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HIST 107/ASN 101 Trekking Through Asia

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ing, from various angles, the complicated process that gave both “modernity” and “Europe” coherence. Starting with the events in the late fifteenth century, our major topics include the advent of printing, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the wars of religion, overseas expansion and empire, the scientific revolution, state formation, the Enlightenment, the age of political revolutions, the industrial revolution, the rise of liberalism, mass politics, the two world wars, fascism, decolonization, and the creation of the EU. Authors include Machiavelli, Luther, Montaigne, Bacon, Rousseau, Hobbes, Voltaire, Wollstonecraft, Maistre, Tocqueville, Mill, Marx, Mazzini, Nietzsche, Weber, Schmitt, Freud, Beauvoir, Woolf, Arendt, Foucault, and others. HIST 111 Topics in Introduction to American History These courses investigate different topics, but they all explore critical episodes or themes in American history to help you: 1) understand the complex nature of the historical re- cord; 2) engage in historical inquiry, research, and analysis; 3) craft historical narrative and argument; and 4) practice historical thinking in order to better understand and engage with present-day society. Prerequisites: none. (Offered every semester.)

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HIST 120/ASN 120 Making of the Samurai

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and animations, historical novels , and even advertisements. But who were the samurai in Japanese history, and what did they do? When did they emerge, and where did they stand in society? What did they eat, and how did they go about their day-to-day lives? How were they perceived by their contemporaries, and how did they see themselves? When did today’s images of the samurai come about, and how? These are some of the questions we will address in this course, Making of the Samurai. In the process, we will also work on critical writing, reading, and thinking skills. HIST 151 Food Systems in History This course traces the historical emergence of the contemporary world food sys- tem. Students briefly examine the transition from hunter-gathering to Neolithic village agriculture, the differentiation between steppe agriculture and steppe nomadism in ancient Eurasia and the medieval agricultural systems of East Europe and Asia. In the second half, students examine the development of the present-day global food system since 1500. An important course goal is to understand the meaning of changes in the food systems for individual lives. HIST 176 Western Civilizations and their Discontents This class provides a critical introduction to ideas of Western thought, and it focuses on a varying body of possible themes (including but not limited to self, state, body, other, city, nature, justice, decline and fall, and the sacred). Every iteration of the class will introduce students to some of the debates around the very idea of a Western canon and its complicated and often sordid history. Every itera- tion of the class will put core texts in conversation with the imperial origins and historically constructed nature of ideas about civilization. Likewise, every iteration of the class will include a select set of texts, and every iteration of the class will focus on close reading, discussion, and both creative and analytical short, text-focused writing HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 264 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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African and Middle Eastern History

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History 208 Women in America History 209 Medieval Women History 220 Early Medieval Europe

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formation of the modern Mexican state, from 1810 to the present. Mexico emerged as a nation-state as part of a larg- er, transnational process of democratic-nationalist revolutions, steeped in the languages and ideologies of national- ism, liberalism, and democracy. In applying these new models of society, however, elite state-builders continued to bar large sectors of the population from access to social citizenship based on ethnic, class, and gender exclusionary criteria. This contradiction has continued to haunt Mexico throughout history. This course is a historical examination of how social citizenship and “Mexicanness” have been understood and disputed across racial, class, gender, and regional lines, beginning with the nation’s foundational contradiction. (Ristow, offered annually) HIST 206 Colonial America This course examines the transplantation of Europeans to the colonies, and the devel- opment of ideas and institutions in the New World. It takes a close look at local communities in the colonies, and the interplay of religion, politics, economics, and family life. It also deals with the factors that led to the Revolution. (Offered occasionally) HIST 207 United States History in the Age of Revolutions, 1776-1848 This course will trace the trajectory of United States history from the end of the colonial period to the eve of the Civil War. The critical framework for the course will be empire, as we trace the origins of the United States in a crisis of the British Empire in the Atlantic World to the construction of U.S. Empire over the North American Continent and the Pacific. Our focus will be on laws and in- stitutions, politics and political economy, and the centrality of the institution of slavery to this history. We will also be concerned with the global imperial dimensions of this history, from Native Americans to the international revolutions that influenced the course of U.S. History, from the French and Haitian revolutions to Latin American independence movements and the first communist revolution of 1848 in Europe. Was the American Revolution a revolution like these others? Why or why not? What does it mean to see U.S. History in light of its origins in drought and contested world of revolutions and empires? (Offered semi-annually. Crow.)

