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Dec 26, 2024
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Goucher College 2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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HIS 103 - Mass Violence and International History (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
“Preserve the dynasty! Destroy the foreign!” This was the battle cry of a wave or rural unrest that spread across China in 1899 and 1900, in the form of the Boxer Uprising. Within a few months, it had been brutally suppressed by an international Eight-Nation Army, but not after severe destruction of lives and property. Where did it come from? Why did it target foreigners and their Chinese allies? How was it perceived around the world at the time, and subsequently? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this course, which will serve as a point of entry into the methods of history. Students will work with a variety of primary and secondary sources as they learn the tools of doing history, as well as the multi-perspective, multi-archival approach of international history. This course is primarily intended for first or second year students. Spring semester in alternating years. Dawley.
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