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This course centers on historical eras in which the form and function of media technologies were radically transformed. It includes consideration of the "Gutenberg Revolution," the rise of modern mass media, and the "digital revolution," among other case studies of media transformation and cultural change. Readings cover cultural and social
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- comparative media studies
- media
- mass media
- history
- gutenberg
- cultural change
- cultural history
- social history
- historiographic method
- books
- medieval history
- codex book
- writing
- printing
- printing press
- stage
- theater
- renaissance
- romanticism
- modernity
- inventions
- photography
- nineteenth century
- image
- telegraph
- electrification
- communication
- morse
- d
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21H.001, a HASS-D, CI course, explores fundamental questions about the causes and nature of revolutions. How do people overthrow their rulers? How do they establish new governments? Do radical upheavals require bloodshed, violence, or even terror? How have revolutionaries attempted to establish their ideals and realize their goals? We will
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- history
- insurgents
- war
- freedom fighters
- independence
- self-determination
- emancipation
- revolution
- mao
- lenin
- reagan
- l'ouverture
- reactionary
- imperialism
- human rights
- democracy
- populism
- communism
- equality
- nationalism
- resistance
- ideology
- subversion
- underground
- suppression
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The "Renaissance" as a phenomenon in European history is best understood as a series of social, political, and cultural responses to an intellectual trend which began in Italy in the fourteenth century. This intellectual tendency, known as humanism, or the studia humanitatis, was at the heart of developments in literature, the arts, the sci
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- history
- renaissance
- fourteenth-century italy
- geography
- demography
- global trade
- peasantry
- the black death
- humanism
- burgundy
- machiavelli
- christian humanism
- martin luther
- fourteenth-century italy
- geography
- the black death
- humanism
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This course covers French politics, culture, and society from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte. Attention is given to the growth of the central state, the beginnings of a modern consumer society, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, including its origins, and the rise and fall of Napoleon.
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- history
- french revolution
- history
- french history
- european history
- napolean boneparte
- louis xvi
- the rights of man
- molière
- voltaire
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There has been much discussion in recent years, on this campus and elsewhere, about the death of the book. Digitization and various forms of electronic media, some critics say, are rendering the printed text as obsolete as the writing quill. In this subject, we will examine the claims for and against the demise of the book, but we will also
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- history
- digitization
- digital
- printing
- text
- reading community
- newspaper
- online
- library
- ong
- eisenstein
- orality
- literacy
- chapbooks
- typesetting
- technology
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This course asks students to consider the ways in which social theorists, institutional reformers, and political revolutionaries in the 17th through 19th centuries seized upon insights developed in the natural sciences and mathematics to change themselves and the society in which they lived. Students study trials, art, literature and music
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- history
- history
- history of intellectualism
- reason
- enlightenment
- french revolution
- history of science
- isaac newton
- decartes
- art history
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This class is a selective survey of Latin American history from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Issues studied include Latin America in the global economy, relations between Latin America and the U.S., dictatorships and democracies in the twentieth century, African and Indigenous cultures, feminism and gender, cultura
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- history
- latin america
- wars of independence
- global economy
- dictatorship
- democracy
- mexico
- cuba
- central america
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This subject is designed to give 21H majors and minors an introduction to the methods that historians use to interpret the past. We will focus on two areas: archives and interpretation. In our work on archives, we will ask what constitutes an archive. We will visit one or two local archives, speak with archivists, and assemble our own archi
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- history
- historical writing
- politics
- social
- culture
- demographics
- biography
- environment
- comparative literature
- film
- fiction
- memoir
- methodology
- political
- cultural
- demographic
- biographical
- comparative
- historical films
- memoirs
- conventional history
- methods
- historians
- interpretation
- archives
- archivists
- archival findings
- history
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We will doggedly ask two questions in this class: "What is history?" and "How do you do it in 2010?" In pursuit of the answers, we will survey a variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the last several decades. We will examine how these historians conceive of their object of study, how they use primary sources as a b
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- history
- primary sources
- women's studies
- gender history
- industrial revolution
- media studies
- visual culture
- environmental history
- postmodernism
- microhistory
- digital humanities
- national history
- borders
- frontier
- global history
- imperialism
- historiography
- analytical framework
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This class is a selective survey of Latin American history from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Issues studied include Latin America in the global economy, relations between Latin America and the U.S., dictatorships and democracies in the twentieth century, African and Indigenous cultures, feminism and gender, cultura
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- history
- latin america
- wars of independence
- global economy
- dictatorship
- democracy
- mexico
- cuba
- central america
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