HIST 352

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Europe in the World

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Credit: 3 hours.

Colonial encounters between Europe and today's Third World viewed in comparative historical perspective. Equal emphasis placed on (colonizing) Europe and colonial experience of Asia, Africa, and South America.

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HIST 352 class schedule data for spring 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32247	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:00AM -9:50AM	MWF	113 Davenport Hall	Peychev, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Info: Topic: The Questionof the 'Other': Islam and the West in Historical Perspective Description: This course examines the relationship between Islam and the West, tracing its history and the multitude of perceptions and images of 'otherness' that interaction has engendered on both sides. Furthermore, the course will study the intricate relationship between 'self' and 'other' and the many ways in which encounter influences and forces the 'self' to redefine itself. The course will follow the chronology of encounter between Islam and the West, but it will also be structured around major themes that have emerged as the outcome of this encounter. Western and Eastern viewpoints will be compared and contrasted. The readings consist of first-hand descriptions of encounter with the 'other', produced by Christian and Muslim authors, as well as secondary literature that provides interpretation of such descriptions and introduces the major debates in the field and the interpretive frameworks within which the study of the question of the 'other' has evolved. While the primary sources will reveal the rich experience and the variety of perceptions that encounter engenders, the secondary sources will serve as evidence of how often most of these perceptions have been subsequently subsumed under the major strands of the discourse of 'otherness.' The ultimate goal of the course, then, will be the achievement of the analytical apparatus and the theoretical and historical background necessary for the study of perceptions and descriptions of 'otherness.'
	44063	Lecture-Discussion	B	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	113 Davenport Hall	Mandru, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Info: Topic: War, Society, Politics and Culture Description: Traditionally, the term "postwar" has been associated with the period in European history following the unprecedented destruction brought by World War Two. While there was no consensus on its precise periodization or chronology, historians have usually thought of the "postwar" as the period spanning at least the second half of the twentieth century. It was only recently that scholars have begun to question, complicate and reinterpret the concept of "postwar," reducing its chronological span and focusing on what has come to be known as "the lost decade," the messy, ambiguous and highly complex years following the immediate aftermath of war or, as other historians termed it, "the war after the war." Building on this premise, this course retains the new narrow timespan of the "postwar" while extending it temporally and geographically to the aftermath of other violent conflicts in European and American history. Consequently, this course will cover the American Civil War, the Balkan Wars, World War One, the Spanish Civil War, World War Two, and the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, looking at recurring problems of destruction and reconstruction that transgress both national boundaries and discrete historical eras. Keeping in mind the highly diverse, historically contingent and temporally and locally specific character of various "postwars", we will try to identify the equivalent of the "lost decade" for each of these conflicts. As we do so, we will look for broad patterns of problems recurring in the aftermath of war and we will face the challenge of comparing, sometimes asymmetrically, very different historical contexts. The structure of this course is thematic and comparative. We will start by exploring the origins, interpretations and historiographical debates around the concept of "postwar". As we attempt to define and characterize "postwars", we will also question the various meanings of "reconstruction", a closely related but similarly controversial concept. After this theoretical and conceptual introduction, we will move on to discussing some of the broad processes typically following official peace settlements. We will consider questions of population displacement, refugee movements, fragmented families, orphans and inevitably ethnic cleansing. These themes will help us transition into questions of postwar trauma, gender and memory. Since the American Civil War, advances in military technology have made wars more harmful both physically and psychologically, affecting both ‘veterans' and the societies to which they returned.