HIST W2900x and y The History Lab 2 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Introduction to fundamentals of historical research, with sessions at Butler and Lehman libraries. Students learn how to use both electronic and published catalogs and indexes to assemble bibliographies; locate government documents and economic and demographic data; and locate and use manuscripts and other archival collections. Students apply these skills to topic of their own choosing in a short paper. Group(s): ABCD

HIST W2901y Historical Theories and Methods 3 pts.

listed formerly as the Introduction to History. Group(s): ABCD

HIST W3426y History of Slavery 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course presents an introduction to the history of comparative slavery, with particular reference to the relationship between human bondage and broader processes of economic and social change. Topics include the experience of enslavement, the development of long-distance networks for the transportation of slave labor, the rise and fall of the plantation complex in the Americas, and the distinctive character of human bondage in the twentieth century. Group(s): ABCD

HIST W3901y History of Sexuality 3 pts. The course focuses on the different ways sex has been regulated throughout history, from ancient Greece until the present. It is almost exclusively based on primary texts, which have been written by theologians, physicians, psychiatrists, libertines, social reformists and lawyers. Group(s): B, D

HIST W3912x Domestic Animals and Human History 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Explores specific examples of, and historiographical methods for studying, the relations between domestic animals and human societies from prehistoric times to the present. Among the topics explored are animal symbolism, origins of domestication, economics of animal-drawn transport, food taboos, animals in religion, acclimatization of animals in new territories and impact on society and environment, and the evolution of attitudes toward animals in the 20th century. Group(s): ABCD

HIST W3926y Historical Origins of Human Rights 3 pts. Dedicated to four main topics on human rights: 1) long-term origins; 2)short-term origins; 3) evolution through the present; 4) moral defenses and ideological criticisms. Group(s): B, D

HIST W3935x From Jacobins to Zapatistas: Radical Democracy Since the French Revolutions 3 pts. This course will examine the global history of radical democracy from the French Revolution to the present. Spanning the political spectrum, we will investigate democratic armies and factories, Caribbean pirate utopias, and claims by many Germans that Nazi Germany "felt more democratic" than its predecessor, the Weimar Republic. What sense are we to make of these exceptions to liberal representative democracy? We will ask what these radical ways of organizing and instituting society offer us and question why and how the liberal model has come to hegemonize our conception of democracy today.

HIST W3956y Globalization in History 3 pts. An exploration of the large-scale processes and global interconnections of the past 500 years that have produced the economic, cultural and political structures of the modern world. Group(s): ABCD

HIST W3961x Law and Violence 3 pts."Law and Violence" is an introduction to key theoretical texts and historical episodes that reveal the controversial but crucial relationship between law and violence. How has this relationship evolved in both theory and practice? Is it a paradox that law sometimes employs violence in claiming to prevent it and that violence has often been the means to change the law? These questions will be considered in different historical contexts central to the formation of the modern nation-state and the global legal order. From the Crusades to modern notions of sovereignty, international law, and the laws of war, the course treats such subjects as population control, colonized subjects, refugees, concentration camps, and recent episodes of torture. It examines how theories of legitimate violence played out in the Holocaust, French colonial Algeria, and British colonial Kenya; among the thinkers examined are Benjamin, Schmitt, Foucault, Agamben, and Fanon. Group(s): B, C, D

HIST W3980y World Migration 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Overview of human migration from pre-history to the present. Sessions on classical Rome; Jewish diaspora; Viking, Mongol, and Arab conquests; peopling of New World, European colonization, and African slavery; 19th-century European mass migration; Chinese and Indian diasporas; resurgence of global migration in last three decades, and current debates. Group(s): ABCD

*same as HIST BC3980

HIST W3997x World War II in History and Memory 3 pts. An exploration of the changes in public memory of World War Two in different countries in Asia, Europe, and North America over the past sixty-five years, with particular attention to the heightened interest in the war in recent decades and the relation of this surge of memory to what we used to call history.

HIST W1004y Ancient History of Egypt 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of the history of ancient Egypt from the first appearance of the state to the conquest of the country by Alexander of Macedon, with emphasis of the political history, but also with attention to the cultural, social, and economic developments. Group(s): A

HIST W1010x The Ancient Greeks, 800-146 B.C.E. 3 pts. A review of the history of the Greek world from the beginnings of Greek archaic culture around 800 B.C., through the classical and Hellenistic periods to the definitive Roman conquest in 146 B.C., with concentration on political history, but attention also to social and cultural developments. Group(s): A

HIST W1020y The Romans, 754 B.C. To 565 A.D. 3 pts. Rome and its empire, from the beginning to late antiquity. Group(s): A

HIST W1061x Introduction To the Early Middle Ages 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Introduction to the Mediterranean world and northern Europe from the late Roman Empire to the 11th century through the study of medieval texts in translation. Topics include: Interaction of peoples; Byzantium and Islam; conversion; Charlemagne and the birth of Europe; the year 1000. Group(s): A

HIST W1002y Ancient History of Mesopotamia and Asia Minor 3 pts. A survey of the political and cultural history of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Iran from prehistory to the disappearance of the cuneiform documentation, with special emphasis on Mesopotamia. Group(s): A

HIST W3001y The Roman World in Late Antiquity 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Introduction to the later Roman Empire and the Mediterranean from 395 to 642 AD. Topics include: The division of the Roman Empire into east and west; barbarian invasions; social history of the later Roman world, with emphasis on the Christian church; the wars of Justinian; the rise of Islam. Group(s): A

HIST W3003y Religion, Myth, and Ritual in the Greek State 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

HIST W3004y The Mediterranean World after Alexander the Great 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The conquests of Alexander the Great spread Greek Civilization all around the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. This course will examine the Hellenised (greek-based) urban society of the empires of the Hellenistic era (ca. 330-30BCE). Group(s): A

HIST W3006y Ancient Political Theory 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course will be a review of Greek and Roman political theory as it developed through the historical events from the Homeric age of Greece to the Augustan principate at Rome. Group(s): A

HIST W3014y Greece in the 5th Century BCE 3 pts. Study of the so-called Classical Age of Greece, the fifth century, when the Greeks were at the zenith of their innovation and productivity in the arts, philosophy, and medicine, as well as politics. Focus on the political development of those two polar opposite cities-Sparta and Athens--under whose combined leadership the southern Greeks defeated a vast invading force of the Persian Empire. That unexpected military victory unleashed a burst of creativity in the political, social, cultural, philosophical, and economic realms, producing works that still delight, inform, and influence western culture especially, as well as many cultures around the globe. Group(s): A

HIST W3020x Roman Imperialism 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Problems in the analysis and interpretation of the growth of Roman power between the 4th century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D. The origins of the Romans' drive to expand, the theory of "defensive" imperialism, economic aspects, Roman techniques of control, and the effects of the Empire on the Romans themselves and on their subjects. Group(s): A

HIST W3026x Roman Social History 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Social structure, class, slavery and manumission, social mobility, life expectation, status and behavior of women, Romanization, town and country, social organizations, education and literacy, philanthropy, amusements in the Roman Empire, 70 B.C. - 250 A.D. Group(s): A

HIST W3060y Laws of War in the Middle Ages 3 pts. The perception and regulation of war and wartime practices in Europe and the Mediterranean World in the period 300-1500, from the standpoint of legal and institutional history rather than of military history. Topics include: the Just War tradition, Holy War and Crusade, the Peace and Truce of God, prisoners and ransom, the law of siege, non-combatants, chivalry, and ambassadors and diplomacy. Readings are principally primary sources in translation. Group(s): A

HIST W3068y Medieval Religious Life and Thought 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course sets out to explore the way Christianity was perceived, developed and practiced by the inhabitants of Europe from 300 to 1400. Themes include the development of Christian theology, conversion of the pagan populations, organization of the Church (clergy and liturgy), hermits and monasticism, church reforms, popular apostolic movements, Byzantium, Islam, Jews, heresy, mendicant orders, inquisition, scholasticism and the Avignon period. Students will be expected to read primary and secondary historical sources with a critical eye. Group(s): A

HIST W3616x Jews and Christians in the Medieval World 3 pts. Medieval Jews and Christians defined themselves in contrast to one another. This course will examine the conditions and contradictions that emerged from competing visions and neighborly relations. It is arranged to comprehend broad themes rather than strict chronology and to engage both older and very recent scholarship on the perennial themes of tolerance and hate. Group(s): A

HIST W3657x Medieval Jewish Cultures 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course will survey some of the major historical, cultural, intellectual and social developments among Jews from the fourth century CE through the fifteenth. We will study Jewish cultures from the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the age of the Talmuds, the rise of Islam, the world of the Geniza, medieval Spain, to the early modern period. We will look at a rich variety of primary texts and images, including mosaics, poems, prayers, polemics, and personal letters. Group(s): AGlobal Core.

HIST W3103y Alchemy, Magic & Science 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Astrology, alchemy, and magic were central components of an educated person's view of the world in early modern Europe. How did these activities become marginalized, while a new philosophy (what we would now call empirical science) came to dominate the discourse of rationality? Through primary and secondary readings, this course examines these "occult" disciplines in relation to the rise of modern science. Group(s): A

HIST W3107x Family, Sexuality and Marriage in Premodern Europe, 1200-1800 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course traces the changing forms of marriage and family from the high Middle Ages, when the Christian model of monogamous marriage first took firm shape, until the late eighteenth century, when the familial and marriage model associated with the modern middle class was acquiring dominance. Group(s): A

HIST W3110y European Renaissance 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. An introduction to some major currents in the intellectual and cultural history of the Western European Renaissance from around 1400 to 1600: humanism, the rise of print culture, the Reformation, exploration of America, changing functions of gender, the new status of artists, craftsman, and scientists. Group(s): A

HIST W3112y The Scientific Revolution In Western Europe: 1500-1750 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Introduction to the cultural, social, and intellectual history of the upheavals of astronomy, anatomy, mathematics, alchemy from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Group(s): A

HIST W3190y England and the Wider World 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course traces the history of English overseas expansion, and its consequences for the history of the British Isles, from early Atlantic exploration in the sixteenth century through the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Themes include the relationship between empire and state formation, the place of international rivalry in the formation of imperial ambitions, the character and dimensions of transoceanic trading networks, and the place of empire in the construction of British national identity. Group(s): B

HIST W3201y Culture and Society in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1867-1918 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course offers a critical examination of the history of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, once one of Europe’s largest military powers which disappeared from the map after World War I. A restructured version of the Habsburg Empire, the Monarchy was a lasting, authoritarian framework of Central European ethnic groups which, however, gave rise to modernism in the field of arts and sciences.The juxtaposition of authority and modernity provides the focus of this survey which includes the study of the Monarchy as the birthplace of both Zionism and modern anti-Semitism. Nurturing a pioneering culture and a pre-modern society, Austria-Hungary is an exciting case of pioneering spirit and decadence, experimentation and dissolution, novelty and decay. The "disintegration of Austrian political culture" is particularly relevant today when presented as the "seedtime for fascism" (George V. Strong). Group(s): B

HIST W3220x Imperial Russia, 1682-1918 3 pts. A survey of Russian political, social, and intellectual developments from Peter the Great through the Revolution of 1917. Group(s): B

HIST W3222x The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The political and social history of Russia, 1917 to the present. Group(s): B

HSSL W3224y Cities and Civilizations: an Introduction To Eurasian Studies 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Cities and Civilizations: An Introduction to Eurasian Studies Introduction to the study of the region formerly occupied by the Russian and Soviet Empires focusing on cities as the space of self-definition, encounter, and tension among constituent peoples. Focus on incorporating and placing in dialogue diverse disciplinary approaches to the study of the city through reading and analysis of historical, literary, and theoretical texts as well as film, music, painting, and architecture. Group(s): B

HIST W3226x History of Modern Ukraine 3 pts. The course explores selected questions in early modern Ukrainian history. It concentrates on the evolution of Ukrainian identity, culture, and political aspirations. These developments are placed in the context of the states that ruled Ukrainian lands and the diverse populations and non-Ukrainian cultures and political movements on these territories. Group(s): B

HIST W3240y East Central Europe in the 20th Century 3 pts. Despite--or because of--the adjective "east," East Central Europe was at the center of major historical developments in Europe in the twentieth century. From the two world wars to the communist period, the East Central European region was the site of key events that marked the history of the world. And, once again, it has recently been at the center of attention because of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the expansion of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to include several East Central European states. This course examines these and other topics in twentieth century East Central European history, and it emphasizes economic and political approaches alongside cultural and social ones. It also includes considerable treatment of the roles of Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States of America in the region.

