Format:
On-Campus
Term:
Summer 2025
Session:
Summer Session II: July 3 – August 8, 2025
Subject Area:
HEALTH & SOCIETIES (HSOC)
Course Number:
HSOC 1120 920
Schedule:
Monday 12:00 - 3:50 p.m.
Wednesday 12:00 - 3:50 p.m.
Instructor:
FRASER, ADRIANA
Primary Program:
LPS Undergraduate & Post-Baccalaureate
Course Description:
In this survey, we explore the relationships between technical knowledge and war in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We attend particularly to the centrality of bodily injury in the history of war. Topics include changing interpretations of the machine gun as inhumane or acceptable; the cult of the battleship; banned weaponry; submarines and masculinity; industrialized war and total war; trench warfare and mental breakdown; the atomic bomb and Cold War; chemical warfare in Viet Nam; and "television war" in the 1990s.
