HIST 502

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

Prob in Comparative History

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Credit: 4 hours.

Intensive comparative examinations of particular issues in the histories of multiple countries, cultures or periods; emphasizes methodology, the discipline of comparative history, and the nature of historiography in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary context.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours.

Topics will be listed in the department's course guide at http://www.history.uiuc.edu.

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HIST 502 class schedule data for fall 2016
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
41021	Discussion/ Recitation	A	3:00PM -4:50PM	T	Gregory Hall	Reagan, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Section Title: Wars and Their Legacies Section Info: Topic: Wars and Their Legacies Description: In the past few years, a growing interest in the history of war has become visible among historians whose research specialties have been neither military nor foreign policy history. For instance, the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Gender and History have sponsored special issues on war and its multifacete4d histories. This new interest, including my own interest in war's influence on daily life and the body, has undoubtedly grown out of the last fifteen years of the "war on terror" and the wars in which the United States has engaged. It is evident that war permeates national policies, civil right, public discourse, law, popular entertainment, and people's general outlook on the world, to name a few things. Wars have often been thought of (and taught) as discrete events that occurred during specific dates: the Civil War, 1860-65, the Spanish-American War in 1898, and so on, and the times in between may be treated as times of peace or normality. These seemingly obvious demarcations provide one opening point for interrrogation. What marks a war's end? There may be more than one "ending." Historians have, of course, long considered the short-term and long-term consequences of war in terms of military knowledge, global power, foreign policy, and national economies and politics. This graduate reading course will take as its subject the history of wars and their myriad legacies. The legacies of war include the environmental and health impact of bombing and chemical warfare; the trauma of mass deaths, torture, and sexual assaults; the economic impact6 of waging war, destruction, and remaking societies; wounds, disabilities and social responses to veterans; new policies and agencies; war crime trials and peace and reconciliation projects, and much more. In this course we will explore how historians have analyzed wars through a wide range of questions, methods, and theories and consider what we find most useful for understanding the long history of collective violence and its consequences. We will consider too what the goals of historical research have been in this area. Students should come away with some"traditional" knowledge of war, will choose war(s) to study in depth and will also be able to develop their knowledge in specific fields, such as disability, gender, race, or environmental history among others. For examples of some of the topics and books that the course is likely to include: The (U.S.) Civil War. Jim Downs - Sick From Freedom and Drew Faust - The Republic of Suffering; World War I, Linker - War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America; Bourke - Dismembering the Male; World War II, the dropping of the atomic bomb, the holocaust; Vietnam War, Agent Orange, environmental and health effects; veterans movements; "The Other 9/11: Chile, 1973, "Radical History Review; military and human experimentation. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
32515	Discussion/ Recitation	B	3:00PM -4:50PM	T	Gregory Hall	Todorova, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Section Title: Comparative Nationalism Section Info: Description: Nationalism, an issue that was considered to have passed its peak, now dominates world politics and permeates political discourse. Not only is a thorough grasp of this phenomenon crucial to the understanding of such imposing institiutional constructions-in-process as the European Union, it is at the bottom of tensions and conflicts that are garbed in a religious rhetorical veil, and constitute much of the agenda of today's "war on terror." What explains the recurrence, persistence and ubiquity of this phenomenon? What are its peculiar manifestations in different historical periods? Which are the main forms of its articulation? How does it differ across geographical borders, class boundaries, gender and generational cleavages? Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
40169	Discussion/ Recitation	C	12:00PM -2:50PM	F	Gregory Hall	Rabin, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Section Info: Title: Britain in the Global Eighteenth Centruy Description: Britain and the Global Eighteenth Century interrogates Britain's national and imperial history in the long eighteenth century (1660-1830). The readings, cultural studies of geography, race, sex, gender, religion, and a special emphasis on law, will explore the global eighteenth century and the formation of the British empire. Our geographical range will include British Isles, India, East Asia, North America, and the Caribbean. We will also read theoretical works that inform studies of race, gender, and culture in and beyond eighteenth-century Britain. An interdisciplinary approach will allow us to engage various theoretical and methodological perspectives as we explore this topic. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.