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Examines impact of and responses to political and cultural modernity in France from the mid-19th century forward. Themes and topics include: citizenship and its exclusions; social revolt and reform; urbanization and mass culture; population anxiety, anti-Semitism, and racism; imperial expansion and rule; war and decolonization; postwar development and May '68; "multiculturalism" and contemporary challenges to the republican model.
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Explores Japan's emergence as a world power and the Japanese experience of modernity. Examines politics, social movements, and culture of the imperial era; the experience of World War II and postwar occupation; the "economic miracle" and postwar political economy; social and cultural transformation. Concludes by considering historical context for issues of the present day ranging from economic crisis to tensions with Japan's Asian neighbors.
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A history of world societies from the end of the 18th century until the present. Covers such transnational forces as demographic change, religious revivals, and technological and economic development; comparative political transformations, such as the impact of revolutionary ideologies on rural and urban life; and the interactions between different global regions, whether as a consequence of imperialism and war, economic trade and investment, or cultural diffusion.
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How can we best understand the diverse cultural practices of black people in the Americas, from where did those practices derive, and how are they related to each other? We explore a history of attempts to answer those questions, and examine ways that interpretations of the "African diaspora" have been conceived by scholars to better appreciate the complex histories of African-American cultural practices.
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This course explores French colonialism in Africa from Napoleon's campaign in Egypt to the Algerian War. It examines the transformation of ideas of race, gender, science, governance, and development in a Francophone African context. North Africa, French West and French Equatorial Africa and these regions' experiences with market capitalism, medical technology, cultural imperialism, and military intervention are discussed. An analysis of the legacies of French imperial republicanism will close the course.
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This course surveys the convergences between Asian and Black communities that bridge the histories of the Atlantic and the Pacific. Though often regarded as separate entities, these oceanic passages have well worn parallel routes that connect the histories of racialization, labor, militarism, social movements, and intercultural contact.
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Examines the uses and meanings of alcohol in precolonial and rural Africa, its place in European-African trading contacts, and its role in the process of colonization. The course ends with a review of alcohol in nationalist politics, the place of the alcohol industry in the economies of independent African states and addiction in contemporary Africa.
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Family forms in the United States have varied widely over the centuries. This course will consider the radical innovations of 17th century Puritans, eighteenth-century Moravians, and nineteenth-century Mormons; the role of the family in debates over slavery, immigration, and the status of American Indians; and the impact of legal, economic, and social changes on mainstream ideals and practices. Readings will include a wide variety of family records as well as public documents.
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From the starving time at Jamestown to present-day concerns over obesity, food has been central to the American experience. But what is American about American food? Students will address that question through independent research.
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This course studies the American Populist tradition that defines the common "people" as the centerpiece of American economic and political life and thrives on opposition between the people and "elite" interests. The class focuses on the formal Populist movement and the People's Party of the late nineteenth century, and places this history in broader context, from Jeffersonian tradition through the rise of anti-elitist and anti-government movements characterized by Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh.
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This seminar offers introductory readings on the topic of global history and gives students the opportunity for further, individualized reading. Discussion topics include: deep history and human genetics, ancient and modern forms of imperialism, commercial networks and consumerism, global biography, long-distance travel and communication (including the invention of the passport and the telegraph), definitions of international and transnational communities, modernity and mass culture, globalization, decolonization, the space age, and cyberworlds.
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This course surveys the historiography on English and American constitutional law from the reign of James I to the Framing. Major topics include sovereignty, republicanism, parliamentary authority, the development of legal protections, and the Atlantic constitution. Surveying a period punctuated by three Anglo-American revolutions, our focus will be on political instability and the search for constitutional balance.
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This course explores the major concepts and themes in Asian American history from the mid 1800s to the present. The course contextualizes the communities and politics of Asian immigrants with the history of state power, capitalism, and social inequalities.
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This course introduces you to Western expansion from the perspective of Asian and African societies. It begins with theoretical approaches to the role of Western expansion in the modernization of Asian and African societies. It then turns to case studies of Western expansion, asking how five Asian and African societies reacted to the threat of Western arms and the attraction of Western goods and sciences.
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This course will expose students to challenging and influential scholarship on the history of human being. The reading combines an emphasis on social theory - Marxism, Cultural Anthropology, Post-modernism, Feminism, etc. - and on historical topics of central importance - the history of the senses, labor, torture, starvation, racism, colonialism, sexuality, etc. The class will meet once a week for two hours.
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This research seminar offers an introduction to methods of research in the history of the book and of reading. Assigned readings will include methodological articles and case studies in the field, focused especially on the handpress period (15th-18th centuries). Students will be guided through the stages of writing a major research paper and may write their paper on a time-place context of their choosing, with the consent of the instructor. Designed for concentrators in History and History and Literature; open to others with similar needs.
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Survey history of Great Britain from the reign of George III to the administration of Tony Blair. These centuries witnessed Britain's spectacular emergence as the world's leading industrial and imperial power; and its dramatic decline in influence after World War II. How did Britons experience domestic and global change? Themes include political reform, social class, national identity, popular culture, rise and fall of empire, relations with Europe. Extensive use of written and visual primary sources.
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Intensive introduction to the historiography of modern Britain and the British Empire. Designed for graduate students intending to pursue general exams in this field, or preparing for research on British and imperial topics.
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Will explore Britain's deployment of various forms of violence in its 20th-century empire, and how this violence was understood, justified, and represented in the empire and at home. Imperial objectives and policies will be weighed alongside local factors such as race, settler presence, indigenous responses to colonial rule, and economic and strategic interests to assess the universality and particularity of British colonial violence.
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The teachings of major philosophers in the Western tradition about how living a philosophical life can cure diseases of the soul and bring tranquility, harmony with nature, and a sense of moral worth. Readings in Plato, Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius, Sextus Empiricus, various Pythagoreans, Boethius, Augustine, Marsilio Ficino, Ignatius of Loyola, Justus Lipsius, Montaigne, Pierre Gassendi, Robert Burton.
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The Spanish conquerors of the Mesoamerican peoples designed policies to preserve them as a labor force while maintaining their traditional institutions. Gradually race and culture mixtures demanded adaptations and generated new ethnic groups and identities. Despite later policies to assimilate them culturally, the peoples of Mesoamerica survive today as significant minorities who participate actively in national life. We will study how these peoples adapted while rebelling against and accommodating systemic demands and resisting change.
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Examines the development of nationalism and socialism as ideologies intended to shape the identities, public and private behavior, and political activities of subjects of the continental European empires in the long nineteenth century. Primary focus will be on the Habsburg Empire, with attention paid to other German-speaking lands and to the western territories of the Russian Empire (especially Poland).
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Major themes include nationalism, communism, the `Polish question,' the `Jewish question,' the political and economic viability of the Habsburg Empire, cultural exchange and diplomatic relations between Austria, Germany and the Russian Empire/Soviet Union.
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This course examines China's modern history from the point of view of its interconnections with the rest of the world. It provides a general overview of the history of modern China, and some standard theoretical frameworks for China's foreign relations, but also considers the many different ways in which China has shared in world history ranging from environmental history and the spread of global religions, to international trade and the development of modern nationalism.
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Examines the history of Catholic and Protestant Christianity in China from the 16th century to the present. The focus is on non-elite Chinese believers and the ways in which Christianity affected their lives.
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