21&62:510:201,202History of Western Civilization (3,3) The main developments in history of ideas and institutions from earliest times to the present; consideration of historical material serves as a point of departure for discussion of present-day problems. |
21&62:510:207History of Colonial Latin America (3)
Survey of the encounter between indigenous and Iberian peoples in Latin America,
from conquest and colonization to the wars of independence. Among the
topics considered are the moral implications of the encounter, the
histories of race and ethnicity, the development of colonial economic
and political institutions, and the eventual breakdown of imperial
order.
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21&62:510:208History of Modern Latin America (3)
Survey of the history of the nations of Latin America
from the wars of independence to the present. Among the topics
considered are the nature and consequences of the independence
movements, the creation of new political and economic institutions, the
development of postcolonial relationships between formerly colonized
peoples and their former colonizers, and the implications of the past
since independence for the problems of contemporary Latin America.
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21&62:510:226,227Topics in History (1.5,1.5) Minicourses run either twice a week for seven weeks or once a week for 14 weeks; topics change from year to year; courses may not be used to fulfill any distribution requirement, but may be used as general credit for graduation; information about topics may be obtained from the department chairperson. |
21:510:255Ancient Greek Civilization (3) This interdisciplinary course studies the cultural heritage of the ancient Greek world through its literature, art, and archaeology. The course also includes a brief historical survey of the period in question, as well as courses devoted to particular historical topics (like democracy, intellectual development, colonization, movement from city to nation-statehood). Readings from ancient sources in translation include Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, and Aristotle. |
21:510:256Roman Civilization (3) Examines the Roman world through an interdisciplinary study of its history, literature, and art and archaeology. Topics covered will include imperialism, patron-client relationship, Roman law, blood-sport, and the evolution of Rome from pagan to Christian civilization. Readings from ancient sources in translation include Roman comedy, Virgil, Seneca, and samples of early Christian writings. |
21&62:510:263,264History of Africa (3,3) Political, religious, economic, and social development of the peoples
of Africa south of the Sahara from about 500 AD to the present. |
21&62:510:286The Ancient Near East (3) General survey of the history of the ancient Near East from the first appearance of civilization in the fertile crescent to the unification of the Near East in the Persian Empire. Covers the political, social, economic, religious, cultural, and intellectual development of the primary civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, as well as the later city-states and empires. |
21&62:510:287,288History of Islamic Civilization (3,3) The history, culture, and institutions of the Islamic world, from the age of the prophet Muhammad to the present. First term: evolution of classical Islamic civilization in its Near and Middle Eastern heartland. Second term: the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires; Islam in central, east, and southeast Asia; traditional Islamic society, and the problems of colonialism, imperialism, and modernization. |
21&62:510:297,298Far Eastern History (3,3) Major developments in Far Eastern history, particularly in China and Japan, from early times to the present; cultural, economic, and political aspects and contemporary problems. |
21&62:510:302History of Democracy (3) The history of democracy from ancient Greece and Rome to its revival in early modern Europe and America and its development in the 20th century. Topics include the origins, theory, and practice of democracy; historical notions of public opinion and its role in democracy; the nature of the public sphere and citizen participation. |
21&62:510:305Ancient Sport: Olympians to Gladiators (3) Ancient forms of athletic contest and competition are examined. Includes Greek games held during the Olympic festival and other occasions; chariot racing and circus contests in Greece and Rome; and Roman blood-sport (including animal fights and gladiatorial contests). Examines both the archaeological and literary evidence for such events, as well as the impact such competitions has had on our modern perceptions of sport and athletic competition. |
21&62:510:306The Greek and Roman Cities (3) Provides an urban history of ancient Greek and Roman cities from the earliest period to late antiquity. Emphasis will fall upon Athens and Rome. The course will focus on the archaeological remains; ancient concepts of community and town organization; classical architecture within the context of topographical limitations of the city; religious architecture; the impact of the ancient urban experience; and the practicalities of ancient urban centers (sanitation, water supply, policing, defense, and traffic). Prerequisites: 21&62:510:201,202, or permission of instructor. |
21&62:510:307History of India and South Asia up to 1750 (3)
Introduction
to the history of the Indian subcontinent from prehistoric times to
the Europeans colonial conquest. Focus on diverse political,
socioeconomic, and cultural developments across South Asia, especially
religious philosophies, social, gender, and legal structures. Texts and
readings will draw upon recent secondary research as well as historical
and literary primary source materials.
