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HIST 13E - History of Modern Mexico

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Prof. Kirsten Weld - This course explores the history of Mexico in the 19th and 20th centuries, emphasizing the importance of historical approaches to understanding critical phenomena in contemporary Mexican affairs. Topics covered include colonial...

HIST 2511 - Rethinking the Archive: Proseminar

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Prof. Kirsten Weld - This seminar provides a critical examination of the documentary and archival forms that lie at the heart of historical knowledge production. Readings span disciplinary boundaries, geographic regions, and time periods.

HIST 1511 - Latin America and the United States

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Prof. Kirsten Weld - Surveys the complex, mutually constitutive, and often thorny relationship - characterized by suspicion and antagonism, but also by fascination and desire - between the United States and the diverse republics south of the Rio Grande...

FRSEMR 71I - Thinking About History in a Post-Truth World

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Prof. Sidney Chalhoub - We live in a world of polarized, post-truth politics. Blatant lies are major components of public discourse. It seems that the phenomenon is global, accompanied by a resurgence of hate politics, expressed, for example, in the...

HIST 1930 - Literature and Social History: A View from Brazil

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Prof. Sidney Chalhoub - The objective of this course is to study major authors and works of nineteenth-century Brazilian fiction. Writing fiction from a spot deemed to be in the "periphery" of the western world meant a difficult and complex engagement...

HIST 1155 - Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789

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Prof. Tamar Herzog - This course is an introductory survey of European Early Modern history, from the fifteenth to the late eighteenth century. Organized chronologically and thematically, it examines developments from the late Middle Ages to the Age of...

HIST 1920 - Colonial Latin America

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Prof. Tamar Herzog - This course examines some of the main debates in Colonial Latin American History. Among other things, we will discuss issues such as conquest and resistance, the construction and administration of differences (such as race, ethnicity...

AFRAMER 199X and HIST 1937: Social Revolutions in Latin America

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Prof. Alejandro de la Fuente. Cross-listed with African & African American Studies. This course seeks to explain why social revolutions have taken place in Latin America and analyzes their impact on the region. The objective is for students to gain a...