HISTORY COURSES FOR SPRING 2009

CAS HI 102. The Emergence of Modern Europe: Renaissance to the Present. Political and religious change; Enlightenment and Revolution; industrialization and the nation state; modernity, the World Wars, and their consequences. Typical readings may include Rousseau's Social Contract, Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto, and Silone's Bread and Wine. Clifford Backman. MWF 1-2. Area: European.

     Students in HI 102 must also enroll in a discussion section:

CAS HI 150. History Writing and Research Seminar. These seminars bring students out of the classroom and into the archive and library. Students will hone their detective skills by learning how historians investigate the past through primary sources, including diaries, novels, government documents, and scientific treatises. Freshmen only, carries Writing Program credit (CAS WR 150). Cathal Nolan. TR 12:30-2. Area: none.

CAS HI 152. The United States Since 1865. Reconstruction, industrialism, and recent social movements; labor and populism, imperial expansion and progressive politics, World War I, 1920s prosperity and the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, and the Cold War. Samuel Deese. TR 3:30-5. Area: American.

     Students in HI 152 must also enroll in a discussion section:

CAS HI 176. World History II: 1500 to the Present. Interrelationships among major world civilizations of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe from 1500 to the present. Simon Payaslian. MWF 10-11. Area: World/Regional.

     Students in HI 176 must also enroll in a discussion section:

CAS HI 231. History of Europe, 1815-1914. Survey of Europe from the Congress of Vienna to World War I. Development of liberalism, nationalism, socialism, democracy, science, and technology; their conflict and accommodation with traditionalism and conservatism. Industrial revolution and economic growth. Increasing complexity of international relations leading to world war. Mitchell Allen. W 6-9. Area: European.

CAS HI 248. Catastrophe and Cultural Memory. Examines the ways in which catastrophes--both natural and social--enter into cultural memory. Goal is to understand how events that seem to defy comprehension are represented in works of at and given a place in the memory of a culture. James Schmidt. TR 9:30-11. Area: American or European.

CAS HI 259. Colonial Society from Settlement to Revolution. Examines central themes of change in European, Native American, and African populations in North America from the time of the European settlement to the outbreak of the American Revolution. Topics include southern plantations, New England Puritanism, and pluralism in the middle colonies. Brendan McConville. TR 11-12:30. Area: American.

CAS HI 280. The History of Israel: An Introduction. Beginning with Israel's creation in 1948, this course covers the political and military history of Israel, including the 1956 War with Egypt, the 1967 War, and the State's development to the present day. It also covers immigration and the Palestinian question. Paula Kabalo. TR 2-3:30. Area: World/Regional.

CAS HI 292. Colonialism in Africa: Impact and Aftermath. Uses case studies of particular African societies or nations to examine patterns of European conquest and African resistance; forms of colonial administration and socioeconomic consequences of colonial rule; decolonization and contemporary African liberation movements; economic and political developments since independence; and contemporary social and cultural change. Linda Heywood. TR 9:30-11. Area: World/Regional.

Note: This course is restricted to history concentrators. Students may enroll in sections by contacting the department office.

CAS HI 200. The Historian's Craft. Required introductory course for concentrators, normally taken in their sophomore year. Intended to develop critical reading and analytical skills in history. Works examined will be drawn from different fields and periods. Weekly written exercises, oral reports, and class discussions.

     Section A1: Suzanne O'Brien. T 9:30-12:30.
     Section B1: Anna Geifman. T 2-5.
     Section C1: James Johnson. W 3-6.
     Section D1: Allison Blakely. F 9-12.

CAS HI 304. Honor-Shame: Middle Ages, Modern World. Considers the dynamics of "honor-shame" cultures generally, then examines their role in the European Middle Ages and the contemporary world. Attempts to understand how other cultures can emphasize significantly different values and social interactions from Western ones. Richard Landes. TR 12:30-2. Area: European.

