HISTORY FALL 2004 COURSE ATLAS

History 169: The Arab-Israeli Conflict (Same as PolS. 169 & JS 169)

Stein; MAX:135

Content: This is an introductory survey to the history, politics, and diplomacy of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The first half of the course will deal with the historical, ideological, and social origins of the conflict to 1948-49. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the composition of Jewish and Arab communities in Palestine, the respective political culture of both, and their interaction with the British Mandatory power. The second half of the course focuses on political, social, economic, and diplomatic aspects of the conflict, including, the evolution and development of Palestinian national identity, and the 1956, 1967, and 1973 Middle Eastern wars. A significant portion of the course is spent in understanding the successes and constraints in Arab-Israeli peacemaking, especially those diplomatic efforts led by the United States. The relationship of European, Arab states, and diaspora supporters to the sides of the conflict are reviewed in detail. Finally, discussing, and analyzing documents related to the conflict's 100-year history is a central feature of the course.

Texts: Bickerton, Ian and Carla Klausner, A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict; Quandt, William B., Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967; Stein, Kenneth W., Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace; Stein, Kenneth W., and Samuel W. Lewis, Making Peace Among Arabs and Israelis: Lessons from Fifty Years of Negotiating Experience. A documents book must be purchased. It will be distributed by the professor at the beginning of the semester.

Particulars: Grading -- midterm (30%), discussion (20%), and final (50%). Students will be expected to attend three lectures per week and participate actively in one discussion session.

This course is intended as an introduction to the Arab Israeli Conflict; freshmen and sophomores are especially encouraged to enroll in this course.

History 190-00P: Freshman Colloquium: Fascism & Resistance in Italy

Adamson; MAX:12

Content: Recent historical research on Italian fascism is suggesting a picture of the politics of that era which is murky, ambivalent, and even internally contradictory, especially in contrast to what used to be thought even a decade ago. Opponents of the regime, it now appears, sometimes also collaborated with it; seemingly stalwart supporters had hidden qualms; and mainstream support, while numerically very large until the onset of World War II, did not run very deep. For example, the novelist Ignazio Silone, a one-time communist who appeared at the time as one of the Mussolini regime's loftiest opponents, has recently been accused of some quite startling moral-political compromises. This seminar seeks to determine what we now know about support for and resistance to Italian fascism, and to reflect on the implications of this analysis for modern politics more generally.

Texts: De Grand, Alexander, Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development; Silone, Ignazio, Bread and Wine; Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta, Fascist Spectacle; Levi, Carlo, Christ Stopped at Eboli, De Grazia, Victoria, How Fascism Ruled Women; Origo, Iris, War in the Val D'Orcia; Pugliese, Stanislao, Fascism, Anti-fascism, and the Resistance in Italy; Katz, Robert, The Battle for Rome: The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944.

Particulars: The seminar will not involve examinations. Course evaluation will be based on three short (100 words) papers (50% together), a final, somewhat longer paper (2000-2500 words) (25%), and class participation (25%). At least one required film will be shown outside class time. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Freshman Seminar).

History 190-01P: Freshman Colloquium: Julius Caesar

Patterson; MAX:12

Content: A close reading (and viewing) of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, preceded by focused readings and discussion of the historical evidence for the life and career of Julius Caesar.

Texts: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar; Plutarch, Julius Caesar

Particulars: Active participation, five short (2-3 pages) papers; final paper (5-6 pages).

History 190-02P: Freshman Colloquium: Pirates: Maritime Coercion-Comparative Perspective

Andrade; MAX:12

Content: Captain Kidd, Francis Drake, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, Blackbeard - These are just a few of the hundreds of pirates who sailed the seven seas. Yet piracy was not merely an Euro-American phenomenon. In this course students will learn not just about the famous pirates of the Spanish Main, but also about Limahong, the Chinese pirate who nearly ousted the powerful Spanish Empire from Manila in 1574; Barbarossa, the North African pirate who pillaged European shipping and used the proceeds to create a powerful African sate in Algeria and Tunisia; and the Chinese Pirate Queen Zheng Yisao, who led a force of thousands of Chinese raiders in the nineteenth century. The biographies of such pirates is only a plank, a stepping off point from which to examine the politics and economics of piracy in comparative perspective. What is a pirate? Who decides who is a pirate and who is not? What economic and political situations are likely to breed piracy? How are pirate bands organized? What factors lie behind the most successful pirates? What truth is behind the popular images of pirates that we see in film, song, and literature? The course ends with a consideration of modern piracy, which has risen steadily in the last decade. Are we entering another great age of piracy?

Texts: Readings will include contemporary accounts, such as the captivity account of Thomas Phelps and Exquemelin's Buccaneers of America; modern scholarship about piracy; and fictional accounts such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. There may even be a video game involved.

Particulars: Course requirements include an in-class presentation, two 5-page papers, and a 12-page final paper. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Freshman Seminar).

