HIST 101A WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Description: To understand the roots and development of the Western heritage, students examine key issues in the history of the ancient world (the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome) and its heirs in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Topics include: forms of political systems, imperialism, Christianity and its interaction with Judaism and Islam, feudalism/manorialism, church vs. state, class and gender, social and economic issues, science, philosophy, art and historiography. Also provides an opportunity to learn by doing the work of the historian. For first and second year students, majors/minors and non-majors. HIST 101B counts for "C" requirement.
Format: Two lectures/week and one mandatory discussion section per week. An in-class, one question mid-term essay examination and a two-question, non-cumulative final. All students write a 12-15 page research paper; students in the writing section write an additional 5-7 page paper.
Books: Noble, et al., WESTERN CIVILIZATION. THE CONTINUING EXPERIMENT (4th ed.); P. Roche, THREE PLAYS OF EURIPIDES; Graves and Grant, SUETONIUS. THE TWELVE CAESARS; M.R. Shaw, JOINVILLE AND VILLEHARDOUIN. CHRONICLES OF THE CRUSADES; Machiavelli, THE PRINCE.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 101B WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Description: To understand the roots and development of the Western heritage, students examine key issues in the history of the ancient world (the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome) and its heirs in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Topics include: forms of political systems, imperialism, Christianity and its interaction with Judaism and Islam, feudalism/manorialism, church vs. state, class and gender, social and economic issues, science, philosophy, art and historiography. Also provides an opportunity to learn by doing the work of the historian. For first and second year students, majors/minors and non-majors. HIST 101B counts for "C" requirement.
Format: Two lectures/week and one mandatory discussion section per week. An in-class, one question mid-term essay examination and a two-question, non-cumulative final. All students write a 12-15 page research paper; students in the writing sections write an additional 5-7 page paper.
Books: Noble, et al., WESTERN CIVILIZATION. THE CONTINUING EXPERIMENT (4th ed.); P. Roche, THREE PLAYS OF EURIPIDES; Graves and Grant, SUETONIUS. THE TWELVE CAESARS; M.R. Shaw, JOINVILLE AND VILLEHARDOUIN. CHRONICLES OF THE CRUSADES; Machiavelli, THE PRINCE.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 103A FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICA
Description: Examines the development of American society from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. Special attention paid to the interaction of European, Native American and African peoples. Examines the institutional development of slavery, the displacement of Native Americans and the role these developments played in the shaping of European American society and institutions. Readings and lectures reflect the experiences of different peoples in America and approach these experiences from a variety of methodological perspectives. Satisfies both history and philosophy, politics and law major.
Format: Two lectures and one discussion section.
Books: TBD
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 104B MODERN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
Description: An exploration of the social and political history of the United States from the Civil War to the present. The course will focus on particular groups or phenomena throughout the term, with the goal of crafting a more intimate picture of the American experience. Implicit in this is an attempt not only to understand how the nation functioned, but also its level of dysfunction at various times.
Format: Format may vary by sections: Lectures and discussion sections. Evaluation will consist of mandatory rough drafts, two papers, take home final, section attendance, section participation.
Books: Books may vary by sections: Selected texts: Horatio Alger, RAGGED DICK; Tim O¿Brien, THE THINGS THEY CARRIED; Anne Moody, COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI; others to be determined.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
Prerequisite: Notes may vary by sections.
Corequisite: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
HIST 121A MIDDLE EAST SINCE 1453
Description: This is an introductory survey course in the history of Islamic Middle East from c. 1453 to the present. The emphasis will be on the regions now occupied by the Arab states, Turkey, Iran and Israel, although other regions will be mentioned. We begin during the Golden Ages of Iran and the Ottoman Empire, the dominant state in the Mediterranean world. We then study the transformation and then the decline of the two states, examining their cultural, social, economic and political institutions. We next study the Islamic Middle East in darker times, when it fell prey to European ambitions. The European occupation of the Mid East after World War I, the struggles for independence and the formation of the present-day states of the Middle East form the final subjects of our study.
Format: Each week there will be two hours of lecture; in addition, there will be one hour of discussion, usually focusing on primary sources in Middle Eastern history, literature and religion. There will be three classroom examinations. The exams will consist of short and long essay questions. Regular class participation and attendance is expected. There are no prerequisites except intellectual curiosity; non-majors and majors are welcome. Students in writing section will have assignments designed to meet that requirement.
Books: Quataert, THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1700-1922, 2nd ed., Cambridge UP; Khater, SOURCES IN THE HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST, Houghton-Mifflin, 2004 (0395 98067 4);Gelvin, THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST. A HISTORY, New York and Oxford, 2004; and, a number of novels, to be determined.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 182A INTRO LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Description: Interdisciplinary introduction to studying Latin America. Uses historical documents, works of fiction, audio-visual materials and scholarly writings to focus on historical, cultural and political themes, including conquest and colonialism; race and gender identities; nationalism, revolution and neo-colonialism; social movements and political participation; and local responses to globalization. Provides a basis for advanced studies on Latin America.
Format: To be determined
Books: To be determined
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 183A INTRO TO AFRICANA STUDIES
Description: Broad survey of some of the major themes in African, African American and other African diasporic experiences over the past 200 years. Centers on systems, movements and ideas that have transcended national, continental and oceanic boundaries -- including slavery and emancipation, politics and religion, culture and identity, colonialism and nationalism. Methods of organization are thematic and chronological. Introduction to the making of the modern world, from the standpoint of the black experience globally.
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HIST 200 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
Description: Surveys the history and culture of ancient Egypt, from prehistoric origins to its conquest by Alexander the Great. Topics include: the pharaonic state (monarchy, administration, ideology); society (class and gender); economy; religion; law; empire; literature; art & architecture; science, technology and medicine; writing/language and daily life.
Format: lecture, although time for questions, elaborations and clarifications. Considerable use of visual materials and translations of ancient Egyptian documents. Grading is based on an in-class mid-term (one essay) and a final examination (two essays). Mid-term counts for one-third, the final examination two thirds of the final grade. The grades on the two final essays are entered separately. Final examination is not cumulative.
