*History 98a (formerly History 98). Honors Research Seminar
Catalog Number: 3556
Michael McCormick and staff
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Methods of historical research and writing.
Note: Required of, and ordinarily limited to, honors juniors concentrating in History.
Prerequisite: Admission to the honors program in History.
*History 98b. Honors Field Tutorial
Catalog Number: 6063
History Tutors
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Guided research and writing of a junior paper.
Note: Required of, and limited to, honors juniors concentrating in History.
Prerequisite: Admission to the honors program in History.
*History 99. Tutorial — Senior Year
Catalog Number: 5803
Lizabeth Cohen and members of the Department
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Note: Required of, and ordinarily limited to, honors seniors concentrating in History. Research and writing the senior honors essay in History. Permission must be obtained in the Tutorial Office. Either half year may be taken as a half course with the consent of the Head Tutor. A student wishing to drop History 99 with credit at midyear must get the consent of the Head Tutor and submit a substantial paper on which final credit can be based. A student who remains in the course in the second half year, but fails to submit an honors thesis when due, must, if desiring credit for the full course, submit a more substantial paper, ordinarily due not later than the day before the spring term Reading Period begins.
Prerequisite: History 98 and recommendation of the 98 tutor.
[*History 90b. Major Themes in Early Modern European History]
Catalog Number: 1833
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Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An overview of the main issues of early modern historiography.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
*History 90c. Major Themes in Modern European History
Catalog Number: 5303
Charles S. Maier
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4.
Discusses major themes in Modern European history.
*History 90d. Major Themes in Western Intellectual History
Catalog Number: 4955
James T. Kloppenberg
Half course (spring term). F., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Major questions of substance and approach in the study of Western intellectual history will be explored through some secondary and many primary readings grouped around the following themes: the definition of the Enlightenment; a question in intellectual biography; and theories of education from Locke to Dewey.
*History 90e. Major Themes in American Historical Writing
Catalog Number: 4577
Joyce Elizabeth Chaplin and Brett Flehinger
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
An examination of critical themes in American historical writing from the late 19th century to the present. Students will read selections from classics in American historiography and will examine debates among historians on some of the most important issues in U.S. history. Among the themes explored will be the frontier; the origins of the American Revolution; labor in the ante-bellum period; and the legacies of the Cold War.
*History 90f. International Relations
Catalog Number: 4422
Akira Iriye
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4.
Major themes in modern international history.
*History 90g. Major Themes in World History: Imperialism, Colonial Nationalism, and Independence in Africa, The Americas, and Asia
Catalog Number: 0119
John H. Coatsworth and staff
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
A general introduction to theories of imperialism, nationalism, and the process of decolonization; case studies will include examples from the African, Asian, and Latin American context. Will combine the study of theory with an examination of particular anti-colonial, anti-slavery, and anti-imperialist movements.
[*History 90h. Major Themes in Comparative North American and Latin American History: Culture, Class, and Politics]
Catalog Number: 4232
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Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A broad introduction to the different ways in which culture, class, and politics have historically happened in British and French North America (eventually Canada and the U.S.) and Latin America.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
*History 90i (formerly History 90x). Major Themes in Ancient History
Catalog Number: 4922
Eric W. Robinson
Half course (spring term). F., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
An overview of some of the major issues in Greco-Roman history, with special attention given to the methodologies of the ancient historian.
History 10b. Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures: From 1650 to the Present
Catalog Number: 0262
David Blackbourn
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
Second half of a survey of European history from the first cities and empires to modern times. Also treats some major aspects of the history of the Americas insofar as they form part of overarching Western developments. Topics include absolute monarchy and enlightened despotism; the Enlightenment and age of revolutions; industrialization and nation building; imperialism and the world wars; cultural and social change; the rise and fall of totalitarian regimes.
Note: Required of all history concentrators.
History 71a. America: Colonial Times to the Civil War
Catalog Number: 6647
Susan Wyly-Jones
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 10, plus one hour to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 3
Covers American history from the period of colonial settlement to the Civil War. Topics include the collision of European, African, and native cultures in the age of settlement; colonial British North America; the American Revolution; geographic expansion and social, economic, and cultural change in the Jacksonian era; and slavery and the sectional conflict.
History 71b. The Rise of Modern America, 1865 to Present
Catalog Number: 7671
Sven Beckert
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11, plus one hour to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 13
An introduction to American history from the end of the Civil War to modern times, paying particular attention to the question of how the U.S. turned into the world’s leading economic and military power. Topics will include the reconstruction of the U.S. after the Civil War; the economic and social effects of the Second Industrial Revolution; the crisis of the 1930s and the expansion of the federal state; the global conflicts of the 20th century as well as the struggles of women and African-Americans for equality.
Note: Directly follows History 71a, but may be taken independently.
[History 1085. The Roman Empire, Augustus to Constantine]
Catalog Number: 3109
Christopher P. Jones
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The Roman Empire from its foundation by Augustus to the death of Constantine; its social, political, and military development; its institutions (emperor, senate, army); Roman imperial art and coinage; Greek and Roman literature of the imperial period; religious developments, including Judaism and Christianity under Roman rule; women and minorities. Sections will focus on issues of particular interest and on the study of primary documents. No knowledge of ancient languages required.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Expected to be given in 2002–03. Given in alternate years.
[History 1088. The Mediterranean, Alexander to Antony]
Catalog Number: 1619
Christopher P. Jones
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Follows the history of the Mediterranean from the reign of Alexander the Great to the battle of Actium, including the establishment of the Successor Kingdoms after Alexander’s death, and their gradual decline under internal and external pressures; the interaction between the growing power of Rome and other Mediterranean states, especially Carthage; and the transformation of the Mediterranean into a Roman lake in the last two centuries B.C.E. Sections will focus on issues of particular interest and on the study of primary documents. No knowledge of ancient languages required.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. Given in alternate years.
[History 1111. World of Late Antiquity]
Catalog Number: 6019
Michael McCormick
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Studies the changes, violent or subtle, that transformed the late Roman world—the fall of the Roman Empire— to produce medieval civilization between ca. 300 and 700. Topics include the imperial meritocracy; Constantine’s conversion; the coming of the barbarians; sports, propaganda, and political belief; women and power. Emphasizes reading of primary texts in translation.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 1133. Medieval England (ca. 871–1485)
Catalog Number: 7756
Thomas N. Bisson
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
English (and other insular) societies, cultures, and institutions from Anglo-Saxon times to the accession of the Tudors. Stress on the Norman conquest and its social consequences, constitutional innovation and the crisis of Magna Carta, the formation of political culture and the origins of Parliament, and economic change, agrarian disorder, culture, and war in the later Middle Ages.
Note: Given in alternate years. Normally alternates with Medieval Studies 117.
[History 1136. Romanesque Southern France (800-1250)]
Catalog Number: 0563
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The rise, collapse, and significance of a distinctive medieval civilization. From prosperity to crisis in Provence, Toulouse, and Aquitaine; the rise of Catalonia to Mediterranean hegemony. Stress on power, faith, and Romanesque cultures (stone and song); interfaith encounter; and mercantile-urban transformation. Input from colleagues in Art, Music, Romance Languages, Jewish Studies.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1141. Medieval Thought: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 5096
James Hankins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Intellectual history of Western Latin Christendom from the 5th to the 14th century of our era.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
Prerequisite: One course in medieval history or the equivalent.
History 1150. The Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain
Catalog Number: 5331
Bernard Septimus
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
A study of the political, social, and cultural history of the Hispano-Jewish community from the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 to the expulsion of the Jews from Christian Spain in 1492. Emphasis on literary and intellectual developments and on the complex relationship of the Jews to Iberian Christendom and Islam.
Note: Combines material from former courses, History 1151 and 1152. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3675.
