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Transfer Student Courses in HistoryThis page was created at 12:40 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. Fall Academic Term, 2001 (September 5 - December 21)Open courses in History Wolverine Access Subject listing for HISTORY Fall Term '01Time Schedule for History. HISTORY 121 / ASIAN 121. East Asia: Early Transformations.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Sidney BrownPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This is an introduction to the civilizations of China, Japan, Korea, and Inner Asia. It aims to provide an overview of changing traditions from ancient to early modern times (ca. 1660 AD) by outlining broad trends which not only transformed each society, economy, and culture but also led to the development of this region into distinctly different modern nations. The development of state Confucianism, the spread of Buddhism, the functions of the scholar and the warrior, the impact of the military empires of Inner Asia, and the superiority of pre-modern Asian science and technology are some of the topics we will cover. In addition to the required textbooks, we will read contemporary accounts and view slides and films to acquire intimate appreciation of these cultures. Course requirements include successful completion of: quizzes given in sections; four major tests given in class; one report/project (5 pp. plus bibliography and notes).
HISTORY 132 / AAPTIS 100 / ACABS 100 / HJCS 100. Peoples of the Middle East.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Kathryn Babayan (babayan@umich.edu) , Gary M Beckman (sidd@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: https://cgi.www.umich.edu/~nes100/F01/ See Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies 100.001.
HISTORY 144(249) / KOREAN 150 / ASIAN 154. Introduction to Korean Civilization.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Eun-Su Cho (eunsucho@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 152 / ASIAN 112. Southeast Asian Civilization.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Victor B LiebermanPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Southeast Asia is one of the world's most culturally diverse regions, home to Buddhist, Muslim, Confucian, and Christian civilizations. It boasts ancient monuments of surpassing grandeur and symbolic complexity. It was the scene of the bloodiest conflict since 1945, the Vietnam War. Until recently it had the world's fastest growing regional economy, and it remains an area of great importance to Japan as well as the United States. This course offers an introduction (and thus assumes no prior knowledge) to Southeast Asian history from the earliest civilizations, through the colonial conquest, the indigenous political reaction – of which Vietnamese Communism and the Vietnam Wars were one expression – and the contemporary economic scene. The course seeks to define Southeast Asia's uniqueness as well as its evolving ties to the rest of the world. Midterm, final, and optional paper. Two lectures, one discussion section per week.
HISTORY 200. Greece to 201 B.C.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Geoffrey SchmalzPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Homer, Aristotle and Socrates, Odysseus, Pericles and Alexander the Great, Medea, Cassandra and Atigone, Athens, Sparta and Troy...names and places that pop up in many different contexts. Wouldn't it be great to know who and what they really were and why these names and places still carry meaning today? This survey course introduces participants to ancient Greece from the Mycenaean age to the end of the Hellenistic period. It covers ancient works of literature as well as inscriptions, papyri, coins, and archaeological evidence. Lectures and the section discussions focus on the development of Greek society, the role of the individual in Greek history, and the dynamics of historical change. Throughout the term, corresponding and contrasting issues relevant to our own society and history will be addressed. There will be two exams. Each will include essay questions and also test knowledge of historical figures, places and events (2 x 30% of the grade). 20% of the grade will be based on contributions to discussions in sections, the remaining 20% on assignments and quizzes in sections. History 200 is the "prequel" to History 201 (The Roman Empire and Its Legacy). Textbook: R. Morkot, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece (1996). NO PREREQUISITES. EVERYBODY WELCOME.
HISTORY 241. War in the Twentieth Century Middle East.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Juan R Cole (jrcole@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/syls.htm Covers the history of warfare since the 18th century from Algeria to Afghanistan. Examines imperial warfare and statemaking through Muhammad Ali Pasha (d. 1848), then the colonial wars of France, Great Britain, and Russia; the two world wars; and the subsequent Arab-Israeli, Gulf, and Afghanistan conflicts.
