printer friendly pageHISTORY 239D: Capital and Empire (HISTORY 339D)
Can empire be justified with balance sheets of imperial crimes and boons, a calculus of racism versus railroads? The political economy of empire through its intellectual history from Adam Smith to the present; the history of imperial corporations from the East India Company to Wal-mart; the role of consumerism; the formation of the global economy; and the relationship between empire and the theory and practice of development.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Satia, P. (PI)
HISTORY 243C: Colonial Science and Medicine
Explores the global exchange of knowledge, technologies, plants, peoples, disease, and medicines. Colonial sciences and medicines were important militarily and strategically for positioning emerging nation states in global struggles for land and resources. Considers primarily French, British, and Dutch in the West Indies, but also takes examples from Iberian, Jesuit, and other traditions in China and India. Readings treat science and medicine in relation to voyaging, colonialism, slavery, plants, and environmental exchange.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Schiebinger, L. (PI)
HISTORY 243G: Tobacco and Health in World History (HISTORY 343G)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Proctor, R. (PI)
HISTORY 245G: Law and Colonialism in Africa (HISTORY 348D)
Law in colonial Africa provides an opportunity to examine the meanings of social, cultural, and economic change in the anthropological, legal, and historical approaches. Court cases as a new frontier for the social history of Africa. Topics: meanings of conflicts over marriage, divorce, inheritance, property, and authority.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Roberts, R. (PI)
HISTORY 248S: African Societies and Colonial States, Part 1 (HISTORY 448A)
The encounter between African societies and European colonialism in the colony or region of their choice. Approaches to the colonial state; tours of primary source collections in the Hoover Institution and Green Libraries. Students present original research findings and may continue research for a second quarter.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Roberts, R. (PI)
HISTORY 255D: Racial Identity in the American Imagination (AFRICAAM 255, AMSTUD 255D, CSRE 255D, HISTORY 355D)
Major historical transformations shaping the understanding of racial identity and how it has been experienced, represented, and contested in American history. Topics include: racial passing and racial performance; migration, immigration, and racial identity in the urban context; the interplay between racial identity and American identity; the problems of class, gender, and sexuality in the construction of racial identity. Sources include historical and legal texts, memoirs, photography, literature, film, and music.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Hobbs, A. (PI)
HISTORY 256: U.S.-China Relations: From the Opium War to Tiananmen (AMSTUD 256, HISTORY 356)
The history of turbulent relations, military conflict, and cultural clashes between the U.S. and China, and the implications for the domestic lives of these increasingly interconnected countries. Diplomatic, political, social, cultural, and military themes from early contact to the recent past.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Chang, G. (PI)
HISTORY 258: Topics in the History of Sexuality: Sexual Violence (AMSTUD 258, CSRE 192E, FEMST 258, FEMST 358, HISTORY 358)
Recent historical interpretations of sexual violence, with particular attention to the intersections of gender and race in the construction of rape, from early settlement through the twentieth century. Topics include the legal prosecution of rape in Early America; the racialization of rape in the U.S.; lynching and anti-lynching in the U.S.; and feminist responses to sexual violence.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Freedman, E. (PI)
HISTORY 260: California's Minority-Majority Cities (CSRE 260)
Historical development and the social, cultural, and political issues that characterize large cities and suburbs where communities of color make up majority populations. Case studies include cities in Los Angeles, Santa Clara, and Monterey counties. Comparisons to minority-majority cities elsewhere in the U.S. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
McKibben, C. (PI)
HISTORY 262G: The Pivotal Decade in U.S. History: 1960's or 1970's? (HISTORY 362G)
Which had more lasting impact, the civil war of the 1960s or the conservative revolt of the 1970s? Should the 1970s supersede the 1960s as a pivotal moment when something happened of considerable importance to historians? Considers this debate of the decades comparatively and thematically, addressing topics including civil rights, foreign policy, electoral politics, popular culture, law, economics, labor, and social movement organizing.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Zarnow, L. (PI)
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