HIS 305 Reform Mvmnts & Modern State

(Cross-listed with POS 305) The unprecedented expansion of state power into areas of social and individual life is a major hallmark of modernity. This course will explore how reformist campaigns emanating from civil society interpellated state power by re-defining its relationship with and responsibilities toward its subjects/citizens. New technologies of surveillance generated by state intervention, the popular contestations they evoked, and the implications for different social groupings targeted by reformers will be a particular focus of this course. Prerequisite: HIS/POS 205.