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21H.418 / CMS.880 Technologies of Word 1450-2000, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Explores the impact of the printing press upon European politics and culture during the first several centuries after Gutenberg and compares these changes with the possibilities and problems inherent in contemporary ... -
21H.421 Introduction to Environmental History, Spring 2004
(2004-06)This seminar provides a historical overview of the interactions between people and their environments. Focusing primarily on the experience of Europeans in the period after Columbus, the subject explores the influence of ... -
21H.433 The Age of Reason: Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Spring 2002
(2002-06)A study of the evolution of European society from the end of the seventeenth century to the outbreak of World War I. Its politics, the nature of its social system, the workings of its economy, and its intellectual ... -
21H.433 The Age of Reason: Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Spring 2005
(2005-06)Has there ever been an "Age of Reason?" In the western tradition, one might make claims for various moments during Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. In this class, however, we will focus on the two and a ... -
21H.466 Imperial and Revolutionary Russia, 1800-1917, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Analyzes Russia's social, cultural, political heritage; Eurasian imperialism; and autocracy. Compares reforming and revolutionary impulses in the context of serfdom, the rise of the intelligentsia, and debates over capitalism. ... -
21H.466 Imperial and Revolutionary Russia: Culture and Politics, Fall 2008
(2008-12)At the beginning of the eighteenth century Russia began to come into its own as a major European power. Members of the Russian intellectual classes increasingly compared themselves and their autocratic order to states and ... -
21H.615 The Middle East in 20th Century, Spring 2003
(2003-06)This course explores the 20th-century history of the Middle East, concentrating on the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, Turkey, the Arabian peninsula, and Iran. We will begin by examining the late Ottoman Empire and close with the ... -
21H.802 Modern Latin America, 1808-Present: Revolution, Dictatorship, Democracy, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Selective survey of Latin American history from the wars of independence at the start of the nineteenth century to the present. Issues studied include: independence and its aftermath, slavery and its abolition, Latin America ... -
21H.909 People and Other Animals, Fall 2005
(2005-12)A historical survey of the ways that people have interacted with their closest animal relatives, for example: hunting, domestication of livestock, worship of animal gods, exploitation of animal labor, scientific study of ... -
21H.909J / 21H.969J / 21A.390J / 21A.835J People and Other Animals, Fall 2010
(2010-12)This class provides a historical survey of the ways that people have interacted with their closest animal relatives, for example: hunting, domestication of livestock, exploitation of animal labor, scientific study of ... -
21H.912 The World Since 1492, Fall 2004
(2004-12)This class offers a look into the last five hundred years of world history. Rather than attempt an exhaustive chronology of everything that has occurred on the globe since 1492 - an impossible task for a lifetime, let alone ... -
21H.912 The World Since 1492, Spring 2003
(2003-06)This course explores the last 500 years of world history. Rather than trying to cover all regions for all periods of time, we will focus on four related themes: the struggles between Europeans and colonized peoples; the ... -
21H.968J / STS.415J Nature, Environment, and Empire, Spring 2005
(2005-06)This course is an exploration of the relationship between the study of natural history, both domestic and exotic, by Europeans and Americans, and concrete exploitation of the natural world, focusing on the eighteenth and ... -
21H.991J / STS.210J Theories and Methods in the Study of History, Fall 2003
(2003-12)The purpose of this course is to acquaint you with a variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century. Most of the books on the list constitute, in my view (and others), modern classics, ... -
21H.991J / STS.210J Theories and Methods in the Study of History, Fall 2004
(2004-12)The purpose of this course is to acquaint you with a variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century. Most of the books on the list constitute, in my view (and others), modern classics, ... -
21L.000J / 21L.010 / 21W.734J Writing About Literature, Fall 2006
(2006-12)Writing About Literature aims: To increase students' pleasure and skill in reading literary texts and in writing and communicating about them. To introduce students to different literary forms (poetry, fiction, drama) and ... -
21L.001 Foundations of Western Culture I: Homer to Dante, Spring 2000
(2000-06)Studies a broad range of texts essential to understanding the two great sources of Western conceptions of the world and humanity's place within it: the ancient world of Greece and Rome and the Judeo-Christian world that ... -
21L.002-3 Foundations of Western Culture II: Modernism, Spring 2004
(2004-06)This course comprises a broad survey of texts, literary and philosophical, which trace the development of the modern world from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Intrinsic to this development is the ... -
21L.003 Reading Fiction, Fall 2008
(2008-12)This course offers students ways to become more engaged and curious readers for life. By learning the language of selected short stories and novels, students learn the language of literary description. There will be a ... -
21L.004 Major Poets, Spring 2003
(2003-06)Emphasis on the analytical reading of lyric poetry in England and the United States. Syllabus usually includes Shakespeare's sonnets, Donne, Keats, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot, Marianne Moore, Lowell, Rich, and Bishop. From ...