HIST W3246y Patterns of Soviet/Russian Interventions: from Poland to Georgia, 1939-2008 3 pts. The lecture course will analyze the patterns of Soviet interventions from the invasion of Poland at the onset of the Second World War in September, 1939 to the recent military conflict between Russia and Georgia in 2008. These interventions were of different character in every case: the mildest version of Soviet crisis managing strategy was threatening the use of force in Poland in 1956; it was possible to restore order by sending Soviet tanks to East Berlinin 1953; the Red Army had no difficulty in defeating the freedom fighters in Hungary during the Hungarian revolution, while tiny Finland could eventually be defeated only in a large scale traditional war during the winter of 1939-1940.

Soviet policy goals were achieved by most interventions: the one notable exception being Moscow's "Vietnam": the invasion of Afghanistan. During the crises emerging in the Soviet bloc a gradual improvement can be seen in Moscow's crisis managing strategy: in Berlin, 1953 the Soviet army alone was used to restore order, in Hugnary in 1956 initially the Kremlin tried to pacify the situation by using a combination of military and politcal means, during the Prague Spring a half year long bilateral and multilateral coordination process aimed at finding a political solution preceded the military intervention, while in Poland in 1981 the final option eventually could be avoided by the introduction of Marshal Law. During the course, two special cases of Soviet intervention will also be analyzed: the subtle process of the Sovietization in East Central Europe between 1944-1948 and the Soviet bloc's involvement in the Vietnam War.

HIST W3267x The Politics of Hatred and Fear: Key Issues in the History of Eastern Central Europe 1878-1956 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The course gives a short survey of the major turning points in the political, social and intellectual history of Eastern and Central Europe, focusing on the political manifestations of powerful hatreds and fears. The main question to be addressed is the origins and regional peculiarities of authoritarian political regimes and ideologies: fascism and communism. Group(s): B

HIST W3302y The European Catastrophe, 1914-1945 3 pts. The history of Europe's second Thirty Years War marked by economic crises, political turmoil, totalitarian ideologies, massive population transfers, and genocide; but also by extraordinary economic, scientific, and cultural developments. Group(s): B

HIST W3303y European Politics and Society Since 1945 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Europe in the post-European age, no longer full master of its fate. Cold war divisions; decolonization; deepening democracy and economic, social, and cultural metamorphosis in Western Europe; stagnation and eventual collapse of Soviet Eastern Europe; a new and more united Europe in the making since 1989. Group(s): B

HIST W3304y Modern Germany, 1900-2000 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The development of Germany has influenced the history of Europe and, indeed, the world in the 20th century in major and dramatic ways. Most historians agree that the country and its leaders played a crucial role in the outbreak of two world wars which cost at least 70 million lives. Germany experienced a revolution in 1918, hyperinflation in 1923, the Great Depression after 1929, and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. Between 1939 and 1945 there followed the brutal conquest of most of its neighbors and the Holocaust. Subsequently, the country became divided into two halves in which emerged a communist dictotorship, on the one hand, and a Western-style parliamentary-representative system, on the other. The division ended in 1989 with the collapse of the Honecker regime and the unification of East and West Germany. No doubt, Germany's history is confused and confusing and has therefore generated plenty of debate among historians. This course offers a comprehensive survey of the country's development from around 1900 to 2000. It is not just concerned with political events and military campaigns, but will also examine in considerable detail German society and its structures, relations between women and men, trends in both high and popular culture, and the ups and downs of an industrial economy in its global setting. The weekly lectures and section discussions are designed to introduce you to the country's conflicted history and to the controversies it unleashed in international scholarship. Group(s): B

HIST W3306x From the Congress of Vienna to the United Nations: Ideas of International Order Since 1815 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course aims to explore the forms of international and world government that have emerged since the defeat of Napoleon. It charts the emergence of ideas of international order, among Enlightenment political theorists [such as Kant, and, somewhat later, Bentham] and international lawyers, and the ways they were realized in bodies from the 19th century Concert of Europe to the present United Nations in the shift from Eurocentrism to globalism. Group(s): B, C, D

HIST W3307x Italy in the Wider World 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Studies the swings between global and local in this particularly elastic European nation-state. Lectures, discussion, reading, and media highlight the Italian peninsula's changing situation depending on the global economy. The course starts with a look back to the legacy of maritime city states, why the Italians didn't discover America, and the "dark centuries" as trade moved from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.But the main focus are 19th and 20th century topics including the Italian emigrant diaspora, fascist imperialism, post-colonialism in Africa, living with the Papacy, the Third Italy, Italy in the European Union, the Mafia connection, the new immigrants, the China threat. Group(s): B

HIST W3308x Nation and Identity in Modern France 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course explores the development of the French nation and French identity from the Ancient Regime to the present. Topics include the growth of the French nation-state, national identity formation, imperialism, immigration and assimilation, France's role within the European Union, and the globalization of markets and culture. Group(s): B

HIST W3311y Modern European Intellectual History II 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of European thought and culture in the era of the crisis of reason. Figures and movements considered across the human sciences, but emphasis is on philosophy and social theory. Group(s): B

HIST W3312y British History, 1760-1867 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The history of Britain at the height of its global power. Particular attention will be paid to contestations over political power, and to the emergence of liberal economic and political institutions and ideas. Group(s): B

HIST W3330x Europe since 1945 3 pts. A big picture perspective on the period 1945-2005, the course moves from the New Europe arising from the catastrophe of the Great Depression, Nazi-fascism, and World War II to the New Europe arising out of the contrary forces of globalization. Lectures illuminated by East-West and TransAtlantic comparisons, films, memoirs, and discussions. Group(s): B

HIST W3360y British History From 1867: Between Democracy and Empire 3 pts. This course surveys the main currents of British history from 1867 to the present, with particular attention to the changing place of Britain in the world and the changing shape of politics. Group(s): B

HIST W3376x The Balkans Since 1800 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The histories of Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Serbia/Yugoslavia from their emergence as national states, the end of World War II, and the Communist takeover in most of them. Group(s): B

HIST W3377y International and Global History since WWII 3 pts. In this course students will explore contemporary international and global history, focusing on how states have cooperated and competed in the Cold War, decolonization, and regional crises. But lectures will also analyze how non-governmental organizations, cross-border migration, new means of communication, and global markets are transforming the international system as a whole. Group(s): B, C, D

HIST W3406x American Beginnings 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of the economic and social history of British North America (with excursions into French, Dutch, and Native American communities) from 1607 to 1763. Major themes will include immigration, community structures, the household economy, slavery and other labor systems, and the cultural transformation of the colonies in the eighteenth century. Group(s): A, D

HIST W3407y America Since 1960 3 pts. This course will examine the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments in the United States since 1960. Topics include the American presidency, the black freedom struggle, the triumph and agony of postwar liberalism, Vietnam, the New Left and counterculture, feminism and masculinity, the rise and institutionalization of modern conservatism, religion, the culture wars, environmentalism, diversity and its discontents, the New Gilded Age, globalization, and foreign policy since 9/11. Group(s): D

HIST W3411x American Society in the age of Capital, 1890-1970 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines the social conflicts that accompanied the transformation of the United States from an agrarian republic and slave society to one of the most powerful industrial nations in the world. Particular attention will be paid to the building of new social and economic institutions and to cultural and visual representations of the nation and its people. Readings include major secondary works and primary documents. Group(s): D

HIST W3412x Revolutionary America, 1750-1815 3 pts. This course examines the cultural, political, and constitutional origins of the United States. It covers the series of revolutionary changes in politics and society between the mid-18th and early 19th centuries that took thirteen colonies out of the British Empire and turned them into an independent and expanding nation. Starting with the cultural and political glue that held the British Empire together, the course follows the political and ideological processes that broke apart and ends with the series of political struggles that shaped the identity of the US. Using a combination of primary and secondary materials relating to various walks of life and experience from shopping to constitutional debates, students will be expected to craft their own interpretations of this fundamental period of American history. Lectures will introduce students to important developments and provide a framework from them to develop their own analytical skills. Group(s): D

HIST W3416y The United States, 1900-1940 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Surveys the major social, political, economic, and cultural developments from the beginning of the twentieth century to the eve of World War II. Topics include big business and the new industrial order; labor movements; Progressivism; race, ethnicity, immigration, and pluralism; imperial expansion; World War I; the consumer society; the women's movement; Harlem Renaissance; film and jazz; the Great Depression; and the New Deal. Group(s): D

HIST W3417x Asian American History 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The course surveys the major issues and events in Asian American history from the colonial period to the present. It examines the role of ideas about Asia, American trade with Asia, migrants from Asia, and U.S. wars in Asia in the development of Asian American communities and U.S. society more broadly. Students will read history, fiction, and primary source documents. Group(s): DGlobal Core.

HIST W3419y American Legal History 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

Survey of law in America from the colonial period to the present. Topics include the law of conquest, empire, and independence; the constitution and judicial review; the law of slavery and freedom; the law of industry and the New Deal; the mid-twentieth-century Supreme Court; and the history of international law in the United States. Group(s): D

HIST W3424x Politics of the American Environment, 1865-present 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines how questions of natural resource distribution, environmental rights, and environmental hazards have shaped United States politics and governance, with a focus on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Group(s): D

HIST W3425y The U.S. Presidency since 1945 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course explores how changes in technology during the 20th century, particularly in media, reshaped how presidents get elected and operate in office. Particular focus is given to the connections between media images and governance. This course also provides a unique look at how new media --Youtube and Blogs -- have reshaped American politics. The backdrop of the 2008 presidential election will provide an opportunity for class discussions about how historical developments continue to affect the contemporary political process. Group(s): D

HIST W3431y U.S. In the Era of Slavery and Jacksonian Democracy 3 pts. An analysis of American society in the period of Jackson and with particular emphasis on the emergence of democratic institutions. Group(s): D

HIST W3432x The United States In the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The coming of the Civil War and its impact on the organization of American society afterwards. Group(s): D

HIST W3441y Making of the Modern American Landscape 3 pts. Social history of the built environment since 1870, looking at urban and rural landscapes, vernacular architecture of industry, housing, recreation, and public space. Considers government policies, real estate investment, and public debates over land use and the natural environment. Group(s): D

HIST W3448x America Since 1945 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: first-year students must obtain the instructor's permission. Topics include cold war, McCarthyism, the postwar economy, suburbanization, consumer culture, Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement; and Watergate. Group(s): D

HIST W3478x U.S. Intellectual History, 1865 To the Present 3 pts. This course examines major themes in U.S. intellectual history since the Civil War. Among other topics, we will examine the public role of intellectuals; the modern liberal-progressive tradition and its radical and conservative critics; the uneasy status of religion ina secular culture; cultural radicalism and feminism; critiques of corporate capitalism and consumer culture; the response of intellectuals to hot and cold wars, the Great Depression, and the upheavals of the 1960's. Group(s): D

HIST W3491y U.S. Foreign Relations 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The aim is to provide an empirical grasp of U.S. foreign relations and to problematize the historiographical views of the various periods, and questions that have come up to make that particular history. Much emphasis will thus be put on critique, and on determining limits of these contentious principles. Group(s): D

HIST W3493x U.S. History, 1919-1945 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course examines one of the most turbulent periods of modern American history: an era that includes the upheavals following the end of World War I; the economic boom and cultural transformation of the 1920s; the Great Depression and the New Deal; and the American experience in World War II. It is a period of significant discontinuity, of sharply different social, political, and economic circumstances. But it is also a period united by a series of overlapping tensions and conflicts with which Americans (and many people in other nations) wrestled inconclusively throughout this era. Among them were a prolonged dispute over how to manage a modern industrial economy; a continuing battle over the proper role of government; an embittered conflict over the emergence of a new consumer culture; an often suppressed set of struggles over race, gender, ethnicity, and religion; and a battle over America's place in the larger world. This course will examine aspects of these and other conflicts and will attempt to portray both some of the great public events of this tumultuous age and also the character of the economy, the society, and the culture of the United States in an era of rapid change. Group(s): D

HIST W3503x American Labor in the 20th Century 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The history of work, workers, and unions during the 20th century. Topics include scientific management, automation, immigrant workers, the rise of industrial unionism, labor politics, occupational discrimination, and working-class community life. Group(s): D

HIST W3514y U.S. Immigration History 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The course surveys patterns of migration and immigrant experience from colonial time to the present. Migration to the US is considered as part of the evolving global labor market and colonial expansion in the modern world. The class considers migration in different historical periods, the relationship of immigration to nation-building, national expansion, war, and the production and reproduction of national identity; the history of the legal regulation of immigration; the experience of immigrants in settling and negotiating life in a new society, and political debates surrounding the role of immigration in American society. Course materials include recent historical literature, fiction, primary-source documents, and film. Group(s): D

HIST W3528x The Radical Tradition In America 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Major expressions of American radicalism, ranging from early labor and communitarian movements to the origins of feminism, the abolitionist movement, and on to populism, socialism, and the "Old" and "New" Lefts. Group(s): D

HIST W3535x History of the City of New York 3 pts. The social, cultural, economic, political, and demographic development of America's metropolis from colonial days to present. Slides and walking tours supplement the readings (novels and historical works). Group(s): D

HIST W3540y History of the South 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of the history of the American South from the colonial era to the present day, with two purposes: first, to afford students an understanding of the special historical characteristics of the South and of southerners; and second, to explore what the experience of the South may teach about America as a nation. Group(s): D

HIST W3575y Explorations of Themes in African-American History, 1865-1945 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of African-American history since the Civil War. An emphasis is placed on the black quest for equality and community. Group(s): D

HIST W3618y The Modern Caribbean 3 pts. This lecture course examines the social, cultural, and political history of the islands of the Caribbean Sea and coastal regions of Central and South American that collectively form the Caribbean region, from Amerindian settlement, through the era of European imperialism and African enslavement, to the period of socialist revolution and independence. The course will examine historical trajectories of colonialism, slavery, and labor regimes, post-emancipation experiences and migration, radical insurgencies and anti-colonial movements, and intersections of race, culture, and neocolonialism. It will also investigate the production of national, creole, and transborder indentities. Group(s): D

*This class was formerly listed as "The Caribbean in the 19th & 20th Centuries." Major Cultures Requirement: Latin American Civilization List B. Global Core.

