Course ListingsFall 2012HistoryHIST0005HISTORY OF CONSUMPTIONThe socio-political history of the use made of goods, food, and energyby different groups through an analysis of class, race, and gender.The course examines economic factors through social and culturalhistory in order to understand consumption within a global economy.Analysis of social structures in the Americas, China, Europe, India,and the Ottoman Empire, from the seventeenth century to the presentday.Sections03571 HIST000501 I+ Baghdiantz-mcca 1.0HIST0012SCI & TECH IN WORLD HISTA broad survey of the history of science from the ancient world to the20th century. The course places a particular emphasis on the widercontext of global trade, knowledge sharing, and colonialism throughoutthe development of wh<strong>at</strong> many now consider “western” science. Topicsand themes include: science in ancient Greece, India, and the Mayanpeninsula; Chinese science in the Ming dynasty; Islamic science and itsinfluence on medieval Europe; conceptual and philosophical changes ofthe "Scientific Revolution"; globaliz<strong>at</strong>ion and colonialism; Darwin andhuman evolution; race, science, and eugenics; science and warfare.Students will be challenged to consider the processes involved in thedevelopment of scientific theories and the ways in which globaldevelopments affected (and continue to affect) scientific thought.Sections02151 HIST001209 I+ Rankin, Alisha 1.0HIST0017THE AMERICASL<strong>at</strong>in America and the Caribbean from the colonial period to thecontemporary era. A multimedia, interdisciplinary introduction focusingon n<strong>at</strong>ion-building, migr<strong>at</strong>ion, race rel<strong>at</strong>ions, women's roles, politicaleconomy, sovereignty, religion, culture, revolutionary movements, andL<strong>at</strong>ino communities in the United St<strong>at</strong>es.Sections03966 HIST001701 10+ Winn, Peter 1.0HIST0022THE CHANGING AMER NATIONPopul<strong>at</strong>ion, society, and politics in U.S. History. Evolution from aformer colony in the Atlantic World to a trans-continental industrializedurban n<strong>at</strong>ion - a globalized country on the Pacific Rim.Sections02153 HIST002211 F+RF Ueda, Reed T 1.0HIST0024REVOLUTION AM:1763-1815Cre<strong>at</strong>ion of a new, republican n<strong>at</strong>ion out of a monarchical empire.American society's place within the British Empire. Western expansionand the Seven Years War. Political origins of revolution; social effectsof resistance and war; loyalism, slavery, intern<strong>at</strong>ional diplomacy; radicaland conserv<strong>at</strong>ive aspects of revolution; the Articles of Confeder<strong>at</strong>ion;post-revolutionary political struggles and social change; origins of theFederal Constitution.Sections03991 HIST002401 J+ Lewis, Kerima M 1.0HIST0034AFR AM US HIST SINCE1865(Cross-listed as AMER 96.) The history of African Americans from theend of the Civil War to the present. Special <strong>at</strong>tention is devoted toAfrican-American social, political, and economic life duringReconstruction; l<strong>at</strong>e nineteenth- and early twentieth-century protestefforts; the civil rights movement and concurrent manifest<strong>at</strong>ions of blackn<strong>at</strong>ionalism and self-determin<strong>at</strong>ion.Sections03992 HIST003401 I+ Mccammack, Bria 1.0HIST0040CHINA TO THE OPIUM WARA broad survey of China's political, social, economic, and culturalhistory to 1943. Ancient worldviews and philosophies, legitimacy andstructure of the imperial system, identity and function of the social elite,evolving sense of Chinese identity.SectionsCHINA TO 160003573 HIST004021 D+ Xu, Man 1.0HIST0042JAPAN TO 1868Prehistoric times to the eve of the Meiji Restor<strong>at</strong>ion. Emphasis on earlycontinental ties; Shinto, Buddhist, and Confucian traditions; Japanesefeudalism; struggles for control of land and peasants; the changingcomposition of the ruling class; incipient capitalism of the Tokugawaperiod; breakdown of the Tokugawa order. Primary m<strong>at</strong>erials used intransl<strong>at</strong>ion.Sections02158 HIST004201 G Leupp, Gary 1.0HIST0046SOUTH ASIA 1000-2000Society, economy, and politics in