HISTORY 246(446) / CAAS 246. Africa to 1850.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001 – Africa to 1850Instructor(s): Mamadou Diouf (mdiouf@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (SS). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course explores the pre-colonial African past, from the early prehistory of the human to the eve of Europe's second great wave of empire when Africans across most of the continent became the subjects of European colonies. The second European empires (from roughly the 1870s through the 1960s) have had profound influence on Africa, yet important global forces were affecting Africa long before the mid-nineteenth century. Moreover, the shapes that Africa would take under the influence of European empire would be strongly conditioned by the course of change on the continent before 1850 and by the nature of society and culture on the continent stretching back for more than a millennium. The major objective of this course is to establish a deeper understanding of the forces, institutions, and processes that underlay the experiences of Africans and the African continent before 1850. The post-1850 history of Africa will be taken up by Professor Diouf during the second term, in History 247. Over the past five decades, the reconstruction of the African past – from archaeological evidence, from oral testimonies, and from historical linguistics and from other methods and materials – has been one of the most remarkable departures in the historical sciences, taking the professional craft of history beyond its signature: the written document. Of course, the peoples of Africa long enjoyed a rich knowledge of their past and a deep engagement with history, well before the emergence of the professional practice of history on the continent. And a critical factor in the shaping of Africa's futures has been the production and control of histories for and about the continent. Albeit the breakthroughs in the reconstruction of Africa's past, and albeit the importance of historical knowledge to Africans, Africa is substantially "known" today – by those outside Africa, by the international press, by the aid and development and the human rights communities – through a shallow and relatively presentist understanding, partially based on direct observation, partially based on persistent and pervading myths and fantasies about Africa, myths that have their own significant histories. The course will encourage a more complex understanding of Africa and a sense of African history as a work-in-progress. The course will explore:
Among the main questions, the recurrent questions:
The course will be organized around lectures, readings, discussions, the viewing of several films from Africa. Course requirements:
Reading List: -Boubacar Barry, Senegambia and the Atlantic Trade Slave, Cambridge University Press, 1998 -Maryse Conde, Segu, London, Penguin Books -John K. Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Makings of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800, (2nd edition), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998 and The Kongolese Saint Anthony. Dona Beatriz Kimpa and The Antonian 1684-1706 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999 -Kevin Shillington, History of Africa, New York, Saint Martin’s Press (Revised Edition), 1995.
HISTORY 250. China from the Oracle Bones to the Opium War.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Chun-Shu ChangPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course consists of a survey of early Chinese history, with special emphasis on the origins and development of the political, social, and economic institutions and their intellectual foundations. Special features include class participation in performing a series of short dramas recreating critical issues and moments in Chinese history, slides especially prepared for the lectures, new views on race and gender in the making of China, intellectual and scientific revolutions in the seventeenth century, and literature and society in premodern China.
HISTORY 260 / AMCULT 260. Religion in America.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Douglas CurlewPrerequisites & Distribution: Hist. 160 and 161 are recommended but not required. (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. An introduction to the study of American religion from colonial times to the present. The emphasis will be on religion as a cultural system and as a social and political institution, rather than as a set of formal beliefs. We will explore the rise of revivalism as a major cultural force in colonial America, the place of women in the major religious traditions, the synthesis of African and Christian belief systems in the slave community, the role of religion in social reform movements, the rise of fundamentalism as a political force in the 20th century, and the wide diversity of sectarian beliefs in all eras of American history. Students will be expected to read both primary documents and historical studies, participate in class discussions, and write two papers.
HISTORY 263. Discovering America: Atlantic History I, 1492-1607.
Other History CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): David J Hancock (hancockd@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. An introduction to the formation of the early Atlantic world from the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the expeditions of Walter Raleigh. This course compares English French, Spanish, Portuguese and Native American experiences. Special attention is given to the letters and diaries of Columbus, Cortes, Cartier, Gilbert, Raleigh, and Champlain, as well as a selection of Indian texts. The course highlights integrative themes common to European, African and Indian encounters with and in the Americas, encounters that knit together a larger, newer community: the exploring, mixing, and settling of peoples and races; the emergence of viable trans-Atlantic commercial systems; a groping towards a balance of power among European states; and the exchange and advancement of knowledge. No prerequisites.
