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.
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Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 104A MODERN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
Description: Examines the development of U.S. society from 1877 to the present. Focus is political and social, with emphases on how notions of "Americanness" changed as the nation changed and how various groups, both empowered and disempowered, enlarged, restricted, or contradicted those notions.
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HIST 130A MODERN WORLD HISTORY
Description: Employs a global perspective to explore how societies and peoples in different locations in the period since 1500 have confronted (with various degrees of success) fundamental issues of the human condition: community, reproduction, security, inequality and notions of the "other." The time frame is one that historians have labeled the "rise of the West." Course moves beyond this assumption by showing the complexity of historical developments. It uncovers not only the adaptations to growing Western military and technological superiority, but also independent and distinct patterns of political, social, cultural and economic organization. Seen from this perspective, the track of history was not predetermined; it reflected the internal dynamics of interaction among cultures and autonomous developments within societies. Course illustrates this complexity by comparing developments in China, India, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. Topics include the collapse of the New World and its consequences; industrial transformations in home, workshop and factory; subjects and citizens; revolutions; nationalisms, wars and decolonization; and globalization.
Format: Lecture/discussion with slides and films. Grade determined by two hourly examinations and a comprehensive final.
Books: (Tentative): Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, et al., WORLDS TOGETHER, WORLDS APART; Rand McNally, HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD; Alfred Andrea & James Overfield, THE HUMAN RECORD. SOURCES OF GLOBAL HISTORY II SINCE 1500; Janet Abu-Lughod, THE WORLD SYSTEM IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY; Alifa Rifaat, DISTANT VIEW OF A MINARET; Iris Chang, THE RAPE OF NANKING.
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HIST 181B RUSSIAN CULTURE & CIVILIZATION
Description: Examines the political, historical and cultural developments that have together shaped Russian civilization and national identity, including Russia's interactions with other cultures from early, pre-tsarist times to the 20th century. Considers as artifacts of Russian culture folklore, literary and philosophical texts, art, architecture, music, dance, film, rituals and social conventions. No knowledge of Russian necessary. Taught in English.
Format: Lecture and discussion, multimedia presentations. Grades based on quizzes, one oral presentation or specialized project, a midterm and a final examination.
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HIST 205 HIGH MIDDLE AGES: 900-1350
Description: This course will introduce students to European history between 900 and 1350. It will provide a topical as well as chronological examination of the economic, social, political, and religious evolution of Western Europe during this period. Special emphasis will be given to reform movements in the Church, Crusades, rise of universities, 12th-century Renaissance, and growth of national states.
Format: Course grade based on midterm, final, one five to seven page essay, and class participation.
Books: Slocum, MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION; Radice, THE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE; Bertram, AELRED OF RIEVEAULX. LIFE OF ST. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR; Goldin, THE SONG OF ROLAND; Talbot, THE LIFE OF CHRISTINA OF MARKYATE: A TWELFTH-CENTURY RECLUSE; Mandelbaum, DANTE. INFERNO; other works on the internet.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 207 REFORMATION&RENAISSANCE EUROPE
Description: The course will compare Renaissance culture in Italy to its northern manifestations. We will examine problems in the Catholic Church that lead to the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the ensuing religious wars. Other cultural phenomena such as the Witch-Hunts and the Scientific Revolution also will be discussed.
Format: mid-term and final exams, books review, short essays
Books: Brian Levack, THE WITCH-HUNT IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE; Thomas More, UTOPIA; Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, WOMEN; FAMILY AND RITUAL IN RENAISSANCE ITALY; various primary source readings, others TBA.
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HIST 253 CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
Description: The American Civil War is arguably the central event in American history, a subject over which battles continue to be fought to this day. In this course we will explore the war, emancipation, and Reconstruction from a variety of perspectives -- intellectual, social, cultural, and military -- while also exploring issues of class, race, region, and gender.
Format: Students will take a midterm and a non-cumulative final exam, all essay format. They will also write three additional five-page papers. Format will be two lectures/week and a discussion section.
Books: Among the likely assigned books will be: David H. Donald, et al, THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION; William E. Gienapp, ed., THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION: A DOCUMENTARY COLLECTION; Sue Eakin, ed. TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE: SOLOMON NORTHUP; James McPherson, FOR CAUSE AND COMRADES; Michael Schaara, KILLER ANGELS; Albion Tourgee, INVISIBLE EMPIRE.
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HIST 264 IMMIGRATION & ETHNICITY IN US
Description: Surveys the influences of immigration and migration patterns in U.S. history and explores the evolution of an ever-evolving and complex "American" identity. Compares and contrasts the experiences of immigrants and African Americans in the United States from the arrival of the first permanent English settlers to contemporary discussions surrounding the meanings of ethnicity and multiculturalism in the United States. Draws heavily on first-person narratives -- letters, diaries and reminiscences -- to examine this history from the perspective of ordinary Americans. Readings explore the experiences and interactions of Europeans, Africans, Asians and Latin Americans in the United States over almost four centuries. For majors and non-majors.
Format: Grades determined as follows: two papers (each 20%), a midterm examination (20%), a final examination (30%) and section participation (10%). There is an optional Languages Across the Curriculum component.
Books: Dublin, BECOMING AMERICAN, BECOMING ETHNIC; Takaki, A DIFFERENT MIRROR; Dublin, IMMIGRANT VOICES; Gates Jr., THE CLASSIC SLAVE NARRATIVES; Kitano and Daniels, ASIAN AMERICANS: EMERGING MINORITIES (3rd ed.); Sparks, TWO PRINCES OF CALABAR.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 266 U.S. WOMEN SINCE 1874
Description: This course is a survey of American Women's history from pre-settlement to present. While the course is not a history of feminism, students will use a feminist analysis to examine women's roles and their impact on American history. Topics will include sexual exploitation; reproduction; "natural" gender roles; the sexual division of labor; class and race conflict; women's work; sexual orientation; and women in the media. Readings will focus on the diversity of women's experiences and address the complexity of assuming a "shared" female experience in light of diverse race, class, and religious differences, and sexual preference.
Format: Students will research and participate in a classroom debate, write a two page film review and take a non-cumulative final exam.
