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HISTORY 355: Decision Making in International Crises: The A-Bomb, the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

For advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Primary documents and secondary literature. Topics include: the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan, the Korean War, and the Cuban missile crisis.

HISTORY 373A: The European Expansion (HISTORY 273)

The relationship between European monarchies and their colonial domains from the 16th-18th centuries. Reasons for expansion, methods, and results. Case studies include the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English domains in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Readings include primary and secondary sources.

HISTORY 376: Modern Brazil

From independence in 1822 to the present. Social and cultural history. Literary and historical sources.

| Repeatable for credit

HISTORY 378A: The Logic of Authoritarian Government, Ancient and Modern

If authoritarianism is less economically efficient than democracy, and if authoritarianism is a less stable form of political organization than democracy, then why are there more authoritarian governments than democracies? To address this paradox, focus is on theoretical and empirical literature on authoritarian governments, and related literatures on the microeconomic analysis of property rights and credible commitments.

HISTORY 379: Latin American Development: Economy and Society, 1800-2000 (HISTORY 279)

The newly independent nations of Latin America began the 19th century with economies roughly equal to, or even ahead of, the U.S. and Canada. What explains the economic gap that developed since 1900? Why are some Latin American nations rich and others poor? Marxist, dependency, neoclassical, and institutionalist interpretive frameworks. The effects of globalization on Latin American economic growth, autonomy, and potential for social justice.

HISTORY 381C: Urban History of the Middle East: Aleppo and Istanbul on the Eve of Modernity, 1650-1850 (HISTORY 281C)

Questions both Orientalist and modernist assumptions concerning urban life in the Middle East during a transformative moment in global history, commercialization and the emergence of modern imperialism. The critical relevance of cultural debates and institutional changes in provincial centers such as Aleppo to the unfolding of a modern Ottoman Empire.

HISTORY 381D: The Origins and Formation of Islam (HISTORY 281D)

The modern debate over the origins of Islam and the appearance of distinctive disciplines and institutions in the ninth century. Course taught in English; however, students with a proficiency in Arabic may do separate work.

HISTORY 382D: The Late Ottoman Empire, its Collapse, and the Making of the Turkish Nation State (HISTORY 282D)

The turbulent 1910s and the WW I, the catastrophe of the old European and Ottoman world. Focus is on the political elites, their biographies, networks, and ideologies (Ottomanism, Islamism, Turkism, social Darwinism). Topics include the Young Turk revolution of 1908, the entrance into world war, the Armenian genocide, and the Turkish revolution of the 20s.

Instructors: Kieser, H. (PI)

HISTORY 390: Han Chinese and the Global White: The Production of Ethnoracial Majorities, East and West

HISTORY 390A: Major Topics in Modern Chinese History: Qing/Republican Transition

Continuities and discontinuities in society, economy, politics, culture, and thought during the transition from the Qing dynasty to the republic. May be repeated for credit.

| Repeatable 3 times (up to 15 units total)

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