HSPB W3950x Social History of American Public Health 3 pts. The purpose of this course is to provide students with an historical understanding of the role public health has played in American history. The underlying assumptions are that disease, and the ways we define disease, are simultaneously reflections of social and cultural values, as well as important factors in shpaing those values. Also, it is maintained that the environments that we build determine the ways we live and die. The dread infectious and acute diseases in the nineteenth century, the chronic, degenerative conditions of the twentieth and the new, vaguely understood conditions rooted in a changing chemical and human-made environment are emblematic of the societies we created. Among the questions that will be addressed are: How does the health status of Americans reflect and shape our history? How do ideas about health reflect broader attitudes and values in American history and cutlure? How does the American experience with pain, disability, and disease affect our actions and lives? What are the responsibilities of the state and of the individual in preserving health? How have American institutions--from hospitals to unions to insurance companies--been shaped by changing longevity, experience with disability and death?

HIST W3604y Modern Jewish History 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

HIST W3606x Messianic Movements and Ideas in Jewish History I 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. An intensive survey of messianism as a central force in Jewish history. Topics include the historical context of biblical messianism; messianism and apocalypse in Hellenistic Jewry; Qumran; rise of Christianity; messianic revolts against Rome; the Talmudic period; messianic sectarianism under Islamic rule; messianic speculation in medieval Jewish philosophy, mysticism, and Judeo-Christian polemics; messianic movements from the Crusades to 1492. Group(s): A, C

HIST W3607y Messianic Movements and Ideas in Jewish History II 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Messianic repercussions among the Spanish exlies; David Reubeni and Shelomo Molkho; Lurianic Kabbalah; Sabbatai Zebi and post-Sabbatian heresies; messianic nihilism in 18th-century Poland; Hasidism; the impact of Emancipation; Zionism and "secularized" messianism and anti-messianic revolt. Note: Continuation of History W3606, but may be taken separately for credit. Group(s): A, C

HIST W3628y History of the State of Israel, 1948-Present 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The political, cultural, and social history of the State of Israel from its founding in 1948 to the present. Group(s): C

HIST W3630y American Jewish History 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Explores the interaction between the changing makeup of Jewish immigration, the changing social and aconomic conditions in the United States, and the religious, communal, cultural, and political group life of American Jews. Group(s): D

HIST W3633y Zionism and the State of Israel 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of Jewish nationalist thought, the Zionist movement, Jewish nation-building in Palestine, and the state of Israel from the 1880s to the present. Adopting a comparative approach, we will analyze Zionism against the background of other forms of modern Jewish collective identity as well as nationalist movements throughout the globe. We will also explore the interdependence between Israeli and Palestinian Arab history and the internal dynamics of the two people's national movements. Group(s): B, C

HIST W3640y Jewish Women and Family, 1000-1800 3 pts. This course will explore the changing lives of Jewish women in the medieval Islamic and Christian worlds, based on readings of primary sources. We will examine Jewish women's roles in religious and ritual life, in the family, in educational systems and in the economy, and we will compare Jewish women's experiences to those of Christian and Muslim women from the medieval through the early-modern period. Group(s): A

AFCV C1020x and y African Civilization 4 pts. Introduction to interdisciplinary African studies; focus on Ethiopia, Mali, Zimbabwe, modern intellectual movements; emphasis on visual materials. Group(s): A, CGlobal Core.

HIST W3660x Latin American Civilization I 3 pts. Latin American economy, society, and culture from pre-Columbian times to 1810. Group(s): A, DMajor Cultures Requirement: Latin American Civilization List A. Global Core.

HIST V3661y Latin American Civilization II 3 pts. Latin American economy, society, and culture from 1810 to present. Group(s): DGlobal Core.

HIST W3663x Mexico From Revolution To Democracy 3 pts. Twenty-Century Mexican History, from the revolution to translation to democracy. Politics, society, culture foreign relations, urbanizantion. Group(s): DMajor Cultures Requirement: Latin American Civilization List B.

HIST W3665x Economic History of Latin America 3 pts. This course will examine the evolution of the Latin American economies from the colonial era to the twentieth century, focusing on the historical antecedents of contemporary problems. Each week, the lectures and discussions will address a set of issues that social scientists, including historians, economists, and political scientists, are currently debating. Topics include the measurement of early modern economic activity, the determinants of long-term trends in economic growth and human welfare, the relationship of inequality to economic growth, the significance of political and institutional change, the impact of imperialism and external economic relations, and the relative success of divergent strategies of industrialization. Group(s): DGlobal Core.

HIST W3671x Militarism in Latin America 3 pts. This course examines the history of the military in Latin America from independence to the present. Key topics include: war and state-formation; caudillismo (warlordism); civil-military relations; military nationalism and memory; the cold war; violence, democracy, and human rights

HIST W3680y History of Brazil 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of the major trends in the social, economic, and political evolution of Brazilian society since the colonial period. Group(s): DMajor Cultures Requirement: Latin American Civilization List B.

HIST W3701y The Ottoman Empire 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course explores the unity and diversity of the Ottoman Empire with a comparative approach to its seven-century history. The questions that frame the course, which proceeds chronologically, include: what made the Ottoman Empire unique among empires, and in what ways was it comparable to other empires - Mongol, Moghul, Persian, Byzantine, Russian, British, or Habsburg, for instance? What were the continuities - and discontinuities - from the Byzantine, Persian, Islamic, and the Turkic-Mongol traditions? What did it mean to be Ottoman in 1300, and how had that meaning changed in 1600, 1800, and 1900? How was and was not religion - particularly Islam - a significant factor in shaping Ottoman state and society and how did Ottoman state and society change as the states around it changed? Group(s): A, C

HIST W3710x History of Iran To the Safavid Period 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

HIST W3711y Main Currents of Islamo-Christian Civilization 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The history of Middle Eastern and North African Islam and of Western Christendom as parts of a common Islamo-Christian Civilization. Selected topics from the last 2000 years illuminate both Islamic and European history by treating them in tandem. Course culminates in discussion of the historical roots of current international problems. Group(s): A, B, CGlobal Core.

HIST W3716x History of Islamic Societies 3 pts. Focus on religions, conversion, ethnic relations, development of social institutions, and the relationship between government and religion. Group(s): A, C

HIST W3719y History of the Modern Middle East 3 pts. This Course will cover the History of the Middle East from the 18th century until the present, examining the region ranging from Morocco to Iran and including the Ottoman Empire. It will focus on transformations in the states of the region, external intervention , and the emergence of modern nation-states, as well as aspects of social, economic, cultural and intellectual history of the region. Group(s): CMajor Cultures Requirement: Middle Eastern Civilization List B. Global Core.

HIST W3725y Turkey, Islam, and the West 3 pts. As the only Muslim country with a parliamentary democratic regime and rigid secularism, Turkey provides a case study of the "dilemmas" of compatibility of Islam with democracy, modernism, and secularism. This course is designed to examine Turkey from its establishment as a Republic in 1923 at the end of an independence movement following the demise of the Ottoman Empire up to the present. It will deal with such topics as the nation state, Western modernization, separation of religion and state, multi-party democracy, religious and ethnic minorities, civil society, state elites, and state-military-society encounter. It will also analyze the historical roots of misunderstandings, largely from a Western perspective, between the two cultures of Turkey and the West while discussing the foreign policy orientations of the country in a historical perspective. The course will also draw on comparative cases from Iran, Egypt, and Syria in discussions of constitutions, executive systems, and political and public aspects of Islam, including the implementation of Sharia (Islamic religious law). Group(s): C

HIST W3760y Main Currents In African History 3 pts. Economy and society; African trade and conquest states; Islam; colonial rule and economic transformation; nationalism and postindependence states. Group(s): CMajor Cultures Requirement: African Civilization List A. Global Core.

HIST W3762x South Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Sophomore and above. Considers colonial society, frontier engagements between Africans and colonists, the mineral revolution and unification, segregation and apartheid and paradoxes in the new South Africa. Group(s): C

HIST W3772x West African History 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course offers a survey of main themes in West African history over the last millenium, with particular emphasis on the period from the mid-fifteenth through the twentieth century. Themes include the age of West African empires (Ghana, Mali, Songhay), re-alignments of economic and political energies towards the Atlantic coast, the rise and decline of the trans-Atlantic trade in slaves, the advent and demise of colonial rule, and internal displacement, migrations, and revolutions. In the latter part of the course, we will appraise the continuities and ruptures of the colonial and post-colonial eras. Group(s): CGlobal Core.

HIST W3800x Gandhi's India I 3 pts. The first semester of a two-semester survey of modern Indian history from the 18th century to the mid 20th century, which will focus on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1866-1948) and his profound and complex contribution to Indian (and Pakistani) nationalist politics. Each semester's course stands on its' own. It is recommended, but not required, that you take the first semester before taking the second semester. That being said, the second semester will begin with a quick recap of the first semester. The aim of the two-semester course is to give you a thorough background in modern Indian history but along the way to also discuss key theoretical and historiographical (the history of history-writing) concepts, and questions relevant to the larger discipline of history. This will include discussion of the influential contribution of the Indian collective called Subaltern Studies, which has shaped our understanding of nationalist histories around the world. Group(s): CGlobal Core.

HIST W3800y Gandhi's India 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Focus on the history of modern India, using the life and times of Mohandas Gandhi as the basis for not only an engagement with an extraordinary historical figure, but also for a consideration of a great variety of historical issues, including the relationship between nationalism and religion, caste politics in India and affirmative action policies in the United States today, and racism as encountered by Gandhi in relation to colonialism and the Civil Rights movement in the U.S. Group(s): C

HIST W3801y Gandhi's India II 3 pts. The second semester of a two-semester survey of modern Indian history from the 18th century to the mid 20th century, which will focus on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1866-1948) and his profound and complex contribution to Indian (and Pakistani) nationalist politics. Each semester's course stands on its' own. It is recommended, but not required, that you take the first semester before taking the second semester. That being said, the second semester will begin with a quick recap of the first semester. The aim of the two-semester course is to give you a thorough background in modern Indian history but along the way to also discuss key theoretical and historiographical (the history of history-writing) concepts, and questions relevant to the larger discipline of history. This will include discussion of the influential contribution of the Indian collective called Subaltern Studies, which has shaped our understanding of nationalist histories around the world. Group(s): CGlobal Core.

HSEA W3850x Contemporary Chinese Culture & Society 3 pts.

Broad in scope, the course will examine the main areas of reform-era Chinese life (1978-present): economy, politics, society, culture, and the environment. We will explore how, under conditions not of their own choice, the Chinese people are both shapers of their own fate and constrained in their struggles for a better life and more just and equitable society. The analysis will help better understand the lived experiences of the Chinese people, as well as the causes and consequences of social inequality, social conflicts, and social and political change. Group(s): C

HSEA W3862x The History of Korea To 1900 3 pts. Issues pertaining to Korean history from its beginnings to the early modern era. Group(s): A, C

HSEA W3863y The History of Modern Korea 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: recommended but not required: HSEA W3862. Korean history from the mid 19th century to the present, with particular focus on politics, society, and culture in the 20th century. Major Cultures Requirement: East Asian Civilization List B. Group(s): C

HSEA W3870x or y Japan in the 19th Century 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Japanese history from the late Tokugawa period through 1890, focusing on the political, social, and economic transformations of the Meiji Restoration. Group(s): C

HSEA W3871y Japan in the 20th Century 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Japanese history from 1890 to the present, with particular emphasis on political, social, and economic developments. Group(s): C

HSEA W3880x The History of Modern China 3 pts. The late imperial age. China's internal developments and foreign contact from 1600 to 1911. Group(s): A, C

HSEA W3881y The History of Modern China II 3 pts. The social, political and cultural history of twentieth-century China with a focus on issues of nationalism, revolution, "modernity" and gender. Group(s): C

HIST W3891x The Asia-Pacific Wars, 1931-1975 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The interconnected histories of the Pacific War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War and their lasting political, cultural, and socio-economic impact on East Asia, the U..S., and the world. Group(s): C, D

HSEA W3898y The Mongols In History 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Study of the role of the Mongols in Eurasian history, focusing on the era of the Great Mongol Empire. The roles of Chinggis and Khubilai Khan and the modern fate of the Mongols are considered. Group(s): A, CGlobal Core.

