printer friendly pageHISTORY 273: The European Expansion (HISTORY 373A)
The relationship between European monarchies and their colonial domains from the 16th-18th centuries. Reasons for expansion, methods, and results. Case studies include the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English domains in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Readings include primary and secondary sources.
HISTORY 279: Latin American Development: Economy and Society, 1800-2000 (HISTORY 379)
The newly independent nations of Latin America began the 19th century with economies roughly equal to, or even ahead of, the U.S. and Canada. What explains the economic gap that developed since 1900? Why are some Latin American nations rich and others poor? Marxist, dependency, neoclassical, and institutionalist interpretive frameworks. The effects of globalization on Latin American economic growth, autonomy, and potential for social justice.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
HISTORY 281A: Twentieth-Century Iraq: A Political and Social History
The colonial experience, creation of the modern Iraqi state, and transition to military dictatorship. Political movements, religious and tribal elements, and their relation to the state. Geopolitical context.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 281C: Urban History of the Middle East: Aleppo and Istanbul on the Eve of Modernity, 1650-1850 (HISTORY 381C)
Questions both Orientalist and modernist assumptions concerning urban life in the Middle East during a transformative moment in global history, commercialization and the emergence of modern imperialism. The critical relevance of cultural debates and institutional changes in provincial centers such as Aleppo to the unfolding of a modern Ottoman Empire.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 281D: The Origins and Formation of Islam (HISTORY 381D)
The modern debate over the origins of Islam and the appearance of distinctive disciplines and institutions in the ninth century. Course taught in English; however, students with a proficiency in Arabic may do separate work.
HISTORY 282D: The Late Ottoman Empire, its Collapse, and the Making of the Turkish Nation State (HISTORY 382D)
The turbulent 1910s and the WW I, the catastrophe of the old European and Ottoman world. Focus is on the political elites, their biographies, networks, and ideologies (Ottomanism, Islamism, Turkism, social Darwinism). Topics include the Young Turk revolution of 1908, the entrance into world war, the Armenian genocide, and the Turkish revolution of the 20s.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Kieser, H. (PI)
HISTORY 287C: Zionism and Its Critics (HISTORY 387C)
Zionism from its genesis in the 1880s up until the establishment of the state of Israel in May, 1948, exploring the historical, ideological and political dimensions of Zionism. Topics include: the emergence of Zionist ideology in connection to and as a response to challenges of modernity; emancipation; Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment); other national and ideological movements of the period; the ideological crystallization of the movement; and the immigration waves to Palestine.
Instructors:
Dubnov, A. (PI)
HISTORY 291A: Archaeology and Modernity in Asia: The Excavation of Ancient Civilizations in Modern Times (HISTORY 391A)
The interplay in Asia between antiquity and modernity, civilization and nation state, and national versus colonial science. The recent excavation of artifacts and places associated with Asian civilization such as the terracotta warriors in China and Angkor Wat in Cambodia. How Asian states have grappled with modernity and colonialism as they simultaneously dug up their ancient pasts.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 293: Law and Society in Late Imperial China
Connections between legal and social history. Ideology and practice, center and periphery, and state-society tensions and interactions. Readings introduce the work of major historians on concepts and problems in Ming-Qing history.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 296: Communism and Revolution in China
From the formation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1921 through the 1949 founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Topics include: early theories of socialism in China; the relationship between Chinese communism and the Communist International and Soviet Union; agrarian reformulation of communism by Mao; the communist-nationalist civil war; the Communist Revolution of 1949; and the consolidation of communist power in the PRC.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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