History 201: The Formation of European Society: From Late Antiquity through the Early Modern Era

000; Rosenberg, MAX:40
001; Billado, MAX:40
002; Staff, MAX:40
003; Billado; MAX: 40

Content: This course examines the early forms of those societies that came to dominate the European continent and explores their expansion and influence. The emergence of Europe as a geo-political entity with distinctive customs, culture, legal structures, and social arrangements is analyzed. Basic themes and goals of the course: to provide a framework for understanding European society, politics and culture in a chronological perspective; to introduce students to values and analytical tools of the era and to reveal the uses and abuses of the past within it; to see pre-modern European societies as complex human systems with negative as well as positive effects upon themselves as well as others; to better understand the interrelated histories of local communities, regional communities, kingdoms, and principalities, and within them changes in methods of personal and group classification on the basis of legal status, social class, gender, religious identity and ethnicity; to explore the Christianization of Europe both institutionally and culturally and its implications for Jews, Muslims and heretics.

Texts: To be announced.

Particulars: Generally there will be two one-hour examinations and a final examination. Discussion will be an integral part of the course.

History 202: The Making of Modern Europe: Old Regime to the Present

000; Staff; MAX:40
001; Collins; MAX:40
002; Blaich; MAX:40
003; Staff; MAX:40
004; Blaich; MAX:35

Content: This course examines major themes in European history during the modern era, roughly mid-seventeenth century to the present. Beyond offering a chronological survey of the wars, revolutions, and political ideologies that have shaped modern history, the course pays special attention to the tensions and conflicts that surrounded changes in economic, political, social and intellectual life. The course further provides a basis for comparing the European and the non-European world, on both the political and the cultural level. The goal is to deepen students' appreciation of historical contexts through literary and philosophical texts, and thus to introduce students to the activity of being an historian.

Texts: To be announced.

Particulars: Generally there will be two one-hour examinations and a final examination. Discussion is an integral part of the course.

History 231: Foundations of American Society

000; van Welie; MAX:40
001; Young; MAX:40

Content: This course explores the early development of American society and politics as well as how historians have attempted to explain this process. By studying how our society has come to be what it is, students will gain a deeper understanding of their own social context and themselves. The course follows the development of American society from tentative beginnings to the Reconstruction era. Special emphasis is given to certain critical periods and key developments: the founding of the English colonies, the colonies in the 18th century, the American Revolution, the Constitution, the Federal era, Jackson and "Jacksonian Democracy," slavery and expansion, re-union and reconstruction.

History 232: The Making of Modern America: United States History since 1877

000; McPherson; MAX:40
001; Cocar; MAX:40
002; Renouard; MAX:40

Content: This course explores the development of American society and politics since Reconstruction as well as how historians have attempted to explain this process. By studying how our society has come to be what it is, students will gain a deeper understanding of their own social context and themselves. The course introduces students to the social, political, economic, and diplomatic forces that have shaped modern America. Special emphasis is placed on the ways diverse components of the American population interacted to develop American society; the voices of Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and women complement the traditional emphasis on males of European descent.

History 241: History & Text: Medieval Europe

Billado; MAX:20

Content: This course considers how, in medieval Europe, kings and warriors, queens and ladies, male and female saints, and monks and nuns represented themselves and were represented by others so as to make and justify their claims to political and/or religious authority. The course also examines how outlaws, rebels, peasants, heretics, Jews, and women were represented so as to justify their marginalization in medieval European societies and how, from a marginalized position, they were sometimes able to exercise power. Particular attention will be given to questions about how different kinds of texts (e.g., literary, religious, legal) can be interpreted in such a way as to illuminate medieval European cultural politics.

Texts: Readings will include medieval epics, romances, saints' lives, confessional writings, legal and liturgical texts.

Particulars: Weekly writing assignments, active class participation, a take-home hour exam, and a take-home final.

History 242: American Jewish History (Same as JS 242)

Davis; MAX:20

Content: This course is a survey of the Jewish experience in the United States, examining the cultural, political, religious, and economic activities of American Jews from the colonial period to the present. Students will explore how Jewish tradition has been adapted to and challenged by the American setting, how patterns of communal life have been reshaped, what the relationship has been to other Americans and to the international Jewish community, and how American Jewish identities have been created from Jews' dual impulses for integration and distinctiveness.

Texts: Possible texts for this course include: Jonathan D. Sarna, eds., The American Jewish Experience; Michael Gold, Jews Without Money; Cornel West and Michael Lerner, Blacks and Jews; and a number of articles on e-reserve.

Particulars: Class sessions will combine lecture and discussions that emphasize the close reading of primary sources. There will be regular short homework assignments, and two longer (4-6 pages) writing assignments. This course satisfies area V.A. of the General Education Requirements.

History 270: Survey of Jewish History (Same as JS 100)

Rustow; MAX:20

Content: This course offers an overview of the history of Jews and Judaism from antiquity to the present, tracing how that history has unfolded in varying cultural and geographical settings. On the basis of primary sources and the interpretations of modern scholars, we will ask how the Jews have responded to the social and political circumstances in which they lived and how they imagined, constructed and renegotiated the boundaries of identity and community. Special emphasis will be placed on the use of primary texts -- original documents in translation that will enable students to practice hands-on historical analysis -- and on the types of questions historians bring to bear on source material. The course will therefore focus both on major problems in Jewish history and on the central questions, philosophies, and techniques by means of which scholars have attempted to analyze, understand, and narrate that history.