ANHS V3910x Colloquium on the Transformation of Traditional Societies: China and France 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Anthropological and historical perspectives on the peasant societies of France and China. Emphasis on the characteristics of the traditional rural society in each country and the transformation of those societies in modern times. This comparative and interdisciplinary course does not require previous work on France or China. Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and the instructor's permission. Group(s): B, C

HIST W4001x The Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A comparative study of the histories of Egypt, the Near East, Anatolia, and the Aegean World in the period from c. 1500-1100 BC, when several of the states provide a rich set of textual and archaeological data. Group(s): A

HIST W4004y The Oases of Egypt: From the Persians To the Arabs (525 BCE - 642 CE) 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines the growth of settlement in the oases of the Western Desert of Egypt, relatively slow in the Persian and Hellenistic periods, then very rapid under Roman rule, and the collapse at the end of antiquity. Key themes are the development of water resources, exports to the Nile Valley, and the distinctiveness and connectedness of the culture of the Oases. The interplay among technological change, governmental character, and integration into a global system are stressed as an approach to questions of economic development. Group(s): A, C

HIST W4006x Old Age in Antiquity 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The aging population due to decreasing levels of fertility and lower levels of mortality is one of the major problems modern Western societies are facing today. This seminar attempts to clarify what defined 'old' to the Greeks and Romans, how the elderly were portrayed in Greek and Roman literature, and what life may really have been like for old people. We will contextualize the issues of older people within a given social, political, cultural and religious context by analysing diverse primary sources like legal documents, representations in classical literature and art, epigraphic evidence from tombstones, Greco-Roman medical texts, private letters, and demographic studies. Group(s): A

HIST W4007x Development of the Greek State 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course will trace the development of the polis or city-state as the dominant socio-political unit in ancient Greece, looking at how and why this development took place and what effect it had on Greek society and culture. Group(s): A

HIST W4008y Wealth and Poverty in Classical Times 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The Wealth and Poverty seminar will approach the Greek and Roman world via both literary and legal texts and material culture. We shall consider among other things what wealth and poverty meant in a pre-modern society, social norms affecting the display of wealth and the alleviation of poverty, how you could make (and lose) a fortune in a pre-modern economy, and how ancient writers intertwined descriptions of wealth and poverty with other themes such as character, justice and virtue. Group(s): A

HIST W4009x Conflict in Athenian Society 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This seminar will investigate how classical Athenians mitigated social and political conflicts within their community. Readings will focus on constitutional developments and the sociology of Athenian politics. Special attention will be paid to both egalitarian and elitist elements within Athenian popular ideology. Group(s): A

HIST W4020y Greek Invention of History 4 pts. Close reading of the principal historians of classical Greece, especially Herodotus, Thucydides, and Polybius. Group(s): A

HIST W4024y The Golden Age of Athens 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The 5th century BCE, beginning with the Persian Wars, when the Athenians fought off the might of the Persian Empire, and ending with the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War in 404, is generally considered the "Golden Age" of ancient Athens. This is the century when Athenian drama, both tragedy and comedy, throve; when the Greeks began to develop philosophy at Athens, centered around the so-called "Sophistic movement" and Sokrates; when classical Greek art and architecture approached perfection in the monuments and sculptures of the great Athenian building programs on and around the Akropolis. This seminar will cover the political, military, economic, social, and cultural history of Athens' "Golden Age". Much of the course reading will be drawn from the ancient Athenian writing themselves, in translation. Everyone will be required to read enough to participate in weekly discussions; and all students will prepare two oral reports on topics to be determined. The course grade will be based on a ca. 20-25 page research paper to be written on an agreed upon topic. Group(s): A

HIST W4032y Family and Sexuality in Greece and Rome 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This seminar will use primary sources, insofar as they are available in translation (as to a very large extent they are), to answer the questions about family and about sexuality in the Greek and Roman worlds which modern historiograhy is likely to pose. We shall contrast the Greek and Roman family with the family in other cultures, and expore all aspects of sexuality in ancient societies that assigned very un-modern roles, on the whole, to women, and took some forms of homosexual behavior entirely for granted. Group(s): A

HIST W4044x Romanization: Integration and Resistance in the Roman Empire 4 pts. The concept of 'romanization' has gained prominence in the recent debate on ancient history. Was the Roman Empire a cultural unified empire? Why did so many subjected peoples and nations adopt roman cultural habits? And why did so few peoples refuse them? And was the alleged cultural unification of the Empire the product of the free willing choice of the subjected peoples? By what means did the Roman Government promote the diffusion of roman cultural habits? The seminar aims at addressing these historical questions by scrutinizing the widest possible set of documents (literary texts, inscriptions, public monuments, material culture) and by using comparative evidence drawn from cultural anthropology and colonial history. A basic knowledge of roman history is a prerequisite. Group(s): A

HIST W4045x Rome: A Preindustrial Metropolis 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Ancient Rome from the 1st century BCE to the beginning of the 5th Century AD had about one million inhabitants. This demographic density is an exceptional feature among all preindustrial societies, equalled by London only at the beginning of the nineteenth century.. After a short theoretical introduction to the subject of urbanism in pre-industrial societies and in particular in the classical period, the seminar will focus on three issues: the demographic trend of the city, the grain and water supply and the actual organization of water and grain distribution, and the role of the imperial court and government in building activities, feeding the people and assuring basic administrative services. Special attention will be paid to quantitative aspects of the social and economic history of the city. A wide range of sources will be examined: literary and juridical texts, inscriptions, archaeological and topographic evidence. Group(s): A

HIST W4050x Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic World 4 pts. Under a Greco-Macedonian ruling dynasty, the Ptolemies, Egypt became a crossroads for the entire Mediterranean. The study of this diverse society provides a unique window onto the ways that Greeks and Egyptians viewed the concepts of "Hellenicity" and "Egyptianness." This course approaches Ptolemaic Egypt from a variety of social, political, economic, and cultural perspectives. Topics include (1) the political and economic history of Ptolemaic Egypt; (2) the structure and multicultural character of Ptolemaic society; (3) religious syncretism; (4) Ptolemaic interactions with specific regions of the Hellenistic Mediterranean, including Nubia, the Near East, the Aegean world, and Rome; and (5) the relevance of Ptolemaic Egypt to an understanding of modern phenomena such as globalism, tourism, and colonialism. Group(s): AGlobal Core.

HIST W4051y Madness in Greek and Roman Medicine and Literature 4 pts. This course will investigate concepts of madness and mental illness in the Ancient Greek and Roman World. It will focus on descriptions of madness and mad people, as recorded in a variety of literary, historical, and medical sources. The goal is not to trace the chronological development of these ideas, but rather to acquire an understanding of some of the more prominent and influential concepts. The class will begin with an examination of Greek and Roman concepts of the 'mind', as recorded in both literary and medical sources. Depictions of mad people - both real and fictional - will be examined: source material will include 5th century Greek Tragedy, as well as a variety of historical texts. Particular attention will also be given to predominant medical concepts of madness, as found in the Hippocratic Corpus and in the works of medical authors such as Aretaeus, Galen, Caelius Aurelianus, and Celsus. The main focus of this examination will be on concepts of mania, melancholy, and phrenitis, diseases which were most commonly believed to produce madness. Group(s): A

HIST W4060y Laws of War in the Middle Ages 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The course focuses on the perception and regulation of wartime practices (rather than on strategy, tactics, and weaponry) in the period 300-1500. Themes include: the just war tradition, the Peace and Truce movement, siege warfare, non-combatants, prisoners of war, ransoming, chivalry, ambassadors, and diplomacy. Students will conduct independent research on a particular conflict chosen in consultation with the instructor. Group(s): A

HIST W4071y Princes and Republics: Medieval Italy (1000-1350) 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course sets out to explore the economic, religious, social, political and legal history of Italy from 1000 to 1350 with an emphasis on the central and northern Italy. The course material will be studied thematically. Themes include the male and female religious movements, the rise of commune, the formation of the social classes, culture and literature including the magnificent Dante, development of the civil law, domestic and international commerce, military conflicts, and the life at the countryside. Students will be expected to read primary and secondary historical sources, watch films, and look at the pictures with a critical eye, strive to arrive at original conclusions and questions, and participate extensively in class discussions. Group(s): A

HIST W4083x Medieval Crime 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course sets out to explore the nature of crime, particularly those involving violence, and the practices advanced to control and restrict it in the wide geographical area of Europe, with an emphasis on France, England and Italy. The course material will be studied thematically. Themes will include the violent crimes, political violence, the development of courts, the development of criminal law, investigations of specific types of crime such as murder, theft, crimes against women, the mentality and methods of punishment, prisons, torture, and the methods of inquisition. Group(s): A

HIST W4100y Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe Not offered in 2009-2010. Through a survey of women's lives from 1400-1800, this course will examine the transformation in European ideas about the proper sphere for women during a crucial period of social and intellectual change. Students should gain an understanding of how new economic forces, professionalization, the scientific revolution and new ideas about gender affected the structure of society and the place of women in it. Group(s): A

HIST W4101y The World We Have Lost: Daily Life in Pre-Modern Europe 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. What was daily life like for the "average" European in pre-industrial society? This course will examine the material circumstances of life in Europe from 1400-1800, and will investigate how historians are able to enter into the inner life and mental world of people who lived in past. How did people respond intellectually and emotionally to their material circumstances? The readings and discussions in the course aim to examine such questions, with an eye both to learning about the material conditions of life in pre-modern Europe, and to understanding the techniques by which historians are able to make the imaginative leap back into the mental world of the past. Group(s): A

HIST W4102y The Civilizing Processes, 1500-1750: Literature, Philosophy, and State 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Manners changed in western Europe in the early modern period. Why and so what? Investigates how new modes of self-discipline drew from and contributed to science, the Reformation, novels, reading practices, and courtly culture. Group(s): A

HIST W4104x Family, Sexuality & Marriage in Pre-Modern Europe 4 pts. This course examines the meaning of marriage in European culture from the early Middle Ages until the eighteenth century, concentrating on the period from 1200 to 1800. It begins with a study of Jewish and Christian teachings about marriage - the nature of the conjugal bond, the roles of men and women within marriage, and marital sexuality. It traces changes in that narrative over the centuries, analyzes its relationship to actual practice among various social groups, and ends in the eighteenth century with an examination of the ideology of the "companionate" marriage of modern western culture and its relation to class formation. Group(s): A

HIST W4105x Intellectual Origins of Political Economy 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A study of the emergence of political economy in eighteenth-century Britain and France, with a focus on the problematic relationship between economics and politics, and the gradual establishment of economics as a separate field of knowledge. Authors include Mandeville, Montesquieu, Hume, Rousseau, Smith, Say. Group(s): B

HIST W4107x Enlightenment and Science 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. An introduction to major scientific developments, their application to society and politics; and opposition to them during the European Enlightenment. Topics include physics, probability, chemistry, botany, encyclopedias, human nature, colonial science, mesmerism. Group(s): B

HIST W4109y Early Modern Media Events 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course explores the relationship between communication and historical change in early modern Europe, roughly 1450 to 1800. We will consider how different media shaped the course of events, and how these events in turn shaped practices of communication for society as a whole. Events will include the Protestant Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, the London Plague of 1695, the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 and the French Revolution of 1789. Reading and discussion of documents from the period, culminating in a research paper of 20 pages. Group(s): A

HIST W4125x Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Early Modern Europe 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. In this course we will examine theoretical and historical developments that framed the notions of censorship and free expression in early modern Europe. In the last two decades, the role of censorship has become one of the significant elements in discussions of early modern culture. The history of printing and of the book, of the rise national-political cultures and their projections of control, religious wars and denominational schisms are some of the factors that intensified debate over the free circulation of ideas and speech. Indexes, Inquisition, Star Chamber, book burnings and beheadings have been the subjects of an ever growing body of scholarship. We will analyze categories of prohibited speech such as political, religious, and offensive to civil society. We will look at the mechanisms of censorship: who served as censors? How consistently was censorship applied? How effective was censorship in suppressing unwanted expression? What were its unintended consequences? We will look at ways in which censorship triggered significant reaction, such as martyrdom or created a culture of dissimulation, such as marranism and nicodemism. Finally, we will ask whether early-modern censorship, in specific cases and in general, can be said to have had a constitutive role in the formation of modern culture. Group(s): B

