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HIST 1610: East Asian Environments: China, Japan, Korea

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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...

HIST 1910: The History of Energy

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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...

HIST 2951: The Environmental Turn in History: Seminar

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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...

Societies of the World 43: Japan's Samurai Revolution

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D. Howell/I. Miller On July 8, 1853, Commodore Mathew C. Perry steamed into Japan's Edo Bay with four heavily armed U.S. Navy warships. Two were the so-called "black ships," ominously painted coal-burning steamships of the latest design. There, within...

HIST 76A: Japanese Imperialism and the East Asian Modern

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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...

HIST 1610: East Asian Environments: China, Japan, Korea

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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...

HIST 1611: The History of Energy

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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...

HIST 76: The History of Energy

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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...

HIST 1964: The Social Life of Science in East Asia

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Science and technology have very active social lives. They are present in nearly every aspect of modern life around the world, from the ways we feed ourselves to the ways we work, dress, and think. This class puts technology and science in their place...