Books: Shaw (ed.), OXFORD HISTORY OF ANCIENT EGYPT; Simpson, et al., LITERATURE OF ANCIENT EGYPT (3rd ed.); Kadish (tr.), A SELECTION OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS (course pack); Shafer (ed.), RELIGION IN ANCIENT EGYPT.
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HIST 208A PRIVILEGE AND PROTEST IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Description: Between the wars of religion in the 16th century and the democratic revolutions at the end of the 18th century, Europe confronted peasant revolts, widespread warfare, increasing concentrations of wealth and power, and the Enlightenment critique of custom and tradition. Together, these forces transformed elite and popular culture, reshaped social structures and created the modern international system of states.
Format: Primarily lecture, but about one-third of class time is devoted to discussions focused on specific readings.
Books: To be determined
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
Prerequisite: None
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HIST 235 MUSLIM PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
Description: Part I introduces Islam as a religio-social, legal, political and economic system. Part II surveys majority and minority Muslim populations in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Topics include ethnicity, gender, colonialism, modernization, legal and social reforms, Muslim/non-Muslim relations.
Format: Lectures, film, weekly discussions. Course grades based on participation, midterm, cumulative final. Section 02 students write two 5-page papers or one 10-page paper.
Books: To be determined
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 237A WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Description: We live in an age that witnesses significant environmental changes. Pollution, acid rain and deforestation are widespread across the world. Global warming increasingly seems to be a reality. Numerous forms of wildlife are endangered and bio-diversity is threatened. Environmental problems do not always follow national boundaries. Clouds of pollution silently fly across barbed borderlines. In an age of global economy, market demands in one part of the world may dictate environmental changes in a remote region thousands of miles away. The ivory trade in Asia, for example, spells death to many elephants in Africa. Mining and oil production cause serious environment destruction in local areas, but they also keep industrial societies running. Traditional national history, therefore, simply cannot explain many urgent environmental problems we are facing today. Course examines world environmental history from prehistoric times to the present, with an emphasis on the past 500 years. Begins by looking at the ancient agricultural civilizations and other modes of human societies in the world, then examines the environmental history of medieval Europe and of imperial China. Bulk of course devoted to studying European expansion and ecological imperialism, environmental history of late imperial and modern China and American environmental history. Finally, considers the rise of local and international conservation movements and environmentalism, ongoing environmental changes (for example, the green revolution, rapid population growth and urbanization in developing countries, etc.), and the important question of where we are heading.
Format: Lecture and discussion
Books: To be determined
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 244 MODERN JEWISH HISTORY
Description: Focuses on the history of the Jews from 1750 to the end of the 20th century in Europe, the Middle East and North America. Explores the religious, ideological and social development of diverse Jewish communities confronting the challenges and threats of modernity. Subjects include the struggle for Jewish emancipation, the rise of denominationalism, anti-Semitism and Zionism.
Format: Grade based on two preliminary examinations (each constituting 25 percent of grade) and a final examination (50 percent of grade).
Books: Hyman, THE JEWS OF MODERN FRANCE; Endelmann, THE JEWS OF BRITAIN; Elon, THE PITY OF IT ALL; Gartner, HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN MODERN TIMES; Mendes-Flohr, THE JEW IN THE MODERN WORLD.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 267A ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Description: This lecture and discussion course takes for its main theme the significance of Asians and their migration, labor and activities to the broad sweep of American history from 1848 to the 1990s. Specific themes include first-wave Asian immigration; labor and enterprise; gender; oppression, debates over citizenship, and exclusion movements; community organization and resistance, including transnationalism; the Asian American movement; Southeast Asian and post-1965 immigration; and anti-Asian violence. Because it is not possible to study every one of the more than 20 groups identified as Asian American in one semester, we will use examples to illustrate larger themes. For majors and non-majors.
Format: Tuesday and Thursday lectures; Friday discussion sections required. In terms of workload, the reading averages 100 pages a week, and over the course of the semester there are at least 15 pages of writing for the paper and exams. Grade will be based on participation in in-class assignments and attendance at weekly discussion sections, one paper, a midterm exam and a final exam.
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HIST 268 NATIVE AMER. CULTURE & HISTORY
Description: Presents a narrative of U.S. history emphasizing dynamic relationship of Native American cultures and history to European Americans, African Americans and Latinos in development of American pluralism from 1492 to 1900. Focuses on the aboriginal cultures of North America and the social and the cultural changes that resulted from interactions with other ethnic/racial groups in U.S. Compares and contrasts the dynamics and results of Native American cultures' interactions with European American, African American and Latino groups through time. Considers numerous themes, including democracy, racial equality, citizenship and religious freedom. Also uses a comparison with Mexico and Canada to evaluate the impact of Native American cultures on global and national processes of change and how that impact altered over time. Finally, considers the role of Native Americans in the formation of American institutions (such as the Constitution, states and slavery), ideology and belief.
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HIST 281A IMPERIAL RUSSIA
Description: This course surveys the history of Imperial Russia from the time of Peter the Great to the February Revolution of 1917. Through the use of lectures and the reading of primary and secondary sources, students will explore Russian politics, economics, thought and culture. Key issues include the legacy of Peter the Great, the challenge of modernization, the nationalities problem, the relationship between state and society (and the definition of both), the impact of emancipation and the Great Reforms, the evolution and durability of autocracy, the emergence of the woman question, as well as the birth of the revolutionary movement.
Format: Course components include a discussion section, a précis, a research essay, as well as a midterm and final.
Books: James Cracraft, ed., MAJOR PROBLEMS IN THE HISTORY OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA; Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, VILLAGE LIFE IN LATE TSARIST RUSSIA; Riasanovsky, A HISTORY OF RUSSIA (6th ed.)
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
Prerequisite: This course counts as a REEP program component. For more information, please see instructor.
