  Oh.  My.  God.  This is why I need to go to urlLink Princeton .  ECS 320/  HIS 445 Cultural Systems:
 Sight and Seeing in the Renaissance ( LA)  na,  npdf Maximum Enrollment:  20 Professor( s)
 Staff Description/ Objectives:  An introduction to the visual culture of 16th-  &  17th- century Europe.
 Looks at how expectations about visual certainty and the reliability of the eye ( the 'noblest' sense)  were challenged by developments in medicine,  psychology,  natural science,  magic,
 demonology,  religion,  and philosophy.  Concentrates on examples of visual artifice,  fantasy,  and illusion between the Reformation &
 the Scientific Revolution.  Topics include:  madness and melancholy,  optics &  natural magic,  witchcraft,
 religious images,  miracles,  apparitions,  scepticism,  dreams,  the theatre and Macbeth.
 Sample Reading List:  Robert Burton ,  Anatomy of Melancholy Giambattista della Porta ,  Natural Magick Johann Weyer ,  On the Tricks of Devils Ludwig Lavater ,  Of Ghostes and Spirites Michel de Montaigne ,
 Apology for Raymond Sebond -  HIS 365 Europe in the 20th Century ( HA)  Professor( s)  Anson G.
 Rabinbach Description/ Objectives:  The course will explore problems of modernity in European society,  culture,  and politics from the First World War to the fall of communism in Russia and East Central Europe.  Part I will consider:
 the impact of the Great War,  the crisis of liberal ideas and institutions,  the ascent of communism and fascism.  Part II deals with:  post World War II justice and reconstruction,  the cultural,
 and political divisions of the Cold War,  and the Central European revolutions of 1989.  Sample Reading List:  Eksteins ,  Rites of Spring Fitzpatrick ,  The Russian Revolution 1917-
1932 Orwell ,  Homage to Catalonia Payne ,  Fascism:  Comparison and Definition Burleigh and Wipperman ,  The Racial State Kovaly ,  Under a Cruel Star -
 HIS 370 Britain 1815- 1945:  Dominance,  Democracy and Decline ( HA)  No P/
D/ F Professor( s)  Linda J.  Colley Description/ Objectives:
 This course is for both students new to British history and those with some background in it.  We explore how Britain operated as the prime imperial and economic power in the 19th century and claimed dominion of a quarter of the world as late as the 1930s.  We look at its social,  cultural and political workings,  relations with Ireland,  at male and female struggles for the vote,
 and at the impact of war.  We will also consider throughout the meanings of world power status and of national decline.  Sample Reading List:  Walter L.  Arnstein ,  Britain Yesterday and Today David Cannadine ,
 Ornamentalism Eric Hobsbawm ,  Industry and Empire Peter Clarke ,  Hope and Glory:  Britain 1900- 1990 Paul Fussell ,  The Great War and Modern Memory -
 HIS 460/  AMS 460 Topics in American Legal History:  Families and Family Members in American History ( HA)  na,  npdf Enrollment by application or interview.
 Departmental permission required.  Maximum Enrollment:  18 Professor( s)  Hendrik A.  Hartog Description/
Objectives:  This seminar will use the legal and social history of the family to explore issues of personal identity and responsibility.  In part,  we will be tracing central themes in the history of family law in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  In part we will be concerned with the ways men,  women,
 and children have struggled over a variety of familial duties and identities.  What roles have legal institutions and legal discourses played in defining and interpreting intimate experiences and private life?  Sample Reading List:  Stack ,  All Our Kin Carbane ,  From Partners to Parents Steadman ,
 Strange Dislocations Gordon ,  Heroes of their Own Lives Cases and other legal material Hartog ,  Man and Wife in America -  HIS 561 Seminar in European Cultural and Intellectual History:  The 20th Century Maximum Enrollment:  20 Professor(
s)  Anson G.  Rabinbach Description/ Objectives:  This seminar will provide an introduction to recent theoretical debates and methodological approaches to 20th Century European intellectual and cultural history.  Its central focus will be on the legacy of Marx,
 Nietzsche,  and Weber for the debates on " enlightenment"  and " counter- enlightenment"
 during the first half of the century.  Among the thinkers we will be examining are:  T. W.  Adorno,  Hannah Arendt,
 Walter Benjamin,  Michel Foucault,  Martin Heidegger,  Georg Lukacs,  and Carl Schmitt.  Sample Reading List:
 Schmitt,  Carl ,  Political Theology ( 1922,  1934)  Benjamin,
 Walter ,  Illuminations Heidegger,  Martin ,  Basic Writings Wolin,  Richard ,  The Heidegger Controversy Max Horkheimer and T.
W.  Adorno ,  Dialectic of Enlightentment Seyla Benhabib ,  The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt -  And that's just out of one semester in the History department alone.  Sigh.
