HIST 210 - Paris: A Contested City

FDR: HU
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2015 and alternate years.

Prerequisite: HIST 207. This course, taught in Paris, examines how Parisian spaces have been contested and claimed since the French Revolution. We study how different actors and groups have used the city and its monuments in struggles over history, memory, and politics. Specific topics include how the French Revolution is memorialized in the city; class tensions and the remaking of Paris in the 19th century; the creation of Paris as an art capital; the battle for the memory of World War II; and the way in which contemporary actors– politicians, protestors, tourists–move through and shape the city for their own purposes. Horowitz.