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HST. 02: Globalization
Five centuries of globalization, including the
age of reconnaissance, the Columbian Exchange, the industrial
revolution, and the globalization of economies, technologies, war,
politics, and popular culture in the 20th century. Includes resistance
and alternatives to globalization.
This course meets the following distribution requirements:
Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course
can be used to satisfy ONE area only.
Humanities
Social Sciences
This course meets the World Civilization Requirements.
HST. 03: World in Motion: Global History & U.S.
Immigration
Examination of migration as a factor in historical studies. The role
of migrations in empires, frontiers and borderlands, slavery and indentured
labor, oceanic history, industrialization, urbanization, intra-state
conflict, and globalization. Reed Ueda
This course counts toward the IR core.
HST. 05: History of Consumption
A history of consumption in the world examines the socio political history
of the use made of goods, food and energy by different groups through an
analysis of class, race and gender. The course examines economic factors
through social and culture history and offers a broader understanding of
an economic history embedded within the social structures of Europe, the
Americas, China and the Ottoman Empire, from the seventeenth century to
the present day. Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
This course counts toward the IR core.
HST. 06: World Trade, 1000-2000
Worldwide cross-cultural trade as the roots of today's global economy. Merchant
communities, trade diaspora, and trade routes. From silk roads to oil tankers;
commercial networks from medieval merchants to e-commerce. An exploration
of the ties between trade and civilization, capitalism, nationalism, and
state-building. Emphasis on the early modern and modern periods. Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
HST. 07: History of Public Health
Course description to be posted soon. Alisha Rankin
HST. 08: U.S. Imperialism in Asia
Theories of imperialism. U.S. involvements in Asia and the Pacific from
the overthrow of the Hawai'ian monarchy in 1893 to the present. Comparative
perspectives on British, Japanese imperialisms. U.S. acquisition of the
Philippines and Guam in 1898; suppression of the "Philippine Insurgency;"
U.S.-Japan rivalry to 1945; the Cold War and Korean and Vietnam Wars; geopolitics
of oil; U.S. involvement in the Middle East, Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan;
the "manufacture of consent" in the mainstream media. The invasion and occupation
of Iraq. Two substantial research papers. No prerequisites. Gary Leupp
HST. 09: Global Christianity
The development of Christianity as a world movement, beginning in antiquity
but focusing on the modern period. Themes and topics include the spread
of Christianity through exploration, trade, conquest and mission; patterns
of cultural contact and exchange; internationalism and globalization; diversity
and transformations of Christian traditions in post-colonial societies;
the global spread of Pentecostalism. Emphasis on Christianity in Asia,
Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Heather Curtis
HST. 10: IR in Historical Perspective
A general introduction to the theory and practice of International
Relations, as viewed from the discipline of History. States and
empires in Europe and beyond from the ancient world to the present;
how wars begin and end; sovereignty in a world of superpower hegemony
and NGOs; how historical, cultural and sociological approaches to the
field of international relations may challenge aspects of formal IR theory.
For the IR major HST 10 satisfies Core Requirement 4 (the Historical
Dimension); for the History major, the transregional or European
area requirement. Howard Malchow
HST. 12: Science and Technology in World History
A broad survey of the history of science from the ancient world to the 20th
century. The course places a particular emphasis on the wider context of
global trade, knowledge sharing, and colonialism throughout the development
of what many now consider "western" science. Topics and themes include:
science in ancient Greece, India, and the Mayan peninsula; Chinese science
in the Ming dynasty; Islamic science and its influence on medieval Europe;
conceptual and philosophical changes of the "Scientific Revolution";
globalization and colonialism; Darwin and human evolution; race, science,
and eugenics; science and warfare. Students will be challenged to consider
the processes involved in the development of scientific theories and the
ways in which global developments affected (and continue to affect)
scientific thought. Alisha Rankin
This course counts toward IR core requirement.
HST. 13: Reconstructing Africa's Past to 1850
[formerly HST. 70]
The course begins with an introduction to the continent's basic geography
and then develops a series of case studies to engage controversies and critical
junctures in the continent's history to 1850. Topics include: "Black Athena,"
Nubia, Iron Age Production, Trade and the Rise of Islam, the Atlantic Opening,
Domestic Slavery and Gender, Swahili Coast, Great Zimbabwe, and the Rise
of the Zulu. Jeanne Penvenne
HST. 14: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary
Crises in Africa since 1850 [formerly HST. 71]
The course develops historical perspectives on contemporary situations in
Africa, from the late 19th century conquest era through colonial rule to
decolonization and the contemporary era. We survey case studies around the
continent through film, literature, scholarly essays, praise poetry and
web based archives of political ephemera. We seek gendered perspectives
on politics, migration, urbanization, and environmental change. Fall 09
case studies include Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur and Algeria. Jeanne Penvenne
HST. 17: The Americas [formerly HST. 75]
Latin America and the Caribbean from the colonial period to the contemporary
era. A multimedia, interdisciplinary introduction focusing on nation-building,
migration, race relations, women's roles, political economy, sovereignty,
religion, culture, revolutionary movements, and Latino communities in the
United States. Peter Winn
HST. 18: Colonial Latin America [formerly HST.
