Mattheisen 43.367 France Since 1814 A History of France in a broad European setting from the Bourbon restoration through the Fifth Republic. The course intensely examines the interaction of social, economic, political, and diplomatic trends, with particular attention to the struggle between the Right and the Left. A comparative study of these topics underscores patterns of continuity in both Tsarist and Communist Russia. An overview of selected political, social, and cultural forms in medieval society. The emphasis is on origins, growth, change, and the interaction of institutions.
Topics vary from year to year.
A reading seminar exploring the experience of American women at work from the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries through books, films, and student presentations. Society A survey of labor history from the colonial period to the present focusing on the interrelationships between culture and work in American society and on the dynamics of technical and economic changes on the organization of work processes. An examination of the tumultuous decade in which society and politics were torn apart by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the rise of a counter culture. The American West Readings and discussion of the history of the American West and the place of the frontier in American society and thought. An interdisciplinary study of the interrelationships among technological, economic, social, and cultural forces in America from the colonial era to the early twentieth century.