printer friendly pageHISTORY 84Q: The American Empire in the Middle East since the Cold War: Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel/Palestine
What were the traditional objectives of U.S. policy in the Middle East since the end of WW II? What forces shaped U.S. policy towards the Middle East? Did those interests and the means employed to pursue them change substantially after the demise of the Soviet Union? What has been the impact of U.S. policy on the region itself? The three principal cases to be examined are Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel/Palestine.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Beinin, J. (PI)
HISTORY 90S: The Social and Cultural History of Tokogawa Japan, 1603-1868
Lived experience and culture of ordinary Japanese people in the samurai era, from the age of Tokugawa shogun to Perry's arrival. Topics include: peasant uprisings; village life; agrarian economy and commercial economy; gender and women; class status and tensions; pilgrimage; system of affiliation between Buddhist temples and households; tourism; publishing boom; popular culture of townspeople; and people's riots on the eve of the Meiji revolution. Sources include historical maps, popular novels, legal documents, and folktales.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Sakakibara, S. (PI)
HISTORY 91D: China: The Northern and Southern Dynasties
(Same as
HISTORY 191D. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 191D.) Examines one of the most dynamic periods of Chinese history with the emergence of the institutional religions (Buddhism and Daoism), the development of the garden as an art form, the rise of landscape as a theme of verse and art, the invention of lyric poetry, and the real beginnings of the southward spread of Chinese civilization.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Lewis, M. (PI)
HISTORY 91N: Mao Zedong: The Man Who Would Become China
Preference to freshmen. His life, including early anthropological work, reinterpretation of Marxism, ascendance to power in the Chinese Communist Party, theory of guerilla warfare, socioeconomic vision in the early People's Republic, the Great Leap Forward, deification during the Cultural Revolution, and repercussions of his death in 1976. No prior knowledge of Chinese history is necessary.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Mullaney, T. (PI)
HISTORY 91S: The Making of Nationalism in Modern China
Nationalism as a force in fueling historical change in China. How has the meaning of Chinese nationalism changed over time? How nationalism has been constructed and expressed from the late 1890s to the 2008 Olympics. Sources include government documents, memoirs, revolutionary texts, and Internet discussion forums, reflecting distinct perspectives and ideologies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Vanden Bussche, E. (PI)
HISTORY 93: Late Imperial China
(Same as
HISTORY 193. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 193.) From the Tang-Song transition until the collapse of imperial order. The rise of absolutism and gentry society, and concomitant shifts in culture, gender relations, and the economy. The threat of steppe nomadism which produced the Mongol and Manchu conquest dynasties. The last imperial dynasty, the Qing, which solved traditional problems but was confronted by new ones. How simultaneous disasters of internal rebellion and Western imperialist invasion destroyed the old order.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Sommer, M. (PI)
HISTORY 94B: Japan in the Age of the Samurai
(Same as
HISTORY 194B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 194B.) From the Warring States Period to the Meiji Restoration. Topics include the three great unifiers, Tokugawa hegemony, the samurai class, Neoconfucian ideologies, suppression of Christianity, structures of social and economic control, frontiers, the other and otherness, castle-town culture, peasant rebellion, black marketing, print culture, the floating world, National Studies, food culture, samurai activism, black ships, unequal treaties, anti-foreign terrorism, restorationism, millenarianism, modernization as westernization, Japan as imagined community.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Wigen, K. (PI)
HISTORY 95: Modern Korean History
(Same as
HISTORY 195. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 195.) Themes include status, gender, and monarchy in the Choson dynasty; intellectual life and social transformation in the 19th century; the rise of Korean nationalism; Japan's colonial rule and Korean identities; culture, economy, and society in colonial Korea; the Korean War, and the different state building processes in North and South after the Korean War.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Moon, Y. (PI)
HISTORY 95C: Modern Japanese History
(Same as
History 195C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 195C.) Japan's modern transformation from the late 19th century to the present. Topics include: the Meiji revolution; industrialization and social dislocation; the rise of democracy and empire; total war and US occupation; economic miracle and malaise; Japan as soft power; and politics of memory. Readings and films focus on the lived experience of ordinary men and women across social classes and regions.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Uchida, J. (PI)
HISTORY 96: Modern South Asia
(Same as
HISTORY 196. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 196.) History and politics of the Indian subcontinent across two centuries of transformation. Topics: interactions among colonial power, nationalism, and modern institutions; S. Asia at the crossroads of world history in an age of empire, capitalism, and war; history and memory through political traditions, social movements, and religious experiences that shaped S. Asian modernity; from Edmund Burke to Gandhi; East India Company's statemaking to origins of nationality; Tagore to Iqbal; peasants and rebels to liberals and revolutionaries; decolonization and Partition.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Kumar, A. (PI)
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