| fullname qtr yr | Crs | Sec | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spr 09 | 31004 | 01 | Roman Law | Ando, Clifford | The course will treat several problems arising in the historical development of Roman law: the history of procedure; the rise and accommodation of multiple sources of law, including the emperor; the dispersal of the Roman community from the environs of Rome to the wider Mediterranean world; and developments in the law of persons. We will discuss problems like the relationship between religion and law from the archaic city to the Christian empire, and between the law of Rome and the legal systems of its subject communities. |
| Spr 09 | 31400 | 01 | 18th-Century Britain | Cook, Edward | This mixed lecture and discussion course explores the main political, social, intellectual, economic, and religious developments in Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the Napoleonic wars. Emphasis is on the relationship between politics and the social order, and on the evolution of modes of political behavior. |
| Spr 09 | 32002 | 01 | Byzantine Military History | Kaegi, Walter | Interpretation of major issues of institutional, operational, and strategic history, between the fourth and fourteenth centuries. Readings include selections from Byzantine military manuals and historians, as well as recent historical assessments. Among topics are debates on the theme system and numbers. Final examination and short paper. |
| Spr 09 | 33003 | 01 | Urban Europe 1600-present | Craig, John | This course examines the growth, structure, and impact of urban Europe from an era of guilds, merchant capitalism, and state-building to the present. Attention goes both to the changing forms and functions of urban systems and to the defining features of different categories of town and city to the occupational structure, the built environment, the provisioning, the physical and other disamenities, the policing, and so on. Emphasis is on the spatial, the economic, the social, and the political, but consideration is also given to shifting images of urban life, pro and con, and to current thinking about the prospects of urban Europe. |
| Spr 09 | 33300 | 01 | Capitalism in Mod Euro | Sewell, William | Full Title: Emergence of Captialism in Early Modern Europe This course investigates the emergence of capitalism in Europe and the world as a whole between the early sixteenth and the late eighteenth centuries. We discuss the political and cultural as well as the economic sources of capitalism and explore Marxist, neoclassical, and cultural approaches. |
| Spr 09 | 33401 | 01 | Genocide Euro Jews, 1933-1945 | Wasserstein, Bernard | A lecture-discussion course which asks the following questions: What explanations can be offered for the mass murder of the Jews in Europe? Who were the perpetrators? What were the respective roles of the German police apparatus, of the German army, of the Nazi Party, of the state bureaucracy, of ordinary Germans? What were the responses of occupied populations in Europe, of neutral countries, of the Allies, and of Jews themselves? How have historical interpretations evolved over the past half-century? |
| Spr 09 | 35904 | 01 | Islamic History and Socieyt 3 | Need course description | |
| Spr 09 | 36005 | 01 | Coll: Sources for the Study of Islamic History | Woods, John | This course is designed to acquaint the student with the basic problems and concepts as well as the sources and methodology for the study of premodern Islamic history. Sources will be read in English translation and the tools acquired will be applied to specific research projects to be submitted as term papers. Offered in alternate years. |
| Spr 09 | 36103 | 01 | Latin American Civ 3 | Borges, Dain | This sequence fulfills the common core requirement in civilization studies by introducing students to the history and cultures of Latin America, including Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean Islands. Autumn quarter examines the origins of civilizations in Latin America with a focus and the political, social, and cultural features of the major pre-Columbian civilizations of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec. The quarter concludes with consideration of the Spanish and Portuguese conquest and the construction of colonial societies in Latin America. Winter quarter addresses the evolution of colonial societies, the wars of independence, and the emergence of Latin American nation-states in the changing international context of the nineteenth century. Spring quarter focuses on the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the challenges of economic, political, and social development in the region. |
| Spr 09 | 36602 | 01 | Mughal, India: Tradition and Transition | Alam, Muzaffar | Full Title: Mughal, India: Tradition and Transition This course will focus on the period of Mughal rule, from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. This period exhibits signs of both continuity and change in relation to the earlier period of the Sultanate of Delhi, but there is also clear evidence of institutional change over the period of Mughal rule itself. The course will focus on some selected issues that have been at the centre of historiographical debate in the past decades. Some of the major texts on the basis of which Mughal legitimacy was defined and defended in the period will be discussed. The new efforts in the eighteenth century to define a stable basis for Mughal rule after the challenges posed from the outside and the provinces will be examined. The course will also deal with the role of language and religious traditions in Mughal politics, including the attempts in the period to translate scriptures and holy books of one tradition into another. Finally, there will also be an attempt to place the Mughal world in a wider context, in relation to Central Asia and Iran. |
| Spr 09 | 37805 | 01 | 19th Century US Western History | Conzen, Kathleen | Need course description |
| Spr 09 | 39000 | 01 | Lat Am Religions, New & Old |
Borges, Dain | This course will consider select pre-twentieth-century issues, such as the transformations of Christianity in colonial society and the Catholic Church as a state institution. It will emphasize twentieth-century developments: religious rebellions; conversion to evangelical Protestant churches; Afro-diasporan religions; reformist and revolutionary Catholicism; new and New-Age religions. |
