Graduate Course Descriptions
Spring 2007
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Ancient |
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| 285A.001 - The Alien in Antiquity: Greek and Roman Perceptions of the Foreigner | Gruen | |
| Tues 2-5 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39855 | |
| Updated January 25, 2007 | ||
| Note Room Change! | ||
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The seminar will explore the impressions of the alien and the unfamiliar in a number of key texts by classical authors. The aim will be to get beyond the simplistic notion of constructing the "Other" and to discern the nuances and complexities in ancient descriptions. We will look at the perceptions of Persians in works like Aeschylus' Persae, Herodotus, and Xenophon, at Egyptians through the eyes of Herodotus and Diodorus, at Phoenicians in Plautus' Poenulus, at Gauls and Germans in the writings of Caesar and Tacitus, and at Jews in a variety of classical texts. The class will meet as a group for about five weeks, then work individually on a major paper, and resume group meetings in the later part of the semester to discuss each student's paper. |
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Asia |
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| 275F.001 - Classics and Classicism | Nylan | |
| W 2-5 205 Wheeler | CCN: 39735 | |
| Updated January 23, 2007 | ||
| Note new ROOM! Last Meeting in 201 Wheeler is 1/24 on Wed 2-4. Course schedule is tentative and set only for the first class meeting, as the schedule may be altered to accommodate student needs. | ||
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This course seeks to acquaint students with the Five Classics as the common coin of cultivation in early China. It will begin with three sets of writings that ostensibly do not relate to China: Viccy Coltman's Fabricating the Antique: Neoclassicism in Britain; Gramsci on "organic intellectuals"; and Bourdieu on cultural reproduction. Girardot's The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage will follow, along with Makeham's Transmitters and Creators: Chinese commentators and commentaries on the Analects. After this brief introduction, we will begin to read selections from each of the Five Classics, in light of major commentarial traditions and subsequent interpretations. Graduate students will, obviously, bring different levels of modern and classical Chinese to the course. Luckily for the beginner, a great deal of relevant material exists in translation. Those with more linguistic expertise will be expected to demonstrate facility with Chinese and/or Japanese. |
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| 280F.001 - | Zinoman | |
| W 12-2 214 Haviland | CCN: 39804 | |
| 280F.002 - Biography and Social History | Tamari | |
| M 4-6 202 Wheeler | CCN: 39807 | |
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This seminar will attempt to investigate problems in the modern and early modern urban social history of the Middle East through the prism of biography and autobiographical literature. Participants will read and discuss a number of interpretive texts as well as original diaries, memoirs and autobiographies from a number of Middle Eastern countries. The themes covered include: -The emergence of notions of the self in the late Ottoman period -The formation of an Arab secular identity -The experience of the urban for small town and village migrants -Modernity as experienced at the margins of society: cafe culture, musicians, and bordellos -The disintegration of communal solidarities -Out of the Haremlik -- the torturous road of female emancipation -The discovery of Europe and European modernity in the Middle East |
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| 285F.001 - Research Seminar in Modern Chinese History | Yeh | |
| Wed 10-12 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39903 | |
| New course added! NOTE SCHEDULE CHANGE! | ||
| The purpose of this seminar is to facilitate the writing of a research paper on a topic of your choice. It is also to encourage professional interactions among fellow scholars. Grades for this course will be assigned by the following criteria: timely and efficient conduct of research, contribution to seminar discussions through peer interaction, and excellence and significance of final paper. Please see the instructor before the first week of class to discuss your paper ideas. | ||
Britain |
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| 280C.001 - The Historiography of Empire and Imperialism | Metcalf | |
| Mon 2-4 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39777 | |
| Updated November 16, 2006 | ||
| Note new schedule! Also listed as 280B.005 | ||
| This course will examine the recent extensive historical writing on empire and imperialism. It will focus on the modern British Empire, situated in the context of larger European and American overseas expansion. We will begin with a look at the 'classic' historiography associated with historians ranging from J.R. Seeley to Ronald Robinson to Cain and Hopkins. We will assess the work of several 'postcolonial' theorists of empire, and engage with the ongoing debates on the role of empire in shaping the metropole. With Charles Meier and Niall Fergusson we will briefly consider the contentious question of parallels between the United States and Britain as 'imperial' powers. Students will be required to write two analytical papers. One will assess the work of an individual historian, or the writings about a major historical event. The second may develop themes from the student's own research interests so long as they are placed in the context of the course. | ||
