printer friendly pageHISTORY 236A: European Nationalism, 1600 to the Present (HISTORY 336A)
Theory and practice of nationalism from its genesis. What is the nation and how is it built? What is its relationship to the state? How do national movements adapt to changing ideological and geopolitical contexts? Focus is on Europe; attention to other parts of the world as required by theory studies.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 236B: The Idea of Society (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: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Baker, K. (PI)
;
Sheehan, J. (PI)
HISTORY 236C: Reordering Europe, 1917-1923 (HISTORY 336C)
The struggle to craft a new European order after the disaster of the First World War. Topics: Wilsonian versus Leninist visions for Europe, Paris Peace Conference, early Weimar Germany, state-building in Yugoslavia, Greek-Turkish population exchanges, Polish-Soviet War, and Fascist rise to power in Italy. Major component of course involves student presentations and research with primary sources.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 237E: Violence, Law, and Order in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Experiences of and attitudes to both violence and the law in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland on both the interpersonal and collective levels. Topics include the varying causes and motives for violent activity in Irish society; the role of the law and, in particular, its effectiveness in controlling violent activity in Irish society; how legal provisions interacted with and were shaped by the broader sociocultural conditions from the eighteenth century onwards; and the impact that Irish patterns of violent activity and attitudes to law and authority had overseas, particularly in N. America.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
McMahon, R. (PI)
HISTORY 238K: European Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution: 1938-1948
Experiences of European populations under occupation or suzerainty during WW II. How did populations respond to an invader or hegemonic power such as Nazi Germany? What other options were open to them? How and why did postwar Europe judge their choices? Readings span high politics and individual lives.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 239D: Capital and Empire (HISTORY 339D, HUMNTIES 191S)
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 239H: Colonialism and Empire in Modern Europe
To better understand the history of modern Europe within a global context, explores the following questions: What impact did more than a century of colonialism have on the social lives, cultural attitudes, political loyalties, and intellectual world views of European women and men during the nineteenth century? What accounts for the resiliency of empire during a period of rapid global change that witnessed the rise of modern democracy, economic liberalism, ethnic nationalism, and international socialism?
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Naranch, B. (PI)
HISTORY 242A: What is Life? The History of a Question (HISTORY 342A, HUMNTIES 191R)
History of attempts to understand the nature of life and mind by comparing living creatures with artificial machines and material arrangements. Imitations of animal life and human thought and discussions of relations between creatures and contraptions from antiquity onward, with an eye toward providing historical depth to current attempts to simulate life and mind.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 243C: 18th-Century Colonial Science and Medicine (HISTORY 343C)
The exchange of knowledge, technologies, plants, peoples, disease, and medicines. Focus is on French, British, and Dutch interests in the West Indies; examples from elsewhere. Sources include primary and secondary texts on voyaging, colonialism, slavery, and environmental exchange.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 243G: Tobacco and Health in World History (HISTORY 343G)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Proctor, R. (PI)
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