| Spr 09 | 39301 | 01 | Human Rgts 1 | Staff | This course deals with the philosophical foundations of human rights. The foundations bear on basic conceptual and normative issues. We examine the various meanings and components of human rights and the subjects, objects, and respondents of human rights. We ask questions such as Who has the rights? What are they rights to? Who has the correlative duties? What methods of argument and implementation are available in this area? The practical implications of these theoretical issues are also explored. |
| Spr 09 | 39408 | 01 | Human Rights in Mexico | Gzesh, Susan | This course will examine human rights in Mexico from the early 20th century to the present. It begins with the notion of rights created in the post-revolutionary Constitution of 1917, through the consolidation of the relationship between the individual, sectors of society, and the state in the Cardenas period. The course will examine the role of Mexico in the formation of international and regional human rights agreements as well as Mexico s role as a country of refuge for political exiles. The second half of the course will focus on two contemporary case studies. In the area of civil and political rights, it will examine the 1968 massacre of students in Mexico City. In the area of economic, social, and cultural rights, it will examine either agrarian reform and right to land in west-central Mexico or the situation of indigenous peoples in southern Mexico. A reading knowledge of Spanish and good oral comprehension, and at least one course on Latin American history or culture are required. |
| Spr 09 | 47001 | 01 | Women in Amer Religious History 1630-present |
Brekus, Catherine | This course explores the religious history of American women. Topics include female religious leadership, practices (for example, prayer and devotional life), reform, religion and domestic violence, suffrage, and religion and Second Wave feminism. We will read a wide variety of primary texts, including diaries and novels, as well as major interpretive works in the field. Our main question will be What difference does it make to include women in our narratives of American religion? |
| Spr 09 | 5 | 01 | Colloq: US Cultural History | Stanley, Amy | |
| Spr 09 | 50102 | 01 | Colloq: Post-Colonial African History | Osborn, Emily | This course will examine post-colonial Africa through an exploration of research by historians, political scientists, anthropologists and economists, as well as the work of novelists and film makers. We will read broadly from different regions and countries in Africa and investigate a variety of topics including: the domestic and international legacies of colonialism and independence movements; neoliberalism and African modernities; disease, health, and healing; trans-national and trans-continental migration; the causes and consequences of environmental and ecological change; and the definitions and material expressions of poverty and wealth in urban and rural Africa. |
| Spr 09 | 53401 | 01 | Colloq: Atlantic World in the Era of the French Revolution | Cheney, P & Saville, J | This course explores historical contingencies of political, economic, and cultural linkages in French Atlantic colonialism, giving particular attention to the nature of acute crises of its revolutionary phase, from 1784 to 1815, and subsequent contestations of the terms of republican synthesis and imperial order. |
| Spr 09 | 60603 | 01 | Colloq: The Medieval Nobility | Lyon, Jonathan | This course is designed to introduce students to recent historical theories and debates concerning the medieval European nobility between approximately 750 and 1250 AD. Topics will include the relationship between king and nobility under the Carolingians; the supposed transformation of noble family structures in the period around the year 1000; the advantages and disadvantages of using charter evidence to study the medieval nobility; and the relationship between the nobility and Church institutions. Though England, France and the German empire will be the focus of the course, students will be introduced to historiographical problems concerning other regions of Europe as well. All required readings will be in English, but it is recommended that students have basic reading skills in French and/or German. |
| Spr 09 | 62203 | 01 | Colloq: Citizenship in the United States | Sparrow, James | This course examines the changing nature of citizenship in America from the colonial period to the present. Weekly discussions are organized according to the principal dimensions of citizenship -- civic, political, juridical, economic, social, cultural, international -- as they unfolded over time. Although the reponderance of course materials is drawn from empirical studies, the readings also track relevant arguments within political theory, excerpts of which are to be read alongside the main texts. |
| Spr 09 | 63900 | 01 | Religion in Early National/Antebellum Am | Brekus, Catherine | This course is a survey of American religious history from the American revolution to the Civil War. Topics include church and state, revivalism, reform, ethnicity and immigration, slavery, and new religious movements. Requirements: two short papers (two to three pages each) on the weekly readings, and a final fifteen-page review essay. All students are also required to lead class discussion once during the quarter. |
| Spr 09 | 65400 | 01 | Coll: Crit Theory & 20th Cen 2 | Postone, Moishe | The second quarter of this two-quarter colloquium concentrates on later works by Adorno, as well as the theoretical trajectory of Habermas. |
| Spr 09 | 90000 | ## | Rdg/Rsch: History Grad | ||
| Spr 09 | 90600 | ## | Oral Fields Preparation: History | ||
| Spr 09 | 97800 | 01 | Wksp: Hist/Philos of Science | ||
| Spr 09 | 97900 | 01 | Wksp: Hist of Human Sciences | Richards, Robert | |
| Spr 09 | 99003 | 01 | Workshop: Professional Issues | staff | This practical workshop advises students on their professional development from the first years of graduate course work to a career as a freshly minted Ph.D. Meeting every two weeks throughout the academic year, the workshop features panel discussions and tours led by upper-level graduate students, faculty, and staff and addresses such issues as study, research, and teaching skills; orals fields; dissertation proposals; grantsmanship and conference presentations, among other topics. The workshop is open to students in all stages of the doctoral program, as well students in masters programs who are contemplating a career as an historian. |
| Spr 09 | 99700 | ## | Thesis Preparation: History | ||
| Spr 09 | 99800 | ## | Tching Eurpn Hist-UG Colleges | Staff | |
| Spr 09 | 99900 | ## | Apprenticeship: Teaching History | Staff |