77]
The indigenous and European backgrounds of Latin American history, the encounter
and the conquest, Iberian colonial systems, economy and religion, society
and sexuality, reform and rebellion. Peter Winn
HST. 19: Modern Latin America [formerly HST.
78]
This course examines the history of Latin America from the late 19th century
to the present, and is designed to give students a critical understanding
of contemporary Latin America from an historical perspective. Course readings
and lectures will focus on the most significant social and political movements
in the region, from the Cuban struggle for Independence in the 1890's to
the politics of globalization in the region today. Using a wide variety
of primary and secondary sources, as well as film, music, poetry and other
forms of cultural expression, students will explore sources of change and
continuity in modern Latin America, paying special attention to the interweaving
of local, national, and international developments. Peter Winn
HST. 19: Latin American History
This course examines key events and themes in modern Latin American history.
It is designed to give students an introduction to the region from an
historical perspective, while making use of the interdisciplinary tools
of contemporary analysis. In addition to reading an important textbook
on the region, two scholarly monographs, and other selected secondary sources,
the students will be introduced to a variety of primary sources (essays,
poems, manifestoes, films, songs, paintings, testimony, and fictional works),
thus allowing them to come into closer contact with the living history of
Latin America and the ongoing legacies of conquest and colonization.
Barbara Corbett
HST. 22: The Changing American Nation: The 19th and
20th Centuries [formerly HST. 80]
The reconfiguration of national identity in the U.S. by socioeconomic, demographic,
and cultural change. Evolution from an Atlantic-centered colonial society,
to an urban-industrial transcontinental nation, to a globalizing nation
on the Pacific Rim. Reed Ueda
HST. 23: Colonial North America and the Atlantic
World to 1763 [formerly HST. 82]
Explores the colonial origins of American society and how a broad array
of peoples encountered one another in different regions of North America.
Themes: religion and power, warfare and slavery, civilization and wilderness,
province and empire. The course ends with the Seven Years War, a world war
with lasting repercussions in America. Benjamin Carp
HST. 24: Revolutionary America, 1763-1815 [formerly
HST. 83]
This course begins at the end of the Seven Years War and ends with the War
of 1812. Discusses the crisis of the British Empire, the political mobilization
of Americans, and the waging of the Revolutionary War; also the social and
political changes of the Revolutionary Era, the development and struggles
of the new United States, its Constitution, political economy, and culture. Benjamin Carp
HST. 25: Antebellum & Civil War America, 1815-1877
[formerly HST. 84]
This course begins with the so-called "Era of Good Feelings" in American
history, and chronicles the decidedly bitter feelings that followed. Through
lectures and discussions, we will explore the Jacksonian Era and democratic
politics, westward expansion and sectional tensions, religious and cultural
developments, the issue of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Students
will engage both primary and secondary sources and take a field trip during
the semester. Benjamin Carp
HST. 27: Modern American Society
[formerly HST. 86]
Ideals of Victorian-American culture in collision with scientific principles
of objectivity, empiricism, and relativism. Darwin's challenge to religious
thought, health and medicine, doctrines and practice of law, rise of the
social sciences and the modern university, the shift from patriarchal to
companionate marriages, the rise of a meritocracy and the promise of racial
and sexual equality. Virginia Drachman
HST. 28: U.S. Foreign Relations to 1900 [formerly
HST. 90]
This course explores the meetings of peoples and cultures; imperial rivalries;
and ideologies that shaped North America over two centuries. It places the
contingent events that brought about the decline of some groups and empires
and the rise of others, especially the United States, in a wider historical
context. David Ekbladh
HST. 29: U.S. Foreign Relations 1900 to Present [formerly
HST. 91]
This course explores the twentieth century rise of the United States from
a regional power to a superpower. Two world wars, a global depression,
the Cold War, as well as a series of smaller conflicts marked this advance
to dominance. But the story is more than these events. The imposing position
of the United States was not solely a product of the actions of the American
state as the country’s power was enhanced by efforts of nongovernmental groups
as well as the appeal and pervasiveness American culture, among other elements.