Books: Jane Sherron De Hart and Linda Kerber, eds., WOMEN'S AMERICA: REFOCUSING THE PAST; Paula Giddings, WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER; Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, AMERICA'S WORKING WOMEN; Mary Crow Dog, LAKOTA WOMAN.
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HIST 273 CHINESE CIVILIZATION
Description: A survey of Chinese history from its neolithic agricultural origins ca. 7,000 BCE to the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644. The course will consider state formation and the nature of the long-lived Chinese imperium, economic developments and the tantalizing though unfulfilled promises of a Chinese industrial revolution, the history of Chinese thought and religion, and the varied aspects of Chinese society and culture through the ages. The course will stress translated readings from primary sources (both documentary and literary) to help get as direct and immediate a sense of the Chinese past as possible.
Format: The class will meet twice a week for informal lectures. Discussion will be encouraged and slides used frequently. This class is a writing (W) course; the requirements consist of: a mid-term exam (20%), final exam (40%), and a term paper of at least ten pages (40%). No prerequisites.
Books: Valerie Hansen, THE OPEN EMPIRE: A HISTORY OF CHINA TO 1600; Philip Ivanhoe, READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE PHILOSOPHY; Sarah Schneewind, A TALE OF TWO MELONS: EMPEROR AND SUBJECT IN MING CHINA; Arthur Wright, BUDDHISM IN CHINESE HISTORY.
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HIST 280A BLACK NATIONALISM
Description: This course traces the evolution of black nationalism from the era of the United States revolution to the 1960s. Though a persistent theme in the African-American experience, black nationalism has tended to become especially influential at certain historical junctures, most notably the 1850s, the 1920s and the 1960s. The course is centered on these junctions, which are called black nationalist moments. The course is organized around the core issues of race, nationality, class, gender and sexual orientation. This course fulfills the Harpur College writing requirement.
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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 284B MODERN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Description: This course investigates the social, economic, and political history of South Asia, focusing on the Mughal Empire, British colonial rule in India, and the contemporary nation-states of India and Pakistan. Topics include: the composite Mughal polity; European trade and expansion; extension of British colonial rule; deindustrialization; the dynamics of caste, class, religion, race, and gender; the nationalist movement; Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah; emergence of new nation-states; and globalization and liberalization. Course materials include introductory history texts, short stories, and films. For majors and non-majors; no prerequisites.
Format: Lecture and discussion. Grading: Attendance/ Class Participation 15%, Homework and Quizzes 20%, Short Paper 20%, Midterm Exam 20%, Final Exam 25%.
Books: Bose and Jalal, MODERN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY; Metcalf and Metcalf, A CONCISE HISTORY OF INDIA; Collingham, CURRY; Kumar, A HISTORY OF DOING; Butalia, THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE; Roy, POWER POLITICS.
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HIST 300 ANCIENT LAW & SOCIETY
Description: A series of explorations of the political and social origins, character, roles and operation of law in the cultures of Egypt, the ancient Near East, ancient Israel, Greece and Rome. To be considered: conceptions of law; sources of authority and law; constitutions; legal collections and codes; law as a mirror and shaper of social norms and values; status of women, children, slaves and foreigners; lawgivers, lawyers and litigants; the law of foreign relations; ideal legal systems and methodology.
Format: This is a lecture course with ample time for questions and discussion. There will be three examinations: 1. A one-hour, in-class exam on law in Egypt, the Near East and Israel (25%); 2. A one-hour, in-class exam on Greek law (25%); 3. A final examination at a time and place set by the Registrar on Roman law (50%). For majors and non-majors.
Books: VerSteeg, LAW IN ANCIENT EGYPT; Roth, LAW COLLECTIONS FROM MESOPOTAMIA AND ASIA MINOR; MacDowell, THE LAW IN CLASSICAL ATHENS; Borkowski & DuPlessis, TEXTBOOK ON ROMAN LAW; Robinson, THE CRIMINAL LAW OF ANCIENT ROME.
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HIST 362 THE U.S. IN THE 1960S
Description: Discusses a number of parallel and/or exclusive processes in American history during the 1960s, including the rise of a liberal, social welfare state, the weakening of that state because of Vietnam, civil rights struggles, the counterculture and the ongoing Cold War. Through a variety of media, including photographs, film, literature and music, explores both the political and social dimensions of this turbulent decade. For majors and non-majors.
Format: Grading emphasizes participation and attendance in discussion sections, the writing of several shorter papers and a midterm and final examination. There is a mandatory film night (Wednesdays) approximately every other week.
Books: (selected list--other readings may be assigned) Bailey, SEX IN THE HEARTLAND; Caputo, A RUMOR OF WAR; Freeman, AT BERKELEY IN THE 60S; Isserman and Kazin, AMERICA DIVIDED; Rosen, THE WORLD SPLIT OPEN; Sitkoff, THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACK EQUALITY
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HIST 372 20TH CENTURY JAPAN
Description: This course is a general introduction to Japan's 20th century history from the late 1890s up to the present-day. It traces Japan's transformation into a powerful nation-state capable of challenging the Western powers, and its experiences of war, cold war, and post-cold war development. Particular attention is given to nationalism, economic development, parliamentary politics, war and the changing meaning of defeat. . Also addressed are the postwar reforms, the workings of the political economy, and current Japanese efforts to deal with China, the two Koreas, and the world. The course fulfills Harpur College's writing requirement.
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Books: Required texts include: Andrew Gordon, JAPAN FROM TOKUGAWA TIMES TO THE PRESENT; Herbert Bix, HIROHITO AND THE MAKING OF MODERN JAPAN; Koseki Shoichi, The Birth of Japan's Postwar Constitution.
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HIST 377 WEST AFRICAN HISTORY: 16TH-20TH CENTURIES
Description: Part I focuses on historical survey of West African social-political organization; trade; religion; kingdoms/states; interstate and interregional relations; relations with Europe and the Americas. Part II focuses on Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal: servility/slavery; ethnic relations; education; women's roles and activities; colonial impact and independence; international relations.