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HIST 281M RUSSIA AND THE WORLD
Description: Why did Soviet young people think jazz was a great vehicle for political protest? Was every Soviet citizen a freedom-hating Communist? Where did Soviet movie-goers get the idea that most Americans were racists in the 1930's? What do today’s young Russians think about America and the west? This course will examine questions like these to analyze the way Soviets/Russians and Americans depicted each other in the twentieth century, and how Russia’s relations with other countries (especially America, but also Russia’s Asian neighbors) can be traced through literature, film, music, poetry, essays, cartoons and more. How have popular perceptions and misperceptions been created, from the formation of the Soviet Union, through the Cold War, the Thaw, Gorbachev’s glasnost, and into today’s post-Soviet era? Note: the time block on Tuesday evenings will be used about five times during the semester for film screenings.
Format: Lecture, discussion. Assignments: Written assignments, quizzes, mid-term, final exam.
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HIST 283A INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN HISTORY
Description: Survey of African history to the mid-20th century. African diasporas; social, political and economic organization; religion and philosophy; education; women; inter-African and international relations; slavery; resistance to and effects of European rule; nationalism; liberation movements; problems of independence and post-independence.
Format: Grade based on two quizzes (20 percent); midterm (30 percent); final (50 percent); for writing credit, two five-page papers/reports or one 10-page paper/report.
Books: To be determined.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
Prerequisite: Anyone who has previously taken History or Africana 176 may NOT register for History or Africana 283A.
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HIST 286A HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Description: Course goals are to help students appreciate how medical knowledge and practices are implicated in and influenced by social, political and economic forces; how the concepts of health and disease, the relationships between hospitals, professions and patients, the character of therapeutics and the role of science, technology and industry have changed over time. Although the course will focus on medicine in the west from the early modern period to the present, it will include pre-modern and non-western medicines. Satisfies Harpur College (¿W¿) writing requirement.
Format: Lectures and discussion. Grades determined as follows: attendance and participation 15%; midterm examination 25%; term paper 25%; final examination 35%. For majors and non-majors.
Books: Porter, THE GREATEST BENEFIT TO MANKIND; Bynum, SCIENCE AND THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; Warner & Tighe, MAJOR PROBLEMS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
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HIST 311 RACE & RACISM IN MODERN EUROPE
Description: Examines how ¿race¿ has constructed European identity, and how it informed Western social theories that aided in the construction of racial others. By historically situating the doctrines of scientific racism, colonial racism, racial anti-Semitism, and xenophobic nationalism, we interrogate how ¿race¿ has structured the colonial enterprises of modern European states, fascist ideology, popular and political discourse about immigration, and also, how it articulates with national and gender identities.
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Books: Ali, BRICK LANE; Brubaker, CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONHOOD IN FRANCE AND GERMANY; Burleigh and Wippermann, THE RACIAL STATE; Césaire, DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM; Charef, TEA IN THE HAREM; Gould, MISMEASURE OF MAN; Klemperer, I WILL BEAR WITNESS; MacMaster, RACISM IN EUROPE.
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HIST 333 HUMAN RIGHTS SINCE 1945
Description: Sept. 11, 2001, was a vicious attack on a civilian population. It brought to a head serious conflicts worldwide over internationalizing human rights. Course explores human rights ideas, institutions, laws and implementation after 1945. Looks at the founding of the United Nations, early human rights and humanitarian conventions, and grass-roots anti-racist and pro-dissident movements at the height of the Cold War and the new global contexts of concerns with gender-specific crimes, transnational labor migrations and renewed genocides, which since the late 1970s have inserted human rights principles more centrally in international relations. Through historical examples it confronts major debates over universalism, cultural relativism, legal accountability and transnational justice and the traces the emergence of new UN and NGO networks that sustain the global movements for justice and rights. It addresses the changing context for human rights advocacy since 9/11. For majors and non-majors.
Format: Lecture, discussion, two in-class examinations and a final exam.
Books: Carlson, I REMEMBER JULIA: VOICES OF THE DISAPPEARED; Gourevitch, WE WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT TOMORROW WE WILL BE KILLED WITH OUR FAMILIES: STORIES FROM RWANDA; Solzhenitsyn, ONE DAY IN LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH; Donnelly, INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS; Falk, HUMAN RIGHTS HORIZONS; among others.
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HIST 356 AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY
Description: This course will encourage you to learn that the "law" derives its meaning or essence from history, from the actions and interactions, desires and struggles, of human beings, that in the words made famous by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "the life of the law is experience not logic." We will examine is how humans experienced the law in the past and how those experiences shaped the law for future generations. Our concern will be history not legal procedures, terms, or definitions. All that can wait for law school.
Format: Procedures, Requirements, Grades: All students will be expected to attend lectures and discussion sections regularly. I expect to call upon students at random in class to answer questions about the subject or to seek voluntary student responses to questions that I raise. Attendance at discussion sections will be mandatory, and TAs will take weekly attendance. TAs will organize and conduct the sections in a manner that elicits the greatest student participation. All students will take a midterm and a comprehensive final examination; students will also write a 5-8 page book review-essay; those taking the course for writing credit will also prepare a 10-15 page essay on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor. For nonwriting students the midterm will count as 30% of the final grade, the review-essay as 30% and the final examination as 40%. For writing requirement students the midterm will weigh 20% and the research paper and final examination each 40%.
Books: Hall, THE MAGIC MIRROR, Oxford U. Press (latest ed. 2006), ISBN0195081803; Hall, Wiecek & Finkelman, AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY, Oxford U. Press, ISBN0195097645.
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HIST 366 THE AMERICAN WAR IN VIETNAM
Description: America¿s longest War and only defeat. Topics include the Cold War which justified the initiation and the continuation of the Vietnam war: the policies of Truman and Eisenhower who began our involvement in Vietnam, Kennedy who increased our intervention and Johnson and Nixon who waged full scale war: the nature of the war with its special frustrations, limitations and atrocities: the antiwar movement in the universities. The McCarthy and McGovern presidential anti war campaigns: the growing rebellion of Congress and finally the humiliating end and the surprising aftermath. We lose in Vietnam, but win the Cold War.