HIST W4127y Enlightenment and its Critics: Montaigne and Skepticism 4 pts. In recent years a great number of books have been published on the "modern self." Few give Montaigne the credit he deserves in shaping our self-conception and the implications we draw from it. This course will examine the third book of Montaigne's Essays with an eye to understanding his portrayal of the self and determining how it has influenced proponents and critics of the Enlightenment ever since. ("Montaigne and skepticism," which was offered in the fall, complements this course but is not a pre-requisite.) Group(s): A

HIST W4130y Early Modern Globalization: The North Atlantic World and the Dutch Connection 4 pts. This course examines the extent and nature of early modern globalization, in particular the transatlantic exchanges between Europe and North America between the late fifteenth and late eighteenth centuries. The focus on the European side will be on England, France and the Netherlands. After an introduction on the current historical debate on early modern globalization and Atlantic history, the course first gives a survey of the expansion of trade networks and the growth of slavery and the slave trade. The next meetings deal with various constituent forces of globalization on the European side, notably the rise of fiscal-military states and the role of religion in power relations, and with various aspects of exchange in the North Atlantic World, namely the circulation of knowledge and environmental consequences of the 'biological expansion of Europe'. Finally, we will examine the Atlantic connection in European culture, European economies and political revolutions and discuss its relevance for the Great Divergence between the 'West' and the 'Rest'. Group(s): A

HIST W4180x Conversion in Historical Perspective 4 pts. Boundary crossers have always challenged the way societies imagined themselves. This course explores the political, religious, economic, and social dynamics of religious conversion. The course will focus on Western (Christian and Jewish) models in the medieval and early modern periods. It will include comparative material from other societies and periods. Autobiographies, along with legal, religious and historical documents will complement the readings. Group(s): A, BGlobal Core.

HIST W4202y Migrations In and Out of Central Europe, 1880-2000 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

A critical examination of the interactive patterns of outward and inward migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and its successor states. Attention is focused on the various waves of Austro-Hungarian emigration, on major figures and outstanding achievements, as well as on the question of immigration into Austria and other successor states of the former Habsburg Monarchy. Group(s): B

HSSL W4203y The History, Literature, and Film of Dissent in East-Central Europe 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The course is an interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural and political phenomenon of Eastern European dissent in the 1970s and 1980s, which culminated in the collapse of communism in the region. Using sources ranging from political essays, to drama, other fiction and film, students will explore the development of the region's oppositional movement's ideas and ideals. Group(s): B

HIST W4204x War and Society in Eastern Europe, 1939-Present 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The main objective of this course is to examine the Second World War as a catastrophic as well as defining moment in the history and politics of modern Eastern Europe. The course focuses not only on the Second World War itself but on its legacies -- the ongoing powerful emotional and political immediacy of the wartime. Group(s): B

HIST W4205x The History of East-West Relations in Europe, 1945-1991 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course offers the students an opportunity to study the history of East-West relations in the Cold War period on the basis of recently declassified archival documents with the help of one of the most experienced researchers in the field in the former Soviet bloc. Group(s): B

HIST W4223x Personality and Society In 19th-Century Russia 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Reviews works of Russian thought, literature, and memoir literature that trace the emergence of intelligentsia ideologies in 19th- and 20th-century Russia. Focuses on discussion of specific texts and traces the adoption and influence of certain Western doctrines in Russia, such as idealism, positivism, utopian socialism, Marxism, and various 20th-century currents of thought. Group(s): B

HIST W4227y Empire and Nation: Nationality Issues in the Russian Empire 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This senior seminar deals with nationalist challenges and nationality policies in imperial Russia. Particular emphasis will be placed on the imperial policies vis-à-vis national peripheries (primarily Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic, and Volga region) as well as religious minorities (particularly Jews, Roman Catholics, and Muslims). We will also analyze the relationship between the imperial government and Russian nationalism. The gap between nation and empire in Russia will be considered. The main chronological focus of the seminar is the long nineteenth century, the late eighteenth-the early twentieth centuries. Group(s): B

HIST W4235x Central Asia: Imperial Legacies, New Images 4 pts. This course is designed to give an overview of the politics and history of the five Central Asian states, including Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan starting from Russian imperial expansion to the present. We will examine the imperial tsarist and Soviet legacies that have profoundly reshaped the regional societies' and governments' practices and policies of Islam, gender, nation-state building, democratization, and economic development. Group(s): C

HIST W4258x Early Modern Russia, Ukraine and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 4 pts. The course examines the polities, societies, and cultures of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Ukrainian Cossack Hetmanate, and Muscovy-Imperial Russia in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Special attention is paid to the interaction of states and the flow of social models and cultural developments. The role of Poland in the "Westernization" of Ukraine and Russia, the relation of Western and Eastern Christianity, the consequences of the Cossack revolts, the flourishing and crisis of Polish Jews, the remaking of Eastern Europe through the rise of the Russian Empire, and the relation of the political thought and identities of the period to modern nations are major themes. Group(s): B

HIST W4302y From War to Peace: Britain and France in the 1940s 4 pts. This seminar considers the passage from a devastating war, experienced very differently in Britain and France, to the prospect of postwar transformation in both countries. For Britain topics will include the home front during the war; the Labour Party's landslide victory in 1945; socialist innovations including the National Health Service. For France topics will include wartime collaboration and resistance movements; liberation under de Gaulle's leadership; the postwar Fourth Republic and its problems. Group(s): B

HIST W4304y Modern Greece 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This undergraduate seminar focuses upon the emergence in the first half of the 19th century of an independent Greek nation-state, paying particular attention to the broader Ottoman context. Topics covered include: the Phanariots, the war of independence, the church and the constitution, urban planning and state formation, brigandage, peasant life and political violence. No prior knowledge of Greek or Balkan history is assumed. Group(s): B

HIST W4305x The European Enlightenment 4 pts. This course will include an in-depth examination of some major tinkers and texts of the French, Germans, and Scottish Enlightenments. By reading works of Montesquieu, Voltaire, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Hume, we will examine their radically divergent responses to the central intellectual quandries of their day, and in many ways our own: the realtionship between rationalism, science, and faith; religion and the state; the individual and the polity; cosmopolitanism and particularism; pluralism and relativism; and the meaning of liberty. Group(s): A, B

HIST W4307y Fin de Siecle Europe and the Origins of WWI 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: the permission of the instructor. An examination of political, economic, social and cultural trends in Europe in the two decades before W.W. I. The course will be comparative and transnational and end with a close analysis of the European situation in July 1914. Group(s): B

HIST W4308x Nations and Nationalisms in Nineteenth Century Europe 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This seminar will address the emergence and course of nationalism in Western Europe (France, Germany and Italy) from the period of the French Revolution to that of the unifications of Italy and Germany. It will be comparative in approach, transnational in perspective, political and cultural in focus, and entail engagement with current historiographical debates. Group(s): B

HIST W4310x Europe and the End of Empires: Decolonization in the 20th Century 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This seminar will explore a range of perspectives on the encounter between Europe and the "Third World" in the 20th-century. Group(s): B, C, D

HIST W4314x Animals from Aristotle to Agamben 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This class is a reading survey about how the Western philosophical and theological tradition has conceptualized the difference between humans and (other) animals. Are humans animals? (What are animals, first of all?) If humans are animals, how to conceptualize their differences? Either way, what are the consequences for how to understand oneself and treat animals? What is the nature of human dignity, and does it depend on some plausible distinction of humans from animals? (Note: this is not a class about animal rights except indirectly, insofar as the question of whether rights might or might not accrue to animals will depend on a prior study of the status of the human-animal border.) Group(s): A, B, D

HIST W4318x Globalizing American Consumer Culture 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This seminar explores concepts, perspectives and sources essential to understanding the U.S.'s use of soft power over the last century. Students will work with terms such as "hegemony," "Americanization," and "creolization" with an eye to developing their own topics which might range from Woolworths to Walmart and from fast food to faith-based intitiatives. Knowledge of a foreign language is required. Group(s): B, D

HIST W4320x Nation and Identity in Modern France 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course explores the development of the French nation and French identity from the Ancien Regime to the present. Themes include the growth of the French nation-state, national identity formation, imperialism, immigration, France's role within the European Union, and the globalization of markets and culture. Knowledge of French is desirable, but not required. Group(s): B

HIST W4322y German History, 1740-1914 4 pts. The history of the political, cultural, intellectual, social and economic struggle for mastery in Germany from Frederick the Great to the outbreak of the First World War. Subjects covered will include: the Holy Roman Empire; Enlightened Absolutism; Cultural Pluralism and the Third Germany; The French Revolution and Napoleon in Germany; Romanticism and the emergence of Nationalism; The German Confederation; Vormärz Politics and Culture; Art and Religion; The 1848 Revolutions; The processes of State building; The Austro-Prussian Wars; Bismarck and the Unification of the Second Empire; Richard Wagner and German Music; Wilhelmine Politics and Culture; The Origins of the First World War. Group(s): B

HIST W4328x From Hitler to Schwarzenegger: The Austrian Experience in State and Nation-building since 1900 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This seminar-type course attempts to follow and interpret the overarching and painful disintegrative experience of the First Republic as well as the ultimately successful path in Austrian state and nation-building in the Second Republic and will examine their peculiar myths and paradoxes. It will also pursue the question whether there is an "Austrian model" for state- and nation-building based on historical experience for other similarly-sized states. Group(s): B

HIST W4330y From Eden to Environmentalism 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Application required. How do we understand the natural world, live in it, and use it? From origin myths to the modern environmental movement, this course will explore how our conceptions of nature, our interactions with land and animals, and our view of our own place within nature have transformed. Group(s): ABCD

HIST W4345y John Stuart Mill: Life, Work, Legacy 4 pts. This course is designed for undergraduates and graduate students who, having had some introduction to Mill in CC or elsewhere, would like to spend a semester exploring his life, thought, and impact. This task is particularly interesting today, for Mill, revered by progressives in his own time for his support for intellectual liberties, a wider democratic franchise, and women's suffrage, and for his fierce criticism of military repression in Jamaica, is now often seen as one of the architects of Victorian thought, examining his writings in the context of political debates at the time, as well as his own involvement in key controversies over economic policy, the nature of the Victorian state, political reform and imperial governance. Together, we will try to understand not only what Mill though and did, but why has he continued to act as a lightening-rod for political controversy, in his time and in our own.

HIST W4358x Themes in Intellectual History: Montaigne and Skepticism 4 pts. What makes modern thought modern? One standard response to this question focuses on the alleged rationalism of modern philosophy and science, which broke with the dogmatic faith of the Middle Ages. This course will explore the suggestion that skepticism, not rationalism, is the distinguishing -- and most defensible -- feature of modern thought. Rather than survey the varieties of modern skepticism we will focus on its most important figure, Montaigne, and the first two books of his most important work, the Essays. (A course on the third book follows in the spring.) Group(s): A

HIST W4365x The Cold War in the Mediterranean 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The Cold War was a global war. It was fought on a multitude of regional fronts, shaped by legacies of European colonialism, the competing interests of the new superpowers, US and USSR, andlocal conflicts. This seminar focuses on the history of the Cold War in the Mediterranean area. It covers the period from the close of World War II to the collapse of the USSR, but focuses mainly on the period 1940s-1970s. Drawing on new perspectives from the Mediterranean area designed to reconnect the shores of the region, as well as on fresh documents and historical writing published since the end of the Cold War, this class intends to bridges areas of study-Southern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East-normally analyzed separately. Its perspective is to highlight the imprint left on the region as the two Superpowers stepped into European imperial shoes and struggled with one another to mark out their own areas of hegemony, playing on local national, religious, and political conflicts. Group(s): B

HIST W4376y History of Commercial Revolutions: From the China Shop in Europe to Wal-Mart in China 4 pts. This seminar examines commercial revolutions in historical perspective. It starts with the huge growth of Wal-Mart in the U.S. since the 1970s and its spread to China over the last decade, and it goes back to the 17th Century with the arrival of Asian, specially Chinese, goods in Western Europe, By commercial revolutions we mean big upheavals in long-distance market relations and big changes in local consumer outlooks and standards of living upon by the arrival of new goods and new kinds of distribution. These ruptures have always been a big, if not fully understood, element of globalization and asymmetrical and imperial relations. Students, in addition to reading some fascinating recent historical studies, (N. Lichtenstein, Wal-Mart World, M. Berg, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain, S. Mintz, Sugar and Power, G. Hamilton, Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies) will become familiar with Marxist, classical liberal and other explanations of these changes. Along with weekly discussion, students will write a research paper and present it at a mini-conference organized by the students at the end of the term. Group(s): B, C, D

