CATALOG 1952-1953


 HY. 452.-The New South. 3 hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: 12 hours of
 social sciences including HY. 245-246. Offered 2.
 The South from the Civil War to the present; the impact of the Civil War and
 Reconstruction; Bourbons and populists; agriculture and industry, society and culture;
 twentieth century politics.
 HY. 459 (Identical with PCL. 409).-American Foreign Policy. 3 hours.
 3 credits. Prerequisite: 12 hours of social sciences including HY. 245-246 OR
 PCL. 309-310. Not offered 1952-53.
 The United States in world affairs. Analysis of American foreign policy, past and
present, in order to bring out the basic policies and the forces behind these policies.
 HY. 472.-Mexico and the Caribbean Area. 3 hours. 3 credits. Prerequi-
site: 12 hours of social sciences including HY. 371-372. Offered 2.
 The Spanish and Indian background; the Caribbean approach to Mexico. The
conquest of Mexico; people and institutions of the colonial period; the wars of inde-
pendence; the achievement of nationality; the Poriferan dictatorship; the Mexican
Revolution; the Caribbean area today.
 HY. 474.-The Plata Region. 3 hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: 12 hours
of social sciences including HY. 371-372. Not offered 1952-53.
 The Plata region from the colonial period to the present; Spanish influences;
independence; the rise of modern Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay; the age of
Rosas; the struggle for popular government; the Argentine design for hegemony.
 HY. 475.-History of Brazil. 3 hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: 12 hours of
social sciences including HY. 371-372. Offered 1.
 Colonial background, racial factors, influence of Portugal; the empire, republican
movements and the New State.
 HY. 476.-The Andean Republics. 3 hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: 12
hours of social science including HY. 371-372. Offered 2.
 Ancient civilizations of the Andes; the viceroyalty of Peru; independence; the rise
of Chile, Peru, Boliva, Ecuador, and Colombia; the Andean republics today.
 HY. 477.-Current Latin-American Problems. 3 hours. 3 credits. Prerequi-
site: 12 hours of social science including HY. 371-372. Offered 2.
 Race and society; Indianism; latifundism; economic colonialism; church and state;
the ideological conflict and struggle for hegemony.
 HY. 481.-The Early Modern Far East. 3 hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite:
12 hours of social science including HY. 201-202. Offered 1.
 The institutions of the Chinese and Japanese states. Analysis of the Manchu Em-
pire and the Tokugawa Shogunate; the contact and conflict between China, Japan and
the Western world. The beginnings of Westernization in China and Japan. The
Russian Empire in Asia.
 HY. 482.-The Modern Far East. 3 hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: 12 hours
of social science including HY. 201-202. Offered 2.
 The rise of Japan as the pre-eminent power in Eastern Asia; the collapse of the
Chinese Empire and the rise of the Chinese Republic. Nationalism and Communism
in China. Nationalism and Fascism in Japan; the end of the Japanese Empire. The
conflict and clash of Western interests in Asia. The role of the United States in the
Far East.


The statement "Offered 1" means offered first semester; 2, second semester; 3, summer session.