Format: The grade will be based on a midterm and final consisting both of essays and multiple choice questions. I will show some films and documentaries, including GO TELL THE SPARTANS, APOCALYPSE NOW, PLATOON, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, and THE FALL OF SAIGON. For majors and non majors.
Books: AMERICA¿S LONGEST WAR, THE UNITED STATES AND VIETNAM, 1950-1975 by George Herring, McGraw Hill, ISBN 0-072-53618-7; A BRIGHT SHINING LIE, JOHN PAUL VANN AND AMERICA IN VIETNAM, by Neil Sheehan. Vintage, ISBN 0-679-72414-1; HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad. Dover, ISBN 0-486-26464-5; THE QUIET AMERICAN by Graham Greene, Penguin, ISBN 0-140-18500-3; A RUMOR OF WAR by Philip Caputo. Owl Books, ISBN 0-805-04695-X; THEY MARCHED INTO SUNLIGHT by David Marannis, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0-743-21780-2.
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HIST 380D REVOLUTION & FOUNDING: THE US
Description: Through a close examination of primary documents, scholarly articles, and historical monographs students will explore seminal themes in the history of the war for American Independence and the creation of the American Union and Nation. Special emphasis will be given to the interrelationship between politics, law, and society in an age of revolution and transformation.
Format: Combination lecture/discussion course. Participation and attendance at class are required and essential. A variety of writing assignments and exams will serve the analysis and comprehension of the content presented in class and the readings. Grades will be based upon all of these elements.
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HIST 380J 20TH C. U.S. URBAN HISTORY
Description: Students in this course explore key issues in 20th Century American urban history. The course is topically focused around core themes: the economic city, the political city, the physical city, the living city, and the postindustrial city.
Format: Combination lecture/discussion course. Grades will be determined as follows: three exams, 20 percent each; group project, 25 percent; participation, 15 percent.
Books: Books: Teaford, The 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN CITY; Mohl, THE NEW CITY: URBAN AMERICA IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE; Cohen & Taylor, AMERICAN PHARAOH: MAYOR RICHARD J. DALEY; McShane, DOWN THE ASPHALT PATH; Larson, THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY; Kasson, AMUSING THE MILLION; Garreau, EDGE CITY: LIFE ON THE NEW FRONTIER; Marshall, HOW CITIES WORK.
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HIST 381K TOPICS: EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Description: TBA. See History Department for further information.
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HIST 384A WWII AND ITS AFTERMATH IN ASIA
Description: Lectures on Japan's experience of World War II. Particular attention will be given to the underlying causes of the "Asia-Pacific War" of 1931-45, decision making in Tokyo and Washington, how each side fought, the war crimes that Japanese and American soldiers committed during the fighting, the lessons they drew from their wars, and the consequences that followed. This term special attention will be given to the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the ensuing U.S.-Soviet cold war. There will be a midterm paper (eight pages) and a final report (eight to nine pages). The goal will be to cut through myths and deepen understanding of war and its consequences.
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Books: Herbert Bix, HIROHITO AND THE MAKING OF MODERN JAPAN (HarperCollins Publishers, 2001), ISBN 0060931302; John Dower, WAR WITHOUT MERCY (Pantheon Books, 1986), ISBN 0393320278; Michael Hogan, HIROSHIMA IN HISTORY AND MEMORY (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), ISBN 0-521-56682-7; Mark Selden & Alvin Y. So, eds., WAR AND STATE TERROR (Rowman & Littlefield Publishes, Inc., 2004).
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HIST 385C INTRO ARABIC CIVILIZATION&CULT
Description: Overview of the civilization and culture of the Arab peoples, starting with their origins and continuing through the present. A selection of texts ¿ in English, dealing with and pertaining to different aspects and areas of Arabic life and culture ¿ is read and discussed. Texts compare and analyze attitudes in works written by Arab writers and those written by non-Arab writers. Topics include origins of the Arabs; pre-Islamic Arab society; Arab-Islamic society and the Islamic Empire; Arab culture and its contribution to world culture; decadence and fall of the Arab-Islamic Empire; European infiltration and colonialism (18th-19th century); independence and the creation of nation-states. Also analyzes and discusses modern concerns and problems of the area.
Format: Discussion course as well as a writing one (for students taking it for a writing requirement). Since mastery of critical thinking and argument skills depends on spoken as well as written discourse and debate, it is fundamental that students become acquainted with the readings to be able to participate effectively in class activities. Methods of instruction include lecture, discussion, student presentations and reading quizzes or reading responses.
Books: Massoulie, MIDDLE EAST CONFLICTS; Ayubi, POLITICAL ISLAM: RELIGION AND POLITICS IN THE ARAB WORLD; Sabbagh, ARAB WOMEN; Hourani, A HISTORY OF THE ARAB PEOPLES; Lamb, THE ARABS; Pryce-Jones, THE CLOSED CIRCLE: AN INTERPRETATION OF THE ARABS (rev. ed.); time permitting, occasional and appropriate films, documentaries or news articles.
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HIST 386J MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA
Description: This seminar addresses the central question of the identity of descendants of Africa in the global diaspora. Is this identity dependent on where these individuals live today or where they originated? Do they have a national or a global identity? Is it static or dynamic? What are the forces within and without these communities that shape this identity? The literature of this course will address these questions from a number of different perspectives. In our review of works of history, literature, anthropology and philosophy, we will assess the ways in which scholars and other writers have formulated theories of the African Diaspora. For example, anthropologists, Sidney Mintz and Richard Price in The Birth of African American Culture see culture and its development in the New World as being central to this discussion. Frantz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth examines the political and psychological underpinnings of the diaspora and its relationship to Europe and Paul Gilroy in The Black Atlantic interrogates the whole notion of national and international boundaries. Before looking at these and other theories, it will be useful to review the African historical background with some discussion of West African kingdoms and communities prior to the European encounter in the 15th century. The reading list also includes Boyce Davies' MOVING BEYOND BOUNDARIES, Mudimbe's THE INVENTION OF AFRICA and Bailey's AFRICAN VOICES OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: BEYOND THE SILENCE AND THE SHAME. COURSE NOT OPEN TO FRESHMAN.