HIST W4378x European Revolutions of 1848 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. European Revolutions of 1848 is a seminar dedicated to studying the violent and widespread upheavals of mid-century Europe. From the Swiss Civil War of 1847 to the coup of Louis Napoleon in 1851, this course connects the era's rapid changes to the economic, military, industrial, and political issues throughout the continent, including but not limited to Austria, France, Hungary, Prussia, Poland, and Sicily. Group(s): B

HIST W4380x The Idea of Europe 4 pts. This seminar is dedicated to studying the historical developments of the idea of Europe from antiquity until the early twenty-first century with an emphasis on modern times. We will examine the major shifts in the meanings and interpretations of Europe, covering regions from Russia to the United Kingdom, Hungary to the Netherlands, Portugal to Estonia. We will consider a wide range of historical perspectives, including but not limited to political, legal, economic, cultural, and religious traditions. Group(s): B

HIST W4382x Approaches to the French Revolution 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The French Revolution remains one of the world's great historical events, frequently cited as the turning point to the modern world. Known for its sheer drama and violence, and studied for its political legacy, the Revolution presented an ambitious agenda of civil equality, public liberties, universal citizenship, and modern nationhood. In this course, we will both study the events of the French Revolution and grapple with the major traditions of interpretation, from the late eighteenth century to the present. Group(s): B

HIST W4387x Postwar Germany in the "American Century": The Cultural Encounter in Its European and Transatlantic Context 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course discusses of the efforts to conceptualize 20th-century German-American interactions in a European context as "Americanization", "Americanism", "Westernization", "modernization", or "globalization". It will also include an examination of how communist East Germany and its rulers dealt with American cultural imports that swept across the Iron Curtain, reaching especially the younger generation; the rise of consumerism will be another important focus. The course will conclude by returning to the initial larger context of the American presence in postwar Europe as a whole and conclude with a discussion ofthe "Europeanization" of Europe and American culture and society as well as of European resistance to American culture and the related problem of the power of big business in the trans-Atlantic relationship. Group(s): B

HIST C4398x-C4399y Senior Thesis Seminar 4 pts. A year-long course for outstanding senior majors who want to conduct research in primary sources on a topic of their choice in any aspect of history, and to write a senior thesis possibly leading toward departmental honors. Group(s): ABCD

HIST W4400y Americans and the Natural World, 1800 to the Present 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

Americans and the Natural World deals with how Americans have treated and understood nature since 1820. It focuses on changing context over time, from the rural and agrarian landscapes of the early 19th century to the suburban and eco-tourist environments of the present. A major theme is the way Americans have connected or failed to connect the natural world around them and whether or not it matters, one way or the other. Group(s): D

HIST W4404y Native American History 4 pts. This course introduces students to the forces that transformed the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas into "Indians." The class takes a very broad approach, moving chronologically and thematically from the dawn of time to the present. The course aims to expose students to the diversity of the Native American experience by including all the inhabitants of the Americas, from Greenland to Tierra del Fuego, within its purview. Group(s): A, DGlobal Core.

HIST W4414x Early American Religious History 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. An overview of the role of religion in American society, from Columbus through the eve of the Civil War. Includes scholarship on Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans. Major themes include forms of religious knowledge, religion and cross-cultural relations, conversion, confessional conflict, resistance movements, religion and social change, evangelism, witchcraft, and women and religion. Group(s): A, D

HIST W4415x The American Revolution 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines the causes, courses, and consequences of the American Revolution. Considers the different interpretations historians have developed to make sense of the world of the revolution. Group(s): D

HIST W4416y Interpreting the North American West 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course examines the significance of the West in American and Canadian history, focusing on state formation, Native American histories, land tenure, capitalist expansion, empire, environment, and myth. Group(s): D

HIST W4417x African-American Urban History 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course will introduce several key themes in African-American urban history, including community formation, social movements, politics, identity, and political economy. Although the majority of the readings are "historical" (authored by historians), this course recognizes that historical consideration of black urban existences benefits from scholarship in other disciplines, such as sociology, political science, and anthropology, and geography. Requirements include one research paper dealing with a student-chosen and instructor-approved topic. Group(s): D

HIST W4419y The Age of Discovery 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

HIST W4420x The U.S. in the Progressive Era, 1890-1919 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The period known as the "Progressive Era" in the United States witnessed major transformations in American society. We will examine currents of social change and reform in the terms of mass immigration, urbanization, and industrialization; commercialized culture; Jim Crow segregation; and U.S. projects on the world stage. Closed to first-year students. Group(s): D

HIST W4422y Women and American Citizenship 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Application required.

HIST W4426x People of the Old South 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. No place or period in American history has ignited more passion or brought into being a richer trove of first-rate scholarship than the South in the years before the Civil War. At the same time, no place or period in American history has generated more misguided scholarship or more outright lies and propaganda. In this course, students will sample for themselves both historical literature and primary sources about the Old South, evaluating the interpretations historians have offered and scrutinizing some of the documents with which historians of the Old South work. The semester's work is divided into topics. Each topic consists of one or more COMMENTARY weeks, devoted to discussion of secondary literature, and one or more DOCUMENT weeks, devoted to probing of primary sources. Group(s): D

HIST W4429y Telling About the South 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Limited enrollment. Priority given to senior history majors. A remarkable array of Southern historians, novelists, and essayists have done what Shreve McCannon urges Quentin Compson to do in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom--tell about the South--producing recognized masterpieces of American literature. Taking as examples certain writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, this course explores the issues they confronted, the relationship between time during which and about they wrote, and the art of the written word as exemplified in their work. Group(s): D

HIST W4431x Creating the Modern Artist: Urban Bohemias from Paris to Chicago 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course interrogates the function of art and artists within modern capitalist societies. We will trace the cultural productions, internal dynamics, and social significance of bohemian communities from their origins in 1840s Paris to turn of the century London and New York to interwar Los Angeles to present day Chicago. Students will conduct research exploring the significance of some aspect of a bohemian community. Group(s): B, D

HIST W4433y Presidential Successions, 1976-2008 Not offered in 2009-2010. The purpose of this course is to examine critically the evolution of the American presidency in the years since 1976. Our principal concern will be to consider the administrations of five men who could not have been more different in their beliefs and habits, in their successes and failures. Group(s): D

HIST W4434x The Atlantic Slave Trade 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This seminar provides an intensive introduction to the history of the Atlantic slave trade. The course will consider the impact of the traffic on Western Europe and the Americas, as well as on Africa, and will give special attention to the experiences of both captives and captors. Assignments include three short papers and a longer research paper of 20 to 25 pages. Group(s): ABCD

AMHS W4435y American Culture and Politics in the 1930s 4 pts. A seminar on cultural and political responses to the Great Depression in the United States. Students will read works by historians of the period, as well as examine novels, photographs, films, music, advertisements, and other works of the period. Topics to be considered include: the achievements and limitations of the New Deal; the leftward shift of artists and intellectuals; documentary, social-realist literature, folk music, public art, and theater; the politics of federal arts programs; and the left-liberal "little magazines" of the period. Group(s): D

HIST W4443x Society and Politics in the Gilded Age 4 pts. Emphasis on working with primary sources, including archival research. Themes include the rise of corporate industry and the labor movement; demise of Reconstruction; emergence of populism, conquest of the West, immigration, and expansion of commerical culture; debates over social reform and feminism. Group(s): D

HIST W4446y Readings in American Legal History 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

HIST W4450x Histories of American Capitalism 4 pts. In this seminar we will explore histories of capitalism in the United States and examine various ways that scholars have used transformations in markets and industries to explain and illuminate the course of American history. We will study capitalism in the broadest sense, reading works both within and beyond the traditional boundaries of business and political economy. We will evaluate the potential of capitalism to serve as a unifying narrative in American history. The course will be topical rather than comprehensive, and will cover subjects from 1800 to the present. Group(s): D

HIST W4458y Public History in America 4 pts. In this seminar we will explore some of the ways historical subjects can be, and have been, engaged outside of the traditional channels of scholarship. Among the many forms in which history and the historical memory are presented, we will examine exhibits, film and television productions, websites, reenactments, memorials and monuments, historical sites, the spoken word, and institutions. The class will include visits to public history sites as well as guest speakers and will include critical readings in history and other fields.

HIST W4478y The American Pacific 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course addresses the historical and historiographic problems of United States expansion and territorial possession in the Pacific. The class examines the two most prominent cases, Hawaii and the Philippines, in an analytical frame with three dimensions, (1) the role of expansionism and empire in American national development and consciousness; (2) the role of the U.S. in the making of the modern Pacific world; and (3) the implications of colonialism for U.S. immigration and ethnic history. Group(s): D

HIST W4483x Military History and Policy 4 pts. This seminar features extensive reading, multiple written assignments, and a term paper, as well as a likely trip to Gettsyburg. It focuses on the Civil War and on World Wars I and II. Group(s): D

HIST W4495x The U.S. In Depression and War: The Age of Franklin Roosevelt 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. When Franklin Roosevelt put Alfred E. Smith's name in nomination at the 1924 Democratic National Convention, the U.S. was a nation proud of its isolation from the rest of the world, eager to increase that isolation (through the harsh immigration restrictions that became law that year), with a small federal establishment and a military that was swiftly resuming the amateur status that had characterized it in the decades preceding the First World War. By 1945, the U.S. was a global atomic superpower, and was starting to face the question of racial inequality and other social-justice issues that it had tried hard to ignore for several decades. This course traces the changes that took place, the reasons for those changes, and the differing interpretations that historical actors, journalists, and historians have offered. The course is conducted as a seminar (limited to 15 students, with a preference given to senior history majors), with heavy emphasis on class discussion of the readings. Two short critical essays on the reading (approx. 3 pages each) and one term paper (20-25 pages) involving original research will be required. Group(s): D

HIST W4509y Problems In International History 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The object here is to illuminate how histories of the "international"and the "relations" it posits are periodized and structured by meansof key concepts. This year we will investigate how the problem of 'insurgency' and its semantic relative 'counter-insurgency' has appeared in various settings across time and space. Group(s): D

HIST W4518x and y Slavery and Emancipation In the United States 4 pts. This seminar will consist of weekly readings and discussion of works dealing with the history of slavery in the United States, the anti-slavery movement, the coming of emancipation during the Civil War, and how Americans tried to deal with the consequences of emancipation. There will also be one 20-page paper for the semester. Group(s): D

HIST W4531y Migration and Ethnicity in U.S. History 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The history of migration to America, the making of ethnic, racial, and diasporic communities, and the problems and controversies facing the U.S. as it developed as a multicultural society. Attention is given to new paradigms in migration studies, e.g. transnationalism and diaspora; situating U.S. history in a global framework, and consideration of colonialism and nationalism. Group(s): D

HIST W4535y 20th Century New York City History 4 pts. This course explores critical areas of New York's economic development in the 20th century, with a view to understanding the rise, fall and resurgence of this world capital. Discussions also focus on the social and political significance of these shifts. Assignments include primary sources, secondary readings, film viewings, trips, and archival research. Students use original sources as part of their investigation of New York City industries for a 20-page research paper. An annotated bibliography is also required. Students are asked to give a weekly update on research progress, and share information regarding useful archives and websites.

HIST W4548x American Social Policy from the Progressives to the Present. 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. An exploration of the intellectual, political, and social sources and consequences of some key social policies with special attention to the roles played by gender, race and religion in their configuration. This fall, the course is likely to include such issues as Mothers' pensions; protective labor legislation; health care; social security; unemployment insurance; equal employment opportunity; birth control and abortion; welfare; and affirmative action. A substantial research paper will be required. Group(s): D

HIST W4563y Politics and the Press In America from the Revolution to the Present 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course is crosslisted with Journalism. Not all spots are open to Undergraduate History Majors. Considers Thomas Jefferson and the press, muckraking, yellow journalism and the Spanish-American War, McCarthyism, Vietnam, and the modern political scandal from Watergate to the Starr Report. Group(s): D

HIST W4577y A "Civilization and Its Discontents": U.S. Cultural History, 1890-1945 4 pts. This class begins during the fabled "Gilded Age," when the nation's capitalist expansion created the world's largest economy but splintered Americans' ideals. From the fin-de-siècle through the cataclysms of World War II, we will explore how Americans defined, contested, and performed different meanings of American civilization through social reform movements, artistic expressions, and the everyday habits and customs of individuals and groups. The class will pay particular attention to how gender, race, and location--regional, international, and along the class ladder--shaped perspectives about what constituted American civilization and the national discourse about what it should become.

