Apr 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


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Texas Tech offers nearly 5,000 courses as part of its curriculum. These courses are listed alphabetically by subject prefix within each college and departmental section of this catalog. The courses appear in numerical order, moving from beginning freshman or developmental level courses to graduate, research, and professional courses.

Not all courses listed in this catalog are offered every year. An online class schedule published before each registration period indicates courses that will be available during the upcoming term or semester and when each class will meet. The class schedule can be found at (www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/class_schedule/index.php). The university reserves the right to cancel any scheduled course or withdraw any program from the list of offerings when the best interests of the institution require such action.

Courses are designated by a subject prefix and number along with a descriptive title. Learn more  about interpreting the course descriptions found throughout the catalog.

 

HIST - History (Undergraduate Courses)

Courses are identified as follows: United States history = US; European history = E; African, Asian or Latin American history = AAL.

  
  • HIST 4325 - Hysterical Women and Other Comics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. In-depth study of how women and other traditional targets of humor use comedy to alter the U.S. cultural and political landscape. (U.S. history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4326 - A History of Sexuality in the United States

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines the history of sexuality in the United States. Themes and topics include relations of power, sexual identities, commercialization of sex, courtship, marriage, and reproduction. (U.S. history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4328 - Bad Girls in Early America

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Explores the lives of disorderly women, including alleged witches, prostitutes, escaped slaves, cross-dressers, suffragists, and others who defied social expectations in early America. (U.S. history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4329 - Race, Identity, and Citizenship in the United States

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. A research course that covers legal, political, and social definitions of racial identity and citizenship in the United States. (U.S. history) Fulfills multicultural requirement. (CL)
  
  • HIST 4330 - Jim Crow America: From Ferguson to Ferguson

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor. Explores the historical development and influence on society of lynching and racial violence in America. (U.S. history) Fulfills multicultural requirement. (CL)
  
  • HIST 4333 - Law and Legality in the American West

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. History of law and legality in the North American West from the first Indigenous-European encounters to the present day, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. (U.S. history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4334 - Race and Medicine in American History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Introduces students to the history of race, medicine, science, and health in American history. (U.S. history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4337 - History of American Seapower

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines history of the American Navy, organizational and technological development, evolution of strategic planning, and impact on foreign relations. (U.S. history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4338 - History of “Small Wars”

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. A research seminar focusing on insurgencies involving both American and international forces. (U.S. history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4340 - A History of Disability in Europe

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Surveys the ways disability has been understood and experienced in European history, with special emphasis on patterns of exclusion and integration. May be repeated for credit. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4341 - Ancient Greece

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. From the origins of classical Greek civilization to the Roman conquest. Tyranny and democracy, imperialism, and the Hellenistic age. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4342 - Ancient Rome

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Imperialism and its consequences from the early Republic through the partial collapse of the Empire in the 5th century A.D.; Christianity and the Empire. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4343 - Alexander the Great

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. A detailed study of the rise of ancient Macedonia, the reign of Alexander the Great, and the Hellenistic world. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4346 - A History of Food in Europe

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines the shifting politics, culture, and economics of food in Europe from pre-modern times to the contemporary period. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4347 - History of the Medieval Church

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Origins of the Roman Church, the papacy, monasticism, scholastic and mystical theology, church-state relations, and the decline of medieval Christendom. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4348 - The Renaissance

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Cultural and political history of Italy, France, and England from 1300-1600; the “rebirth” of wisdom through art, architecture, literature, music, economics, and religion. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4349 - The Protestant Reformation

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Europe from 1517 to 1648. Religious revolt and the establishment of Protestantism; the age of religious wars; attempts at religious peace. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4351 - Origins of the British Empire to 1783

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Explores the origins of the British Empire in the early modern era. Topics include exploration, colonization, trade, encounters, and ideas of imperialism and empire-building. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4352 - Witchcraft and Witch Hunting in the Early Modern Western World

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines the evolution of beliefs in witchcraft and the persecution of alleged witches in Europe and European colonies in the Americas from 1300 to 1800. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4353 - The French Revolution and Napoleon

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. The Old Regime and the Enlightenment. The Revolution and its drama, ideas, events, personalities, and complexities. Napoleon: heir, paladin, or liquidator of the Revolution? (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4354 - From Vampires to Death Tourism: The Dead in Europe since 1700