[History 1158. The Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages, 1204–1500: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 2711
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the economic, social, and political developments in the Mediterranean basin during a critical period. Investigates patterns of economic dominance, trade patterns, forms of colonization, the function of the merchant groups in Venetian, Genoese, Byzantine, and Muslim societies. The development of shipping, maps, and financial and commercial techniques is discussed; travel, war, and politics are also examined in their relation to economic and social developments.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 1166. Family, Sex, and Marriage in Western Europe 1300-1700: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 2725 Enrollment: Limited to 15. Limited to 15, with equal access to upperclass concentrators and beginning graduate students.
Steven Ozment
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4.
Reading and discussion of major studies and sources illustrative of the development of family life in late medieval and early modern Europe. Attention given to a variety of national traditions and to major historiographical controversies.
Note: May be taken for seminar credit by graduate students.
[History 1212. The Imperial System: Byzantine Society and Civilization, 8thc.-1204: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 6078
Angeliki E. Laiou
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of Byzantine society from the time of the Iconoclastic controversy until the conquest of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade. Topics will include state ideology and diplomacy, social structure, the formation of the aristocracy, the economy, urban and rural life, the role of women, relations with Western Europe and the Muslim world, art and culture. Considerable emphasis will be given to primary sources (in translation).
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 2122. Early Medieval History: Seminar: Communications in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
Catalog Number: 5011
Michael McCormick
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Communications, travel, and commerce in the early medieval Mediterranean from the death of Justinian to the Arab conquest of Carthage (A.D. 698). Themes may include pilgrimage, the movement of disease and of ideas, the impact of Islam, the archaeology of commerce in this era. Meetings will include close philological and historical analysis of relevant Latin sources, and research papers by participants.
Note: Latin, with either German or French, is required.
[*History 2124. Medieval History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 7820
Thomas N. Bisson
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Research studies in the sources and problems of power, faith, and culture in the medieval west. Topic for 2000: When does the 12th century begin? Readings in narratives, charters, letters.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. Admission by advanced permission only.
Prerequisite: History 2101 or Medieval Studies 101; Latin and French or German.
[History 2126. Medieval Law]
Catalog Number: 3140
Charles Donahue, Jr. (Law School)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A reading course focused alternately on the English legal tradition (normally jointly with Medieval Studies 117) and on the Roman-canonical tradition (normally jointly with Medieval Studies 119). Several short papers analyzing texts will be required but not a research paper. Topics for 2000: the Roman-canonical tradition.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. Some Latin required.
[History 2271r. Topics in Byzantine History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 3868
Angeliki E. Laiou
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Reading knowledge of Greek, French and/or German.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[*History 2353 (formerly History 2251). Topics in Pre-Petrine History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 6526
Edward L. Keenan
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. Open to qualified undergraduates by permission of instructor.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian; History 1353 or equivalent.
[History 2375. Popular Culture in Renaissance and Reformation Europe (1350–1650)]
Catalog Number: 3100
Steven Ozment
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Research seminar requiring an original paper. Problems of method and sources will be discussed, as will selected monographic literature. For advanced students with some historical knowledge of the area of their paper and linguistic skills needed to master the sources.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Expected to be given in 2002–03.
History 1309. History in Early Modern Europe: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 6583
Ann M. Blair
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course will examine the cultural signficance of history as a discipline and as practice in Europe from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. We will consider the nature and purposes of different kinds of historical writing and the ways in which histories were read and used. Histories were written to justify disciplines, states and religions; at the same time historical research prompted the development of new scholarly methods and subdisciplines. Emphasis on reading from primary sources including Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Francis Bacon, Voltaire and Gibbon.
[History 1318. History of the Book and of Reading]
Catalog Number: 7410
Ann M. Blair
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A general introduction to this new area of cultural history, centered on the book and its functions as both material object and text. Major themes to include the techniques of book production, authorship, popular and learned readership, libraries and censorship. Within its broad span from antiquity to cyberspace, the course will have a special focus on printing and developments in early modern Europe (notably in France, 16th to 18th centuries). Readings from primary and secondary sources, including St. Augustine, Montaigne, Balzac; Chartier, Darnton, and Foucault.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[History 1331 (formerly History 1413). Shakespeare’s England 1550–1700]
Catalog Number: 8877
Mark A. Kishlansky
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Focuses on the social and economic history of Early Modern England. Topics include demography; agriculture; families; hierarchy, patriarchy, and gender; London and urbanization; the rural community; poverty; and law.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. Two lectures per week and a mandatory discussion section. Discussions center on primary materials or historiographical controversies.
History 1332. British History, 1688-1815
Catalog Number: 0475
Jeffrey Randall Collins
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
An introduction to British history from the Glorious Revolution through the victory over Napoleon. Topics will include the evolution of monarchy and the constitution; the rise and breakup of the first British Empire; war and the development of national identity; the English Enlightenment; and cultural develoments such as the “sentimental revolution”.
History 1334. England in the Tudor Age
Catalog Number: 9170
Jeffrey Randall Collins
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
This course will survey the history of England under the rule of her most celebrated dynasty: the Tudors (1485-1603). Major topics will include: the Wars of Roses and the establishment of the Tudor dynasty; the EnglishRenaissance; the Reformation and the Marian Counter-Reformation; the court cultures of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I;warfare in France and on the Celtic fringe; exploration and the origins of the British empire.
[History 1335 (formerly History 1409). England in the 17th Century, 1603–1689]
Catalog Number: 6018
Mark A. Kishlansky
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores the political history of England from the reign of James I to the Revolution of 1689. Major topics include local government and the organization of local society; religious controversies; hierarchy and monarchy; the history of Parliament; the origins and course of the English Revolution; the Restoration and the Revolution of 1688–89. Readings include works of the most significant modern historians as well as sources drawn from the rich writings of the period.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Expected to be given in 2002–03.
History 1336. The Reign of Charles I: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 1531 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Mark A. Kishlansky
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
An examination of the Stuart monarchy during its most tempestuous period. Topics will include court culture, religion, and the Constitution. Readings will focus on the rich primary literature of the age. Original research required.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor required.
History 1342. Russian History to 1725
Catalog Number: 6061
Marshall T. Poe
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
This class is intended to give a broad understanding of the course of East Slavic history from the formation of the Kievan Rus’ state (10th century) to the end of the Petrine era (1725). Major periods/areas covered include: Kievan Rus’; the Mongol Era; Northern Rus’ (Novgorod); Western Rus’ (Lithuania, Chernigov, Volynia); Northeastern Rus’ Muscovy); the Tatar Khanates; the rise of Muscovy; Muscovite society and culture; the Time of Troubles; the building of the “Russian” Empire; “Westernization” and its fallout; the Petrine Reforms.
History 1343. The Russian Empire in Comparative Perspective: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 7319
Marshall T. Poe
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course will investigate the development and dynamics of the Russian Empire, 1450-1800, in comparative historical perspective. It is often said that Russian history is marked by peculiarities not found in the histories of other European and Asian countries. This course will explore the question of a Russian “special way” by comparing early modern and modern Russia to major states in the Eurasian sphere, for example, the Habsburg Empire, England, France, and the Ottoman Empire. Other comparisons will be considered in accordance to the wishes and specialities of the participants.
[History 1353 (formerly History 1251 and 1551). Medieval and Early Modern Russia]
Catalog Number: 5173
Edward L. Keenan
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A survey of Muscovite history, 1400–1700, with appropriate attention to Kievan and Mongol periods.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1417 (formerly History 1329). Italy Since 1796]
Catalog Number: 8146
Charles S. Maier
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the emergence of politics and civil society in Italy from the stirrings of Enlightenment reform, the impact of the French Revolution and Napoleon, the Risorgimento and unification of the successive liberal, fascist, and democratic regimes. Themes of importance include the condition of the peasantry and the Southern Question, economic development, Fascism, Communism, social movements and terrorism, and the current reorientation of political blocs.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1431 (formerly History 1468). 19th-Century Britain]
Catalog Number: 3665
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Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
British history from the Napoleonic Wars to the beginning of World War I. Major topics include political reform, industrial development and its social and economic consequences, changing attitudes toward gender and social class, and Britain’s relationship with its colonies. Readings will include primary texts by Carlyle, Engels, Mill, Nightingale, and Trollope, as well as a variety of works by modern historians.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 1432 (formerly History 1401). 20th-Century Britain
Catalog Number: 0288
Fred M. Leventhal (Boston University)
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
British history from the Boer War through the Blair administration. Explores the source and nature of political change; the experience and impact of the two World Wars; imperial rule and its aftermath; and social and cultural movements. Readings include works by H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, George Orwell, and John Osborne. Occasional films accompany this course.
