Undergraduate courses in History

(F,Sem) (Same as CLASSHIS 37N.) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. The politics, drama, and characters of the period after the fall of the Roman Republic in 49 B.C.E. Issues of liberty and autocracy explored by Roman writers through history and biography. The nature of history writing, how expectations about literary genres shape the materials, the line between biography and fiction,and senatorial ideology of liberty. Readings include: Tacitus' Annals, Suetonius' Lives of the Caesers, and Robert Graves' I Claudius and episodes from the BBC series of the same title. GER:DB-Hum

3 units, Aut (Saller, R)

HISTORY 15S. Understanding Machiavelli: War, Women, and Politics

Focus is on the central works of Machiavelli including The Discourses, The Prince, The Art of War, and The Mandragola. Topics include: the rise of the Medici; the politics of Italian city states; the use of the classics in the Renaissance; humanism; the birth of the individual; Savonarola; torture in early modern Europe; gender and women in the writings of Machiavelli; and the Italian wars.

5 units, Aut (Bouley, B)

HISTORY 16S. Vikings, Crusaders, Kings: The Normans and the Expansion of Latin Christendom

Seafaring raiders became lords, princes, and crusaders during pivotal centuries in European history. Who were the Normans? How much did they retain a sense of their Viking roots? What kind of relationship did these warrior-aristocrats have with Christianity? How did the idea of Christendom develop through Western European encounters with the non-Latin peoples (Greeks, Muslims) of the Mediterranean? Sources include Beowulf, pro- and anti-Norman histories, Bayeux tapestry, Domesday book, crusading texts, saints' lives, and papal letters.

5 units, Spr (Miner, J)

HISTORY 18S. Mobility in France and the Self: People, Products, and Ideas in Motion

Development of the introspective self and the unity of the idea of France through transformations in movement. Early modern to contemporary. Topics include: the journeyman's tour de France; roads; war; the Enlightenment; early modern ocean transport; rural life; cartography; surrealist tourism; and protests. Texts and non-texts, including maps, posters, travel journals, statistics, and fictional works.

5 units, Spr (McDonough, K)

HISTORY 20Q. Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination

(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. The contrast between the early modern image of Europe as free, civilized, democratic, rational, and clean against the notion of New World Indians, Turks, and Chinese as savage. The more difficult, contemporary problem regarding E. Europe and Russia which seemed both European and exotic. Readings concerning E. Europe and Russia from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment; how they construct a positive image of Europe and conversely a negative stereotype of E. Europe. Prerequisite: PWR 1. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Spr (Kollmann, N)

HISTORY 21S. Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe, 1944-1953

E. European politics, cultures, and societies between WW II and the death of Joseph Stalin. Topics: ethnic cleansing; retribution against Nazi collaborators; Communist seizures of power; the relationship between nationalism and communism; ways in which E. European societies were susceptible to communism; and whether it was inevitable that the region would form a Soviet-dominated, Communist bloc hostile to the West. Sources include photographs, newspapers, diplomatic records, memoirs, and film.

5 units, Win (Perez, D)

HISTORY 22N. Images and Practices of Violence in Early Modern Russian Art and Law

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Myths and realities about violence in 15th-17th century Russia. While Muscovy is often considered a brutal and violent state, political ideology stressed piety, judicial practice routinely mitigated sentences, and artistic imagery never depicted graphic violence. Theories of iconography, ritual, and imagery and their reception by beholders; judicial and political practice; political ideology; social behavior; and comparisons to early modern Europe in art, violence, and the law. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Kollmann, N)

HISTORY 32S. Discipline and Dirt: Urban Environments and Social Control in Modern Britain, 1800-1900

The disciplinary underbelly of liberal freedom in the modern world's first democracy. How is dirt a political problem, and what are its racial, sexual, and class dimensions? How do sewers, drains, and water closets function as disciplinary devices? How are urban environments rendered safe for democracy? How does power and social control operate in free societies? What are the connections among cultural practices, material environments, and political power? Focus is on Britain, with diversions into Europe and the Empire.

5 units, Win (Forth, A)

HISTORY 33S. The France of Louis XIV

Louis XIV's reign as the foundation of France's modern global eminence despite the imposition of governing practices that undermined France's chance of effective modernization. Sources include 17th-century documents and a computer simulation in game format to define the problems faced by the Sun King and his contemporaries in an era of economic, political, and social change. GER:DB-Hum, WIM

5 units, Win (Lougee Chappell, C)

HISTORY 34N. The European Witch Hunts

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Witch trials, early modern demonology, and historians' interpretations. What was it about early modernity that fueled witch hunting? Forms of the supernatural in history, whether from the ordered world of organized religion, or frightening, uncontrolled, and dangerous. The idea of witchcraft; the fear that some people harm others supernaturally. Reformation era witch hunts conducted in a period of state building and scientific discovery and in violation of extant laws and procedures. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Win (Stokes, L)

HISTORY 35S. The Specter of Female Power: Harpies, Harlots, and Hysterics in Revolutionary France, 1770-1871

How gender shaped French revolutionary events from the the Enlightenment to the Paris Commune. How feminine norms operated, and how real women fared, as salonnières, republican mothers, and Communard combatants. Sources include novels, cartoons, paintings, and memoirs. Cautionary tales about disordered feminity abounded, featuring harpies hungry for bread and blood, ennobled harlots plotting their next boudoir triumph, and religious hysterics conspiring against the Revolution.

5 units, Win (Summers, K)

HISTORY 36N. Gay Autobiography

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Gender, identity, and solidarity as represented in nine autobiographies: Isherwood, Ackerley, Duberman, Monette, Louganis, Barbin, Cammermeyer, Gingrich, and Lorde. To what degree do these writers view sexual orientation as a defining feature of their selves? Is there a difference between the way men and women view identity? What politics follow from these writers' experiences? GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender

4 units, Spr (Robinson, P)

HISTORY 38N. The Body

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Cultural and social meanings of the body. How medicine, media, law, and culture construct changing ideals of the body. How to apply historical and feminist analyses to understand change and the difference that gender makes in the social and cultural construction of the body. Emphasis is on shifting historical ideals for female and male bodies, and the changing importance of body image in popular culture. Readings include girls' diaries, women's sports, masculinity in the media, sexual violence, and performing the body. GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender

5 units, Spr (Freedman, E)

HISTORY 44N. The History of Women and Gender in Science, Medicine, and Engineering

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Women's participation in science; women as objects of scientific research; gender in the culture of the sciences; and how gender analysis has changed science theory and practice. GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender

4 units, Win (Schiebinger, L)

HISTORY 46N. Science and Magic

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Key episodes in the intertwined histories of natural science and magic from the early modern period, and questions these episodes raise regarding the nature of scientific knowledge, its public image, and the modern role of magic in society. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Riskin, J)

HISTORY 48Q. South Africa: Contested Transitions

(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. The inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president in May 1994 marked the end of an era and a way of life for S. Africa. The changes have been dramatic, yet the legacies of racism and inequality persist. Focus: overlapping and sharply contested transitions. Who advocates and opposes change? Why? What are their historical and social roots and strategies? How do people reconstruct their society? Historical and current sources, including films, novels, and the Internet. GER:DB-Hum

3 units, Win (Samoff, J)

HISTORY 48S. South Africa for Whom?: Nationalisms in 20th-Century South Africa

How did nationalist movements shape 20th-century S. Africa, and how did these movements relate to and inform each other? What were the limits of these nationalist projects? S. Africa as a laboratory for the development of nationalistic ideologies in the 20th century, focusing on the most significant nationalist movements (African, Afrikaner, and Zulu).

5 units, Spr (Jarvis, L)

HISTORY 49S. Slavery, Race, and Society in Islamic Africa and the Middle East from the 7th to 20th Centuries

Questions involving slavery and community identity in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. Why are there still reports of slavery in some Muslim majority countries? How does slavery and race overlap in Muslim societies? During the rapid expansion of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula to Asia, Africa, and parts of Europe, Islamic concepts of universal brotherhood united ethnic groups and social classes; but the Muslim world experienced slave revolts and ethnic conflicts.

5 units, Aut (Hill, M)

HISTORY 52N. The Harlem Renaissance

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. The literary and artistic movement of the Harlem Renaissance in the context of broader transformations in American and African American culture in the 20s. Novels, poetry, plays, and critical essays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, and Alain Locke. The work of contemporary musicians, dancers, and visual artists. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Campbell, J)

HISTORY 54N. African American Women's Lives

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. The everyday lives of African American women in 19th- and 20th-century America in comparative context of histories of European, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women. Primary sources including personal journals, memoirs, music, literature, and film, and historical texts. Topics include slavery and emancipation, labor and leisure, consumer culture, social activism, changing gender roles, and the politics of sexuality. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, Aut (Hobbs, A)

HISTORY 56S. Crime Waves and Panics in the U.S. from Reconstruction to the War on Terror

Crime waves, real or imagined, have sparked the popular imagination throughout American history, but particularly after the Civil War. How debates over crime have shaped the boundaries of the nation and defined who can or cannot be a legitimate member of the national community. Topics include lynching, labor radicalism, the red scare, and the current War on Terror. Sources include speeches, newspaper articles, pamphlets, congressional testimony, movies, and popular literature.