However, the United States found itself transformed as new opportunities and
tensions arose domestically as the nation grasped global hegemony. David Ekbladh
HST. 31: History of Religion in America [formerly
HST. 99.04]
This course is about religion in America from the arrival of European immigrants
in the 16th and 17th centuries to the present. We
will study major figures, events and issues that have helped to shape American
religious history, while paying particular attention to the ways that social
and cultural contexts have influenced religious experience in different
times and places. Throughout, we will ask how religion has impacted the
history of the United States, and, conversely, how religious traditions
have been transformed by American culture. Key topics and themes include
encounter and colonization; revivalism and reform; church and state; gender
and women's history; spirituality and devotional life; slavery and race
relations; immigration and ethnicity; innovation and secularization; and
pluralism and diversity. Heather Curtis
HST. 32: Women in America to 1900 [formerly HST.
92]
American women from colonial times through the nineteenth century. Topics
include women in pre-industrial society, industrialization and its impact
on women, women on the frontier, women and the antebellum South, True Womanhood,
and the nineteenth-century women's movement. Virginia Drachman
HST. 33: Women in the 20th Century America [formerly
HST. 93]
Women in twentieth-century America, focusing on changes and continuity in
their public and private lives. Topics include suffrage, changing patterns
of women's work, emergence of the modern woman, changing attitudes toward
sexuality and marriage, the birth control movement, women during the Second
World War, rise of the "feminine mystique," women in the civil rights and
student protest movements, the women's liberation movement. Attention to
tension between gender identity and diversity among women. Virginia Drachman
HST. 34: African Americans in US History to 1865
(thru Spring 2011)
(Cross-listed as American Studies 95.)
The history of Africans and persons of African descent from the
beginnings of the slave trade up through the Civil War. Special
attention is given to the emergence of slavery in colonial and
antebellum America; the development of African-American cultural values
and social institutions; the development of forms of resistance to and
calls for the abolition of slavery; and the development of free black
communities.
This course meets the following distribution requirements:
Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the
course can be used to satisfy ONE area only.
Humanities - Thru Spring 2011
Social Sciences - Thru Spring 2011
This course meets the following culture options:
African and African-American Culture - Thru Spring 2011 - *
Diasporic
HST. 35: African-American History
in the Post Civil Rights Era
A study of recent African American history and culture from 1970 to
the present. Topics will include the rise of Hip Hop and black popular
culture in the post civil rights era; the dramatic increase in the
number of black elected officials; the underclass debate and the war on
drugs; mass incarceration as the New Jim Crow; contemporary civil rights
struggles, affirmative action, the decline of black radicalism, and
Barack Obama. Joseph
HST. 36: The Immigrant in American History [formerly
HST. 98]
U.S. immigration in comparative and world perspective. Immigration control
policies, nativism and prejudice, assimilation and ethnicity, and rural
and urban communities. Reed Uedaa
HST. 40: China to the Opium War
A broad survey of
China's political, social, economic, and cultural history to 1943.
Ancient worldviews and philosophies, legitimacy and structure of the
imperial system, identity and function of the social elite, evolving
sense of Chinese identity.
This course meets the following distribution requirements:
Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course
can be used to satisfy ONE area only.
Humanities
Social Sciences
This course meets the World Civilization Requirement
This course meets the following culture options:
East Asian Culture and Diasporas
Instructor: TBA
HST. 41: Modern China, 1839-present [formerly
HST. 44]
Today, China is a major world power. The path it followed to reach this
position, however, was painful and dramatic. This course covers Chinese
history from the decline of the Qing Dynasty in the mid 19th century to
the present day. We will examine the major challenges that the Qing and
its successor governments encountered and will pay special attention to
political development, intellectual and cultural trends, and enduring
tensions between the Chinese state and Chinese society. Joshua Hill
HST. 42: Japan to 1868 [formerly HST. 47]
Prehistoric times to the eve of the Meiji Restoration. Emphasis on early
continental ties; Shinto, Buddhist, and Confucian traditions; Japanese feudalism;
struggles for control of land and peasants; the changing composition of
the ruling class; incipient capitalism of the Tokugawa period; breakdown
of the Tokugawa order. Primary materials used in translation. Gary Leupp
HST. 43: Japan from 1868 [formerly HST. 48]
From the eve of the Meiji Restoration to the twentieth century. Topics include
the unequal treaties with Western powers, the Meiji Restoration, early industrialization,
growth of the imperialist state, fascism, war, defeat, recovery, and recent
role as a member of the Western camp. Gary Leupp
HST. 46: South Asia, 1000 to 2000 [formerly
HST. 51]
Providing an overview of India's pre-modern and early modern history,
the course concentrates on the changes and continuities in society,
economy and polity during the period of British colonial rule from the
mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It examines the structure
and ideology of British rule in India, the nature of subaltern resistance,
the refashioning of social relations along lines of caste, class,
community and gender, the different strands of anti-colonial nationalism
and the dynamics of decolonization. Ayesha Jalal
HST. 47: South Asia in the 20th C [formerly HST.