History 1438. War and Society in 20th-Century Britain: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 8553
Fred M. Leventhal (Boston University)
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
An examination of the social and cultural impact of the two World Wars on Britain, with particular attention to state intervention in British society, the changing role of women, the soldiers’ experience, and the literary response. Sources will include memoirs, wartime documents, speeches, broadcasts and films, as well as recent historiography.
[History 1450. France 1500–1715]
Catalog Number: 7575
Ann M. Blair
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A general survey of the history and historiography of early modern France ca. 1500–1715, with a special emphasis on topics in cultural history, including: humanism and printing; Protestantism; political thought; royal and court rituals; and the beginnings of the Enlightenment. Assigned readings from Rabelais, Montaigne, Pascal, Racine, and Voltaire among the primary sources; from Fernand Braudel, Natalie Davis, Robert Darnton among the secondary sources. All assignments in English, but interested students have the option of doing primary source readings in French.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Expected to be given in 2003–04.
History 1451 (formerly History 1470). The History of France from Louis XIV to Charles deGaulle
Catalog Number: 6683
Patrice Higonnet
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
The history of France from the French Revolution to our own day.
[History 1462. French Politics, History, and Culture From 1780–1871: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 1000
Patrice Higonnet
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of France’s revolutionary traditions and their relationship to literature (Stael, Constant, Stendhal, Balzac, and Flaubert), French art (David, Delacroix, Manet), and French architecture (Ledoux, Viollet le Duc, Garnier).
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1463. Paris From the French Revolution Through the 19th Century: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 6355 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Patrice Higonnet and Henri Zerner
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the art, literature, and history of the “capital of the 19th century.” Subjects will include Balzac, Flaubert, and Baudelaire; Delacroix, Manet, and Degas; the Revolutions of 1789, 1848, and 1871.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 1466. Vichy France: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 8154
Patrice Higonnet
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This course will cover the background of the Vichy years and the legacy of 1789; military affairs; Vichy’s social policy; Vichy, the Germans and the Jews; Vichy and Free France; and the legacy of the Vichy years.
[History 1475 (formerly History 1501). History of 19th-Century Germany]
Catalog Number: 6919
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines political, social, economic, and cultural history of Germany from ca. 1780 to 1914. Attention paid to the revolutions of 1848; unification under Bismarck; the role of the state; patterns of industrialization; the development of mass politics; and the coming of World War I.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Expected to be given in 2003–04.
History 1476. Enlightenment and Dialectic: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 6048
Peter Eli Gordon
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
An examination of Adorno and Horkheimer’s “Dialectic of Enlightenment,” the single most powerful and sobering 20th-century reflection on the critical relevance as well as the critical dangers of the Enlightenment broadly construed. Will reflect on the broader questions raised by the Enlightenment and its legacy. Preparatory texts include Lessing’s 18th-century tolerance drama “Nathan the Wise,” Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute,” along with selections from Kant, Mendelssohn, Hegel, Weber, Freud, Benjamin, and de Sade.
History 1480. World War I, Empires and Revolution: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 1741
Eric Lohr
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
In 1917-1918, all four of the major continental empires along the Eastern Front (the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and German empires) collapsed in national and social revolutions. The course explores aspects of what Winston Churchill called “The Unknown War” on the Eastern Front. Main themes include the War’s impact on the nationality and the revolutionary collapse of the empires under study.
History 1485. Weimar Intellectuals and the Challenge of Modernity: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 7638
Peter Eli Gordon
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3; W., 6:30–8:30 p.m. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
The Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was an era of unprecedented fecundity in German intellectual life. This course provides a survey of the strategies by which Weimar intellectuals reflected upon and thus attempted to manage the various stresses of modernity—urbanity, technology, new modes of mass politics and new techniques of artistic expression. Four units will be covered: the crisis of the political; urbanism and anxiety; technophilia and technophobia; and Marxism and Utopia. Readings will include Carl Schmitt, Thomas Mann, Oswald Spengler, Karl Mannheim, Walter Benjamin, Siegried Kracauer, Ernst Jünger, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, and Martin Heidegger.
[*History 1491 (formerly *History 1472). Religion and Popular Culture in 19th-Century Europe: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 6681 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
David Blackbourn
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores the relationship between social and political change and popular religious practice from the French Revolution to the First World War. Considers methodological problems in the study of religion and popular culture; religious revivals and popular politics; pilgrimages and prophetic movements; the relationships between class, gender, and religious culture; the feminization of religion, and the origins and resistance to the secularization of state and society. Readings include primary documents and secondary texts.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2265.
[History 1492 (formerly History 1345). Gender and the State in an Era of Mass War: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 3597
Susan Pedersen
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores the impact of total war, technological innovation, and political change on gender relations in Western Europe between 1914 and the early fifties. Topics include the destabilization of gender relations in wartime; the cultural anxieties of aftermath; pronatalism, eugenics, and efforts to “rationalize” the domestic sphere; women’s identities, organizations, and lives under fascism and Nazism; policies toward the family in the postwar settlement. Readings cover Britain, France, Germany, and Italy.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
*History 1494. The Second British Empire: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 3842 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Susan Pedersen
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This course explores the course and nature of the British Empire from the late 18th century until the period after World War II. Three main issues are addressed: the character and causes of imperial expansion; the nature and impact of imperial rule; and the process of decolonization. Using essays, diaries, letters, fiction, artistic representations and film, students seek to understand both the imperial experiences of particular colonies and the creation of an “imperial culture” within Britain itself.
History 1502. Imperial Russia
Catalog Number: 2440
Eric Lohr
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
Course surveys major themes in the history of the Russian Empire from Peter the Great to the collapse of the old regime in 1917. Readings include historical narratives, documents and novels. The course seeks to understand the structures of the diverse society which made up the empire, the growth and modernization of the empire, and the tensions within the system toward its collapse.
History 1505. Nation, State, and Empire in Russian History
Catalog Number: 4756
Marshall T. Poe
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
This course will explore the rise, history, and fall of the Russian empire from the Muscovite period to approximately 1991. Emphasis will be focused on the tension between “Russian,” “imperial,” and (non-Russian) “ethnic” identity. Topics covered include: the formation of the Muscovite state; the building of the multi-national Muscovite empire; the formation of a “Russian imperial” identity in Petrine times; Russian interactions with Siberia, the Baltic states, Belorus’, Ukraine, the Caucasian people, Tatars, Caucasian peoples in the modern period.
[History 1511 (formerly History 1537). 19th-Century Ukraine]
Catalog Number: 3540
Roman Szporluk
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Survey of the history of Ukraine from the end of the 18th century to 1905. Ukraine’s place in Russian, Polish, and Austrian history. The Ukrainian national awakening in a comparative perspective of national movements in 19th-century Europe.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 1512 (formerly History 1541). 20th-Century Ukraine
Catalog Number: 6723
Roman Szporluk
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 11:30–1. EXAM GROUP: 13, 14
What is Ukrainian history?—an introduction to main themes. Ukrainians in Russia and Austria-Hungary before 1914. Russian and Polish views of Ukraine: historical tradition and modern politics. The First World War and the Ukrainian Question; Ukraine in 1917–22. Ukraine in the U.S.S.R., 1922–39. Ukrainians in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania. Ukraine in 1939–45. Postwar Stalinism. From Destalinization to Independence.
History 1515 (formerly History 1542). States and Nations: 1905-1991: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 7550 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Roman Szporluk
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
An introduction to theoretical literature concerning nationalism and communism, as well as to historical treatments of the states of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, with special attention to Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, as well as to the experience of Yugoslavia and Poland.