CAS HI 306. Magic, Science, and Religion from Plato to Voltaire. Boundaries and relationships between magic, science, and religion from late antiquity through the European Enlightenment. Topics include transformation of pagan traditions, distinctions between learned and popular traditions, and changing assumptions about God and Nature. Deeana Klepper. TR 2-3:30. Area: European (premodern).

CAS HI 308. History of the Crusades. The origin and development of the Crusade movement in Western Christendom: the first four Crusades, their cause and results; crusader finance, preaching, and military recruitment; changing focus of Crusade movements from the Holy Land to other areas. Clifford Backman. MWF 11-12. Area: European (premodern).

     Students in HI 308 must also enroll in a discussion section:

CAS HI 315. Intellectual History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century. Major figures and movements from 1799 to 1890. Topics include the impact of the French Revolution, romanticism, social utopias, the rise of nationalism, the artistic avant-garde, conflicts between science and religion, technology and urban planning, the aesthetic ideal. James Johnson. TR 11-12:30. Area: European.

CAS HI 318. England in the Middle Ages. England's development from the Celtic Age to the Tudor dynasty. Emphasizes social and religious/intellectual changes within the broader context of England's unique political evolution from a strife-torn backwater to a leading European power. Jon Westling. MWF 10-11. Area: European (premodern).

CAS HI 319. Tudor England, 1485-1603. A survey of that turbulent and volatile century that witnessed the apprenticeship of England for a role of world importance. Special attention will be given to the development of state power, the growth of religious diversity, the major economic and social transformations as well as the resulting cultural development. Jon Westling. MWF 2-3. Area: European (premodern).

CAS HI 338. Germany, 1914 to the Present. German history from the beginning of World War I to the present with emphasis on the politico-social developments, the Nazi attempt to control Europe, the growing division of Germany, the integration of West and East Germany into power blocs, and German reunification. Helena Toth. MWF 10-11. Area: European.

CAS HI 341. Central Europe. Intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, and military history of the region between Germany and Russia, from the end of the Middle Ages to the present. Igor Lukes. TR 12:30-2. Area: European.

CAS HI 347. Issues in Modern Russian and Soviet History, 1861-1956. Modern Russia in the imperial and Soviet eras--from the Great Reforms of Alexander II through the end of Stalin's reign. Examines Russia's political, socio-economic, and cultural transformation from the traditional society into the first Communist state. Anna Geifman. MWF 11-12. Area: European.

CAS HI 350. History of International Relations Since 1945. The causes and consequences of the Soviet-American Cold War from its origins in Europe to its extension to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The rise of the multipolar international system, the emergence of the non-aligned blocs, and inter- and intra-alliance conflicts. William Keylor. TR 2-3:30. Area: American or European.

     Students in HI 350 must also enroll in a discussion section:

CAS HI 354. Religious Thought in America. This course surveys many of the strategies that American religious thinkers have adopted for interpreting the cosmos, the social order, and human experience and examines the interaction of those strategies with broader currents of American culture. Jon Roberts. MWF 11-12. Area: American.

CAS HI 365. United States Since 1968. Recent political, economic, social, and cultural history. Includes Nixon, Carter, and Reagan presidencies; stagflation; Watergate; "Me Decade"; end of the Cold War. Paul Schmitz. TR 12:30-2. Area: American.

     Students in HI 365 must also enroll in a discussion section:

CAS HI 367. Americans in the World: United States History in Transnational Perspective. Examines how political, cultural, and social movements in the United States have connected with people and developments around the world. Topics include views of American society by outside observers, Americans' activities abroad, and their part in shaping global integration. Instructor to be announced. Area: American.

CAS HI 370. The American Military Experience. Introduction to American military history from the colonial period to the role of military force in contemporary U.S. statecraft. Examines the character of the armed services, the American style of waging war, and the relationship between the military and society. Andrew Bacevich. MWF 1-2. Area: American.