5 units, Aut (Ponomarenko, M)

HISTORY 57S. Reconstructions: Nation Building in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1865-2009

U.S. campaigns to reconstruct foreign nations during and after wars in the American South, the Philippines, Japan, and Iraq. Topics include: ideas that shaped American policies; the influence of military capabilities, race, economics, culture, and the international system; why some reconstructions worked and some did not; experiences of the occupier and the occupied; how Americans applied lessons from one reconstruction to others; the significance of historical interpretation of foreign policy debates.

5 units, Win (Wilkins, C)

HISTORY 59. Introduction to Asian American History

The historical experience of people of Asian ancestry in the U.S. Immigration, labor, community formation, family, culture and identity, and contemporary social and political controversies. Readings: interpretative texts, primary material, and historical fiction. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 65. Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity

(Same as CSRE 196C, ENGLISH 172D, PSYCH 155, SOC 146.) How different disciplines approach topics and issues central to the study of ethnic and race relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. Lectures by senior faculty affiliated with CSRE. Discussions led by CSRE teaching fellows. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul

5 units, given next year

HISTORY 70. Culture, Politics, and Society in Latin America

Introduction to the political and social history of Latin America. Emphasis is on interactions among institutional change, social structure, and political movements, emphasizing the environment and cultural values. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Win (Staff)

HISTORY 85S. Jews, Christians and Muslims in a Mediterranean Port City: Salonica, 1821-1945

Ethnicity, identity, and urban space in Salonica during transformation from Ottoman Empire to Greek nation state. Themes: end of empire, nationalism, Orientalism, Young Turk revolution, workers and women, population movements, world wars, and the Holocaust, from local and international perspectives. Sources include travel accounts, imperial edicts, treaties, consular reports, memoirs, fiction, newspapers, folktales, postcards, photographs, film, maps, songs, and recipes.

5 units, Aut (Naar, D)

HISTORY 90Q. Buddhist Political and Social Theory

(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. Historical and textual roots, emphasizing Tibetan, Bhutanese, and Thai Buddhism. Society and polity in Buddhist thought, Buddhist spiritual, social, and political practice. The state, sovereignty, and the individual and society. Law. Buddhist economic theory, Gross National Happiness, and sustainable economy. The Buddhist critique of neoliberalism. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

4-5 units, Win (Mancall, M)

HISTORY 92A. The Historical Roots of Modern East Asia

(Same as HISTORY 392E.) Focus is on China and Japan before and during their transition to modernity. The populous, urbanized, economically advanced, and culturally sophisticated Ming empire and Muromachi shogunate in the 16th century when Europeans first arrived. How the status quo had turned on its head by the early 20th century when European and American steamships dominated the Pacific, China was in social and political upheaval, and Japan had begun its march to empire. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 95N. Mapping the World: Cartography and the Modern Imagination

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Focus is on cutting-edge research. Topics: the challenge of grasping the globe as a whole; geography's roots in empire; maps as propaganda and as commodities; the cultural production of scale; and the cartography of imaginery worlds.Sources include resources in the Green Library Special Collections and in the Stanford Spatial History Lab. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Aut (Wigen, K)

HISTORY 102. The History of the International System

World politics and international relations from the dominance of empires and nation states at the turn of the century to the present. The influence of communism, fascism, and anti-imperialism, and the emergence of society as a factor in international relations. Questions of sovereignty versus the new world order. WIM GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 103E. History of Nuclear Weapons

(Same as POLISCI 116.) The development of nuclear weapons and policies. How existing nuclear powers have managed their relations with each other. How nuclear war has been avoided so far and whether it can be avoided in the future. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Spr (Holloway, D)

HISTORY 104. Trials that Made History: Courtroom Martyrs and Villains from the Classical to Modern Period

Socrates, the Knights Templar, Galileo, Salem witchcraft, and the Scopes (monkey) trials. How trials reflect cultural conflicts and political climate. Tensions between individuals and the state and between science and religion that are evident in trials. The role of trials in public discourse. Trial as drama. Reading assignments are interdisciplinary and range from surviving trial transcripts to the work of literary scholars and filmmakers. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Miller, K)

HISTORY 105. Gandhi, King, and Nonviolence

(Same as RELIGST 118.) Lives, times, theory, and practice of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.; their significance to issues of violence and nonviolence today. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, not given this year

HISTORY 106A. Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa

Global patterns of demography, economic and social development, geopolitics, and cultural differentiation, covering E. Asia, S. Asia, S.E. Asia, Central Asia, N. Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Use of maps to depict geographical patterns and processes. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Aut (Lewis, M)

HISTORY 106B. Global Human Geography: Europe and Americas

Patterns of demography, economic and social development, geopolitics, and cultural differentiation. Use of maps to depict geographical patterns and processes. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Win (Lewis, M)

HISTORY 107. Introduction to Feminist Studies

(Same as FEMST 101.) What is feminism and why does it matter today? Debates over the status and meaning of feminism in the 21st century. Feminist theories and practices across topics that intersect with gender inequality such as race, health, socioeconomics, sexual orientation, international perspectives, new media, civil rights, and political change. Perspectives from philosophy, education, visual culture, literary and ethnic studies, performance and expressive arts, and social sciences. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-Gender

5 units, Aut (Freedman, E)

HISTORY 110A. Europe from Late Antiquity to 1500

Focus is on religion and politics. Issues include: the rise of Christianity and its impact on Rome; transformations of Catholicism and its institutions including the impact of barbarian tribes and the struggle between church and state; antisemitism, heresy, Crusades, and inquisition; courtly love; and scholasticism. GER:DB-Hum, WIM

5 units, Win (Buc, P)

HISTORY 110B. Machiavellian Moments: Europe's History, 1492-1793

Survey of the intellectual and social currents from the voyages of Columbus to the French Revolution. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 110C. Introduction to Modern Europe

From the late 18th century to the present. How Europeans responded to rapid social changes caused by political upheaval, industrialization, and modernization. Political ideologies such as liberalism, socialism, communism, and fascism that Europeans developed in response to revolution, nation building, imperialism, and international competition. GER:DB-Hum, WIM

5 units, Win (Sheehan, J)

HISTORY 120A. Foundations of Modern Russia

Culture, politics, and society from the beginnings to Catherine the Great. Orthodox Christianity; Vikings in Kievan Rus; the principality of Moscow and the Muscovite political system; church-state relations; the 15th-16th century Muscovite cultural synthesis in art and architecture and the shattering of that synthesis in the 17th century; the 17th-century schism in the church; cultural revolution and W. European elements under Peter the Great; Moscow versus St. Petersburg, or traditional versus westernized Russia; rise of serfdom; Catherine the Great as enlightened despot. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom, WIM

4-5 units, Win (Kollmann, N)

HISTORY 120B. The Russian Empire

From Peter the Great to the Bolsheviks. Russia as an empire; its varied regions, including the Caucasus, Central Asia, Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltics. Focus is on the politics and cultures of empire. Sources include novels, political tracts, paintings, music, and other primary sources. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Crews, R)

HISTORY 120C. 20th-Century Russian and Soviet History

The Soviet polity from the 1917 Revolution to its collapse in 1991. Essentials of Marxist ideology; the Russian Empire in 1917. Causation in history; interpretations of the Revolution; state building in a socialist polity; social engineering through collectivization of agriculture, force-paced industrialization, and cultural revolution; terror as concept and practice; nationality policies in a multiethnic socialist empire; the routinization, decline, and collapse of the revolutionary ethos; and the legacy of the Soviet experiment in the new Russia. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 125. 20th-Century Eastern Europe

Major historical trends in 20th-century E. European history. Empires and national movements. The creation of independent Eastern Europe after WW I; social movements and the emergence of dictatorships and fascism in the inter-war period. WW II, Stalinism, and destalinization in contemporary E. Europe. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Win (Jolluck, K)

HISTORY 132. Ordinary Lives: A Social History of the Everyday in Early Modern Europe

What war meant for foot soldiers and the peasants across whose fields they marched. Ordinary people's lives in the eras of Machiavelli, Shakespeare, the Reformation, and the scientific revolution. Topics include: birth, marriage, and death; city life and peasant culture; lay encounters with religious and intellectual ideas; war and crime; and gender and sexuality. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Stokes, L)

