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Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement Offered Periodically Late Imperial China saw the development of vibrant popular and elite cultures, and great demographic expansion, social mobility, and economic growth. This dynamism and prosperity was shadowed by social tensions, and was punctuated by periods of severe economic and political crisis and by the ravages of war and natural catastrophe. The seventeenth century saw the collapse of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), rise of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), and transition to the nineteenth century. This course will explore the dramatic changes of this period from a variety of perspectives, focusing on analysis of primary sources in translation. Rebecca Nedostup HS 308 Early Modern Japan, 1600-1890: Samurai, Geisha, and Other Traditions (Fall: 3) Prerequisites: Any two semesters of HS 001 through HS 094 Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement This course introduces upper-division undergraduates to broad political, social, economic and cultural developments in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868) through the early Meiji transition. Powerful shoguns, brave and local samurai, and beautiful geisha conjure up images of an exotic, traditional Japan long gone. But what did it feel like to live in the eighteenth century? How have we and the Japanese come to think of that era as tradition? Lectures, readings and class discussions seek to integrate political and social relations and show how they were conditioned by an increasing awareness of the wider world around Japan. Franziska Seraphim HS 309 Modern Japan, 1890-2001: Competing Localism, Nationalism, Internationalism (Spring: 3) Prerequisites: Any two semesters of HS 001 through HS 094 Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement Offered Periodically This course focuses on the emergence of Japan as an international, industrialized, and democratic country from the late nineteenth through the end of the twentieth century. We will read about Meiji society as it was imagined and lived, examine ideas and realities of Japanese imperialism in Asia, discuss the nature of wartime facism compared to ultranational regimes elsewhere, and tackle contradictions that characterize postwar society, a society that grew out of the war experience while conceiving of itself as the wars obverse. Finally, we will assess the changes and challenges in the 1990s in relation to Japans long postwar. Franziska Seraphim HS 325 Revolutionary Cuba: History and Politics (Fall: 3) Prerequisites: Any two semesters of HS 001 through HS 094 Cross Listed with BK 325 Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement Offered Periodically This course has as its focus Cubas foreign and domestic policies since the revolution. Because Cuba is, in Fidel Castros words, a Latin African country, some attention will be focused on the issue of race and the revolution in Cuba. Likewise, the history of Cubas policies in Africa and the Caribbean will be looked at closely. It is, however, not a traditional course in diplomatic history. It explores the interface between domestic and foreign policy throughout, relating this to the specific case of Cuba since 1959. Frank Taylor HS 326 History of Modern Iran (Spring: 3) Prerequisites: Any two semesters of HS 001 through HS 094 Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement Offered Periodically This course will provide an analysis of the trends and transformations in the political, social and cultural history of Iran from the late nineteenth century to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the following: structural changes in the Iranian economy and society in the latter part of the nineteenth century; social and religious movements; the constitutional revolution of 1905-1911; changing relations between Iran and the West; Irans experience as a modernizing state, 1925-1979; cultural roots and the social-structural causes of the Iranian Revolution of 1977-79; economic and political developments since the revolution; and Irans current regional and international role. Ali Banuazizi HS 329 The Caribbean During the Cold War, 1962-1989 (Spring: 3) Prerequisites: Any two semesters of HS 001 through HS 094 Offered Periodically The focus is the Caribbean, a vitally strategic area as attested to most recently by the U.S. invasions of the Dominican Republic in 1965, Grenada in 1983, or Panama in 1989. The efforts of these small states to overcome their vulnerabilities provide a most fascinating subject. Of added interest is the fact that outside of Africa, the Caribbean countries are virtually the only sovereign communities of people of African descent in the world. We will analyze the historical ambience within which the states of the Commonwealth Caribbean operate and evaluate their attempts at maximizing their independence. Frank Taylor HS 373 Slave Societies in the Caribbean and Latin America (Fall: 3) Prerequisites: Any two semesters of HS 001 through HS 094 Cross Listed with BK 373 Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement Offered Periodically Over 90 percent of slaves imported into the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade were brought to the Caribbean Islands and South America. The Caribbean Islands received 42.2 percent of the total slave imports and South America 49.1 percent. Among the topics covered are the rise and fall of slavery, the economics of slave trading, slave demography, patterns of slave life, slave laws, slave resistance, slave culture, social structure and the roles of the freed people. The compass of the course embraces a variety of English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch speaking countries and a comparative approach. Frank Taylor HS 385 Introduction to Modern South Asia (Fall: 3) Prerequisites: Any two semesters of HS 001 through HS 094 Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement Offered Periodically This course is a survey of the history of the Indian subcontinent from Mughal times to Independence. Topics to be covered will include: the decline of the Mughal Empire, the rise of British rule and its impact, the Mutiny and Civilian Revolt of 1857, the invention of a traditional India in the nineteenth century, law and gender in British India, Gandhi and Indian nationalism, and independence and partition. Prasannan Parthasarathi 158 The Boston College Catalog 2006-2007 ARTS AND SCIENCES

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