History 1516. Nation Formation in East Europe, 1795-1921: Poland, Russia, Ukraine
Catalog Number: 5843
Roman Szporluk
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
An examination of the making and remaking of nations in East Europe, focusing on the three interrelated cases of Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. This survey of intellectual and political history extends from the partitions of Poland by Russia, Austria, and Prussia to socialist and nationalist revolutions of 1917-1920 and the territorial and political settlement of 1919-1921.
History 1531. History of the Soviet Union, 1917–1991
Catalog Number: 4501
Terry D. Martin
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
Examines the history of the Soviet Union from its establishment with the 1917 Russian Revolution through to its collapse after Gorbachev’s unsuccessful reforms in 1991. Special attention will be devoted to the period of high Stalinism (1928-53), when the abolition of the market, nationalization of all industry and land, rapid industralization and political terror created a distinct Soviet society and culture. Readings will consist mostly of primary sources: novels, short stories, memoirs, Soviet propaganda, diaries, underground essays, songs, jokes, etc.
[History 1532. Everyday Life in the Soviet Union: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 7916
Terry D. Martin
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
How did ordinary people live in a totalitarian state? Examines distinctive features of Soviet culture and society through the prism of everyday life. Topics include friendship, family, gender, work, survival tactics, terror, denunciation, nepotism, drinking, sex, humor. Readings will include novels, memoirs, Soviet propaganda, diaries, movies, jokes.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Expected to be given in 2002–03.
History 1533. The Modern Police State
Catalog Number: 4942
Terry D. Martin
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
Examines the role of the secret police in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Communist East Germany. Comparisons will also be made with other Communist states and modern dictatorships. Topics include the surveillance of the population, informers and denunciation, collaboration and resistance, hiding one’s identity, censorship, popular communication, political terror, violence, forced labor and strategies for coming to terms with the legacy of the police state.
History 1537. Stalinism and Nazism: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 0631
Terry D. Martin
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Compares and contrasts the two great modern European dictatorships. Topics include the role of the leader, propaganda and public opinioin, the totalitarian Party, state surveillance, state terror, the role of ordinary citizens in abetting or resisting state oppression, total war, nationality and colonialism, everyday life, petitioning and survival strategies, consumption and rationing.
History 1540. Revolutionary Russia, 1890’s-1921
Catalog Number: 8056
Eric Lohr
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
An analysis of one of the most important events of the 20th century—the Russian Revolution. Examines the political, national, social and intellectual upheavals in the Russian Empire from the end of the 19th century through the 1905 and 1917 Revolutions, to the establishment of the Soviet Union.
History 1542. The Russian Intelligentsia and Its Controversies: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 2123
Eric Lohr
Half course (fall term). Th., 12–2. EXAM GROUP: 14, 15
The intelligentsia, its emergence, ethos and place in Russian society. Examines selected major intellectual controversies and debates from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.
History 1585. Jews in Modern Times: From the French Revolution to the Emergence of Israel
Catalog Number: 7024
Jay M. Harris
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
The politics and impact of emancipation in Western and Central Europe; religious and secular responses in the early 19th century; economics, demography, urbanization, and migrations; development of modern anti-Semitism; Jewish life in Eastern Europe; intellectual and demographic trends; Zionism; the American experience; the rise of the state of Israel.
[History 2312 (formerly History 2377). The German Family, 1250–1750: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 8806
Steven Ozment
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An introduction to research in German family history, including German script, during the late medieval and early modern periods. Requires a basic reading knowledge of modern German. Higly recommended for upper level undergraduates and graduate students seeking to improve their reading knowledge of German and/or prepare for research in German archives. Both group and individual instruction.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Expected to be given in 2002–03.
History 2332 (formerly *History 2400). Early Modern England: Seminar
Catalog Number: 7105 Enrollment: Limited to 10. Limited to 10.
Mark A. Kishlansky
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Students will conduct primary research on topics of significance in the history of England, ca. 1563–1714.
[History 2333. Problems in Modern British History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 2961
Susan Pedersen
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 2342r (formerly History 2462r). The French Revolution: Seminar
Catalog Number: 1914
Patrice Higonnet
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
The history of Paris during the French Revolution.
History 2354. Topics in Early Modern Russian History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 8081
Marshall T. Poe
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course examines basic issues in the history of early modern Russia, with a focus on the Muscovite period. Topics covered include: the Kievan legacy in Northeastern Rus’; the impact of the Mongols on Muscovy; the rise of Muscovy as the dominant power in Northeastern Rus’; the origins of autocracy; the building of the Russian empire; the reign of Ivan IV; the Time of Troubles; the Muscovite elite; the provincial gentry; the Orthodox Church; peasants and serfs.
History 2472. Republics and Republicanism
Catalog Number: 6622
James Hankins and Harvey C. Mansfield
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Ancient and modern republics studied with a view to republican virtue, civic humanism, constitutions, and democracy. Readings include Aristotle, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville.
Note: Open to all qualified undergraduates.
History 2473. Cutural and Intellectual History of Renaissance Italy: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 0140
James Hankins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Topics include civic humanism and republicanism; Renaissance historiography and its modern context; the revival of ancient philosophical systems and the challenge to Aristotelianism and scholascticism; humanist educational theory and practice. Readings in contemporary sources.
Note: May not ordinarily be credited as one of the research seminars required in the first-yearprogram.
History 2475 (formerly History 2378). Problems and Sources in Modern German History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 8355 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David Blackbourn
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
A thematic course dealing with major topics in German history from the middle of the 19th century to the Third Reich. A recurrent question is the relationship of “modern” and “anti-modern” in this period.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Reading knowledge of German not required.
[*History 2511 (formerly *History 2290). Socialism and Nationalism: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 6556
Roman Szporluk
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Nationalism and socialism and their interaction with special reference to Poland, Russia, and Ukraine in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 2531. Stalinism: Seminar
Catalog Number: 7969
Terry D. Martin
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Acquaints students with the available archival and published sources for the study of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1953. Briefly surveys and examines the recent historical debates concerning the Stalinist state and society. Primary focus will be on writing a major research paper.
[History 2552. 20th-Century European History: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 3474
Charles S. Maier
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
On the occasion of the last semester of the 20th century, the course will revisit some of its major historical developments, review interpretations, and attempt to assess continuing significance. Tentative topics to be selected from among the following: European imperialism, the First World War, totalitarian regimes, the Holocaust, modernist and post-modernist cultural stances, political justice and overcoming dictatorship. Seminar credit for students writing substantial research papers.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 1603. The Cultural History of the First British Empire
Catalog Number: 3920
Joyce Elizabeth Chaplin
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
Primary focus on the emergence of the first British empire in the 18th century, with some background on English colonization of America in the 17th century. Topics include: creation of Great Britain; expansion of British overseas interests in America, Africa, and Asia; development of creole cultures; British imperial policy and frontier crises; transatlantic cultural connections.
[History 1605. Nature in the New World: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 8763
Joyce Elizabeth Chaplin
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the problems that America’s physical environment presented (both for theoretical inquiry and in terms of practical experience) during the first three centuries of sustained contact between old and new worlds. Topics include the changing role of science in America, medical and racial theories, attitudes toward wilderness and non-western uses of nature, and the Enlightenment dispute over the “inferiority” of new world flora and fauna. Primary focus on North America.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1618. Material Life in Early America]
Catalog Number: 5761
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
The history of early America through the lens of “material culture” — the ways in which human beings comprehended and altered their physical environment, from John White’s watercolors of Roanoke Indians in the 1580s to Alexander Hamilton’s census of household manufactures in 1810. Emphasis on the development of distinctive regional economies (the fur trade, plantation agriculture, subsistence farming) and on the intersection of public events with the rhythms and artifacts of ordinary life. Readings drawn from interdisciplinary scholarship in history, historical archaeology, demography, and the decorative arts.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 1620. The Old South
Catalog Number: 4210
Susan Wyly-Jones
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
This course will examine the history of the Old South from the nation’s founding to the beginning of the Civil War. The lectures and readings will cover many aspects of southern society, politics, economy, and culture. In particular, we will examine how the institution of slavery shaped the lives of slaveholders and nonslaveholders, men and women, free black southerners and the slave community. We will also explore the development of southern distinctiveness and the growing sectional conflict over slavery that led to the attempt by the southern states to create a separate nation.