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21&62:510:308History of India and South Asia since 1750 (3)
Introduction
to the history of the Indian subcontinent from prehistoric times to the
eve of the British colonial conquest in 1750. Focus on the diverse
political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments in the ancient and
medieval history of the region which comprises today of the countries
of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
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21&62:510:311Latin America and the United States (3) The historical relationship between Latin America and the United States, including political, social, economic, and cultural ties. Examines those ties from both Latin American and U.S. perspectives and shows how hemispheric relations affect not only governments but also national, regional, and local communities. Topics include U.S. imperialism in the late 19th century; Latin American and U.S. images of their neighbors; the effects of the Cold War on hemispheric politics; and the history of Latin American immigration to the United States. |
21&62:510:312Democracy and Rebellion in Modern Latin America (3) History of democracy, rebellion, and citizenship in Latin America from
the early 19th century to the present. Topics include the
transformation of colonial societies into liberal republican
democracies, new citizens' relationships to new states, and the effects
of changes in those states on the terms of citizenship over two
centuries. Focuses on the meaning of democracy and the ways in which it
sometimes breaks down, either peacefully or in armed rebellion.
Concludes with a look at the recent trend toward democratization. |
21&62:510:317History of the Caribbean (3) Caribbean history from the colonial period to the present; the development of a sugar economy; the competition among foreign powers for control; 19th-century struggles for independence; contemporary social upheavals. |
21:510:319Ancient Greek History (3) The origins and development of the Greek civilization as it developed in Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia. Special attention will be paid to the development of Greek political systems, especially Athenian democracy; social, cultural, and intellectual developments of the Greek world (slavery, sexuality, emergence of philosophy and science); Spartan society and militarism; treatment of non-Greek people; and the conquests and achievements of Alexander the Great. Readings from ancient sources in translation include Hesiod, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristotle, Plato, and Plutarch. |
21:510:320Roman History (3) The origins and history of the Roman people from their emergence in the early Iron Age down to the beginnings of the Byzantine empire. Special attention will be paid to the political and military history of the Romans; social and cultural aspects of Roman society (slavery, sexuality, imperialism, absorption of non-Roman people, blood-sports); the emergence of Christianity; and the conquest and romanization of Europe and the Mediterranean world. Readings from ancient sources include Livy, Plutarch, Suetonius, Tacitus, and Ammianus Marcellinus. |
21&62:510:323,324History of Puerto Rico (3,3) History of Puerto Rico from the pre-Columbian period to the 19th
century; Taino, Spanish, and black civilizations and their significance
in the evolution of Puerto Rico's national consciousness. |
21&62:510:325History of Mexico and Central America (3) Historical development of Mexico and Central America from the pre-Columbian civilizations to the present. Contemporary issues affecting the region. |
21&62:510:327,328Civilization of the Middle Ages (3,3) Western Europe from the barbarian invasions to the close of the 13th century; the structure of society and its economic organization; readings provide a basis for the study of feudalism, agrarian life, and the rise of the towns; religious developments and conflicts, church-state relationships, the Crusades; the rise of the feudal monarchies; cultural achievements. |
21&62:510:329,330Slavs, Byzantium, and the Near East (3,3) History and civilization of the Later East Roman/Byzantine Empire; the Islamic lands of the Eastern Mediterranean and Slavic Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. |
21&62:510:331,332British History (3,3) British history from the Roman occupation to the present; emphasis on the interrelationship between constitutional and social developments. First term: medieval England and the Tudor-Stuart period. Second term: changes in politics and society resulting from the industrial revolution. |
21&62:510:337The History of Iran (3) History of Iran from ancient times to the present; the forces that have shaped modern Iran. |
21&62:510:338The Ottoman Empire (3) History of the Ottoman state from its origins as a Ghazi state (13th century) to its collapse in the 20th century; the Ottoman impact, politically and culturally, on the peoples of Eastern Europe. |
21&62:510:340Women in European History (3) Changes in women's economic, social, and legal positions from classical
times to the present; women and the family; women and the industrial
revolution; witchcraft; women in politics, war, and revolution; women
under socialism and fascism; women and sexuality; the development of
the modern feminist movement. |
21&62:510:343,344Early Modern Europe (3,3) Europe from the beginning of the modern period through the scientific revolution in the 1600s, addressing political, cultural, intellectual, social, economic, and religious history. First term: topics include the Renaissance, the Age of Exploration, new intellectual outlooks, the formation of national states and monarchies; the lives and mentalities of peasants, artisans, and the poor. Second term: Protestant Reformation, Catholic Counter-Reformation, Wars of Religion, Absolutism, the scientific revolution. |
21&62:510:348Eighteenth-Century Europe (3) The political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural, intellectual history of Europe from ca.1700 to 1815. Topics include absolutist monarchies and their opponents; war and national competition in Europe and the colonial empires; the lives of peasants, artisans, and women; the ideas and social foundations of the Enlightenment; the origins, nature, and consequences of the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars. |
21&62:510:349,350Modern European Diplomatic History (3,3) The development of the diplomatic institutions, practices, and interests of the European states; relates diplomacy to internal developments in the various states from 1815 to modern times. |