Texts: David Biale, ed., The Cultures of the Jews: A New History; William Hallo, et al., eds., Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (source reader); Raymond Scheindlin, A Short History of the Jewish People; Yosef HayimYerushalmi, Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory; Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures

Particulars: Three exams (two mid-term and one final) and five 2-3 page writing assignments. This course is appropriate for anyone who wishes to pursue further courses in history or Jewish Studies, and for anyone seeking an overview of the subject. The course satisfies area V.B. of the General Education Requirements (Historical Perspectives on Western Culture).

History 285-000: Topics in Historical Analysis Gender & Colonial Experience in Africa: Changing Men, Changing Women (Same as AFS 389 & WS 385)

Arrington; MAX:20

Content: The lives of African women and men were in many ways profoundly affected by the onset of colonialism, and the relationship between the two sexes entered a period of extreme fluctuation, dynamism, and negotiation. This course focuses on these changing relationships in sub-Saharan Africa during the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Readings, lectures, discussions, and class activities examine the role of gender in the creation and experience of colonial rule in Africa. Although the course material is primarily concerned with the lives of African women and men, it will also address the lives of female and male colonizers. Themes to be considered throughout the course are sexuality, marriage, migration, education, labor, and religion. Course materials are a combination of historical texts, literature, and anthropological studies.

Texts: A preliminary list of texts being used include: Gendered Colonialisms in African History; Women in African Colonial Histories; Changing Men in Southern Africa; Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi; Marrying Well: Marriage, Status and Social Change Among the Educated Elite in Colonial Lagos; and Nervous Conditions. Several of the texts are collections of essays, so specific chapters will be chosen for course readings.

History 285: Topics in Historical Analysis: Race in Modern Latin America

Ouellette; MAX:30

Content: This is a survey course that will begin with reflections on race in the colonial period. We will focus largely on conceptualizations in Modern Latin America, contrasting and comparing race from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, to South America. The course will treat not only the theoretical but also the intersection of politics, gender, religion, revolution and war, violence, urban and rural, education, the home, popular culture, music, and labor.

History 302: History of Rome

Burns; MAX:40

Content: This course is a survey of Roman history from the rise of the Roman Republic (ca. 500 BC) through the creation of a "new" empire (ca. AD 300). Using a wide variety of primary source material in translation, an effort is made to present a balanced picture of Roman civilization by discussing such themes as gender issues, political, social and economic development, intellectual life and religion. Digitized images will be used frequently to reveal the archaeological record.

Texts: NOT all are read in their entirety. Additional short readings will be placed on electronic reserve at the Woodruff Library. Mary T. Boatwright, et al., The Romans from Village to Empire; Liby, The Early History of Rome; Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul; Tacitus, The Agricola; Apuleius, The Golden Ass; Suzanne Dixon, The Roman Family

Particulars: There will be an optional midterm and/or research paper (8-10 pages) and a final examination. Grading: Optional midterm 30% and/or paper 30%, final examination, 40-70%, depending upon options chosen by the individual student. This course is part of a sequence (History 301, 302, 303, 304) which traces the development of ancient civilization through the early medieval period. Any course may be taken individually without regard for the others in the sequence. Students interested in religion, classics, the history of art, law, and government, as well as those in history, will find an introduction to Roman history particularly valuable.

History 307: Europe From Reformation to Enlightenment

Beik; MAX:40

Content: This course was completely reworked and updated in 2002. It will explore the intriguing phase of Europe's development from the crisis caused by the outbreak of religious diversity to the eighteenth-century world of salons and enlightened rulers (1550-1750). There will be a lot of discussion and class interaction. We will compare the mosaic of central European peoples that comprised the Habsburg Empire, with western monarchies like the Spain of Philip II and the France of Louis XIV, and with rising commercial powers like England and the Dutch Repubic. Special emphasis will be placed on Europe as seen from the East. Themes examined will include the changing role of the nobility, baroque civilization, European statebuilding, the rise of capitalism, and the emergence of new modes of thought. Visual aids and original sources will be featured.

Texts: Goffman, The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe; Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars; Cervantes, Don Quixote; Joseph Bergin, ed., The Seventeenth Century; Andrew Lossky, The Seventeenth Century; Julius Ruff, Violence in Early Modern Europe; and other readings.

Particulars: Three essays on assigned topics concerning the readings (15% each); one slightly longer term paper (20%), on-line and in-class discussion (35%). No formal exams, no final.

History 310: Europe in the Era of Total War

Amdur: MAX:40

Content: This course examines twentieth-century European history, to 1945, with an emphasis on the social and cultural transformations wrought by two world wars, the emergence of left- and right-wing totalitarian dictatorships, and the origins of contemporary problems of European politics and society.

Texts: Prospective readings include the following: Felix Gilbert, The End of the European Era; Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa; Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory; Omer Bartov, Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust and Industrial Killing; Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon; Margaret Hogonnet, et al., Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars.