[History 1624 (formerly History 1620). Jacksonian America, 1815–1845]
Catalog Number: 5450
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Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of U.S. history during the age of Andrew Jackson, with attention to economic, political, social, and intellectual developments. Topics include the development of a democratic political culture; the process of industrialization; the market revolution and the commercialization of society; workers’ lives; changes in the family and women’s role; revivalism; the romantic movement; and the beginnings of modern American culture.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1632. Gilded Age America: Economy, Society and Politics: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 4733
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Will analyze both the dynamics of economic, social and political change during the Gilded Age and how Americans tried to come to terms with a world so different from the one they had inherited. Will explore the emergence of a more productive, larger and more centralized economy, new industries, the railroads, the changing face of cities, the social conflict resulting from the unequal distribution of new wealth, and the dramatic economic changes that put strains on the nation’s political system.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
*History 1635 (formerly History 1659 and 90h). Race and Race Relations Since Plessy: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 4172 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Stephan Thernstrom
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
An examination of the changing position of blacks in American society since disenfranchisement and the creation of the Jim Crow system at the turn of the century. The nature of segregation; the civil rights movement; Brown v. Board; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; the crisis of the late sixties; the Kerner report, and the legislative, executive, and judicial initiatives that followed in its wake; trends since the 60’s. Readings include court decisions, government reports, monographs, interpretive historical works, and some fiction and autobiography.
History 1637 (formerly History 1611). American Public Life in the 20th Century
Catalog Number: 2043
Brett Flehinger
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
A course covering the major public and political events in America from the administration of Teddy Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan. Focus on both rising national unity and power, as well as persistent racial, gender, and economic division that conflicted with this unity. Topics include: the Progressive Era, New Deal, World Wars, Civil Rights Movement, and Watergate.
History 1638. United States Social History, from 1929 to the Present
Catalog Number: 5967
Stephan Thernstrom
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10, plus one hour to be arranged for sections.
An analysis of major social changes from the 1920s to the present. Topics include population patterns, industrial growth, urban development, the class structure, ethnic and racial relations, gender roles, and education.
History 1640 (formerly History 1660). The United States since World War II
Catalog Number: 6155
Lizabeth Cohen
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
An examination of American politics, society and culture from 1945 to the present. Topics include the Cold War, suburbanization and mass consumption, anticommunist crusades, the evolution of American liberalism, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam and the antiwar movement, second-wave feminism, and competing visions of the welfare state.
[History 1642a. U.S. Women’s History to 1900]
Catalog Number: 0487
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Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of women’s experiences from the colonial period to 1900. Course focuses on women’s work, family lives, and activism in light of changing beliefs about women’s proper roles and capabilities. Particular attention is paid to variations in women’s experiences according to their race, ethnicity, class, and region.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 1642b. U.S. Women and Gender History, Turn of the Century to the Present
Catalog Number: 3607
Ruth Feldstein
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
An examination of women’s experiences, and a study of masculinity and femininity as historically specific concepts in 20th-century U.S. history. Topics include sexual practices and beliefs, gender and the welfare state, gender and civil rights activism, and women’s liberation.
[*History 1643. The Confederacy: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 2829 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
William E. Gienapp
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of the history of the Confederacy from the secession of the states of the Deep South in the winter of 1861 until the surrender of the Confederacy in 1865. Emphasis will be on developments in the South rather than on the events of the Civil War. Topics will include Jefferson Davis and Confederate politics, the economy and the home front, the destruction of slavery, common soldiers, the internal causes of the Confederacy’s eventual defeat, and southern memory of the war.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1644. Reconstruction, 1865-1877]
Catalog Number: 8635
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of the problem of reconstructing the Union after the Civil War. Both national developments and developments in the South will be considered. Topics will include the clash between the executive branch and Congress over the program of Reconstruction, political and economic change in the South, race relations and black rights, the end of Reconstruction, and the legacy of Reconstruction for the nation and especially the South and African Americans. Two lectures and a section meeting each week.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
*History 1645 (formerly History 1607). History of American Immigration: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 7280 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Stephan Thernstrom
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Analysis of the immigration waves that have shaped the American population from colonial times to the present. The causes of international migration; shifting American attitudes toward immigrants; U.S. immigration policy; the economic and social adjustment of newcomers; the Melting Pot vs. cultural pluralism.
History 1647 (formerly History 1711). The United States and East Asia: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 0455
Akira Iriye
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Topics in the history of United States relations with the countries of East Asia, with an emphasis on problems of cultural communication, economic independence, and geopolitical rivalries.
[History 1648. Communication in the Early Nation: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 7491
Catherine A. Corman
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of how print influenced the ways Americans, including women, Indians, and African Americans, communicated and how that communication shaped the nation between 1776 and 1840.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1649. The American West: 1780-1930]
Catalog Number: 6636
Catherine A. Corman
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
History of the American West covering the rise and demise of Turner’s frontier thesis; literary and visual conceptualizations of the mythic West; the Northwest Ordinance and the creation of “ Indian Country”; land policies in the new nation; the role of Indians in the development of an American market economy; the “first Wests” of Kentucky and Ohio; the growing importance of the Southwest and its peoples; sectionalism, expansion, and the coming of the Civil War; the Indian New Deal; and the ethnic and racial complexities of a new, urban West.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1650a. Foreign Relations of The United States I]
Catalog Number: 3435
Ernest R. May and Akira Iriye
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
American foreign relations from the colonial period through the First World War. Topics include the transition from colonial to imperial status; the changing role of the U.S. in international relations; interaction between domestic politics and foreign policy; political, economic, and cultural relationships between Americans and other peoples.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[History 1650b. Foreign Relations of The United States II]
Catalog Number: 4745
Akira Iriye
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
American foreign relations since the First World War. Topics include the world role of the supposedly isolated United States in the interwar years, World War II, postwar “hegemony,” the Cold War, and political, economic, and cultural interaction between Americans and other peoples.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Expected to be given in 2002–03.
History 1653. Baseball and American Society, 1840–Present
Catalog Number: 5860
William E. Gienapp
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
Examines the history of baseball within the context of cultural and social history, with focus on the ways in which baseball has reflected social, economic, and cultural changes in American history from the mid-19th century to the present. More attention will be given to the period before 1950 than the recent era.
[History 1654. The History of American Capitalism: From the Industrial Revolution to World War I: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 7002
Sven Beckert
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of the major trajectories of the development of American capitalism in the 19th century. Will focus on the reasons for and effects of capitalist growth, and of how the U.S. turned from a relatively minor outpost of the Atlantic economy to the powerhouse of the world economy and how this in turn shaped the ways Americans produced and lived. Topics will range from the economic consequences of the Civil War to the impact of capitalism on gender relations; from the changing structure of American businesses to the role of the government in channeling economic development.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
*History 1655. Abraham Lincoln: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 5041 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
William E. Gienapp
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
An examination of Abraham Lincoln’s life and his significance in American history. More attention will be given to his presidency than to his career before 1860. Class meetings will focus on discussion of the assigned reading. Topics to be examined include the influence of the frontier on his character, his emergence as a national political figure, the quality of his presidential leadership, emancipation, his role as commander-in-chief, the impact of the war on his ideas, and his place in American historical memory.
[History 1656. The 19th-Century Bourgeoisie: Western Europe and the U.S.: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 0926
Sven Beckert
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An introduction to the history of the bourgeoisie in the U.S., England, Germany and France in comparative perspective. Delineating the role of merchants, industrialists, bankers and professionals at home, at work and in politics, the course will review large questions about the place of the bourgeoisie in 19th-century societies and its relationship to liberalism and political democracy, but also look at bourgeois gender roles, culture and religion.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Expected to be given in 2003–04.
