History

HIST W1002y Ancient History of Mesopotamia and Asia Minor 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. A survey of the political and cultural history of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Iran from prehistory to the disappearance of the cuneiform documentation, with special emphasis on Mesopotamia. Groups(s): A

HIST W1004x or y Ancient History of Egypt 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. A survey of the history of ancient Egypt from the first appearance of the state to the conquest of the country by Alexander of Macedon, with emphasis of the political history, but also with attention to the cultural, social, and economic developments. Group(s): AField(s): *ANC

HIST W1010x The Ancient Greeks 800-146 B.C.E. 3 pts. A review of the history of the Greek world from the beginnings of Greek archaic culture around 800 B.C., through the classical and hellenistic periods to the definitive Roman conquest in 146 B.C., with concentration on political history, but attention also to social and cultural developments.Field(s): ANC

AFCV C1020x and y African Civilization 4 pts. This course is part of the Global Core of Columbia College. It provides a general introduction to some of the key intellectual debates in Africa by Africans through primary sources, including scholarly works, political tracts, fiction, art and film. Beginning with an exploration of African notions of spiritual and philosophical uniqueness and ending with contemporary debates on the meaning and historical viability of an African Renaissance, this course explores the meanings of 'Africa' and 'being African.' Field(s): AFR*

HIST W1020y The Romans, 754 BC to 565 AD 3 pts. Rome and its empire, from the beginning to late antiquity.

Field(s): ANC

HIST W1061x Introduction to the Early Middle Ages: 250-1050 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Introduction to the Mediterranean world and northern Europe from the Late Roman Empire to the Eleventh Century through the study of medieval texts in translation. Topics include: interaction of peoples; byzantium and Islam; conversion; Charlemagne and the birth of Europe; the year 1000. Field(s): MED

HIST BC1062x or y Introduction to the Later Middle Ages: 1050-1450 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Social environment, political and religious institutions, and the main intellectual currents of the latin West studied through primary sources and modern historical writings. Field(s): MED

HIST BC1302x or y Introduction to European History: French Revolution to the Present 3 pts. Emergence of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary mass political movements; European industrialization, nationalism, and imperialism; 20th-century world wars, the Great Depression, and Fascism. Field(s): MEU

HIST BC1402x or y Survey of American Civilization since the Civil War 3 pts. The major intellectual and social acommodations made by Americans to industrialization and urbanization; patterns of political thought from Reconstruction to the New Deal; selected topics on post-World War II developments. Field(s): US

HIST BC1760x or y Introduction to African History: 1700-Present 3 pts. This course is a survey of African history from the 18th century to the contemporary period. We will explore six major themes in African History: Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World, Colonialism in Africa, the 1940s, Nationalism and Independence Movements, Post-Colonialism in Africa, and Issues in the Making of Contemporary Africa. Students who take this course may also take Introduction to Africa Studies: Africa Past, Present, and Future. Field(s): AFR

HIST W2901y Historical Theories and Methods 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Designed to replace the History Lab and Historian's Craft, HIST W2901 "Historical Theories and Methods" (formerly titled "Introduction to History") offers a new approach to undergraduate introductory courses on historical practice and the history of history. The course combines an overarching lecture component consisting of one lecture per week of 75 minutes with a two-hour "laboratory" component that will meet weekly at first, then less often as the semester progresses. The course aims to introduce students to broad theoretical and historiographical themes while drawing on those themes in providing them skills in actual historical practice, in preparation for the writing of a senior thesis or extended research paper. It is required that juniors planning to write a senior thesis take this course in the spring semester in preparation for their projects. Students who plan on studying abroad during the spring term must take HIST W4900 The Historian's Craft in the fall term as a replacement. Field(s): METHODS

HIST W3004x or y The Mediterranean World After Alexander the Great 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The conquests of Alexander the Great spread Greek Civilization all around the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. This course will examine the Hellenised (greek-based) urban society of the empires of the Hellenistic era (ca. 330-30BCE) Field(s): ANC*

HIST W3014y Greece in the 5th Century BCE 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Study of the so-called Classical Age of Greece, the fifth century, when the Greeks were at the zenith of their innovation and productivity in the arts, philosophy, and medicine, as well as politics. Focus on the political development of those two polar opposite cities-Sparta and Athens--under whose combined leadership the southern Greeks defeated a vast invading force of the Persian Empire. That unexpected military victory unleashed a burst of creativity in the political, social, cultural, philosophical, and economic realms, producing works that still delight, inform, and influence western culture especially, as well as many cultures around the globe. Group(s): AField(s): ANC

HIST W3020x or y Roman Imperialism 3 pts. How did the Roman Empire grow so large and last so long? This course will examine the origins of the Romans' drive to expand, the theory of "defensive" imperialism, economic aspects, Roman techniques of control, questions about acculturation and resistance, and the reasons why the empire eventually collapsed. Field(s): ANC

HIST W3024x or y Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic 133-23 BCE 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. An investigation of the political, economic and cultural development in Rome that resulted in its political transformation from an oligarchy (the so-called "Republic") to a monarchy (the so-called "Empire"). Field(s): *ANC

HIST W3026x and y Roman Social Histroy Not offered in 2013-2014. Social structure, class, slavery and manumission, social mobility, life expectation, status and behavior of women, Romanization, town and country, social organizations, education and literacy, philanthropy, amusements in the Roman Empire, 70 B.C. - 250 A.D. Field(s): *ANC

HIST W3060y Laws of War in the Middle Ages 3 pts. The perception and regulation of war and wartime practices in Europe and the Mediterranean World in the period 300-1500, from the standpoint of legal and institutional history rather than of military history. Topics include: the Just War tradition, Holy War and Crusade, the Peace and Truce of God, prisoners and ransom, the law of siege, non-combatants, chivalry, and ambassadors and diplomacy. Readings are principally primary sources in translation. Group(s): AField(s): MED

HIST W3072x or y Once Upon a Time: Daily Life in Medieval Europe 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course is designed as traveller's guide to medieval Europe. Its purpose is to provide a window to a long-lost world that provided the foundation of modern institutions and that continues to inspire the modern collective artistic and literary imagination with its own particularities. This course will not be a conventional history course concentrating on the grand narratives in the economic, social and political domains but rather intend to explore the day-to-day lives of the inhabitants, and attempts to have a glimpse of their mindset, their emotional spectrum, their convictions, prejudices, fears and hopes. It will be at once a historical, sociological and anthropological study of one of the most inspiring ages of European civilization. Subjects to be covered will include the birth and childhood, domestic life, sex and marriage, craftsmen and artisans, agricultural work, food and diet, the religious devotion, sickness and its cures, death, after death (purgatory and the apparitions), travelling, merchants and trades, inside the nobles' castle, the Christian cosmos, and medieval technology. The lectures will be accompanied by maps, images of illuminated manuscripts and of medieval objects. Students will be required to attend a weekly discussion section to discuss the medieval texts bearing on that week's subject. The written course assignment will be a midterm, final and two short papers, one an analysis of a medieval text and a second an analysis of a modern text on the Middle Ages. Field(s): MED

HIST W3103x Alchemy, Magic & Science 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Astrology, alchemy, and magic were central components of an educated person's view of the world in early modern Europe. How did these activities become marginalized, while a new philosophy (what we would now call empirical science) came to dominate the discourse of rationality? Through primary and secondary readings, this course examines these "occult" disciplines in relation to the rise of modern science. Group(s): AField(s): *EME

HIST W3112x or y The Scientific Revolution in Western Europe: 1500-1750 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Introduction to the cultural, social, and intellectual history of the upheavals of astronomy, anatomy, mathematics, alchemy from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Field(s): EME

HIST W3190y England and the Wider World 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course traces the history of English overseas expansion, and its consequences for the history of the British Isles, from early Atlantic exploration in the sixteenth century through the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Themes include the relationship between empire and state formation, the place of international rivalry in the formation of imperial ambitions, the character and dimensions of transoceanic trading networks, and the place of empire in the construction of British national identity. Group(s): BField(s): EME

HIST W3201y Culture and Society in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1867-1918 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course offers a critical examination of the history of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, once one of Europe’s largest military powers which disappeared from the map after World War I. A restructured version of the Habsburg Empire, the Monarchy was a lasting, authoritarian framework of Central European ethnic groups which, however, gave rise to modernism in the field of arts and sciences.The juxtaposition of authority and modernity provides the focus of this survey which includes the study of the Monarchy as the birthplace of both Zionism and modern anti-Semitism. Nurturing a pioneering culture and a pre-modern society, Austria-Hungary is an exciting case of pioneering spirit and decadence, experimentation and dissolution, novelty and decay. The "disintegration of Austrian political culture" is particularly relevant today when presented as the "seedtime for fascism" (George V. Strong). Group(s): BField(s): MEU

HIST W3220x Imperial Russia, 1682-1918 3 pts. A survey of Russian political, social, and intellectual developments from Peter the Great through the Revolution of 1917. Group(s): B

HSSL W3224y Cities and Civilizations: an Introduction To Eurasian Studies 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Cities and Civilizations: An Introduction to Eurasian Studies Introduction to the study of the region formerly occupied by the Russian and Soviet Empires focusing on cities as the space of self-definition, encounter, and tension among constituent peoples. Focus on incorporating and placing in dialogue diverse disciplinary approaches to the study of the city through reading and analysis of historical, literary, and theoretical texts as well as film, music, painting, and architecture. Group(s): B

HIST W3226x History of Modern Ukraine 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The course explores selected questions in early modern Ukrainian history. It concentrates on the evolution of Ukrainian identity, culture, and political aspirations. These developments are placed in the context of the states that ruled Ukrainian lands and the diverse populations and non-Ukrainian cultures and political movements on these territories. Field(s): MEU

HIST BC3230x or y Central Europe: Nations, Cultures, and Ideas 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The making and re-making of Central Europe as place and myth from the Enlightenment to post-Communism. Focuses on the cultural, intellectual, and political struggles of the peoples of this region to define themselves. Themes include modernization and backwardness, rationalism and censorship, nationalism and pluralism, landscape and the spatial imagination. Field(s): MEU

HIST W3231y Russia and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The course offers an introduction into the history of Russia and the Sovient Union in the twentieth century. It combines lectures and discussion sections as well as survey texts and a selection of sources, including documents generated by state/party bodies, various documents produced by individual authors (especially diaries, letters, and memoirs), and some film materials. Putting the Soviet phenomenon into its wider intellectual, cultural, and geographical contexts, we will also address questions of modernity and modernization, socialism and communism, and authoritarian practices in politics, culture, and society. Field(s): MEU

HIST W3240y East Central Europe in the 20th Century 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Despite--or because of--the adjective "east," East Central Europe was at the center of major historical developments in Europe in the twentieth century. From the two world wars to the communist period, the East Central European region was the site of key events that marked the history of the world. And, once again, it has recently been at the center of attention because of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the expansion of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to include several East Central European states. This course examines these and other topics in twentieth century East Central European history, and it emphasizes economic and political approaches alongside cultural and social ones. It also includes considerable treatment of the roles of Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States of America in the region.