Particulars: Requirements will include a midterm and a final exam, plus two short "special projects" relating to the course material. No term paper will be assigned.

History 318: Modern Germany (Same as GER 460)

Afflerbach; MAX:40

Content: Germany was at the center of some of the major events and catastrophes of the 20th century: two World Wars, the rise of National Socialism, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of Soviet Power in East-Central Europe. This course explores major problems in modern German history from 1871 to 1990. It will focus on the problem of making the German nation state compatible with stable international order. Central themes will be the changing ideas of "nation" from Bismarck to our times; the world wars, the ideological, social and political roots of National Socialism and the holocaust, the trauma of defeat and shame after 1945, the military occupation, the historical memory, the social and intellectual consequences of the past and the common desire to be a "normal" nation; the cold war, the political division, the reunification and last, but not least, Germany today and its role in the European Union.

Texts to be read by all: Blackbourn, The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918; Gordon Craig, Germany 1866-1945; David Crew, ed., Nazism and German Society; Fulbrook, A Divided Nation: A History of Germany, 1918-1990; Marrus, The Holocaust in History; Dietrich Orlow, A History of Modern Germany: 1871 to Present, 5th ed.; Detlev Peukert, The Weimar Republic. Texts to be presented individually: Browning, Ordinary Men; Fritzsche, Germans into Nazis; Klemperer, I will bear witness; Philipsen, We were the People: Voices from East Germany's Revolutionary Autumn, Poiger, Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in Divided Germany; Vehrey, Spirit of 1914; Robert Wahlen, Bitter Wounds: German Victims of the Great War, 1914-1939; Bernd Widdig, Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany.

Films: Der Untertan; Triumph des Willens: Olympic Games 1936 (excerpts); Hitler; The tin drum (on request); Shoah (excerpts); Wochenschau

Particulars: Most accurate weekly reading and class participation (25%), and oral and written book review (25%), a research paper (10 pages) (50%).

History 320: The Soviet Union

Payne; MAX:40

Content: This course will explore the birth, life, and death of the Soviet Union. Topics such as the Revolution, NEP, Stalinism, The Great Patriotic War, the Cold War, Khrushchev's Thaw, Brezhnev's "Stagnation," Perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union will be examined through a variety of sources and methodologies. In addition to scholarly works, contemporary memoirs, literature and even jokes and popular music and cinema will be used to elucidate the history of one of the two super-powers of the last century.

Texts: Readings will include Isaac Babel's, Collected Stories of Isaac Babel; Eugenia Ginzburg's Journey into the Whirlwind; John Scott's Behind the Urals; Leon Trotsky's The Russian Revolution; and Stephen Kotkin's Armageddon Averted (as well as various shorter readings).

Particulars: Course requirements include weekly learn-link responses, the writing of a twelve-page research paper, and the completion of a final exam. Students may chose from two options in taking this exam (an oral exam or written essay exam). Paper topics will be chosen by students by the submission of a proposal and consultations with me at the mid-point of the semester.

History 338: History of African Americans to 1865 (Same as AAS 338)

Davis; MAX:25

Content: Examines the collective experiences of African people beginning in Africa, and continuing in the U.S. from approximately the 15th century to 1865. This experience is examined within the context of the American political-economy, the experiences of other African peoples in the Western Hemisphere, and other internal dynamics within the African American community that affected its development.

History 340: American Colonial History 1607-1783

Juricek; MAX:40

Content: The colonial era is the first chapter of American history, the one most people skip over. The course provides an overview of early American life, with emphasis on the evolution of basic structures -- constitutional, political, economic, social, and cultural. Seventeenth-century topics include one for the founding of each of the three major regions in English North America: the Southern Colonies, the New England Colonies, and the Middle Colonies. Later topics treat the colonies as a whole during the eighteenth century. These include: Interaction with the Native Indians. Mercantilism and the Imperial Economy, the Development of an "American" Identity, and the American Revolution.

Texts: Mary K Geiter and W. A. Speck, Colonial America; Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery American Freedom; Alden Vaughan, Roots of American Racism; Edmund S. Morgan, Visible Saints; Gary Nash, Quakers and Politics; James Axtell, The European and the Indian; Patricia Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven; Bernard Bailyn, The Origins of American Politics. Also, selected articles on reserve.

Particulars: Term paper (approx. 6 pages) based on colonial newspapers, due on next-to-last day of class. Grade based on final examination (50%), mid-term exam (25%), and paper (25%), with variable extra credit for contributions to class sessions.

History 341: Era of the American Revolution

Young; MAX:40

Content: To be announced.

History 342: The Old South

Roark; MAX:40

Content: This course will examine the South from the American Revolution through the Civil War, with emphasis on the social, cultural, political, and economic development of a slave society in the nineteenth century.

Texts: Readings will consist of six or seven books, including a textbook, secondary sources, and primary documents.

Particulars: There will be a midterm and a final examination. Each student will also write a ten- to twelve-page critical essay analyzing a primary document. The final grade will be determined by the midterm (approximately 20%), the critical essay (approximately 30%) and the final examination (approximately 40%), and class participation (approximately 10%).

