The history of American constitutional law from the Reconstruction to the present. Not a casebook course. Major legal constitutional developments, especially the 14th Amendmentoits evolving character and its application. In the 20th century, civil liberties issues and cases; litigation involving nation-state relations, the commerce clause, apportionment, criminal justice cases, etc. Survey course in post-Civil War America to the present helpful.

This course will examine modern Brazil from 1800 to the present, concentrating on the making of the nation given its massive geographical size and diverse population. Topics studied include Brazil's status as the world's largest slave holding society in the nineteenth century, and twentieth-century attempts to establish democracy.

This course traces the history of Mexican society, politics, and culture from the late 18th century to the present. The first half analyzes the turbulent formation of Mexico, the legacies of Spanish colonialism, peasant uprisings of the 19th century, and the origins and course of the famous Revolution of 1910.

When did the Roman empire end and what was ended? The causes and dates you choose say a lot about your assumptions about what the Roman empire essentially was and what the empire essentially wasn?t. If the Roman empire was ?murdered,? as Piganiol put it, who was the murderer, when was the crime committed, and for whose benefit? But what if the empire wasn't murdered, what if the crumbling of an empire doesn't constitute a crime, what if empires never really disappear?

The rise and spectacular fall of China?s last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), with particular emphasis on the social, economic, intellectual and military forces that transformed China from an empire into a modern nation in the decades leading up to the 1911 Revolution. Our subjects will include secret societies, restoration scholars, gunboat diplomacy, imperial decadence, new-text Confucian visions, clandestine missionaries, treaty-port translators and student revolutionaries. No prior exposure to Chinese history is assumed.

This course examines the modern history of England, with some discussion of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, from the Glorious Revolution to the present.

Globalization is a phenomenon that seems to be occurring everywhere around us and yet seems to have no origin. Is the world really flat? Or have certain places, people and things become better connected than others? This course seeks to answer these questions by exploring when and why certain places became better connected, people became more mobile and things gained wider circulation. Since the Indus valley civilization started trading with the Mesopotamian civilization four millennia ago, the Indian Ocean has been an important space of economic and cultural exchange.

A survey of modern Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with an emphasis on cultural history. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

In less than 50 years it went from not existing to defeating both the Persian Empire and the Roman Empire. How did Islam emerge in the Late Antique World and how did it change that World? We discuss the fascinating and complex history of Early Islam and the emergence of the Islamic Caliphate to arrive at a fuller understanding. This course is widely accessible and open to all levels.

Survey of Russian history from the 9th to the 20th century. Development of absolute, centralized monarchy; Russia's cultural and political interaction with its neighbors, including the Byzantine Empire, the Tartars, Poland, and western Europe.