HIST BC3243x or y The Constitution in Historical Perspective 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The develoment of constitutional doctrine, 1787 to the present. The Constitution as an experiement in republicanism; states' rights and the Civil War amendments; freedom of contract and its opponents; the emergence of civil liberties; New Deal intervention and the crisis of the Court; the challenge of civil rights. Field(s): US

HIST W3246x Patterns of Soviet/Russian Interventions in Eastern Europe, 1939-2008 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The lecture course will analyze the patterns of Soviet interventions from the invasion of Poland at the onset of the Second World War in September, 1939 to the recent military conflict between Russia and Georgia in 2008. These interventions were of different character in every case: the mildest version of Soviet crisis managing strategy was threatening the use of force in Poland in 1956; it was possible to restore order by sending Soviet tanks to East Berlin in 1953; the Red Army had no difficulty in defeating the freedom fighters in Hungary during the Hungarian revolution, while tiny Finland could eventually be defeated only in a large scale traditional war during the winter of 1939-1940. Soviet policy goals were achieved by most interventions: the one notable exception being Moscow's "Vietnam": the invasion of Afghanistan. During the crises emerging in the Soviet bloc a gradual improvement can be seen in Moscow's crisis managing strategy: in Berlin, 1953 the Soviet army alone was used to restore order, in Hungary in 1956 initially the Kremlin tried to pacify the situation by using a combination of military and political means, during the Prague Spring a half year long bilateral and multilateral coordination process aimed at finding a political solution preceded the military intervention, while in Poland in 1981 the final option eventually could be avoided by the introduction of Marshal Law. During the course, two special cases of Soviet intervention will also be analyzed: the subtle process of the Sovietization in East Central Europe between 1944-1948 and the Soviet bloc's involvement in the Vietnam War.

HIST W3267x or y The Politics of Hatred and Fear: Key Issues in the History of Eastern Central Europe 1878-1956 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The course gives a short survey of the major turning points in the political, social and intellectual history of Eastern and Central Europe, focusing on the political manifestations of powerful hatreds and fears. The main question to be addressed is the origins and regional peculiarities of authoritarian political regimes and ideologies: fascism and communism. Group(s): BField(s): MEU

HIST W3302y The European Catastrophe, 1914-1945 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The history of Europe's second Thirty Years War marked by economic crises, political turmoil, totalitarian ideologies, massive population transfers, and genocide; but also by extraordinary economic, scientific, and cultural developments. Group(s): BField(s): MWE

HIST W3304x Modern Germany, 1900-2000 3 pts. The development of Germany has influenced the history of Europe and, indeed, the world in the 20th century in major and dramatic ways. Most historians agree that the country and its leaders played a crucial role in the outbreak of two world wars which cost at least 70 million lives. Germany experienced a revolution in 1918, hyperinflation in 1923, the Great Depression after 1929, and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. Between 1939 and 1945 there followed the brutal conquest of most of its neighbors and the Holocaust. Subsequently, the country became divided into two halves in which emerged a communist dictotorship, on the one hand, and a Western-style parliamentary-representative system, on the other. The division ended in 1989 with the collapse of the Honecker regime and the unification of East and West Germany. No doubt, Germany's history is confused and confusing and has therefore generated plenty of debate among historians. This course offers a comprehensive survey of the country's development from around 1900 to 2000. It is not just concerned with political events and military campaigns, but will also examine in considerable detail German society and its structures, relations between women and men, trends in both high and popular culture, and the ups and downs of an industrial economy in its global setting. The weekly lectures and section discussions are designed to introduce you to the country's conflicted history and to the controversies it unleashed in international scholarship.

Group(s): B

Field(s): MEU

HIST W3307x or y Italy in the Wider World 3 pts. Studies the swings between global and local in this particularly elastic European nation-state. Lectures, discussion, reading, and media highlight the Italian peninsula's changing situation depending on the global economy. The course starts with a look back to the legacy of maritime city states, why the Italians didn't discover America, and the "dark centuries" as trade moved from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.But the main focus are 19th and 20th century topics including the Italian emigrant diaspora, fascist imperialism, post-colonialism in Africa, living with the Papacy, the Third Italy, Italy in the European Union, the Mafia connection, the new immigrants, the China threat.

HIST W3309x or y Victorian Worlds: British Society 3 pts. The Victorian period (1837-1901) and the nineteenth century in general seem to present a number of paradoxes. Britain came to embrace ideas of free trade and liberty (J.S. Mill was the most famous intellectual of his age), yet ran a coercive empire on a global scale. Britons were suspicious of government intervention in the lives of private citizens, yet British society was in many ways highly conformist. We tend to associate 'Victorian morality' and Queen Victoria herself with prudishness and restriction, yet Victorians were fascinated by sex, and the birth rate in Britain was higher than it had ever been, before or since. This course will explore the ways in which Victorians lived, thought, worked and played, as well as how their experiences shaped a set of key social, artistic and political movements.

HIST W3312x British History, 1760-1867 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The history of Britain at the height of its global power. Particular attention will be paid to contestations over political power, and to the emergence of liberal economic and political institutions and ideas. Field(s):MWE

HIST W3314x or y Modern France and its Empire: 1789-present 3 pts. This lecture course surveys the main currents of French history from the Revolution to the present, with particular attention to the interaction between continental France and the rest of the empire. Throughout this course, the main questions will be: to what extent has the French Revolution served as point of political and cultural reference throughout the 19th and 20th centuries? Who is a citizen? And how has the response to this question been impacted by imperial developments? What is French Republicanism? And how to understand it in the imperial context? What have been the relations between political, social, economic and cultural developments? How have continental conflicts and World Wars impacted French history? How have the post WWII interrelated processes of decolonization, immigration and building of Europe deeply impacted contemporary France? We will tackle these questions by reading primary sources: works of political philosophy; literature; film; legal documents; and memoirs from the time, and by watching films.

HIST W3315x Reformation Europe in Global Perspective 3 pts. This course follows developments in Christian communities and cultures across Europe and the globe in the era of the Protestant, Catholic, and Radical Reformations (c. 1500-1700). It covers the rise of Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anabaptist communities, Catholic reform efforts, and events such as the Wars of Religion alongside diverse Western Christian interactions with religious and cultural "others" within and beyond Europe.

HIST BC3321x or y Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Culture of Empire 3 pts. The shaping of European cultural identity through encounters with non-European cultures from 1500 to the postcolonial era. Novels, paintings, and films are among the sources used to examine such topis as exoticism in the Enlightenment, slavery and European capitalism, Orientalism in art, ethnographic writings on the primitive, and tourism. Field(s): MEU

HIST W3330y Europe since 1945 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. A big picture perspective on the period 1945-2005, the course moves from the New Europe arising from the catastrophe of the Great Depression, Nazi-fascism, and World War II to the New Europe arising out of the contrary forces of globalization. Lectures illuminated by East-West and TransAtlantic comparisons, films, memoirs, and discussions. Group(s): BField(s): MEU

HIST W3360y British History From 1867: Between Democracy and Empire 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course surveys the main currents of British history from 1867 to the present, with particular attention to the changing place of Britain in the world and the changing shape of politics. Group(s): BField(s): MWE

HIST W3377y International and Global History since WWII 3 pts. In this course students will explore contemporary international and global history, focusing on how states have cooperated and competed in the Cold War, decolonization, and regional crises. But lectures will also analyze how non-governmental organizations, cross-border migration, new means of communication, and global markets are transforming the international system as a whole. Group(s): B, C, DField(s): INTL

HIST BC3380x or y Social and Cultural History of Food in Europe 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Course enables students to focus on remote past and its relationship to social context and political and economic structures; students will be asked to evaluate evidence drawn from documents of the past, including tracts on diet, health, and food safety, accounts of food riots, first-hand testimonials about diet and food availability. A variety of perspectives will be explored, including those promoted by science, medicine, business, and government. Field(s): MEU

HIST W3398x or y The Politics of Terror: The French Revolution 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course examines the political culture of eighteenth-century France, from the final decades of the Bourbon monarchy to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Among our primary aims will be to explore the origins of the Terror and its relationship to the Revolution as a whole. Other topics we will address include the erosion of the king's authority in the years leading up to 1789, the fall of the Bastille, the Constitutions of 1791 and 1793, civil war in the Vendée, the militarization of the Revolution, the dechristianization movement, attempts to establish a new Revolutionary calendar and civil religion, and the sweeping plans for moral regeneration led by Robespierre and his colleagues in 1793-1794. Field(s): MEU

HIST W3406x American Beginnings 3 pts. A survey of the economic and social history of British North America (with excursions into French, Dutch, and Native American communities) from 1607 to 1763. Major themes will include immigration, community structures, the household economy, slavery and other labor systems, and the cultural transformation of the colonies in the eighteenth century. Group(s): A, D

HIST W3407y America Since 1960 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course will examine the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments in the United States since 1960. Topics include the American presidency, the black freedom struggle, the triumph and agony of postwar liberalism, Vietnam, the New Left and counterculture, feminism and masculinity, the rise and institutionalization of modern conservatism, religion, the culture wars, environmentalism, diversity and its discontents, the New Gilded Age, globalization, and foreign policy since 9/11. Group(s): D

HIST BC3408x or y Emerging Cities: 19th Century Urban History of the Americas and Europe 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Urban history of 19th century cities in Europe and the Americas. First, we study the economic, geographic, and demographic changes that produced 19th century urbanization in the Western world. Second, we examine issues of urban space: density, public health, housing conditions, spatial reforms, and the origins of the modern city planning. Field(S): US

HIST W3411y The Rise of American Capitalism 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Examines the social conflicts that accompanied the transformation of the United States from an agrarian republic and slave society to one of the most powerful industrial nations in the world. Particular attention will be paid to the building of new social and economic institutions and to cultural and visual representations of the nation and its people. Readings include major secondary works and primary documents. Formerly: American Society in the age of Capital, 1819-1897. Field(s): USDiscussion Section Required. Lab Required.

HIST W3412x or y Revolutionary America, 1750-1815 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course examines the cultural, political, and constitutional origins of the United States. It covers the series of revolutionary changes in politics and society between the mid-18th and early 19th centuries that took thirteen colonies out of the British Empire and turned them into an independent and expanding nation. Starting with the cultural and political glue that held the British Empire together, the course follows the political and ideological processes that broke apart and ends with the series of political struggles that shaped the identity of the US. Using a combination of primary and secondary materials relating to various walks of life and experience from shopping to constitutional debates, students will be expected to craft their own interpretations of this fundamental period of American history. Lectures will introduce students to important developments and provide a framework from them to develop their own analytical skills. Group(s): DField(s): US

HIST BC3423x or y The Constitution in Historical Perspective 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The develoment of constitutional doctrine, 1787 to the present. The Constitution as an experiement in republicanism; states' rights and the Civil War amendments; freedom of contract and its opponents; the emergence of civil liberties; New Deal intervention and the crisis of the Court; the challenge of civil rights. Field(s): US

HIST W3431y U.S. In the Era of Slavery and Jacksonian Democracy 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. An analysis of American society in the period of Jackson and with particular emphasis on the emergence of democratic institutions. Group(s): D

HIST W3432x The United States In the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction 3 pts. The coming of the Civil War and its impact on the organization of American society afterwards. Group(s): D

HIST W3441y Making of the Modern American Landscape 3 pts. Social history of the built environment since 1870, looking at urban and rural landscapes, vernacular architecture of industry, housing, recreation, and public space. Considers government policies, real estate investment, and public debates over land use and the natural environment. Group(s): D

HIST W3447x or y America Between the Wars, 1918-1945 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. American politics, society, and culture from the aftermath of World War I through the Great Depression and World War II. Field(s): US

HIST W3448y American Since 1945 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Prerequisite: First-year students must obtain the permission of the instructor. Topics include the cold War, McCarthyism, the postwar economy, suburbanization, consumer culture, Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement, and Watergate. Field(s): US

HIST W3449x or y American Urban History 3 pts. Although images of the frontier and of the west have long dominated the popular imagination of American history, in fact the United States urbanized rapidly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and 80 percent of the national population now lives in metropolitan areas of more than a million people. How did big cities respond to issues of race, ethnicity, gender, transportation, housing, open space, and recreation? The course will feature frequent field trips voa ferry, foot, and bus. Field(s): US

