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Chinese history through the twentieth century; archaeological and traditional accounts to the middle of the Ming dynasty; modern China from 1500 through the Qing dynasty and the early twentieth century; the history of the Communist movement in China to the death of Mao Zedong in 1976; cultural, intellectual, po litical, social, diplomatic and military history of China.

407.01. Premodern China to 1500

407.02. Modern China, 1500-1950

407.03. Communist China, 1917-1976

German history from the Thirty Years' War to the present. Themes include the rise of Brandenburg-Prussia, Austro-Prussian "dualism," mercantilism, Enlightenment, the impact of the French Revolution and Napoleon, the reform movements, sociocultural change in the nineteenth century, liberalism, the revolutions of 1848, German unification, the social and economic foundations of the Second Empire, German overseas expansion, the origins and conduct of both world wars, the Weimar Republic, Nazism, the Holocaust, the postwar settlement, the social, cultural and political impact of the Cold War, and the fall of the Berlin wall and German reunification.

413.01. Germany, 1648 to ca 1870

413.02. Germany, ca. 1870 to the Present

Spain from its ancient Iberian, Greek, Roman, and Islamic roots to the present. Special attention will be given to the Christian Reconquista, the rule of the Catholic Kings, the formation of the Spanish Empire in the New World, and the rise and decline of Spain as European and world power. Themes will include the eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms, the War of Independence, and the nineteenth-century conflicts. In the twentieth century, special attention will be given to the Second Spanish Republic, the Civil War (1936-1939), the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and contemporary Spain.

415.01. Spain from Iberian Origins through the 1808-1814 War of Independence

415.02. Modern Spain, 1808-Present: Liberalism, Militarism, Regionalism

France to the Fifth Republic; France from the end of the Hundred Years' War, emphasizing the institutional and political development of the state and monarchy in the context of social and political upheaval, the development of royal absolutism in theory and practice, and France's role in European affairs; fading Splendour of Versailles; society and institutions of the Ancien Régime; failure of reform; the era of the Revolution and Napoleon; the second cycle of monarchy, republic, and empire; triumph and tragedy in war; the new commitment to modernity.

421.01. France, 1453-1715: Recovery, Crisis, and Royal Absolutism

421.02. France, 1715-1968: Decadence, Revolution, and the Search for Stability

A history of Aboriginal societies, the fur trade, Red River settlement, establishment of Canadian institutions, and an agricultural economy, and the resistances of 1869 and 1885; themes in the historical development of the agrarian community in Western Canada; political movements among the western farmers, the nature of plains technology and work, and the economic evolution of the prairies; prairie towns and cities with an emphasis on planning, transportation, population, government, social structure.

439.01. The Early West to 1896

439.02. Rural Society in Western Canada

History of the U.S. West or South. Topics will vary from year to year. Regional history of the U.S. West may include issues of gender, settlement, the Mythic West, frontier and region, or historiography. Regional history of the U.S. South may include the rise and fall of slavery, sectional crisis and the Civil War, the New South and the Civil Rights movement.

465.01. The History of Women in the American West

465.02. The American West: Imagination, Myth, and History

465.03. The U.S. South

A social and economic history of Spain's most important colony, New Spain. Focus will be placed upon the introduction of European institutions, the great hacienda, mining, frontier expansion, regionalism, and the wars for independence. Mexico's national experience since independence. Special themes will include nineteenth century political and economic struggles, foreign interventionism, the twentieth century Mexican Revolution, regionalism, relations with the United States, and the rise of the modern republic.

467.01. Mexico: Roots and Traditions to Independence

467.02. Mexico, The Making of the Modern Nation, 1824 to the Present

Historical development of ideas about the natural world from the ancient myths and philosophies of the Middle East and Greece through the time of Galileo. Emphasis on the emergence of Greek science, science in the Middle Ages, and the Copernican Revolution. Historical development of post-Galilean science: the mechanical philosophy, Descartes, Boyle, Newton; 18th-century Newtonianism; the rise of the theory of evolution, Darwin, genetics through the discovery of DNA.

477.01. History of Science, Ancient Times to Galileo

477.02. History of Science, 17th to 20th Centuries

A history of international relations and of the foreign policies of states in Europe and the world between the French Revolutionary Wars and the First World War. A history of international relations and of the foreign policies of states in Europe and the world between the end of the First World War and the end of the Cold War.

491.01. Diplomatic History, 1793-1918

491.02. Diplomatic History, 1919-1989

Enlightenment ideas and institutions, including the challenge to religious orthodoxy, the salons and early feminism, the new "universal" laws of the human sciences, and ideas of progress and the origins and course of the Revolution; the liberal and democratic revolutions; Terror and Virtue; failure of the Republic; the imperial saga in France and Europe.

511.01. The Age of Enlightenment

511.02. Revolution and Napoleon