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines the different ways that Europeans have handled, represented, and thought about the dead in the early modern period. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4359 - Cultural Brilliance and Political Failure: Germany’s Weimar Republic, 1919-1933

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. An in-depth examination of the rise and fall of Germany’s Weimar Republic through an examination of its politics, culture, and society.  (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4360 - Germany Since 1945: A Divided Nation Confronts Its Past

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. A comparative study of capitalism and communism in West and East Germany emphasizing problems of national unity and efforts to atone for Nazi crimes. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4361 - The USSR and the Cold War

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines the successes, failures, and legacies of Soviet leaders who attempted to build the world’s first Communist society after World War II. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4363 - Emergence of New Nations in Latin America

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. This 19th century course covers the formation of political systems, challenges to social stability, abolition of slavery, and relationship to North Atlantic world. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4365 - Foundations of Contemporary Mexico

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines major themes of post-nineteenth century Mexico and their political, social, and cultural relevance. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4370 - Great Cities

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Seminar on the history of a single major city, using it as a microcosm to study political, social, cultural, and intellectual development over time. May be repeated when topics vary. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4371 - Race, Nation, and Identity

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Nineteenth and twentieth century concepts of difference as construed by race, nation, and identity. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4372 - History of Comparative Genocide

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines the history of the term “genocide” and analyzes modern and contemporary examples of mass exterminations. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4373 - Tudor-Stuart England, 1450-1688

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Deals with enormous and seminal changes (religious, political, constitutional, intellectual, and geographical) that took place in England from 1450 to 1688. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4375 - Social and Cultural History of Europe, 1800 to the Present

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Modernization, industrialization, urbanization, gender, household, new professions, old occupations, and labor unrest. Bourgeois and working-class culture, avant-garde and masses, war, genocide, Europe today. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4376 - History of the Italian Mafia

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Discusses the origins and development of the Mafia in the context of Italian politics, economy, and society in the 19th and 20th centuries. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4378 - History of Italian Fascism

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines the origins of Italian Fascism and its development from the 1920s through 1940s, including the topics of propaganda, race, imperialism, gender, and war. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4379 - Revolutionary Russia

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines Russia/USSR during its revolutionary period, ca. 1900-1950. Topics studied include the 1917 revolutions, civil war, NEP, Stalinism, terror, the Gulag and WWII. (European history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4380 - A History of Masculinity

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines the history of masculinity and manhood in Great Britain and the United States since the mid-nineteenth century. (U.S. history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4381 - Colonial Mexico and the Spanish Borderlands

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Study of the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the evolution of the Spanish Empire in North America until Mexican independence in 1821. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4382 - Walking the Line: The History of U.S. Mexico Border Relations since 1836

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. A research course that covers the social, political, and economic histories of specific borderland region between the United States and Mexico since 1836. (U.S. history) Fulfills multicultural requirement. (CL)
  
  • HIST 4383 - History of Central Asia

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Explores the history of Central Asia from ancient nomadic empires to the present. Topics include nomadic pastoralism, Mongols, competing imperial-isms, everyday life, Islam, and politics. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4384 - Global Buddhism

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines the emergence and global diffusion of Buddha Dharma. Emphasizes innovations in doctrine and practice as Buddhism has spread globally. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4385 - Global Islam: Past and Present

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines Islam not only as a religion but also as a global phenomenon that helps shape the lives of people globally. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) Fulfills multicultural requirement. (CL)
  
  • HIST 4386 - Slavery in Africa

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Explores the history of slavery in Africa, addressing varying definitions of slavery. Emphasizes West African slave kingdoms. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) Fulfills multicultural requirement. (CL)
  
  • HIST 4387 - The Social History of Currency from Beads to Bitcoin

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Students consider money as a social interaction in world history: as a form of communication, a means of exchange, a token of a political community. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4390 - The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Research seminar on the 20th-century history of the land of Israel/Palestine, focusing on the conflict between Hebrew-speaking Jews and Arabic-speaking Palestinians. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4391 - Modern South Africa

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Description and analysis of the social, economic, and political development of South African society, focusing on the struggle against apartheid. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4393 - Modern China

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Chinese history from late Ming and early Qing period (17th century) until contemporary times. Emphasis on social, cultural, and political history. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4394 - Modern Japan