HIST W3460x Topics in the History of Women and Gender 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Since the emergence of a field called "women's history" in the early 1970s, the amount of information we have gathered about women has mounted astronomically. Historians have discovered the presence of women in every aspect of American life and culture. In more recent years they have begun to ask a different kind of question. Does it matter? If so, how? What is a gender analysis and how, if at all, does it alter the way we look at our past? How does the new knowledge we have acquired change our understanding of America's past? Or does it? This course is intended to introduce you to some of the newest questions now being asked by historians of women and gender and to some of the intriguing information we have uncovered about women in the American past. Along the way, we will explore how this material shapes our interpretations of U.S. history and examine the relationship between the history of women and the history of gender. Readings are organized roughly chronologically, moving through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and rotating around encounters with some of the most salient ideas in American life, including: Liberty, Democracy, Equality, Individualism, and Nationalism. At each juncture we will ask how introducing a gendered perspective changes our perceptions of the past. Field(s): US

HIST BC3472x or y Projecting Amerian Empire on Film 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Critically surveys how the coincidence of the development of audiovisual mass culture and the rise of the United States as a world power was decisive for the history of each across the twentieth century. Special attention will be paid to film and television as domestic ideology and international propaganda. Field(s): LA/US

HIST W3478x U.S. Intellectual History, 1865 To the Present 3 pts. This course examines major themes in U.S. intellectual history since the Civil War. Among other topics, we will examine the public role of intellectuals; the modern liberal-progressive tradition and its radical and conservative critics; the uneasy status of religion ina secular culture; cultural radicalism and feminism; critiques of corporate capitalism and consumer culture; the response of intellectuals to hot and cold wars, the Great Depression, and the upheavals of the 1960s. Fields(s): US

HIST W3491y U.S. Foreign Relations, 1890-1990 3 pts. The aim is to provide an empirical grasp of U.S. foreign relations and to put in question the historiographical views of the periods and critical events that have come up to make that history. Emphasis will be put on determining how "the United States" has been grasped in relation to the world and how historiography has in turn grasped that retrospectively. Group(s): DField(s): US

HIST W3503x or y Workers in Industrial and Post-Industrial America 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The history of work, workers, and unions during the 20th century. Topics include scientific management, automation, immigrant workers, the rise of industrial unionism, labor politics, occupational discrimination, and working-class community life. Field(s): US

HIST W3514y Immigrants in American History and Life 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The course surveys patterns of migration and immigrant experience from colonial time to the present. Migration to the US is considered as part of the evolving global labor market and colonial expansion in the modern world. The class considers migration in different historical periods, the relationship of immigration to nation-building, national expansion, war, and the production and reproduction of national identity; the history of the legal regulation of immigration; the experience of immigrants in settling and negotiating life in a new society, and political debates surrounding the role of immigration in American society. Course materials include recent historical literature, fiction, primary-source documents, and film. Group(s): D

HIST W3523x or y History of Health Inequality in the Modern United States 3 pts. Through assigned readings and a group research project, students will gain familiarity with a range of historical and social science problems at the intersection of ethnic/racial/sexual formations, technological networks, and health politics since the turn of the twentieth century. Topics to be examined will include, but will not be limited to, black women's health organization and care; HIV/AIDS politics, policy, and community response; "benign neglect"; urban renewal and gentrification; medical abuses and the legacy of Tuskegee; tuberculosis control; and environmental justice. The course prerequisite is an application to the course, noting previous coursework in United States history; coursework as a major in pre-health professional (pre-med, pre-nursing, or pre-public health); or social science/History coursework in African-American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, or American Studies.

HIST W3528x or y The Radical Tradition in America 3 pts. Major expressions of American radicalism, ranging from early labor and communitarian movements to the origins of feminism, the abolitionist movement, and on to Populism, Socialism, and the "Old" and "New" lefts. Field(s): US

HIST W3535x History of the City of New York 3 pts. The social, cultural, economic, political, and demographic development of America's metropolis from colonial days to present. Slides and walking tours supplement the readings (novels and historical works).Field(s): US

HIST W3540y History of the South 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. A survey of the history of the American South from the colonial era to the present day, with two purposes: first, to afford students an understanding of the special historical characteristics of the South and of southerners; and second, to explore what the experience of the South may teach about America as a nation. Group(s): DField(s): US

HIST W3544x or y Science and Technology in the United States: From Franklin to Facebook 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

HIST W3544x or y Science and Technology in the United States from Franklin to Facebook 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. An exploration in global context of science and technology in the United States and their dynamic roles in the larger society from the colonial period to recent years. Attention will be given to key figures and their contributions to the earth, physical, and biological sciences and to innovators and their achievements. Among the major topics covered will be exploration, the agricultural, industrial, and information economies, the military and national defense, religion, culture, and the environment. Field(s): US

HIST W3566x or y History of American Popular Culture Through Music 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course examines the history of American popular culture through music and radio, beginning in the 1830s with minstrelsy, the first distinctively "American" popular culture, and ending in the 1960s with Motown. The course acquaints students with key concepts that aim to "read" cultural production and to explore what's unique about culture primarily experienced through the ears. It examines debates over culture's qualifiers, from popular to mass, high to low. Field(s): US

HIST W3575y Power and Place: Black Urban Politics 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. A survey of African-American history since the Civil War. An emphasis is placed on the black quest for equality and community. Group(s): D Formerly listed as "Explorations of Themes in African-American History, 1865-1945"

HIST W3611x Jews and Judaism in Antiquity 3 pts.

HIST W3616x Jews and Christians in the Medieval World 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Medieval Jews and Christians defined themselves in contrast to one another. This course will examine the conditions and contradictions that emerged from competing visions and neighborly relations. It is arranged to comprehend broad themes rather than strict chronology and to engage both older and very recent scholarship on the perennial themes of tolerance and hate. Group(s): AField(s): JWS

HIST W3618x The Modern Caribbean 4 pts. This lecture course examines the social, cultural, and political history of the islands of the Caribbean Sea and coastal regions of Central and South American that collectively form the Caribbean region, from Amerindian settlement, through the era of European imperialism and African enslavement, to the period of socialist revolution and independence. The course will examine historical trajectories of colonialism, slavery, and labor regimes, post-emancipation experiences and migration, radical insurgencies and anti-colonial movements, and intersections of race, culture, and neocolonialism. It will also investigate the production of national, creole, and transborder indentities. Formerly listed as "The Caribbean in the 19th and 20th centuries" Field(s): LAC

HIST W3628x History of the State of Israel, 1948-Present 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The political, cultural, and social history of the State of Israel from its founding in 1948 to the present. Group(s): CField(s): ME

HIST W3630y American Jewish History 3 pts. Explores the interaction between the changing makeup of Jewish immigration, the changing social and aconomic conditions in the United States, and the religious, communal, cultural, and political group life of American Jews. Group(s): D

HIST W3640y Jewish Women and Family, 1000-1800 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course will explore the changing lives of Jewish women in the medieval Islamic and Christian worlds, based on readings of primary sources. We will examine Jewish women's roles in religious and ritual life, in the family, in educational systems and in the economy, and we will compare Jewish women's experiences to those of Christian and Muslim women from the medieval through the early-modern period.

Group(s): A

Field(s): JEW/ME

HIST W3657x Medieval Jewish Cultures 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course will survey some of the major historical, cultural, intellectual and social developments among Jews from the fourth century CE through the fifteenth. We will study Jewish cultures from the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the age of the Talmuds, the rise of Islam, the world of the Geniza, medieval Spain, to the early modern period. We will look at a rich variety of primary texts and images, including mosaics, poems, prayers, polemics, and personal letters. Field(s): JEW/MED

HIST W3660x Latin American Civilization I 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Latin American economy, society, and culture from pre-Columbian times to 1810. Group(s): A, DField(s): *LA

HIST V3661y Latin American Civilization II 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Latin American economy, society, and culture from 1810 to present.

Group(s): D

Field(s): LA

HIST W3661y Latin American Civilization II 3 pts. Latin American economy, society, and culture from 1810 to present. Group(s): DField(s): LA

HIST W3663x or y Mexico From Revolution To Democracy 3 pts. Twentieth-Century Mexican History from the revolution to transition to democracy. The Course review politics, society, culture, foreign relations, and urbanization. Group(s): DField(s): LA

HIST W3665x Economic History of Latin America 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course will examine the evolution of the Latin American economies from the colonial era to the twentieth century, focusing on the historical antecedents of contemporary problems. Each week, the lectures and discussions will address a set of issues that social scientists, including historians, economists, and political scientists, are currently debating. Topics include the measurement of early modern economic activity, the determinants of long-term trends in economic growth and human welfare, the relationship of inequality to economic growth, the significance of political and institutional change, the impact of imperialism and external economic relations, and the relative success of divergent strategies of industrialization.

Group(s): D

Field(s): LAC

HIST W3671x Militarism in Latin America 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course examines the history of the military in Latin America from independence to the present. Key topics include: war and state-formation; caudillismo (warlordism); civil-military relations; military nationalism and memory; the cold war; violence, democracy, and human rights

HIST W3673x or y Latin American Popular Culture In this course we will study the popular culture of Latin America from a historical perspective. The primary sources, secondary texts, audiovisual materials, and lectures will give students a solid basis to understand the importance of popular culture in the formation of Latin American nationalisms, political processes, economic transformations, and demographic changes. Starting from the time of first contact with the Europeans and going up to the mid-twentieth century, we will focus on art, music, literature, and dance, as well as sports, film, and food. We will explore the role that institutions played in attempting to regulate the daily experiences and interactions among various socioeconomic groups, but we will also study how the "popular classes" contributed to shape the cultural practices of the elites across the continent.

HIST W3701x or y Ottoman Empire 3 pts. This course will cover the seven-century long history of the Ottoman Empire, which spanned Europe, Asia, and Africa as well as the medieval, early modern, and modern periods. The many levels of continuity and change will be the focus, as will issues of confessional diversity, imperial governance, and political belonging within the empire and of the empire within larger regional and global phenomena over the centuries.

HIST W3705x or y History of Modern Egypt 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This undergraduate lecture course explores the events and currents that shaped the course of modern Egyptian history over the last two centuries. It ranges from the mid-18th century to present and covers such themes as Egypt under Ottoman, French and British rule; Egypt's dynastic rule, and its relation to neighbouring states in the 19th century; nationalism, modernism and feminism, and the role of cinema, literature and the politics of ideas in the 20th; and, finally, the regimes of Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak and their relation to the region and the wider world. Field(s): ME

HIST W3716x or y History of Islamic Societies 3 pts. Focus on religions, conversion, ethnic relations, development of social institutions, and the relationship between government and religion. Field(d): ME

HIST W3719y History of the Modern Middle East 3 pts. This Course will cover the History of the Middle East from the 18th century until the present, examining the region ranging from Morocco to Iran and including the Ottoman Empire. It will focus on transformations in the states of the region, external intervention , and the emergence of modern nation-states, as well as aspects of social, economic, cultural and intellectual history of the region. Field(s): ME

HIST W3722x America and the Muslim World Not offered in 2013-2014. Taking the events of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath as a point of departure, this course will begin by investigating in parallel histories of two sibling religious societies: Islam and western Christendom. It will outline the European antecedents of American understandings and misunderstandings of the Muslim world down to World War I in comparison with Muslim experiences with, and selective efforts to appropriate, aspects of European society and thought over the same period. Field(s): INTL

HIST W3760y Main Currents In African History 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Economy and society; African trade and conquest states; Islam; colonial rule and economic transformation; nationalism and postindependence states. Group(s): C

HIST W3764x or y History of East Africa: Early Time to the Present 3 pts. A survey of East African history over the past two millennia with a focus on political and social change. Themes include early religious and political ideas, the rise of states on the Swahili coast and between the Great Lakes, slavery, colonialism, and social and cultural developments in the 20th century. Field(s): AFR