History 345: The U.S. since 1945

Harbutt; MAX:40

Content: The postwar period in American history, bounded by the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945 and the dismantling of the Berlin War in 1989, is clearly over. We are now in a period of rapid change and confusing character. But that recent past, in its varied political, economic, international, and socio-cultural aspects, still influences us in profound and subtle ways. Films and lectures on particular topics (American psychology, the Supreme Court, Hollywood, etc.) will be given.

Texts: William Chafe & H. Sithoff, eds., A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America; Robert Griffiths & P. Baker, eds., Major Problems in American History since 1945; Fraser Harbutt, The Cold War Era; David Halberstam, The Fifties; Richard Schickel, Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity in America; Robert Reich, The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism.

Particulars: Final 60%, Mid-term 30%, class participation 10%.

History 352: European Economic History II (Same as Econ. 352)

Miller; MAX:10

Content: This course explores the transformation of the European Economy from 1600 to the present. Among the topics covered will be the expected ones of economic growth and of the transition from agrarian to commercial and industrial economies. In addition, we will question the impact of the changes on family and household structures and on gender roles. We will also look at the "Americanization" of the European economy in the twentieth century. Strongly recommend that the student has History 202 or 203 before taking this course.

Texts: Books and many online articles from leading journals, including: Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class; Snell, Annals of the Labouring Poor; The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective; Kuisel, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization.

Particulars: Two preliminary research exercises, one 15-18 page research paper

History 355WR: Political Economy of the American South (Same as Econ 355WR)

Carlson; MAX:10

SEE ECONOMICS

History 360: Colonial Latin American History

Premo; MAX:35

Content: This course explores the problems and issues related to the history of the Spanish and Portuguese conquest and rule of the Americas, how those issues changed throughout the colonial period (1492-ca. 1820s), and more general theoretical questions about colonialism. The course is divided into four sections: "Becoming Colonial," highlights Iberian and pre-contact societies before 1492 and the forms of conquest and colonization of the New World; "Being Colonial I" focuses on the economy, labor and politics; "Being Colonial II" explores colonial society focusing on race, gender and religious mores; and "Decolonizing" untangles the events and ideas precipitating the collapse of colonial rule in the nineteenth century.

Texts: There is no textbook for this course; instead students read and critically assess a selection of articles and book chapters drawn from a variety of works on colonial Latin America, as well as primary documents written by colonial Latin Americans.

Particulars: Students can expect to write short papers every week based on readings and films, to take a midterm and a final comprised of comprehensive take-home essays and an in-class portion, and to be graded for active participation in class discussion.

History 364: African Civilizations to the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Same as AFS 364)

Mann; MAX:20

Content: This course introduces students to the political, social, economic, and cultural history of sub-Saharan Africa from the ninth through the eighteenth centuries. It emphasizes such themes as the formation of African states; the spread of Islam into Africa; and the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on Africa.

Texts: D. T. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali; P. Curtin, African History; R. S. Smith, Kingdoms of the Yoruba; D. Northrup, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade; B. Davidson, The African Genius; C. Achebe, Things Fall Apart.

Particulars: Four short critical papers on readings (3 pages) and two short research papers (5-7 pages); final examination. Grading: short papers (5% each), research papers (20% each), class participation (15%), final examination (20%).

History 371: Medieval & Early Modern Japan

Ravina; MAX:40

Content: This course will examine Japan from prehistory through the early 1800s. This was the era in which much of "traditional" Japanese culture was developed: samurai, geisha, sushi, ninja, Zen meditation, etc. Our focus will be on the production, dissemination, and reproduction of these cultural and political practices. We will also read a ghost story, watch a samurai movie, and sit Zen (optional).

Texts: Hall, Japan from Prehistory to Modern Times; Lu, Japan: A Documentary History. Others to be announced.

Particulars: Two in-class exams, and two short take-home exams.

History 373: History of Modern China

Andrade; MAX:40

Content: Around 1500, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, China was the largest, richest, and most powerful country in the world. Its technology was cutting edge, its cities prosperous and cosmopolitan, and its culture glorious. Four centuries later, it was being rent apart by foreign invaders as its citizens asked themselves what had gone wrong and what could be done to revive and restore the Middle Kingdom? This course examines traditional China's collision with the forces of modernity -- global trade, rapid population growth, the scientific and industrial revolutions, and modern imperialism. Today, after a century of revolution, China appears at last to have met the challenges of modernity, but what unfinished projects remain.

History 385-000: Jews in Islamic Lands (Same as MES 370R & JS 370R)

Newby; MAX:10

SEE MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

History 385-002: History of Modern Iraq (Same as MES 370R)

Bengio; MAX:25

Content: For more than a quarter-century, Iraq has been the focus of world attention, particularly the United States. This course will examine the history of Iraq, beginning in the late 19th century under the Ottoman Empire, when Baghdad was considered by the Great Powers a marginal, backwater city, through its evolution into a pivotal state in the Middle East, and internationally. It will explore various social, economic, and political issues, and particularly the relationship between domestic and international developments. Doing so will help explain how the US found itself drawn into a war with Iraq twice within little more than a decade.