HISTORY 265. A History of the University of Michigan.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): SteneckPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: http://www.umich.edu/~hist265/ No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability HISTORY 266. Twentieth-Century American Wars as Social and Personal Experience.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Jonathan L Marwil (jmarwil@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will examine the American experience of war in this century. Lectures, readings, films, and discussions will focus not only on the military experience itself, but on how America's wars – real and imagined – have shaped the country's economy, politics, and culture. The course will also examine the processes of transmission and memory: how Americans who did not fight learned about those who did, and what all Americans have remembered or have been taught to remember about the wars of this century. Finally, we will consider how the nation's wartime conduct, at home and on the battlefield, has fit into long-standing social patterns and behavior such as our alleged propensity for violence. In brief, we will be looking at the American experience of war as inclusively as a term will allow.
HISTORY 274 / CAAS 230. Survey of Afro-American History I.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Julius S Scott III (jsscott@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: AAS 111. (3). (SS). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 278 / AAPTIS 269. Introduction to Turkish Civilizations.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Gottfried J HagenPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies 269.001.
HISTORY 285. Science, Technology, and Society: 1940 to the Present.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Nicholas H Steneck (nsteneck@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://www.umich.edu/~hist285/ The enterprise of science changed dramatically after WWII, both intellectually and socially. The consequences of being able to split the atom and, more recently, to engineer biological blueprints have made science literally a life and death activity that touches every human. This course will explore the growth and implications of scientific and technological development from the end of WWII to the present. There will be two lectures and one discussion per week. Students will work in small groups on one problem during the term, e.g., energy, pollution, global warming, health care issues. Each group will hand in a jointly written report at the end of term and present a class report. Three or four books will be assigned reading. Students will be expected to make use of e-mail and conferencing.
HISTORY 286 / RELIGION 286. A History of Eastern Christianity from the 4th to the 18th Century.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): John V Fine JrPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course traces Eastern Christianity from the 4th through the 18th century. A broad survey course aimed at undergraduates of all concentrations, there are no prerequisites; the course focuses on both Church history and theology. It begins with Constantine's conversion and traces the growth of the Church, the rise of monasticism, the creation of the creed (the Councils of Nicea and Chalcedon), and the secession of the Eastern churches (Coptic and Syriac), the role of religious pictures and the iconoclast dispute and relations with the West (Rome) which were frequently strained before the official break in the 11th century. We cover the conversion of the Slavs and the eventual formation of independent Slavic national churches. We treat the fall of the Byzantine and Medieval Slavic states to the Turks and the position of the Orthodox under the Turks. Attention is also given to the Russian Church from the 9th century to the Old Believer schism and Church reforms of Peter the Great. Readings are varied. There is no textbook. A relevant paper of the student's choice, an hour exam, and a final are required.
HISTORY 301. Discovery of the Universe.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Rudi P Lindner (rpl@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. How did we get here? What's going on? Where are we going with this? These questions define the physical sciences, and this course examines the history of the ways and means, human, observational, experimental, and theoretical, that astronomers and physicists have used to answer them. The course begins with what has been called the "Scientific Revolution," with Galileo and the Inquisition, but quite rapidly we come to the nineteenth century, and the heart of the course is on the development of our study of the universe, its origin, structure, and future, during the last few generations. Among topics we shall consider are the financing of science, the politics and security implications of modern research, history of computers, the roles of women, the geographical and cultural spread of research, popularization and demonization of science, pseudo-science, and the various contexts of science, in addition to the development of research and thought. So this is a history, and not a science, course, although many of the readings will come from scientists themselves, and our discussions will be centered on the human history rather than on the science itself.