53]
A comparative historical analysis of state structures and political processes
in late-colonial and postcolonial South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan,
and Bangladesh. Themes include the reasons for the partition of 1947, the
nature of the colonial legacy, the origins of democracy and military authoritarianism,
the history of development, the shifting balance between central and regional
power, and the ongoing clash between so-called secular and religiously informed
ideologies. Kris Manjapra
HST. 48: South Asia and the World [formerly HST. 144]
This course places South Asia in the context of global history from the
eighteenth century until the present. The semester is structured into five units:
the economics of colonization, nineteenth-century migrations, anti-colonial cosmopolitanism,
global political ideologies, and postcolonial internationalism.
How has globalization had an impact on South Asia economy, society and
culture from the eighteenth century until today?
Alternatively, how have South Asians influenced other societies through
their travels and migrations? Major themes include indentured labor,
the history of migrations to East Africa, the West Indies,
North America and Europe, and the creation of immigrant identities.
We also study anti-colonial resistance movements, the relationship
between nationalism and internationalism, and contemporary South Asian
involvement in organizations such as the United Nations. Kris Manjapra
HST. 50: Ancient Greece [formerly HST. 16]
(Cross-listed as CLS 37)
An introductory survey of the historical development of Ancient Greece and
its interaction with society, politics, and culture in the Greek world.
We begin with the Mycenaean civilization commemorated by Homer and unearthed
by archaeology, follow the evolution of distinctive institutions and values
in the formative Archaic Period, observe the flourishing of Greek politics
and culture in the Classical Period, culminating in the conquests of the
Alexander the Great and the diffusion of the Greek way of life in the succeeding
Hellenistic Age. Highlights include the city-state as the characteristic
form of communal organization, the evolution of democracy, the creation
of new forms of intellectual and artistic expression, and the relationship
of the Greeks to other peoples of the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East.
Examination of materials, both literary and documentary, which are the basis
of our knowledge of Greek History. Steve Hirsch
HST. 51: History of Ancient Rome
(Cross-listed as CLS 38)
The history of ancient Rome, tracing Rome's rise from an insignificant
Italian community to the ruler of the Mediterranean world, and ending
with the transfer of the imperial capital to Constantinople in A.D. 330.
Emphasis on the interaction of Rome with various foreign peoples, and
examination of literary and documentary sources.
HST. 52: Introduction to Christianity [formerly
HST. 39.02]
This course surveys the development of Christianity from the first century
to the present. We will study the key figures, events and issues that helped
shape the Christian tradition in a variety of cultural, social and historical
contexts. In addition to exploring the major ideas, institutions and practices
associated with Christianity, we will pay close attention to the diverse
forms and expressions that Christian faith and life have taken in different
time periods and among a range of communities. Heather Curtis
HST. 53: Europe to 1815 [formerly HST. 10]
Eastern and Western Europe from the decline of the Roman Empire in the West
through the medieval era into early modern times, ending with a thorough
examination of the background of the French Revolution and Napoleon. The
religious, secular, economic, social, political, and diplomatic processes
which have had a lasting impact on modern European institutions and developments.
Proctor
HST. 54: Europe Since 1815 [formerly HST. 10]
The forces that shaped and characterized the history of Eastern and
Western Europe from the Congress of Vienna into the contemporary era.
Topics include nationalism, ethnic consciousness, the Industrial Revolution,
political ideologies, the development of nation-states, Great Power diplomacy,
the impact of the "Eastern Question," the disruptions of the First and Second
World Wars, and the current conditions of the European states. David Proctor
HST. 54: Europe from the French Revolution to the Present
Broad-based introduction to the major themes and events of European history
since the French Revolution, privileging primary source readings. Topics
include revolution, class struggle, industrialization, nationalism, imperialism,
the world wars, totalitarianism, genocide, the Cold War, decolonization, and
immigration. The course also considers Europe's impact on the wider world,
and how the wider world shaped European experience. David Proctor
HST. 55: Europe in the Early Middle Ages [formerly
HST. 20]
Western Europe and the Mediterranean world from the late Roman Empire to
the middle of the eleventh century. The decline of classical society and
the emergence of a distinctively medieval world.
