HIST 5510 Revolutions in Global History

A graduate seminar that treats revolution as a comparative category rather than a series of national events, asking what actually changes when a society breaks with its political and cultural past. You move across the English and American upheavals, the reformist routes taken by the late Ottomans and Meiji Japan, and the cultural turbulence of Cold War America, reading the same questions about legitimacy, modernization, and rupture through very different cases. Expect heavy reading loads, comparative analysis, and a research paper rather than lectures and exams. It sits well alongside Ottoman and modern history courses and gives a useful frame for thesis work on state transformation.