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149. World Military History. (CZ) Comparative study of war as a social institution in
different times and cultures. Topics include the origins of war and war in ancient China,
classical Greece, the Middle Ages, early modern Europe, colonial America,
nineteenth-century Japan, the cold war, and Vietnam. One course. Roland
154C. The History of Emotions. (CZ) Codes of conduct aimed at the management,
expression, and concealment of emotion over the last thousand years of European
history, with a focus on the self, manners, dress, romance, and aggression; comparison
of developed Western notion of emotions with configurations of emotional expression
and emotional practices in selected other parts of the world: within Islam, the Hindu
tradition, Japan, certain postcolonial settings. C-L: Cultural Anthropology 154. One
course. Reddy
157C. Rise of Modern Science: Twentieth Century. (CZ) See History 157A. Not open to
students who have taken the former History 118. One course. Mauskopf
158A. New Perspectives on the Atlantic World. (CZ) Reorients the histories of four
continents. An exploration of how an Atlantic world arose because of the interactions
among Africa, North America, South America, and Europe. How this Atlantic world
originated in the fifteenth century; how people emigrated, by force or free will, from one
continent to another (and often back again); how plants, animals, trade goods, and
diseases crossed the ocean; how ideas—especially revolutionary ideas—arose from
intercontinental contact and spread throughout the Atlantic world. Concludes that
people of each of the Atlantic continents possess a heritage including the three other
continents, and that this heritage was ocean-borne. C-L: African and African-American
Studies 158A and Comparative Area Studies. One course. Ewald
168A. The Emergence of the Atlantic Basin to 1713. (CZ) The forces unleashed by the
expansion of European influence into the Atlantic Islands along the west and southwest
coast of Africa, and across the Atlantic Ocean into the Americas. C-L: Latin American
Studies. One course. Gaspar
168B, S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. (CZ) The development of the slave trade from the
fifteenth century to its abolition in the nineteenth century; organization and mechanics,
impact on Europe, Africa, and the Americas. C-L: African and African-American
Studies 168S, Comparative Area Studies, and Latin American Studies. One course.
Gaspar
188A. Genocide in the Twentieth Century. (CZ) Focus on four cases in which soldiers
have launched murderous attacks against civilians: Turks against Armenians, Nazis
against Jews and other racial enemies, Khmer Rouge against their Cambodian enemies,
and ''ethnic cleansing'' in Yugoslavia. Examines responsibility of both perpetrators and
bystanders. One course. Koonz
190. The History of Women in Science and Medicine. (CZ) The history of scientific and
medical theories about women and an analysis of women as participants in the
evolution of science and medicine. C-L: Women's Studies. One course. Green
203S. Topics in Modern World Environmental History. (CZ) Human effects upon the
natural environment; case studies and a synthetic global perspective. One course.
Richards
204S. Technology, Economic Development, and Social Change, 1750 to the Present.
(CZ) The role of technology in initiating both economic development and social change,
and the dynamic relationship between these phenomena. Theories of technology
development; technology in theories of social change; and technology in theories of
economic development. Comparative cases from the United States, Europe, Japan, and
other areas. One course. Partner
207A, S. Geographic Perspectives in History I: Atlantic Worlds. (SS) A variety of
geographical perspectives in history, drawing on studies of western Europe, North
History (HST) 281