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Host: The Historical Society
Email: historic@bu.edu
Organizers: William W. Freehling, Robert Herzstein
Deadline for abstracts: April 01, 2001
Description:
The theme of the conference will be "Historical Reconstructions."
We seek to understand how elites, social groups, and individuals have tried
to reconstitute and strengthen their crushed societies after defeat in war,
ensuing turmoil, or social upheaval. "Reconstructions" need to be
understood in a wide context that embraces political, military, economic,
social, institutional, and intellectual history.
We here list some subjects intended as suggestive and by no means exhaustive: 1. Ancient Israel, Judea, and the empires of the Near East in the wake of foreign conquest; 2. Greece in the 4th and 5th centuries B.C.; 3. The Roman Republic and Empire e.g., 5th century B.C. and late 2ndcentury A.D.; 4. Western and Eastern Europe after the decline of the Roman Empire in the West; 5. The ancient and medieval empires in Asia, Africa, and Meso-America in the wake of precolonial wars, invasions, and conquests; 6. The adjustment of medieval societies to Islamic conquest and the adjustment of Islamic societies to the rising power of Christian Europe; 7. The European state system after the Thirty Year's War; 8. Germany and Central Europe after wars of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars; 9. The American South and the nation after the Civil War; 10. China after the Japanese invasion and the civil war of 1937-1949; 11. The restructuring of the world economy after World War I; 12. Germany and Japan under the military occupations after World War II; 13. The social and state systems of Russia, Yugoslavia, and other eastern European countries after the fall of communism.
Mail Address:
The Historical Society 656 Beacon Street, Mezzanine Boston, MA 02215 historic@bu.edu www.bu.edu/historic
Submitted by: Kirse May
Date received: November 23, 2000, revised December 01, 2000
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