HIST W4583y History of Public Health In Harlem 1950-1990 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. It is well known that, in the 1960's the decline in unskilled manufacturing jobs, coupled with the inability of blacks to enter inustries requiring higher skills, contribute to high rates of unemployment and poverty and,in turn, increased morbidity and mortality in Harlem. Group(s): D

HIST W4584x History of African-American Health and Health Movements 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Previous course work in African-American history or social science; United States social history; or sociomedical sciences required. Students will gain a solid knowledge and understanding of the health issues facing African Americans since the turn of the twentieth century. Topics to be examined will include, but will not be limited to, black women�s heath organization and care; medical abuses and the legacy of Tuskegee; tuberculosis control; sickle cell anemia; and substance abuse. Group(s): D

HIST W4586y Labor and Class Formation in the Americas 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course introduces students to the comparative study of class relations in Latin America, the United States, and Canada. Topics include the transitions to "free" labor systems, sex and ethnic divisions of labor, labor migration, state power, and imperialism. Group(s): D

HIST W4588x Substance Abuse Politics in African-American History 4 pts. In the 1950s and 1960s New York City was the epicenter of what politicians and researchers called an "epidemic" of narcotics addiction. Some estimated that as many as 300,000 heroin addicts lived in New York City, perhaps half of them living in the area of Harlem. However, several things became apparent by the late 1960s. First, many of the estimates of the extent of heroin addiction were greatly exaggerated. Second, most people who experimented with heroin did not become addicted - addiction is multifaceted. Finally, much of the alarm had a distinctly reactionary and racist tone, motivating a public response which often was more punitive than therapeutic. Through a series of secondary- and primary-source readings and web-based writing assignments, students in this seminar course will explore one of the most controversial aspects of African-American public health history. Readings are primarily historical and sociological, and the principal focus is heroin from its emergence in the 1950s through the crack cocaine era. Topics of discussion include print and visual media representations; racism and the war on drugs; the Rockefeller Drug Laws; methadone and harm reduction; the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC); and urban politics. Harlem, New York City will be of particular interest in this course. Group(s): D

HIST W4602y The French Revolution to the Dreyfus Affair: Jews in 19th-Century France 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. French Jews followed a unique path of emancipation. The very presence of a strong State shaped their long term history. Assimilation through regeneration was expected from them leading to a kind of "statization" of judaïsm. Jews nevertheless were able to face this specific challenge, resisting even against Napoleon authoritarian attempt to destroy their culture and sociability. While disappearing as a recognized nation or even a minority, threatened also by the growing secularism, they protect their sub-culture and their solidarity within the nation.Being citizens, they became often State Jews,climbing at the highest level of the State without conversion and played a crucial role in the public sphere,thus provoking a new form of political antisemitism against their presence within the State. From the French Revolution to the Dreyfus Affair, by many aspects, they were symbolically at the core of France's nineteenth century history. Group(s): B

HIST W4603x Jewish Migration to the Americas: Eastern European Jews in the U.S. and Latin America, 1881-1939 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, millions of Jews in Eastern Europe, home to the largest Jewish community in the nineteenth century -- uprooted themselves from their places of birth and settled in new homes around the world. This mass migration not only transformed the cultural and demographic centers of world Jewry, but also fundamentally changed the way in which Jews defined their communities and expressed their interests. In this course, we shall analyze primary source material, literary accounts as well as secondary sources as we try to make sense of the different factors shaping East European Jewish immigrants' experiences in the Americas. We begin by looking at Jewish life in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe. During the nineteenth century, numerous factors such as economic modernization, secularization, repressive tsarist legislations, and the rise of new Jewish ideologies transformed Jewish life in Eastern Europe and prompted thousands of Jews to leave their homes and seek their fortunes elsewhere. As East European Jews spread throughout the world, they formed new communities in the United States, Argentina and Brazil which we shall examine from the perspective of social, political, and cultural history. In what ways did migration change East European Jews daily life? What impact did the divergent socio-economic contexts have on Jewish immigrant economic and religious life? What role did gender, class and ideology play in molding the experiences of East European Jewish immigrants in different parts of the world? The objective of this course, however, is not just to learn the history of immigrant Jews in these regions. Rather, we will aim to ask questions about what it means to be a Jew living in the United States the mythic "promised land" -- and Latin America -- an area with an often unsettled modern history that for centuries served as a European colonial outpost and a Catholic stronghold. Group(s): D

HIST W4604y Jews and the City 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Over the course of the nineteenth century, millions of Jews uprooted themselves from their places of birth and moved to cities scattered throughout the world. This mass urbanization not only created new demographic centers of world Jewry, but also fundamentally transformed Jewish political and cultural life. In this course, we shall analyze primary source material, literary accounts as well as secondary sources as we examine the Jewish encounter with the city, and see how Jewish culture was shaped by and helped to shape urban culture. We shall compare Jewish life in six cities spanning from Eastern Europe to the United States and consider how Jews� concerns molded the urban economy, urban politics, and cosmopolitan culture. We shall also consider the ways in which urbanization changed everyday Jewish life. What impact did it have on Jewish economic and religious life? What role did gender and class play in molding the experiences of Jews in different cities scattered throughout the world? Group(s): B, C, D

HIST W4605y Historical Dilemmas in the Israeli War of Independence 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The last two decades were witness to an ongoing controversy regarding the Israeli War of Independence. The seminar will endeavor to present a complex picture of the Israeli war of independence, with special emphasis on changing perspectives, due to new research in the field. Questions of international politics, relations between Jews and Arabs, the emergence of the Jewish state, the creation of state authority, myths and memory, will be dealt with. A major theme would be the history of Jerusalem during the war, as a focus of Jewish and Arab interests. Group(s): C

HIST W4606x Israel as a Constitutional State 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course covers the history of the development of a constitution in Israel, by closely analyzing the debates surrounding it as well as the judicial decisions which interpret its basic (constitutional) laws. Group(s): C

HIST W4643x Women in Jewish Mystical Movements 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. The absence of women from the extant record of the Jewish mystical tradition has been contrasted with the well attested presence of numerous women in the mystical traditions of both Christianity and Islam. The course endeavors to explain this peculiarity while at the same time re-examining the current definitions of Jewish mystical spirituality, considering the possibility of extending its scope to include the experiences of female pietists, martyrs, and visionaries, dating from the Middle Ages through the early modern to the modern era. Special attention will be paid to the exceptional prominence of women in the 17th century mystical-messianic heresy of Sabbateanism and its offshoots, as well as to the position of women in the revivalist movement of Hasidism, from its inception in mid 18th century Poland to the present. Group(s): B

HIST W4645y Spinoza to Sabbatai: Jews in Early Modern Europe 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of the historical, political, and cultural developments in the Jewish communities of early-modern Western Europe (1492-1789) with particular emphasis on the transition from medieval to modern patterns. We will study the resettlement of Jews in Western Europe, Jews in the Reformation-era German lands, Italian Jews during the late Renaissance, the rise of Kabbalah, and the beginnings of the quest for civil Emancipation. Group(s): A, B

HIST W4659y Crime in Latin America 4 pts. This seminar will focus on studies that take a historical look at crime in the Latin American context and will bring the discussion to the present. Transnational connections and comparisons will be encouraged, particularly as we explore the history and contemporary phenomenon of drug trafficking, incorporating the United States as a factor and a scene for Latin American crime. Readings, discussions and reports will try to identify commonalities across Latin American and dig deeper on some specific places and moments. In order to do this, we will devote part of the semester to the analysis of primary sources, and will require a research component in the final paper. Group(s): D

HIST W4663y Gender and Sexualities in Early Latin America 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This undergraduate seminar aims to explore the dynamic relations of genders in Latin American post-contact societies. We will reflect on how femininity and masculinity were socially constructed and influenced by factors such as ethnicity and socio-economic groups, and on how individuals lived their sexuality. Starting from the more traditional approaches to the topic, we will move to the analysis of the recent tendencies, covering both the early and the late colonial period. Group(s): A, D

HIST W4665y Indigenous Worlds In Early Latin America 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This undergraduate seminar deals with the presence of indigenous peoples in Latin American colonial societies and aims to provide an analysis of indigenous responses to conquest and colonization. The focus will be on how indigenous peoples saw themselves and interacted with the other groups, to reflect upon the roles they actually played within Latin American societies and the spaces they were or were not granted, or were able to create for themselves. Although we try to cover the main indigenous groups, we will focus on colonial Mexico, my area of expertise and also the most developed branch of the literature, especially in terms of indigenous languages. Group(s): A, D

HIST W4667x Nahuatl Language and Culture 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This undergraduate seminar aims to give the students a basic knowledge of Nahuatl, the main indigenous language of central Mexico, still in use nowadays. During the classes we will explore the principal structures as for grammar and usage, focusing on classical Nahuatl, the version of the language employed during colonial times to produce documents and communicate. A vast and varied literature of mundane documents and ecclesiastically sponsored texts exists; we are going to concentrate on the type of everyday Nahuatl which goes well into the eighteenth century and includes all the Spanish contact phenomena that are still in the language today. The objective goes beyond pure language learning, using the language as a way to reach a better understanding of indigenous society and history. Following an agreement with the universities of Yale and Chicago, the seminar will offer the possibility to join an intensive training in contemporary Nahuatl in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, during the summer, with Professor Jonathan Amith (FLAS scholarships are available). In addition, pending an agreement with the University of Zacatecas, Mexico, there will be the possibility to work with an indigenous speaker for one week during the seminar. Group(s): A, D

HSEA W4700x Rise of Modern Tibet: 1600-1913 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course is designed for students interested in gaining a broad view of Tibetan history from the 1600 to 1913. We will cover the institutional history of major Tibetan state structures and their rivals in the Tibetan borderlands. The three main themes we will examine are the cosmopolitan aspects of Tibetan culture, the central role of Buddhist religion in Tibet, and the social and economic world which shaped the experiences of Tibetans. Group(s): A, C

HIST W4701x Hegemony and Rebellion in the Early Modern Middle East 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

In this seminar we will explore the formation and breakdown of state power in the "early modern Middle East." We will begin with a consideration of the temporal definition of "early modern" and the geographic definitions of "Middle East." We will then read a variety of sources on aspects, first of hegemony and governance, and then of conflict and rebellion. Major sets of issues include: comparative state formation of the Ottoman and Safavid states, the role of religious authority and religious differences in early modern state-building, the relationship between dominant and non-dominant religious, ethnic, and social groups in Ottoman and Safavid governance, and transitions from Ottoman and post-Safavid (Qajar) governance to modernity. While the weekly readings will proceed in roughly chronological order, these major themes will reemerge at several points in the semester. Group(s): A, C

HIST W4703x The Ottoman Empire in the Arab World 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course examines the often fraught relationship between Arabic-speaking communities and the Ottoman imperial state from the Ottoman conquest of Arab lands in 1517 through the end of the nineteenth century. Group(s): A, C

HIST W4713x Orientalism and the Historiography of the Other 4 pts. This course will examine some of the problems inherent in Western historical writing on non-European cultures, as well as broad questions of what itmeans to write history across cultures. The course will touch on therelationship between knowledge and power, given that much of the knowledge we will be considering was produced at a time of the expansion of Western power over the rest of the world. By comparing some of the "others" which European historians constructed in the different non-western societies they depicted, and the ways other societies dealt with alterity and self, we may be able to derive a better sense of how the Western sense of self was constructed. Group(s): C

HSEA W4720y 20th Century Tibetan History 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

HIST W4762y Islam In Africa 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Questions driving this seminar will include: Is Islam foreign to Africa, or is it local? What were the historical relationships between Muslims and non-believers, broadly, and between Muslim scholars and mystics and state power, more narrowly? How have the means and the ends of Muslim political engagement in sub-Saharan Africa changed over the last millenium, and particularly under colonial rule in the 19th and 20th centuries? We will read several texts written by African Muslims of the 16th through the 20th centuries, in addition to the work of historians, anthropologists, and others who have addressed the history of Africa�s Muslims. Group(s): A, C

HIST W4767y Apartheid and its Afterlife: History and Memory in 20th Century 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar examines the theory and practice of apartheid in 20th century South Africa and the struggles waged against it. Its central analytical focus, however, is on the memory and legacy of apartheid as manifested in testimonies before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and in a range of other oral, written, and visual accounts. Members of the seminars will work with primary documentary sources from TRC hearings and, among others, will study works by Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Antjie Krog, J.M. Coetzee, Martha Minow, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Graeme Simpson, Heidi Grunebaum, and Mark Sanders. Group(s): C

HIST W4767y Apartheid and its Afterlife: History and Memory in 20th Century Not offered in 2009-2010. This seminar examines the theory and practice of apartheid in 20th century South Africa and the struggles waged against it. Its central analytical focus, however, is on the memory and legacy of apartheid as manifested in testimonies before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and in a range of other oral, written, and visual accounts. Members of the seminars will work with primary documentary sources from TRC hearings and, among others, will study works by Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Antjie Krog, J.M. Coetzee, Martha Minow, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Graeme Simpson, Heidi Grunebaum, and Mark Sanders.