21&62:510:351,352History of France (3,3) First term: survey of French history from the late middle ages through the French Revolution. Second term: French history from 1815 to the present. Emphasizes ideas, politics, culture, and the development of national cohesion and identity. |
21&62:510:353,354Modern China (3,3) Evolution of the Chinese nation from the Opium War to the establishment of the People's Republic; problems arising out of rebellion, reform, and revolution discussed in connection with modernization and acculturation. |
21&62:510:355Traditional China: Institutions and Society (3) Chinese history from the Shang to the Ming dynasties (1766 BC-1643 AD);
patterns of social change and social mobility; feudalism; dynastic
cycles; modernization; Oriental despotism. |
21&62:510:356History of the People's Republic of China (3) The revolutionary experience of the Chinese people; the efforts of the Chinese communists to modernize the nation; the processes and problems of adapting to a communist system. |
21&62:510:357Nineteenth-Century Europe (3) 1815 to 1914. Topics include nationalism; the industrial revolution;
revolutions of 1830 and 1848; formation of Italy and Germany; rise of
working class movements; Marxism; imperialism; Darwinism and social
Darwinism; relations between church and state; women's movements;
trends in culture and daily life. |
21&62:510:358Twentieth-Century Europe (3) Europe since 1914. Topics include origins, nature, and consequences of
World War I, Russian Revolution; interwar culture and society; the
Great Depression; Fascism and Nazism; the Spanish Civil War; the
origins, nature, and consequences of World War II; the Holocaust; the
Marshall Plan and the Cold War; origins and development of European
Union; East European communism; West European welfare states and
consumerism; women's movements; postwar culture and leisure; youth
movements of the 1960s; fall of communism. |
21&62:510:361The Modern Middle East (3) Introduction to the modern Near and Middle East. Review of the formation of classical Islamic civilization in the region. Political, economic, social, and ethnic problems resulting from Western influences and the dismemberment of the Ottoman empire. Modern Iranian development and the creation of Israel. |
21&62:510:362Capitalism and Socialism (3) The history of Western economic systems and ideologies from the origins of capitalism in early modern Europe through the rise of socialism in the 19th century and social democracy in the 20th. Topics include the agricultural and industrial revolutions; liberal ideologies and policies of the 19th century; Marxism and socialist thought; the Soviet model; the Great Depression; growth of the welfare state after World War II; and the problem of underdevelopment. |
21&62:510:365Islam, Africa, and the Contemporary World Islam's historical and contemporary impact on African societies, life, and lore. The effects on African worldviews; religious practices (including ancestral veneration, magic, sorcery, and other paranormal phenomena); social dynamics (birth, marriage, death, and property inheritance); and political thought and practice. How African members of the world community of Islam relate to global trends. |
21&62:510:366History of Poland (3) History, social concerns, and culture of Poland and the Polish people from the time of their conversion to Christianity and early kings to the present. |
21&62:510:367,368History of Russia and the Soviet Union (3,3) First term: Russian politics and civilization from the founding of Kiev to 1864. Second term: the history of Russia from 1865 to the present time, with emphasis on Soviet affairs. |
21&62:510:369Modern Eastern Europe (3) Political, social, and cultural developments in Eastern Europe in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries; 20th century, World War I, the revolutions, the successor states, and their relations with the USSR. |
21&62:510:370History of Modern Ukraine (3) Ukrainian history from the 16h century to the present. Emergence of cossacks, the religious controversy, the rise and fall of the cossack state, and the national revival in the 19th century. |
62:510:371,372Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe I,II (3,3) A study of the major currents of thought--political, religious, social, economic--from the Renaissance to the present. |
21&62:510:374,375History of Spain (3) The history of Spain from the middle ages to the present. First term: Muslim conquest; interactions among Muslims, Christians, and Jews; Christian reconquest; formation of a Spanish state; advent of overseas empire; role of the Church. Second term: Enlightenment reforms; Napoleonic wars and popular revolt; Basque and Catalan movements; economic development and modernization; rise of anarchism and socialism; Spanish Civil War; Franco regime; democracy since 1975. |
21&62:510:377Portugal and Its Empire (3) The history of Portugal and its overseas empire from the 14th century
to the present, examining the country's politics, economics, and
culture, as well as its global expansion and relations with colonies,
particularly Brazil. |
21&62:510:378Colonialism to 1825 (3) European colonialism from the 15th century through the early 19th century, emphasizing the empires of Portugal, Spain, Britain, and France in the Americas and Asia. Topics include motives for colonial expansion; justifications for conquest and rule; reasons for European power; colonial economies; methods of controlling colonies; slavery and abolitionism; mutual perceptions of colonizer and colonized; opposition to colonialism; independence in British, Spanish, and Portuguese America. |
21&62:510:379Colonialism and Decolonization (3) The final century of colonialism, focusing on imperialist thought and justifications for empire, mutual perceptions of colonizers and colonized, and the growth of anti-imperialism. |
21&62:510:385,386A History of Southern Africa (3,3) History of southern Africa from 1000 AD to the present; precolonial
African societies; European colonization; European impact; industrial
development; the Zulu and Boer Wars; the evolution of apartheid; the
African nationalist movements. |
21&62:510:390Gender and Caste in South Asian History (3)
Introduction
to themes of gender and social structure in the history of the Indian
subcontinent. Focus on conceptions of gender, gender relations, and the
experiences of women in particular. Introduction to the concept of
caste as a social system and its changing practice through the ages,
its importance in politics and culture.