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Social, cultural, political, and economic history of Japan (17th to 20th century). Focus on merchant culture, Tokugawa times, civic training of Meiji period, militarism, postwar period. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4395 - Modern Vietnam

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Covers the social, political, and cultural history of Vietnam, beginning with the emergence of frontier society in the 16th century and concluding with the Vietnamese diaspora. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  
  • HIST 4397 - Readings and Research in History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Senior standing and consent of instructor. An independent study course involving in-depth reading and intensive historical writing. May be repeated for credit. (CL)
  
  • HIST 4398 - Senior Seminar in History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Senior standing or completion of 18 hours in history. Required of history majors. An intensive study in historical methodology, document analysis, retrieval and collection of data, and synthesis into well-written history. May be repeated for credit. (CL)
  
  • HIST 4696 - Studies Abroad in Southeast Asia

    6 Semester Credit Hours
    Students have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand and to participate in cultural exchanges with government leaders, students, and Vietnamese veterans. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)

HIST- History (Graduate Courses)

  
  • HIST 5101 - History as a Profession

    1 Semester Credit Hours
    Designed to help students develop the skills necessary for researching and writing history at the graduate level as well as pedagogical skills.
  
  • HIST 5102 - Teaching History in College

    1 Semester Credit Hours
    For GPTIs concurrently teaching introductory surveys in the Department of History, focused on classroom implementation of historical content. For doctoral students in History only.
  
  • HIST 5303 - Oral History Methodology

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Offers materials on the theory and methods for the collection and analysis of oral histories uses in reconstructing U.S., European, and non-Western history.
  
  • HIST 5304 - The Nature of History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduces graduate students to the development of historical thinking, the historical profession, critical theory, methodologies, and research skills.
  
  • HIST 5305 - Historiography of European History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduction to the themes and approaches that have been influential in the historical profession and in the study of European history.
  
  • HIST 5306 - Recent Interpretations of American History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A survey of recent major works discussing chronological periods and topics in American history. Required of some master’s and doctoral students.
  
  • HIST 5308 - Historical Studies of Religion

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A survey of scholarly attempts to understand the history of religion emphasizing historiographical achievements and methods.
  
  • HIST 5309 - Studies in the History of United States Imperialism

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Graduate seminar on the history of United States imperialism from the founding to the present, considering major works, themes, approaches, and sources in the field.
  
  • HIST 5310 - Studies in American Cultural and Intellectual History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines the intersection of intellectual and cultural history at various periods in American history. May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.
  
  • HIST 5313 - Studies in American Legal History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Graduate seminar on United States legal history considering major works, themes, approaches, and sources in the field.
  
  • HIST 5314 - Studies in Post-1945 United States History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Special topics examining the social, cultural, and political history of the United States since the end of World War II. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • HIST 5315 - Studies in Texas History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Topics vary with interests and needs of each class; emphasis on Spanish heritage, Texas Revolution, Republic, political, economic, and social developments, ethnic groups.
  
  • HIST 5316 - Studies in Southern History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An analysis of the major issues and controversies of the South with emphasis on the period from the American Revolution to the present.
  
  • HIST 5317 - Studies in Frontier and Western American History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An examination of selected areas with emphasis on exploration, settlement, Anglo-American expansion, foreign and Indian conflicts, life-ways, and resulting changes in American institutions.
  
  • HIST 5318 - Studies in History and Memory

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A study of the theories and methodology used in the sub-field of history and memory.
  
  • HIST 5319 - Studies in Native-American History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A reading seminar on the literature of Native-American history and the Native Americans of the plains and the southwest.
  
  • HIST 5320 - Studies in the Atlantic World

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Explores a series of problems in the developing field of Atlantic history. May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.
  
  • HIST 5321 - Studies in Sports History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduces students to the vast array of materials and topics covered within the growing field of sports history.
  
  • HIST 5322 - Studies in United States Foreign Relations

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Readings in the history of U.S. Foreign Relations with an emphasis upon either pre-1900, post-1900, or the classics of the field.
  
  • HIST 5323 - Studies in the History of Science and Technology

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Topics vary to include 20th-century American science, the industrial revolution, and the social relations of science and technology.
  
  • HIST 5324 - Studies in American Religious History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A survey of recent major works covering the social, political, and cultural implications of American religious history. Topics may vary.
  
  • HIST 5325 - Studies in American Economic History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Historical analysis and interpretation of growth and change in the United States economy, with emphasis on ideas and institutions in business and agriculture.
  
