HIST 551

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Prob European Hist Since 1789

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Credit: 4 hours.

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

May be repeated in the same or subsequent terms as topics vary.

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HIST 551 class schedule data for spring 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39606	Discussion/ Recitation	A	1:00PM -2:50PM	R	315 Gregory Hall	Randolph, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Info: Title: Eurasia - History of a Space. Topic: In the past two decades, the term Eurasia once again burst into the forefront of scholarly and political discourse. It threads its way through world hisotry courses and textbooks and adorns the mastheads of scholarly institutes and associations; as of January 2015, it designates an economic zone, uniting Russia, Belorus, and Kazakhstan. But what is or was "Eurasia," historically? Who or what made it, when, and how? Of what relevance is it today, and how does it compare to other big geographical categories ('the Atlantic World," Europe, Asia, "tegolbal South," etc.) that historians use to imagine both regional and transnational histories? This course, focused on the early modern period, explores these questions. It opens with a short historiographical primer on space as a category of analysis, and considers the intellectual genesis of "Eurasia" as a geographical concept in the 19th century. It then proceeds to interrogate various historical realities in the pre-modern world—in commercial, environmental, and imperial history, ca. 1200-1800 - that scholars have sometimes cited as delineating a third, "Eurasian" space in the history of the Old World. Special attention is paid to the political and cultural history of the early Russian empire, as the core of debates about Eurasia, both in the past and today. Students completing the course will be able to use its materials in field exams in pre-modern, Russian, comparative imperial and cultural and intellectual history. It should prepare them, as wel,, to conceptualize their own regional approaches to global history, and to integrate the materials we study into courses on global, imperial, environmental and Russian history. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.