HIST W3772x or y West African History 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course offers a survey of main themes in West African history over the last millenium, with particular emphasis on the period from the mid-fifteenth through the twentieth century. Themes include the age of West African empires (Ghana, Mali, Songhay), re-alignments of economic and political energies towards the Atlantic coast, the rise and decline of the trans-Atlantic trade in slaves, the advent and demise of colonial rule, and internal displacement, migrations, and revolutions. In the latter part of the course, we will appraise the continuities and ruptures of the colonial and post-colonial eras. Group(s): CField(s): AFR

HIST W3800x Gandhi's India 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Focus on the history of modern India, using the life and times of Mohandas Gandhi as the basis for not only an engagement with an extraordinary historical figure, but also for a consideration of a great variety of historical issues, including the relationship between nationalism and religion, caste politics in India and affirmative action policies in the United States today, and racism as encountered by Gandhi in relation to colonialism and the Civil Rights movement in the U.S. Field(s): SA

HIST BC3803x or y Gender and Empire 3 pts. Examines how women experienced empire and asks how their actions and activities produced critical shifts in the workings of colonial societies worldwide. Topics include sexuality, the colonial family, reproduction, race, and political activism. Field(s): SA

HIST W3810x History of South Asia I: al-Hind to Hindustan 3 pts. This survey lecture course will provide students with a broad overview of the history of South Asia as a region - focusing on key political, cultural and social developments in the last two millennia. There will be an emphasis on using primary sources (in translation), especially epigraphic, and material artifacts. Our key concerns will be on the political, cultural and theological encounters of varied communities, the growth of cities and urban spaces, the local and global networks of trade and migrations and the development of an Indo- Persian milieu across South Asia. The survey will begin, in earnest, from the mid 6th CE polities and the subsequent formation of various Arab-Turkic principalities. The development and growth of hybrid polities such as Delhi Sultanate, Vijayanagar will be one key concern. The emergence of Indic traditions such as Sufic, Bhakti movements as well as forms of governance, scriptural communities, and new elite structures during the 1300-1600 CE period will be another major focus. Near the end of our course, we will look forward towards the establishment and growth of the Mughal Empire and the arrival of European trading companies and accompanying colonial powers. Keywords for the course are: space, historiography, regionalism, world systems, political theologies, Vernacularization, courtly and sacral cultures, urbanism, colonialism. Field(s): SA

HIST W3811x or y South Asia II: Empire and Its Aftermath 3 pts. This is the second of a two-semester survey focusing on the historical evolution of the cultures, polities, and societies in the Indian sub-continent from the early modern to the postcolonial periods. The chronological scope of this sequence is the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. We begin with the rise (and demise) of the Mughal empire, followed by inquiries into the nature of the eighteenth century "transition" to European rule, take up questions of colonial rule and anticolonialism, and end, finally, by exploring debates about violence, secularism, and democracy in postcolonial South Asia. We will focus in particular on the flowing themes: non-Western state formation; debates about colonial economy and underdevelopment; the structure and ideology of anticolonial thought; organized challenges to the nation-form by political minorities-Muslims, untouchables, and women; and contemporary debates about religion, rights, and violence. The class relies extensively on primary texts, and aims to expose students to multiple historiographical perspectives for understanding South Asia's past. Field(s): SA

HSEA W3850x Contemporary Chinese Culture & Society 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

Broad in scope, the course will examine the main areas of reform-era Chinese life (1978-present): economy, politics, society, culture, and the environment. We will explore how, under conditions not of their own choice, the Chinese people are both shapers of their own fate and constrained in their struggles for a better life and more just and equitable society. The analysis will help better understand the lived experiences of the Chinese people, as well as the causes and consequences of social inequality, social conflicts, and social and political change.

Group(s): C

Field(s): EA

HSEA W3862x The History of Korea To 1900 3 pts. Issues pertaining to Korean history from its beginnings to the early modern era. Group(s): A, CField(s): EA

HSEA W3863y The History of Modern Korea 3 pts. Prerequisites: recommended but not required: HSEA W3862. Korean history from the mid 19th century to the present, with particular focus on politics, society, and culture in the 20th century. Major Cultures Requirement: East Asian Civilization List B. Group(s): C

HIST BC3866x or y Fashion in China 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course challenges the long-standing association of fashion with the West. We will trace the transformation of China's sartorial landscape from the premodern era into the present. Using textual, visual, and material sources, we will explore: historical representations of dress in China; the politics of dress; fashion and the body; women's labor; consumption and modernity; industry and the world-market. We will also read key texts in fashion studies to reflect critically on how we define fashion in different historical and cultural contexts. Our approach will be interdisciplinary, embracing history, anthropology, art, and literature. Field(s): EA

HSEA W3869y Modern Japan, 1800-Present 3 pts.Field(s): EA

HSEA W3880x The History of Modern China 3 pts. The late imperial age. China's internal developments and foreign contact from 1600 to 1911. Field(s): EA

HSEA W3881y The History of Modern China II 3 pts. The social, political and cultural history of twentieth-century China with a focus on issues of nationalism, revolution, "modernity" and gender.

Group(s): C

Field(s): EA

HSEA W3898y The Mongols In History 3 pts. Study of the role of the Mongols in Eurasian history, focusing on the era of the Great Mongol Empire. The roles of Chinggis and Khubilai Khan and the modern fate of the Mongols are considered. Group(s): A, CField(s): EA

HIST W3902x or y History of the World to 1500 CE 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course presents and at the same time critiques a narrative world history from prehistoric times to 1500. The purpose of the course is to convey an understanding of how this rapidly growing field of history is being approached at three different levels: the narrative textbook level, the theoretical-conceptual level, and through discussion sections, the research level. All students are required to enroll in a weekly discussion section. Graded work for the course consists of two brief (5 page) papers based on activities in discussion sections as well as a take-home midterm and a final examination. Field(s): *ANC/ME

HIST W3903x or y History of the World from 1500 CE to the Present 3 pts. This course presents and at the same time critiques a narrative world history from 1500 to the present. The purpose of the course is to convey an understanding of how this rapidly growing field of history is being approahced at three different levels: the narrative textbook level, the theoretical-conceptual level, and, through discussion sections, the research level. All students are required to enroll in a weekly discussion section. Graded work for the courses consists of two brief (5 page) papers based on activities in discussion sections as well as a take-home midterm and final examination. Graduate students who enroll in the course must take a discussion section conducted by the instructor and can expect heavier reading assignments. Field(s): INTL

HIST W3904x or y History of Finance This course surveys the history of modern finance, from the origin of novel banking institutions in early-modern Italy (like the Medici Bank, founded 1397) to the financial crisis of 2008. "Finance," broadly understood as the activity of allocating capital (in particular, money) within communities, will be examined from a variety of historical perspectives-economic, political, intellectual, cultural. While the course often emphasizes "high" finance in centers of Western financial power (Florence in the 1400s, London in the 1800s, New York in the 2000s), careful attention is paid to how financial activities in such global centers have impacted people across different socioeconomic and geographic locations, from "Wall St." to "Main St." and from Illinois to Argentina.

HIST W3919y (Section 1) Modernity and Nation in the Twentieth Century 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course compares and contrasts the paths to modernity of four societies: China, Germany, Japan, and Italy. By adopting a comparative approach, and looking closely at the way that international contexts influenced domestic developments, this course will give students the chance to view history from outside the nation-state focus that tended to dominate history in the past. In this sense, while students are expected to expand their familiarity with the basic history of these countries, more important will be the capacity to think about the world from multiple perspectives. Key topics include national consolidation, the growth of nationalist sentiment, imperialism and fascism, the impact of World War II and the Cold War, and historical memory. Based largely on primary sources, the course presents modernity both as understood by each of these societies and also in its global interconnectedness, an interconnectedness that shapes our world today. Field(s): MEU/EA

HIST W3926x or y Historical Origins of Human Rights 3 pts. Dedicated to four main topics on human rights: 1) long-term origins; 2)short-term origins; 3) evolution through the present; 4) moral defenses and ideological criticisms Field(s): INTL

HIST W3935x From Jacobins to Zapatistas: Radical Democracy Since the French Revolutions 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course will examine the global history of radical democracy from the French Revolution to the present. Spanning the political spectrum, we will investigate democratic armies and factories, Caribbean pirate utopias, and claims by many Germans that Nazi Germany "felt more democratic" than its predecessor, the Weimar Republic. What sense are we to make of these exceptions to liberal representative democracy? We will ask what these radical ways of organizing and instituting society offer us and question why and how the liberal model has come to hegemonize our conception of democracy today.

HSME W3942x Modern African History: Colonial and Postcolonial Eras 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The lecture class is an interdisciplinary exploration of the history of the African continent during the colonial and postcolonial eras. Its focus is the intersection of politics, economics, culture and society. Using colonialism, empire, and globalization as key analytical frames, it pays special attention to social, political and cultural changes that shaped the various African individual and collective experiences.Field(s): AFR

HIST W3943x or y Cultures of Empire 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Empires have been consistent - but ever changing - forms of rule in the modern world. This course explores how empires and imperialism have connected the world by forging new forms of politics and culture from 1850 to 2011. It examines key dimensions of imperialism such as nationalism, capitalism, racism, and fascism in Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Based largely on primary sources - novels, memoirs, official documents, and visual arts, including photographs and film - the course presents imperialism both as experienced in different societies and also in its global interconnectedness. Field(s): INTL

HSPB W3950x Social History of American Public Health 3 pts. The purpose of this course is to provide students with an historical understanding of the role public health has played in American history. The underlying assumptions are that disease, and the ways we define disease, are simultaneously reflections of social and cultural values, as well as important factors in shpaing those values. Also, it is maintained that the environments that we build determine the ways we live and die. The dread infectious and acute diseases in the nineteenth century, the chronic, degenerative conditions of the twentieth and the new, vaguely understood conditions rooted in a changing chemical and human-made environment are emblematic of the societies we created. Among the questions that will be addressed are: How does the health status of Americans reflect and shape our history? How do ideas about health reflect broader attitudes and values in American history and cutlure? How does the American experience with pain, disability, and disease affect our actions and lives? What are the responsibilities of the state and of the individual in preserving health? How have American institutions--from hospitals to unions to insurance companies--been shaped by changing longevity, experience with disability and death?

HIST W3956y Globalization in History 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. An exploration of the large-scale processes and global interconnections of the past 500 years that have produced the economic, cultural and political structures of the modern world.

Group(s): ABCD

Field(s): INTL

HIST W3961x Law and Violence 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014."Law and Violence" is an introduction to key theoretical texts and historical episodes that reveal the controversial but crucial relationship between law and violence. How has this relationship evolved in both theory and practice? Is it a paradox that law sometimes employs violence in claiming to prevent it and that violence has often been the means to change the law? These questions will be considered in different historical contexts central to the formation of the modern nation-state and the global legal order. From the Crusades to modern notions of sovereignty, international law, and the laws of war, the course treats such subjects as population control, colonized subjects, refugees, concentration camps, and recent episodes of torture. It examines how theories of legitimate violence played out in the Holocaust, French colonial Algeria, and British colonial Kenya; among the thinkers examined are Benjamin, Schmitt, Foucault, Agamben, and Fanon. Group(s): B, C, D

HIST BC3978x or y 20th Century Cities of the Americas and Europe 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Urban history of 20th century cities in the Americas and Europe. Examines the modern city as ecological and production system, its form and built environment, questions of housing and segregation, uneven urban development, the fragmentation of urban society and space. Course materials draw on cities in the Americas and Europe. Field(s): INTL

HIST BC3980y World Migration 3 pts. Overview of human migration from pre-history to the present. Sessions on classical Rome; Jewish diaspora; Viking, Mongol, and Arab conquests; peopling of New World, European colonization, and African slavery; 19th-century European mass migration; Chinese and Indian diasporas; resurgence of global migration in last three decades, and current debates. Group(s): ABCDField: INTL*same as HIST BC3980

HIST W3997y World War II in History and Memory 3 pts. An exploration of the changes in public memory of World War Two in different countries in Asia, Europe, and North America over the past sixty-five years, with particular attention to the heightened interest in the war in recent decades and the relation of this surge of memory to what we used to call history.

