Department of History

Spring 2012 Course Descriptions

Colonialism, Capitalism, Modernity
Early Modern Colonialism/Latin America:
Clendinnen, Inga. Ambivalent conquests : Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570. 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Mignolo, Walter. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization. 2nd ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.
Capitalism/World Systems:
Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. New [...]

A Continuing Series on Environmental Studies and History Presents:
A talk by Professor Andrew Hurley
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Interpreting History in 3D:Applications of the Virtual City
in Communities, Classrooms, and Scholarship
Professor Hurley, a leading environmental and cultural historian, will speak about his and colleagues’ creation of the Virtual City, a “simulated world of downtown St. Louis from [...]

Nation, Popular Politics, Culture
Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.
Guha, Ranajit. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.
Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1991.
Hobsbawm, E. J, and T. O Ranger, [...]

Historiographies & Theory
Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books: Readers, Authors and Libraries in Europe Between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge [UK]: Polity Press, 1994.
Eley, Geoff. A crooked line : from cultural history to the history of society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan [...]

Colloquium Series held during Campus Lifetime (12:50-2:10 pm) in Room N318
Wednesday, September 21, 2011:
Marisa Balsamo, Rational Recreation in the Spectacle of Victorian London.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011:
Ying-Ying Chu, Measuring Cultural Change: A History of the Cornell-Peru Project, 1952-1964.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011:
Adam Charboneau, John Lindsay’s Fun City and New York’s Open Spaces, 1966-1973
Tuesday, November 1, 2011:
Andrew Ehrinpreis, [...]

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Fall, 2011 Grad Offerings

Spring 2011 Calendar:
Thursday, March 24th, 12:00 Noon to 2:00 PM
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
Author Meets Critic Session
Robin Wagner-Pacifici, New School, will comment on the recently published book “Human Rights and Memory” by Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider (Penn State Press, 2010).
Thursday, April 28th – Saturday, April 30th
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
National Borders in [...]

All presentations will be held in SBS N-318 from 12:50PM to 2PM.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011:
Suzanne Swartz, Medical Women, Eugenics, and Power: The Changing Positions of Female Physicians and Medical Students in Germany, 1931-1939
Wednesday, March 16, 2011:
Tim Nicholson, Cold War Educators in Tanzania
Wednesday, March 23, 2011:
Eric Cimino, Encounters between Travelers and the Travelers Aid Society: New York [...]

Check out the link to this video, prepared by the American Historical Association’s film-making team, on our graduate program here in the history department:
Preparing Historians for the Challenge of 21st Century Academia
Here are some pictures from the premiere showing of a video featuring our department’s graduate program, at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American [...]