HISTORY 132A. Enlightenment and the Arts

Gateway course for the History, Literature, and the Arts track of the History major. Novels, poetry, music, paintings, and architecture, and what they reveal about the society that produced them. GER:DB-Hum, WIM

5 units, Aut (Lougee Chappell, C)

HISTORY 133A. Yorkist and Tudor England

English society and state from the Wars of the Roses to the death of Elizabeth. Political, social, and cultural upheavals of the Tudor period and the changes wrought by the Reformation. The establishment of the Tudor monarchy; destruction of the Catholic church; rise of Puritanism; and 16th-century social and economic changes. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 133B. Revolutionary England: The Stuart Age

From the accession of King James I in 1603 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714: a brutal civil war, the execution of one anointed king, and the deposition of another. Topics include the causes and consequences of the English Revolution, the origins of Anglo-American democratic thought, the rise and decline of Puritanism, and the emergence of England as an economic and colonial power. (Como) GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Como, D)

HISTORY 135. History of European Law, Medieval to Contemporary

(Same as HISTORY 335.) From the fall of the Roman Empire to the establishment of the EU. How law changed over time. Sources and nature of law, organization of legal systems, and relationships between law and society, law and lawmaker, law and the legal professions. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 136D. European Intellectual History, 1789-Present

Sources include texts, art, music and, film. The impact of intellectual life and its products on society and politics and, conversely, of social and political developments on intellectual life. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Mancall, M)

HISTORY 137. The Holocaust

(Same as HISTORY 337.) The emergence of modern racism and radical anti-Semitism. The Nazi rise to power and the Jews. Anti-Semitic legislation in the 30s. WW II and the beginning of mass killings in the East. Deportations and ghettos. The mass extermination of European Jewry. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, Spr (Felstiner, M)

HISTORY 137A. Europe, 1945-2002

Europe's transformation from the end of WW II to an expanded EU. Political, cultural, economic, and social history. Topics: postwar reconstruction, Cold War, consumer versus socialist culture, collapse of Communism, postcommunist integration. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Spr (Ward, J)

HISTORY 138A. Germany and the World Wars, 1870-1990

Germany's history from Bismarck's wars of unification through the end of the Cold War. The radicalizing relationship between international conflict, social upheaval, and state transformation with a focus on the clashes of the Second Empire, the road to WW I, interwar instability, the rise of Nazism, WW II, the Holocaust, the division of communist E. and capitalist W. Germany, and the fall of the Iron Curtain. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Aut (Sheffer, E)

HISTORY 138B. Colonialism and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Colonialism as an intellectual project, commercial enterprise, and political strategy during from 1789-1914. Topics: the dissolution and collapse of empires; the debate over free trade and informal empire; the popularity of state-sponsored colonialism in newly-formed nation states like Germany and Italy or reconfigured ones like the Third Republic of France; and colonialism's relationship to traditional, land-based empire-building in Central and E. Europe during the run-up to WW I. Focus is on Germany, due to its embrace of both overseas and continental expansionism, and the continent, rather than Great Britain. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Spr (Naranch, B)

HISTORY 139. Modern Britain and the Empire

From American Independence to the latest war in Iraq. Topics include: the rise of the modern British state and economy; imperial expansion and contraction; the formation of class, gender, and national identities; mass culture and politics; the world wars; and contemporary racial politics. Focus is on questions of decline, the fortunes and contradictions of British liberalism in an era of imperialism, and the weight of the past in contemporary Britain. GER:DB-Hum, DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 140A. The Scientific Revolution

What do people know and how do they know it? What counts as scientific knowledge? In the 16th and 17th centuries, understanding the nature of knowledge engaged the attention of individuals and institutions including Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, the early Royal Society, and less well-known contemporaries. New meanings of observing, collecting, experimenting, and philosophizing, and political, religious, and cultural ramifications in early modern Europe. GER:DB-Hum, WIM

5 units, Aut (Riskin, J)

HISTORY 145A. Africa Until European Conquest

Episodes in African history from the earliest records up until European partition of the continent, focusing on how knowledge about the natural, social, and spiritual worlds was linked to the exercise of power. The effects of technological innovations on states and other forms of social complexity; use of religious beliefs and practices to legitimate or critique authority. The effects of slave trades and imperial conquest on these forms of authority. WIM GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 145B. Africa in the 20th Century

The transformations in African societies and cultures from the beginning of colonial rule to the 90s. Case studies of colonialism and its impact on Africans. Debates over modernity, modernization, and tradition. The challenges of postcoloniality. Social changes in the organization of labor, family life, markets, and the built environment. Cultural changes in literature, music, representational art, and political thought. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Spr (Petrocelli, R)

HISTORY 150A. Colonial and Revolutionary America

Survey of the origins of American society and polity in the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics: the migration of Europeans and Africans and the impact on native populations; the emergence of racial slavery and of regional, provincial, Protestant cultures; and the political origins and constitutional consequences of the American Revolution. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul

5 units, Aut (Rakove, J)

HISTORY 150B. 19th-Century America

Territorial expansion, social change, and economic transformation. The causes and consequences of the Civil War. Topics include: urbanization and the market revolution; slavery and the Old South; sectional conflict; successes and failures of Reconstruction; and late 19th-century society and culture. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul, WIM

5 units, Win (White, R)

HISTORY 150C. The United States in the Twentieth Century

Major political, economic, social, and diplomatic developments in the U.S. Themes: the economic and social role of government (Progressive, New Deal, Great Society, and Reagan-Bush eras); ethnic and racial minorities in society (mass immigration at the turn of the century and since 1965, the civil rights era of the 50s and 60s); the changing status of women since WW II; shifting ideological bases, institutional structures, and electoral characteristics of the political system (New Deal and post-Vietnam); determinants of foreign policy in WW I and II, and the Cold War. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul

5 units, Spr (Camarillo, A; Chang, G)

HISTORY 151. Slavery and Freedom in American History

What does the fact that the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, with its professions about equality and unalienable rights, was written by a slaveowner tell us about the history of the U.S., and about the experience of African Americans? Topics: the transatlantic slave trade, slavery and the American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the African colonization movement, abolitionism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Spr (Campbell, J)

HISTORY 154. 19th-Century U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History, 1790-1860

How Americans considered problems such as slavery, imperialism, and sectionalism. Topics include: the political legacies of revolution; biological ideas of race; the Second Great Awakening; science before Darwin; reform movements and utopianism; the rise of abolitionism and proslavery thought; phrenology and theories of human sexuality; and varieties of feminism. Sources include texts and images. GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 154A. Religion and American Society

How and why is the U.S. at once the most secular and the most religious industrialized nation in the world; why does it matter? How has American religion influenced reform, wars, politics, civil rights, popular culture,and national identity? Larger connections between religion and society; how religious institutions and movements have shaped the American experience and vice versa. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Herzog, J)

HISTORY 158. The United States Since 1945

Focus is on foreign policy and politics with less attention to social and intellectual history. Topics include nuclear weapons in WW II, the Cold War, the Korean and Vietnam wars, Eisenhower revisionism, the Bay of Pigs and Cuban missile crisis, civil rights and the black freedom struggle, the women's movement, the Great Society and backlash, welfare policy, conservatism and liberalism, the 60s anti-war movement, Watergate and the growth of executive power, Iran-Contra and Reagan revisionism, Silicon Valley, the Gulf War, the Clinton impeachment controversy, 2004 election, and 9/11 and Iraq war. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 161. U.S. Women's History, 1890s-1990s

The transformation of Victorian womanhood in the late 19th century, including the workforce participation of immigrant and black women, educational and professional opportunities for middle class white women, impact of wars and depression on 20th-century women's lives, and rebirth of feminism. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-Gender

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 163. A History of North American Wests

The history, peoples, and natural systems of a region that has never been contained within a single empire or nation state, but has been united by the movement of peoples, species, and things. Topics include smallpox, horses, gold, salmon, rivers, coal, and oil. GER:DB-SocSci, WIM

5 units, Spr (White, R)

HISTORY 166. Introduction to African American History: The Modern African American Freedom Struggle

Focus is on political thought and protest movements after 1930. Individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African American struggles for freedom and justice. Sources include audiovisual materials. Research projects required for fifth unit. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul

4-5 units, Aut (Carson, C)

HISTORY 168. American History in Film: Since World War ll

U.S. society, culture, and politics since WW II through feature films. Topics include: McCarthyism and the Cold War; ethnicity and racial identify; changing sex and gender relationships; the civil rights and anti-war movements; and mass media. Films include The Best Years of Our Lives, Salt of the Earth, On the Waterfront, Raisin in the Sun, Medium Cool, and Broadcast News. GER:DB-Hum

3-4 units, Sum (Carroll, P)