Format: Lecture-seminar. Film, weekly discussions. Section 01 (undergraduates): one 10- to 15-minute class presentation; take-home midterm; cumulative take-home final. Section 02 (undergraduates): one 10- to 15-minute class presentation; take-home midterm; cumulative take-home final; 10-page research paper. Graduates: two 10- to 15-minute presentations; 20- to 25-page research papers
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Prerequisite: At least junior standing; preferably at least one course in anthropology, history or sociology; or consent of instructor (see HIST 377).
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HIST 380B CRITICAL RACE THEORY
Description: This course discusses the history and evolution of the critical race theory movement and outlines the defining issues of the field, in particular the relationship between race, power, and the law. Key issues addressed include, but are not limited to, anti-miscegenation laws, disenfranchisement laws, sovereignty laws, the criminal justice system, and the War on Drugs.
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HIST 381E RUSSIA IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Description: This course surveys the history of 20th century Russia, placing particular emphasis on the political, social, and economic development of the Soviet system. The lectures, readings, and discussions are designed to sharpen students' understanding not only of Russian History, but also of the structures (ideological, theoretical, political and cultural) that shape our interpretation of the Russian past, particularly the Stalin period. This course satisfies a writing ("W") requirement.
Format: There will be two lecture classes each week. All students will be assessed on the basis of participation, their midterm and final, as well as a 10-page paper.
Books: Suny, THE SOVIET EXPERIMENT; Bulgakov, HEART OF A DOG; Cohen, FAILED CRUSADE; Carr, WHAT IS HISTORY?
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Corequisite: This course satisfies a writing ("W") requirement and as well as a course requirement for students in the Russian and East European Program (REEP).
HIST 381N 20TH CENTURY FRANCE
Description: Explores the political, social, and cultural life of France in the twentieth century. Important themes include: French participation in the two World Wars; how traditional understandings of French national identity have been challenged by decolonization, immigration, and Americanization; the neo-fascist response to diversity; the place of Islam in the Republic; Gaullism; May 1968 and its aftermath; Franco-American relations in the contemporary world. Satisfies a Harpur College Writing ("W") requirement.
Format: Lecture and discussion.
Books: Barbusse, UNDER FIRE; Burns, FRANCE AND THE DREYFUS AFFAIR; Carles, A LIFE OF HER OWN; Fanon, A DYING COLONIALISM; Gaspard, A SMALL CITY IN FRANCE; Gučne, KIFFE KIFFE TOMORROW; Kaplan, THE COLLABORATOR; Popkin, HISTORY OF MODERN FRANCE; Ross, FAST CARS, CLEAN BODIES.
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HIST 381Q MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN AL-ANDULUS
Description: Andalusian society was formed by different elements: Muslims, Christians, and Jews of different ethnicities who developed a civilization different from what existed in the Arab Islamic east. From the eighth century until about 1300, Muslim Spain was the most civilized and materially advanced area of Western Europe. Ethnic and religious minorities enjoyed a high degree of tolerance and formed prosperous communities in magnificent cities. When the world spoke Arabic, Cordoba was the most splendid city, with culture and prosperity unequaled elsewhere in Europe. Moorish culture in Spain reached its zenith under the auspices of Arab-Islamic rule, guaranteeing diversity with a stable political situation. These and other circumstances engendered the efflorescence of erudition, high culture and refined living in Andalusia. Course examines culture and civilization of Islamic Spain and contribution of each group to its greatness. Readings are in English.
Format: Two one-hour-and-25-minute class meetings. Reading quizzes. Regular attendance and oral presentations. Grading based on in-class performance and participation, quizzes, responses to readings, two short papers and one longer final paper, or a midterm and final written test. The papers required of those taking the course for a Harpur College writing ("W") requirement will be slightly longer.
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HIST 382B RACE IN LATIN AMERICA
Description: This course historicizes race by tracing its origins in colonialism and the Enlightenment. We ask whether colonial racial dynamics persisted or changed in modern Latin America. Topics include slavery and emancipation, eugenics, sexuality, racial democracy, and social movements. Comparisons to the U.S. are emphasized.
Format: Lecture mixed with discussion. Several short papers.
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HIST 386E SLAVERY, NATURE & EMPIRE
Description: The combination of slave labor, the production of tropical and sub-tropical staple crops, and the plantation were central to the making of the Atlantic world between the 15th and the 19th centuries. Nonetheless, the relation between them can by no means be taken for granted. Particular crops only grow in certain regions or under certain environmental conditions. At the most elemental level, the relation of the value of the labor input to the value of the product determined the suitability of slave labor in a given territory. At the same time, the first slave crops created new needs and drew consuming populations into new market relations. Specific combinations of material processes and social relations of slave production created distinctive complexes of export agriculture in particular environmental zones. These zones and the wealth created in them were the objects of intense imperial rivalry especially between Portugal, Holland, Britain and France. This course examines the interrelation natural environments, the social organization slave plantation production, and the politics of empire as integral parts of the Atlantic plantation complex.
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HIST 386F THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE U.S.
Description: This course examines the interactions between the peoples, governments and economies of the Middle East and the United States from the 18th century down to the present day. Its basic goal is to explore modern Middle Eastern history and how U.S. policies and actions have influenced and are still affecting the course of that history. It begins by examining the late Ottoman Empire and the arrival of American missionaries and merchants, their motives and goals and local impact. It then turns to a series of key events in the Middle East and the role played by the United States in their unfolding and outcome. These include the Armenian Massacres of the 1890s and 1915; the Great Power Partition of the Mid East after World War I; the emergence and end of the Cold War; the 1948 formation of Israel; the early 1950s Mossadeq crisis in Iran; the 1952 Egyptian Revolution; the Lebanese and Iraqi crises in 1958; the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970s; the Gulf War of the early 1990s and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Format: Course requirements include regular attendance and participation as well as two hourly, in-class exams and one final examination.
Books: Readings include: Zachary Lockman, CONTENDING VISIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST: THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF ORIENTALISM; Donald Quataert, THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1700-1922, second edition; James L. Gelvin, THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST: A HISTORY; David W. Lesch, ed., THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE UNITED STATES: A HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL REASSESSMENT, 3rd edition; Thomas E. Ricks, FIASCO: THE AMERICAN MILITARY ADVENTURE IN IRAQ.