Field: INTL

HIST W4001x The Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age 4 pts. A comparative study of the histories of Egypt, the Near East, Anatolia, and the Aegean World in the period from c. 1500-1100 BC, when several of the states provide a rich set of textual and archaeological data. Field(s): *ANC

HIST W4007x or y Development of the Greek City-State 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course will trace the development of the polis or city-state as the dominant socio-political unit in ancient Greece, looking at how and why this development took place and what effect it had on Greek society and culture. Field(s): *ANC

HIST W4008x or y Wealth and Poverty in the Classical World 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The seminar will combine cultural with economic history, but with more stress on the former. The aim is to investigate the meaning of being rich and being poor among the Greeks and Romans, that is to say in a pre-industrial society, with special attention to methods of research. We shall discuss among other topics ways of getting rich, contempt for wealth, safety nets, ostentation, consumption choices, bribery, markers of well-being - and money. The time period will extend from Homer to about 250 CE. Prerequisite: a college course in Greek and/or Roman history. Field(s): *ANC

HIST W4020y Greek Invention of History 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Close reading of the principal historians of classical Greece, especially Herodotus, Thucydides, and Polybius.

Group(s): A

Field(s): *ANC

HIST W4024y The Golden Age of Athens 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The 5th century BCE, beginning with the Persian Wars, when the Athenians fought off the might of the Persian Empire, and ending with the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War in 404, is generally considered the "Golden Age" of ancient Athens. This is the century when Athenian drama, both tragedy and comedy, throve; when the Greeks began to develop philosophy at Athens, centered around the so-called "Sophistic movement" and Sokrates; when classical Greek art and architecture approached perfection in the monuments and sculptures of the great Athenian building programs on and around the Akropolis. This seminar will cover the political, military, economic, social, and cultural history of Athens' "Golden Age". Much of the course reading will be drawn from the ancient Athenian writing themselves, in translation. Everyone will be required to read enough to participate in weekly discussions; and all students will prepare two oral reports on topics to be determined. The course grade will be based on a ca. 20-25 page research paper to be written on an agreed upon topic. Group(s): AField(s): *ANC

HIST W4044x Romanization: Integration and Resistance in the Roman Empire 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The concept of romanization has gained prominence in the recent debate on ancient history. Was the Roman Empire a cultural unified empire? Why did so many subjected peoples and nations adopt roman cultural habits? And why did so few peoples refuse them? And was the alleged cultural unification of the Empire the product of the free willing choice of the subjected peoples? By what means did the Roman Government promote the diffusion of roman cultural habits? The seminar aims at addressing these historical questions by scrutinizing the widest possible set of documents (literary texts, inscriptions, public monuments, material culture) and by using comparative evidence drawn from cultural anthropology and colonial history. A basic knowledge of roman history is a prerequisite. Group(s): AField(s): *ANC

HIST W4045x Rome: A Preindustrial Metropolis 4 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission is required; preference will be given to majors and concentrators, seniors and juniors. Ancient Rome from the 1st century BCE to the beginning of the 5th Century AD had about one million inhabitants. This demographic density is an exceptional feature among all preindustrial societies, equalled by London only at the beginning of the nineteenth century.. After a short theoretical introduction to the subject of urbanism in pre-industrial societies and in particular in the classical period, the seminar will focus on three issues: the demographic trend of the city, the grain and water supply and the actual organization of water and grain distribution, and the role of the imperial court and government in building activities, feeding the people and assuring basic administrative services. Special attention will be paid to quantitative aspects of the social and economic history of the city. A wide range of sources will be examined: literary and juridical texts, inscriptions, archaeological and topographic evidence. Field(s): *ANC

HIST W4046x or y Egypt, Ethiopia and Nubia in Late Antiquity 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This is a fifteen-week undergraduate seminar. It is designed to provide an introduction to the late antique period of the three great civilizations of the ancient Nile Valley, Egypt, Ethiopia and Nubia. Course material will cover the social and religious history of Egypt under Roman rule; the collapse of the ancient Nubian civilization of Meroe; the emergence of its independent successor kingdoms; the birth of a centralized and literate society in the Ethiopian highlands; the Christianization of Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia; and the survival of all three civilizations in the early medieval period, Egypt under Islamic rule and Nubia and Ethiopia as independent powers. Field(s): ANC*

HIST W4050x Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic World 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Under a Greco-Macedonian ruling dynasty, the Ptolemies, Egypt became a crossroads for the entire Mediterranean. The study of this diverse society provides a unique window onto the ways that Greeks and Egyptians viewed the concepts of Hellenicity and Egyptianness. This course approaches Ptolemaic Egypt from a variety of social, political, economic, and cultural perspectives. Topics include (1) the political and economic history of Ptolemaic Egypt; (2) the structure and multicultural character of Ptolemaic society; (3) religious syncretism; (4) Ptolemaic interactions with specific regions of the Hellenistic Mediterranean, including Nubia, the Near East, the Aegean world, and Rome; and (5) the relevance of Ptolemaic Egypt to an understanding of modern phenomena such as globalism, tourism, and colonialism. Group(s): A

HIST W4051y Madness in Greek and Roman Medicine and Literature 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course will investigate concepts of madness and mental illness in the Ancient Greek and Roman World. It will focus on descriptions of madness and mad people, as recorded in a variety of literary, historical, and medical sources. The goal is not to trace the chronological development of these ideas, but rather to acquire an understanding of some of the more prominent and influential concepts. The class will begin with an examination of Greek and Roman concepts of the 'mind', as recorded in both literary and medical sources. Depictions of mad people - both real and fictional - will be examined: source material will include 5th century Greek Tragedy, as well as a variety of historical texts. Particular attention will also be given to predominant medical concepts of madness, as found in the Hippocratic Corpus and in the works of medical authors such as Aretaeus, Galen, Caelius Aurelianus, and Celsus. The main focus of this examination will be on concepts of mania, melancholy, and phrenitis, diseases which were most commonly believed to produce madness. Group(s): A

HIST W4053x or y Roman Coins in Context 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course introduces students to the study of coins as historical disciplines. It will provide a survey of the production and use of coinage in the Roman world from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD. Students will also asses the contribution that the study of coinage makes to the study of Roman social, economic, and political history. The majority of the course will take place at the American Numismatic Society. Field(s): *ANC

HIST W4061x or y Medieval Society, Politics, and Ethics: Major Texts 4 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission is required; preference will be given to majors and concentrators, seniors and juniors. This seminar examines major texts in social and political theory and ethics written in Europe and the Mediterranean region between the fifth and the fifteenth centuries CE. Students will be assigned background readings to establish historical context, but class discussion will be grounded in close reading and analysis of the medieval sources themselves. Field(s): MED

HIST W4063x or y Love and Hate in the Early Medieval Societies 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course will examine the role of love and hate and their changing place in the culture of the elite groups from Late Antiquity to the twelfth century. Medieval chronicles, poems, letters and legal texts, both religious and civil, will be used, deconstructed and decoded with a special attention to gender and to the emotional relations between men and women. Field(s): MED

HIST W4065x Urban Culture in the Dutch Golden Age 4 pts. In the celebrated words of the 17th-century English ambassador Sir William Temple the Dutch Republic was "the fear of some, the envy of others, and the wonder of all their neighbors." This course introduces students to this powerful new state that arose from the epic revolt of the Netherlands against Spanish rule in the late sixteenth century. It analyzes how the federation of seven 'united' provinces, a political anomaly in a time of centralized monarchies, became an economic superpower. A modern 'bourgeois' society dominated by merchants and professional administrators rather than by noblemen, prelates, and aristocrats, the Dutch Republic built a colonial empire reaching from Brazil to Japan. It was the first European state to practice religious toleration on a large scale, while it produced artistic riches by the likes of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals that are still treasured today. This course provides a varied and dynamic picture of a highly urbanized society in a period that the Dutch with good reason call their 'Golden Age'. Field(s): EME

HIST W4083x or y Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. How a society defines crime, and how it deals with the criminals tells us a lot about the moral values, and the political and economic structure of that society, as well as its internal conflicts, superstitions, and fears. Often supposed to be a barbaric community of ignorant unruly men governed by greedy kings and popes, the medieval society in the popular culture is often an inspiration to the grotesque representations of violence and torture. Even an intellectual like Michel Foucault did not hesitate to advance a theory of medieval punishment, albeit a terribly wrong one, as one that focuses on the body and spectacle. This course is designed to trace the origins of the modern criminal legislation and practices to the Middle Ages, some of which were jury trial, public persecution, and prisons. How did these practices come about, and under which social conditions? The focus of the course will be on violent crimes, such as murder, robbery, assault and suicide, and some particularly medieval crimes like sorcery, blasphemy and sodomy. The geographical scope will be limited to England, Italy and France. The class discussions are expected to take the form of collective brainstorming on how the political powers, social classes, cultural values, and religious beliefs affect the development of criminal legislation and institutions. Whenever possible the weekly readings will feature a fair share of medieval texts, including trial records, criminal laws, a manual for trying witches, and prison poetry. Field(s): *MED

HIST W4101y The World We Have Lost: Daily Life in Pre-Modern Europe 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. What was daily life like for the "average" European in pre-industrial society? This course will examine the material circumstances of life in Europe from 1400-1800, and will investigate how historians are able to enter into the inner life and mental world of people who lived in past. How did people respond intellectually and emotionally to their material circumstances? The readings and discussions in the course aim to examine such questions, with an eye both to learning about the material conditions of life in pre-modern Europe, and to understanding the techniques by which historians are able to make the imaginative leap back into the mental world of the past. Field(s): *EME

HIST W4104y Family, Sexuality & Marriage in Pre-Modern Europe 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course examines the meaning of marriage in European culture from the early Middle Ages until the eighteenth century, concentrating on the period from 1200 to 1800. It begins with a study of Jewish and Christian teachings about marriage - the nature of the conjugal bond, the roles of men and women within marriage, and marital sexuality. It traces changes in that narrative over the centuries, analyzes its relationship to actual practice among various social groups, and ends in the eighteenth century with an examination of the ideology of the companionate marriage of modern western culture and its relation to class formation. Group(s): AField(s): EME

HIST W4113y Popular Culture in the Late Medieval Low Countries 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Court records surviving from the late medieval centuries -- the time of Chaucer and Boccaccio, the time of some of Europe's most splendid courts, the time when cities like Venice and Bruges were at their height -- often contain lively records of popular culture - how people thought about the world, about their family, friends and neighbors, about their rulers, their God, and even their bodies. Court registers, verdicts by judges, notes of the bailiffs in their accounts, investigations of the prosecutors, critical examinations of eyewitnesses, and any other type of judicial document surviving from this age often reveal human emotions, describe people's motivations, document their blunders, and report their gossip. Among such sources, letters of remission, which princes issued to grant pardons to criminals of various kinds, are perhaps the most precious. Such documents cannot, however, be read straight, as though they were perfectly reliable accounts of facts or feelings. Rather they are laden with many contradictions. Rival accounts of the same events by the various involved parties and witnesses, outright lies, the biases of judges, narratives designed to please or mislead the rulers -- all such factors render any "pardon letter," as these documents are known, a difficult, even if an incomparably rich, source. They need a significant effort of critical decoding. This course will focus on how we can use a collection of such letters surviving from the Low Countries, where commercial cities thrived and one of Europe's most elegant courts was situated, to gain insight into late medieval society - its rich and poor, women and men, city-dwellers and peasants. Field(s): *MED

