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From as early as the sixteenth century to our present moment, capitalism has been a central part of modern world history. The history of capitalism is not solely one of wealth and development, but also one of extraction and exploitation. It is a history that scholars have conceptualized as racial capitalism. This course explores the global structures of inequality that are inherent to capitalism and how they have changed over time. Students will engage with key scholarly debates and theoretical concepts, which they will then apply to specific case studies in different parts of the world with a particular focus on commodities.

This graduate readings course considers the work of historians working at the crossroads of urban history and global history, with particular attention to the role of the urban setting as both product and producer of social and spatial relations of power locally and globally. Our primary aim will be to examine the variety of geographical scopes and theoretical inspirations that guide the recent subfield of 'global urban history.' Students will also grapple with the unique set of research challenges that these historians face, including utilizing hyper-local archives to evince larger-scale and the difficulty of engaging with a variety of historiographies on colonialism, globalization, network societies, urban systems, and global cities.

(Graduate students must enroll for 5 units.) Students will analyze, in historical perspective, the similarities and differences between the development of Latin America and East Asia from early modern times to the present. Focusing primarily on Brazil and Mexico, on one hand, and China and Japan, on the other, topics will include the impact of colonial and postcolonial relationships on the development of states, markets, and classes, as well as geopolitical, social, cultural, technological and environmental factors that shaped, and were shaped by, them.

What does it mean to be human if thinking and reasoning can be done by a machine? The advent and proliferation of generative AI tools raises a host of profound and unsettling questions. While some herald the AI revolution and its promise to liberate us from mental drudgery, others prophecy doom and oppression. While the technology might be new, the anxiety and ambivalence are not. From Socrates, who worried that the technology of writing would "implant forgetfulness in the learners' soul," to Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer who quipped, "machinery mutilates people today, even if it also feeds them," writers and thinkers across place and time have looked on with horror and awe, hope and despair, as technology has transformed the way we live, work, and gain knowledge of our world. In this intellectual history seminar, we will read classic texts that have engaged with questions related to technological innovation and taken stock of both its promise and peril. Readings include work by Plato, Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Rachel Carson, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault, Alan Turing, and Donna Haraway. Alongside these texts we will consider some of the historical developments and themes that motivated these authors: industrialization, the mechanization of warfare, nuclear destruction, the space age, the rise of consumer culture, environmental degradation, the spread of surveillance technologies, and reproductive freedom. Through reading, discussing, and working out complex ideas together, this class will give us a deeper vocabulary and conceptual framework for thinking through the current moment.

( History 205K is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 305K is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course examines the "Age of Revolution," spanning the 18th and 19th centuries. Primarily, this course will focus on the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions (which overthrew both French and white planter rule). Taken together, these events reshaped definitions of citizenship, property, and government. But could republican principles-- color-blind in rhetoric-- be so in fact? Could nations be both republican and pro-slavery? Studying a wide range of primary materials, this course will explore the problem of revolution in an age of empires, globalization, and slavery.

Examines governmental policies toward prostitution from the late 19th century to the present. Focuses on the underlying attitudes, assumptions, strategies, and consequences of various historical and current legal frameworks regulating prostitution, including: prohibitionism, abolitionism, legalization, partial decriminalization, and full decriminalization. Special focus on these policies' effects on sex trafficking, sex worker rights, and the status of women. Emphasis on Europe and the U.S., with additional cases from across the globe.

Have you ever wanted to curate a museum exhibition, or explore alternative ways of studying history, beyond the term paper or article? In this hands-on class, we will research and design a real museum exhibition, to be staged at the Silicon Valley Archives inside Green Library. Students will learn archival research methods, design and build exhibition cases and panels, the theory and practice of museum curation. Students will create individual projected, centered around the core theme of the class: the global history of information technology and Silicon Valley.

This core colloquium for the Transnational, International, and Global (TIG) field will introduce students to the major historiographical trends, methodological challenges, and theoretical approaches to studying and writing transnational histories.

How do historians engage the global scale in the classroom as well as in research? The world history canon including Toynbee, McNeill, Braudel, Wolf, and Wallerstein; contrasting approaches, recent research, and resources for teaching.