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ing on how women’s status was determined, maintained, and contested. It examines themes of patriarchy, power, autonomy, dependence, and agency, and considers how issues of class, race, and sexuality have shaped women’s interactions with each other and with men. It also explores the changing social rules that define gender roles, and investigates the way that women and men have dealt with those rules and expectations over time. (Free, Offered annually)

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texts relating to women in the Middle Ages. Beginning with the end of the Roman world and ending in 1500 CE, this course will focus on four topics relating to women: marriage, work, the body, and religiosity. For each section, the class will explore how these categories change over time in the medieval period within Europe. Also in each section, an entire class period will be devoted to the life of a medieval woman whose life and writings reflected the ques- tions of that period. HIST 211 Medieval and Renaissance Italy This course will explore the history of Medieval and Renaissance Italy, introducing students to significant political, social, economic, and cultural changes. Specific themes include the creation of communal governments and urban culture in northern Italy, the rise of the papacy, the developing role of humanism in culture and politics, state-building and empire, the changing nature of warfare, and the emergence of concepts such as the individual, civility, and courtliness. Students will work with a wide variety of primary source HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 265 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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Middle Ages. Early medieval Europe and the Mediterranean shared an inheritance from the Roman world of Roman institutions, Christianity, and barbarian identities. The civilizations that developed in the West including the Merovingians, Lombards, Carolingians, Byzantines, and early Islamic dynasties were profoundly shaped by all these components in varied ways. Beginning with the later Roman Empire, the course is organized around political shifts but also covers developments in religious, legal, economic, social, and cultural history. Major themes of the class include the changing nature of religious authority, political fragmentation, and legal transformation.

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America, from pre-contact societies in the Americas and Europe, to the American independence movements of the nineteenth-century. Chronologically, this course will focus on five periods: pre-Columbian societies in the Americas and Europe; the violent conquest of the “New World” by Spanish conquistadores; the immediate aftermath of con- quest and the consolidation of Spanish authority (c. 1530-1600); the establishment of stability and Spanish colonial rule (c. 1600-1800); and the fall of the Spanish Empire (c. 1730s-1810). The two key geographical areas of examination will be Central Mexico, and the Central Andes. Conceptually, this course will focus on the interrelated concepts of conquest and colonialism, paying close attention to the delicate balance of coercion and persuasion in the construc- tion of the Spanish colonial regime. (Ristow, offered annually) HIST 227 African-American History I This course traces the history of Africans and their descendants in America from the 17th century through the Civil War. Topics include the slave trade from Africa to the English colonies in North America; establishment of the slave system and slave laws in the 17th century; the evolution of slavery and slave cul- ture in the 18th century; transformations in African American life during the Revolutionary age; the experience of free blacks in the North and South; black society in the Old South; black abolitionism; the Civil War; and Emancipation. (Harris, offered annually)

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post World War II era, exploring the division of Europe into two blocs, economic recovery, the formation of welfare states, decolonization, supra national associations, the Common Market (EEC), NATO, and the Warsaw Pact. Special emphasis is placed on European relations with the U.S. and the former U.S.S.R. Students explore consequences of the end of the Cold War, including attempts to construct democracies and market economies in Eastern Europe, political turmoil, and the resurgence of nationalism in Western Europe. (Linton, offered alternate years)

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including the Armenian massacres and the destruction of European Jewry; the ongoing crisis in the Middle East; and the relative decline of Europe and decolonization were all closely linked to the two world wars. This course explores these two cataclysmic wars: their origins, conduct, and consequences. In addition to such traditional approaches as military, political, and diplomatic history, students use literary, artistic, and cinematic representations to view these wars through personal experiences. (Linton, Fall)

