HISTORY 421A: Early Modern Russia
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 422A: Research Seminar on the History of the Russian Empire
Last offered: Spring 2006
HISTORY 422B: Research Seminar in Imperial Russia
HISTORY 424A: The Soviet Civilization (HISTORY 224A, REES 224A)
Socialist visions and practices of the organization of society and messianic politics; the Soviet understanding of mass violence, political and ethnic; and living space. Primary and secondary sources. Research paper or historiographical essay.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Weiner, A. (PI)
HISTORY 424B: The Soviet Civilization, Part 2 (HISTORY 224D)
Prerequisite:
HISTORY 224A/424A
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Weiner, A. (PI)
HISTORY 424C: The End of Communism in Europe
Causes, course, and consequences.
HISTORY 430: Graduate Research Seminar: Early Modern Europe
Prerequisite:
HISTORY 302B. Students may research any aspect of late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern history, ca. 1300-1800. Students wishing to take this seminar must enroll in
HISTORY 302B (Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption, 1200-1800) in Winter 2016.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 430A: Graduate Research Seminar: Early Modern Europe
Students will begin a research project on any aspect of early modern European history, 1400-1800, by taking
HISTORY 430A in winter quarter as the first quarter of this two-quarter sequence. Enrollment by permission of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2011
HISTORY 431: Early Modern Things
How do objects reveal their histories? What can be learned about the past by studying things? The material culture of early modern Europe, ca 1450-1750. Recent work on the circulation, use, and consumption of things, starting with the Columbian exchange which expanded the material horizons of the early modern world in the late 15th century, exploring challenges to the meaning of things in the age of the Reformation and Scientific Revolution, and ending with the birth of consumer society in the 18th century How did the meaning of things and people's relationships to them change over these centuries? What objects, ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made, came to define the emerging features of the early modern world?
Last offered: Winter 2010
HISTORY 431A: European Security during the Cold War (HISTORY 231A, POLISCI 216A, POLISCI 416A)
During the Cold War two highly armed military blocs confronted each other in the center of Europe. What role did they play in the Cold War? How dangerous was their confrontation? This seminar will use archival materials from Britain, France, Germany, the Soviet Union to explore the US-Soviet rivalry in Europe, the politics of the two alliances, the role of nuclear weapons, the crises that took place, and the ending of the Cold War in Europe.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Holloway, D. (PI)
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