*History 1659. U.S. Cultural History, Turn of the Century to Present
Catalog Number: 8905
Ruth Feldstein
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
This lecture course will consider questions of who owns and defines “culture” in 20th-century U.S. history. Topics include the consumption of film, literature, television and music.
History 1660. Using Primary Sources in African-American History: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 8151
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This course offers a firsthand account of the lives of slaves and freedpeople, women and laborers, migrants and freedom fighters in black America. Students will explore a variety of topics in 19th- and 20th-century African-American history by focusing on primary sources, such as diaries, newspapers, correspondence, census data, court records, and organizational archives. The course will emphasize how historians go about their craft of documenting and interpreting the past.
History 1661. Social Thought in Modern America
Catalog Number: 8440
James T. Kloppenberg
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 11:30–1. EXAM GROUP: 13, 14
An inquiry into American ideas since 1890, examining developments in political and social theory, philosophy, and literature in the context of socioeconomic change. Topics include the breakdown of Victorian idealism and laissez-faire; the emergence of social science and progressivism; conflicts over gender, race, and ethnicity; interwar cultural ferment and political reform; post-World War II theories of consensus and 1960s radicalism; and the consequences for democracy of our contemporary culture of irony.
[*History 1663. The 1950s: American Cultural Politics in the Cold War: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 2658
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
In comparison to the 1960s, the 1950s have often been viewed as a period of traditionalism and apathy. This seminar challenges that view, exploring seemingly unrelated currents in—and interpretations of—the United States in the 1950s. Topics include civil rights activism, U.S. foreign policy, Beat culture, the rise of television, and the “feminine mystique.” Course raises questions such as: What was the relationship between McCarthyism and changing gender roles? What was the relationship between foreign and domestic policy and cultural experimentation?
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 1665. Crime and Criminal Justice in the U.S., 1776-1999
Catalog Number: 8537
Rebecca Mary McLennan
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
This lecture course explores the social and political history of crime, criminal law, policing and punishment in the United States since the Revolution. Reading both primary and secondary sources, we will consider permutations in the legal and cultural meanings of crime since 1865; the rise of the police; the consolidation of the modern, prison-based criminal justice system in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; the rise and fall of "extra-legal" forms of policing punishment (such as lynching); and the contested politics of "law and order" since World War II.
History 1670. The New Deal: The United States During the Roosevelt Years: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 4878
Lisa M. McGirr
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5.
An exploration of the trajectory of New Deal reform and the broader social, economic, political, and cultural changes in the United States in this period. Topics will include the First and Second New Deal, the rise of liberalism, the Roosevelt administration, the social movements of the Left and the Right during the 1930s, the coming of war, and the waning of the reform impulse.
History 1672. The United States in the 1960s
Catalog Number: 5900
Lisa M. McGirr
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
An introduction to the main developments in American society, culture, and politics during the premiere liberal decade of the 20th century. Topics will include the New Frontier, the Great Society, the Vietnam war, the Civil Rights movement, the student movement, the counter-culture, and the rise of populist conservatism.
[History 1673. Conservatism and Right-Wing Politics in 20th-Century American Life: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 2340
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An introduction to debates among historians and social scientists on the American Right. Will examine ideas, social groups, and cultural settings that have contributed to shaping the various strands of American conservatism in the 20th century—from the religious Right and movements of populist reaction to libertarianism. Topics will include religious fundamentalism, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, the Right during the Great Depression, McCarthyism, the conservative intellectual movement since 1945, the John Birch Society, the Goldwater movement, and the New Right.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 1676. Social Movements in the United States from Populism to the New Right
Catalog Number: 4073
Lisa M. McGirr
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
Examines social movements in America from the late 19th century until today in an historical perspective. Topics include populism, temperance, suffrage and the labor movement, as well as civil rights activism and the student movement. Attention will also be given to right-wing movements in the 20th century such as the Ku Klux Klan and the New Right. Course will address the origins of these various social movements, their strategies and tactics, and successes and failures.
History 2601. The U.S. in the 20th Century: Seminar
Catalog Number: 1270
Lizabeth Cohen
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Research on topics in 20th-century U.S. history.
History 2602. Readings in the United States in the 19th Century
Catalog Number: 2383
William E. Gienapp
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
The second in the sequence of three proseminars required of all graduate students in American history and open to graduate students in other history fields and other departments as space permits. Readings will be drawn from a variety of secondary works, including classic as well as recent studies, with particular attention to the relationship between politics, society, and culture. The course will consider the themes of nationalism and regionalism along with the experience of particular social groups.
History 2606. Early American Social History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 6049
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Half course (spring term). W., 5–7 p.m. EXAM GROUP: 9
Research culminating in the production of a scholarly essay. Some prior knowledge of the period assumed.
[History 2607 (formerly History 2603). The United States in the 20th Century]
Catalog Number: 2931
Lisa M. McGirr
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
The third in the sequence of three proseminars required of all graduate students in American history and open to graduate students in other history fields and other departments, as space permits.Readings in a combination of classics and recent monographs and articles, with particular attention paid to making connections between politics, social life, and culture. The course will strive to integrate the experiences of diverse social groups into an understanding of the central historicaland historiographical issues in the 20th century.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 2612 (formerly History 2602). 19th-Century United States: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 6686
William E. Gienapp
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 2613. Assessing Other Governments: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 7404
Ernest R. May
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
After examination of case studies from 19th and 20th century American and European history, chiefly from the period of the Cold War, students prepare major research papers based on original sources.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School of Government as ISP-310.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of at least one language other than English is ordinarily required.
History 2630. Intellectual History
Catalog Number: 2382
James T. Kloppenberg
Half course (fall term). F., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
History 2661. Graduate Readings in 20th-Century African-American History
Catalog Number: 9004
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Covers key literature on topics in 20th-century African-American history. Reading classic and more recent works, graduate students will investigate critical themes and events from the birth of Jim Crow at the turn of the century to the legal climate of the 1990s.
[History 2662. Readings in American Thought]
Catalog Number: 8845
James T. Kloppenberg
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of classic and contemporary histories of American thought.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 2663. Graduate Readings in U.S. Women’s History]
Catalog Number: 6905
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Readings in U.S. women’s history from the Colonial period to the early 20th century.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
*History 2671. American Social History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 0969
Stephan Thernstrom
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
History 1741. Gender and History in Latin America
Catalog Number: 1467
Jane E. Mangan
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
A study of Latin American history with a focus on the distinct patterns of gender relations that have dominated Latin American society for hundreds of years. Themes include gender and conquest, women slaves, paternalism, negotiation of honor, religion and social control, gender and social change, women and the law, the gendered world of labor, sexuality, and family and migration.
[History 1742. Religion and Society in Latin America: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 2256
Jane E. Mangan
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This course studies the role of religious belief and practice in the history of the Andes, Brazil, Mexico, and the Caribbean with a focus on the nexus between religion and social change. Students will consider the variety of religious traditions engenderd by the distinct pre-Columbian, African, and European cultures that have influenced religious belief and practice in the region since the sixteenth century. Topics include individual and community responses to the Catholic Church, campaigns against idolatry, the relationship of religious tradition to political culture, religion and revolution, the gendered practice of religion, and the introduction of Protestantism and Evangelism.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 1757 (Formerly 1760a.). History of Latin America to 1825
Catalog Number: 5991
Jane E. Mangan
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10 and an additional section to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 12
A survey of Latin American history form the eve of Spain’s conquest of the Americas in 1492 to the era of Latin American independence in the early 19th century. Focus on Mexico and the Andes, with comparison to the Caribbean, Brazil, and Rio de la Plata. Study of government priorities, religious debates economic exploits, native resistance, and social tensions that shaped Spain’s attempts to control her “new world” and, ultimately, created shadows that lurk in 20th-century Latin America. Considerationof a range of colonial experiences including African slaves, mestizos, indigenous peoples, and newcomers from Spain.