HISTORY 318. Europe in the Era of Total War, 1870-1945.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Brian A Porter (baporter@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~baporter/syl31801.html In 1945 Europe lay in ruins. Entire cities had been leveled by the destructive powers of modern warfare, and the cultural, political, and social norms of the pre-war world had been shattered. What made such violence possible, and how did ordinary men and women experience it? History 318 will explore the ideological, political, economic, social, and cultural forces that both caused and were destroyed by the savagery of the early 20th century. We will not only study the origins and consequences of World Wars I and II, but also the ways in which everyday life was transformed during this turbulent era. We will look at Europe from the inside (by studying relations of class, gender, and nationality), and from the outside (by tracing the ideology and practice of imperialism). Grading will be based on a midterm and a final exam, on active participation in a discussion section, and on two take-home essay assignments.
HISTORY 320. Britain, 1901-1945: Culture and Politics.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Kali A K Israel (kisrael@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will examine British culture and politics from the death of Queen Victoria through the Second World War, with particular attention to the nature and structure of politics and the state; the First World War and the processes through which the war experience of mass participation and trauma were understood; cultural and political debates in the interwar years; the growth of mass media; gender; the empire and colonial subjects; the Great Depression; British politics during the rise of Nazi and fascist governments in Europe; and the experience of the Blitz and World War II. Students will be asked to think critically about the various means by which national and personal stories are constituted, repressed, re-imagined, and deployed in debates about the meaning and uses of the past. Readings and other course materials will include autobiographies, novels, films, and photographs, and class sessions will include extensive discussion. No previous knowledge of British history will be assumed or required.
HISTORY 332 / REES 395 / SLAVIC 395 / POLSCI 395 / SOC 392. Survey of Russia: The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Successor States.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): William G RosenbergPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Laboratory fee ($10) required. Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($10) required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Russian and East European Studies (REES) 395.001.
HISTORY 347(476) / ANTHRCUL 346. Latin America: The Colonial Period.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): David Frye (dfrye@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dfrye/h347.htm This course will examine the colonial period in Latin American history from the initial Spanish and Portuguese contact and conquest to the nineteenth-century wars of independence. It will focus on the process of interaction between Indians and Europeans, tracing the evolution of a range of colonial societies in the New World. Thus we will examine the indigenous background to conquest as well as the nature of the settler community. We will also look at the shifting uses of land and labor,and at the importance of class, race, gender, and ethnicity. The method of instruction is lecture and discussion. Each student will write a short critical review and a final paper of approximately 10 to 12 pages. There will be a midterm and a final. Readings will include works by Inga Clendinnen, Nancy Farris, Karen Spalding and Charles Gibson, as well as primary materials from Aztec and Spanish sources. The text will be Burkholder and Johnson, COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA.
HISTORY 361. U.S. Intellectual History, 1750-1940.
U.S. HistorySection 001 – Meets with American Culture 301.003.Instructor(s): John S Carson (jscarson@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jscarson/Hist361.html America, one historian has remarked, is a nation of words. In this lecture course we will examine some of the words and concepts that have been central within American culture from the Enlightenment to World War II and how they have been articulated, debated, instantiated, and used at a variety of times and by a variety of people. Our approach, derived from the cultural history of ideas, will examine not just the world of thinking, but how those thoughts get translated into doing and making, and in the process are themselves transformed. Our reading will include such major figures as Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William James, and Langston Hughes, as well as a host of less well known writers, scientists, political thinkers, popular commentators and the like. We will focus throughout, however, as much on how the words are used – in producing arguments, laws, social movements, consumer goods, and machines – and on the technologies that make them available, as on the language itself. Required readings include the following:
HISTORY 363. U.S. Foreign Policy and International Politics Since World War II.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): ConnellyPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability HISTORY 367 / AMCULT 367. American Indian History.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Liza E Black (lizab@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). (R&E).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 370 / WOMENSTD 370. Women in American History to 1870.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Carol F Karlsen (ckarlsen@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is an introduction to the history of American women – as a group, as individuals, and as members of different classes, and racial, regional and ethnic communities. Using work, politics, and sexuality as organizing concepts, it focuses particularly on the significance of gender in determining women's experiences from the early seventeenth century to 1870. Special attention is paid to initial and continuing encounters of Native Americans, Euro-Americans, and African-Americans; to evolving constructions of "womanhood" and their significance for different groups of women; to the meaning of religious movements, wars, economic transformations, and demographic shifts for women's individual and collective efforts to determine the course of their own histories.