HISTORY 170. Colonial Latin America

16th-19th centuries. Indigenous cultures. The arrival of Europeans and its impact on native and European societies. Culture, religion and institutions, and everyday life. The independence period and the formation of new nations. Readings include primary and secondary sources. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Aut (Staff)

HISTORY 181B. The Middle East in the 20th Century

(Formerly 187B.) The history of the Middle East since WW I, focusing on the eastern Arab world, Egypt, the Fertile Crescent, and the Arabian Peninsula (the mashrîq), with attention to Turkey, Iran, and Israel. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Spr (Beinin, J)

HISTORY 182. Medieval Islamic History, 600-1500

From the rise of Islam to the wake of the Mongol invasions. Focus Is on the Abbasid Empire (CA 750-1250) and its successor states in the context of a broader world history. Topics: the formation of early Muslim community, the Caliphate, spread of Islam, encounters with existing cultures, institutions of learning and spirituality, sectarian conflicts, social transformations, crime and punishment, markets, commercial networks, and everyday life. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Aut (Yilmaz, H)

HISTORY 182A. The Ottoman Empire

From the rise of the Empire in the 13th century to its end in WW I. Geographic coverage from the Balkans to Iraq and from N. Africa to the Caucasus. Military expansion; political, religious, and cultural institutions; relations with Iran, Europe, Africa,and S. Asia; nature of imperial rule; gender; trade; landholding; popular culture; law. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Win (Mikhail, A)

HISTORY 185B. Jews in the Modern World

Possible themes: the restructuring of Jewish existence during the Enlightenment and legal emancipation at the end of the 18th century in W. Europe, the transformation of Jewish life in E. Europe under the authoritarian Russian regime, colonialism in the Sephardic world, new ideologies (Reform Judaism and Jewish nationalisms), the persistence and renewal of antisemitism, the destruction of European Jewry under the Nazis, new Jewish centers in the U.S., and the State of Israel. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 191. East Asia in the Early Buddhist Age

(Same as HISTORY 391.) Evolution of cities in imperial China through early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hinterlands, and the contrast between imperial capitals and other cities. Comparative examination of cases from European history. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 192. China: The Early Empires

How China was transformed as a consequence of its political unification by the Qin dynasty. The geographical reorganization of China in the process of unification. The changing nature of rulership, cities, rural society, military organization, kinship structure, religion, literary practice, law, and relations to the outside world. The nature of empire as a political system. GER:DB-Hum

3-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 193. Late Imperial China

From the Tang-Song transition until the collapse of imperial order. The rise of absolutism and gentry society, and concomitant shifts in culture, gender relations, and the economy. The threat of steppe nomadism which produced the Mongol and Manchu conquest dynasties. The last imperial dynasty, the Qing, which solved traditional problems but was confronted by new ones. How simultaneous disasters of internal rebellion and Western imperialist invasion destroyed the old order. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Sommer, M)

HISTORY 194B. Japan in the Age of the Samurai

From the Warring States Period to the Meiji Restoration. Topics include the three great unifiers, Tokugawa hegemony, the samurai class, Neoconfucian ideologies, suppression of Christianity, structures of social and economic control, frontiers, the other and otherness, castle-town culture, peasant rebellion, black marketing, print culture, the floating world, National Studies, food culture, samurai activism, black ships, unequal treaties, anti-foreign terrorism, restorationism, millenarianism, modernization as westernization, Japan as imagined community. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Wigen, K)

HISTORY 195. Modern Korean History

Themes include status, gender, and monarchy in the Choson dynasty; intellectual life and social transformation in the 19th century; the rise of Korean nationalism; Japan's colonial rule and Korean identities; culture, economy, and society in colonial Korea; the Korean War, and the different state buildling processes in North and South after the Korean War. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Spr (Moon, Y)

HISTORY 195C. Modern Japanese History

Japan's modern transformation from the late 19th century to the present. Topics include: the Meiji revolution; industrialization and social dislocation; the rise of democracy and empire; total war and US occupation; economic miracle and malaise; Japan as soft power; and politics of memory. Readings and films focus on the lived experience of ordinary men and women across social classes and regions. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 196. South Asian Modernity, 1750-1950: Politics, Culture, Ideas

History and politics of the Indian subcontinent across two centuries of transformation. Topics: interactions among colonial power, nationalism, and modern institutions; S. Asia at the crossroads of world history in an age of empire, capitalism, and war; history and memory through political traditions, social movements, and religious experiences that shaped S. Asian modernity; from Edmund Burke to Gandhi; East India Company's statemaking to origins of nationality; Tagore to Iqbal; peasants and rebels to liberals and revolutionaries; decolonization and Partition. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Aut (Kumar, A)

HISTORY 197. Southeast Asia: From Antiquity to the Modern Era

The history of S.E. Asia, comprising Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos, from antiquity to the present. The spread of Indian cultural influences, the rise of indigenous states, and the emergence of globally linked trade networks. European colonization, economic transformation, the rise of nationalism, the development of the modern state, and the impact of globalization. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Lewis, M)

HISTORY 198. The History of Modern China

Major historical transformations includling the decline of the last imperial dynasty, the formation of the first Chinese republic, WW II, the rise of Communism, China under Mao, post-Mao reforms, and the Beijing Olympics of 2008. GER:DB-SocSci, DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Aut (Mullaney, T)

HISTORY 201. Introduction to Public History in the U.S.,19th Century to the Present

(Same as HISTORY 301.) Gateway course for the History and Public Service interdisciplinary track. Topics include the production, presentation, and practice of public history through narratives, exhibits, web sites, and events in museums, historical sites, parks, and public service settings in nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and educational institutions. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Aut (McKibben, C)

HISTORY 201A. Spatial History: Concepts, Methods, Problems

(Same as HISTORY 401A.) Technical training in GIS, with modules taught by Stanford Spatial History Lab staff; conceptual work in the use of these techniques in spatial historical analysis. Students develop their own spatial history projects and produce beta versions of dynamic visualizations. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Aut (White, R; Frank, Z)

HISTORY 202. International History and International Relations Theory

(Same as HISTORY 306E, POLISCI 216E, POLISCI 316.) The relationship between history and political science as disciplines. Sources include studies by historians and political scientists on topics such as the origins of WW I, the role of nuclear weapons in international politics, the end of the Cold War, nongovernmental organizations in international relations, and change and continuity in the international system. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Aut (Holloway, D)

HISTORY 203A. Theories of the State from the Ancient World to the Present

(Same as HISTORY 303A.) The development and contemporary condition of thinking about the state. Philosophic, rhetorical, and historical contexts. Aristotle's Politics; early modern theorists such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau; transformations of the idea through the French Revolution by Sieyes and Hegel; and problematizations of the ideas in the last century by Schmidt and Foucault. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 204G. War, Culture, and Society in the Modern Age

(Same as HISTORY 304G.) How Western societies and cultures have responded to modern warfare. The relationship between its destructive capacity and effects on those who produce, are subject to, and must come to terms with its aftermath. Literary representations of WW I; destructive psychological effects of modern warfare including those who take pleasure in killing; changes in relations between the genders; consequences of genocidal ideology and racial prejudice; the theory of just war and its practical implementation; and how wars are commemorated. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 205B. Quantitative Methods in Historical Research

(Same as HISTORY 305B.) Latest techniques applied to research issues in current historical debates. Preparation of data, processing, statistical procedures to examine theoretical historical issues, and how to present quantitative materials in historical writing. Mathematical or statistical training not required. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Aut (Klein, H)

HISTORY 206. History and Geography of Contemporary Global Issues

The historical background and geographical context of contemporary global issues and events. Texts are a world atlas and regular reading of The New York Times and The Economist. Topics vary according to what is happening in the world. Student presentations. WIM GER:DB-SocSci, WIM

5 units, Spr (Lewis, M)

HISTORY 208A. Science and Law in History

(Same as HISTORY 308A.) How the intertwined modern fields of science and law, since the early modern period, together developed central notions of fact, evidence, experiment, demonstration, objectivity, and proof.