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lyzing the sources of mass immigration to the United States, the encounters among various immigrant groups and natives, and the changing conceptions of ethnicity. The course covers the period from the 1840s to the present. It starts with the Irish and Germans who emigrated in the early 19th century, then consider the Russian Jews, Italians, and others who began arriving in the 1890s, and then investigates the post-1965 emigration from Asia, the Americas, and India that is remaking the country today. Reference is also made to the internal migrations of African-Americans. (Hood, offered alternate years)

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sioned world conquest, and drank copiously. They also created the largest land empire in the world, ruled over this empire effectively, and fostered cultural exchange across Eurasia at an unprecedented scale. After its fall, the em- pire’s legacies continued to impact Eurasian history, arguable to this day. This course explores aspects of this great empire, from its Central Asian nomadic origins to the Mongol predicament after it s fall. Our main focus is Genghis HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 267 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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constitutionalism in what would become the United States from its origins in medieval and early modern English law and institutions through to the ratification of the US Constitution; the institution of slavery; the Marshall Court; expansion policy; the American Civil War and Reconstruction; Jim Crow segregation and the Gilded Age; progressiv- ism legal realism and pragmatism as modes of constitutional interpretation; the New Deal and the Supreme Court; the Civil rights Movement; modern struggles over abortion, affirmative action, the Equal Rights Amendment and gay rights; originalism and the impact of the rise of modern conservatism; the imperial presidency; the constitutional implications of the threats of terrorism and great power rivalry and the resurgence of populism. Our major themes include the legacy of colonial and imperial governance for subsequent American history, the changing politics of constitutional interpretation, the politics of race and slavery, law, labor, and economic change, and the shifting grounds of legitimacy for the exercise of power on the national level. This course substantially addresses the Ethical Judgment Goal and the Social Inequality Goal. HIST 246 American Environmental History In this course, historical place in the natural landscape is described through the methods of “environmental history,” embracing three concerns: ecological relationships between humans and nature, political and economic influences on the environment, and cultural conceptions of the natu- ral world. Drawing on methods from the natural and social sciences, and the humanities, students will survey 500 years of American environmental history, from the ecological conflicts of Indians and settlers to recent debates over endangered species and hazardous wastes. Topics range from urban pollution and suburban sprawl to agricultural practices and wilderness protection. (Hood, offered alternate years) HIST 250 Medieval Popular Culture What is the relationship between “high” and “low” culture? How do “oral” cultures think, and how have literacy and electronic media transformed human consciousness in more recent times? Close exploration of the material conditions of peasant life, of the psychological workings of folklore, magic, witch- craft, and play in culture help students come to terms with these issues. We assess the historical consequences of oppression within the political structure of the “three estates” and evaluate the efficacy of various techniques of popular resistance. In the end, we assess the value of play in sustaining social cohesion, emotional stability and per- sonal freedom in our historical heritage. (Flynn, offered annually) HIST 253 Renaissance and Reformation This course explores the major intellectual, artistic, political, and religious events making up the “Renaissance” and the “Reformation,” two of the most energetic and creative moments in western history. Students read the works of several principal architects of these movements, along with contem- porary historians’ attempts to explain the convergence of individual genius and collective cooperation that took place between 1300 and 1600. The period shattered medieval understanding of the nature of reality, the shape of the cosmos, and the relation between humanity and god. It was in this period that modern notions of individualism, freedom of conscience and national sovereignty began to shape the modern world. (Flynn, offered alternate years)

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the nature of work, and has thoroughly transformed communications, warfare, international relations, leisure time, and the arts. This course examines the impact of machinery on social relations and human relations to nature. It explores the promotion and institutionalization of technical innovation in the last two centuries in Europe. Finally, it views the conflicting intellectual and social responses to technological change, ranging from fantasies of techno- cratic utopias to machine smashing and dark visions of humanity displaced and dominated by mechanized systems. (Linton, Fall, offered alternate years)