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21&62:510:391,392The History of Germany (3,3) Germany from the 18th century to the present. First term: the rise of Prussia, the impact of the French Revolution and the Empire, the growth of nationalism and liberalism, the Revolution of 1848, and unification. Second term: internal developments, foreign policy, and intellectual movements after 1871; examines Germany in the First World War, the Weimar Republic, the rise of Nazism, the drive for European domination in the Second World War, and the postwar era. |
21&62:510:394The Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia (3) Introduction to the history and cultures of the Iranian, Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungus-Manchu peoples of the Eurasian steppes and inner Asian borderlands of China from earliest times to the 17th century; the cultural significance of this region as the recipient of Chinese, Indian, Muslim, and Eastern Christian cultural and religious influences. |
21&62:510:399Tudor-Stuart England (3) Selected topics in British history from the accession of Henry VII through the Revolution of 1688; cultural, economic, political, and social issues; developments in the transition from medieval to early modern England; background of the empire. |
21&62:510:401Topics in European History (3)
Prerequisites: 21&62:510:201,202 or permission of instructor. |
21&62:510:403Topics in Social History (3)
Prerequisites: 21&62:510:201,202 or permission of instructor. |
21&62:510:404Topics in Intellectual History (3)
Prerequisites: 21&62:510:201,202 or permission of instructor. |
21&62:510:405Topics in Ancient History (3)
Prerequisites: 21&62:510:201,202 or permission of instructor. |
21&62:510:431,432Topics in Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries (3,3)
Prerequisites: 21&62:510:201,202 or 263,264 or permission of instructor. |
21&62:510:433Topics in Islamic History (3)
Prerequisites: 21&62:510:201,202 or permission of instructor. |
21&62:510:435Topics in Medieval and Early Modern History (3)
Prerequisites: 21&62:510:201,202 or permission of instructor. |
21&62:510:441,442Topics in Latin American and Caribbean History (3,3)
Prerequisites: 21&62:510:201,202 or permission of instructor. |
21&62:510:449,450Topics in Asian, Chinese, and Far Eastern History (3,3)
Prerequisites: 21&62:510:201,202 or permission of instructor. |
21&62:510:451,452Topics in the History of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (3,3)
Prerequisites: 21&62:510:201,202 or permission of instructor. |
21&62:510:458Topics in Women's History (3)
Prerequisites: 21&62:510:201,202 or permission of instructor. |
21&62:510:461Topics in Comparative History (3)
Prerequisites: 21&62:510:201,202 or permission of instructor. |
21&62:510:479,480Readings in Non-American History (3,3) Designed for the history major who desires to undertake extensive reading in a particular historical area, selected in close consultation with a member of the department. Limited to students whose grade-point average within the department is 2.0 or higher. Only one reading course may be taken per term, and no more than 9 credits in reading courses may be applied toward the history major. Prerequisites: Written permission of department chairperson and instructor. |
21&62:510:489Seminar-Readings (3) |
21&62:510:490Seminar-Research (3) |
21&62:510:491,492Honors Program in Non-American History (3,3) Research and writing for candidates for honors in history. |
62:510:497Honors Project-History (3) An individual research project. Open only to honors students. Prerequisite: Permission of program adviser. |
21&62:510:499Individual Study in Historical Research (BA) Historical research on a more systematic level than is normally possible in lecture courses. Prerequisites: Permission of department chairperson and instructor. Restricted to history majors in their senior year. |