[History 1758. Latin America from Independence to 1914]
Catalog Number: 5574
John H. Coatsworth
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A survey of the formation of nation states and national economies in Latin America, from the collapse of the colonial empires of Spain and Portugal to World War One. Will analyze the causes and effect of independence, the fragmentation of the Spanish colonies into independent states, the economic decline after independence, the slave revolts and peasant rebellions of the early 19th century, and the formation and fracturing of national governments.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Expected to be given in 2002–03.
History 1759 (formerly History 1760b). The History of Latin America, 1914-2000
Catalog Number: 7328
John H. Coatsworth
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
From the First World War to the present, a survey of Latin American societies and politics, with emphasis on economic developments and struggles for power, justice, progress, and security.
History 1765. Brazil, 1750-2000
Catalog Number: 5880
Dain Edward Borges
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
A survey of Brazilian history, emphasizing the 19th-and early 20th-century transformations of Brazilian society. Topics include economic transformations and industrialization; slavery and emancipation; population, immigration and urbanization; political reforms.
History 1766. Latin American Intellectual and Cultural History: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 6809
Dain Borges
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Themes in social thought and ideology, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries: enlightenment; nation-building; liberalism and conservatism; positivism and the sciences; democratic nationalism; socialism; new religions; economic development; emancipation movements. Transformations in education, media, publics, and the roles of intellectuals.
*History 2782 (formerly *History 1782). The Economic History of Latin America
Catalog Number: 4261 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
John H. Coatsworth
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Examines the evolution of the Latin American economies from the colonial era to the 20th-century. Topics include the measurement of early modern economic activity, economic growth and institutional change, the impact of external economic relations, land tenure and agricultural development, strategies of industrialization, and issues of political economy.
Note: Rudimentary economics, some Latin American history, and Spanish or Portuguese helpful but not required. Undergraduates may enroll with the permission of the instructor.
History 2784. Issues in Colonial Latin American History: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 5494
Jane E. Mangan
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
An in-depth study of scholarship in colonial Latin American history for the period from conquest through the wars of independence. Topics include conquest and settlement; the economics of empire; indigenous communities; natural resources and labor; resistance to colonial rule; race, class and social order. Emphasis on historiographical debates instead of chronological narrative.
Note: Primarily for graduate students, though advanced undergraduates may take the course with special permission of the instructor. Reading knowledge of Spanish helpful.
History 1821. Modern Vietnam
Catalog Number: 8192
Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Survey of Vietnamese history from 1802 to the present. Covers the period of unified rule under the Nguyen dynasty, French colonial conquest, the struggle for independence, the Vietnam War, and the recent unification under Communism. Major topics include the relationship between the state, the village, and the individual; the transformation of Vietnamese society, culture, and politics under French rule; the rise of nationalism and Communism; the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War.
History 1831. China’s Partners: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 6043 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
William C. Kirby
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Analysis of Sino-foreign cooperative efforts from late Imperial times until the present, with emphasis on economic and cultural relations. Studies distinguishing characteristics of bilateral exchanges between China and Western European nations, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States; examines China’s evolving role in international organizations; and explores the official and private spheres of Chinese involvement in international economic, cultural, and scholarly life.
Note: For advanced undergraduates and graduates.
[History 1832. Continuity and Change in Contemporary Chinese History: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 2547
William C. Kirby
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Investigates patterns of state-society relations in 20th-century China from three historical perspectives: of Republican China before 1949; of the People’s Republic of China since 1949; and of the Republic of China on Taiwan since 1946. Particular attention is paid to China’s mid-century transitions and their legacies.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. For advanced undergraduates and graduates with background in Chinese history.
History 1834. Global Migration: The Chinese Experience: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 2606
Philip A. Kuhn
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
In modern times, Chinese migrants have settled in more than 100 countries worldwide and have contributed signficantly to the integration of the world economy. Their struggles to find a future in their adopted lands is a major theme in modern history. This course explores aspects of Chinese emigration, including: “globalization” and migration; colonial and post-colonial societies; the Americas, Europe, and Australasia; Chinese economic enterprise; and the changing role of China itself. Requirements: oral reports and a final paper.
History 1851 (formerly History 1851b). 20th-Century Japan
Catalog Number: 8696
Andrew Gordon
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
Japan’s emergence as a world power and the Japanese experience of modernity. 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. From the 1980s boom to the 1990s bust; the early end to the Japanese century?
History 1854. Gender and Japanese History: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 5348
Daniel V. Botsman
Half course (fall term). W., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
This course will focus on gender and sexuality to explore important aspects of Japanes social history.The time span covered is broad but there will be more emphasis on the modern era. Specific topics will include women and feudalism; male-male sexuality; the rise of Japanese feminist consciousness; prostitution; women in the industrial labor force; women and World War II; and changing ideas about gender and sexuality in the post-war period.
History 1873. Household and Family in the Middle East
Catalog Number: 6837
Nelly Hanna
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
This course will examine perspectives and approaches to the understanding of marriage, the family, and household and private life in the Middle East, with special reference to early modern Egypt (16th to 18th centuries). These subjects will be explored in relation to larger issues, such as the state, Islamic law, society, and the economy.
History 1877a. History of the Near East, 600–1055
Catalog Number: 1770
Roy Mottahedeh
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 1–2:30. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
A survey of the history of the Near East and North Africa from the rise of Islam in the 7th century to the Turkish ascendance in the mid-11th century. Includes Muhammad and his community, Arab conquests, Umayyads and Abbasids, sectarian movements, minority communities, government and religious institutions, relations with Byzantium and the Latin West.
[History 1877b. History of the Near East, 1055–1517: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 3026
Roy Mottahedeh
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Surveys history of the Near East from the coming of the steppe peoples to the Ottoman conquest of Egypt. Includes Seljuks, Crusades, Mongols, and the fall of the Abbasid caliphate, Mamluks, the development of Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trade, and the Timurids and their successors.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. History 1877a helpful, but not required.
History 1878a. Ottoman State and Society I (1300–1550)
Catalog Number: 5471
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
Surveys the emergence of the Ottoman state from a frontier principality into a world empire in its sociopolitical and cultural contexts. Topics include pre-Ottoman Anatolia; frontier society; methods of conquest; centralization of power; classical institutions of the land regime and of the central administration; urbanization; religion and literature. Relations with Byzantium, other Islamic states, and Europe are examined.
[History 1878b. Ottoman State and Society II (1550–1920)]
Catalog Number: 6470
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Surveys the transformations of the classical Ottoman order in the Middle East and southeastern Europe until the demise of the state. Topics include decentralization; social disturbances; the impact of the new world economy and new trade routes; reforms; changing relations with Europe; nationalist movements; the ‘Eastern Question.’ Ethnic structure, rural society, urban popular culture, guilds, and family life are also examined. The importance of this era for understanding today’s Middle East is stressed.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1883. The Middle East and Modernity: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 2369 Enrollment: Limited to 12. Limited to 12.
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
When and how did Middle Eastern societies become modern? Or postmodern? Or, are they still traditional? In what sense? Examines Middle Eastern history since the 16th century in the light of the current literature on the meanings and trajectories of modernity. Analyzes the processes of transformation in different spheres of social organization (state, family, etc.), and cultural expression (literature, music, architecture, etc.). Particular attention paid to the Ottoman realm from the “early modern” era through the 19th-century reforms. Comparative projects dealing with different parts of the Islamic world and the Balkans will be encouraged.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1884. Introduction to Archival Research in Ottoman History: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 4513
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A survey of archival collections related to Ottoman history. Introduction to the archives of the central government, pious endowments, provincial administrations, and court records. Also covers European collections of Ottoman documents and archival materials in European languages. Attention given to the standard tools of reference.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2001–02. Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Turkish.
History 1885. The Making of Modern Egypt, 1840-2000
Catalog Number: 2499
E. Roger Owen
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
A history of Egypt’s socio-economic and political development, making use of the rich historical literature, and posing questions about the conventional narrative treatment of such major issues as the colonial impact, the rise of the nationalist movement, the supposed failure of the liberal experiment and the uses and abuses of revolution.
