printer friendly pageHISTORY 232F: The Scientific Revolution
Was there a scientific revolution in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? How did modern science emerge as a distinctive kind of knowledge and practices? Explores changing ideas of nature and knowledge during the age of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Bacon, and Newton. Examines the contexts in which western science emerged, issues of scientific methodology (e.g. induction, deduction, probability, and the rise of experimentation), the development of scientific institutions, and the emergence of the scientist as a historical figure.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Clark, F. (PI)
HISTORY 233C: Two British Revolutions (HISTORY 333C)
Current scholarship on Britain,1640-1700, focusing on political and religious history. Topics include: causes and consequences of the English civil war and revolution; rise and fall of revolutionary Puritanism; the Restoration; popular politics in the late 17th century; changing contours of religious life; the crisis leading to the Glorious Revolution; and the new order that emerged after the deposing of James II.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Como, D. (PI)
HISTORY 233F: Political Thought in Early Modern Britain
1500 to 1700. Theorists include Hobbes, Locke, Harrington, the Levellers, and lesser known writers and schools. Foundational ideas and problems underlying modern British and American political thought and life.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 234: The Enlightenment (DLCL 324, HISTORY 334, HISTORY 432A, HUMNTIES 324)
The Enlightenment as a philosophical, literary, and political movement. Themes include the nature and limits of philosophy, the grounds for critical intellectual engagement, the institution of society and the public, and freedom, equality and human progress. Authors include Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hume, Diderot, and Condorcet.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Baker, K. (PI)
HISTORY 234G: Narrating the British Empire (ENGLISH 234G, HISTORY 334G)
This course will explore the historical and cultural reality of the British Empire in a global and comparative context, through works of fiction and non-fiction, history, memoir and a range of cultural chronicles. What relationship did British colonialism have with modernity and the European Enlightenment, and with neoliberalism and globalization that followed decolonization? Texts: CLR James's
Beyond a Boundary,, Jamaica Kincaid's
A Small Place, Nirad Chaudhuri's
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, Alan Paton's
Cry, The Beloved Country, Witi Ihimaera's
Dear Miss Mansfield.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Satia, P. (PI)
HISTORY 235: The Renaissance of War: Politics, Technology, and War in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
The dynamic societies of the Italian Peninsula of the 14th to 16th centuries "prosperous, astonishingly creative, politically fractious, and endemically violent" produced sweeping, deeply consequential changes. Among these were new developments in the theory and practice of war, politics, and diplomacy that laid the foundations for the modern state system and European military power. The class covers: new diplomatic practice; the Military Revolution; state-building; war finance; court culture; and the intersection of these with the shimmering brilliance of Renaissance culture.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Brege, B. (PI)
HISTORY 235C: Readings in the Supernatural (HISTORY 335C)
Class will read and discuss a selection of monographs, scholarly essays, and primary sources on the rich supernatural world of early modern Europe. We will discuss how fairies, werewolves, nightmares, and trolls all became witches, how the binary of angels and demons figured in European thought, and how the marginalized imaginary was reconstituted in theatre and fiction.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Stokes, L. (PI)
HISTORY 236B: Hobbes to Habermas: The Idea of Society in Modern Thought (HISTORY 336B)
Classic texts in social theory from the seventeenth century to the present. Readings include Locke, Smith, Hegel, Comte, and Durkheim, and Weber.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Baker, K. (PI)
HISTORY 236F: The End of the World As They Knew It: Culture, Cafés, and Crisis in Europe, 1880-1918 (HISTORY 336F)
The years stretching from roughly 1880 to end of the First World War were marked by profound social upheaval and an intense burst of creativity. This seminar will focus on the major cultural movements and big ideas of the period. Topics covered include the rise of mass culture and cinema, the origins of psychoanalysis, anti-Semitism and Zionism, new anxieties about sexuality and the 'New Woman,' anarchism, decadence, degeneration, and Dada - with cameos from Bernhardt, Freud, Klimt, Nietzsche, Toulouse-Lautrec, Wilde, Zola, and other luminaries of the age.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Braude, M. (PI)
HISTORY 237K: Speed and Power in Twentieth-Century Europe (HISTORY 337K)
Europeans living in the 20th century witnessed an unprecedented (and, to many observers, frightening) acceleration in the pace of everyday life, wrought by the introduction of a host of new travel technologies. Focusing on the metropolises of Europe, this seminar will explore the various ways that trains, planes, and automobiles have shaped modern urban life. We'll also look at how 20th-century artists and writers have treated the interrelated themes of speed and power in their work.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Braude, M. (PI)
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