| 285C.001 - Modern Imperial Britain: A Research Seminar | Vernon | |
| W 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39882 | |
| Updated October 23, 2006 | ||
| Also listed as 285U.001 Note corrected description. | ||
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The purpose of this course is to enable you to write a research paper on a topic of your choice. Accordingly the focus is not on a particular thematic or problem but on the process of research and writing itself. We will also use the class to discuss more general matters of professional development - looking forward to your doctoral work, publishing and getting a job - in dialogue with the discussions on The Making of the Working British Historian website. The common readings have been selected around your own diverse interests and will be used to discuss the questions that animate you as well as models of good (or bad) practice. We will start by reading my recently finished book so I can share with you some of my interests, why I arrived at them, and how they eventually became a book. |
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Comparative |
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| 280U.001 - Comparative Environmental History | Klein | |
| Tu 12-2 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39837 | |
| This is a readings seminar designed to introduce students to current problems and methods in environmental history. For quite some time, environmental history meant primarily the study of environmentalism and conservation in the United States. More recent work has expanded the field to include questions about colonialism, built landscape, and other topics that seem quite distant to matters of parks and game preserves. And although the bulk of the historiography remains concentrated in North America, so we will select some of the best new (and old) works from Europe and Asia to provide some comparative context and to sample the increasingly "global" aims of new projects. I don't expect any prior training in environmental history, but for those who did not take a related undergraduate course, I recommend skimming through one of the sourcebooks before our first meeting. Each student will give one oral presentation (based on one or more readings from the recommended list) and write three brief papers. There will be no outside reading, but I have kept the recommended list highly selective in hopes that you will have the opportunity to at least lay your hands on many of these titles. | ||
| 285U.001 - Modern Imperial Britain: A Research Seminar | Vernon | |
| W 2-4 | CCN: 39920 | |
| Also listed as 285C.001 | ||
| Course description and details posted under the Britain field heading. | ||
Europe |
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| 275B.001 - | Stovall | |
| Tues 12-2 108 Wheeler | CCN: 39717 | |
| History 275B is a graduate readings seminar that will cover the history and historiography of Europe in the twentieth century. Starting with general overviews of the period, we will cover topics including the Belle Epoque, the two world wars, fascism, Nazism, and the Holocaust, the Cold War, decolonization, the rise of consumer society, postcolonial Europe, and the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe. We will look at these events from a variety of different perspectives, including social history, cultural history, anthropological and literary approaches, memoirs, and fiction. If time and our collective energies permit we will consider the prospects for Europe in the 21st century. | ||
| 280B.001 - Early Modern/East Central European History | Frick | |
| Th 2-5 204 Dwinelle | CCN: 39750 | |
| Also listed as Slavic 280.001 | ||
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The course will examine topics in the history of early modern (East) Central Europe. The main areas of interest will be the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Czech lands, and the Holy Roman Empire. The topics will include: confessional and national identities, ecumenism, white magic and Rosicrucianism, witchcraft, Jews and Poles, Cossacks and religion, and the cities. We will read one book or collection of articles each week. Participants will be responsible for discussion and a 2- or 3-page response to the readings each week. Prerequisites: Graduate standing; consent of instructor. |
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| 280B.002 - French Culture and Politics, 1815 to the Present | Barrows | |
| Tu 4-6 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39753 | |
| Updated January 16, 2007 | ||
| NOTE NEW ROOM ASSIGNMENT! | ||