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such as Manchester and Bochum, and the transformation of older administrative and cultural centers such as Paris and Vienna. The course emphasizes the ways in which contrasting visions of the city as “source of crime and pathol- ogy” or “fount of economic dynamism and democratic sociability” were expressed and embodied in city planning, reform movements, and the arts. In exploring the modern city, students use perspectives derived from European and American social and political thought and employ literary, statistical, and visual source materials. (Linton, offered alternate years) HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 268 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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distribution of plants with enormous social, economic, cultural and biological consequences. The plantation system was a new form of economic enterprise dedicated to the production of a single cash crop usually brought from else- where such as sugar, tobacco, or cotton grown for distant markets. European administrators and merchants devel- oped international trade in stimulants such as coffee and tea, medicinal plants such as cinchona bark (quinine), dye plants such as indigo, narcotics such as opium, food crops such as wheat and garden plants such as tulips and tree peonies. Students trace the globalization of traffic in plants and its consequences from Columbus to contemporary debates over genetically modified crops and bioprospecting. (Linton) HIST 297 Pre-Modern Mediterranean Law Starting with the creation of Roman Law, this class traces the major legal developments across the Mediterranean World until the Renaissance. The course focuses on the development of barbarian law, religious law (canon, rabbinic, and Islamic law), and English common law. The class also problematizes these changes by exploring dispute resolution and extra-judicial violence.

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literal meanings of ancient religious texts, but find meaning in civil society, material life, and science, and uphold the sanctity of human equality, which they experience through relatively unrestrained access to various news media, conversations held in accessible social spaces, and schooling premised on the belief that education and experience shape the human mind. How responsible is the 18th-century movement of rigorous criticism and cultural renewal known as “the Enlightenment”? Students examine its coherence as a movement, its major themes and proponents, its meaning for ordinary people, its varied interpretations, its spread throughout Europe and beyond, and the more sinister cultural institutions and projects that many Enlightenment figures were reluctant to interrogate. (Kadane, offered annually) HIST 304 Early American Republic: 1789-1840 This course is a seminar that will allow students to explore current scholarship in the vibrant field of the early republic, from the end of the American Revolution through the antebellum period in the nineteenth century. Themes include western expansion and Native American history, race and slavery, political history and the rise of the party system, exploration and empire, gender and sexuality, the history of capi- talism, and the rise of American literature and legal and political thought. By the end of the class, each student will HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 269 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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with Japan’s plunge into multiple wars, its occupation by a foreign nation, and its economic recovery to become the second largest economy in the world. Less explored is Showa as the heyday of Japanese cinema. While motion pictures were first introduced to Japan in the late 19th century, domestic production only took off in the 1920s to the 1930s. Following the Asia-pacific Wars, Japanese film gained worldwide popularity in the 1950s and 1960s with directors such as Kurosawa Akira, Ozu Yasujiro, and Mizoguchi Kenji gaining international recognition. By the end of Showa, Japanese cinema was in decline as other forms of entertainment overshadowed movie-going and a massive recession affected the film industry. This course explores the history of the Showa period using films as artifacts of Japanese perspectives into their state and society and the Japanese role in the Asia-Pacific region and the world. (Yoshikawa) HIST 306 Seminar: US Civil War and Reconstruction – America’s 2nd Revolution This seminar-style course is a follow up to History 235, exploring in greater depth and complexity the causes and outcomes of the American Civil War. Some questions we may consider: Why did the War begin? What role did slavery’s expansion play? How did Americans understand the idea of “Union”? Why did they engage in “total war”? How did the massive casualty rate change how people experienced and understood death? How did the formerly enslaved claim power in the post- war period? Was Reconstruction a failure? Why does the Civil War continue to matter? Ultimately, we will hope to better understand why Americans went to war with themselves in the mid-nineteenth century, and how that war transformed the nation. (Free) HIST 308 The Historian’s Craft This course will introduce the methods and theories that have been particularly influ- ential in shaping the work and profession of historians in the last several decades. Attention will be given to a broad range of approaches, with the goal of understanding the arguments, assumptions, and perspectives that mold out sense of the past. (Kadane) HIST 310 Rise of Industrial America The main theme of this course is the multiple meanings for diverse Americans of the triumph of an urban/industrial society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The nature of industrial lead- ership, immigration and urbanization, and analyses of major political and social reform movements are among the topics to be covered. (Hood, offered alternate years) HIST 311 20th Century America This course is a continuation of HIST 310. World War I and its aftermath, economic and social changes in the 1920s, interaction between politics and urbanization, the Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the New Deal are among the topics to be covered. (Hood, offered alternate years) HIST 313 Darwinian Revolution This course first examines the life and work of Charles Darwin focusing on the gen- esis of his theory of evolution and then explores the ramifications of the Darwinian revolution both for the natural and human sciences and for broader religious, cultural, and political life. The course investigates what the Darwinian revolution tells about scientific revolutions and about the use and abuse of science in the modern world. The em- phasis will be on Darwinian revolution in Europe, but attention will be paid to Darwin’s fate in the Americas and Asia. (Linton, offered alternate years)