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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 430 WAR CRIMES TRIALS & JUSTICE
Description: To help students understand the growth of the international community under law, this course examines issues of political justice and accountability as presented in the war crimes trials of the 20th century. After closely scrutinizing the legal consequences of the Nuremberg and Tokyo international war crimes trials held at the end of World War II, we chart key moments in the development of international law down to the present. The focus is on war crimes during World War II, the Vietnam War, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the occupations that followed. We will compare and contrast the conduct of war on different sides, address issues of "individual responsibility" versus "collective responsibility," war crimes trials as media events, and the rhetoric and structure of "collateral damage."
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Books: Required texts include: Philippe Sands, LAWLESS WORLD: AMERICA AND THE MAKING AND BREAKING OF GLOBAL RULES; Nisuke Ando, ed. JAPAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE - Read "Modern Japan, War and International Law," pp. 7-26; and "The Impact of Nuremberg and Tokyo," pp. 59-84; Malcolm N. Shaw, INTERNATIONAL LAW, Fifth Edition; Michael Mandel, HOW AMERICA GETS AWAY WITH MURDER: ILLEGAL WARS, COLLATERAL DAMAGE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (Pluto Press, 2004).
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HIST 454 TAMING THE CALL OF THE WILD
Description: Senior seminar explores the "naturalization" of socially constructed hierarchies marked by race, gender, class, 1900-2007. In this process are human beings the product of such constructions or, in spite of our differences, do we find something called a common human nature, recognizing each other as human beings? What shapes the marking of humans and other species as primitive, civilized, vanishing, contagious, predators or pets? Evidence of changes involving environmental, cultural and political struggles in texts include the period's essays, fictions, films, monographs: Darwin, Call of the Wild, Tarzan, Bambi,Lassie, Passing, Aldo Leopold, Langston Hughes, Lone Ranger and Tonto.
Format: Students must participate in weekly discussions based on readings,also write/present two brief position papers, and a substantial final paper.
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HIST 472 CHINESE WOMEN & THE FAMILY
Description: The history of the Chinese family and of women from early imperial times through the late imperial period with its male-dominated, family-centered ethic, but also with its active literate female population, to the present post-socialist society of the People's Republic. Special attention will be given to changes in conceptions of gender and sexuality, and in the status, roles, and power of women, and also to the history of the women's movement in the 20th century, and to the debates over women's liberation, socialism, and capitalism Readings will draw upon biographies and fiction as well as historical and sociological studies.
Format: The seminar will be organized around discussions of readings, although occasional use will also be made of lectures, slides and videos. Grades will be based upon a 5-page book critique, a bibliography of your research project, and your research paper of 15-25 pages. Graduate students will have largely the same requirements, except that a review essay on a number of books will be required in lieu of the book critique, and will be presented in special meetings for the graduate students. Restricted to Juniors and Seniors and appropriate for History and AAASP majors and minors and Women's Studies students.
Books: Francesca Bray, TECHNOLOGY AND GENDER: FABRICS OF POWER IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA; Patricia Ebrey, THE INNER QUARTERS: MARRIAGE AND LIVES OF CHINESE WOMEN IN THE SUNG PERIOD; Bret Hinsch, WOMEN IN EARLY IMPERIAL CHINA; Emily Honig, SISTERS AND STRANGERS: WOMEN IN THE SHANGHAI COTTON MILLS, 1919-1949; Kay Ann Johnson, WOMEN, THE FAMILY, AND PEASANT REVOLUTION IN CHINA; Susan Mann, PRECIOUS RECORDS: WOMEN IN CHINA'S LONG 18TH CENTURY; Pa Chin, FAMILY; Ida Pruitt, A DAUGHTER OF HAN: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHINESE WORKING WOMAN; Lijun Yuan, RECONCEIVING WOMEN'S EQUALITY IN CHINA; Jianying Zha, CHINA POP: HOW SOAP OPERAS, TABLOIDS, AND BESTSELLERS ARE TRANSFORMING A CULTURE.
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HIST 480A REVOLUTIONARY AMER, 1763-1803
Description: This seminar will examine moments in the political, social, economic and intellectual history of the United States from the war for Independence to the Louisiana Purchase. The primary theme will be the meaning of revolution as we consider the possibilities and limits of transformation in this founding era of the United States. Readings will include seminal texts as well as new literature dealing with issues such as the origins of the American revolution, the problems of Union, nationhood and democracy in the making of the U.S. Constitution, race and gender politics in the founding, the rise of the first party systems, and the place of America within the revolutionary Atlantic world.
Format: Substantial research paper, shorter book reviews, presentation.
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HIST 480H RACE AND SEX IN AMERICA
Description: The purpose of this course is two-fold. The first is to acquaint history majors with the skills required of "doing history," especially in the areas of writing, thinking critically, and research. Students will learn the differences between primary and secondary sources and how to evaluate and interpret them; how to write various kinds of papers; how to identify a thesis, and make an argument. The second is to focus on the interplay of race and sex in American history and the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality converge. Formally, many factors worked to keep the races in America from crossing sexual boundaries. In reality, those boundaries were quite permeable and constantly traversed and challenged. Receiving considerable attention will be how slavery and race shaped ideas and mores about sex. We will examine, among other things, sexual exploitation of female slaves and free women of color; ideas about black sexual ardor; taboos about interracial relationships and those who broke those taboos; the use of the law to enforce anti-miscegenation; competing notions of sex and sexuality; sexual violence; and lynching.
Format: Students are expected to vigorously participate in weekly discussions and will prepare a 15-page research paper based on primary sources on a topic that relates to race and sex.
Books: Among the books I anticipate assigning are: Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie, eds., THE DEVIL'S LANE: SEX AND RACE IN THE EARLY SOUTH; Stephen J. Whitfield, A DEATH IN THE DELTA: THE STORY OF EMMETT TILL; Martha Hodes, ed., SEX, LOVE, RACE: CROSSING BOUNDARIES IN NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY; Harper Lee, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD; Ramon Gutierrez, WHEN JESUS CAME, THE CORN MOTHERS WENT AWAY; Annette Gordon-Reed, THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS: AM AMERICAN CONTROVERSY; Diane Miller Sommerville, RAPE AND RACE IN THE 19TH-CENTURY SOUTH.