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HIST 386Q SECULAR JEWISH IDENTITIES
Description: This course will focus on the emergence and development in modern times of essentially non-religious definitions of Jewish identity and strategies for maintaining Jewish survival. It will explore writings of the most important modern Jewish secularists as well as the programs for action outlined and implemented by Jewish secularist leaders and movements. For majors and nonmajors
Format: Two lectures per week. Grades based on midterm (30%), 7-10 page paper due at the end of the semester (30%) and final exam (40%).
Books: Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise; Hess, The Revival of Israel; Weinberg, Between Tradition and Modernity; Whitfield, In Search of American Jewish Culture; Oz, In the Land of Israel
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HIST 395 INTERNSHIP IN HISTORY
Description: Topic determined by student and faculty member.
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HIST 397 INDEPENDENT STUDY
Description: Tutorial or seminar study of special problems that meets needs of advanced students.
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HIST 414 EUROPEAN HIST THROUGH NOVELS
Description: This course examines four great historical novels, THE GODS WILL HAVE BLOOD by Anatole France, THE YEAR OF THE FRENCH by Thomas Flanagan, WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy, and THE BRIDGE ON THE DRINA by Ivo Andric, asking the question: Can the techniques of the novel and the film recreate and present important aspects of the past difficult to grasp by the techniques of conventional historical writing? These works depict vividly Paris during the great terror of 1794, Ireland in the rebellion of 1798, Russia during Napoleon¿s invasion of 1812, and a small town in Bosnia over several centuries. We will also look briefly at the Russian purge trials of 1936-38 through DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler. I will also show DANTON, SUNSHINE, MICHAEL COLLINS, and BURNED BY THE SUN.
Format: Grade is based on a 20 page paper or two 10 page papers, totaling about 5,000 words and based partly on the assigned reading and partly on some additional reading. Class time will be used for discussion, informal lectures, and films. This is a W course.
Books: THE BRIDGE ON THE DRINA by Ivo Andric, University of Chicago, ISBN 022602045-2; DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler, Bantom, ISBN 0553265954; THE GOD WILL HAVE BLOOD by Anatole France, Penguin, ISBN 0140184570; WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy, Penguin ISBN 0140444173; THE YEAR OF THE FRENCH by Thomas Flanagan, New York Review of Books Classics, ISBN 022602045-2.
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HIST 431 CONSTITUTIONALISM: U.S. AND JAPAN
Description: A seminar designed to generate thinking about Japanese and American experiences of constitutionalism and democracy. Some of the main questions we shall discuss are: (1) What does "democracy" mean and how do constitutions advance and at the same time restrict "democratic governance"? (2) By what methods are rulers selected in "democratic states"? (3) How can we assess whether a political order is democratic or its people "sovereign"? (4) What concrete events catalyzed the formation of constitutions in the United States of the late 18th century? Japan toward the end of the 19th century? (5) After these constitutions were made, what experiences led to their transformations? (6) What roles have war and defeat played in advancing or retarding democracy? Readings are designed to encourage comparative analysis of constitutionalism and democracy.
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Books: Susan Marks, THE RIDDLE OF ALL CONSTITUTIONS: INTERNATIONAL LAW, DEMOCRACY, AND THE CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGY (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000); James G. Wilson, THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC: A STRUCTURAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM, FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT (Ashgate Publishing, 2002); Robert A. Dahl, HOW DEMOCRATIC IS THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION? (Yale Univ. Press, 2002); John Dewey, THE PUBLIC AND ITS PROBLEMS (Ohio State Univ. Press, 1927, 1954); Michael Lewis, BECOMING APART: NATIONAL POWER AND LOCAL POLITICS IN TOYAMA, 1868-1945 (Harvard Univ. Press, 2000); Tsunoda, de Bary, Keene, eds., SOURCES OF JAPANESE TRADITION, Vol. 2 (Columbia Univ. Press); Koseki Shoichi, et al., THE BIRTH OF JAPAN'S POSTWAR CONSTITUTION (1997); Kenneth J. Ruoff, THE PEOPLE'S EMPEROR: DEMOCRACY AND THE JAPANESE MONARCHY, 1945-1995 (Harvard Univ. Asia Center, 2002), ISBN 0-67401088-4.
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HIST 480Q FROM COLONY TO NEW YORK STATE
Description: This course explores chronological and thematic moments in the settlement, creation, and development of New York from its earliest Dutch beginnings to its emergence as one of the leading states in the new United States of America. Particular attention will be paid to the interaction of Native Americans and diverse European settlements, the development of a particular New York political and social world, the place of New York in the geopolitics and migratory trends of North America and the Atlantic, and the role of New York in specific transformative events and revolutions.
Format: A senior seminar, students are expected to be prepared at each class to discuss the readings for the week, and will be developing, researching, and writing a substantial research essay over the course of the semester.
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HIST 480R U.S. SOCIAL HISTORY
Description: Examines the selected topics in the social history of the United States.
Format: TBA
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HIST 480S U.S. WARS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Description: Examines several parallel processes: how Americans shape national identity through conflict and expansion, how Americans involved in those conflicts perceive their goals and outcomes, and how those against whom Americans fight perceive them.
Format: As with all senior seminars, discussions and readings result in a final research paper.
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HIST 480U U.S. IMMIGRATION HISTORY
Description: Topics be announced.
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HIST 481U SOVIET RUSSIA
Description: This is a joint graduate and undergraduate seminar that explores the Soviet Russian History. Particular stress will be placed on the early Soviet period, from the Revolution to the death of Stalin¿a chronological focus that enables students to engage questions such as the roots of the Revolution, the emergence and nature of Stalinism, the unfolding of Soviet culture, the source and legacy of the purges, the problem of nationalism in a Communist state, as well as the political and socioeconomic challenges that Stalin bequeathed to his successors.
Format: In addition to seminar participation, students must submit a historiographical essay (10-15pp. for undergraduates; 15-20pp. for graduates) and give an oral presentation on a primary source (i.e. a newspaper, a documentary collection, or a film).
