HIST 284 - Tokyo: History and the City, 1600-2000

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS, CD

This course charts the history of one of the world’s first metropolises. From shogunal capital in the early seventeenth century to global commerce center in the twenty-first, Edo/Tokyo will be examined from political, economic, social, and cultural angles to question familiar assumptions about the course and nature of modernity. Enrollment limit: 25.
Instructor: E. O’Dwyer