South Asia (mainly present-day India,Pakistan, and Bangladesh) from c. 1000 to c. 2000. India's ancientheritage, Indo-Islamic society and culture, the Mughal empire,eighteenth-century regional st<strong>at</strong>es, the establishment of Britishdominion, social and religious reforms, n<strong>at</strong>ionalism before and afterGandhi, and partition of India and recent developments. Significant useof audiovisual m<strong>at</strong>erial.Sections02159 HIST004607 G+ Jalal, Ayesha 1.0HIST0048SOUTH ASIA & THE WORLDHow has modern globaliz<strong>at</strong>ion impacted South Asian culture, societyand economy in the colonial and post-colonial periods? How haveSouth Asians influenced other societies through their travels andmigr<strong>at</strong>ions? Major themes include colonial capitalism, indentured laborand exploit<strong>at</strong>ion, migr<strong>at</strong>ions to East Africa, the West Indies, NorthAmerica and Europe and immigrant identities. Explor<strong>at</strong>ion of globalSouth Asian intellectual and business networks, intern<strong>at</strong>ionalism andNGOs, Third Worldism, Bollywood and new media cultures.Sections03869 HIST004810 M+ Manjapra, Kris 1.0 Cap 14HIST0050HIST OF ANCIENT GREECE(Cross-listed as CLS 37.) The historical development of ancient Greeceand the interaction of society, politics, and culture in Greek civiliz<strong>at</strong>ion,from the Mycenaean civiliz<strong>at</strong>ion commemor<strong>at</strong>ed by Homer to theconquests of Alexander the Gre<strong>at</strong> and the diffusion of the Greek way oflife in the succeeding Hellenistic Age. Special <strong>at</strong>tention given to therel<strong>at</strong>ionship of the Greeks to other peoples of the ancientMediterranean and Near East and to examin<strong>at</strong>ion of literary anddocumentary sources. Fall.Sections02160 HIST005001 H+TR Hitchner, Bruce 1.0 C-lst Cls 37-0103786 HIST0050RB EF Hitchner, Bruce 0.0 Crslst Cls 37-rb03787 HIST0050RC FF Hitchner, Bruce 0.0 Crslst Cls 37-rcHIST0052INTRO TO CHRISTIANITY(Cross-listed as REL 35). Survey of the development of Christianityfrom the first century to the present. Study of the key figures, events,and issues th<strong>at</strong> helped shape the Christian tradition in a variety ofcultural, social and historical contexts. Explor<strong>at</strong>ion of the major ideas,institutions, and practices associ<strong>at</strong>ed with Christianity, with close<strong>at</strong>tention to the diverse forms and expressions th<strong>at</strong> Christian faith andlife have taken in different time periods and among a range ofcommunities.Sections<strong>Tufts</strong> <strong>University</strong> Course Listings, Fall 2012Page 99
Course ListingsFall 2012History02161HIST005201 E+MW Curtis, He<strong>at</strong>her 1.0 C-lst Rel 35HIST0053EUROPE TO 1815Eastern and Western Europe from the decline of the Roman Empire inthe West through the medieval era into early modern times, ending witha thorough examin<strong>at</strong>ion of the background of the French Revolutionand Napoleon. The religious, secular, economic, social, political, anddiplom<strong>at</strong>ic processes which have had a lasting impact on modernEuropean institutions and developments.Sections02165 HIST005320 G+ Proctor, David 1.0 Students WillNeed To SignUp For ASectionAlso;cap1402162 HIST0053RA AR Proctor, David 0.002163 HIST0053RB NR Proctor, David 0.002164 HIST0053RC QR Proctor, David 0.003752 HIST0053RD EF Proctor, David 0.003753 HIST0053RE FF Proctor, David 0.0HIST0055EUROPE EARLY MIDDLE AGESWestern Europe and the Mediterranean world from the l<strong>at</strong>e RomanEmpire to the middle of the eleventh century. The decline of classicalsociety and the emergence of a distinctively medieval world. Topics: thepropag<strong>at</strong>ion of Christianity, the appearance and early transform<strong>at</strong>ion ofWestern European kingship, the spread of manorialism and thedevelopment of a feudal system, the cre<strong>at</strong>ion of knighthood andserfdom, the flowering of monasticism, and the production of earlymedieval art and liter<strong>at</strong>ure.Sections02166 HIST005513 ARR Marrone, Steven 1.0HIST0061REVOLUTIONARY R<strong>USS</strong>IAThe