Books: Cohen, BUKHARIN AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION; Fitzpatrick, STALINISM: NEW DIRECTIONS; Gorsuch, YOUTH IN REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA; Kotkin, MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN; Miller, RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: ESSENTIAL READINGS; Solzhenitsyn, ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENOSOVICH; Suny, THE SOVIET EXPERIMENT; Viola, PEASANT REBELS UNDER STALIN; ZUBKOVA, RUSSIA AFTER THE WAR.
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Prerequisite: HIS381E or 281A are recommended, but not required. This course counts as a REEP program component. For more information, please see instructor.
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HIST 481V WOMEN&GENDER IN MODERN EUROPE
Description: Examines the social organization and cultural construction of gender and sexuality in modern European history. Topics include: revolutionary definitions of citizenship; the gender of nationalism; how gender articulated with the politics of war, fascism, and imperialism; sexology, psychoanalysis, and the construction of deviance; domesticity and its discontents; production, reproduction, and waged labor; rape warfare; and women in a globalized Europe.
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Books: Ali, BRICK LANE; Anonymous, A WOMAN IN BERLIN; Bridenthal, BECOMING VISIBLE; DiCaprio, LIVES AND VOICES; Drakulic, HOW WE SURVIVED COMMUNISM; Freud, DORA: AN ANALYSIS OF A CASE OF HYSTERIA; Ibsen, A DOLL¿S HOUSE; McLaren, TRIALS OF MASCULINITY; Owings, FRAUEN: GERMAN WOMEN RECALL THE THIRD REICH; Stopes, MARRIED LOVE.
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HIST 481W TOPICS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Description: To be announced. Check with Department of History.
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HIST 482B RACE, PLACE, NATION IN LATIN A
Description: This graduate seminar will read provocative and controversial historiography and related scholarship on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America that examines the interlocking dynamics of political culture, race, social history, and geographical space. The theoretical and historical issues discussed in this class are relevant for both Latin Americanists and for scholars of history and culture in other regions of the world.
Format: Students will write a series of historiographical essays based on course readings and some related outside readings. Some essays will include an option to revise.
Books: Readings might include some of the following: Appelbaum, MUDDIED WATERS; Appelbaum, Macpherson, and Rosemblatt, ed.s, RACE AND NATION IN MODERN LATIN AMERICA; Craib, CARTOGRAPHIC MEXICO; de la Cadena, INDIGENOUS MESTIZOS; Ferrer, INSURGENT CUBA; Jacobsen and Aljovin de Losada, eds., POLITICAL CULTURES IN THE ANDES; Joseph et al, EVERYDAY FORMS OF STATE FORMATION; Mallon, PEASANT AND NATION; Sanders, CONTENTIOUS REPUBLICANS, among others.
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HIST 486A HISTORY OF BIOETHICS
Description: This seminar will investigate the cultural, social and political context of ethical controversies in the biomedical sciences. The course will concentrate on a limited number of areas in19th and 20th century biomedicine including: the procurement of bodies for medical research; the definition of brain death and organ transplantation; eugenics and genetic engineering; human and animal experimentation; and the development of bioethics as a privileged voice in ethical decisions.
Format: Seminar. Course grades determined as follows: seminar presentation 20%; first paper 20%, final paper 40%, class participation 10%, 3 un-graded response papers 10%. For majors and non-majors.
Books: include: Richardson, DEATH, DISSECTION & THE DESTITUTE, Proctor, RACIAL HYGIENE: MEDICINE UNDER THE NAZIS, Lock, TWICE DEAD: ORGAN TRANSPLANTS & THE REINVENTION OF DEATH, Jones, BAD BLOOD: THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT, Lederer, SUBJECTED TO SCIENCE, Bowrig, SCIENCE, SEEDS & CYBORGS, Stevens, BIOETHICS IN AMERICA.
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HIST 486C WORLD WAR I
Description: World War 1 killed ten million soldiers and millions of civilians and led to Communism, Nazism and World War 11.We begin with the rivalries which led to war and examine the mobilization of men and resources on a scale far beyond all previous wars. Topics include war guilt, trench warfare. new weapons (airplanes, tanks, submarines and poison gas) the initial support for the war and the later disillusionment. We look at the erosion of the traditional rules of war. We conclude with the surprising end of the war and with an extended examination of the Treaty of Versailles.
Format: Grade is based on a 20 page paper or two 10 page papers, totaling 5,000 words and based partly on the assigned books and partly on additional, reading. Class time will be used for discussion, some short lectures, and some films This is a "W" writing course.
Books: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Erich Maria Remarque, Random, ISBN 0-449-21394-3; EYE DEEP IN HELL, TRENCH WARFARE IN WORLD WAR 1 by John Ellis, John Hopkins, ISBN 0-8018-3947-5; FIRST WORLD WAR, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY by A. J. P. Taylor, Berkley, ISBN 0-399-50260-2; THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR by James Joll, Longman, ISBN 0-582-49016-3; PARIS 1919: SIX MONTHS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD BY MARGARET OLWEN MACMILLAN, Random House, ISBN 0-743-21780-2; WORLD WAR 1 BRITISH POETS by Candace Ward, Dover, ISBN 0-486-29568-0.
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HIST 486E HUMAN RIGHTS RESEARCH SEMINAR
Description: Researching and writing human rights histories. Excellent preparation for anyone interested in an academic and teaching career, or one in law, medicine (because of its ethical components) or human rights advocacy.
Format: Research seminar. By end of semester, students complete a well-documented research paper and present their research findings to a wider audience than the class alone. Course is part of a coordinated investigation into human rights problems sponsored by the Institute of Global Cultural Studies. To receive feedback on and responses to their own research projects, students discuss their findings in a forum open to other students enrolled in related courses. In addition, throughout the semester class meets to talk about the process of doing historical research.
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Prerequisite: Consent of instructor required. Students must contact instructor (jquataer@binghamton.edu) to determine a research project on a human rights topic of their choice. When course begins, they should have a viable topic and a relevant set of sources to analyze.