Texts: Required Books: Dodge, Toby, Inventing Iraq: The failure of Nation-Building and History Denied; Phebe Mar, Modern History of Iraq; Kanan Makiya, Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq. Recommended: Charles Tripp, A History of Iraq.

Particulars: There will be a mid-term and a final examination. Students are expected to do all the readings assigned here, both the required texts and reserve readings. Students should complete the reading for a particular week prior to the week's assignments

History 385-003: Voodoo (Same as IDS 371 & AFS 371)

Bay; MAX: 15

SEE ILA

History 385-004: South Asian Politics since 1945 (Same as PolS. 385 & Asia 370)

Creekmore; MAX:10

Content: This course analyzes the political and economic developments in South Asia over the past 50 years from a historical, political institutional, and policy perspective. Possessing 20 percent of the world's population, this region will play an increasingly important role in international affairs in the future.

History 385S-00P: Present & Past: Traditions in Modern China (Same as CHN 495AS)

Kurtz; MAX:4

SEE CHN

History 385WR-000: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (Same as IDS 385WR, Comp.Lit 389WR)

Goodson; MAX:4

SEE ILA

History 487SWR-000: JR/SR Colloquium: Alexander the Great

Patterson; MAX:12

Content: The course will investigate in detail the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon, as well as the cultural and political background and historical impact of that career.

Particulars: This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 487SWR-001: JR/SR Colloquium: Law & Literature in Medieval Europe

White;

CANCELLED

History 487SWR-002: JR/SR Colloquium: Love & Sex in Renaissance Europe

Strocchia; MAX:12

Content: This course explores changing sexual behaviors and related social practices in Europe from 1400 to 1600, with a particular emphasis on Italy. By examining the relationships formed around love and sex, we will try to understand important aspects of the everyday lives and mentalities of ordinary men and women in Renaissance Europe, one of the great watersheds in European history. We will also try to grasp some of the complex ways in which late medieval society gave way to more "modern" forms of social life and governance. One of our goals is historicize love and sex: that is, to understand the ways that seemingly universal, timeless emotions like love and sexual desire were expressed and experienced differently in other historical periods. Topics to be investigated include the affectionate, often ritualized play of courtship; the nature and meaning of marriage, especially in regard to "love" between spouses and the maintenance of social order; forms and control of illicit sexuality such as prostitution and homosexuality; tensions between religious precepts and secular needs; conflicts between men and women over gender roles; and the numerous links between sex and power.

Texts: Gene Brucker, Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Italy; Cynthia Herrup, A House in Gross Disorder; Ruth Karras, Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England; Marguerite of Navarre, The Heptameron; Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence; Guido Ruggiero, Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance; Guido Ruggiero, The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice

History 487SWR-003: JR/SR Colloquium: Victors & Fanquished: Political and Material Consequences of WWII

Afflerbach; MAX:12

Content: All political developments after 1945 were heavily influenced by the material and psychological consequences of World War II. Maybe the material damage was less influential than the political lessons of World War II proved for victors and vanquished. These "lessons" have influenced political culture of all countries until today. This class will discuss the very different reactions: questions of guilt in Germany, Italy, and Japan; the fact of having been a victim in Israel, CSR, Poland, Netherlands, Norway and Russia; of having been initially an appearser as in Great Britain, or a liberator as in the United States. And we have to speak about the "resistance" myth, especially in France and Italy. All this and more influences political actions, especially, but not only, in foreign and security policy. Some states owe their existence to the outcome of World War II. We will analyze the different experiences and the consequences for the political culture in selected countries (Germany, Italy, Japan, USSR, Great Britain, United States, Poland, CSR, Israel, Austria and other countries). We will have to analyze and explain the paradoxical fact that the vanquished nations became, despite horrendous losses, very quickly again some of the leading nations in world politics and economics. We will also have to deal with the consequences of generational change on these convictions and experiences of World War II.

Particulars: Members of this class will have to present a paper in class on a topic of his/her choice. Weekly reading and class participation (25%), two oral and written book reviews (25%), a research paper (15 pages) (50%). This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 487SWR-004: JR/SR Colloquium: National Socialism on Film

Blaich; MAX:12

Content: This seminar examines cinematic representations of National Socialism in historical context. It also explores the relationship between film and history. The first part of the course concentrates on self-representation: how the Nazi regime used film to package its movement for domestic and foreign consumption, as well as the relationship between commercial film-making in the Third Reich and Nazi ideology. Using Nazi films, we will examine how National Socialism ruled Germany. The second part of the course focuses on cinematic reassessments of National Socialism in feature films produced after 1945. Drawing on film and written texts, we will investigate the importance of the Nazi past for the postwar present by considering various agendas and political implications that can be read from efforts to (re)construct German history and historical memory in East and West Germany.

Texts: may include David Welch, The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda; Eric Rentschler, Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife; Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann, The Racial State; Linda Schulte-Sasse, Entertaining the Third Reich. Films will include: Münchhausen, Jew Süss, Hitler Youth Quex, The Devil's General, I Was Nineteen, Germany Pale Mother, Stalingrad.