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 208B. Women Activists' Response to War

(Same as HISTORY 308B.) Theoretical issues, historical origins, changing forms of women's activism in response to war throughout the 20th century, and contemporary cases, such as the Russian Committee of Soldiers Mothers, Bosnian Mothers of Srebrenica, Serbian Women in Black, and the American Cindy Sheehan. Focus is on the U.S. and Eastern Europe, with attention to Israel, England, and Argentina. GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender

4-5 units, Spr (Jolluck, K)

HISTORY 208S. The Politics of Retrospective Justice

Forms of injustice in history including slavery, genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass rape, forced religious conversion, and torture of prisoners. Mechanisms eveloped over the last century to define, deter, and alleviate the effects of such offenses, including war crimes tribunals, truth commissions, national apologies, and monetary reparations. Case studies chart the international field of retrospective justice, exploring the legal, political, and moral implications of confronting traumatic pasts. GER:DB-SocSci, WIM

5 units, Spr (Campbell, J)

HISTORY 209S. Research Seminar for Majors

Required of History majors. How to conduct original, historical research and analysis, including methods such as using the libraries and archives at Stanford and elsewhere, and working collaboratively to frame topics, identify sources, and develop analyses. Research paper. WIM

5 units, Spr (Riskin, J)

HISTORY 212. Holy Wars: Medieval Perspectives

(Same as HISTORY 312.) Cultural and societal factors at play in Christian holy war from late antiquity to the early modern era. Topics include: the Crusades and their meanings; armed struggle against heresy; and the wars of religion. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 216A. Muslims and Infidels: Islam and the Crusades

(Same as HISTORY 316A.) The impact of the Crusades on the Muslim world and consciousness from the Middle Ages and to the present. Primary and secondary sources. Themes include: jihad; cultural interaction between Muslims and Christians in the Holy Land; and military, political, and ideological developments in the 12th and 13th centuries. Modern interpretations and debates about jihadist theology and global jihad. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 217A. Poverty and Charity in Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

(Same as HISTORY 317A.) Topics include: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic theoretical discussions of poverty and charity; normative law versus actual practice; the voice of the poor in available source; and formal and informal institutions of charity in the medieval Mediterranean region. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, Aut (Miller, K)

HISTORY 217B. Land of Three Religions: Medieval Spain

(Same as HISTORY 317B.) The history of the Iberian peninsula from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the Christian expulsion of the Jews in 1492. Focus is on forms of confrontation, confluence, and hostile indifference among medieval Jews, Christians, and Muslims. What were undercurrents of aggression that gave rise to persecution of the other; what elements of commonality among groups gave rise to intellectual advancements? WIM

4-5 units, Win (Miller, K)

HISTORY 218A. Muslim Minorities in History

(Same as HISTORY 318A.) Muslim minorities under non-Muslim rule in different historical contexts configurationssuch as enclaves and diasporas, from the Middle Ages to the present. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Win (Miller, K)

HISTORY 221B. The Woman Question in Modern Russia

Russian radicals believed that the status of women provided the measure of freedom in a society and argued for the extension of rights to women as a basic principle of social progress. The social status and cultural representations of Russian women from the mid-19th century to the present. The arguments and actions of those who fought for women's emancipation in the 19th century, theories and policies of the Bolsheviks, and the reality of women's lives under them. How the status of women today reflects on the measure of freedom in post-Communist Russia. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-Gender

5 units, Win (Jolluck, K)

HISTORY 222. Honor, Law, and Modernity

How Europe evolved from medieval to modern; focus is on standards for conflict resolution emphasizing insults to honor. How attitudes towards the self and society, and the state's relationship to individuals, changed from the 16th to 18th centuries in Europe and Russia. Traditional concepts of honor and patterns of settling disputes contrasted to early modern concepts of honor, private life, civility, and crime and punishment. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 223. Art and Ideas in Imperial Russia

(Same as HISTORY 323.) Poetry, novels, symphonic music, theater, opera, painting, design, and architecture: what they reveal about the politics and culture of tsarist Russia. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, Win (Crews, R)

HISTORY 224B. Modern Afghanistan

(Same as HISTORY 324B.) Politics, society, and culture in Afghanistan from the 19th century to the present. Topics include state building, tribal politics, Islamic law, geopolitics, the Taliban, and the post-Taliban disorder. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Aut (Crews, R)

HISTORY 227. East European Women and War in the 20th Century

(Same as HISTORY 327.) Thematic chronological approach through conflicts in the region: the Balkan Wars, WW I, WW II, and the recent wars in the former Yugoslavia. The way women in E. Europe have been involved in and affected by these wars compared to women in W. Europe in the two world wars. Women's involvement in war as members of the military services, the backbone of underground movements, workers in war industries, mothers of soldiers, subjects and supporters of war aims and propaganda, activists in peace movements, and objects of wartime destruction, dislocation, and sexual violation. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-Gender

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 227B. Imperialism, the Media, and the Public Sphere

(Same as HISTORY 327B.) Focus is on late 19th and 20th centuries, including the postcolonial period. The role of journalists and other members of the media in creating the image of empire, in defending its legitimacy, and undermining its foundations. Topics include the technologies of communication that allowed information to flow between Europe and its imperial territories, and the relationships among imperial propoganda, colonial reportage, and anticolonial media campaigns. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Aut (Naranch, B)

HISTORY 228. Circles of Hell: Poland in World War II

(Same as HISTORY 328.) The experience and representation of Poland's wartime history from the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 to the aftermath of Yalta in 1945. Nazi and Soviet ideology and practice regarding the Poles and the ways Poles responded, resisted, and survived. The self-characterization of Poles as innocent victims, and their involvement or complicity in the Holocaust, thus engaging in a current debate in Polish society. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 229. Poles and Jews

(Same as HISTORY 329.) Focus is on the period since WW I. The place of the Jews in interwar Poland, WW II, surviving Jews after the war, Polish memorialization of the Holocaust, the reality and mythology of Jews in the communist apparatus, the manipulation of anti-Semitism by the communist government, and post-communist movement toward reconciliation. Memory and national mythology emphasizing Polish wartime behavior and the relationship of Jews to communism. The sources and uses of stereotypes, and the state of Polish-Jewish relations today. GER:DB-Hum, DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom

4-5 units, Spr (Jolluck, K)

HISTORY 230F. Self-Policing, Denunciation, and Surveillance in Modern Europe

How individual actions impact state machineries of power. The motives, pressures, and consequences of everyday collaboration from the French Revolution to Nazi Germany and Soviet bloc police states; popular outrage over such practices in the aftermath of these regimes. The phenomenon of anticipatory compliance, as people tended to perceive less freedom of action than actually existed, and the reciprocal intensification of real and imagined restrictions. The malleability of personal values and interests as represented in diaries, memoirs, secondary sources, and film; variety of individual and national responses.

5 units, Spr (Sheffer, E)

HISTORY 232D. Rome: The City and the World, 1350-1750

(Same as HISTORY 332D.) What lies beyond the ruins of an ancient city? The history of Rome from the Renaissance to the age of the grand tour. Topics include: the political, diplomatic, and religious history of the papacy; society and cultural life; the everyday world of Roman citizens; the relationship between the city and the surrounding countryside; the material transformation of Rome as a city; and its meaning for foreigners. GER:DB-Hum, WIM

4-5 units, Win (Findlen, P)

HISTORY 232G. When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo

(Same as HISTORY 332G.) Gateway course for History of Science and Medicine track. The 1633 condemnation by the Catholic Church of Galileo for believing the sun to be the center of the Universe, and its 1992 admission that Galileo was right. What do these events reveal about the relationship between science and religion? Why has the Galileo affair been one of the most discussed episodes in Italian history and the history of science? Documents from Galileo's life and trial and related literature on Renaissance Italy. Historians' interpretations of the trial in relation to its documentation. WIM GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 233. Reformation, Political Culture, and the Origins of the English Civil War

(Same as HISTORY 333.) English political and religious culture from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War of the 1640s. Themes include the growth of the size and power of the state, Reformation, creation of a Protestant regime, transformation of the political culture of the ruling elite, emergence of Puritanism, and causes of the Civil War. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, Spr (Como, D)

HISTORY 233B. Early Modern Sexualities

(Same as HISTORY 333B.) History of sexuality in early modern Europe. Normative sexuality, heterosexual transgressions, and minority sexualities. Theoretical approaches to and debates about the history of sexuality, in particular prior to the 19th century. Tools for critiquing the heteronormativity of early modern sources and for reading those sources for evidence of sexual diversity. Readings include monographs and primary sources. GER:DB-SocSci, WIM

4-5 units, Spr (Stokes, L)

HISTORY 233C. Two British Revolutions

(Same as HISTORY 333C.) Current scholarship on Britain,1640-1700, focusing on political and religious history. Topics include: causes and consequences of the English civil war and revolution; rise and fall of revolutionary Puritanism; the Restoration; popular politics in the late 17th century; changing contours of religious life; the crisis leading to the Glorious Revolution; and the new order that emerged after the deposing of James II. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 233F. Political Thought in Early Modern Britain

1500 to 1700. Theorists include Hobbes, Locke, Harrington, the Levellers, and lesser known writers and schools. Foundational ideas and problems underlying modern British and American political thought and life. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 233G. Catholic Politics in Europe, 1789-1992

What led to the creation of a specifically Catholic mass politics? How did these parties and movements interact with the Vatican and the wider Church? What accounts for political Catholicism's involvement in clerical-fascist states and its important role in shaping the EU? Sources focus on monographs. Research paper using primary sources. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Win (Ward, J)

HISTORY 234. Paris and Politics, 1600-2006

The emergence of the modern city of lights. Paris as a mirror of French politics: top down, capi-tal to country, center to periphery, noble to bourgeois to people. Sources include maps, art, music, essays, and memoirs.