| This course is intended to introduce students to selected topics and interpretations of French culture and politics from the Restoration to the present. We will read analyses of the revolutionary tradition in the nineteenth century, the dramatic transformation of Paris during the Second Empire, the rise and fall of the French colonial empire, the mobilization of religion as a political force, culture and politics in the fin de siècle, the violence of the First World War, commemoration and memory in public life, Vichy and its troubled legacy, consumerism, and most recently, the rise of the green movement in French politics. All required readings will be in English. Students will share responsibility for animating discussions and will be asked to write two short papers (five pages) and a review essay of 15-20 pages. | ||
| 280B.003 - The Historical Anthropology of Religious Visions in Spain and Spanish America | Christian | |
| Th 10-12 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39756 | |
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Whether they know it or not, the lives of virtually all people on the globe have been marked by visions: most of the major religions have been founded through them or deeply marked in their dogmas and institutions by them; wars and revolutions have been fought because of them; and the private reception of visual images, auditory messages, or the sense of invisible presence enriches (and often confuses) the lives of a surprisingly large number of ordinary people. People who insist they see things that others do not can be scorned, whipped, interned, honored or venerated. This seminar will explore what has happened when people claimed religious visions primarily in Spain and Spanish America from 1400 to the present, with special emphasis on the early modern period. We will read case studies of laypersons and nuns, using verbatim testimony when possible, and attend to what these episodes reveal about the seers themselves, their immediate audience, those who promote them, the societies that react to them, and the human condition. Likely Readings: Cátedra, María This World, Other Worlds: Sickness, Suicide, Death, and the Afterlife among the Vaqueiros de Alzada of Spain. (Chicago) 0-226-09716-1 William A. Christian Jr., Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain (Princeton) 0-691-00826-4 Ottavia Niccoli, Prophecy and People in Renaissance Italy (Princeton) 0-691-00835-3 Richard L. Kagan, Lucrecia's Dreams; Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain (California) 978-0-520-20158-3 Sara Tilghman Nalle, Mad For God: Bartolomé Sánchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete (U Virginia) 0-8139-2001-9 Jodi Bilinkoff, Related Lives; Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450–1750 (Cornell) 0-8014-4251-6 Gillian T. W. Ahlgren, The Inquisition of Francisca: A Sixteenth-Century Visionary on Trial. (Chicago) 0-226-14224-8 Nancy E. van Deusen, Editor and translator, The Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesús (New Mexico) 0-8263-2828-8 Victor I. Stoichita, Visionary Experience in the Golden Age of Spanish Art (Reaktion)0948462752 Ruth Harris, Lourdes (Arkana) 0140196188 Jerzy Peterkiewicz, The Third Adam (Oxford) out of print Paolo Apolito, The Apparitions at Oliveto Citra (Penn State Press) out of print Paolo Apolito, The Internet and the Madonna: Religious Visionary Experience on the Web. (Chicago) 0-226-02150-5 |
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| 280B.004 - War and Memory | Adamthwaite | |
| W 2-4 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39759 | |
| This seminar can be taken as a 280 or 285. The subject is one of the growth areas of the historiography of twentieth century Europe. The focus is on the two world wars, Cold War and wars of decolonization but those with interests in other conflicts will be welcome. Readings offer a variety of perspectives: cultural, political, economic and social. Books include Jay Winter, Remembering War, David Reynolds, In Command of History, A.C Grayling, Among the Dead Cities, and Catherine Merridale, Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945. Requirements: one 12 page paper; a six sentence summary of each book, introducing a discussion on the book of the week. | ||
| 280B.005 - The Historiography of Imperialism and Empire | Metcalf | |
| Mon 2-4 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39762 | |
| Updated November 16, 2006 | ||
| Note new schedule! Also listed as 280C.001 | ||
| Description and course details posted under the Britain field heading | ||
| 280B.006 - Problems and Topics in Revolutionary France: 1750-1850 | Hesse | |
| W 10-12 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39765 | |
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Traditionally, the French Revolution has been studied as the last chapter in the history of the "Old Regime." Since 1989 all this has changed. Recent historiography has given shape to a new unit of French history, "revolutionary France," spanning roughly from the Enlightenment through the Revolution of 1848. The purpose of this course is to give students an opportunity to develop foundational knowledge of this most turbulent of periods in French history. It will introduce participants to the major areas of research in this field--political, social, economic, military, race and colonialism, women, religion and, not least, intellectual and cultural history. The aim will be to achieve a solid understanding of the causes, course and consequences of the Revolution of 1789-99 and the successive regimes that followed: the Napoleonic empire, the Bourbon Restoration, and the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848. Students will have an opportunity to engage with the major traditions of interpretation, both classical and contemporary. Reading knowledge of French is preferred, but not required. Course Requirements: The emphasis of this course is on reading. However, along with energetic reading and discussion, participants will be required to give two seminar presentations and to write two short (3-5 page) papers and one longer (15-20 page) final paper. A 285 option is negotiable. |