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HIST 498 HONORS THESIS I
Description: Honors essay for seniors, under supervision of faculty member.
Format: N/A
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Prerequisite: Consent of department's director of undergraduate studies and instructor.
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HIST 499 HONORS THESIS II
Description: Honors essay for seniors, under supervision of faculty member.
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Prerequisite: Consent of department's director of undergraduate studies and instructor.
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HIST 501G HISTORY OF BIOETHICS
Description: This seminar will investigate the cultural, social and political context of ethical controversies in the biomedical sciences. The course will concentrate on a limited number of areas in19th and 20th century biomedicine including: the procurement of bodies for medical research; the definition of brain death and organ transplantation; eugenics and genetic engineering; human and animal experimentation; and the development of bioethics as a privileged voice in ethical decisions.
Format: Seminar. Course grades determined as follows: seminar presentation 20%; first paper 20%, final paper 40%, class participation 10%, 3 un-graded response papers 10%. For majors and non-majors.
Books: include: Richardson, DEATH, DISSECTION & THE DESTITUTE, Proctor, RACIAL HYGIENE: MEDICINE UNDER THE NAZIS, Lock, TWICE DEAD: ORGAN TRANSPLANTS & THE REINVENTION OF DEATH, Jones, BAD BLOOD: THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT, Lederer, SUBJECTED TO SCIENCE, Bowrig, SCIENCE, SEEDS & CYBORGS, Stevens, BIOETHICS IN AMERICA.
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HIST 501L CONSTITUTIONALISM: U.S. AND JAPAN
Description: A seminar designed to generate thinking about Japanese and American experiences of constitutionalism and democracy. Some of the main questions we shall discuss are: (1) What does "democracy" mean and how do constitutions advance and at the same time restrict "democratic governance"? (2) By what methods are rulers selected in "democratic states"? (3) How can we assess whether a political order is democratic or its people "sovereign"? (4) What concrete events catalyzed the formation of constitutions in the United States of the late 18th century? Japan toward the end of the 19th century? (5) After these constitutions were made, what experiences led to their transformations? (6) What roles have war and defeat played in advancing or retarding democracy? Readings are designed to encourage comparative analysis of constitutionalism and democracy.
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Books: Susan Marks, THE RIDDLE OF ALL CONSTITUTIONS: INTERNATIONAL LAW, DEMOCRACY, AND THE CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGY (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000); James G. Wilson, THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC: A STRUCTURAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM, FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT (Ashgate Publishing, 2002); Robert A. Dahl, HOW DEMOCRATIC IS THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION? (Yale Univ. Press, 2002); John Dewey, THE PUBLIC AND ITS PROBLEMS (Ohio State Univ. Press, 1927, 1954); Michael Lewis, BECOMING APART: NATIONAL POWER AND LOCAL POLITICS IN TOYAMA, 1868-1945 (Harvard Univ. Press, 2000); Tsunoda, de Bary, Keene, eds., SOURCES OF JAPANESE TRADITION, Vol. 2 (Columbia Univ. Press); Koseki Shoichi, et al., THE BIRTH OF JAPAN'S POSTWAR CONSTITUTION (1997); Kenneth J. Ruoff, THE PEOPLE'S EMPEROR: DEMOCRACY AND THE JAPANESE MONARCHY, 1945-1995 (Harvard Univ. Asia Center, 2002), ISBN 0-67401088-4.
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HIST 530A ISSUES:US HISTORY BEFORE 1877
Description: Offers exposure to selected interpretive issues in U.S. history prior to 1877 within a framework that permits students to focus on ways to introduce these issues into the secondary-school classroom. Readings permit students to examine alternative interpretations of events and processes in U.S. history and to work extensively with primary sources that underpin those interpretations.
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HIST 533B U.S. IMMIGRATION & ETHNICITY
Description: This course explores the past fifty years of historiography on U.S. immigration and ethnicity. Readings will focus on the monographic literature beginning with the work of Oscar Handlin. The focus will be on ways historians have conceptualized immigrant and ethnic experiences in the United States and understood the larger place of race and ethnicity in national development. We will give particular emphasis to the interplay of race and ethnicity as explored in the historical literature.
Format: The course will meet weekly with students discussing one or two major works each week. Student oral reports and participation on class listserv will supplement these discussions. Written assignments will include two 4-6 page critical book reviews and a final 15-25 page historiographic paper. Enrollment is limited to 12 students.
Books: Handlin, THE UPROOTED (1951); Bodnar, THE TRANSPLANTED (1985); Lee, AT AMERICA¿S GATES: CHINESE IMMIGRATION DURING THE EXCLUSION ERA, 1882-1943 (2003); Higham, STRANGERS IN THE LAND (1955); Ngai, IMPOSSIBLE SUBJECTS: ILLEGAL ALIENS AND THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA (2004); Foley, WHITE SCOURGE (1997); Jones, THE TRIBE OF BLACK ULYSSES (2005), various journal articles, and other titles to be selected.
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HIST 536A AFRICAN AMERICAN HIST TO 1865
Description: Beginning with a discussion of the Atlantic Slave trade, this graduate course will examine the early presence of African Americans on the North American continent. Particular attention will be paid to the process and development of slavery in the South and its effects on the entire nation. This is a multi media course in which we will be looking at books, films, CD ROMS and other materials from a variety of perspectives including the following: the world that slaveholders created and the world that the slaves created within the constraints of the plantation structure. The exact nature of the Southern slave system will be explored and comparisons will be made to other slave systems in the Americas. The latter part of the course will concentrate on the causes of the Civil War, its subsequent legacy and contemporary views of slavery.