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HIST 480V AFRICAN AMER HISTORY FROM 1876
Description: This course surveys the history and experiences of African-Americans from the period of emancipation to the present. Special attention will be paid to the multifaceted ways African-Americans challenged white domination in social, political, economic and cultural life. Key issues addressed will include black cultural politics, black political and intellectual traditions, migration and urbanization, feminisms and queer politics.
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HIST 481B MEDIEVAL HISTORIANS
Description: Examinations of the subject matter, sources, models, methods, and sense of history in a representative sampling of medieval historians, all but two in the Western European tradition. The comparative element is exemplified by one Byzantine and one Muslim historian. During the semester, the works of some other medieval writers of history will be introduced.
Format: Apart from occasional mini-lectures, the seminar will focus on discussion of the assigned texts. Preparation, attendance, and participation are essential. All students will produce a 20-25 page research paper making use of both primary sources and modern scholarship. Evaluation will be based on class participation and the term paper.
Books: Bede, ECCLESIATICAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH AND PEOPLE; Gregory of Tours, HISTORY OF THE FRANKS; Geoffrey of Monmouth, THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN; Hugh of Poitiers, THE VEZELAY CHRONICLE; Jean Froissart, CHRONICLES; Joinville/Villehardouin, CHRONICLES OF THE CRUSADES; THE ALEXIAD OF ANNA COMNENA; Ibn Khaldun, THE MUQADDIMAH.
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HIST 481E IMPERIAL RUSSIA SEMINAR
Description: This seminar class explores key issues in Imperial Russian History: the impact of the Petrine Reforms, the nature of Catherine II's rule, the influence of the intelligentsia, the concept of the "well-ordered police state," the peasant and emancipation, the place of women in Russia, as well as the relationship between the Great Reforms and the upheavals that led to the 1917 Revolution. The course fulfils a "C" requirement.
Format: Students are required to attend a weekly seminar discussion. Undergraduate students must prepare a historiographical essay, and graduate students must submit a historiographical essay as well as two book reviews.
Books: Cracraft, THE REVOLUTION OF PETER THE GREAT; Marrese, A WOMAN'S KINGDOM; Khodarkovsky, RUSSIA'S STEPPE FRONTIER; Chulos, CONVERGING WORLDS; Engel, MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS; Nathans, BEYOND THE PALE; Geraci, WINDOW ON THE EAST; Wortman, SCENARIOS OF POWER; Fuller, THE FOE WITHIN.
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Prerequisite: A lecture course in Imperial Russia or permission of the instructor.
Corequisite: This course fulfils a Russian and East European Program (REEP) requirement.
HIST 485A THE MIDDLE EAST: 1700-PRESENT
Description: This course will examine a number of readings to explore major themes in Middle East history during the period c. 1700 to the present. These themes include the nature of the state, economic and social structures, labor history, inter-communal relations and the role of the Great Powers in the region. Emphasis will be on the pre World War I period but some attention will be given to subsequent events.
Format: For part of the semester, the class will meet to discuss a common set of readings. Each student, in consultation with the instructor, will choose a research topic based on the common and other readings. Then, in the later part of the term, the students will present their research findings to the class for discussion and criticism.
Books: Readings include: Donald Quataert, THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1700-1922,second edition (Cambridge, 2005); Zachary Lockman, CONTENDING VISIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST. THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF ORIENTALISM (Cambridge, 2004); Beshara Doumani, REDISCOVERING PALESTINE. MERCHANTS AND PEASANTS IN JABAL NABLUS, 1700-1900 (Berkeley, 1995); Ussama Makdisi, THE CULTURE OF SECTARIANISM. COMMUNITY, HISTORY AND VIOLENCE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY OTTOMAN LEBANON (Berkeley, 2000); Sandy Tolan, THE LEMON TREE (New York, 2006); Bruce Clark, TWICE A STRANGER: THE MASS EXPULSIONS THAT FORMED MODERN GREECE AND TURKEY.
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HIST 486B LATIN AMERICA & THE U.S.
Description: This seminar has two components: historiography and research. After completing intensive reading on Latin America-U.S. relations, the course goes step-by-step through researching, drafting, discussing, and revising research papers. The sub-regional focus of the seminar may change from year to year (e.g. Central America). Prerequisite: a course in either U.S. history after 1877 or Latin American Studies.
Format: Discussion-based weekly seminar with a research paper, shorter writing assignments, and a peer-review process.
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HIST 486L COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF DISEASE
Description: This discussion seminar will adopt a global and comparative perspective to probe changing meanings of disease and analyze the role of disease in shaping human history. What is disease? How have disease understandings and interventions been entangled in social, racial, political, and economic structures? We will read classic and contemporary works in the history of disease to explore such questions. Requirements include leading a discussion session and completing a substantial historiographical essay.
Format: Discussion Seminar. Grading: Attendance/Class Participation 20%; Reading Outlines 15%; Reaction Paper 15%; Oral Presentations 10%; Thesis Paragraph, Draft, & Final Paper 40%.
Books: Rosenberg and Golden, FRAMING DISEASE; Rosenberg, CHOLERA YEARS; Reverby, TUSKEGEE'S TRUTHS; Tomes, GOSPEL OF GERMS; Levine, PROSTITUTION, RACE, AND POLITICS; Mittman, Murphy, and Sellers, LANDSCAPES OF EXPOSURE; Arnold, COLONIZING THE BODY; Vaughan, CURING THEIR ILLS; Shah, CONTAGIOUS DIVIDES; Farmer, PATHOLOGIES OF POWER.
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HIST 486M THE U.S. & CHINA
Description: In this course, we'll study how the relationship between the United States and China has evolved since American independence. We will examine the American presence during the early treaty port years; initial Chinese immigration to the United States, through to the exclusion period; the mid and late 19th century, when American naval power grew, and the presence and influence of the United States increased in Asia; the Chinese American experience during the Exclusion Era; US and China diplomatic relations from the treaty port years through the Chinese Civil War; the American involvement in the Chinese Civil War and support for the Nationalist government; the relationship during the period of official nonrecognition, from 1949 to President Richard Nixon's historic 1972 visit, to official recognition of the People's Republic by President Carter; the relationship between the US governement and Taiwan; and economic and political developments since the death of Mao and the liberalization of the Chinese economy.