HIST W4768x Writing Contemporary African History 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. An exploration of the historiography of contemporary (post-1960) Africa, this course asks what African history is, how it is (or is not) distinct from other fields of history, why it is written, and what is at stake in its production. Particular focus on themes of nation and crisis. Group(s): C

HIST W4770x Women's Work and Personal Narratives In 20th-Century South Africa 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Places texts and interpretation of South African women�s work and gendered consciousness in historical context. Group(s): C

HIST W4779x Africa and France 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course endeavors to understand the development of the peculiar and historically conflictual relationship that exists between France, the nation-states that are its former African colonies, and other contemporary African states. It covers the period from the 19th century colonial expansion through the current 'memory wars' in French politics and debates over migration and colonial history in Africa. Historical episodes include French participation in and eventual withdrawal from the Atlantic Slave Trade, emancipation in the French possessions, colonial conquest, African participation in the world wars, the wars of decolonization, and French-African relations in the contexts of immigration and the construction of the European Union. Readings will be drawn extensively from primary accounts by African and French intellectuals, dissidents, and colonial administrators.However, the course offers neither a collective biography of the compelling intellectuals who have emerged from this relationship nor a survey of French-African literary or cultural production nor a course in international relations. Indeed, the course avoids the common emphasis in francophone studies on literary production and the experiences of elites and the common focus of international relations on states and bureaucrats. The focus throughout is on the historical development of fields of political possibility and the emphasis is on sub-Saharan Africa. Group(s): B, C

HIST W4803y Subaltern Studies and Beyond: History and the Archive 4 pts. This is an advanced undergraduate seminar course that will retrace the history of the making of the Subaltern Studies problematic, considered a major intervention in both Indian nationalist history and the wider discipline of history itself, with a focus on the relationship between method, archives, and the craft of history writing. Group(s): A, C

HIST W4807y Revolutionary Nationalism in India and Ireland 4 pts. This course will survey some of the primary writings of Indian revolutionary thinkers and Irish revolutionary thinkers in the early 20th century, as well as secondary sources on the subject of international revolutionary movements to explore the international connections between the two (Irish and Indian) anti-colonial nationalist struggles but also to examine the common intellectual resources they drew from. Both sets of revolutionaries were considered "terrorists" by the colonial government and this course will examine the politics, the ideology, and the historical trajectory of revolutionary nationalist thought. Group(s): B, C

HSEA W4828y China's Cultural Revolution: History and Memory Not offered in 2009-2010.

What happened in the Cultural Revolution? Why and how? What are its long-term consequences in China and the world? These are the questions we will examine. Our approach is interdisciplinary, meaning we will be analyzing the Cultural Revolution from multiple perspectives - sociological, historical, as well as literary. This also means we will be studying different genres of representation, from primary documents to memoirs, films, and social science and historical analyses. In the first part of the seminar, we will discuss the contemporary relevance of the Cultural Revolution and then read a memoir and watch a documentary film to get a "feel" of history. The second part focuses on the causes, dynamics, and impact of the Cultural Revolution, covering the entire period from 1949 to 1976. The third and last part examines the major events at the end of the Cultural Revolution and the politics and poetics of history and memory since then. Because the Cultural Revolution era occupied a central place in the history of the PRC, an analysis of its complexities offers a unique angle for exploring various aspects of Chinese society, politics, and culture, then and now. Group(s): C

HSEA W4860y Culture and Society In Choson Korea, 1392-1910 4 pts.

HIST W4865x Vietnam War: History, Media, Memory 4 pts. The wars in Vietnam and Indochina as seen in historical scholarship, contemporary media, popular culture and personal recollection. The seminar will consider American, Vietnamese, and international perspectives on the war, paying particular attention to Vietnam as the "first television war" and the importance of media images in shaping popular opinion about the conflict. Group(s): B, C, D

HSEA W4866x Competing Nationalisms in East Asias: China/Tibet 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

Nationalism has dramatically influenced the writing of history in East Asia. The seminar will first introduce theories of nationalism and their application to Asia in general and China and Tibet in particular. We will then consider both Chinese and Tibetan nationalist representations of their shared history, as well as the perspectives that these two extreme ideologies serve to limit. Finally, you will turn these examples and analytical tools to the other contexts that you will explore through independent research. By critically examining the historical arguments for and against the inclusion of Tibet as part of the modern Chinese nation-state, students will have an opportunity to compare two important cultural traditions presented as competing national entities. Together we will examine the issue of nationalist influences on representations of Asian history through the lens of Chinese and Tibetan historiography. This will serve as an analytical model for guiding students' research on their own chosen topic. Individually, students will examine nationalist historical writing in their own country of interest or in the conflicting representations of history between two of these countries. Students will be particularly encouraged to explore previous versions of history and current controversies about how the events of the Japanese occupation of Korea, Manchurian, Inner Mongolia or parts of China Proper (e.g. the events surrounding the fall of Nanjing) are remembered. Group(s): C

HSEA W4869x History of Ancient China to the End of Han 4 pts. In this upper level course, we will detail the development of early Chinese civilization and discuss a series of cultural and institutional inventions. The course will also provide a systematic introduction to the most fascinating archaeological discoveries in the past century. Group(s): A, C

HSEA W4871x The City in Modern China 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010.

In the era of high imperialism, urban transformation was global. Cities throughout the world were modernizing and implementing modern planning projects. Yet, while global, the experience of modern urban development was by no means universal. This course addresses the question of how two Chinese cities - Shanghai and Beijing - were imagined and experienced from the late imperial period into the early twentieth-century. We will start by investigating key social, political, and cultural factors that shaped urban life. What did the urban spatial landscape look like, how did changes in media shape communication practices in the city, and in what manner did the vicissitudes of political change at the national level affect life and governance on the civic level? In addition to examining the nature of concrete urban experience, we will also concern ourselves with the question of how cosmopolitanism was imagined. When and how was the city a symbol of civilization and imperial power, of modernity, of nationhood? What types of people were associated with urban centers and why? What urban spaces were imagined as part of the imperial city and what spaces considered part of the modern metropolis? This course keeps in mind that urban histories varied from city and city, and will thus compare how urban life in new treaty ports like Shanghai might have differed radically from old capital cities like Beijing. To explore these various issues, we will use historiographic essays and monographs, cultural and social theory on urbanity and space, visual material including calendar posters and advertisements, as well as fiction and film. Group(s): C

HSEA W4881x Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors: Social History of Chinese Religion 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. An undergraduate seminar in the social and cultural history of Chinese religion, organized roughly chronologically, built as much as possible around translated Chinese religious texts, and paying special attention to the question of the relationship between the human and divine worlds. We'll be looking at how Chinese ideas about that relationship have changed over time, and at other important aspects of how the Chinese saw the spirit world--Why did ancestors become less important and gods more important over the course of Chinese history? Did the Chinese really picture their gods as bureaucrats like those in their own earthly government?--and so on. Group(s): A, CGlobal Core.

HSEA W4884y Economic History of Modern China 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Intensive examination of the legal, economic, cultural, and political forces that shaped the Chinese economy in the late imperial and Republican periods. Group(s): C

HSEA W4886y Gender, Passions, and Social Order In China Since 1500 4 pts. Explores the themes of love, virtue, and sexuality and their roles in the construction of orthodox morality, gender relations, medical and judicial knowledge, and political order in late imperial, modern and contemporary China. Group(s): A, CMajor Cultures Requirement: East Asian Civilization List B.

HSEA W4890y Historiography of East Asia 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course is designed primarily for majors in East Asian studies in their junior year; others may enroll with the instructor's permission. Major issues in the practice of history illustrated by critical reading of important historical works on East Asia. Group(s): A, CMajor Cultures Requirement: East Asian Civilization List B.

HSEA W4891x Law in Chinese History 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. An introduction to chines Legal history and the role of law in chinese society and culture with a focus particularly on Qing period. Issues covered include civil and criminal law,formal and informal justice, law and the family, law and the economy, law and literature, and the question of a rule of law in China. Group(s): A, C

HIST W4900y Historian's Craft 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Intended for history majors, this course raises the issues of the theory and practice of history as a discipline. Special emphasis on conceptualization of research topics and subsequent investigation of appropriate archives. In order to visit archives, there will be four extra class meetings set apart from normal class hours. These outings are tentatively scheduled for Fridays, 11:00-12:50. Students are expected to attend 2-3 required field trips on Friday mornings. Please contact the instructor for more information. Group(s): ABCD

HIST W4902x World War II 4 pts. A global examination of the coming, course, and consequences of World War II from the differing viewpoints of the major belligerents and those affected by them. Emphasis is not only on critical analysis but also on the craft of history-writing. Group(s): B, C, D

HIST W4908x Reading and Writing Narrative history 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor approval based on a writing sample. A workshop on the craft of historical narrative. Narrative theory and exemplary texts in the tradition are considered, but students are expected to write a narrative using primary sources. Group(s): ABCD

HIST W4910x Technology and History 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Introduces students to the problems of thinking historically about technology and the relationship between technology and culture. Group(s): ABCD

HIST W4911x Medicine and Western Civilization 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This seminar seeks to analyze the ways by which medicine and culture combine to shape our values and traditions. To this end, it will examine notable literary, medical, and social texts from classical antiquity to the present. A, B, D

HIST W4914x The Future as History 4 pts. An introduction to the historical origins of forecasting, projections, long-range planning, and future scenarios. Topics include apocalyptic ideas and movements, utopias and dystopias, and changing conceptions of time, progress, and decline. A key theme is how relations of power, including understandings of history, have been shaped by expectations of the future. Group(s): ABCD

HIST W4918y Smuggling, Drugs, and States 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. Why have some forms of migration, trade, and organized violence become illegal, and how is this connected to the formation of modern states and borders? These questions will be addressed from a global perspective over the last five centuries. Group(s): ABCD

HIST W4928x Comparative Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World 4 pts. This seminar investigates the experiences of slavery and freedom among African-descended people living and laboring in the various parts of the Atlantic World. The course will trace critical aspects of these two major, interconnected historical phenomena with an eye to how specific cases either manifested or troubled broader trends across various slaveholding societies. The first half of the course addresses the history of slavery and the second half pertains to experiences in emancipation. However, since the abolition of slavery occurs at different moments in various areas of the Atlantic World, the course will adhere to a thematic rather than a chronological structure, in its examination of the multiple avenues to freedom available in various regions. Weekly units will approach major themes relevant to both slavery and emancipation, such as racial epistemologies among slaveowners/employers, labor regimes in slave and free societies, cultural innovations among slave and freed communities, gendered discourses and sexual relations within slave and free communities, and slaves' and freepeople's resistance to domination. The goal of this course is to broaden students' comprehension of the history of slavery and freedom, and to promote an understanding of the transition from slavery to freedom in the Americas as creating both continuities and ruptures in the structure and practices of the various societies concerned. Group(s): ABCD

HIST W4976x Symbolic Geography: East and West in Modern European Political Thought 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This seminar discusses how frequent changes in European political borders during the 19th and 20th centuries have been reflected in the political thought of the continent. It focuses on 20th century Eastern and Central European interpretations of the regions. Group(s): B

HIST W4988y The African Diaspora in the Atlantic World 4 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course investigates the historic dispersals, growth, and influence of people of African descent throughout the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean, namely Africa, the Americas, and Europe, from approximately 1500 to the present. It will analyze political,cultural, economic, and social developments among black people across time and space in the Atlantic World, exploring themes, such as slavery, emancipation, migration, gender, popular politics, religion, and hip-hop. It will examine the implications of the Diaspora as a concept on race identity and the meaning of "blackness" throughout history. While the course will primarily be based upon the reading of historical texts, we will also examine artistic representations of the black experience, such as film, music, or literature, to also gain a better understanding of the people of the African Diaspora. Group(s): ABCD

HIST C4951x-C4952y Supervised Individual Research 4 pts. For students who want to do independent study of topics not covered by normal departmental offerings. The student must find a faculty sponsor and work out a plan of study; a copy should be submitted to the director of undergraduate studies.

HIST C4997x-C4998y Independent Senior Thesis In History 4 pts.Instructor to be arranged by the student. Open to highly qualified senior history majors. A sophisticated research paper, of at least 25 to 30 pages, is written under the supervision of a faculty sponsor and then defended at a formal oral examination before the sponsor and a second faculty member. A research plan must be prepared prior to the term in which the course is taken and must be approved by both the sponsor and the director of undergraduate studies.