Topics: the propagation of Christianity, the appearance and early transformation
of Western European kingship, the spread of manorialism and the development
of a feudal system, the creation of knighthood and serfdom, the flowering
of monasticism, and the production of early medieval art and literature. Steven Marrone
HST. 56: Europe in the High Middle Ages [formerly
HST. 21]
Western Europe from the middle of the eleventh to the beginning of the fifteenth
century, the period of the flowering and decline of medieval culture and
society. Topics include the economic revolution of the twelfth century,
the growth of towns and development of urban culture, the reform of the
church, the challenge of heresy and the emergence of popular religion, the
consolidation of knighthood and the creation of an ideal of chivalry, Scholasticism
and vernacular literature, Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture, and
the social and cultural crisis of the fourteenth century. Steven Marrone
HST. 57: Renaissance and Reformation [formerly
HST. 22]
Social and cultural developments in Europe from about 1350 to 1648. Topics
include the development of humanism, the growth of courts and the city-state,
innovations in arts and letters, the prominence of the bourgeoisie, Protestant
revolution and Catholic reformation, the wars of religion, the discovery
of the New World and the expansion of Europe, and the rise of nation-states.
Alisha Rankin
HST. 60: Early and Imperial Russia [formerly
HST. 27]
Eurasia and the origin of the East Slavs. The rise of Kiev and Russian Orthodoxy.
The Mongol yoke and the rise of Muscovy. Autocracy and enserfment. Servile
insurrections. Cultural schism. Muscovy as a European great power. Peter
the Great and the service state. St. Petersburg. Gentry power and culture.
The Fatherland War of 1812. The Decembrist movement and reaction. Westerners,
Slavophiles, the intelligentsia. The failure of autocracy. (History 27,
28, and 29 are offered sequentially.) Daniel Mulholland
HST. 61: Revolutionary Russia [formerly HST.
28]
The era of reforms. Revolutionary responses. The Russian novel. The emergence
of capitalism and of new classes. Revolution in 1905, and attempt at autocratic
reform. Russia in the First World War. The revolutions of 1917, Bolshevism,
and civil war. The New Economic Policy. The rise of Stalin. (History 27,
28, and 29 are offered sequentially). Daniel Mulholland
HST. 62: Modern Russia [formerly HST. 29]
The five-year plans, industrialization, collectivization, urbanization,
and Cultural Revolution. The great terror. The Second World War. The Soviet
Union as a hegemonic world power. High Stalinism and the cold war. Khrushchev
and de-Stalinization. Brezhnev, détente, and stagnation. Perestroika, glasnost,
and collapse. Rebirth of Russia. (History 27, 28, and 29 are offered sequentially.)
Daniel Mulholland
HST. 63: Modern Germany [formerly HST. 31]
Germany since the 1840's from unification to unification Bismarck's Germany.
World policy and world war. Weimar democracy. The national Socialist dictatorship
and another war. Defeat and reconstruction. The two Germanies. A new Germany
in a new Europe. Daniel Mulholland
HST. 64: Modern France and the French Empire
This course introduces students to the eventful political, social, and cultural
history of modern France, beginning with the French Revolution. The course
privileges primary source readings in its exploration of the central themes
of French experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These include
revolution and reaction, social change, church and state conflict, colonization,
urbanization, industrialization, victory and defeat in war, decolonization,
immigration, and the legacies of empire-building. Elizabeth Foster
HST. 65: Great Britain and the British Empire
[formerly HST. 33]
The growth of British world power after the loss of America in the late
18th century, and its domestic social, economic and political context. War,
patriotism and the popular culture of imperialism. Decolonization, immigration
and the search for a post-imperial identity after the Second World War.
Howard Malchow
HST. 68: Modern European Intellectual History
A survey of European Intellectual History from the late 19th century to
the late 20th century, providing a comprehensive introduction to major
landmarks in Continental philosophy and social theory. Consideration of
the influence of social and political contexts, such as war, colonialism
and internationalism on European thought. Beginning with Nietzsche, the
course is divided into five units, devoting special attention to
psychoanalysis, critical theory, existentialism, structuralism and
post-modernism. Readings include Freud, Heidegger, the Frankfurt School,
Levi-Strauss, Sartre, Fanon, Foucault and Derrida. We also consider the
intersection of European discourses with movements of the colonial and
post-colonial world.
This course meets the following distribution requirements:
Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course
can be used to satisfy ONE area only.