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 234A. Marie Antoinette on Trial

From her arrival at Versailles until the present. Her 1793 trial as merely the formal phase of the judgmental public scrutiny she endured. Historical and contemporary controversies over the character and symbolism of Marie Antoinette, and the insights they offer into the changing politics and culture of the 18th century. Sources include letters and memoirs, paintings, caricatures, celebrations, and libels. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Win (Lougee Chappell, C)

HISTORY 236. The Ethics of Imperialism

Can a commitment to liberty, progress, and universal rights be reconciled with imperialism? The ethical underpinnings of empire; how modern Europeans provided ethical and political justifications for colonial expansion. How European ideals were used to defend and justify inequality, violence, and genocide. The ethics of American-driven globalization and humanitarianism. Texts include primary sources, philosophical treatises, and historical studies. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 236A. Nationalism, 1600 to the Present

Theory and practice of nationalism. What is the nation and how is it built? What is its relationship to the state? How do national movements adapt to changing ideological and geopolitical contexts? Case studies from nationalism's birthplace, Europe, and other regions. Sources include classic and recent scholarship, and primary sources by nationalists. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Aut (Ward, J)

HISTORY 238K. European Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution: 1938-1948

Experiences of European populations under occupation or suzerainty during WW II. How did populations respond to an invader or hegemonic power such as Nazi Germany? What other options were open to them? How and why did postwar Europe judge their choices? Topics include high politics and individiual lives; sources include shcolarship and original documents. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Win (Ward, J)

HISTORY 239D. Capital and Empire

(Same as HISTORY 339D, HUMNTIES 191S.) Can empire be justified with balance sheets of imperial crimes and boons, a calculus of racism versus railroads? The political economy of empire through its intellectual history from Adam Smith to the present; the history of imperial corporations from the East India Company to Wal-mart; the role of consumerism; the formation of the global economy; and the relationship between empire and the theory and practice of development. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 239F. Empire and Information

(Same as HISTORY 339F.) How do states see? How do they know what they know about their subjects, citizens, economies, and geographies? How does that knowledge shape society, politics, identity, freedom, and modernity? Focus is on the British imperial state activities in S. Asia and Britain: surveillance technologies and information-gathering systems, including mapping, statistics, cultural schemata, and intelligence systems, to render geographies and social bodies legible, visible, and governable. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 241F. History of the Modern Fact

(Same as HISTORY 341F.) The early modern emergence and subsequent development and transformation of notions such as fact, evidence, experiment, demonstration, and objectivity that operate at the crux of modern science. Recent historical writing on the history of evidence, objectivity, and the modern fact. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 241G. History of the Senses

(Same as HISTORY 341G, STS 134, STS 234.) Technological, medical, philosophical, and scientific history of the five senses, drawing upon readings from antiquity to the present. How physiologists and philosophers have explained the functioning of the senses; how doctors have tampered with them both to help and to hinder; and how technologies including medical devices, scientific instruments, and tools of the arts have continually transformed the nature and experience of sensation. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 241S. Science and Culture Wars

Social, cultural, and political conflicts over scientific theories, beginning with the trial of Galileo, often presented as clashes between modern science and religious or political ideology. The cultural engagement of the sciences through such moments of conflict.

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 242A. What is Life? The History of a Question

(Same as HISTORY 342A, HUMNTIES 191R.) History of attempts to understand the nature of life and mind by comparing living creatures with artificial machines and material arrangements. Imitations of animal life and human thought and discussions of relations between creatures and contraptions from antiquity onward, with an eye toward providing historical depth to current attempts to simulate life and mind. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 242G. Representing the World: Maps, Statistics, and Photography

How individuals, groups, and governments sought to understand and describe the world around them, and how to transmit that information to others. Sources include various forms of information technology. Recommended: background in modern European and Atlantic history. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Spr (Wolfenstein, G)

HISTORY 243C. 18th-Century Colonial Science and Medicine

(Same as HISTORY 343C.) The exchange of knowledge, technologies, plants, peoples, disease, and medicines. Focus is on French, British, and Dutch interests in the West Indies; examples from elsewhere. Sources include primary and secondary texts on voyaging, colonialism, slavery, and environmental exchange. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Spr (Schiebinger, L)

HISTORY 243G. Tobacco and Health in World History

(Same as HISTORY 343G.) GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Aut (Proctor, R)

HISTORY 243K. Endangered Species

During the past four centuries, more than 700 species of plants and animals have gone extinct throughout the world. The political, scientific, legal, and environmental histories of endangered and extinct species. Focus is on examples from fish and wildlife in the American West, including the grizzly bear, California condor, Pacific salmon, and desert tortoise.

5 units, Win (Staff)

HISTORY 243S. Human Origins: History, Evidence, and Controversy

(Same as HISTORY 443A.) Research seminar. Debates and controversies include: theories of human origins; interpretations of fossils, early art, and the oldest tools; the origin and fate of the Neanderthals; evolutionary themes in literature and film; visual rhetoric and cliché in anthropological dioramas and phyletic diagrams; the significance of hunting, gathering, and grandmothering; climatological theories and neocatastrophic geologies; molecular anthropology; the impact of racial theories on human origins discourse. Background in human evolution not required. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 244C. The History of the Body in Science, Medicine, and Culture

(Same as HISTORY 444C.) The human body as a natural and cultural object, historicized. The crosscultural history of the body from the 18th century to the present. Topics include: sciences of sex and race; medical discovery of particular body parts; human experimentation, foot binding, veiling, and other bodily coverings; thinness and obesity; notions of the body politic. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-Gender

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 245E. Health and Society in Africa

(Same as HISTORY 347E.) The history of disease, therapeutic and diagnostic systems, and the definition of health in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial Africa. The social and political histories of specific epidemics, including sleeping sickness, influenza, TB, mental illness, and AIDS. The colonial contexts of epidemics and the social consequences of disease. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 245G. Law and Colonialism in Africa

(Same as HISTORY 348D.) Law in colonial Africa provides an opportunity to examine the meanings of social, cultural, and economic change in the anthropological, legal, and historical approaches. Court cases are a new frontier for the social history of Africa. Topics: meanings of conflicts over marriage, divorce, inheritance, property, and authority. WIM GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 246S. Research Seminar: African Nationalism and Beyond

(Same as HISTORY 446A.) African intellectual, political, social and cultural institutions confronting issues of sovereignty, authority, heterarchy, and power during the 19th and 20th centuries. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 248. Islam in Africa

(Same as HISTORY 348.) Relations between African Muslims and the broader Islamic tradition over the last 1200 years. The roots of the Islamic tradition, its adoption, endogenization, and elaboration by African Muslims. The interplay of religion, politics, culture and society, and how tradition exercises influence even while being transformed. The worldviews and lives of African Muslims; how and why those worldviews and experiences changed. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 248S. African Societies and Colonial States

(Same as HISTORY 448A.) The encounter between African societies and European colonialism in the colony or region of their choice. Approaches to the colonial state; tours of primary source collections in the Hoover Institution and Green Libraries. Students present original research findings and may continue research for a second quarter. GER:DB-SocSci, WIM

4-5 units, Win (Roberts, R)

HISTORY 249. History without Documents

(Same as HISTORY 349.) Can history be written about places and times for which are no written sources, or for people in literate societies who left no written traces? Practical training in historical methods for non-documentary sources, including oral traditions and history, archaeology, ecological sources, historical linguistics, ethnography, rituals, myths, songs, and art. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, Spr (Hanretta, S)

HISTORY 251. Creating the American Republic

Concepts and developments in the late 18th-century invention of American constitutionalism; the politics of constitution making and ratifying; emergence of theories of constitutional interpretation including originalism; early notions of judicial review. Primary and secondary sources.

