printer friendly pageHISTORY 204C: How Wars End: War and Peace in the 20th Century (HISTORY 304C)
Based on an analysis of primary documents, the course will examine how conflicts end: cases in include the two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, the Bosnian conflict, and the Irish Civil War.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Sheehan, J. (PI)
HISTORY 208A: Science and Law in History (HISTORY 308A)
How the intertwined modern fields of science and law, since the early modern period, together developed central notions of fact, evidence, experiment, demonstration, objectivity, and proof.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Riskin, J. (PI)
HISTORY 209S: Research Seminar for Majors
Required of History majors. How to conduct original, historical research and analysis, including methods such as using the libraries and archives at Stanford and elsewhere, and working collaboratively to frame topics, identify sources, and develop analyses. Autumn quarter focuses on European Lit and Arts; winter quarter on U.S. History and Colonialism; spring quarter on modern Europe, ancient China and early modern Europe.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
HISTORY 224A: The Soviet Civilization (HISTORY 424A)
Socialist visions and practices of the organization of society and messianic politics; the Soviet understanding of mass violence, political and ethnic; and living space. Primary and secondary sources. Research paper or historiographical essay.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Weiner, A. (PI)
HISTORY 224C: Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention (HISTORY 324C, PEDS 224)
Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century and the question of humanitarian intervention to stop it, a topic that has been especially controversial since the end of the Cold War. The pre-1990s discussion begins with the Armenian genocide during the First World War and includes the Holocaust and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. Coverage of genocide and humanitarian intervention since the 1990s includes the wars in Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, the Congo and Sudan.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Patenaude, B. (PI)
;
Magnus, D. (SI)
HISTORY 226E: Famine in the Modern World (HISTORY 326E, PEDS 226)
Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Examines the major famines of modern history, the controversies surrounding them, and the reasons that famine persists in our increasingly globalized world. Focus is on the relative importance of natural, economic, and political factors as causes of famine in the modern world. Case studies include the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s; the Bengal famine of 1943-44; the Soviet famines of 1921-22 and 1932-33; China's Great Famine of 1959-61; the Ethiopian famines of the 1970s and 80s, and the Somalia famines of the 1990s and of 2011.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Patenaude, B. (PI)
;
Magnus, D. (SI)
HISTORY 231G: European Reformations (HISTORY 331G, RELIGST 236, RELIGST 336)
Readings in and discussion of theological and social aspects of sixteenth century reformations: Luther, Radical Reform, Calvin, and Council of Trent, missionary expansion, religious conflict, creative and artistic expressions. Texts include primary sources and secondary scholarly essays and monographs.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Pitkin, B. (PI)
;
Stokes, L. (PI)
HISTORY 232A: Power, Art, and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy (HISTORY 332A)
Provides a fundamental understanding of the cultural and political imagination of the Italian Renaissance, with particular emphasis on Florence between 1300 and 1600 CE. Topics include political and social upheavals, radical shifts in religious practice and devotion, the commercial revolution in trade and banking, the rediscovery of classical philosophy and style, and the flowering of the literary and visual arts.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Findlen, P. (PI)
HISTORY 233: Reformation, Political Culture, and the Origins of the English Civil War (HISTORY 333)
English political and religious culture from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War of the 1640s. Themes include the growth of the size and power of the state, Reformation, creation of a Protestant regime, transformation of the political culture of the ruling elite, emergence of Puritanism, and causes of the Civil War.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Como, D. (PI)
HISTORY 251G: Topics in Constitutional History (AMSTUD 251, POLISCI 222S)
Ideas of rights in American history emphasizing the problem of defining constitutional rights, the free exercise of religion, freedom of expression, and the contemporary debate over rights talk and the idiom of human rights.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
Instructors:
Rakove, J. (PI)
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