HIST W4115x or y Culture, Politics, and the Economy in the Low Countries in the Later Middle Ages 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The course will examine the relation between a rich and urban elite and artistic creativity during The Low Countries' several and successive 'Golden Ages'. Therefore, the course will address the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century, Antwerp and Brabant from c. 1480 to c. 1580, and the southern Low Countries as a whole from c. 1380 to c. 1480. The following questions will be considered: Who were the sponsors, and why did they invest in specific artistic genres? Why did the gravity centers regularly shift to a neighboring region, from south to north? What were the reasons for the dynamics in the system as a whole, which surely also have political dimensions? All these questions will be discussed for the period from the 13th to the 16th-early 17th century, keeping in mind that these patterns may have a more general character. Field(s): EME

HIST W4125x or y Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Early Modern Europe Not offered in 2013-2014. In this course we will examine theoretical and historical developments that framed the notions of censorship and free expression in early modern Europe. In the last two decades, the role of censorship has become one of the significant elements in discussions of early modern culture. The history of printing and of the book, of the rise national-political cultures and their projections of control, religious wars and denominational schisms are some of the factors that intensified debate over the free circulation of ideas and speech. Indexes, Inquisition, Star Chamber, book burnings and beheadings have been the subjects of an ever growing body of scholarship. Field(s): EME

HIST W4127y Enlightenment and its Critics: Montaigne & Skepticism 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This seminar examines Montaigne's double-sided skepticism regarding our capacity for knowledge and the wisdom of pursuing it, which inspired both partisans and critics of the modern Enlightenment. Group(s): A; Field(s): EME

HIST W4130y Early Modern Globalization: The North Atlantic World and the Dutch Connection 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course examines the extent and nature of early modern globalization, in particular the transatlantic exchanges between Europe and North America between the late fifteenth and late eighteenth centuries. The focus on the European side will be on England, France and the Netherlands. After an introduction on the current historical debate on early modern globalization and Atlantic history, the course first gives a survey of the expansion of trade networks and the growth of slavery and the slave trade. The next meetings deal with various constituent forces of globalization on the European side, notably the rise of fiscal-military states and the role of religion in power relations, and with various aspects of exchange in the North Atlantic World, namely the circulation of knowledge and environmental consequences of the 'biological expansion of Europe'. Finally, we will examine the Atlantic connection in European culture, European economies and political revolutions and discuss its relevance for the Great Divergence between the 'West' and the 'Rest'. Group(s): A

HIST W4133x The Seven Years' War in Global Perspective 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This research seminar explores the causes, course, and consequences of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), the first world war in modern history. With nearly one million battlefield deaths and fighting on four continents, the conflict transcended the national and imperial categories that traditionally have been used to evaluate it. The seminar, as a consequence, will consider the war globally, as it involved the peoples of North America, South Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, West Africa, and the Philippines, and in transnational perspective, including its military, diplomatic, political, cultural, economic, and social aspects. The principal assignment for the course will be a twenty-five page paper grounded in primary source research. Field(s): MEU/US

HIST W4176x or y Into the East: European Merchants in Asian Markets, ca. 1300-1800 4 pts. An examination of medieval and early modern European merchants' entry into the global commercials economy then centered in various Asian markets. The course begins in the late Middle Ages, when Europe was a minor outposts of the world economy, and ends about 1800, when european merchants, in alliance with national states, were competing to control Asian markets. Field(s): EME

ANHS W4177x Caste, Religion and Tradition in Indian Society: An Anthropological History 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. How did Western scholars/missionaries/anthropologists/colonial officials understand the strange world of India they found themselves in? The religion was unrecognizable by the terms of a Western understanding: it was not congregational, confessional, or recognizably scriptural. Culturally, Indian society was deeply hierarchical, divided by a system called "caste" which was both scriptural and not. Furthermore, religion and caste contributed centrally to the understanding of "culture" a term invoked interchangeably with "tradition." The divide between caste, religion, and culture, at the same time the difficulty of implementing that divide baffled Western scholars and missionaries of the late medieval period, but also later (19th century) colonial officials and anthropologists. Knowledge about India was centrally produced by these various gatherers and compilers of information on India, and in this course we begin with early accounts of missionary activities, and will work our way through the writings of political theorists, sociologists, anthropologists, in order to arrive at an understanding of the interdisciplinary and anthropological history of India. Field(s): SA

HIST W4180x or y Conversion in Historical Perspective 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Boundary crossers have always challenged the way societies imagined themselves. This course explores the political, religious, economic, and social dynamics of religious conversion. The course will focus on Western (Christian and Jewish) models in the medieval and early modern periods. It will include comparative material from other societies and periods. Autobiographies, along with legal, religious and historical documents will complement the readings. Field(s): *JWS

HIST W4189x or y Composing the Self in Early Modern Europe 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course explores manners of conceiving and being a self in early modern Europe (ca. 1400-1800). Through the analysis of a range of sources, from autobiographical writings to a selection of theological, philosophical, artistic, and literary works, we will address the concept of personhood as a lens through which to analyze topics such as the valorization of interiority, the formation of mechanist and sensationalist philosophies of selfhood, and, more generally, the human person's relationship with material and existential goods. This approach is intended to deepen and complicate our understanding of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and other movements around which histories of the early modern period have typically been narrated. Field(s): EME

HIST W4197x or y You Are What You Eat: A History of Thinking About Food 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. A survey of the relationships between medical expertise and human dietary habits from Antiquity to the present, giving special attention to the links between practical and moral concerns and between expert knowledge and common sense. Field(s): EME

HIST W4206x Power and Violence in Russian History 4 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission is required; preference will be given to majors and concentrators, seniors and juniors. Each meeting of this seminar will consider a particular way in which power was structured and exercised in Imperial and Soviet Russia, looking at violence in its various manifestations, at the role of law in containing it, and at the changing ways Russia's rulers represented their personal authority. Through a combination of novels, memoirs, and selected scholarly texts, we will also examine Russians' traditional obsession with war and all things military; the development of modern terrorism, secret police, and political repression; and power hierarchies within families and communities.

HIST W4214x or y The Era of Witness: Twentieth Century Poland in Personal Accounts 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The course explores the dramatically changing human landscape of modern Poland through personal narratives (diaries, letters, memoirs) and social documentation (autobiography contests, life-record method, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive in the Warsaw ghetto). The course serves as an introduction to key personal experiences of the Poland's twentieth century: social distress, emigration and forced dislocation, genocide, and political violence. We will reflect critically on the main categories of "the era of the witness," such as personal experience and literary responses to it, testimony, memory and eye-witnessing. The course aims to broaden, both historically and conceptually, our understanding of the witness as an iconic figure of the twentieth-century atrocities by including the East Central European tradition of personal writing and social documentation of the interwar and postwar periods. Field(s): MEU

HIST W4221x or y Stories Told and Untold: The Soviet Empire of Representation, its Rise, Fall, and Legacy 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. In this course we will examine key aspects of the history of the Soviet Union through stories and representations, dividing it for this purpose into three main periods: The time of origins, foundations, and foundational myths (between the October Revolution in 1917 and the onset of Stalinism at the end of the 1920s), the period of Stalinist re-founding (until the mid-1950s), and the post-Stalin period with its search for alternatives within Soviet Socialism/Communism. Finally we will also look at the narrative and representational legacies of the Soviet Union. We will not restrict ourselves to official or public stories or those that could be published under Soviet rule. Instead the course seeks to integrate narratives from widely different sources and genres, including high culture, party-state propaganda (literary and visual), self-representations, and conformist as well as alternative or dissident voices, memoirs, diaries and novels. Field(s): MEU

HIST W4223x or y Personality and Society in 19th-Century Russia 4 pts. A seminar reviewing some of the major works of Russian thought, literature, and memoir literature that trace the emergence of intelligentsia ideologies in 19th- and 20th-century Russia. Focuses on discussion of specific texts and traces the adoption and influence of certain western doctrines in Russia, such as idealism, positivism, utopian socialism, Marxism, and various 20th-century currents of thought. Field(s): MEU

HIST W4225x or y The Future of the Soviet Union: New Approaches to the Soviet Past 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The Soviet Union ceased to exist within living memory. Its dissolution largely coincided with the end of much of the post-World-War-Two international order, whether called Cold War or Détente. We are still living through the reverberations of these two "ends of history." One consequence is that our perspective on Soviet history has been changing and will continue to change. This course will introduce its participants to what is new about the Soviet past. It will combine approaches that are mostly still new when applied to Soviet history (subaltern studies or the history of sexuality, for instance), topics that are largely new (capitalism, for instance), and topics that are traditional (revolution or Communism, for instance), which we will seek to look at in a fresh way. Focusing on what is new does not mean to exclude the "classics"; in fact, sometimes it means to return to them. Field(s); MEU

HIST W4227x Empire and Nation: Nationality Issues in the Russian Empire 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This senior seminar deals with nationalist challenges and nationality policies in imperial Russia. Particular emphasis will be placed on the imperial policies vis-à-vis national peripheries (primarily Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic, and Volga region) as well as religious minorities (particularly Jews, Roman Catholics, and Muslims). We will also analyze the relationship between the imperial government and Russian nationalism. The gap between nation and empire in Russia will be considered. The main chronological focus of the seminar is the long nineteenth century, the late eighteenth-the early twentieth centuries. Field(s): MEU

HIST W4235x Central Asia: Imperial Legacies, New Images 4 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission is required; preference will be given to majors and concentrators, seniors and juniors. This course is designed to give an overview of the politics and history of the five Central Asian states, including Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan starting from Russian imperial expansion to the present. We will examine the imperial tsarist and Soviet legacies that have profoundly reshaped the regional societies' and governments' practices and policies of Islam, gender, nation-state building, democratization, and economic development. Field(s): ME/EA

HIST W4258x Early Modern Russia, Ukraine and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The course examines the polities, societies, and cultures of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Ukrainian Cossack Hetmanate, and Muscovy-Imperial Russia in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Special attention is paid to the interaction of states and the flow of social models and cultural developments. The role of Poland in the "Westernization" of Ukraine and Russia, the relation of Western and Eastern Christianity, the consequences of the Cossack revolts, the flourishing and crisis of Polish Jews, the remaking of Eastern Europe through the rise of the Russian Empire, and the relation of the political thought and identities of the period to modern nations are major themes. Group(s): B

HIST W4285x or y Post-Stalinism: The Soviet Union and Its Successor Societies, 1953-2012 This class focuses on the history of the Soviet Union and Russia between the death of Stalin/the end of totalitarianism and the present. It spans the turning-point date of 1991 when the Soviet Union abolished itself and was replaced by successor states, the most important of which is Russia. Not ending Soviet history with 1991 and not beginning Russian history with it either, we will seek to understand continuities as well as change. We will also draw on a diverse set of texts (and movies), including history, political science, journalism, fiction, and memoirs, feature and documentary movies. Geographically weighted toward Russia (and not the other also important successor states), in terms of content, this class concentrates on politics and society, including, crucially, the economy. These concepts, however, will be understood broadly. To come to grips with key issues in Soviet and Russian history in the historically short period after Stalinist totalitarianism, we will have to pay close attention to not only our analytical categories, but also to the way in which the political and the social have been understood by Soviet and Russian contemporaries. The class will introduce students to crucial questions of Russia's recent past, present, and future: authoritarianism and democratization, the role of the state and that of society, reform and retrenchment, communism and capitalism, and, last but not least, the nature of authority and legitimacy. Field(s): MEU

HIST W4302y From War to Peace: Britain and France in the 1940s 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This seminar considers the passage from a devastating war, experienced very differently in Britain and France, to the prospect of postwar transformation in both countries. For Britain topics will include the home front during the war; the Labour Party's landslide victory in 1945; socialist innovations including the National Health Service. For France topics will include wartime collaboration and resistance movements; liberation under de Gaulle's leadership; the postwar Fourth Republic and its problems. Group(s): B

