attention is given to the social, economic, and political development as a contributing factor to the Reformation and its aftermath, and careful study is given to Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, and the radical and messianic reformers, as well as the English Reformation and the rise of Puritanism.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed as a survey of the major political, social and cultural events and trends that define the trajectory of modern French history from the French Revolution to the present. Two essential problems have defined the broad trajectory of the French history in the 19th and 20th centuries: first, how to deal with the legacy of the Great French Revolution of 1789-1794 and how to deal with the explosive social tensions that industrialization generates. These issues also affect matters of national identity, class conflict, the proper relation between the society and the individual and the role of society (through the state) in regulating economic activity. History can serve as an interesting lens through which to examine these problems because, like other nations, France responded to these problems in its own way, which included five republics, four kings, two emperors, two world wars and one Fascist regime.
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4.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to major events and themes of modern German history. It focuses on continuities and ruptures in German society during the eras of the Second Empire, the Weimar Republic, National Socialism, the competing Republicans and the (unified) Federal Republic of Germany. Major questions include the supposed "special path" to industrial and state formation; the impact of total war; the importance of confessional difference in culture and society; the effects of economic and political crisis; the emergence of the "New Woman"; the nature of Nazi dictatorship; the conditions of genocide; the development of democracy; the German "economic miracle"; the East-German state; and the social and political consequences of German unification.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of American diplomatic history from the Revolutionary War to the present, with emphasis on the emergence of the United States from a position of isolation to a position of world prominence. The course concludes with an examination of America's role as the leader of the free world.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the productive labor of half the planet's people over the span of human history. Needless to say, we will not pretend to "cover" all that the topic entails. Instead, a number of theoretical perspectives and certain historical questions flowing from them will help students begin to make sense of some of the work that women have done in different geographical locations and in a range of specific agricultural, industrial and post-industrial settings.
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4.00 Credits
This course brings a wide range of new ways of making sense of more than 500 years of American history. Much more than a chronicle of the environmental movement, the course considers the interrelationships among various lifeforms- plant, animal, microbial - in particular landscapes and climates, human strategies and technologies for wresting a living from the Earth, and value systems that have long promoted or, more recently, questioned economic developments, the basis for the American Dream. Particular themes include the impact of disease on American demography; conflict between Indian and European uses of land; the introduction of exogenous species and the extinction or near-extinction of indigenous ones; development of industrial-capitalistic modes of resource exploitation in the 19th century; and the social costs of that exploitation in our time.
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4.00 Credits
This course alternates between two themes. The American Family, 1600-1900 addresses the gradual transition from the patriarchal family model of the Colonial period to the more mutual relations of Victorian America, and the relation of private life to social change through an examination of such topics as demography, gender, Revolutionary ideology, industrialization, and childrearing practices. The course examines significant differences and divisions within American society; the sources of these divisions in immigration patterns, economic development, and cultural expression; the ways in which different eras have understood class and ethnicity; and the attempts of institutions such as the church, the school, the law, political parties and the government to exacerbate or ameliorate social divisions.
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4.00 Credits
This course seeks to account for the remarkable economic growth which has taken Americans from the starvation of Colonial Jamestown through the commercial and industrial revolutions to the undeniable, though ill-distributed, abundance of the post-industrial present. The ecological, religious, and technological preconditions of economic growth receive attention as do the political, social, and individual consequences of that growth. The drama is carried forward by a full cast of economic actors: farmers, merchants, slaves, industrialists, inventors, workers and consumers - male and female, adult and child alike.
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