Humanities
Social Sciences
HST. 70: The Middle East Since 1800 to World War I
[formerly HST. 60]
This lecture and discussion course introduces the student to the political
and social history of the Middle East from 1800 to the events during World
War One. We will examine the following topics: the creation of a modern
state system in the Ottoman empire and Iran; the diffusion of a modern,
Western culture in the Middle East; European diplomatic and colonial interest
in the region; the region's incorporation into the larger world-economy;
women and non-Muslims; as well as the emergence of nationalisms and other
forms of identity, such as pan-Islam, Turkism and Arabism. TBA
HST. 71: The Modern Middle East after WWI
This course will provide an introduction to the politics, society and culture
of the Middle East and North Africa. It will examine the transformations that
occurred following both WWI and WWII, the rise of anti-colonial nationalism
and Islamism, the emergence of nation-states, the creation of the state of
Israel and the evolution of the Arab-Israel conflict; and, since the end of
the Cold War, the impact of globalisation and the development of democratic
currents, feminist and minority rights movements and Islamist movements. Hugh Roberts
HST. 72: The World of Islam [formerly HST. 65]
(Cross-listed as CR 192D)
Formation and spread of Islamic civilization from the prophet Muhammad to
present. Founding of Islam, formation of Islamic institutions and culture.
Spread of Islam through conquest and trade. Islamic communities and states
in Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Europe, and America. Beatrice Manz
HST. 73: History of Iran [formerly HST. 63]
Emphasis on the modern period. Iran within the Muslim world, its emergence
as a separate entity, the introduction of Shi'ism as a state religion. Western
influences, modernization, the Iranian Revolution and the Islamic Republic. TBA
HST. 74: Modern Armenia [formerly HST. 66]
The uses of history in the formation of Armenian identity, nation, and nationalism.
The Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, Iran, India, and other host societies.
A comparative study of the ideas of nationality and Ethnicity, with a focus
on revolution, ideology, and identity. Linkages between the massacre of
Armenian people in 1915 and other mass killings and genocide in the twentieth
century (examples extend to Kosovo in 1999).
HST. 75: Caucasus & Armenia [formerly HST. 67]
The Soviet regime and its effects on ethnic identity and national sentiment
in the Caucasus. Stalin's ideas and policies on nationality in the region.
A diplomatic, economic, and socio-cultural history of Armenia, Georgia,
Azerbaijan, and their Neighbors. Emphasis on ethnic conflict, nationalism,
and nation-building in independent Armenia 1918-1920 and in post-Soviet
Armenia, and on the international ramifications. Baghdiantz McCabe
HST. 76: Ancient Egypt [formerly HST. 15]
(Cross-listed as CLS 26/ARCH 26)
This survey course will focus on roughly 3, 000 years of ancient Egyptian
pharaonic civilization (3,000-332 B.C.). The emphasis will be on the material
culture discovered along the banks of the Nile: ancient Egyptian pyramids,
temples, tombs, settlements and cities, art masterpieces and artifacts.
The course will follow a chronological path at least through the New Kingdom
(1050 B.C.), with many excursions into Egyptian art, history, politics,
hieroglyphs, and the development of the discipline of modern Egyptology.
Several field trips to the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts will be included. Final paper topics may include opportunities to contribute to the MFA's new Giza Archives Project, creating on-line access to the archives from its excavations at the Giza Pyramids (1902-1942). Der Manuelian
HST. 80: Special Topics: 1989
In 1989 as the Communist regime was unraveling in the Soviet Union its subalterns
in Eastern Europe collapse, and with them the Cold War was abruptly ended. The
libertarian impulse was not confined to Europe, however. In China the "democracy movement"
rose up the gates of the Chinese Communist Party on the Tiananmen Square. The Apartheid
government in South Africa was hollowed out from within and had to negotiate with the
African National Congress for the release from jail of Nelson Mandele and a peaceful
transition to majority rule. The military dictatorship of Pinochet in Chile gave way
to democracy by plebiscite. How did these events impact upon one another?
Were there consequences elsewhere? Daniel Mulholland
HST. 83: Faces of Community:
Nation, Culture, and Region in the United States
What is a community? How were communities created by historical forces from the
colonial era to the Cold War? What answers to these questions are provided by U.S.
history when seen from a comparative perspective? Reed Ueda
HST. 86-03/REL 192-27: Religion, Race & Nation in American History
AM
C-LST: AMER 180-02
This course explores how the categories of race, religion and nation
have been imagined in light of each other throughout American history.
What social, cultural and political circumstances have shaped the
meaning of these concepts and the perceived relationships among them in
various historical settings? How have religions played a role in
structuring, and/or in shifting racial identities and related ideas
about American “civilization”? Conversely, in what ways have
intersecting notions of race and citizenship influenced the development
of American religious traditions, institutions and practices? In
analyzing changing formations of nation, religion, and race in the
United States, we will also examine how conceptions of citizenship and
civilization have been inflected by ideas about class and gender. This
course counts toward the Humanities distribution requirement. Heather Curtis / Rosemary Hicks
HST. 86: Medieval & Early Modern Spain:
Pluralism to Absolutism
Spain from the era of the three religions to the global crisis of the
Seven Years' War. Topics include religious coexistence and its limits;
the Inquisition and religious intolerance; overseas expansion and
colonization; early globalization; African slavery in Spain's American
empire; and the clash with European rivals that led to Spain's decline
and efforts at revival. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
HST. 86: Modern Spain: From Global Empire to European Union
Introductory. Tracks Spain's uneven transition from a global empire
to a member of the European Union from the late eighteenth until the
early twenty-first centuries. Topics include Spain's War of
Independence (1808-1814), domestic revolutions and constitutions,
colonial wars and decolonization, economic and social changes, the
Spanish Civil War, the Francoist dictatorship, and the transition
to democracy. Sources include scholarly studies, literature, and film.
