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2020-2021 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HIST 455 - War and Peace in the Balkans


2020-2021 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
This course examines the history of the Balkans region in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on moments of conflict as well as those of peaceful coexistence. Covered themes include everyday life under the Ottoman Empire, national liberation movements, the Balkan Wars, urbanization, eugenics, the First and Second World Wars, communism, youth culture, and the Yugoslav Wars. The course also considers orientalizing Western narratives about the Balkans and how they have shaped the writing of the region’s history

Prerequisite(s): HIST 302  (HIST 301  also recommended).
Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
Program Attribute: HEUR



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