A study of Athens in the fifth century BC, concentrating on social and economic structures and institutions. The course concerns itself with topics appropriate to a pre-industrial society, such as peasants, slaves and the development and function of the early state. Course credit exclusions: None. Prior TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/HIST 3120 6.00, […]
This course asks how we should think about technology. Focusing on one of the most complex and powerful categories for organizing our world, it explores how our relationship with technology has always been about more than material objects: it has been a way to define, dismantle, and reshape our relationships to nature, knowledge, society, the […]
Explores the development and nature of Islamic civilization from the seventh century to 1400 AD.
Explores the ways in which large historical forces in the recent past, such as industrialization, urbanization and the growth of the state, have affected family, community, work and leisure and ways in which people have responded, embracing, adapting to or resisting change. Course credit exclusions: None. Prior TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HIST 1050 […]
This course focuses on the development of urban black communities in the northern US in relation to the immense changes that took place from 1830 to 1940, especially the complex reasons which lead African Americans to leave the South. Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/HIST 1000A 6.00 (prior to […]
A survey of Jewish history from the breakdown of traditional society in the 18th century until the present. The focus will be on the Jews of Europe and the major offshoots of Jewish Europe, Israel and North America.Course credit exclusions: None. Prior TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HIST 3860 6.00.
Explores how, in North America since 1600, certain behaviours have been defined by social actors and state agencies as bad behaviour or vices, and how these behaviours have been regulated. Introduces students to the role that issues such as drug and alcohol use, abortion, prostitution, and sexuality (to name a few) have played in the […]
Course Director: Prof. J. Bonnell - bonnellj@yorku.ca This course examines the forms, goals, and practices of making history in museums, archives, historic sites, and other institutions of public history. It enables students to learn the meaning and methods in the production of memory and introduces them to the practical skills for the public presentation of […]
Focusing on Mexico and Peru in the 16th and 17th centuries, this course studies the indigenous elites of the former Aztec and Inca empires under Spanish rule. It approaches native nobles as mediators between colonial and indigenous society and as creators of new narratives and cultural practices that sought to position indigenous peoples more advantageously […]
Examines topics in the development of the Caribbean, 1938-1983, from the labour riots of the thirties to the American intervention in Grenada. It includes a Pan-Caribbean examination of economic, political and socio-cultural developments in this period. This course is restricted to History or Latin American and Caribbean Studies Honours majors and minors who have successfully […]