[History 1889. Transmission of Traditional Islamic Learning in the Middle East from the Beginning of Islam to the Present]
Catalog Number: 2155 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Roy Mottahedeh
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A study of the transmission of Islamic learning in the Middle East, principally in the institutions of learning called madrasahs, but also in private circles, from the 7th century to the present. Topics include the origins of the study of scripture; the origins of the madrasah; permissions to teach; curriculum; methods for examining the accuracy of manuscript copies; the influence of Sufi mystical orders in styles and methods of teaching; reaction to the introduction of printing; modern attempts at state control of madrasahs.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
Prerequisite: A course in the history of the Islamic Middle East, premodern or modern.
History 1890b. The Economics of the Middle East
Catalog Number: 1249
E. Roger Owen
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
A critical overview of the processes of economic growth and transformation in the Middle East from World War I to the present. Countries to be studied include Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, the Arab states of the Arabian Peninsula, Israel/Palestine, Iran and Turkey.
History 1901. The History of Africa to 1860
Catalog Number: 3034
Peter C. Alegi
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
An introductory history of Africa from earliest times to 1860, on the eve of European conquest. Will explore the themes of the relationship between rulers and peasants in the political culture of village and state societies, ecological and environmental change, Africa’s integration into the world economy, and the early formative history of South Africa.
[History 1902. Alcohol in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1850 to the Present: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 2765
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Using alcohol as a microscope to highlight stasis and change in the structures and relations of African societies since 1850, course examines the uses and meanings of alcohol in precolonial and rural Africa; its place in European-African trading contacts; its role in the process of colonization; colonial attitudes toward alcohol and the place of alcohol in the political economy of colonialism; alcohol and urbanization; alcohol and gender; alcohol and nationalist politics; alcohol and industrialization in independent Africa; and alcohol and addiction in contemporary Africa.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 1903. Modern Africa, ca 1870 to the Present
Catalog Number: 3725
Peter C. Alegi
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
This course explores the history of Africa during the era of European colonial rule and after decolonization. Through historical studies, novels, biographies, and films, students will examine the growing involvement of Africans with the West, particularly Britain and France. The course will explore the main themes in modern African history from both African and extra-African perspectives and will analyze local case studies of Kenya, Nigeria, Algeria, and especially South Africa.
[History 1906. West Africa from the Earliest Times to 1800]
Catalog Number: 1425
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores important themes in West African history: ecology and environmental changes; the introduction of agriculture and the emergence of sedentary societies; the trans-Saharan trade; the introduction and spread of Islam; migrations, and the formation of states; African slavery; the trans-Atlantic trade; and the spread of informal European influence. Also examines the sources and methods used in the reconstruction of West African history in the period under study.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1907. West Africa from 1800 to the Present]
Catalog Number: 4650
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores the internal dynamics of West African states from 1800, and West Africa’s relations with the wider world. Examines African perspectives of colonialism, nationalism, and the transfer of political power. Concludes with the study of the continued struggle of independent West African states to achieve economic independence.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1908. Rethinking Gender in African History: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 4526
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines continuity and change in gender roles from the precolonial era to the present, defining gender as a social construct. Themes include production and reproduction; gender, knowledge, and rituals of transformation; gendered experiences of colonialism and capitalism; and divorce, widowhood, and inheritance in Africa.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 1910. Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, 630 C.E. to the Present: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 7203
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Explores in some detail main themes in the history of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa. Examines the form and content of Islamic belief and practice as conceived by Muhammad; the form Islam took in North Africa and how this influenced the “flavor” of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa; conversion to Islam in sub-Saharan Africa; Islam, trade, and state formation; Islamic theology, Muslim Brotherhoods and the eighteenth revival; the West African jihads; Islam under colonial rule; Islam and gender; and Islam in contemporary Africa.
History 1912. Health, Disease and Ecology in African History: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 5905
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Examines the history of disease and health in sub-Saharan Africa from the 19th century to recent times, exploring African and western concepts of health, disease and healing. Illustration through discussion of case studies of individual diseases, including malaria/sickle cell trait, trypanosomiasis, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, alcoholism, AIDS, and onchocerciasis, and the public health policies affecting them.
[History 1913. 19th- and 20th-Century South African History]
Catalog Number: 1970
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Half course (fall term). Hours to be arrantged.
An exploration of the historical background to economic and political conflict in the present Republic of South Africa. Topics include the nature of pre-colonial African societies, analyses of labor relations before and after the discovery of gold and diamonds in the late 19th century, the evolution of the apartheid state and its antecedents, and the prospects for change in that racially stratified society.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
[History 1914. Histories of the New South Africa: Conference Course ]
Catalog Number: 1589
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Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A critical analysis of recent writing about South Africa, covering the history of the region from the 17th through the 20th centuries and representing new historiographical perspectives on transformations in South African society.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 2821. Readings in Vietnamese History
Catalog Number: 7625
Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Reading of selected texts in English in modern Vietnamese history.
Note: Primarily for graduate students, but open to advanced undergraduates as well.
[History 2830a. Late Imperial and Modern Chinese History: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 6453
Philip A. Kuhn
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Treats the history of the field by examining recent scholarship in its intellectual context.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. Primarily for graduate students preparing for the general examination, but open to others as well.
[History 2830b. The Writing of Modern Chinese History: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 4435
Philip A. Kuhn
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A continuation of 2830a with particular attention to Chinese historians of the 20th century. Depending on the individual student’s level of Chinese language, some readings will be available in original texts, with vocabularies and notes. Reading knowledge of Chinese is not a prerequisite. Reports and research papers will be presented.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. Primarily for Ph.D. dissertation writers.
[*History 2831r. Research Topics in Modern Chinese History: Conference Course]
Catalog Number: 6017
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Primary research on selected topics in Chinese history since the 17th century. Consult instructor for details of the current research topic.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02. Intended for graduate students with a reading knowledge of Chinese.
[History 2847. 20th-Century China: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 0279
William C. Kirby
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Designed for graduate students who wish to pursue original research in Chinese history of the 20th century. Students are introduced to major research aids and published documentary collections. Surveys archival and library holdings on modern and contemporary China in Asia, Europe, and the United States. Students translate primary source materials and write and present a research paper.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Chinese.
History 2848a. Introduction to Archival Research in Chinese History: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 1863
Philip A. Kuhn
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Training in the reading and analysis of the major types of Chinese archival documents from the Qing period and after. Original materials are used, with the aim of preparing students to do doctoral research in China.
Note: Open to qualified undergraduates with permission of instructor.
Prerequisite: Chinese 106b or equivalent training.
History 2848b. Introduction to Archival Research in Chinese History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 3522
Philip A. Kuhn
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Research papers prepared on the basis of published collections of archival documents on Qing and modern history.
*History 2851. Japanese History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 5146
Andrew Gordon, Mikael Adolphson, Harold Bolitho, and Daniel V. Botsman
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Japanese.
History 2852. Topics in Modern Japanese History: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 0481
Daniel V. Botsman
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Readings of documents and secondary works on topics in modern Japanese history.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Japanese.
[History 2854. Issues in Tokugawa and Meiji History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 0305
Daniel V. Botsman
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores new perspectives on a number of key historiographical issues in the study of Tokugawa and Meiji Japan. Engages both topics of current interest among historians in Japan and theoretical literature from outside the field of Japanese history.
Note: Expected to be given in 2001–02.
History 2883. Arabic Sources in the Ottoman Period: Seminar
Catalog Number: 5856
Nelly Hanna
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This seminar will consider various types of printed and manuscript sources in Arabic, notable chronicles, deeds of pious foundations (waqfs), literary works and court records. Special attention will be given to court records in Egypt, how they can be read, how they can be used as sources for social and economic history, and the kinds of problems that they pose.
History 2884. Topics in Ottoman Social and Cultural History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 3762
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Turkish.
History 2886. Topics in Islamic History
Catalog Number: 3470
Roy Mottahedeh
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
History 2887a (formerly History 2887). Debates in the Economic and Social History of the Middle East: Seminar
Catalog Number: 1352
E. Roger Owen
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Major questions and debates in recent writings on the economic and social transformation of the Middle East, including the