Part of a two-semester sequence with Spain and its Empire but also
stands alone. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
HST. 86: Empresses, Saints & Scholars:
The Women of Byzantium
(Cross-listed as Classics 86
Pulcheria, Irene, Theophano, Theodora, St. Mary of Egypt, Anna Comnena --
women who helped shape empires, the Christian religion, the discipline of
history. In the lives of these and other women of Byzantium are reflections
and commentaries on ideas as varied as political legitimacy, spirituality,
education, the spread of Byzantine culture, and the evolution of Christian
theology. Though the focus will be on the Byzantines, the course will also
examine Byzantine influences on and interactions with the peoples of Eastern,
Western and Southeastern Europe and the Middle East. Satisfies the Classics
Culture Option and the Humanities or Social Sciences Distribution Requirement.
David Proctor
HST. 87: The Ottoman Empire
This course will offer an overview of the Ottoman Empire since its
emergence until its demise after World War I. We will explore how
Empires contribute to technology, military sciences and literature,
through the study of the Ottomans. We will study the relationship
between the Empire and some of its provinces. Further, the Tanzimat
period will be examined as it yielded new ideas to emerge in the Middle
East. Karam Dana
HST. 90: The World in Motion: Migration as a Force
for Historical Change
Migration as a factor in historical studies. Examines the role of migrations
in empires, frontiers and borderlands, slavery and indentured labor, oceanic
history, industrialization, urbanization, intra-state conflict, and globalization.
Reed Ueda
HST. 90: Foundation Seminar: Muslims in America
This class provides a survey of Muslims living in the US, and the historic journey
of this religion/culture and its eventual settlement in the western world and North America.
We will explore the diversity of Islam in America, and the variations between Islam in
the US and other parts of the world. Discussions over gender roles, transnational ties,
radical versus moderate Islam will be examined and explored. The larger question posed
by the class deals with the compatibility between Islam as a religion and a culture,
and modernity and western democracy. Karam Dana
HST. 91: Black Panther Party
This course examines the impact, legacy, and historical significance of
the most iconic radical political organization to emerge from the social
movements of the 1960s. Armed with guns, law books, and dangerously
charismatic swagger, The Black Panthers transformed the very aesthetics
of political activism in the 1960s and 1970s through both armed
confrontation, revolutionary polemics, and social programs that
reimagined the black underclass living in urban ghettoes as radical
warriors on the edge of an incipient political revolution. In the
process they energized and inspire the New Left, Puerto Rican, Chicano,
and Native American radicals and revolutionaries around the world.
Peniel Joseph
HST. 92:
Course description to be posted soon.
HST. 93: Courtship in
America
This course explores the search for love and sex. It begins in the early
20th century when Victorian values defined the rules of courtship,
examines the rise and evolution of dating throughout the century and
explores contemporary social and sexual behavior in historical context.
Research projects will be based on documents in the Tufts archives. Virginia Drachman
HST. 93: The Black Power Movement
A study of the Black Power Movement's promotion of racial pride, self-determination,
and revolution in American society and abroad.This course examines the Black Power Movement
in American society from 1955-1975. Black Power scandalized much of the nation in the 1960s
and became associated with a new racial and political militancy that seemed to turn its back
on Martin Luther King's philosophy of non-violence.
This seminar explores the movement's relationship with civil rights leaders and organizations
and pays particular attention to the role of figures such as Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael,
and groups such as the Black Panthers. We will also examine the movement's impact on
feminism, the New Left, the Great Society, and local, regional, and national struggles
for social and political justice. Peniel Joseph
HST. 93: The New Woman in American Society
This seminar will examine the rise of the New Woman in American society as women in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries turned away from the gender differences
that defined Victorian womanhood and strived for equality with men, seeking higher education,
careers, and equality in their personal lives as well. Virginia Drachman
HST. 93: Bowling Alone? American Communities
What is a community, how is it formed, and who belongs? Exploration of
these questions through a study of types of community in the U. S.,
utilizing historical and comparative perspectives on imperial settlers,
labor migrants, middlemen groups, cultural corridors, local communities,
national community, generations, subcultures and minorities. Reed Ueda
HST. 93: The New Deal's Global History
This course introduces historiography and historical writing through an
exploration of the complicated and contested evolution of the New Deal.
