printer friendly pageHISTORY 205G: Creative Political Thinking: From Machiavelli to Madison (HISTORY 305G, POLISCI 235J, POLISCI 335J)
How can we account for creativity and innovation in political thinking? Are these qualities simply a product of political expediency and rhetorical urgency, or do they also depend on qualities of mind and historical contingencies that have to be studied individually? This class will explore these questions with three noteworthy cases: Niccolo Machiavelli, John Locke, and James Madison. Extensive reading in both primary writings and secondary sources.
Last offered: Winter 2015
HISTORY 206A: City, Society, Literature- 19th Century Histories (HISTORY 306A, URBANST 106)
This course examines the rise of modern cities through an analysis of urban society and the imaginative literature of the 1800s.
Last offered: Spring 2014
HISTORY 207: Biography and History (HISTORY 308)
The relationship between biographical and historical writing, primarily in Europe and America. Problems of methodology, evidence, dispassion, and empathy. Texts: biographies, critical literature on biographical work, and novels (A. S. Byatt's
Possession, Bernard Malamud's
Dubin's Lives) that illuminate the intellectual underpinnings of biographical labor.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 207B: Environment, Technology and Revolution in World History
Exploration of historiographical and interdisciplinary methodologies and approaches to intersections among environmental, technological, and revolutionary social change in diverse geographical and temporal contexts. Readings include broad theoretical and synthetic works as well as case studies of American, French, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, and Hungarian revolutions.
Last offered: Spring 2013
HISTORY 207C: The Global Early Modern (HISTORY 307C)
In what sense can we speak of "globalization" before modernity? What are the characteristics and origins of the economic system we know as "capitalism"? When and why did European economies begin to diverge from those of other Eurasian societies? With these big questions in mind, the primary focus will be on the history of Europe and European empires, but substantial readings deal with other parts of the world, particularly China and the Indian Ocean.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 207G: The Age of Discovery: Maritime Science and Empire, 1400-1850 (HISTORY 307G)
This course focuses on maritime science and empire from 1400 to 1850. We will consider how early modern empires, mariners and scientific figures, used technology, gathered information, described new locations and interacted with indigenous cultures. We will explore these themes through three perspectives: The initial overseas empires of Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Chinese and Ottoman efforts at maritime expansion and finally, British exploration and expansion into the South Pacific and China.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Aranda, M. (PI)
HISTORY 208: Private Lives, Public Stories: Autobiography in Women's History
Changing contexts of women's lives and how women's actions have shaped and responded to those contexts.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
HISTORY 208B: Women Activists' Response to War (FEMGEN 208B, HISTORY 308B)
Theoretical issues, historical origins, changing forms of women's activism in response to war throughout the 20th century, and contemporary cases, such as the Russian Committee of Soldiers Mothers, Bosnian Mothers of Srebrenica, Serbian Women in Black, and the American Cindy Sheehan. Focus is on the U.S. and Eastern Europe, with attention to Israel, England, and Argentina.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
Instructors:
Jolluck, K. (PI)
HISTORY 208D: Pre-Modern Warfare (HISTORY 308D)
This course examines the evolving nature of warfare and its impact on society across the Eurasian continent up to the Gunpowder Revolution and rise of the nation-state. Beginning with an attempt to define war, it will trace the evolution of military technology from the Stone Age through the rise of the chariot, the sword, and the mounted rider, and examine how changing methods of conducting warfare were inextricably linked to changes in the social order and political structures.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Lewis, M. (PI)
HISTORY 208S: Facing the Past: The Politics of Retrospective Justice
Forms of injustice in history including slavery, genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass rape, forced religious conversion, and torture of prisoners. Mechanisms developed over the last century to define, deter, and alleviate the effects of such offenses, including war crimes tribunals, truth commissions, national apologies, and monetary reparations. Case studies chart the international field of retrospective justice, exploring the legal, political, and moral implications of confronting traumatic pasts.
Last offered: Autumn 2010
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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