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department History (X) |
Historical development and current status, with a focus on California. Topics include: the political origins and economic implications of federal laws and programs that define and allocate rights to land and water; competition for resources between cities and agriculture; the history of federal involvement with the West; contemporary policies and controversies regarding resource management, agriculture, water, energy, and environmental quality. Field trip to California's Central Valley and Owens Valley.
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What would the perfect society be? How would work be organized, and education, honor and profit be distributed? How would children be raised, and who would govern? Such questions have engaged philosophers, revolutionaries, and dreamers in every historical age. Examines utopian literature from ancient Greece through the modern age, focusing on the early modern period.
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Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, and British voyages of trade, exploration and science. The voyages of Zheng He, Da Gama, Magellan, Cook, Malaspina, Darwin. Topics include: developments in maritime technology during this period; the interrelationship between science and empire in the early modern world; non-European accounts of the Age of Discovery with examples from Japan, Malacca, and E. Africa; and changing perspectives on exploration and explorers, using Columbus and Zheng He as comparisons.
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(Same as History 110A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 110A.) Focus is on religion and politics. Issues include: the rise of Christianity and its impact on Rome; transformations of Catholicism and its institutions including the impact of barbarian tribes and the struggle between church and state; antisemitism, heresy, Crusades, and inquisition; courtly love; and scholasticism.
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(Same as HISTORY 110B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 110B.) Survey of early modern European history from the Reformation through the Enlightenment. Topics include religious war, state building and revolt, exploration and colonialism, gender and society.
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Buddhism as a system of thought, a culture, a way of life, a definition of reality, a method for investigating it, and a mental, physical, and social practice. Buddhism as a total phenomenon. Readings, films, music, and art. How Buddhist practices constitue the world of the Buddhist.
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Preference to freshmen. The politics, drama, and characters of the period after the fall of the Roman Republic in 49 B.C.E. Issues of liberty and autocracy explored by Roman writers through history and biography. The nature of history writing, how expectations about literary genres shape the materials, the line between biography and fiction,and senatorial ideology of liberty. Readings include: Tacitus' Annals , Suetonius' Lives of the Caesers , and Robert Graves' I Claudius and episodes from the BBC series of the same title.
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Preference to freshmen. Spartacus and his army of slaves resisted the power of the Roman legions for two years and became the stuff of legend. Introduction to Roman history. Slavery in ancient Rome in its psychological, social, and economic dimensions. Causes of Spartacus' rebellion; how the traumatic end of the rebellion gave rise to a legend popularized in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film.
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What were the European crusades? How can we explain this phenomenon, which mobilized entire societies for holy wars against pagans, Muslims, heretics, and sometimes bad kings? Was religion the main motivator, or should one factor in economics and political ambitions? How did European minorities, including Jews, fit within this phenomenon? Was there a difference between crusading warfare and ordinary warfare?
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Historical development and current status, with a focus on California. Topics include: the political origins and economic implications of federal laws and programs that define and allocate rights to land and water; competition for resources between cities and agriculture; the history of federal involvement with the West; contemporary policies and controversies regarding resource management, agriculture, water, energy, and environmental quality. Field trip to California's Central Valley and Owens Valley.
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