A survey from the colonial period to the present, with an emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the topics covered: the expansion of the frontier, the creation of a cosmopolitan, predominately European culture, and the failure of industrialization to provide an economic basis for democracy.
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From colonial times to the present, with an emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the topics covered: the evolution of a slave-based economy, the key differences among regions, the military in politics, and the creation of the most populous and industrialized country in Latin America.
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This course will discuss transformations in Brazilian society from 1808 to 1904, covering the Independence, the Empire, end of slavery, beginning of a Republican system, modernization, social protests, popular culture, nation building, and changes in the politics of social dominance.
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A lecture-discussion course on the historical roots of revolutionary Cuba, with special emphasis on the impact of the United States on the island’s development and society.
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A broad historical overview of Hispanic-American women’s history focusing on issues of gender, sexuality, and the family as they relate to women, as well as the historiographical issues in Latin American and Chicana women’s history.
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Exploration of the relationships between socioeconomic and cultural development in Caribbean history; slavery and empire; nationalism and migration; vodun and Rastafarianism, and the literary arts.
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What is the historical evidence on the relationship between culture and power: from the indigenous ‘national’ revolution (eighteenth century) to ‘indigenismo’; from indigenous upheavals in Ecuador, Bolivia, Mexico and Peru, to the intellectual ‘archaic utopia’ (twentieth century).
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A century of Mexican history, 1821-1924: the quest for political unity and economic solvency, the forging of a nationality, the Gilded Age and aftermath, the ambivalent Revolution of Zapata and his enemies.
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The paradox of a conservative state as heir to a legendary social upheaval, with special emphasis on the mural art renaissance, the school crusade, the economic dilemma, and the failure to eradicate poverty and inequality. Lectures and discussion.
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A broad historical overview of Hispanic-American women’s history focusing on issues of gender, sexuality, and the family as they relate to women, as well as the historiographical issues in Latin American and Chicana women’s history.
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Topics will vary from year to year or quarter to quarter. May be repeated for an infinite number of times due to the nature of the content of the course always changing.
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The course surveys Chile’s basic developments beginning with the era of nitrate exports. Students will have the opportunity to address a specific issue of his/her own choosing and develop the topic for class presentation and a final paper. Graduate students are expected to submit a more substantial piece of work.
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Introduction to the historiography on Latin America for the colonial period from Spanish and Portuguese conquests to the Wars of Independence. Requirements will vary for undergraduate, M.S., and Ph.D. students. Graduate students are required to submit an additional research paper.
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Introduction to the historiography on Latin America for the nineteenth century: world economy, nation-state building, agrarian processes, incipient industrialization, political and cultural thought, and social structure. Requirements will vary for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Graduate students are required to submit an additional research paper.
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Introduction to the historiography on Latin America for the twentieth century: agrarian reforms, unionization, industrialization by import substitution, the political left, social development, and international relations. Requirements will vary for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Graduate students are required to submit an additional research paper.
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Directed readings for undergraduates under the supervision of various faculty members.
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Course will trace the political and cultural history of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), beginning with rise of cities in the fourth millennium B.C.E., continuing through the Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian periods, and ending with the fall of Babylon (539 B.C.E.).
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The Jews in Israel from the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE. Statehood, nationalism, and autonomy within the framework of the Persian empire, the Hellenistic kingdoms, and the Roman-Byzantine empire. Cultural and religious developments will be explored.
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The Jews outside their homeland and in pre-Islamic times, concentrating on the Greco-Roman West and the Parthian-Sasanian East. Topics include assimilation and survival; anti-Semitism and missionizing; patterns of organization and autonomy; cultural and religious developments.
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The peoples, politics, and cultures of Southwest Asia and Egypt from the sixth century B.C.E. to the seventh century C.E. The Achemenid Empire, the Ptolemaic and Seleucid kingdoms, the Roman Orient, the Parthian and Sasanian states.
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Continued study of the language of the Bible with emphasis on advanced grammar and vocabulary.
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This course approaches the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) from the perspective of cultural anthropology. Institutions studied will include the family, rites of passage, food taboos, warfare, animism, demons, sorcery, and animal sacrifice.
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A close reading of select prose narratives from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
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Students with advanced Hebrew can study the texts in HINE 112A in the original language.
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A close reading of select poetic passages from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
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