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This course offers an introduction to the main themes in Australian history. It begins by exploring the long history of Aboriginal Australia. It will then examine how the Aboriginal world intersected with Europe after 1770, when Captain James Cook sailed along the east coast of Australia and claimed the continent for the British Crown. Australian history from this point onwards became intertwined with European and American economies and ideas about class, race, gender, and empire. Twentieth-century topics will include: the idea of citizenship, the effects of the two World Wars and the Depression, post-war immigration, social changes in the 1960s and 1970s, issues of reconciliation with Aboriginal people and of Republicanism in the 1990s, and the forging of national myth and identity.
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Offered in Spring (at the Villa in Fiesole, Italy).
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This course will examine the history of the Islamic world from its origins to the present. It is multi-regional in its coverage, examining the development of Muslim societies from sub-Saharan Africa to southeast Asia as they became part of the global community of the Islamic world. Attention will be given to the interaction between the shared Islamic identity and the distinctive local expressions of Muslim faith and life. Political, legal, social, artistic, and cultural dimensions of the Islamic historical experience will be discussed.
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A comparative study of the great civilizations of Asia with special emphasis on the political, socio-ethical, and ideological tenets of Hinduism, Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism (Fall, HIST 120); as well as the Chinese schools of thought (Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism), Shinto in Japan, and Islam (Spring, HIST 121)
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A comparative study of the great civilizations of Asia with special emphasis on the political, socio-ethical, and ideological tenets of Hinduism, Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism (Fall, HIST 120); as well as the Chinese schools of thought (Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism), Shinto in Japan, and Islam (Spring, HIST 121). Spring.
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A survey of the cultural, socioeconomic and political development of Japan from its origins to the early nineteenth-century decline of the Tokugawa regime. Fall.
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The history of modern Japan, from the 1850s to the present. The course is built around thematic readings in a wide range of topics, with an emphasis on social and cultural history. We will explore the universal and the particular aspects of Japanese nation-state formation, imperialism, industrialization, and postindustrial society, using film, fiction, and other media, in addition to historical writing. Spring.
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This course is the first part of a two-semester survey of Southeast Asian history from early times to the present. This first part will cover the early period of Southeast Asia until the end of World War II. It will examine the historical developments in what now constitutes the eleven countries of Southeast Asia: Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The course will include the following topics: the geographical setting of Southeast Asia, indigenous traditions, the Sinification of Vietnam, the Indianization of most of Southeast Asia, the coming of Islam, the Malacca Sultanate, the colonization of Southeast Asia by the Western powers, and the Japanese Occupation during World War II. Fall.
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This course is the second part of a two-semester survey of Southeast Asian history from early times to the present. This second part will cover the period from the end of World War II to the present. It will study the major historical developments in the following countries: Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The course will trace decolonization measures, nationalist uprisings, independence movements, attempts at self-government, ethnic and regional tensions, leadership problems, religious fundamentalism, big power rivalry, and efforts at regionalism. Spring.
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This course will examine a society and a period of special significance in the history of the British Isles, Europe, and the world. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Great Britain--with England at its heart but also including, with increasing prominence, Scotland and Wales--emerged as the global leader in economic enterprise, imperial expansion, and the evolution of resilient and effective political institutions. This was perhaps all the more striking, given that the late-eighteenth century witnessed both within an overseas element of the British Empire and on the continent of Europe the outbreak and progress of two historic revolutions, each of which claimed primacy over British society as a universal model for the conduct of social and political affairs. Accordingly, a comprehensive assessment of British history in this period would be incomplete without reference to Britain's relationship to those great upheavals, one in America, the other in France, and so these events, too, will be covered.
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This course surveys transformations in Britain since 1867 with regard both to the condition of the British people and the general framework of world affairs. The course reflects upon both developments within Britain and the changing place of Britain in the global context. Topics include the two world wars, the disruptions of economic depression, the loss of empire, and challenges of European recovery in the post-War period.
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