CAS HI 374. Intellectual History of the United States, 1900 to the Present. Major thinkers and movements in intellectual and cultural history since 1900. Topics include pragmatism and progressivism; ethnic and cultural pluralism; Marxism and liberalism; Cold War ideology and neoconservatism; artistic modernism; psychoanalysis and modernization theory; the New Left, multiculturalism, and postmodernism. Samuel Deese. MWF 10-11. Area: American.

CAS HI 375. A History of Women in the United States. This course examines the ideas and experiences of women in the United States from the 1600s through the late twentieth century. The course considers the common factors that shaped women's lives as well as women's diverse class, ethnic, and regional experiences. Nina Silber. TR 11-12:30. Area: American.

CAS HI 381. The Samurai in Myth and History [in approval process]. Suzanne O'Brien. TR 3:30-5. Area: World/Regional.

CAS HI 385. History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825. Examines the various interactions that shaped the Atlantic World, connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas between 1500 and 1800. After defining the political interaction, there is special emphasis on cultural exchange, religious conversion, and the revolutionary era. John Thornton. TR 11-12:30. Area: American or World/Regional (premodern).

CAS HI 386. Modern Latin America. Political, economic, and cultural evolution of Latin American republics. Nineteenth-century conflicts over "civilization" vs "barbarism," liberalism vs conservatism, and slavery. Democracy and military rule in the twentieth century and efforts to create new forms of politics and citizenship. Jeffrey Rubin. TR 2-3:30. Area: World/Regional.

CAS HI 390. Introduction to Modern Chinese History. History of China from the Opium War through the Chinese revolution to the post-Mao era. Analysis of the traditional continuities and political, economic, social, and intellectual changes stimulated by modernization and revolution. Eugenio Menegon. MWF 11-12. Area: World/Regional.

CAS HI 393. Americans and the Middle East. Examines the intersecting histories of America and the Middle East from the late eighteenth century to the present, focusing first on American missionary and educational efforts in the region and then on American political and military involvement after World War II. Betty Anderson. MWF 10-11. Area: World/Regional.

CAS HI 394. Environmental History of Africa. Focus on the African environment and ecological systems over the past 150 years. Topics include climatic change, hydrography, agriculture, deforestation, soil erosion, disease, conservation, famine, and the role of colonialism and government policy in environmental change. James McCann. TR 3:30-5. Area: World/Regional.

CAS HI 396. State and Commerce in Atlantic Africa, 1450-1850. Examines--both by region and across the larger Atlantic area--the ways that overseas commerce, in particular the slave trade, interacted with and was shaped by African politics and economic variables. John Thornton. TR 2-3:30. Area: World/Regional (premodern).

CAS HI 397. History of Modern Iran, 1900-Present. Geographical/historical background; social structure, ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversities; Anglo-Russian interventions; consequences of tobacco concession; constitutional revolution and reform; Qajar legacy; centralization, secularization, modernization under Pahlavis; oil and Mossadeg; autocracy and revolution; liberals, communists, fundamentalists, and Islamic revolution. Houchang Chehabi. TR 11-12:30. Area: World/Regional.

Note: Colloquia, which have a restricted enrollment, are ordinarily open only to history majors and minors. Students desiring to be admitted to these courses must first contact the instructor for permission to enroll and then get in touch with the department office for registration. Graduate students may take 500-level courses for credit.

CAS HI 423. History of the European Union, 1945 to the Present. Analysis of the road to European unity, wartime plans for federalism, significance of the Cold War, failure of political union and success of economic cooperation, "Gaullism" vs. "Atlanticism," history of the "subsidiarity principle," the Treaty of Maastricht. Helena Toth. W 12-3. Area: European.

CAS HI 440. Refugee Intellectuals (1933-1950). Examination of the flight of intellectuals (including Mann, Adorno, Schoenberg) from Europe to the United States in the wake of Hitler's rise to power, drawing on accounts by the exiles themselves, their works, and subsequent studies by historians of the period. James Schmidt. F 9-12. Area: American or European.