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HIST 486R WOMEN & CHILDREN 20TH C WARS
Description: The goal of the course is to explore the traumas visited on children and women by physical dislocation due to exile, mass persecutions and punishments associated with civil wars, revolutions and wars between nation-states, during the twentieth century. The course will include the work of the truth and reconciliation conu-nissions for South Africa. Readings will draw on historical and social scientific literature (anthropology, sociology, psychology, psychiatry and law). The emphasis in the readings and discussions will be on a comparative, global perspective.
Format: Written outline of weekly readings, which will serve as the basis for oral presentation in class for discussion. With class attendance and participation this constitutes 40% of grade. Papers of about twenty pages on topics developed in consultation with instructor will constitute the remaining 60% of the grade.
Books: All reading materials will be on reserve.
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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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HIST 501C WAR CRIMES TRIALS & JUSTICE
Description: To help students understand the growth of the international community under law, this course examines issues of political justice and accountability as presented in the war crimes trials of the 20th century. After closely scrutinizing the legal consequences of the Nuremberg and Tokyo international war crimes trials held at the end of World War II, we chart key moments in the development of international law down to the present. The focus is on war crimes during World War II, the Vietnam War, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the occupations that followed. We will compare and contrast the conduct of war on different sides, address issues of "individual responsibility" versus "collective responsibility," war crimes trials as media events, and the rhetoric and structure of "collateral damage."
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Books: Required texts include: Philippe Sands, LAWLESS WORLD: AMERICA AND THE MAKING AND BREAKING OF GLOBAL RULES; Nisuke Ando, ed. JAPAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE - Read "Modern Japan, War and International Law," pp. 7-26; and "The Impact of Nuremberg and Tokyo," pp. 59-84; Malcolm N. Shaw, INTERNATIONAL LAW, Fifth Edition; Michael Mandel, HOW AMERICA GETS AWAY WITH MURDER: ILLEGAL WARS, COLLATERAL DAMAGE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (Pluto Press, 2004).
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HIST 501E COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF DISEASE
Description: This discussion seminar will adopt a global and comparative perspective to probe changing meanings of disease and analyze the role of disease in shaping human history. What is disease? How have disease understandings and interventions been entangled in social, racial, political, and economic structures? We will read classic and contemporary works in the history of disease to explore such questions. Requirements include leading a discussion session and completing a substantial historiographical essay.
Format: Discussion Seminar. Grading: Attendance/Class Participation 20%; Reading Outlines 15%; Reaction Paper 15%; Oral Presentations 10%; Thesis Paragraph, Draft, & Final Paper 40%.
Books: Rosenberg and Golden, FRAMING DISEASE; Rosenberg, CHOLERA YEARS; Reverby, TUSKEGEE'S TRUTHS; Tomes, GOSPEL OF GERMS; Levine, PROSTITUTION, RACE, AND POLITICS; Mittman, Murphy, and Sellers, LANDSCAPES OF EXPOSURE; Arnold, COLONIZING THE BODY; Vaughan, CURING THEIR ILLS; Shah, CONTAGIOUS DIVIDES; Farmer, PATHOLOGIES OF POWER.
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HIST 521B TOPICS IN EARLY AMER HISTORY
Description: This graduate seminar will investigate selected topics in early American history, considered broadly. Reading both seminal and new monographs in one of the most innovative and foundational literatures in American historiography, this seminar is intended to provide an introduction to the field to aid in teaching, exam preparation, and/or research. Topics to be considered include the expansion of Europe and the origins of colonialism; the adaptation and transformation of Native American cultures; the origins of slavery; the relationship between war and empire; the development of colonial economies; immigration and migration in an Atlantic context; the comparative social structure of early modern North America; the place of the environment in shaping society; the relationship between society, politics and the political order; and the problem of religious and ethnic pluralism in early America.
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HIST 530B ISSUES IN U.S. HISTORY 1877-PRESENT
Description: One of two central content courses for students earning a graduate certificate in the teaching of U.S. history. Exposure to selected interpretive issues in U.S. history after 1877 within a framework that permits students to focus on ways to introduce these issues into the secondary school classroom. Examination of alternative interpretations of events and processes in U.S. history, working with primary sources that underpin those interpretations.
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HIST 531D CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION
Description: This graduate seminar examines historical scholarship on the origins, nature, and consequences of the American Civil War. We begin with the historiography on the causes of the deepening sectional crisis that resulted in Southern secession. We then turn to an examination of the war itself, exploring motivations for fighting, the role of the homefront, emancipation as a Northern war aim, Abraham Lincoln's leadership, the reasons for Confederate defeat/Union victory, and the short-and long-term impact of the war on northern and southern society. We conclude with an examination of the contentious historiography on Reconstruction and the war's legacy in modern America.
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Books: Among the books we'll likely read are: James McPherson, BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM; Eric Foner, RECONSTRUCTION; David Blight, RACE AND REUNION; Eric Foner, FREE SOIL, FREE LABOR, FREE MEN; LeeAnn Whites, The CIVIL WAR AS A CRISIS IN GENDER; Joshua Wolf, LINCOLN'S MELANCHOLY.
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HIST 532B U.S. CULTURAL & INTELLEC. HIST
Description: Graduate seminar recasts romanticism, pragmatism, and realism as intellectual/cultural movements self consciously constructing national identity and recovers resistant/alternative traditions often deploying dominant rhetoric. Selected topics range through both ante bellum and latter nineteenth century intellectual/cultural history: transcendentalism, white and black abolitionists, woman's rights, evangelical and liberal debates on public education, Indian rights, and the Mexican War and Civil War. Post war struggles over capitalism, communitarians and national identity take new forms in pragmatism, positivism, and social evolution, social Darwinism. Some of our readings are published primary sources from "classics", some newly canonical; nineteenth century fictions, current monographs, critical studies. Registration preference is given to PhD. and M.A. students in American history or literature. Seminar members participate in weekly discussions based on required readings and complete a historiographical or research final paper.