Particulars: research paper (20 pages), brief weekly readings/screening responses, and active class participation. Also weekly film screenings, Tuesdays 7-9.

History 487SWR-00P: JR/SR Colloquium: Sex & the Victorians (Same as WS 475SWR)

WRITTEN PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED

Collins; MAX:12

Content: Respectable society in nineteenth-century Britain strove mightily to keep sex under wraps. Sexuality for them was an intimate affair whose public manifestations elicited concern verging on panic. Yet historians have noted how repression paradoxically drew attention to sundry anxieties and ultimately failed to deny expression to such marginal groups as women and homosexuals, smut-merchants and pederasts. This course examines the tension between prescription and practice, attitudes and actions inherent in the efforts of Victorians to reconcile civilization with desire.

Texts: A demanding reading load includes historical and contemporary works. The primary sources range from erotica through medical texts to libertarian manifestos. Among the secondary readings are landmark works by Anthony Giddens, Judith Walkowitz and Peter Gay.

Particulars: Permission of instructor required. Students are expected to participate in weekly Learnlink conferences and seminar discussions, to make a class presentation and to write an original, in-depth research paper based on extensive primary and secondary sources. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 488SWR-000: JR/SR Colloquium: Professions, Professionals, Professionalism

Prude; MAX:12

Content: The colloquium will consider the origins, development and meaning of the professions in America from the Revolution to the present. Each week students will read an assignment in common and then meet to discuss the material. Emphasis will be placed on the evolution of professional lawyers, doctors, artists, and sports figures, as well as the emergence of professional opportunities for women and minorities. The changing experience of young adults in choosing a profession and the relationship between vocational choice and the formation of personal identity will also be explored.

Texts: Readings will include selections from B. Franklin, Autobiography; N. Harris, The Artist in American Society; J. Auerbach, Unequal Justice; S. Lewis, Arrowsmith; R. Kahn, Boys of Summer; S. Turow, One L.

Particulars: No exams. There will be one paper, 15-20 pages, on a topic relating to the course but of the student's choosing. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 488SWR-001: JR/SR Colloquium: American Conservatism since 1945

Crespino; MAX:12

Content: This course will explore the history of modern American conservatism, from 1945 to the present. The course is interested in the broad range of conservative social, cultural and political movements, from anti-liberal and conservative intellectual history to more grassroots "reactionary populisms," such as southern massive resistance, anti-busing, or suburban conservatism in the West. Topics of particular interest include conservative political theory; McCarthyism; the radical right in the liberal imagination; race and conservatism; and the contemporary legacies of conservative and anti-liberal movements.

Texts: To be announced.

Particulars: Students are required to participate in weekly discussions, make a class presentation on their research topic, and produce an original 20 page research paper based on primary source materials. Weekly attendance is mandatory. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 488SWR-002: JR/SR Colloquium: The American Diplomatic Tradition

Harbutt; MAX:12

Content: The purpose of the course is to explore various intellectual underpinnings and interpretations of American diplomacy since 1763. Part of the American tradition derives from European sources; part is distinctively domestic in origin. We shall examine both dimensions and certain deep-rooted attitudes to war, economics, race, culture, and the use of power.

Texts: Texts may include: Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy; L. Freedman, The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy; Michael Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy; William A. Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy; L. Freedman, The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy; Walter McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776; Daniel P. Moynihan, On the Law of Nation's; Stephen Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War; Abbott Gleason, Totalitarianism; M. Stoler, Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance and U.S. Strategy in World War II.

Particulars: A final paper and a midterm paper. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 489SWR-000: JR/SR Colloquium: Crusades: Europe & the Near East (Same as JS371SWR & MES 370SWR)

Rustow; MAX:6

Content: The twelfth and thirteenth centuries saw a shift in power from the southern and eastern sides of the Mediterranean northward to Europe. One important arena in which this drama unfolded was the Holy Land. The Levant, sandwiched between Fatimid caliphs, Saljuq sultans, and Byzantine emperors, suddenly became the possession of Norman crusaders, and with that the first major confrontation between Christian European and Islamic Mediterranean cultures was set in motion. This course will study medieval chronicles of the Crusades in English translation from Arabic, Latin, Hebrew, and Old French, as well as documentary evidence of the period and a modern historical novel, to answer the following questions: When and how did the Holy Land become important to European Christians? How did Muslims and Jews respond to renewed religious fervor among Christians? How did medieval historians represent the Crusades for later generations?

Texts: Primary sources include selections from various Latin chronicles; memoirs of Usama ibn Munqidh and Obadiah the Proselyte; the Chanson d'Antoica; the chronicles of Solomon bar Samson and Eliezer bar Nathan; and musical and poetic works. Secondary readings include landmark studies by Riley-Smith, Setton,and Hillenbrand. The class will conclude with Umberto Eco's novel Baudolino.