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 251G. Topics in Constitutional History

(Same as POLISCI 222S.) Ideas of rights in American history emphasizing the problem of defining constitutional rights, the free exercise of religion, freedom of expression, and the contemporary debate over rights talk and the idiom of human rights. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul

5 units, Spr (Rakove, J)

HISTORY 252. Decision Making in International Crises: The A-Bomb, the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

(Same as HISTORY 355.) For advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Primary documents and secondary literature. Topics include: the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan, the Korean War, and the Cuban missile crisis. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 254. Popular Culture and American Nature

Despite John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson, it is arguable that the Disney studios have more to do with molding popular attitudes toward the natural world than politicians, ecologists, and activists. Disney as the central figure in the 20th-century American creation of nature. How Disney, the products of his studio, and other primary and secondary texts see environmentalism, science, popular culture, and their interrelationships. GER:DB-Hum, WIM

5 units, Aut (White, R)

HISTORY 255. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Social Gospel and the Struggle for Justice

The religious and political thought of Martin Luther King, Jr., using the documentary resources of the King Institute at Stanford. His social gospel Christianity and prophetic message of radical social transformation. Readings include the forthcoming The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume VI: Advocate of the Social Gospel. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 255B. Introduction to African and African American Studies

(Same as AFRICAAM 105, ENGLISH 143E.) Interdisciplinary. Central themes in African American culture and history related to race as a definitive American phenomenon. African survivals and interpretations of slavery in the New World, contrasting interpretations of the Black family, African American literature, and art. Possible readings: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Alice Walker, and bell hooks. Focus may vary each year. GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul

5 units, Win (Elam, M; Carson, C)

HISTORY 255D. Racial Identity in the American Imagination

(Same as HISTORY 355D.) Major historical transformations shaping the understanding of racial identity and how it has been experienced, represented, and contested in American history. Topics include: racial passing and racial performance; migration, immigration, and racial identity in the urban context; the interplay between racial identity and American identity; the problems of class, gender, and sexuality in the construction of racial identity. Sources include historical and legal texts, memoirs, photography, literature, film, and music. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Win (Hobbs, A)

HISTORY 256. U.S.-China Relations: From the Opium War to Tiananmen

(Same as HISTORY 356.) The history of turbulent relations, military conflict, and cultural clashes between the U.S. and China, and the implications for the domestic lives of these increasingly interconnected countries. Diplomatic, political, social, cultural, and military themes from early contact to the recent past. WIM GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

4-5 units, Win (Chang, G)

HISTORY 257. The Politics and Ethics of Modern Science and Technology

(Same as HISTORY 347, STS 221.) The WW II decision to build and use the atomic bomb. The controversy over the H-bomb. The Oppenheimer loyalty-security case and the relationship of scientist to the state. Medical experimentation on humans and pitfalls of technology. Relations among science, technology, and university. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 258. History of Sexuality in the U.S.

(Same as HISTORY 358.) (Formerly 265A.) Priority to History and Feminist Studies majors; a limited number of graduate students may be admitted. Recent historical interpretations of sexual violence, emphasizing the intersections of gender and race in the construction of rape in early America and in Canada, the racialization of rape in the U.S., lynching and anti-lynching in the U.S., and feminist responses to sexual violence. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-Gender

4-5 units, Spr (Freedman, E)

HISTORY 259A. Poverty and Homelessness in America

Service learning. Students participate in a two quarter internship at a local shelter for homeless individuals or families. Readings include historical, social science, and social commentary literature. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 259B. Poverty and Homelessness in America II

Students participate in an internship with the Emergency Housing Consortium, the primary agency providing shelter for homeless people in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, while learning about homelessness and poverty through readings and discussions. Prerequisite: interview with instructor. Service learning. Students participate in a two quarter internship at a local shelter for homeless individuals or families. Readings include historical, social science, and social commentary literature. Prerequisite: 259A.

3 units, not given this year

HISTORY 260. California's Minority-Majority Cities

Historical development and the social, cultural, and political issues that characterize large cities and suburbs where communities of color make up majority populations. Case studies include cities in Los Angeles, Santa Clara, and Monterey counties. Comparisons to minority-majority cities elsewhere in the U.S. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul

5 units, Spr (McKibben, C)

HISTORY 261. Race, Gender, and Class in Jim Crow America

How African American life and labor were redefined from 1890-1954. Topics include family life, work, leisure patterns, transnational relations, cultural expressions emphasizing literature and music, resistance and social activisim. Primary sources including visual materials, literature, and film; historical interpretations of the period. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Win (Hobbs, A)

HISTORY 264X. Chicana/o History

(Same as CHICANST 165A, CSRE 165A.) The history of Mexican-origin people in the U.S. from 1848 to the present. Mexican American experiences as integral to American history. Tthemes include the effects of conquest, patterns of migration, labor and the formation of social classes, racialization, gender roles, ideology, and political activism.

5 units, Aut (Staff)

HISTORY 265. Writing Asian American History

Recent scholarship in Asian American history, with attention to methodologies and sources. Topics: racial ideologies, gender, transnationalism, culture, and Asian American art history. Primary research paper. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul

5 units, Win (Chang, G)

HISTORY 267E. Twentieth-Century American Politics

The intellectual underpinnings of movements such as progressivism, New Deal liberalism, and modern conservatism; how each translated belief into action. Focus is on primary sources. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Aut (Herzog, J)

HISTORY 268E. American Foreign Policy and International History, 1941-2009

(Same as HISTORY 368E.) Major events and interpretations from WW II to the war in Iraq. Issues of race, expansionism and power; nuclear weapons; and war. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Spr (Bernstein, B)

HISTORY 273. The European Expansion

(Same as HISTORY 373A.) The relationship between European monarchies and their colonial domains from the 16th-18th centuries. Reasons for expansion, methods, and results. Case studies include the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English domains in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Readings include primary and secondary sources.

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 273B. Latin American Societies The Public and the Domestic Domain

(Same as HISTORY 373B.) How Peru, Mexico, and Brazil experience the relationships between the public institutions and symbols (such as the state, church, and the private realm of house, family, and sexuality) and emotional culture. Central aspects of Latin American culture such as honor, paternalism, and servitude, and how they were related to different forms of social stratification, ethnic conflicts, marriage, kinship, and power.

4-5 units, Spr (Staff), given once only

HISTORY 274A. Representing Revolution: The Mexican Revolution in Crossdisciplinary Perspective

(Same as HISTORY 374A.) History and historiography of the Mexican Revolution and its aftermath, from interlocking disciplinary perspectives. The relationship between race, class, gender, and state formation in 20th-century Mexico. How the revolution has been studied by historians and represented in film and photography. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Spr (Staff)

HISTORY 275F. Social Change in Latin America Since 1900

(Same as HISTORY 375F, LATINAM 201, LATINAM 301.) Changes in the social and demographic characteristics of Latin American populations since 1900 and the response of national governments in terms of the evolution of social welfare, health, and educational systems. Fulfills requirement for Latin American Studies honors seminar. Required core course for Latin American Studies master's students. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Aut (Klein, H)

HISTORY 279. Latin American Development: Economy and Society, 1800-2000

(Same as HISTORY 379.) The newly independent nations of Latin America began the 19th century with economies roughly equal to, or even ahead of, the U.S. and Canada. What explains the economic gap that developed since 1900? Why are some Latin American nations rich and others poor? Marxist, dependency, neoclassical, and institutionalist interpretive frameworks. The effects of globalization on Latin American economic growth, autonomy, and potential for social justice. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 279A. Visual and Urban Culture of Modern Latin America

(Same as HISTORY 379A.) Historical and social construction of vision and urban culture in 19th- and 20th-century Latin America. Changes in visual practice over time; the relationship between the production and consumption of images; and the shifting ways in which social relations have been structured by visual practices in modern Latin America. Topics: the transition from colonial society to postcolonial republic; urbanization; the rise of the modern metropolis; modern ways of seeing; the building of and relationship between projects of power, accommodation, and resistance in a comparative and transnational perspective. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Spr (Staff)

HISTORY 281A. Twentieth-Century Iraq: A Political and Social History

The colonial experience, creation of the modern Iraqi state, and transition to military dictatorship. Political movements, religious and tribal elements, and their relation to the state. Geopolitical context. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Spr (Kadhim, A)

HISTORY 281B. Modern Egypt

(Same as HISTORY 381B.) From just before the Napoleonic expedition of 1798 to the present. Topics: European imperialism, the political economy of cotton, rise of nationalism, gender and the nation, minorities, the coup of 1952, positive neutralism and the Cold War, and the neo-liberal reconstruction of Egypt. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Win (Beinin, J)

HISTORY 282. The United States and the Middle East since 1945

(Same as HISTORY 382.) Since the end of WW II, U.S. interests in the Middle East have traditionally been defined as access to oil at a reasonable price, trade and markets, containing the influence of the Soviet Union, and the security of Israel. Is this the full range of U.S. interests? How has the pursuit of these interests changed over time? What forces have shaped U.S. policy? What is the impact of U.S. policy on the region itself? GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

4-5 units, Aut (Beinin, J)

HISTORY 282A. State and Society in Modern Turkey

(Same as HISTORY 382A.) Turkey as a disputed successor to the Ottoman Empire, a buffer zone during the Cold War, an unsettled country between Europe and the Middle East, and a frequently interrupted fragile democracy. Themes: state-run developmentalism, modernization projects, social engineering, the dialectics between democracy and authoritarianism, invented national identities and histories, and secularism. Topics include transition from an empire to a nation state, political identities and ideologies, ethnic and religious conflicts, economic and social transformation, cultural formations, and foreign relations. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Aut (Yilmaz, H)

HISTORY 282B. Islamic Thought and Culture in the Premodern Middle East, 800-1800

(Same as HISTORY 382B.) Major intellectual and cultural currents across political, philosophical, literary, and religious traditions in social contexts from the rise of Islam to the advent of modernity. Focus is on the period when canons of Islamic thought and learning formed; Islamic diversity and universalism as sources of conflict and mediation in ideological conflicts; origins of lingering controversies and their social consequences; formation and defining features of disciplines and schools of thought; modes of production and transmission of knowledge; limits of intellectual freedom; and interaction with non-Islamic cultures. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, Win (Yilmaz, H)

HISTORY 282C. Environmental History of the Middle East

(Same as HISTORY 382C.) What can Middle East environmental history learn from a consideration of other regions? Major problems of the field, available sources, and directions for future research. Topics include Islam and the environment, animals, environmentalism, gardens, colonialism, disease, water and irrigation, and science and technology.

