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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, ...
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.302 The Ancient World: Rome, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
This course elaborates the history of Rome from its humble beginnings to the fifth century A.D. The first half of the course covers Kingship to Republican form; the conquest of Italy; Roman expansion: Pyrrhus, Punic Wars ...
21H.346 France 1660-1815: Enlightenment, Revolution, Napoleon, Fall 2005
(2005-12)
A century and a half ago, Alexis de Tocqueville argued that the Revolution of 1789 in France constituted the culmination of long-term administrative and social changes, rather than a rupture with the past. In this class, ...