HISTORY 373 / AMCULT 373. History of the U.S. West.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Maria E Montoya (mmontoya@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/history/373/001.nsf This is a one term course which examines the History of the American West from before European contact through the Cold War. Because of the long time period, there will be an emphasis on the themes and patterns that have shaped the American West. Topics will include Native American societies, European contact, settlement, and environmental impact. We will pay particular attention to issues surrounding ethnicity, gender, class, and labor. No previous knowledge is required, but a general background in American history will be helpful. There will also be an emphasis on reading and analyzing primary documents.
HISTORY 381 / MEMS 381. History of the Jews from the Muslim Conquests to the Spanish Expulsion.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Stefanie B SiegmundPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will survey major historic developments in medieval Jewish society under both Islam and western Christendom. Broadly, the course will look at the divergence of Judaism and Christianity, the rise of the Babylonian geonim, the social and cultural history of Jews in the Arab Mediterranean world, the emergence of Jewish communities in Medieval Ashkenaz, and the impact on Jewish society of the Crusades, the Reconquista, the emergence of the mendicant orders, and the Black Death. The course will examine the interaction of Jews with the majority culture, political structure, and economy, as well as changing cultural trends within Jewish society. The distinctive religious climate of the medieval period will serve as a unifying theme throughout. We will study primary sources as well as recent historical scholarship, and our focus will include the history of women as well as that of men. Class is conducted as lecture and discussion of texts with an occasional film or slide lecture. Requirements for the course: several short written and oral assignments, tests, and final examination. Prerequisites: None. History 110 and some familiarity with Judaism or Jewish civilization (Religion 201, Judaic Studies 379/HJCS 379, or similar) is recommended background.
HISTORY 383. Modern Jewish History to 1880.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Todd M Endelman (endelman@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course surveys Jewish history in Europe, America, and the Middle East from the mid-seventeenth century to the 1870s. It begins with the emergence of West European Jews from cultural and social isolation, discusses their political emancipation, and traces their efforts to modernize Jewish ritual and belief. The focus then shifts to Eastern Europe, where the world of tradition persisted much longer. The lectures on Eastern Europe will focus on the religious and social character of Jewish life in Poland and Russia, the development of Hasidism, and the first glimmerings of enlightenment in the mid-nineteenth century. The course will conclude with a look at the Jewish communities of North Africa and the Middle East. There will be an essay-type midterm, a 10-12 page paper, and a comprehensive final.
HISTORY 391. Topics in European History.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001 – The Holocaust Through Film.Instructor(s): WeckelPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In the face of the difficulties of adequately speaking and writing about the Holocaust, photographs and films are often believed to be more convincing, appealing not only to people's mind but also to their senses. The earliest example of this was an "atrocity film" planned by the western allies already in fall 1944. This film took footage of the liberation of the concentration camps and was shown not only to the public at home, but especially to German prisoners of war and later to the German people in the American occupation zone. Since then the Holocaust has been represented in very different ways in documentary as well as in feature films. Not until 1978 the NBC television series "Holocaust" brought the topic to the conscience of mass audiences in the U.S. and abroad, and at the same time made the extermination of the European Jews a subject of such popular genres as melodrama, family saga and – in the late 90s – even comedy. In this lecture course we will watch several different films, discuss our impressions, analyze significant sequences, learn about their varied and controversial reception in the U.S. and elsewhere (especially in Germany and Israel), and think about the implications and effects of the different strategies of representing the Holocaust.