4-5 units, Spr (Mikhail, A)

HISTORY 283. The New Global Economy, Oil, and Islamic Movements in the Middle East

(Same as HISTORY 383.) The integration of the Middle East into the world capitalist market on a subordinate basis and the impact on economic development, class formation, and politics. Alternative theoretical perspectives on the rise and expansion of the international capitalist market combined with case studies of Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Win (Beinin, J)

HISTORY 287B. International Law and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

(Same as HISTORY 387B.) Topics include international legal recognition of the right of Jews for a state; legal implications of defining Israel as a Jewish state; Arab-Palestinians and the right of return; practices of land expropriation within 1948 Israel; norms of international law applicable in the West Bank and Gaza; the legality of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza; the status of Jerusalem after 1967; international law and the Palestinian uprisings; the separation fence; legal status of the Gaza Strip after the disengagement. Background in Israeli or international law not required. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Aut (Holzman-Gazit, Y), given once only

HISTORY 291A. Archaeology and Modernity in Asia: The Excavation of Ancient Civilizations in Modern Times

(Same as HISTORY 391A.) The interplay in Asia between antiquity and modernity, civilization and nation state, and national versus colonial science. The recent excavation of artifacts and places associated with Asian civilization such as the terracotta warriors in China and Angkor Wat in Cambodia. How Asian states have grappled with modernity and colonialism as they simultaneously dug up their ancient pasts. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 291B. The City in Imperial China

(Same as HISTORY 391B.) The evolution of cities in the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hinterlands, and the contrast between imperial capitals and other cities. Comparative cases from European history. Readings include primary and secondary sources, and visual materials.

3-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 291D. Traitors and Collaborators in Colonial History

The roles and problems of collaboration in the rise, sustenance, and fall of empires. Themes include conceptual definitions of collaboration and empire, collaboration of traditional elites, accommodation of religious communities, assimilation and collaboration, local intermediaries, and class and empire. Regional focus is East Asia; also cases from other colonial situations.

5 units, Aut (Moon, Y)

HISTORY 291E. Maps, Borders, and Conflict in East Asia

(Same as HISTORY 391E.) The nature of borders and border conflicts in N.E. Asia from the 17th to the early 20th century. Focus is on contact zones between China, Russia, Korea, and Japan. The geopolitical imperatives that drove states to map their terrain in variable ways. Cultural, diplomatic, and imperial contexts. European pressures and contributions to E. Asian cartography; the uses of maps in surveillance, diplomacy, identity, and war. Student projects focus on a contested border zone. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Win (Wigen, K)

HISTORY 292. The Two Koreas

(Same as HISTORY 392.) Themes include historical and ideological origins of the division, the impact of the Japanese colonial rule, the Korean War, the ideas of key N. and S. Korean leaders, and the consolidation of the two different states after the Korean War. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Win (Moon, Y)

HISTORY 292D. Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan

(Same as HISTORY 392D.) How Japan and Asia mutually shaped each other in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Focus is on Japanese imperialism in Asia and its postwar legacies. Topics include: pan-Asianism and orientalism; colonial modernization in Korea and Taiwan; collaboration and resistance; popular imperialism in Manchuria; total war and empire; comfort women and the politics of apology; the issue of resident Koreans; and economic and cultural integration of postwar Asia. GER:DB-SocSci, DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 293. Law and Society in Late Imperial China

(Same as HISTORY 392B.) Connections between legal and social history. Ideology and practice, center and periphery, and state-society tensions and interactions. Readings introduce the work of major historians on concepts and problems in Ming-Qing history. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 293B. Homosexuality in Historical and Comparative Perspective

(Same as HISTORY 393B.) Comparative history of homoerotic desire, relations, and identity through scholarship on different historical periods and parts of the world: the classical Mediterranean, early modern European cities, late imperial and modern China, Tokugawa and modern Japan, and the U.S.

4-5 units, Spr (Sommer, M)

HISTORY 293D. Empire and Cosmopolitanism: Traveling Ideas in Global Political Thought

(Same as HISTORY 393D.) GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Spr (Kumar, A)

HISTORY 294. Liberalism and Violence: A Conceptual History

What place does violence have in modern political thought? Liberalism eschews violence, yet condones moral war. Marxism justifies revolutionary violence. Anticolonialism invokes insurgency. Gandhi seeks truth in nonviolent suffering. Can modern politics and life be grasped without reference to violence? How is violence related to law and justice? Is there a theology of violence? Liberalism and its critics: Agamben, Arendt, Benjamin, Derrida, Fanon, Foucault, Gandhi, Heidegger, Nietzche, Schmitt, and Sorel. Biopolitics, civil society, friend/enemy, sovereignty, terror, and strikes. GER:EC-EthicReas

5 units, Win (Kumar, A)

HISTORY 295F. Race and Ethnicity in East Asia

(Same as HISTORY 395F.) Historical, cultural, political and theoretical perspectives. Commonly misunderstood as an ethnically homogeneous country, the People's Republic of China is home to 55 officially recognized minority groups, many of whom inhabit the strategic border regions of the country. How similar assumptions of ethnic and racial homogeneity in Taiwan, Japan, and Korea are being reexamined by scholars in disciplines including anthropology, history, and political science. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Win (Mullaney, T)

HISTORY 295J. Chinese Women's History

The lives of women in the last 1,000 years of Chinese history. Focus is on theoretical questions fundamental to women's studies. How has the category of woman been shaped by culture and history? How has gender performance interacted with bodily disciplines and constraints such as medical, reproductive, and cosmetic technologies? How relevant is the experience of Western women to women elsewhere? By what standards should liberation be defined? GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender

5 units, Spr (Sommer, M)

HISTORY 296. Communism and Revolution in China

From the formation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1921 through the 1949 founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Topics include: early theories of socialism in China; the relationship between Chinese communism and the Communist International and Soviet Union; agrarian reformulation of communism by Mao; the communist-nationalist civil war; the Communist Revolution of 1949; and the consolidation of communist power in the PRC. GER:DB-Hum, WIM

5 units, Spr (Mullaney, T)

HISTORY 296E. Contentious Identities: The Formation of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationhood in Modern Japan

(Same as HISTORY 396E.) Exclusion and assimilation of minority groups including Ainu, Burakumin, Okinawans, Koreans, and Taiwanese; how this process was related to the construction of national, racial, and ethnic self-understanding in modern Japan. Ethno-racial formation and nationalism in Japanese society. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Spr (Staff)

HISTORY 297J. Introduction to Bhutan Studies

Required of students enrolled in the Bing Overseas Studies seminar in Bhutan in June/July, 2008; open to others. History, society, and culture of Bhutan including Bhutanese Buddhism. Sources include films. Student research projects.

1-5 units, not given this year

HISTORY 299A. Senior Research I

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)

HISTORY 299B. Senior Research II

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)

HISTORY 299C. Senior Research III

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)

HISTORY 299H. Junior Honors Colloquium

Required of junior History majors planning to write a History honors thesis during senior year.

1 unit, Win (Staff)

HISTORY 299M. Undergraduate Directed Research: Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute

May be repeated for credit.

1-4 units, Aut (Carson, C), Win (Carson, C), Spr (Carson, C)

HISTORY 299S. Undergraduate Directed Research and Writing

May be repeated for credit.

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

HISTORY 299W. Undergraduate Directed Writing

May be repeated for credit.

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

HISTORY 299X. Design and Methodology for International Field Research

(Same as HISTORY 399A.)

1 unit, Spr (Kollmann, N; Roberts, R)

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