printer friendly pageHISTORY 170: Colonial Latin America
(Same as
HISTORY 70A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 170.) 16th-19th centuries. Indigenous cultures. The arrival of Europeans and its impact on native and European societies. Culture, religion and institutions, and everyday life. The independence period and the formation of new nations. Readings include primary and secondary sources.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 181B: The Middle East in the 20th Century
(Formerly 187B.) The history of the Middle East since WW I, focusing on the eastern Arab world, Egypt, the Fertile Crescent, and the Arabian Peninsula, with attention to Turkey, Iran, and Israel.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 182C: From Prophet to Empire: The Making of the Muslim Middle East, 600-1500
Traces the establishment of a Muslim religious and political presence in the Middle East from the formative years of conquest in Arabia and early experiments in state formation to the emergence of empires defining the early modern world. Explores the construction of a remarkable social, intellectual and artistic culture out of the various indigenous and imported elements then available.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Ferguson, H. (PI)
;
Lund, N. (PI)
HISTORY 185B: Jews in the Modern World
Possible themes: the restructuring of Jewish existence during the Enlightenment and legal emancipation at the end of the 18th century in W. Europe, the transformation of Jewish life in E. Europe under the authoritarian Russian regime, colonialism in the Sephardic world, new ideologies (Reform Judaism and Jewish nationalisms), the persistence and renewal of antisemitism, the destruction of European Jewry under the Nazis, new Jewish centers in the U.S., and the State of Israel.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
St Meyer, J. (PI)
;
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
HISTORY 191D: China: The Northern and Southern Dynasties
(Same as
HISTORY 91D. 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: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Lewis, M. (PI)
HISTORY 192: China: The Early Empires
How China was transformed as a consequence of its political unification by the Qin dynasty. The geographical reorganization of China in the process of unification. The changing nature of rulership, cities, rural society, military organization, kinship structure, religion, literary practice, law, and relations to the outside world. The nature of empire as a political system.
Last offered: Spring 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
HISTORY 193: Late Imperial China
(Same as
HISTORY 93. 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: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Sommer, M. (PI)
;
Wang, Y. (PI)
HISTORY 194B: Japan in the Age of the Samurai
(Same as
HISTORY 94B. 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: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Vanden Bussche, E. (PI)
;
Wigen, K. (PI)
HISTORY 195: Modern Korean History
(Same as
HISTORY 95. 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 buildling processes in North and South after the Korean War.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Moon, Y. (PI)
;
Qiao, Z. (PI)
HISTORY 195C: Modern Japanese History
(Same as
HISTORY 95C. 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: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
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