HISTORY 391. Topics in European History.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 002 – Modern Italy: 1815-Present.Instructor(s): Dario GaggioPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course examines the history of the Italian peninsula from 1815 to the present. Modern Italy has been a laboratory for the social and political change of western Europe. Nationalism, fascism, and social democracy all have found in Italy an ideal terrain for their conceptual and historical development. We will focus on the unification process, on the strategies implemented by the post-unification State to forge a national identity, on the politics of fascism, and on the contradictory nature of the Italian democracy in the post-W.W.II decades. A variety of media (historical texts, works of fiction, and films) will provide an introduction to the complex and often dramatic history of the Italian people. Moreover, an interdisciplinary perspective will allow us to go beyond the level of state policies and explore the profound transformation of Italian society and culture over the last two centuries. Teaching method and evaluation: Lectures and discussion. There will be a midterm exam and a final paper (10-12 pages). Tentative reading list: John Davis (ed.), Italy in the Nineteenth Century; Patrick McCarthy, The Crisis of the Italian State; Sibilla Aleramo, A Woman; Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli; Italo Calvino, The Path to the Spiders' Nests; Sergio Atzeni, Bakunin's Son; course packet.
HISTORY 392(392). Topics in Asian History.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001 – Social Protest in Japan. Meets with History 592.001.Instructor(s): Leslie B Pincus (lpincus@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 392(392). Topics in Asian History.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 002 – Modern South Asian Diasporas.Instructor(s): SturmanPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will examine the histories of South Asian communities that have formed outside the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the nineteenth century, we will consider the colonial policies and ideaologies and the political-economic regimes that brought South Asians to places as diverse as the Caribbean, Fiji, Madagascar, South and East Africa and also to Great Britain. In the twentieth century, we will consider the emergence of large communities of South Asians in Great Britain, the United States and Canada, making extensive use of the rich materials available in the form of novels, short stories, and film. Throughout our study of these multiple and changing communities, we will consider questions of nationalism, transnationality, community, identity, politics, and belonging that have shaped the modern experience of diaspora.
HISTORY 412 / MEMS 414. Social and Intellectual History of the Florentine Renaissance.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): HughesPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. How did a medieval city of bankers and cloth merchants become, in the fifteenth century, the center of an original humanist culture that offered Europeans new ways of seeing and portraying themselves and their society – from artistic perspective to the writing of history? The course will trace the history of renaissance Florence not only as a chronicle of its development but also as the process by which it self-consciously constituted itself as a society and a history. Among the topics taken up will be the reshaping of the city, both physically and constitutionally; the transformation of the Medici from bankers to humanist rulers; the development of humanism into an enabling code for civil life; the new valuation of wealth and the civic use of magnificence (from palaces to wedding and funeral processions); social organization and changing attitudes toward the disempowered (slaves, Jews, the poor, women); and forms of religious expression, from confronternal devotions and processions to the fire and brimstone of prophetic preachers (e.g., Savonarola). Considerable use will be made of original sources (historical, literary, and visual). This is designed as a lecture course, but there will be ample time allotted for discussion.
HISTORY 427. Magic, Religion, and Science in Early Modern England.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Michael P MacDonald (mmacdon@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Hist. 220 and junior standing are recommended. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is about the "first three minutes" of the modern mental universe – in actuality, about three centuries of historical time (1500-1800). It concentrates on how the "big bang" of the Protestant Reformation blasted apart a world view and a culture that had slowly developed over a thousand years. The explosive force of that strangely contingent event, renewed by subsequent eruptions of religious conflict and civil war, divided the English people culturally as never before. Magic declined, miracles and malevolent witches disappeared, the prestige of the ancient sciences of astrology and alchemy eroded. New and powerful philosophical ideas about human understanding and physical reality flourished; scientific explanations for a vast array of celestial, earthly, and mental phenomena proliferated and were embraced by laypersons as the basis of a new faith, the faith in (someone else's) reason. The world view that dominates modern English (and Western) culture emerged from almost three hundred years of charged conflict and began rapidly to evolve into contemporary scientism. And yet the shattering effect of the events that powered cultural change also made it impossible for secularization and rational religion fully to triumph. The hold of rational religion and secularism on the minds of the majority of ordinary men and women remained less complete than on the minds of the educated, governing classes. The result finally was a cultural and social realignment. The elite fashioned a "superculture" that is dominated by religious rationalism and scientistic faith; the dissenting sects, the lower classes and marginalized groups have sustained and created subcultures that are characterized by supernatural wonder and sudden infusions of spiritual and emotional energy. Much has changed since 1800 when this process was more or less completed, but these cultural and class divisions have not disappeared, and they have complicated ethnic relations as well as politics. In sum, this course is finally a meditation on how England lost its medieval mind and found its modern, divided sensibility. Principal readings will include all or part of Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars; Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic; James Sharpe, Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in England, 1550-1800; Peter French, John Dee: The Life of a Renaissance Magus; and Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution. A course pack of articles and original sources will also be required. Students will be asked to write three short (five page) papers on the readings for class; an in-class, midterm examination and a two-hour final examination.