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Books: As this is primarily a course in African American historiography, the reading list will include some of the pioneers in the field including: Elkins, SLAVERY; Blassingame, THE SLAVE COMMUNITY; Genovese, ROLL JORDAN ROLL; Franklin, RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR; White, ARN'T I A WOMAN; and, Faust, MOTHERS OF INVENTION: WOMEN IN THE SLAVEHOLDING SOUTH IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
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HIST 545A RACE, PLACE, NATION IN LAT AM
Description: This graduate seminar will read provocative and controversial historiography and related scholarship on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America that examines the interlocking dynamics of political culture, race, social history, and geographical space. The theoretical and historical issues discussed in this class are relevant for both for Latin Americanists and for scholars of history and culture in other regions of the world.
Format: Students will write a series of historiographical essays based on course readings and some related outside readings. Some essays will include an option to revise.
Books: Readings might include some of the following: Appelbaum, MUDDIED WATERS; Appelbaum, Macpherson, and Rosemblatt, ed.s, RACE AND NATION IN MODERN LATIN AMERICA; Craib, CARTOGRAPHIC MEXICO; de la Cadena, INDIGENOUS MESTIZOS; Ferrer, INSURGENT CUBA; Jacobsen and Aljovin de Losada, eds., POLITICAL CULTURES IN THE ANDES; Joseph et al, EVERYDAY FORMS OF STATE FORMATION; Mallon, PEASANT AND NATION; Sanders, CONTENTIOUS REPUBLICANS, among others.
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HIST 552B EARLY MODERN EUROPE: COLLOQUIUM
Description: This course meets once a week for three hours to discuss a series of important books that have helped to define the scholarly agenda for historians of Early Modern Europe. The course is designed as both an introduction to landmark works and as an exploration of recent trends. There will be flexibility in the final list of books for common reading. Thus, it will be tailored to meet the specific interests of those students who enroll.
Format: Class meets once a week for three hours.
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HIST 552D TOPICS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Description: To be announced. Check with Department of History.
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HIST 560G SOVIET RUSSIA
Description: This is a joint graduate and undergraduate seminar that explores the Soviet Russian History. Particular stress will be placed on the early Soviet period, from the Revolution to the death of Stalin¿a chronological focus that enables students to engage questions such as the roots of the Revolution, the emergence and nature of Stalinism, the unfolding of Soviet culture, the source and legacy of the purges, the problem of nationalism in a Communist state, as well as the political and socioeconomic challenges that Stalin bequeathed to his successors.
Format: In addition to seminar participation, students must submit a historiographical essay (10-15pp. for undergraduates; 15-20pp. for graduates) and give an oral presentation on a primary source (i.e. a newspaper, a documentary collection, or a film).
Books: Cohen, BUKHARIN AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION; Fitzpatrick, STALINISM: NEW DIRECTIONS; Gorsuch, YOUTH IN REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA; Kotkin, MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN; Miller, RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: ESSENTIAL READINGS; Solzhenitsyn, ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENOSOVICH; Suny, THE SOVIET EXPERIMENT; Viola, PEASANT REBELS UNDER STALIN; ZUBKOVA, RUSSIA AFTER THE WAR.
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Prerequisite: HIS381E or 281A are recommended, but not required. This course counts as a REEP program component. For more information, please see instructor.
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HIST 572G THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE 1700
Description: Exploration and examination of the new scholarly writings of the past 25 years on the Arab and Ottoman-Turkish worlds. Scholarship is discussed around the structure of works that emphasize political, economic, social, and labor history. The emphasis will be on a critical examination of the works with regard to their sources, arguments, assumptions and conclusion.
Format: Forty percent of grade is determined by attendance, preparation and presentation of assigned readings; the writing of a term paper of 15 pages determines 60%.
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HIST 592 HISTORIOGRAPHY
Description: This seminar provides a selective survey of the intellectual terrain of historical scholarship over the last several decades. It aims to introduce students to the main trends in historiography by examining the major themes, perspectives and theories that together have formed a common source of methodology and reference points for professional historians. We shall review a number of methodological approaches that have been influential across the discipline of history (e.g., the Annales School, British Marxism, quantitative history, subaltern studies, environmental history). Since recent historical scholarship has frequently drawn upon theoretical insights from neighboring disciplines, such as anthropology and literary criticism (e.g., Geertz, Foucault, narrative theory, postcolonial studies), we shall study and critique notable attempts to incorporate these insights into the conceptualization, research and writing of history. In connection with these pursuits, we shall consider recent challenges to traditional categories and units of historical narration and analysis, particularly those concerning gender, nation and civilization.
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HIST 597 INDEPENDENT STUDY (MA)
Description: Reading course for history graduate students at the master's level.
Format: To be determined between faculty member and student.
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Prerequisite: Consent of faculty member.
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HIST 599 MASTER'S THESIS
Description: Master's thesis for MA-level students, under supervision of faculty member.
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HIST 600L RESEARCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY
Description: The research seminar leads students through the research and writing of an original work of historical scholarship. This might be a dissertation chapter or a publishable article. We will focus on research procedures, including the formulation of an answerable research question, the historiographic context of the question, the identification of sources that permit the question to be answered, and the construction of a convincing answer to the question. Since a seminar paper can be written in one semester, but probably cannot be researched and written in one semester, prior to entering the seminar students should have already prepared a research question and identified pertinent sources. Students should have discussed the research question and sources with their mentors prior to entering the seminar, and are expected to consult with their mentors throughout the seminar. Papers will be presented orally the last week of the semester at a conference open to History Department students and faculty.
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HIST 697 INDEPENDENT STUDY (PHD)
Description: Reading course for history graduate students at the PhD level.
Format: To be determined between faculty member and student.
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Prerequisite: Consent of faculty member.
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HIST 698 PRE-DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Description: Independent reading and/or research in preparation for comprehensive examinations for admission to PhD candidacy and/or preparation of dissertation prospectus.
Format: N/A
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HIST 699 DISSERTATION
Description: Research for and preparation of the dissertation.
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HIST 700 CONTINUOUS REGISTRATION
Description: Required for maintenance of matriculated status in graduate program. No credit toward graduate degree requirements.
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HIST 707 RESEARCH SKILLS
Description: Development of research skills required within graduate programs. May not be applied toward course credits for any graduate degree.
Format: N/A
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Prerequisite: Approval of relevant graduate program directors or department chairs.
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