Particulars: Attendance, reading, and active particiation in discussion; map quizzes; final paper. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 489SWR-001: JR/SR Colloquium: Minorities in the Arab World (Same as MES 370SWR & JS 371SWR)

Bengio; MAX:6

Content: The issue of minorities is one of the most serious problems facing the modern state in the Middle East. Moreover, it is closely linked to an additional major issue: the need for democratization and representative government. This course will analyze the problem not only through the lens of the state, but also through the eyes of minority groups themselves, many of which predate the Arab-Muslim conquest of the 7th century. After providing a regional overview of the subject, the course will focus on the "leading" minority groups of the region -- the Kurds, Copts, Berbers, and Shiites -- as well as the states' respective discourses and policies towards them.

Texts: Ofra Bengio and Gabriel Ben-dor, eds., Minorities and the State in the Arab World; Richard Tapper ed., Some Minorities in the Middle East; Moshe Maoz and Gabriel, eds., Middle Eastern Minorities and Diasporas. Recommended: David McDowall, A Modern History of the Kurds.

Particulars: There will be a final exam (50% of the final grade) and a 20 page paper (50% of the final grade). Mid-term exam will be optional. Students are expected to do all the readings assigned here, both the required texts and reserve readings. Students should complete the reading for a particular week prior to the week's assignments. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 489SWR-002: JR/SR Colloquium: The End of Slavery (Same as AFS 389SWR)

Mann; MAX:9

Content: This course will examine the emancipation of slaves in comparative historical perspective. It will look at the transition from slavery to freedom in a number of historical settings, but the core cases will come from the U.S. South, the British West Indies, Latin America, and Africa. The course will ask how the organization of production, relationship between slaves and owners, and meaning of freedom changed in post-emancipation societies. In addition, it will look at the role of the state in the process of transition and discuss the link between emancipation and political mobilization in different historical contexts.

Texts: Rose, Rehearsal for Reconstruction; Foner, Nothing but Freedom; Field, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground; James, Black Jacobins; Holt, The Problem of Freedom; Scott, Slave Emancipation in Cuba; Cooper, From Slaves to Squatters; Miers and Roberts, The End of Slavery in Africa.

Particulars: Class attendance and participation are required. Each student will write two short papers (3-4 pgs.) and a research paper (15-20 pgs.) and make oral presentations on each. Grades: Class participation 30%, short papers 15% each, and research paper 40%. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 489SWR-003: JR/SR Colloquium: Fundamentalism in East Asia

Ravina; MAX:12

Content: In the 19th century, xenophobic, fundamentalist movements swept through east Asia (Japan, China and Korea). Although different in each country, the movements shared key beliefs: that foreign ideas, especially Christianity, were dangerous; that ancient local culture was sacred; and that society needed a revival of ancient values to combat imperialism. In this class we will examine how these movements evolved, their relationship with local religions, the impact of American and European imperialism, and the movements' legacies for revolutionary politics and modern nationalism.

Texts: Cohen, History in Three Keys; Nacquin, Eight Triagrams appendixs; Daniel Overmeyer, Folk Buddhism.

Particulars: Term paper (16-24 pages). This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 494-00P: Internship

WRITTEN PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED

Payne

Content: The internship program provides history majors with the opportunity to apply their academic knowledge to practical experience. This will involve placing students in actual work situations with various government agencies or other institutions which deal with historical questions and materials. These may include the Georgia Department of Archives and History, the Historical Preservations Section of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the Atlanta Historical Society and the Carter Center. The student is responsible for identifying and securing acceptance to an internship position. All projects must be approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies who can supply suggestions and information on possible internships.

Particulars: PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR (Director of Undergraduate Studies) REQUIRED: To be eligible for a history internship a student must be a junior or senior history major with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA. Applications available in the History Dept. office must be submitted to the instructor. Four credit hours are earned for ten to twelve hours of work per week for 14 weeks of the semester and a fifteen-page research paper. Course grade is based on the project supervisor's written evaluation of the intern's performance (50%), and on the quality of the research paper (50%) as evaluated by the instructor.

History 495-00P; Introduction to Historical Interpretation

WRITTEN PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED. HISTORY HONORS STUDENTS ONLY

Fox-Genovese; MAX:12

Content: This course has two main purposes. First, and most important, to launch students on the writing of a substantial research project, usually an honors theses; second, and closely related, to introduce some of the main questions and methods of historical craft. Class discussion will explore and discuss different ways of writing and thinking about history. In this respect, the course will focus on a combination of methods, theory, and historiography. The assigned readings are intended to present some of the ways in which other historians have dealt with specific historical questions and problems and the ways in which they have thought about history as a distinct intellectual pursuit. In addition, an appreciable portion of class time will be devoted to discussion of the participants' specific projects and the challenges of evidence, argument, and rhetoric (analytic and narrative writing) they present. The course will be conducted as a weekly seminar

Texts: Tentative: Lottinville, Savoie, The Rhetoric of History; Marius, Richard, Short Guide to the Writing of History; Strunck, William & E. B. White, The Elements of Style; Tey, Josephine, A Daughter of Time

Particulars: Thoughtful completion of the reading. A series of brief written assignments designed to strengthen research skills and contribute to the research project will lead to a prospectus for the project.