CAS HI 446. The Russian Revolution. Examination of the 1917 revolution in the broad political, cultural, socioeconomic, and psychological context of Russian history. Topics include the downfall of the Romanov dynasty, Lenin and his rivals, the Bolshevik takeover and early policies, Sovietization of Russian society. Anna Geifman. MW 1:30-3. Area: European.

CAS HI 454. War and American Society, 1607-1973. Examines the American experience with war between the time of the initial European settlement in the seventeenth century and the end of the Vietnam war. Attention to theoretical and institutional change as well as events. Brendan McConville. T 3:30-6:30. Area: American.

CAS HI 465. The United States and the Cold War. Examination of U.S. Cold War foreign policy from its origins at the end of World War II to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and of the Soviet Union. William Keylor. W 1-4. Area: American.

CAS HI 467. Postwar America: Issues in Political, Cultural, and Social History, 1945-1969. Topics include Cold War, McCarthyism, fifties ideology, War on Poverty, civil rights movement, Vietnam, New Left, counterculture, rise and decline of liberalism. Paul Schmitz. M 3-6. Area: American.

CAS HI 476. Technology in American Society. Technology and American society from the colonial era to World War II. Topics include industrialization, scientific management, household technologies, and the auto age. Louis Ferleger. R 3:30-6:30. Area: American.

CAS HI 485. Selected Problems in the Modern Middle East. Major events in recent history of the Middle East: emergence of nationalism and intellectual awakening of the Ottoman Empire; impact of western economic penetration; effect of partition; seeds of conflict and Egyptian transformation under Nasser. Betty Anderson. M 3-6. Area: World/Regional.

CAS HI 487. Continuity and Change in Late Imperial and Modern China. Examines late imperial China, including political institutions, ethnic classifications, family and gender relations, cultural trends, and military traditions and their persistence into the Republican and Communist eras. Explores revolution and change and Chinese adaptation of ideas and institutions from abroad. Eugenio Menegon. W 3-6. Area: World/Regional.

CAS HI 490. Blacks and Asians: Encounters Through Time and Space. Exploration of historical encounters between Africans and people of African descent and Asians and people of Asian descent. How such people imagined themselves, interacted with each other, viewed each other, influenced each other, and borrowed from each other. Ronald Richardson. T 12:30-3:30. Area: World/Regional.

CAS HI 493. History of Science. Jon Roberts. W 3-6. Area: American.

CAS HI 537. World War II: Causes, Course, Consequences. Begins with the origins of World War II in Asia and Europe, follows its major campaigns, and ends with its main consequences. Topics include diplomacy, grand strategy, command decisions, conditions of battle, and civilians in occupation and resistance. Cathal Nolan. M 10-1. Area: American or European.

CAS HI 549. Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Nationalism as a major force in modern history. Origins of modern nationalism in Europe, with case studies concentrating on Eastern Europe. Special attention to the varieties of modern Jewish nationalism (Zionism, diaspora nationalism). Simon Payaslian. M 12-3. Area: European.

CAS HI 580. The History of Racial Thought. Study of racial thinking and feeling in Europe and the United States since the fifteenth century. Racial thinking in the context of Western encounters with non-European people and Jews; its relation to social, economic, cultural, and political trends. Ronald Richardson. M 12-3. Area: World/Regional.

CAS HI 586. African Americans Abroad. To develop an awareness of the global nature of the African American experience. Looks at the involvement of Blacks in world development besides the African slave trade, slavery in the U.S., and the Civil Rights movement. Readings for the course will be focused primarily on Europe and the Americas, but some attention will also be given to Africa and Asia. Allison Blakely. R 12:30-3:30. Area: American or European.

CAS HI 591. The Making of the Modern Middle East. Examines the modern Middle East, with its new and old states and its current contested frontiers, as a product of European rivalries in the region in war and peace, 1798-1922. David Fromkin. M 2-5. Area: World/Regional.