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Books: Texts include: Emerson, SELECTED ESSAYS; Thoreau, SELECTED ESSAYS; D.B.Davis, FROM HOMICIDE TO SLAVERY; Stowe, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; Wilson, OUR NIG; Marshall, THE PEABODY SISTERS; Streeby, AMERICAN SENSATIONS; Masur, ed. THE REAL WAR WILL NEVER GET IN THE BOOKS; Dixon, THE CLANSMAN; Brodhead, CULTURES OF LETTERS; James, PRAGMATISM; Cotkin, RELUCTANT MODERNISM; Gilman, HERLAND; T.J. Lears, NO PLACE OF GRACE.
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HIST 533F AMERICAN WORKERS IN 20TH C.
Description: This course will examine the experience of workers in the 20th century from a variety of perspectives. It will include now "classic" works in labor history as well as a number of more contemporary works that have moved labor history in different directions that intersect with other social movements and political activism.
Format: Attendance and discussion in weekly meetings will comprise a significant proportion of grades. Written work will include several book reviews and several longer historiographic papers.
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HIST 536B AFRICAN AMER HISTORY FROM 1876
Description: This course surveys the history and experiences of African-Americans from the period of emancipation to the present. Special attention will be paid to the multifaceted ways African-Americans challenged white domination in social, political, economic and cultural life. Key issues addressed will include black cultural politics, black political and intellectual traditions, migration and urbanization, feminisms and queer politics.
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HIST 551B MEDIEVAL HISTORIANS
Description: Examinations of the subject matter, sources, models, methods, and sense of history in a representative sampling of medieval historians, all but two in the Western European tradition. The comparative element is exemplified by one Byzantine and one Muslim historian. During the semester, the works of some other medieval writers of history will be introduced.
Format: Apart from occasional mini-lectures, the seminar will focus on discussion of the assigned texts. Preparation, attendance, and participation are essential. All students will produce a 20-25 page research paper making use of both primary sources and modern scholarship. Evaluation will be based on class participation and the term paper.
Books: Bede, ECCLESIATICAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH AND PEOPLE; Gregory of Tours, HISTORY OF THE FRANKS; Geoffrey of Monmouth, THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN; Hugh of Poitiers, THE VEZELAY CHRONICLE; Jean Froissart, CHRONICLES; Joinville/Villehardouin, CHRONICLES OF THE CRUSADES; THE ALEXIAD OF ANNA COMNENA; Ibn Khaldun, THE MUQADDIMAH.
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HIST 560D CENTRAL EUROPE: 1517-2003
Description: The course is as much about methodological approaches and historical interpretations in writing history as about substantive themes, although the illustrations are drawn from the geographic area of "Central Europe" over a long time frame (from the Holy Roman Empire to Napoleonic Europe to the Germanic Confederation, Imperial Germany and beyond unification in l989). That is, you will be anchored in the shifting geography of so-called German history but we will explore precisely how this history has been constructed, through what conceptual tools, and to what ends. The course moves from appreciation of how German historians use long-term structures and trajectories of modernity on the one hand and the specificities of constructing the historical moment (historicity), on the other. It also addresses the issue of transitions and the apparatus that makes such concepts operative: notions of early modern, modern, "saddle time," for example. It examines these big methodological problems through a consistent problematic: the intersection of popular culture and governance or shifting understandings of state legitimacies and popular resistance. This offers some coherency to an inquiry that extends over considerable lengths of time. We also will explore this history through innovative approaches that include and go beyond the national framework (transnational and comparative methodologies) and examine the contributions of gender analysis to this inquiry. After all, Central Europe came late to nation-state building and its history raises many critical questions about the national paradigms of doing history.
Format: The course is run in seminar style with discussion of a set of shared readings each week; short synopses of the reading are due weekly (no more than 1 ˝ pages); and a final written paper on an agreed on topic is also required.
Books: Readings include, R. Po-Chia Hsia, ed., THE GERMAN PEOPLE AND THE REFORMATION (selections); Peter Blickle, OBEDIENT GERMANS? A REBUTTAL; Ulinka Rublack, GENDER IN EARLY MODERN GERMAN HISTORY; Jonathan Sheehan, THE ENLIGHTENMENT BIBLE; Jean H. Quataert: STAGING PHILANTHROPY: PATRIOTIC WOMEN AND THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATION IN DYNASTIC GERMANY, 1813-1916; Margaret Anderson, PRACTICING DEMOCRACY: ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN IMPERIAL GERMANY; Detlev Peukert, THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC: THE CRISIS OF CLASSICAL MODERNITY; Uta Poiger, JAZZ, ROCK AND REBELS: COLD WAR POLITICS AND AMERICAN CULTURE IN A DIVIDED GERMANY; Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer, SHATTERED PASTS: RECONSTRUCTING GERMAN HISTORIES. There also will be articles on reserve through blackboard.
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HIST 560H GENDER & SEXUALITY IN EUROPE
Description: This course explores the cultural construction of gender and sexuality in Europe from the French Revolution to the present. It analyzes how notions of masculinity and femininity, sexual acts and identities, and the orientation of desire are historically contingent. Themes include: the construction of deviant and normative sexuality, the "invention" of homosexuality, sexual violence and "rape warfare," colonial desire and other "transgressions," social hygiene and the policing of sexuality, prostitution and sex trafficking, and the limits of universalist social theories.
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Books: Anonymous, A WOMAN IN BERLIN; Dreger, HERMAPHRODITES AND THE MEDICAL INVENTION OF SEX; Engelstein, THE KEYS TO HAPPINESS; Foucault, HISTORY OF SEXUALTY; Foucault, HERCULINE BARBIN; Lacquer, MAKING SEX; McLaren, TRIALS OF MASCULINITY; Scott, ONLY PARADOXES TO OFFER; Scott, PARITE: SEXUAL EQUALITY AND THE CRISIS OF FRENCH UNIVERSALISM; Stoler, CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND IMPERIAL POWER; Walkowitz, CITY OF DREADFUL DELIGHT.