HISTORY 430. History of the Balkans from the Sixth Century to 1878.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): John V Fine JrPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The course treats the region now comprising Bulgaria, ex-Yugoslavia, Greece, and Albania from the Slavic migrations (6th and 7th century) to roughly 1878. It treats demographic changes, the creation of medieval states (Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia), Christianization, Balkan heresies, relations with Byzantium, the Ottoman conquest, Balkans under Ottoman rule, and the 19th century independence movements.
HISTORY 442 / AAPTIS 461. The First Millennium of the Islamic Near East.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Michael David Bonner (mbonner@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies 461.001.
HISTORY 451. Japan Since 1700.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Leslie B Pincus (lpincus@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In this course we will explore the history of Japan from the dissolution of a semi-feudal system in the 18th and early 19th centuries to Japan’s rise as a world economic power in the latter half of the 20th century. We will address both the major historical themes during these two centuries of radical transformation and the issues at stake in historical interpretation. The course covers: (1) the decline of official power during the Tokugawa era and the rise of a new plebeian public sphere; (2) Japan’s coerced entry into the world market; (3) the consolidation of a modern nation-state, industrialization, and the beginnings of Japanese imperialism in Asia; (4) the rise of social protest and mass culture; (5) political reaction and militarism; (6) defeat in the Pacific War and the U.S. Occupation; (7) postwar recovery and the contested emergence of a conservative hegemony; (8) myths and realities of Japan’s new affluent “information society.” Class sessions will combine lecture, discussion and audio-visual. Assignments: brief critical summaries of readings, discussion panels, in-class midterm, final paper.
HISTORY 466. The United States, 1901-1933.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Thomas Guglielmo (guglielm@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will explore how different Americans and their institutions came to terms with industrial capitalism and the changes, crises, and inequalities it, in part, produced. The course will focus most extensively on the developing relationship between the state and society, between the federal government and various social groups – workers and capitalists, women and men, immigrants and native-born Americans, the "white" and "colored" "races," colonizers and colonized – who, through their struggles for order, justice, and dignity, made modern America. Course requirements include a research paper, several short response papers, and a take-home midterm and final. History 466 is a lecture/discussion class. Undergraduates electing this course must register for Section 001 and one discussion section.
HISTORY 468. Topics in U.S. History.
U.S. HistorySection 001 – Mid-Century America Through Film: Power and Persuasion on the Big Screen.Instructor(s): Robert O SelfPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course approaches film as one of the most important and influential cultural media of mid-century America, a powerful and persuasive entertainment space in which Americans told, watched, and invented stories about themselves and others. As such, film is an extraordinary, though not uncomplicated or transparent, historical source. How did American films of mid-century (1935-1955) deal with the major social and cultural issues of these decades? Gender and sexual politics? Race and pluralism? Class and wealth? War and neo-imperialism? The anxiety of modernity? How did films' narrative structure appear to resolve dilemmas over complex social questions? Did films teach Americans to think and understand themselves in conventional ways, or could viewers read against their messages? These are the kinds of questions we will ask as we explore mid-century American culture and society through film. This course is above all a critical study of society, culture, and media, an exploration of the complicated historical contexts in which images and stories are produced, circulated, and debated.