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| 280B.007 - | Laqueur | |
| Th 12-2 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39768 | |
| 280B.008 - The Holy Roman Empire | Brady | |
| Wed 3-5 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39771 | |
| An introduction to the Holy Roman Empire during the 15th to 18th centuries: physical, social, and political geography; Imperial, ecclesiastical, territorial, urban, and rural institutions; main lines of historical development from the late medieval depression to the French Revolution; major interpretations; the pre-history of modern Germany. This is a reading and discussion course (4 credits). Participants may enroll for Directed Readings (Hist 299) for P/NP credit (no paper) or for Old Empire (Hist 280B) for letter grade (paper required). | ||
| 285B.001 - Topics in the History of Twentieth Century Europe | Feldman | |
| M 2-4 202 Wheeler | CCN: 39858 | |
| Course schedule is tentative and set only for the first class meeting, as the schedule may be altered to accommodate student needs. | ||
| I am best equipped to guide research in political, social, economic, and diplomatic history. Participants will be asked to produce a 35-40 page paper based on original research. The projects chosen and structure of the seminar will depend on the interests of the students, and they should consult with me by e-mail or in my office hours about what they might like to do. | ||
| 285B.002 - | Jay | |
| M 10-12 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39861 | |
| 285B.003 - Ethics and Political Practice under the Carolingians | Koziol | |
| Thurs 4-6 123 Dwinelle | CCN: 39864 | |
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This course examines the ethical writings of the Carolingians - both those produced by the clergy for the laity and those produced by laypersons themselves - within three different framings. The first discusses these writings in terms of well-known issues of Carolingian history: for example, the reform program of Christianization and education, relations between clergy and laity, and the extent and nature of literacy. The second asks broader questions: Why do these writings take the form they do (e.g., mirrors for princes)? Why do they have the characteristics they have (such as a noticeably preachy utopianism)? Still more broadly, to what extent and in what contexts is framing politics in terms of ethics useful to or typical of any society? Put another way that combines both framings: Carolingian ethics is an ethics of wisdom. In talking about ethics and politics, we do not speak of wisdom at all, ever. Why is that? Why is wisdom so important a trope to the Carolingians, so unimportant to us? Is an ethics of wisdom simply an ideology of aristocracies? Finally (the third framing), at the same time that the Carolingians produced scads of ethical writings and consistently justified political actions in terms of ethics, they were one of the nastiest, most ruthless, violent, imperializing, and proudly deceitful people in European history. How can the two have coexisted, not just in the society but in the minds of individuals? Because this is a research seminar, readings will be kept as short and few as possible, in order to allow time for students to develop their own research topics and discuss topics and progress in class. Nevertheless, a wide array of genres will be presented in the first half of the class: Charlemagne's Programmatic Capitulary of 789 (joined with the Paderborn capitulary against the Saxons and the song of the Saxon Conquest); Alcuin's treatise on virtues; Dhuoda's manual for her son; Jonas of Orleans' De regimine principum and Hincmar's two admonitory letters to kings; the sermons of Rabanus Maurus; Adalgarius of Autun's "Political Testament"; the justifications of rebellion by Boso and Robert of Neustria; and preambles from charters. There will also be select, focused readings from both primary and secondary sources on countervailing Carolingian political practices, including blinding and mutilation, forgery and feuding, and damnatio memoriae. Though much of the reading will be in English, a significant amount will be in Latin. Alternative sources can be made available for students without Latin. On the other hand, students should note that much of the best historiography on these topics and sources is in German. |
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| 285B.004 - The Jewish Confrontation with Modernity | Efron | |
| Mon 10-12 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39867 | |
| Updated December 7, 2006 | ||
| Note new course! | ||
Latin America |
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| 280E.001 - Brazilian Historiography | Lewin | |
| W 4-6 206 Wheeler | CCN: 39801 | |