HIST W4305x The European Enlightenment 4 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission is required; preference will be given to majors and concentrators, seniors and juniors. This course will include an in-depth examination of some major tinkers and texts of the French, Germans, and Scottish Enlightenments. By reading works of Montesquieu, Voltaire, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Hume, we will examine their radically divergent responses to the central intellectual quandries of their day, and in many ways our own: the realtionship between rationalism, science, and faith; religion and the state; the individual and the polity; cosmopolitanism and particularism; pluralism and relativism; and the meaning of liberty. Group(s): A, B

HIST W4322x or y German History, 1740-1914 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The history of the political, cultural, intellectual, social and economic struggle for mastery in Germany from Frederick the Great to the outbreak of the First World War. Subjects covered will include: the Holy Roman Empire; Enlightened Absolutism; Cultural Pluralism and the Third Germany; The French Revolution and Napoleon in Germany; Romanticism and the emergence of Nationalism; The German Confederation; Vormärz Politics and Culture; Art and Religion; The 1848 Revolutions; The processes of State building; The Austro-Prussian Wars; Bismarck and the Unification of the Second Empire; Richard Wagner and German Music; Wilhelmine Politics and Culture; The Origins of the First World War. Field(s): MEU

HIST W4326x History of Ireland, 1700-2000 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This seminar provides an introduction to key debates and historical writing in Irish history from 1700. Topics include: the character of Ascendancy Ireland; the 1798 rising and the Act of Union; the causes and consequences of the famine; emigration and Fenianism; the Home Rule movement; the Gaelic revival; the Easter Rising and the civil war; politics and culture in the Free State; the Northern Ireland problem; Ireland, the European Union, and the birth of the "celtic tiger". Field(s): MEU

HIST W4345y John Stuart Mill: Life, Work, Legacy 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course is designed for undergraduates and graduate students who, having had some introduction to Mill in CC or elsewhere, would like to spend a semester exploring his life, thought, and impact. This task is particularly interesting today, for Mill, revered by progressives in his own time for his support for intellectual liberties, a wider democratic franchise, and women's suffrage, and for his fierce criticism of military repression in Jamaica, is now often seen as one of the architects of Victorian thought, examining his writings in the context of political debates at the time, as well as his own involvement in key controversies over economic policy, the nature of the Victorian state, political reform and imperial governance. Together, we will try to understand not only what Mill though and did, but why has he continued to act as a lightening-rod for political controversy, in his time and in our own.

HIST W4349y German Thinkers Around Heidegger 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The seminar is situated in the field of intellectual history and puts the focus on a group of German scholars around Martin Heidegger who were tracing the question of historical truth in the first half of the 20th century. The mostly Jewish thinkers like Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith and Erich Auerbach were forced into exile after 1933 and found at last academic and personal shelter in North-America. By the critical and close reading of exemplary texts the seminar aims a comparison of the different horizons on historical truth. We will open up a wide range panorama of crucial perspectives which were important contribution to the American culture in the tradition of European "Geisteswissenschaften" (Humanities). Field(s): MEU

HIST W4351x or y American Big Business and German Industry, 1900-2000 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. There is a great deal of research and debate on the role that the United States played in the reconstruction and recasting of Europe after World War II. This work is usually seen in the larger context not only of the East-West conflict since 1945, if not since 1917, but also as part of the process of the "Americanization" of the world. By the end of the 20th century this process is deemed to have been replaced by a trend toward "globalization" which is assumed to have started before 1914 until it was interrupted by two world wars, integral nationalism, the Great Depression of the 1930s, the struggles over decolonization and seemingly endless civil wars. It was only in the 1990s that "globalization" is said to have resumed where it stopped in 1914. Against the background of these wide-ranging scholarly debates that also revolved around notions of "modernization" of both economies and societies, this course "homes in" on the development of German industry and its relationship with American big business before coming back, at the end of the semester, to the big questions that have been raised at the beginning. Field(s): US/MEU

HIST W4352x Europe in the Cold War 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This seminar is dedicated to studying the historical developments of Europe in the Cold War, from the immediate aftermath of the Second World War until the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We will examine the major shifts in contemporary European history as they relate to Cold War conflicts and competitions, including the Yalta and Potsdam meetings; Marshall Plan reconstruction; the workings of NATO; the Prague Spring; non-proliferation movements; and Eurocommunism trends. We will consider a wide range of historical perspectives, including but not limited to political, geographic, economic, cultural, and military frameworks. Field(s): MEU

HIST W4358x Themes in Intellectual History: Montaigne and the Modern Self 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014."Themes in Intellectual History" offers an intensive examination of one major intellectual concept or problem as it develops over time. This semester will be devoted to Montaigne and the modern self. Is there a "modern self" and can there be a history of it? The course explores this issue through an examination of about half of Montaigne's Essays. "Montaigne and skepticism," which complements this course, covers the other essays and will be offered in the spring.

HIST BC4368x or y History of the Senses: England and France, 1680-1830 4 pts. Examination of European understandings of human senses through the production and reception of art, literature, music, food, and sensual enjoyments in Britain and France. Readings include changing theories concerning the five senses; efforts to master the passions; the rise of sensibility and feeling for others; concerts and the patronage of art; the professionalization of the senses. Field(s): MEU

HIST W4369x or y The Long War of the 1940s: The Dutch Case in European History and Memory in WWII 4 pts. In this seminar we will examine the immediate impact and the longer-running legacies of the Second World War in the Netherlands, with reference to several other Western European nations (France, Belgium). The 'Long War' will relate to the Second World War as history in the first place, discussing the place of the occupied nation(s) in 'Hitler's Empire' (Mark Mazower). We also will take into account that the end of the war in Europe was followed by new kinds of external conflicts with strong internal repercussions: the Cold War and the first wave of European decolonization. The perspective will focus on the nation-states, endangered in its very existence by oppressive foreign occupation, subsequently in need of rebuilding and reinventing themselves against many odds. The second element of the seminar is the legacy of the 'Long War', stretching over the generations to the present day. The Long War has been subject to a never-ending series of controversies in the public sphere that have profoundly influenced the historiography of the war in the different nations. In the course, we will explore the interconnections between politics of memory, historiography and cultural interpretations of the embattled past (films, novels, televised documentaries in particular). Field(s): MEU

HIST W4371y Europe in International Thought, 1815-1914 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This seminar explores the changing meaning of the term 'Europe" from its emergence as an organizing principle of international life after Napoleon's defeat in 1815 until the end of the First World War. It aims to combine an exploration of the term's conceptual and intellectual history with a study of its deployment in practice in the realms of diplomacy, international law, and radical politics. Topics to be covered include: the establishment and transformation of the Concert of Europe; the idea of European civilization, its rise and fall; the international thought of Mazzini, Mill, Marx, Cobden, Burckhardt and Nietzsche among others.

HIST W4376y History of Commercial Revolutions: From the China Shop in Europe to Wal-Mart in China 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This seminar examines commercial revolutions in historical perspective. It starts with the huge growth of Wal-Mart in the U.S. since the 1970s and its spread to China over the last decade, and it goes back to the 17th Century with the arrival of Asian, specially Chinese, goods in Western Europe, By commercial revolutions we mean big upheavals in long-distance market relations and big changes in local consumer outlooks and standards of living upon by the arrival of new goods and new kinds of distribution. These ruptures have always been a big, if not fully understood, element of globalization and asymmetrical and imperial relations. Students, in addition to reading some fascinating recent historical studies, (N. Lichtenstein, Wal-Mart World, M. Berg, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain, S. Mintz, Sugar and Power, G. Hamilton, Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies) will become familiar with Marxist, classical liberal and other explanations of these changes. Along with weekly discussion, students will write a research paper and present it at a mini-conference organized by the students at the end of the term. Group(s): B, C, D

HIST W4380x The Idea of Europe 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This seminar is dedicated to studying the historical developments of the idea of Europe. We will examine the major shifts in the meanings and interpretations of Europe, covering regions from Russia to the United Kingdom, Hungary to the Netherlands, Portugal to Lithuania. We will consider a wide range of historical perspectives, including but not limited to legal, economic, and religious traditions, with an emphasis on the continued efforts in political enlargement, economic integration, and security cooperation. Field(s): MWE

HIST W4381x Visions of International Order 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The seminar will attempt to offer a historical context for evaluating contemporary discussions of the role of the UN and the nature of international relations. It will cover the formation and metamorphoses of the United Nations itself, exploring in particular its role in the Cold War and in the decolonisation process. We will look too at why some international organisations [the IMF] appear to have flourished while others failed. Among the topics to be covered are the changing role of international law, sovereignty and human rights regimes, development aid as international politics, the collapse of the gold standard and its impact. We will end by looking at the politics of UN reform, and new theories of the role of institutions in global affairs, and ask what light they shed on the future of international governance now that the Cold War is over. Students will be expected to read widely in primary as well as secondary sources and to produce a research paper of their own. Field(s): MEU/US

HIST W4383x or y European Sexual Modernities 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Explores how conceptions of desire and sexuality, gendered and raced bodies, shaped major events and processes in modern Europe: the Enlightenment and European empires; political and sexual revolutions; consumption and commodity fetishism; the metropolis and modern industry; psychoanalysis and the avant-garde; fascism and the Cold War; secularization,and post-socialism. Featuring: political and philosophical tracts; law, literature and film. Field(s): MEU

HIST C4398x-C4399y Senior Thesis Seminar 4 pts. A year-long course for outstanding senior majors who want to conduct research in primary sources on a topic of their choice in any aspect of history, and to write a senior thesis possibly leading toward departmental honors. Field(s): ALL

HIST W4400x or y Americans and the Natural World, 1800 to the Present 4 pts. Prerequisites: Seminar Application Required: SEE UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR SECTION OF THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE This seminar deals with how Americans have treated and understood the natural world, connected or failed to connect to it, since 1800. It focuses on changing context over time, from the agrarian period to industrialization, followed by the rise of the suburban and hyper-technological landscape. We will trace the shift from natural history to evolutionary biology, give special attention to the American interest in entomology, ornithology, and botany, examine the quest to save pristine spaces, and read from the works of Buffon, Humboldt, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Darwin, Aldo Leopold, Nabokov, among others. Perspectives on naming, classifying, ordering, and most especially, collecting, will come under scrutiny. Throughout the semester we will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the environmentalist movement, confront those who thought they could defy nature, transcend it, and even live without it. Field(s): US

HIST W4404y Native American History 4 pts. This course introduces students to the forces that transformed the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas into "Indians." The class takes a very broad approach, moving chronologically and thematically from the dawn of time to the present. The course aims to expose students to the diversity of the Native American experience by including all the inhabitants of the Americas, from Greenland to Tierra del Fuego, within its purview. Group(s): A, DField(s): *US

HIST BC4411y Race and the Making of the United States 4 pts. This seminar will consider what role race and racism plays in U.S. culture, politics, economics and foreign policy. Beginning with the origins of racial slavery, we will examine how, when and whether the subsequent development of racial systems - and challenges to them - shaped historical developments in the United States. African American history will be at the core of our discussion, though we will examine works that consider Latino, Asian and American Indian history as well. Through a survey of theories about "race relations" and discussions about affirmative action, immigration, empire and rights, this seminar will ponder the question of what a "colorblind" society might mean and how it could come about.

