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The arrival of the modern age as recorded in novels, popular history, memoirs, and social and political commentary. We will explore American culture from the "Gilded Age" through the twentieth century. M 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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Analyzes the relationship between ecological and social change in North America from pre-Columbian times to the 20th century. Topics include Indian uses of the environment; the reshaping of ecosystems under European colonization; the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases from Africa and Europe to the Americas; urbanization; and the rise of the environmental movement. Prerequisites: HIST 0510 and 0520 recommended but not required. E 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course considers the major people, events, and issues in the history of religion in North America, from pre-Columbian Native cosmologies to the tumultuous events of the Civil War. Attention will be given to "religion as lived" by ordinary people, as well as to the ways that "religion" shaped (or not) larger cultural issues such as immigration, public policy, social reform, warfare, democracy, slavery, and women's rights. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in religion and American history will find this course useful. Prior exposure to American history is helpful but not required; there are no formal prerequisites. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Restrictions: May not be enrolled as the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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M 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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Both a survey covering urbanization in America from colonial times to the present, and a specialized focus exploring American history from an urban frame of reference. Examines the premodern, "walking" city from 1600-1870. Includes such topics as cities in the Revolution and Civil War, the development of urban services, westward expansion, and social structure. E 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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A survey with a specialized focus exploring American history from an urban frame of reference. Topics include the social consequences of the modern city, politics, reform, and federal-city relations. M 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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The simultaneous expansion of capitalism and slavery witnessed intense struggle over the boundaries of the market, self-interest, and economic justice. This course traces those arguments from Colonization through Reconstruction and asks how common people navigate the shifting terrain of economic life. The approach is one of cultural and social history, rather than the application of economic models to the past. E 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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History of American law and constitutions from European settlement to the end of the 20th century. Not a comprehensive survey but a study of specific issues or episodes connecting law and history, including witchcraft trials, slavery, contests over Native American lands, delineations of race and gender, regulation of morals and the economy, and the construction of privacy. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Conference, Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Restrictions: May not be enrolled as the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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This course deals with the history of European women and gender from the Enlightenment to the present. It will focus on large historical themes and questions, especially shifting constructions of femininity and masculinity. It will begin with an analysis of eighteenth-century philosophies regarding women and gender, and it will move to examinations of specific topics such as industrialization, Victorian femininity, the suffrage movements, gender and the Great War, interwar sexuality, fascism, gender and the Second World War, and the sexual revolution. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course will explore the major events in French history from the time of absolutism to the present. We will devote particular attention to the concept of French national self-definition. Our central question will be: who belongs to the French nation at various moments in its history? Through focus on this question, we will study how phenomena such as revolution, war, sexuality, race, and imperialism shift the boundaries of national belonging in modern France. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Conference, Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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Modern Britain's history encompasses the industrial revolution, one of the world's greatest empires, two world wars, and one of the first welfare states. In this introductory course, we will examine this history through the lenses of the class system, imperialism, gender roles, and ideas about progress and decline. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Conference, Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course surveys the development of American foreign relations from initial encounters between Native Americans and newly arrived Europeans to the extension of EuroAmerican power beyond the continental United States. By being attentive to a wider global context, we will attempt to understand the trajectory of "America" from a colonial hinterland to dominant world power. E 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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This survey of twentieth-century US foreign relations will focus on the interplay between the rise of the United States as a superpower and American culture and society. Topics include: ideology and U.S. foreign policy, imperialism and American political culture, U.S. social movements and international affairs, and the relationship between U.S. power abroad and domestic race, gender and class arrangements. M 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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Narrated like an adventure story, the history of modern Ireland seems to move from uprising to famine to revolution in a romantic and dramatic arc. This course offers a critical take on the nationalist narrative. Topics include: the Celtic Revival, the role of women, the power of the Catholic Church, Ireland's role in the British Empire, and Ireland's recent turn as the poster-child success story of the European Union. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Conference, Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course explores the history of Chicago, but also uses that history as a way to think about issues in American history. Sources include novels, memoirs, popular histories, film and music. M 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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Explores meanings and history of citizenship in the U.S. from the drafting of the national constitution in 1787 to the present. Topics include legal, political, and social content of belonging to the nation. What does citizenship mean? What is the national body? Who has been defined in and out of the nation and why? Focus on race, class, gender, and nationality as analytical frameworks. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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Overview of the European expansion in the East during the early modern period. Through an analysis of European encounters with the peoples of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, examines different forms of interaction. Stresses comparisons with the Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English merchant empires. P 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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Survey of the making of the Southern Atlantic World during the early modern period based on the interaction between Portugal, Africa, and Brazil. Topics include slavery and African agency, the role of merchant communities, Indian answers to European encounters, economic cycles, colonial powers and forms of resistance, the conflicts between the Crown, the settlers and the missionaries, and the formation of colonial elites in the quest of a new nation. Conducted in English. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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Overview of Iberia from the end of medieval times to the period before the Enlightenment, the period when Portugal and Spain charted the globe and established their respective Empires. The changing concepts of Golden Age and Decline are explored in their political, economic, social, and cultural contexts. Particular emphasis is given to the period from 1580 to 1640 when the three Habsburg monarchs ruled a united Iberia. Conducted in English. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course aims to characterize the Indian Ocean in the early modern period and examine the complex relationship between this lively world and a variety of European players. The classical topics related to the economic history of maritime Asia and how the trading world of the Indian Ocean was impacted by different Wester powers (the Portuguese Estado da India, the European commercial companies) will be addressed. However, the course will focus on a set of relevant social and cultural phenomena, ranging from the interaction between European and Asian political, religious, scientific and artistic structures to the indigenization of individuals, groups and "micro-societies," or the formation and circulation of mutual ethnographical images. P 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course focuses on the study of social and cultural forms of hybridism within the Portuguese early modern empire. By exploring the interaction between Portuguese soldiers, merchants and missionaries and a variety of litoral societes stretching from Morocco and West Africa to Brazil and Asia, the course will discuss both profile and role of those go-betweens and cultural brokers that easily moved between distinct cultural worlds. The creation and development of multiple social, ethnic and "national" identities is also under consideration. P 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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Enrollment limited to 20. Qualified undergraduates with the consent of individual instructors, may register for 2000-level graduate seminars. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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Explores the different phases of the dialogue between aesthetic modernism and mass culture. In particular, it focuses on the construction of such archetypes of the modern artist as the bohemian, the flaneur, the decadent, and the primitive in the context of Parisian urban culture between 1830 and 1900. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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A seminar on the history of interactions between humans and the environment in sub-Saharan Africa. Begins with consideration of theory in environmental history. Continues by exploring important issues in the field, including cultivation, pastoralism, disease, population, famine, and conservation. Preference given to students with prior background in African studies. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College History Department Return to Previous New Search
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