HIST 259

Spring 2014 All Classes

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20thC World from Midcentury

Credit: 3 hours.

Economic, social, political, and cultural developments in twentieth-century world history from Second World War era to the present.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Hist & Phil

Cultural Studies - Western

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HIST 259 class schedule data for spring 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	45890	Lecture-Discussion	A	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	Pennsylvania Lounge Bld - PAR	Rodriguez'G, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Degree Notes: Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: Topic: Kitchen (En)Counters: Food and Identity in a Postwar World. Description: This course will consider the larger historical processes and issues of the postwar "new world order" through the lens of food. We may be what we eat, but food is not just a biological process. Through a wide variety of primary and secondary sources - cookbooks, film, advertising, novels, etc.--we will explore the larger sociocultural politics of food, paying particular attention to the way postwar global encounters and exchange have shaped relations of power, and the ways in which food practices work to construct identity. How, for instance, does tracing the history of the taco shell illuminate the complex negotiation of national identity on a global stage? How did the American obsession with barbecue in the 1950s reflect and influence American values in a Cold War world? Does the contemporary celebration of chicken tikka marsala as Britain's national dish serve as a multicultural bridge or neutralize the violence of decolonization and obscure the dark side of empire? This is an Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI) and Living-Learning Communities affiliated course. Students will conduct original archival and human subject research and develop digital group projects. They will also have the opportunity to present the results of their research at the EUI Spring 2014 Student Conference, as well as publish their work in EUI's archive in IDEALS, the University of Illinois digital repository.
	61198	Lecture-Discussion	B	2:00PM -4:50PM	TR	Armory	Fu, P	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/14-05/07/14 Degree Notes: Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: Topic: China and the United States: From World War II to the Cold War. Description: In the twenty-first Century no relations will be as important as the one between the United States and China, the world's two largest economies. China's rapid economic growth, expanding regional and global influences, rising nationalism, and rapid cultural and military modernization, are shifting the geopolitical terrain in such a way that has generated widespread concerns for the "Rise of China" or "China's Threat" in the U.S. and the debate of the "Pivot to Asia" policy. How to understand the shifting relationship between the superpower and the rising power? We aim to historicize this big question by looking at two moments of immense importance in shaping the US-China relations of today: the Second World War and the Cold War. Specifically we focus on three interrelated themes: How did China and the U.S. construct imaginaries of each other? What were the political and economic relations between the two countries in the ever-changing global contexts? What were the experiences of Chinese students in the U.S. and the American intellectuals in China during these difficult periods and in what ways did their experiences reveal the complexity of the US-China connections? Class requirements will include film reviews, class presentation, and a research essay.