era of reforms. Revolutionary responses. The Russian novel. Theemergence of capitalism and of new classes. Revolution in 1905, and<strong>at</strong>tempt <strong>at</strong> autocr<strong>at</strong>ic reform. Russia in the First World War. Therevolutions of 1917, Bolshevism, and civil war. The New EconomicPolicy. The rise of Stalin. (HIST 60, 61, and 62 are offeredsequentially.)Sections03707 HIST006109 DMTR Mulholland, Dan 1.0HIST0066SPAIN AND EMPIRESpanish history from l<strong>at</strong>e middle ages to mid-eighteenth century. Majortopics include religious pluralism and religious conflict in Spain, the eraof overseas expansion, indigenous resistance and adapt<strong>at</strong>ion toconquest, American silver and early globaliz<strong>at</strong>ion, slavery and freedomin the Americas, and Spain’s era of imperial decline and resurgence inthe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Readings include primarysources and scholarly studies.SectionsSPAIN AND ITS EMPIRES03708 HIST006618 G+ Schmidt-nowara, 1.0HIST0068EUR INTELLECTUAL HISTA survey of European Intellectual History from the l<strong>at</strong>e 19th century tothe l<strong>at</strong>e 20th century, providing a comprehensive introduction to majorlandmarks in Continental philosophy and social theory. Consider<strong>at</strong>ionof the influence of social and political contexts, such as war, colonialismand intern<strong>at</strong>ionalism on European thought. Beginning with Nietzsche,the course is divided into five units, devoting special <strong>at</strong>tention topsychoanalysis, critical theory, existentialism, structuralism andpost-modernism. Readings include Freud, Heidegger, the FrankfurtSchool, Levi-Strauss, Sartre, Fanon, Foucault and Derrida. We alsoconsider the intersection of European discourses with movements ofthe colonial and post-colonial world.SectionsMODERN EUR.INTELLECTUAL03709 HIST006807 E+MW Manjapra, Kris 1.0<strong>Tufts</strong> <strong>University</strong> Course Listings, Fall 2012HIST0070MIDDLE EAST TO WW IThe Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire from the l<strong>at</strong>e eighteenthcentury until the eve of World War I, with focus on Syria, Lebanon,Egypt, and Iraq. The political and socioeconomic characteristics of theMiddle East prior to the nineteenth century and their transform<strong>at</strong>ion inthe nineteenth century under new worldwide regional circumstances;the impact of modern Europe in the age of multin<strong>at</strong>ional empires.Sections03713 HIST007017 F+TR Roberts, Hugh 1.0HIST0080SPEC TOP:WORLD&TRANSRGNLPlease see departmental website for specific details.SectionsBYZANTINE & THEIR WORLD03714 HIST008012 K+ Proctor, David 1.003754 HIST0080RA HF Proctor, David 0.003755 HIST0080RB HR Proctor, David 0.003756 HIST0080RC LR Proctor, David 0.003757 HIST0080RD GF Proctor, David 0.0HIST0086SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEPlease see departmental website for detailed course inform<strong>at</strong>ion.SectionsTHE US IN WORLD TO WWI03993 HIST008601 J+ Palen, Marc-wil 1.0HIST0093FOUND SEM:NORTH AMERICAPlease see departmental website for detailed course inform<strong>at</strong>ion.SectionsGIRLHOOD IN THE 1950S03721 HIST009302 8 Drachman, Virgi 1.0HIST0096FOUNDATION SEM : EUROPEPlease see departmental website for detailed course inform<strong>at</strong>ion.SectionsPOPULAR CUL IN EUR 1300-03722 HIST009608 6 Marrone, Steven 1.0HIST0097FOUND SEM:ME & CENT ASIAPlease see departmental website for detailed course description.SectionsMEN, WOMEN, & PAT. IN ME03723 HIST009708 7 Manz, Be<strong>at</strong>rice 1.0HIST0112ANGOLA & MOZAMBIQUESouthern African settler colonies moved slowly to self-determin<strong>at</strong>ion.The transition in Portugal's colonies of Angola and Mozambique wasespecially difficult. Both areas experienced a gener<strong>at</strong>ion of fighting forindependence, and subsequently fractured into intractableinsurgencies. This course gorunds a broader study of decoloniz<strong>at</strong>ion,sovereignty, social authority, and governance in a case study of Angolaand Mozambique from the 1890s to the early twenty-first century.Sections03724 HIST011211 E+MW Penvenne, Jeann 1.0Page 100