| A survey of major themes in Brazilian history from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, this seminar will examine historiographic debates and issues with special attention to revisionist works. Selected themes include early settlement, colonial society, African slavery, religion, intellectual thought, coffee economy, transition to a republic, twentieth-century race relations, and popular culture. Written work consists of three short essays plus oral participation. Required readings are in English, with the option of using works in Portuguese (including Portuguese language credit, if needed). Anyone wishing to take this course for H275E credit may do so by notifying the instructor. | ||
| 285E.001 - Research Seminar in Latin American History | Healey | |
| Fri 10-12 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39897 | |
| A workshop for developing independent research projects on Latin American topics. Open to doctoral students and master's students in Latin American Studies. | ||
Methodology |
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| 283.001 - Explorations in Comparative Historiography: Reading Foundational Texts from the East Asian and Mediterranean Traditions | Johnson | |
| M 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39849 | |
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In this seminar we will read some notable works of history from ancient and medieval China and Japan, and read them against equally important works from our own classical and medieval traditions. The aim is to induce students to confront their assumptions about what history is and should be by showing them how different were the assumptions of East Asian historians, especially the Chinese, who were probably the greatest writers of history of pre-modern times. We will read very little contemporary theory; I believe students are best served when they are encouraged to make their own theories. To give an idea of how we will proceed, here are readings from weeks two to four (in all cases, we will read selections, not entire books): 1. Beginnings: chronicle and epic. "Confucius," The Spring and Autumn Annals and the Tso Tradition; Homer, Odyssey; Herodotus, Histories. Plus ancillary readings. 2. The Annal-biography form and official historiography. Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Records of the Historian; Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War. Plus ancillary readings. 3. The Annal-biography form: annals. Pan Ku, History of the Former Han Dynasty; Tacitus, Annals of Imperial Rome. Plus ancillary readings. We will also look at biography, autobiography, medieval historiography, and traditional Chinese historical fiction. |
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| 283.002 - Transcendence & Immanence in History Thought | Brady | |
| Tues 9-12 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39852 | |
| Stages of the Western debate over the meaning of history: 1) the providential idea of history (St. Augustine, Venerable Bede, Otto of Freising); 2) immanental repetition (Machiavelli); immanental evolution (Giambattista Vico, Adam Ferguson); 3) immanentalization of transcendence (G.W.F. Hegel, Leopold von Ranke, Karl Marx); 4) recovering freedom, and contigency (Jacob Burckhardt, Friedrich Nietzsche); 5) reason transcending history (Max Weber); 6) Neo-Humanism and Post-Modernism (Marc Bloch, Michel de Certeau). The readings may be changed, depending on student interests. Assignments: two or three papers. | ||
Science |
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| 290.001 - Historical Colloquium: History of Science | Carson | |
| M 4-6 140 Barrows | CCN: 39920 | |
| Note room change! | ||
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1 unit, graded S/U. Meets together with the UCB-UCSF Colloquium in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. For details see http://ohst.berkeley.edu/ohst_events.html. |
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United States |
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| 275D.001 - | Frydl | |
| W 12-2 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39726 | |
| This course is the second in the 275 series introducing graduate students to US historiography. The time period covered by the class is broad: we will begin with Reconstruction and end in the modern era. Given our expansive chronological frame, we will be selective about the works we read, choosing significant works that pose important questions, represent methodological innovations, and/or model influential interpretative paradigms. | ||
| 280D.001 - Soul Deep: Race, Historical Writing, and Transformation | Martin | |
| Tu 2-4 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39783 | |
| Updated January 23, 2007 | ||
| Note NEW ROOM! | ||
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African American History has yielded an unusually large number of compelling and influential texts in the last several decades. This seminar will examine a selection of pivotal texts in African American History as a window onto critical shifts in: (1) the field itself, (2) historical writing, and (3) American history and consciousness. Possible texts include: Ira Berlin, Many Thousand Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in America; Deborah Gray White, Ar'r't I A Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South; Sterling Stuckey, Slave Culture; Lawrence W. Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness; Dylan Penningroth, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the 19th-Century South; Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration; Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery; Tera Hunter, To 'Joy My Freedom: Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War; Robin D.G. Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class; Charles Payne, I've Got The Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. There will be two papers, one of which will be a historiographical essay (15 pp.). The other will be an essay (10-12 pp.) of your own design in consultation with the instructor. |
