HIST 396

Fall 2014

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42598
Lecture-Discussion
A
12:30PM -1:50PM
TR
321 Gregory Hall
Hitchins, K
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/25/14-12/10/14
Section Title:
SE Europe and World War II
Section Info:
Topic: Southeastern Europe and World War II. Description: This course covers the political, economic, social, and cultural history of Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Albania in the fateful decades of the 1930s and 1940s. Before the war, the main questions to be studied are: the place of small powers in an international political and economic system dominated by the great powers; the rise of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler's plans for Southeastern Europe; the role of the West, mainly France and Great Britain; the progress of the extreme right and the failure of Western-style parliamentary government in the region. The war itself is a major theme: military operations between 1941 and 1945; the role of the allies of Germany (Romania and Bulgaria); the resistance movements (Yugoslavia, Greece, and Albania); the daily life of the majority of the population; intellectual and cultural life during wartime (literature, art, the cinema); the fate of the Jews and other minorities; the consequences of the war for the region. Themes to be investigated in the immediate post-war period: the rise of Communist parties and the role of the Soviet Union; the installation of Communist regimes in the region, except in Greece; the Greek Civil War; Southeastern Europe in international relations at the beginning of the Cold War. There will be readings, discussions, and a research paper.
43273
Lecture-Discussion
B
2:00PM -3:20PM
TR
315 Gregory Hall
Burton, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/25/14-12/10/14
Section Title:
Making Poverty History
Section Info:
Topic: Making Poverty History. Description: In this course we grapple with two big questions: How can we eradicate poverty in our own time? And, how does knowing about histories of poverty help us understand and work to end it in the present? Our syllabus uses several case studies--hunger, health and homelessness--and draws on historical accounts to develop strategies for addressing the persistence of these social conditions today. The goal of the course is to enable students to understand the deep roots of current issues and devise solutions that speak to contemporary challenges.
43272
Lecture-Discussion
C
1:00PM -2:20PM
MW
327 Gregory Hall
Ali, T
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/25/14-12/10/14
Section Title:
Econ Development in South Asia
Section Info:
Topic: Histories of Economic Development in South Asia: Ideas, Institutions, and Practices. Description: This course examines economic development in colonial and post-colonial South Asia, placing equal emphases on economic theory, development institutions, and ground or field-level practices of development programs. We will examine the beginnings of development during the colonial period, investigating the British Raj's liberal ideas of progress and its policies and programs of economic modernization. We will look at the development ideas that informed the anti-colonial nationalist movement, with a particular focus on Gandhi's economic vision. We will investigate development policies and practices in postcolonial India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, examining Nehruvian socialism, large-scale engineering projects, Green Revolution technologies, and the contemporary practices of development NGOs. This is an interdisciplinary course weaving together economics, political science, and anthropology in understanding the histories of economic development in South Asia.
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