HISTORY 468. Topics in U.S. History.
U.S. HistorySection 002 – American Indians & Film. (3 Credits). Meets With American Culture 496.002Instructor(s): Liza E BlackPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 468. Topics in U.S. History.
U.S. HistorySection 003 – Early American Cultural History to 1865.Instructor(s): Jay CookPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course examines major themes and problems in U.S. cultural history
through the Civil War. Possible topics include: images of European
colonization and conquest; the refinement of American architecture, material
culture, and manners; African-American culture and resistance under slavery;
the development of American museums from Peale to Barnum; the blackface
minstrel show and racialization; Emancipation Day balls, parades, and
festivals in the antebellum North; urban sketch writing in the new
metropolis; the fiction of Poe, Melville, Delany, and Stowe; and the Civil
War in American visual culture. Course requirements include a midterm paper,
a comprehensive final exam, regular quizzes, and above all, active
participation in our discussions.
HISTORY 472. Topics in Asian History.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001 – History of Burma.Instructor(s): Victor B LiebermanPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course examines Burma, now known as Myanmar, and adjacent areas of western mainland Southeast Asia from earliest times until the present day. Although Burma itself, a country roughly the size of Texas with a population of some 45,000,000 people, is hardly a major world power, the patterns of precolonial history, colonialism, military rule, ethnic conflict, and the current struggle for economic development are broadly representative of much of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In this sense Burma offers a rewarding case study of a "Third World" society, and provides answers to such basic questions as: Why did Asia and Europe develop differently in the premodern era? What evidence do we find of economic dynamism outside Europe? Why is democracy fragile and unsuccessful in much of Asia? What role do non-Christian religions play in promoting trauma? Beyond the value that mmay derive from consideration of these sort of general problems, Burma's unique Buddihist civilization is extraordinarily intriguing and worthy of study in its own right.
HISTORY 473 / KOREAN 473 / ASIAN 473. Modern Korea.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Henry H EmPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 481. Topics in European History.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001 – Life on Homefront 2nd WW.Instructor(s): Sonya O Rose (sorose@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will examine the social, cultural, and political lives of people who lived in the warring countries of Europe in the late 1930s and 1940s. War is waged not just by soldiers and on battlefields, and increasingly it is being realized how crucial the home front is to the battle front although it is often portrayed as a secondary sphere of activity. Especially in the Second World War, with the massive bombing of populated cities, the occupation of villages and hamlets by foreign soldiers, not to mention the Nazi program to exterminate the Jews, the line separating the battlefield from the sanctity of the home was thin at best. The course will focus in particular on Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. Our comparative focus will allow for an exploration of how different political regimes represented themselves to their citizens, and how those regimes dealt with issues of gender, class, and ethnic/racial difference. Limit of 30 and keep a waitlist.
HISTORY 481. Topics in European History.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 002 – Nazi Rule and German Society.Instructor(s): Ulricke WeckelPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This seminar will explore the ways in which the Nazi-party first gained
millions of followers among German citizens, and how it subsequently
came to power, established a dictatorship and organized the deprivation
and terror against the politically or "racially" unwanted. The primary
focus of this course will be on the ways in which specific groups
responded to Nazi ideology and policy. For example, could the NSDAP win
the working class? What fascinated young people who joined the youth
movement? Were women really reduced to the role of housewives and
bearers of "arian" children? In which ways did the everyday life of
German jews change before they were deported? Through consideration of
these various milieus it is possible to examine the relevance of
categories as race, class, gender, and generation for the development of
stances of complicity or resistance. Building upon this primary
material, we will look at the steps taken by the so-called "Third Reich"
towards war and the extermination of the European jews. Prominent
debates on such topics as the motives of the perpetrators or the part
that Hitler played in the radicalization of persecution will be read and discussed
in this context.
HISTORY 543 / AAPTIS 464. Perso-Islamic Civilization in the Eastern Caliphate and India, 900-1350.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Kathryn Babayan (babayan@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (3). (Excl).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies 464.001.
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