This course introduces students to Madrid as a multi-faceted reality, focusing on such topics as: history, art, literature, culture, etc. The knowledge of this fact will serve students to use Madrid as reference for a better understanding of the...
During the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance period, the Italian peninsula was home to a web of independent city-states built upon the preexisting Roman city network. These city-states, which were to become the cradle of Europe’s great cultural...
This course focuses on the contemporary developments of Morocco and the rest of North Africa. The major themes to be covered are more or less related to North Africa’s steady integration into the world system during the last two centuries.
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This course will provide an advanced introduction to the political, social, and cultural history of contemporary Argentina. The general questions that will organize our analysis include: Why did Argentina had such a traumatic transition from Spanish...
This course will provide an advanced introduction to the political, social, and cultural history of contemporary Argentina. The general questions that will organize our analysis include: Why did Argentina have such a traumatic transition from Spanish...
The objective of this course is to study the historical evolution of Spain since the proclamation of the 2nd Republic (on April 14, 1931) to the present (the Spanish democracy, since the end of Franco’s dictatorship). The course will analyze...
This six-week course will study the social history of London from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries, starting with the Great Plague of 1665, the Great Fire of 1666 and the rebuilding of the City. Students will learn...
In this course students will explore the two most crucial, troubled and controversial periods of 20th Century Spain: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the subsequent Dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (1939-1975). The course is broadly...
The course is an introduction to the history of Italian Fascism with particular emphasis on the sacralisation of politics. Under Fascism, the political arena became permeated with myths, rites, and symbols of a secular religion, imbued with...
Tokyo is a city that burps and flashes with the flow of people and commodities. This three-credit course explores how the Tokyo metropolitan area has been produced and experienced through human and nonhuman interaction from the early-1600s (1603 -...