CAS HI 593. Youth on the Agenda: Roles and Images of Young People in the Jewish Nation. Youth in modern revolutionary movements, including Zionism and the creation of the State of Israel. What it means to grow up in a Jewish state, to consider the military experience, and to deal with the influence of American and other foreign cultures. Paula Kabalo. TR 11-12:30. Area: World/Regional.

GRS HI 701. The Historian's Craft. Intensive training in the best practices of historical research, writing, publication, and oral presentation. Culminates in the production of a publishable journal article. Diana Wylie. M 3-6. Area: none.

GRS HI 719. Readings in European History. This course will look at some of the great historiographical debates in Western history/historiography, spending approximately two weeks on each debate, considering the nature of the argumentation, evidence, and conceptual assumptions that underly the various positions to be examined. The topics will include most of the following: origins of Christianity; Fall of Rome; mutation of 1000; the impact of print on the 16th century (with a look at cyberspace on 21st-century global culture); the Industrial "Revolution"; Eurocentrism and modernity (with a look at China as an alternative model of development); genocide and the Nazis; Orientalism, Post-Colonialism, and the Clash of Civilizations. Richard Landes. T 3:30-6:30. Area: European.

GRS HI 750. American Historiography. Examines the methodological and professional development of American historians since the 1880s, changes in the field since the founding period, and new directions in U.S. history. Instructor to be announced. Area: American.

GRS HI 757. Topics in American Cultural History. Offered under the rubric of American Cultural History, the spring 2009 offering of this course will be a team-taught seminar exploring the American South in a global context. Led by Professors Nina Silber (History) and John Matthews (English) and bringing together graduate students in history, English, and American Studies, students will study works of history, literature, and theory that show various ways in which the US South has intersected with global developments. Topics to be studied include: New World colonialism; hemispheric plantation societies; US imperialism; decolonization; and the African diaspora. Nina Silber. R 3:30-6:30. Area: American.

Note: Students in 800-level courses attend lectures with undergraduates but are required to do substantially more advanced work (including, for example, additional reading, graduate-student section meetings, or research papers).

GRS HI 838. Germany, 1914 to the Present. German history from the beginning of World War I to the present with emphasis on the politico-social developments, the Nazi attempt to control Europe, the growing division of Germany, the integration of West and East Germany into power blocs, and German reunification. Helena Toth. MWF 10-11. Area: European.

GRS HI 847. Issues in Modern Russian and Soviet History, 1861-1956. Modern Russia in the imperial and Soviet eras--from the Great Reforms of Alexander II through the end of Stalin's reign. Examines Russia's political, socio-economic, and cultural transformation from the traditional society into the first Communist state. Anna Geifman. MWF 11-12. Area: European.

GRS HI 854. Religious Thought in America. This course surveys many of the strategies that American religious thinkers have adopted for interpreting the cosmos, the social order, and human experience and examines the interaction of those strategies with broader currents of American culture. Jon Roberts. MWF 11-12. Area: American.

GRS HI 866. History of American Foreign Relations Since 1898. Analysis of the history of American foreign policy from the perspective of the changing world and regional international systems; emphasis on the effect of these systems and the impact of America on the creation and operation of international systems. David Mayers. M 3-6. Area: American.

GRS HI 874. Intellectual History of the United States, 1900 to the Present. Major thinkers and movements in intellectual and cultural history since 1900. Topics include pragmatism and progressivism; ethnic and cultural pluralism; Marxism and liberalism; Cold War ideology and neoconservatism; artistic modernism; psychoanalysis and modernization theory; the New Left, multiculturalism, and postmodernism. Samuel Deese. MWF 10-11. Area: none.

GRS HI 885. History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825. Examines the various interactions that shaped the Atlantic World, connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas between 1500 and 1800. After defining the political interaction, there is special emphasis on cultural exchange, religious conversion, and the revolutionary era. John Thornton. TR 11-12:30. Area: none.