Field(s): US

HIST W4411x or y Colonial American History 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This reading seminar will examine the history of colonial North America from the sixteenth through mid-eighteenth centuries. Employing a comparative Atlantic framework to study Spanish, French, Dutch, and English settlements in North America, this course will explore key themes of conflict and community in the societies that developed during this era. Readings will include some of the most important recent literature in the field and cover topics such as European-indigenous relations, race and slavery, religious culture, and gender construction. This seminar requires two response papers, a final historiographical essay, and class participation, including an oral presentation. Field(s): US

HIST W4412y Americans and the Good Life, 1750-1910 4 pts. Americans have not always agreed about the nature of the good life or about how to achieve it. In this course we focus on a range of compelling writers, among the best in American history, each with a different perspective on what matters and each articulated within a different context. Among the paths to good life examined will be religion, nature, aesthetics or beautify, farming or country life, urban living, untrammeled individual expression, and money and consumption. We begin with the sermons of Jonathan Edwards and end with Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. In between are works by Benjamin Franklin, Henry Thoreau, Walt Whitman, George Santayana, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Anna Comstock, Charles Cooley, and William James.

Field(s): US

HIST W4413x or y Archives and Knowledge 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. In this seminar we will examine interdisciplinary approaches to the writing of history using archival material. We will look at how knowledge is organized, stored, described, accessed, and replicated through the use of digital and material objects held in archives. The seminar takes as its point of departure the University of Michigan Sawyer Seminar's conception of archives "not simply as historical repositories but as a complex of structures, processes, and epistemologies situated at a critical point of the intersection between scholarship, cultural practices, politics, and technologies." Among the topics we will explore are how archives and archiving intersect with the production of knowledge, with social memory, and with politics. This is a U.S. history course. While the theoretical approaches we will study are, of necessity, interdisciplinary, the application of them will be to archival material related to U.S. history. This seminar requires participants to commit substantial time outside of class working with unpublished materials in Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) both for reading assignments and as part of a final project. Field(s): US

HIST W4414y Early American Religious History 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. An overview of the role of religion in American society, from Columbus through the eve of the Civil War. Includes scholarship on Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans. Major themes include forms of religious knowledge, religion and cross-cultural relations, conversion, confessional conflict, resistance movements, religion and social change, evangelism, witchcraft, and women and religion. Group(s): A, DField(s): US

HIST W4420x or y The U.S. in the Progressive Era, 1890-1919 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The period known as the "Progressive Era" in the United States witnessed major transformations in American society. We will examine currents of social change and reform in the terms of mass immigration, urbanization, and industrialization; commercialized culture; Jim Crow segregation; and U.S. projects on the world stage. The seminar will include history, historiography, and a term paper based on original research in archival and other primary materials. Closed to first-year students. Field(s): US

HIST W4421y The United States and Empire 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Though the U.S. is unquestionably the world's most powerful nation, Americans and especially American politicians are reluctant to describe their nation as an imperial one. Drawing on comparative examples and theories of empire, this seminar investigates the diverse theaters of American power (military, colonial, economic, cultural) and the reactions to them, through an imperial lens. How can the concept of empire and the experiences of other empires help to explain the nature and development of the United States? We will analyze the intersection of structure and action in the shaping of American foreign policy, and ponder the shifting meaning of empire in U.S. public discourse. For the final paper, students will apply insights from the course to contemporary topics in U.S. policy and society. Field(s): US

HIST W4429y Telling About the South 4 pts. Prerequisites: Seminar Application Required: SEE UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR SECTION OF THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE Limited enrollment. Priority given to senior history majors. A remarkable array of Southern historians, novelists, and essayists have done what Shreve McCannon urges Quentin Compson to do in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom--tell about the South--producing recognized masterpieces of American literature. Taking as examples certain writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, this course explores the issues they confronted, the relationship between time during which and about they wrote, and the art of the written word as exemplified in their work. Group(s): DField(s): US

HIST W4431x or y Making the Modern: Bohemia from Paris to Los Angeles 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course interrogates the function of art and artists within modern capitalist societies. We will trace the cultural productions, internal dynamics, and social significance of bohemian communities from their origins in 1840s Paris to turn of the century London and New York to interwar Los Angeles to present day Chicago. Students will conduct research exploring the significance of some aspect of a bohemian community. Field(s): US

HIST W4431x or y Making the Modern: Bohemia from Paris to Los Angeles Not offered in 2013-2014. This course interrogates the function of art and artists within modern capitalist societies. We will trace the cultural productions, internal dynamics, and social significance of bohemian communities from their origins in 1840s Paris to turn of the century London and New York to interwar Los Angeles to present day Chicago. Students will conduct research exploring the significance of some aspect of a bohemian community. Field(s): US

HIST W4434x or y The Atlantic Slave Trade 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This seminar provides an intensive introduction to the history of the Atlantic slave trade. The course will consider the impact of the traffic on Western Europe and the Americas, as well as on Africa, and will give special attention to the experiences of both captives and captors. Assignments include three short papers and a longer research paper of 20 to 25 pages. Field(s): INTL

AMHS W4435y American Culture and Politics in the 1930s 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. A seminar on cultural and political responses to the Great Depression in the United States. Students will read works by historians of the period, as well as examine novels, photographs, films, music, advertisements, and other works of the period. Topics to be considered include: the achievements and limitations of the New Deal; the leftward shift of artists and intellectuals; documentary, social-realist literature, folk music, public art, and theater; the politics of federal arts programs; and the left-liberal "little magazines" of the period. Group(s): DField(s): US

HIST W4437x or y Poisoned Worlds: Corporate Behavior and Public Health 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. In the decades since the publication of Silent Spring and the rise of the environmental movement, public awareness of the impact of industrial products on human health has grown enormously. There is growing concern over BPA, lead, PCBs, asbestos, and synthetic materials that make up the world around us. This course will focus on environmental history, industrial and labor history as well as on how twentieth century consumer culture shapes popular and professional understanding of disease. Throughout the term the class will trace the historical transformation of the origins of disease through primary sources such as documents gathered in lawsuits, and medical and public health literature. Students will be asked to evaluate historical debates about the causes of modern epidemics of cancer, heart disease, lead poisoning, asbestos-related illnesses and other chronic conditions. They will also consider where responsibility for these new concerns lies, particularly as they have emerged in law suits. Together, we will explore the rise of modern environmental movement in the last 75 years. Field(s): US

HIST W4443x Society and Politics in the Gilded Age 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Emphasis on working with primary sources, including archival research. Themes include the rise of corporate industry and the labor movement; demise of Reconstruction; emergence of populism, conquest of the West, immigration, and expansion of commerical culture; debates over social reform and feminism. Group(s): D

HIST W4450x Histories of American Capitalism 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. In this seminar we will explore histories of capitalism in the United States and examine various ways that scholars have used transformations in markets and industries to explain and illuminate the course of American history. We will study capitalism in the broadest sense, reading works both within and beyond the traditional boundaries of business and political economy. We will evaluate the potential of capitalism to serve as a unifying narrative in American history. The course will be topical rather than comprehensive, and will cover subjects from 1800 to the present. Group(s): D

HIST W4452x American Conservatism Since 1945 4 pts. Prerequisites: Seminar Application Required: SEE UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR SECTION OF THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE This seminar will ask students to examine primary sources and important works of scholarship on the rise of conservatism since 1945. Few issues of the postwar era have been more important in the last half century than the rapid growth of the right - its political clout, its intellectual bases, its movements and organizations, and its alliances with the Republican Party and much of the corporate world. Field(s): US

HIST BC4456y The Craft of Urban History 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This seminar introduces students to the key issues and the interdisciplinary practice of modern urban history. Readings draw from the scholarly literature on 19th and 20th century cities from across Europe and the Americas. We explore economic, spatial, ethnographic, and cultural approaches to studying modern cities. Field(s): US

HIST W4458y Public History in America 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. In this seminar we will explore some of the ways historical subjects can be, and have been, engaged outside of the traditional channels of scholarship. Among the many forms in which history and the historical memory are presented, we will examine exhibits, film and television productions, websites, reenactments, memorials and monuments, historical sites, oral history, performance, et al. We will use interdisciplinary critical literature and our own experiences to examine how this interactive process between the historian, the public, and the historical object/subject represents the American past. The seminar requires students to make visits to public history sites outside of scheduled class time Field(s): US

AMHS W4462y Immigrant New York 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. For the past century and a half, New York City has been the first home of millions of immigrants to the United States. This course will compare immigrants' encounter with New York at the dawn of the twentieth century with contemporary issues, organizations, and debates shaping immigrant life in New York City. As a service learning course, each student will be required to work 2-4 hours/week in the Riverside Language Center or programs for immigrants run by Community Impact. Field(s): US

HIST W4481x Culture, Memory and Crisis in Modern US History 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. How have Americans used culture as a means of responding to, interpreting, and memorializing periods of social, economic, and political crisis? Do these periods create breaks in cultural forms and practices? Or do periods of significant upheaval encourage an impetus to defend cultural practices, thereby facilitating the ?invention of tradition?? How are the emotional responses produced by critical moments?whether trauma, outrage, insecurity, or fear?turned into cultural artifacts? And, finally, how are cultural crises memorialized? This course focuses on Americans? cultural responses to the lynching of black Americans in the era of World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II to answer these questions. We will examine a wide range of individual and collective cultural expressions, including anti-lynching plays and songs, WPA programs, the 1939 World?s Fair, war photographs and radio broadcasts, the zoot suit and swing culture, and the military?s effort to preserve culture in European war areas. Field(s): US

HIST W4483y Military History and Policy 4 pts. This seminar features extensive reading, multiple written assignments, and a term paper, as well as a likely trip to Gettsyburg. It focuses on the Civil War and on World Wars I and II.

Group(s): D

Field(s): US

HIST W4485x Politics and Culture in Cold War America 4 pts. Prerequisites: Seminar Application Required: SEE UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR SECTION OF THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE An examination of the years from the end of World War II to the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on three areas: the Cold War, the "Affluent Society," and the "Haunted Fifties," It includes both works of history and works of literature. Field(s): US

HIST W4495x The U.S. In Depression and War: The Age of Franklin Roosevelt 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. When Franklin Roosevelt put Alfred E. Smith's name in nomination at the 1924 Democratic National Convention, the U.S. was a nation proud of its isolation from the rest of the world, eager to increase that isolation (through the harsh immigration restrictions that became law that year), with a small federal establishment and a military that was swiftly resuming the amateur status that had characterized it in the decades preceding the First World War. By 1945, the U.S. was a global atomic superpower, and was starting to face the question of racial inequality and other social-justice issues that it had tried hard to ignore for several decades. This course traces the changes that took place, the reasons for those changes, and the differing interpretations that historical actors, journalists, and historians have offered. The course is conducted as a seminar (limited to 15 students, with a preference given to senior history majors), with heavy emphasis on class discussion of the readings. Two short critical essays on the reading (approx. 3 pages each) and one term paper (20-25 pages) involving original research will be required. Group(s): D

HIST W4509y Problems in International History 4 pts. The aim is to provide an empirical grasp of U.S. foreign relations and to problematize the historiographical views of the various periods, and questions that have come up to make that particular history. Much emphasis will thus be put on critique, and on determining limits of these contentious principles. Field(s): INTL

HIST W4518x Slavery and Emancipation In the United States 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This seminar will consist of weekly readings and discussion of works dealing with the history of slavery in the United States, the anti-slavery movement, the coming of emancipation during the Civil War, and how Americans tried to deal with the consequences of emancipation. There will also be one 20-page paper for the semester. Group(s): D

HIST W4535x or y 20th Century New York City History 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course explores critical areas of New York's economic development in the 20th century, with a view to understanding the rise, fall and resurgence of this world capital. Discussions also focus on the social and political significance of these shifts. Assignments include primary sources, secondary readings, film viewings, trips, and archival research. Students use original sources as part of their investigation of New York City industries for a 20-page research paper. An annotated bibliography is also required. Students are asked to give a weekly update on research progress, and share information regarding useful archives and websites.Field(s): US