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This course covers such major themes as the impact of the 1905 and 1917 revolutions; Lenin, War Communism, and the new economic policy; Stalin, collectivization, and the Great Purges; the Russian war experience and the Cold War; Khrushchev, reform, and de-Stalinization; Brezhnev, stagnation, and detente; Gorbachev, glasnost, perestroika, and political and economic crisis; the Revolution of 1987 to 1991; and post-Soviet Russia.Formerly HI 384. This course meets the world diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the major developments in modern Chinese history from about 1800 to the present to show China's transformation from a semi-colonial country in the 19th century to a major player in world affairs today.Topics include the Opium Wars, the impact of imperialism on China and China's response to it, the revolutionary movements of the first two decades of the 1900s, the rise of nationalism and Chinese Communism, the anti-Japanese War, the history of the People's Republic of China, the current economic reform movement and social changes, and China's role in the new world or der.This course meets the world diversity requiremen t. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credit
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This course examines the transformation of Japan from the late Tokugawa period in the 1800s to the emergence of Japan as a post-industrial society.It focuses on historical forces and events, and on the efforts of Japanese women and men that have shaped Japan's transition from a late developing industrial nation during the Meiji period (1868-1912) to a great economic power in the 20th century.The dramatic social, political, economic, and cultural changes of the 1980s and 1990s receive attention.Students compare Japan's path to modernization with that of the Wes t.This course meets the world diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course covers the understanding and treatment of human and natural resources in Latin America from the time of triumphant indigenous empires in the 1500s through the colonial Spanish and Portuguese empires, the unstable 19th-century independent republics, the modernizing 20th-century republics, and the neo-liberal empire of the new world order.The course examines how the ruling elites throughout these eras understood and used human and natural resources, how voices of dissent responded to the policies of those ruling elites, and how those voices fared under the elites. This course meets the world diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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The course examines Indian cultures, Portuguese and Spanish institutions, and values on the eve of the conquests, including the clash of cultures and interests, and three ensuing centuries of New World dialectics: conquistadores, viceroys, colonists, priests, friars, Indian caciques and peasants, black slaves, and free mulattoes mutually interacting and forming, by 1800, a new civilization composed of varying hybrid cultures from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego.The course also considers the Iberian colonies on the eve of the 19th-century revolutions for independence. This course meets the world diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the successful overthrow of the colonial establishment from 1808 to 1826, two centuries of ensuing political, economic, social, and cultural instability, and the search for a viable social order, emphasizing the elusive search for reform in the 20th century - an age of revolution, counter-revolution, and persistent oligarchies.The failure of the revolutionary experience in Mexico, Chile, and Nicaragua; the current ascendancy of neo-liberalism; and the great cultural achievements of the 20th century receive special consideration .This course meets the world diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Topics include the indigenous cultures of Central America in 1500; the conquest culture of the Spanish, 1524 to 1821; the failure of the Central American union after independence; the consolidation of old elites through liberal and conservative regimes; attempts at modernization in the late 19th century and the beginnings of U.S.hegemony; 20th-century modernization under U.S.auspices; failed revolutions in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua; the 1990s peace accords; and attempts at reconciliation and creation of civic societies.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Topics include the experience of Africans in the colonies of the New World from 1500 to 1800; the economic origins of modern slavery; the traffic in African slaves; perceptions of Africans by Europeans; slave systems imposed on the Africans; the response of Africans to slavery and subjection; and the role of freed Africans in the Spanish colonies, Portuguese Brazil, the British West Indies, French St.Dominique (Haiti), and British America/ United States.Students make extensive use of primary sources. This course meets the world diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This intermediate-level course considers how slaves were taken to Europe and the Americas where their knowledge, skills, and labor shaped Western social, cultural, and economic development.Africans were not merely enslaved to exploit their labor.Slaveholders targeted Africans who possessed knowledge and skills they wanted.This knowledge made slavery more profitable and successful than it otherwise would have been.Slaves carried African customs and beliefs with them to Europe and the Americas, which provided their lives with structure, meaning, and purpose.They also introduced these African customs and beliefs to their enslavers, transforming Western culture in the process. This course meets either the U.S. diversity requirement OR the world diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Traditionally, historians have treated West Africans as passive or unwilling participants in the Atlantic slave trade and the development of the Americas.West Africans have been depicted as pawns who were manipulated and kidnapped into slavery by Europeans.However, since the 1970s, scholars have increasingly recognized the fallacies of these assumptions.Prior to European contact, numerous West African kingdoms, empires, confederations, and smaller polities had developed.These polities were militarily powerful enough to resist European imperial designs until the late 19th century, to prevent Europeans from kidnapping their citizens into bondage and control the slave trade.This course will explore how West Africa contributed to the cultural and economic development of the Atlantic world and consider how European contact and interaction contributed to West Africa's development and underdevelopment.This course engages several historiographical debates to explore how West Africa influenced the cultural and economic development of the Atlantic world .This course meets the world diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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