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| 285D.001 - The United States in the World | Candida-Smith | |
| Thurs 12-2 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39885 | |
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This course invites students to explore transnational contexts for the events and processes in United States history. This new approach in U.S. history can overlap with what was once called "foreign affairs" or "diplomatic history," but recent scholarship has been far broader, considering flows of people, ideas, goods, wealth, politics, institutional models, cultural markets, etc., between the United States and other parts of the world, as well as comparative studies of all these things and more. Studies have examined U.S. efforts to reshape other parts of the world, but they have also given greater definition to the variety of foreign influences on U.S. institutions and practices and the relationship of internal developments to a broad range of international influences. Among the topics to be considered are the expansion of U.S. beyond the Atlantic world; the role of empire in shaping U.S. culture and institutions; debates over expansion, borders, and frontiers; U.S. efforts to build or resist regional and global organizations; the role of the United States in the formation of different global markets; the interaction of political, social, and intellectual movements across borders; how the emergence of the U.S. as a global power shaped domestic politics and social relations; institutional, political, and cultural differences within the United States that shaped attitudes and actions in other parts of the world. At the beginning of the course, the class will involve reading and discussion of recent scholarship developing transnational analyses of U.S. history. The readings will be selected to stimulate the research interests of the students in the class. An original research paper should be completed by the end of the term. Please remember that the research goals of the course are primary. Students wishing to take the class as a reading course are invited to discuss their interests with the professor. |
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| 285D.002 - | Spear | |
| Thurs 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39888 | |
Related Interest |
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| 200X - The Bancroft Library Press Room Course: "The Hand Printed Book in its Historical Context" | Ferriss | |
| Fri 1-5 Off Campus | ||
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A one-semester, two-unit course open to both graduate and undergraduate students. There are no prerequisites but enrollment is by consent of the instructor and is limited to six students because of the small press room space. Interested students may email the instructor: lesferriss@earthlink.net and should attend the first class meeting. The Bancroft Library is undergoing renovation, and the class will meet in the Press Room in the Bancroft's temporary quarters on Allston Way, between Oxford and Shattuck. Under the guidance of the instructor, students examine and discuss original printed books from the Bancroft collections ranging in date from the 15th century to the present. Approximately one half of the class time is devoted to a study of the design and production of books from the hand press period. The course also presents a historical perspective on the various technologies involved in the production of printed books: type founding, paper making, binding, illustrations, and the evolution of the printing press itself. Students will also learn to set type by hand, design and lay out a substantial pamphlet, and print and bind at least 35 copies by the last class meeting. The texts for these pamphlets are selected from the manuscript collections of The Bancroft Library with input from class members. In some cases, editorial work is required. By combining actual printing with a historical overview, students gain a practical as well as theoretical appreciation of the art and technology that has dominated communication in the western world for over five centuries. The class also points out the limitations and problems inherent in hand printing. The instructor, Lester Ferriss, is a professional printer with a strong interest in the history of books and printing. |
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Research and Teaching Credit |
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| 296.001 - Dissertation and Research Writing | ||
| CCN: 39927 | ||
| 298.001 - Employment Credits | ||
| CCN: 39930 | ||
| 601.001 - M.A. Preparation | ||
| CCN: 40026 | ||
| 602.001 - Ph.D. Orals Preparation | ||
| CCN: 40029 | ||