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HIST 560J IMPERIAL RUSSIA SEMINAR
Description: This seminar class explores key issues in Imperial Russian History: the impact of the Petrine Reforms, the nature of Catherine II's rule, the influence of the intelligentsia, the concept of the "well-ordered police state," the peasant and emancipation, the place of women in Russia, as well as the relationship between the Great Reforms and the upheavals that led to the 1917 Revolution. The course fulfils a "C" requirement.
Format: Students are required to attend a weekly seminar discussion. Undergraduate students must prepare a historiographical essay, and graduate students must submit a historiographical essay as well as two book reviews.
Books: Cracraft, THE REVOLUTION OF PETER THE GREAT; Marrese, A WOMAN'S KINGDOM; Khodarkovsky, RUSSIA'S STEPPE FRONTIER; Chulos, CONVERGING WORLDS; Engel, MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS; Nathans, BEYOND THE PALE; Geraci, WINDOW ON THE EAST; Wortman, SCENARIOS OF POWER; Fuller, THE FOE WITHIN.
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Prerequisite: A lecture course in Imperial Russia or permission of the instructor.
Corequisite: This course fulfils a Russian and East European Program (REEP) requirement.
HIST 572A OTTOMAN & ARAB PRIMARY SOURCES
Description: The course aims at acquainting graduate students in the reading, translation, and analyses of a variety of Ottoman Turkish and Arab primary sources (archival and literary) written in the 16th to 20th centuries. The course aims at the assessment of the historical value of these sources, and proposes approaches to their various uses through the construction of the contexts for their production and reproduction in terms of time, place, individuals and or institutions.
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HIST 576C CHINESE WOMEN & THE FAMILY
Description: The history of the Chinese family and of women from early imperial times through the late imperial period with its male-dominated, family-centered ethic, but also with its active literate female population, to the present post-socialist society of the People's Republic. Special attention will be given to changes in conceptions of gender and sexuality, and in the status, roles, and power of women, and also to the history of the women's movement in the 20th century, and to the debates over women's liberation, socialism, and capitalism Readings will draw upon biographies and fiction as well as historical and sociological studies.
Format: The seminar will be organized around discussions of readings, although occasional use will also be made of lectures, slides and videos. Grades will be based upon a 5-page book critique, a bibliography of your research project, and your research paper of 15-25 pages. Graduate students will have largely the same requirements, except that a review essay on a number of books will be required in lieu of the book critique, and will be presented in special meetings for the graduate students. Restricted to Juniors and Seniors and appropriate for History and AAASP majors and minors and Women's Studies students.
Books: Francesca Bray, TECHNOLOGY AND GENDER: FABRICS OF POWER IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA; Patricia Ebrey, THE INNER QUARTERS: MARRIAGE AND LIVES OF CHINESE WOMEN IN THE SUNG PERIOD; Bret Hinsch, WOMEN IN EARLY IMPERIAL CHINA; Emily Honig, SISTERS AND STRANGERS: WOMEN IN THE SHANGHAI COTTON MILLS, 1919-1949; Kay Ann Johnson, WOMEN, THE FAMILY, AND PEASANT REVOLUTION IN CHINA; Susan Mann, PRECIOUS RECORDS: WOMEN IN CHINA'S LONG 18TH CENTURY; Pa Chin, FAMILY; Ida Pruitt, A DAUGHTER OF HAN: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHINESE WORKING WOMAN; Lijun Yuan, RECONCEIVING WOMEN'S EQUALITY IN CHINA; Jianying Zha, CHINA POP: HOW SOAP OPERAS, TABLOIDS, AND BESTSELLERS ARE TRANSFORMING A CULTURE.
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HIST 578D WEST AFRICAN HISTORY: 16TH-20TH CENTURIES
Description: Part I focuses on historical survey of West African social-political organization; trade; religion; kingdoms/states; interstate and interregional relations; relations with Europe and the Americas. Part II focuses on Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal: servility/slavery; ethnic relations; education; women's roles and activities; colonial impact and independence; international relations.
Format: Lecture-seminar. Film, weekly discussions. Section 01 (undergraduates): one 10- to 15-minute class presentation; take-home midterm; cumulative take-home final. Section 02 (undergraduates): one 10- to 15-minute class presentation; take-home midterm; cumulative take-home final; 10-page research paper. Graduates: two 10- to 15-minute presentations; 20- to 25-page research papers
Books: To be determined
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Prerequisite: At least junior standing; preferably at least one course in anthropology, history or sociology; or consent of instructor (see HIST 377).
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HIST 590 QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN HISTORY
Description: Introduction to elementary statistics and quantitative methods for historical research. Involves active firsthand research and interpretation. Students are introduced to the use of statistical software for the social sciences (SPSS) and complete a research project using public-use databases or a database of their own creation.
Format: Mix of lectures, discussions and computer laboratory. Requires regular attendance and participation. Course grades determined as follows: class participation and oral presentations (10% of final grade); quality of assigned exercises (20% of final grade); one five- to 10-page historiographical essay (25% of final grade); final research project (45% of final grade). Each student is expected to present an oral introduction and critique of two or three articles associated with his or her final project.
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HIST 592 HISTORIOGRAPHY
Description: This seminar has two goals: first to introduce students to the origins and development of modern historicism, and second to survey some of the most recent trends in historical scholarship. We shall review a number of methodological approaches that have been influential across the discipline of history and discuss the various ways in which recent historical scholarship has drawn upon theoretical insights from neighboring disciplines, such as anthropology and literary criticism. Finally, 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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HIST 599 MASTER'S THESIS
Description: Master's thesis for MA-level students, under supervision of faculty member.
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HIST 600M RESEARCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY
Description: This course is intended to guide students in original scholarly research. It could lead to a paper suitable for submission to an academic journal, but this is a high expectation. More realistically, this seminar should take students through the process of refining their dissertation topics and writing the basis of a chapter. Therefore, students will be required to immerse themselves in the relevant secondary literature and locate and use primary sources. This is a departmental course for which I am the instructor of record. However, students' mentors should be at least as involved in your project as I will be. This means that students will need to impress upon their mentors the importance of timely meetings and written responses to the various stages of their projects. Final papers will be presented and critiqued at a one-day colloquium at the end of the semester.
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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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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.
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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.
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