printer friendly pageHISTORY 277D: U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in 20th Century Latin America
As the drumbeats of war in the U.S. grow louder for a forcible regime change in Iran due to its alleged nuclear ambitions, many politicians, pundits and journalists have already consigned the disastrous war for regime change in neighboring Iraq in 2003 to seemingly ancient and irrelevant history. This course does the opposite and takes seriously the proverbial saying "if history is any guide..." by examining U.S. interventions in Latin America, a region where so-called preventive regime change (covert as well as overt) has been operative policy for well over a century. Investigates the rationales, motivations and strategies behind U.S.-backed or engineered regime changes in Mexico in the 1910s, Guatemala in the 1950s, Chile in the 1970s, and Nicaragua in the 1980s.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Wolfe, M. (PI)
HISTORY 281B: Modern Egypt
From the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Topics: European imperialism, the political economy of cotton, rise of nationalism, gender and the nation, minorities, the coup of 1952, positive neutralism and the Cold War, and the neo-liberal reconstruction of Egypt.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Beinin, J. (PI)
HISTORY 282: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (HISTORY 382)
Since the end of WW II, U.S. interests in the Middle East have traditionally been defined as access to oil at a reasonable price, trade and markets, containing the influence of the Soviet Union, and the security of Israel. Is this the full range of U.S. interests? How has the pursuit of these interests changed over time? What forces have shaped U.S. policy? What is the impact of U.S. policy on the region itself?
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
HISTORY 282F: History of Modern Turkey
Social, political and cultural history of Modern Turkey from the last decades of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century until Today. Themes include transformation from a multi-national empire to a national republic; Islam, secularism and radical modernism; military, bureaucracy and democratic experience; economic development, underdevelopment and class; Istanbul, Ankara and provincial Turkey; socialism, conservatism(s), and Kurdish challenge; Turkey in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia; gender, sexuality and family; popular culture, soccer, and film industry; Post-Modernism, Neo-Ottomanism, and the New-Turkey; The class also include reading works of Turkish literature and watching movies by Turkish directors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Yaycioglu, A. (PI)
HISTORY 283: The New Global Economy, Oil, and Islamic Movements in the Middle East (HISTORY 383)
The integration of the Middle East into the world capitalist market on a subordinate basis and the impact on economic development, class formation, and politics. Alternative theoretical perspectives on the rise and expansion of the international capitalist market combined with case studies of Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 284: The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923 (HISTORY 384)
This is a course on the Middle East and Southeast Europe under the Ottoman Empire. Topics include how the Ottoman enterprise was constructed in the frontier region of the Christian and Islamic worlds; the conquests and consolidation of the imperial institutions; how diverse peoples, cultures, and regions were integrated into the imperial system; the Ottoman Empire and the broader world; merchants and their markets; elite, urban, rural and nomadic lives; women, family sexuality; art, literature, and architecture; the transformation of the empire on the eve of modernity; the rise of nationalism and the Ottoman response; Ottoman disintegration and the making of the Middle East and Southeast Europe.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Yaycioglu, A. (PI)
HISTORY 287C: Zionism and its Critics
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.
HISTORY 288: Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (JEWISHST 288, JEWISHST 388)
This course examines some salient issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the late 19th century to the present. At the end of the course you should be able to articulate the positions of the major parties to the conflict, with the understanding that there is no single, unified Zionist (or Jewish) or Palestinian (or Arab) position. One quarter does not allow sufficient time to cover even all of the important topics comprehensively (for example, the role of the Arab states, the USA and the USSR, and the internal history of Israel receive less attention than is desirable). Some prior knowledge of Middle East history is desirable, but not required. Vigorous debate and criticism are strongly encouraged. Criticism and response expressed in a civil tone is an important way to get a fuller and more truthful picture of something. This is not only a fundamental democratic right and a basic citizenship skill, but it is essential to interpreting information and making good policy. Rights not used are easily lost.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Steinfeld, R. (PI)
HISTORY 290E: Movies and Empire in East Asia (HISTORY 390E)
Cinema was invented in the 1890s and simultaneously introduced to East Asia. This colloquium explores how this new medium changed the cultural and social landscape of East Asia and how the visual power of films also affected the culture politics of empires in the region. The themes include cinema and urban spaces, cultural imperialism, film images and gender discourse, colonial modernity, Americanism and Asianism, the visual and the textual, wartime propaganda, and Hollywood movies and cold war empires.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Moon, Y. (PI)
HISTORY 292: The Two Koreas (HISTORY 392)
Examines major themes and scholarly works to understand the origins, outbreak, and consequences of the Korean War. One focus will be the division of Korea into ROK and DPRK and their subsequent developments. Themes include World War II in East Asia; Korean communist movements during Japanese colonial rule; the Cold War in East Asia; the roles of the US, China, and USSR in the Korean War; the ideas of key North and South Korean leaders, and the consolidation of the two Koreas after the Korean War.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Moon, Y. (PI)
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