Cities of Empire: An Urban Journey through Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean
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Course Description
This course explores the cities of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Russian empires in the dynamic and turbulent period of their greatest transformation from the 19th century through the Two World Wars. Through the reading of urban biographies of Venice and Trieste, Vienna, Budapest, Cracow, Lviv, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Salonica, and Odessa, we consider broad historical trends of political, economic, and social modernization, urbanization, identity formation, imperialism, cosmopolitanism, and orientalism. As vibrant centers of coexistence and economic exchange, social and cultural borderlands, and sites of transgression, these cities provide an ideal lens through which to examine these themes in the context of transition from imperial to post-imperial space.
Cross Listed Courses
Grading Basis
ROP - Letter or Credit/No Credit
Min
3
Max
5
Course Repeatable for Degree Credit?
No
Course Component
Seminar
Enrollment Optional?
No
This course has been approved for the following WAYS
Social Inquiry (SI)
Does this course satisfy the University Language Requirement?
No
Programs
REES204
is a
completion requirement
for: