# Classes Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 23 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Date AscendingDate DescendingAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 23 results ### Spring, 2025 [### HIST 1611: The History of Energy ](/class/hist-1611-history-energy) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2025 Modern life is defined by our use of energy: fossil fuels, hydroelectricity, nuclear power, renewables. These forms of energy power modern economies, politics, and everyday life. They heat and cool our homes, cook our food, enable our work, and illuminate the device you are... ### Fall, 2024 [### HIST 76A: Japanese Imperialism and the East Asian Modern ](/class/hist-76a-japanese-imperialism-and-east-asian-modern) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2024 This course examines how one of the most important but least studied empires of the modern world reshaped the culture and politics of East Asia. By the early 1940s the Japanese empire encompassed some 200 million subjects, stretching from the cold northern woods of Sakhalin... ### Spring, 2023 [### HIST 1610: East Asian Environments: China, Japan, Korea ](/class/hist-1610-east-asian-environments-china-japan-korea-1) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2023 The future is not what it used to be. Nowhere is this more evident than in the natural world, where climate change and fading biodiversity, energy anxieties, and environmental disasters have undermined the bedrock of history: the assumption of a stable continuity between... ### Spring, 2022 [### HIST 12U: Quad Lab: Histories of Technology, Society, and Place at Harvard ](/class/hist-12u-quad-lab-histories-technology-society-and-place-harvard) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2022 Everything has a history. The food that we eat, the heat that warms us, the gardens we pass through, the buildings that give us shelter all bring us into complex, vital relationships with the past. This course converts the Radcliffe Quad into a laboratory for the exploration... ### Spring, 2021 [### HIST 1610: East Asian Environments: China, Japan, Korea ](/class/hist-1610-east-asian-environments-china-japan-korea) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2021 The future is not what it used to be. Nowhere is this more evident than in the natural world, where limate change and fading biodiversity, energy anxieties, and environmental disasters have underminded the bedrock of history: the assumption of a stable continuity between... [### HIST 1951: Japanese Imperialism and the East Asian Modern ](/class/hist-1951-japanese-imperialism-and-east-asian-modern) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2021 This course explores the role of Japanese imperialism in teh making of modern East Asia. By the 1940s Japan's empire stretched from the cold northern woods of Sakhalin Island to Taiwan, Korea, China, and Southeast Asia. We use the analysis of this world-historical force to... ### Fall, 2021 [### HIST 12W: The History of Energy ](/class/hist-12w-history-energy) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2021 This course is a critical introduction to the history of energy. What roles has energy played in the creation and destruction of societies, cultures, and economies? How have different forms of energy—biomass, coal, oil, electricity, nuclear, renewables—influenced historical... ### Spring, 2020 [### HIST 1610: East Asian Environments: China, Japan, Korea ](/class/hist-1610-east-asian-environments-china-japan-korea-0) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 The future is not what it used to be. Nowhere is this more evident than in the natural world, where climate change and fading biodiversity, energy anxieties, and environmental disasters have undermined the bedrock of history: the assumption of a stable continuity between... ### Fall, 2020 [### HIST 2019: Energy History: Seminar ](/class/hist-2019-energy-history-seminar) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2020 This seminar is a critical introduction to the history and historiography of energy, a field entangled with the history of fossil-fueled climate change. We will work our way back into the history of energy, using theories of energy to rethink such key issues as... ### Fall, 2019 [### HIST 1910: The History of Energy ](/class/hist-1910-history-energy) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2019 The history of energy is the history of modern political economy. The history of energy is the history of a scientific concept and its technological application. The history of energy is the history of climate change and environmental catastrophe. The history of energy is... [### HIST 2951: The Environmental Turn in History: Seminar ](/class/hist-2951-environmental-turn-history-seminar) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2019 A critical exploration of history's "environmental turn." This course tracks the movement of environmental themes to the center of the discipline and the emergence of environmental history as an important new subfield. Readings will range from classics to cutting-edge new... ### Spring, 2017 [### HIST 97D: What is Environmental History? ](/class/hist-97d-what-environmental-history) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2017 This section gives new History concentrators an introduction to environmental history. Most historians leave the natural world out of the story, but environmental historians regard nature as the inescapable context for human history, including the human impact on nature. 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