printer friendly pageHISTORY 105: Gandhi, King, and Nonviolence
Lives, times, theory, and practice of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.; their significance to issues of violence and nonviolence today.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 120B: The Russian Empire
From Peter the Great to the Bolsheviks. Russia as an empire; its varied regions, including the Caucasus, Central Asia, Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltics. Focus is on the politics and cultures of empire. Sources include novels, political tracts, paintings, music, and other primary sources.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 120C: 20th-Century Russian and Soviet History
The Soviet polity from the 1917 Revolution to its collapse in 1991. Essentials of Marxist ideology; the Russian Empire in 1917. Causation in history; interpretations of the Revolution; state building in a socialist polity; social engineering through collectivization of agriculture, force-paced industrialization, and cultural revolution; terror as concept and practice; nationality policies in a multiethnic socialist empire; the routinization, decline, and collapse of the revolutionary ethos; and the legacy of the Soviet experiment in the new Russia.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 132: Ordinary Lives: A Social History of the Everyday in Early Modern Europe
What war meant for foot soldiers and the peasants across whose fields they marched. Ordinary people's lives in the eras of Machiavelli, Shakespeare, the Reformation, and the scientific revolution. Topics include: birth, marriage, and death; city life and peasant culture; lay encounters with religious and intellectual ideas; war and crime; and gender and sexuality.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 133B: Revolutionary England: The Stuart Age
From the accession of King James I in 1603 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714: a brutal civil war, the execution of one anointed king, and the deposition of another. Topics include the causes and consequences of the English Revolution, the origins of Anglo-American democratic thought, the rise and decline of Puritanism, and the emergence of England as an economic and colonial power. (Como)
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 137A: Europe, 1945-2002
Europe's transformation from the end of WW II to an expanded EU. Political, cultural, economic, and social history. Topics: postwar reconstruction, Cold War, consumer versus socialist culture, collapse of Communism, postcommunist integration.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 145A: Africa Until European Conquest
Episodes in African history from the earliest records up until European partition of the continent, focusing on how knowledge about the natural, social, and spiritual worlds was linked to the exercise of power. The effects of technological innovations on states and other forms of social complexity; use of religious beliefs and practices to legitimate or critique authority. The effects of slave trades and imperial conquest on these forms of authority. WIM
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
HISTORY 154A: Religion and American Society
How and why is the U.S. at once the most secular and the most religious industrialized nation in the world; why does it matter? How has American religion influenced reform, wars, politics, civil rights, popular culture,and national identity? Larger connections between religion and society; how religious institutions and movements have shaped the American experience and vice versa.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
Instructors:
Herzog, J. (PI)
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Robichaud, A. (PI)
HISTORY 158: The United States Since 1945
Focus is on foreign policy and politics with less attention to social and intellectual history. Topics include nuclear weapons in WW II, the Cold War, the Korean and Vietnam wars, Eisenhower revisionism, the Bay of Pigs and Cuban missile crisis, civil rights and the black freedom struggle, the women's movement, the Great Society and backlash, welfare policy, conservatism and liberalism, the 60s anti-war movement, Watergate and the growth of executive power, Iran-Contra and Reagan revisionism, Silicon Valley, the Gulf War, the Clinton impeachment controversy, 2004 election, and 9/11 and Iraq war.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
HISTORY 163: A History of North American Wests
The history, peoples, and natural systems of a region that has never been contained within a single empire or nation state, but has been united by the movement of peoples, species, and things. Topics include smallpox, horses, gold, salmon, rivers, coal, and oil.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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