  • HIST 5326 - Studies in Nature and History in America

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Readings in nature’s role in American history from pre-Columbian Indians to present, with varied topics like environment, culture, society, politics, and war.
  
  • HIST 5327 - Studies in United States Immigration and Urban History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Explores a series of problems in United States immigration and urban history since the mid-nineteenth century.
  
  • HIST 5328 - Studies in U.S. Military History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A readings summary on military history with emphasis on development of institutions and national struggles.
  
  • HIST 5329 - Studies in U.S. Sea Powers

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A study of significant topics in American naval history with emphasis on institutional, organizational, and operational development from the American Revolution to the Gulf War.
  
  • HIST 5330 - Studies in the Vietnam War

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A study of political, military, economic and social issues resulting from American’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
  
  • HIST 5331 - Studies in the Classics of Military History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A readings seminar to introduce the classic works of military strategists, theorists, tacticians, and historians.
  
  • HIST 5333 - Studies in African-American History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Studies of African influences, racial ideas, slavery, and post-emancipation efforts to achieve civil and political rights, education, economic opportunity and the creation of social institutions.
  
  • HIST 5334 - Studies in Mexican-American History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An extensive reading program and sustained dialogue centering on Mexican-American history with emphasis on theoretical approaches and methods of historical inquiry.
  
  • HIST 5335 - Studies in U.S. Labor

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines trends and topics central to the history of U.S. labor and working-class studies.
  
  • HIST 5336 - Studies in American Sexuality

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines trends and topics central to the key debates in the history of American sexuality.
  
  • HIST 5337 - Studies in Modern U.S. Women’s History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A survey of significant literature and analysis of problems related to the study of women in American history.
  
  • HIST 5338 - Studies in American Social History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Reading, analysis, and critical reviews of pivotal works. Emphasis on varieties and impact of social history on topics such as family, community, race, gender, and work.
  
  • HIST 5339 - Studies in Ancient Greek History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Studies of selected topics in the political or intellectual history of ancient Greece based upon a study of sources, in translation if advisable.
  
  • HIST 5340 - Studies in Ancient Roman History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Studies of selected topics in the political or intellectual history of ancient Rome based upon a study of sources, in translation if advisable.
  
  • HIST 5341 - Studies in Medieval History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Study of selected topics in the intellectual history of the early and high middle ages. Individual reports discussed in a seminar situation.
  
  • HIST 5342 - Studies in Renaissance and Reformation History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Study of selected topics in the intellectual or religious history of the Renaissance or the Reformation. Individual reports discussed in a seminar situation.
  
  • HIST 5343 - Studies in Russian History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines key topics and debates in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union. May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.
  
  • HIST 5344 - Readings in European Nationalism

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Takes a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of European nationalism. Emphasizes historians’ contribution to this field. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • HIST 5345 - Studies in the History of Fascist and Related Right-Wing Movements in Europe

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines individually and collectively themes of nationalism, anti-Semitism, militarism, and anti-Marxism, chiefly in the period 1918-1945.
  
  • HIST 5346 - Studies in Modern European History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines the social, cultural, and political history of Europe from 1815 to the present.
  
  • HIST 5347 - Studies in British History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An organized studies course covering selected topics in British history. Topics vary according to the students’ needs.
  
  • HIST 5348 - Studies in Roman Law

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Topics in the historical development of classical Roman law. Designed to meet the needs of both law and graduate students.
  
  • HIST 5349 - Studies in Early Modern European History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Study of selected topics in the political, social, economic, religious and cultural history of Europe from the 15th to the 18th century.
  
  • HIST 5350 - Studies in African History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A survey of African history focusing on major problems of interpretation. Includes political, economic, religious, and cultural change; pre-colonial and colonial encounters.
  
  • HIST 5351 - Slavery in a World Perspective

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An examination of the main areas and epochs in which slavery institutions were central: Antiquity, Medieval Europe, Pre-Colonial Africa, the West Indies, and Southern U.S.
  
  • HIST 5352 - Studies in Asian History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Explores key themes in Asian history. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • HIST 5353 - Studies in the History of the U.S. Civil War

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduces students to the key themes and debates in the history of the American Civil War.
  
  • HIST 5354 - Studies in Modern Revolution

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Explores the causes, courses, and consequences of revolutionary movements in the modern era.
 

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