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rights movements in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries, two centuries that witnessed the explosion of movements for women’s emancipation. Students explore the social, legal, political and economic conditions of women at different historical moments along with the efforts of women (and men) to change those conditions. Women often differed about what the most important issues facing their sex were. Consequently, this course exam- ines not only the issues that have united women, but also the issues that have divided them. (Free, offered alternate years)

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Pacific Wars among the people of North East Asia and the United States. We will examine changes and continuities in these views in the framework of regional politics and economy since 1945, focusing on such controversial issues as the Nanjing massacre, “comfort women,” Pearl Harbor, war and racism, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibit, and history textbooks. In the broadest context, the course explores the history of imperialism and colonialism in Asia-Pacific since the late nineteenth century and the importance of “history” and “memory” in under- standing its consequences. We will be reading a variety of secondary materials. HIST 324 Barbarian Empires: Aborigines, Pirates, Sea Otters Asia’s long eighteenth century saw imperial expansions HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 270 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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Africans departed the continent as part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. How did this massive forced migration change the continent? Why did some African rulers participate in the slave trade? How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade change the institution of slavery in Africa itself? Did the trans-Atlantic slave trade contribute to later forms of political instability in Africa? In this class, we will trace the political, social , economic, and cultural impact to the rise and fall of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on the African continent.

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Mediterranean world and how historians have used these texts to compose histories of the Middle Ages and under- stand the present. Topics include medieval biography, the relationship between science and history, Norman history writing and language, and medieval travel writing. HIST 345 Race-ing America: An Exploration of Race in America Race is a central organizing principle in America. It intersects with social institutions such as government, family, and church and, in turn, shapes the lives of all Americans. This course is an exploration of the formation of race and its effects in the lived experience of Americans. Each week we will explore a different theme (such as race and medicine/health, the justice system, immigra- tion, sports, real estate, travel, etc.). An example of texts we will read are: Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1999), Deirdre Cooper Owens, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology (2018), Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2014), and Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (2007). Each week one or more students will be responsible for presenting on the assigned reading/topic under discussion for that week. For the final, students will compose a ten-to-fifteen-page seminar paper. HIST 348 Black Women in the Struggle for Rights in America: P. Wheatley to Black Lives Matter From the founding of the United States, the concept of rights and citizens bearing those rights were understood to be a central part of American democracy and belonging. And yet, not all people in the nation were accorded rights. For example, the HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 271 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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sought to better understand the brutal struggle that divided families, neighbors and regions. Through the veterans’ parades and public statues, films and novels, impassioned debates about the Confederate battle flag, battle reen- actments, and public unrest over monument placement and removal, Americans, popular culture has ‘remembered’ the Civil War in varied ways, thereby assigning varied meanings to the conflict. This class explores these diverse meanings, interrogates why this particular moment in American history continues to fascinate and enrage Americans, and examines the complicated relationship between American history, memory, and culture. (Free, offered alternate years) HIST 495/496 Honors HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 273 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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