While it has remained a byword for reform in U.S. public life, its broader international origins, connections, and missions largely have been forgotten or ignored. By reading and critically evaluating works of history on these diverse facets, students will see there was not one New Deal but many, with numerous legacies, including those that continue to be debated today. We will explore how different styles and methods of writing history and a variety of perspectives lead to very different histories of one particular historical issue. Beyond basics of craft, a goal of the course is to expose them to the plural nature of history and historical debate. David Ekbladh
HST. 94: Japanese History through Literature
This course covers 13 centuries of Japanese history, as represented in
works of literature, in English translation. We will study and discuss
these works primarily as historical sources, rather than objects of
literary criticism, carefully considering their value and limitations as
such, and sampling the genres of mytho-history, religious didactic work,
the diary, warrior-epic, puppet-play, novel and auto-biography.
This is not a lecture course, but the instructor will introduce each
work, and place each in historical context. A general familiarity with
Japanese history will be assumed; students lacking this will be referred
to an appropriate textbook for background reading. Students will be
provided with English-language bibliographies dealing with the assigned
texts (or texts in the same category) and their use as historical
sources. Leupp
HST. 94: Religion in Japanese History - cross listed with Religon 136
Traces development of religious ideas and institutions from prehistory
to the present, stressing connections to broad socioeconomic and
cultural trends. Topics include Buddhism, Shinto, Confucianism,
Christian missions, and new religions. Gary Leupp
HST. 95:
Course description to be posted soon. TBA
HST. 96: Foundation Seminar:
The Body and Sexuality in Premodern Europe
This foundation seminar examines the varying ways in which the human
body and sexuality were construed in Europe from the Middle Ages
through the Enlightenment. We will start with a discussion of the
historian's role when studying bodies and sexualities in the past.
What assumptions do we have to leave behind in order to understand
the way people related to their bodies in pre-modern Europe? How are
the body and sexuality linked? We will then explore the variety of
approaches to the body, sex difference, and sexuality, and the way
those ideas changed throughout the early modern period. Topics covered
include medical and cultural meanings of sex difference; the purified
religious body; the new anatomy and the body; homosexuality; cross-dressing
and sexual identity; sexual deviance; and witchcraft and sexuality.
Alisha Rankin
HST. 96: Foundation Seminar: Vichy France
This course examines one of the most traumatic epochs in modern
French history: France's devastating defeat in 1940 and the country's
subsequent trajectory under German occupation and the Vichy regime.
Students will evaluate the experiences of people in France and its
colonies between 1940 and 1944 through translated primary sources,
but they will also wrestle with some of the great historiographical
debates surrounding this period, including the extent of French
collaboration with and resistance to the Germans, and the relationship
between history and memory. Some knowledge of modern European and
French history is helpful, but not required. Elizabeth Foster
HST. 96: Hitler: Biography as History
A course on biography as a genre of historical writing, the enormous
variety of interpretive variations biographers can impose on their
subjects, and the distinctions between biography and more analytical
forms of historical discourse. All this, of course, using Adolf Hitler
as the example. Daniel Mulholland
HST. 96: Food and Society
A socio-economic history of food as a window into everyday life. An
exploration of global cross-cultural material exchange related to
culinary history, food production, and the politics of food from haute
cuisine to fast food. An examination of food. Family and gender through
cookbooks, domesticity and health. Topics include: cross-cultural
exchanges, nutrition, table manners, eating habits, origins of dieting,
history of taste, and the history of restaurants. Special focus on U.S.
Europe, and Asia. Baghdiantz-McCabe
HST. 96: Popular Culture in Europe 1300-1600
The course will focus on elements of European culture in the late medieval
and early modern period outside the precincts of the ruling elites.
Of interest will also be the cultural relationship between elites and the
people at large. Critical examination of the ways of formulating historical
arguments will be emphasized, and readings will consist of entire books of
history. Steven Marrone
HST. 97: Arab Nationalism in the 20th Century
This course will explore the concept of Arab Nationalism in the
Arabic-speaking world, and its connection to various political and
historical events in the 20th Century. We will trace the emergence of
the phenomenon on the 19th Century, and explore its impact on the people
of the Arabic-speaking world. Further, we will discuss the triumph, and
failure of Arab Nationalism in the Arab Middle East. The clash between
the secular principles of Arab Nationalism and Islam-inspired political
voices will be discussed at length. Karam Dana
