| 1 | Introduction | Tilly, Charles. "How (and What) are Historians Doing?" In American Behavioral Scientist , July–August 1990. Pp. 685-711. | | 2 | The Annales School: Origins and Establishment | Core Reading
Bloch, Marc. "The Advent and Triumph of the Water Mill." In Land and Work in Medieval Europe. London: Routledge, 1967. Pp. 136-68.
Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. 25-138, 246-67, 418-60, 543-70, 734-57, and 1088-1106.
Supplementary
Burke, Peter. The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1929-1989. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Stoianovitch, Traian. French Historical Method: The Annales Paradigm. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1976.
Fink, Carole. Marc Bloch: A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Febvre, Lucien. A New Kind of History. New York: Harper and Row, 1973. (Collected writings)
Bloch, Marc. Feudal Society; The Historian's Craft. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy. Montaillou. New York: George Braziller, 1978.
Journal of Modern History. (1972/12). Special issue on Braudel [PCP3]. | | 3 | Labor History; Class as a Historical Category | Core Reading
Thompson, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class. New York: Vintage Books, 1966. Preface, 1-54, 189-212, 331-400, 429-447, and 779-832.
Elizabeth J. Perry, Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. Pp. 1-31, 65-87, 131-66, and 239-58.
Supplementary
Keyssar, Alex. Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Gutman, Herbert. Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America. New York: Vintage Books, 1977.
Gordon, Andrew. The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Hershatter, Gail. Flying Hammers, Walking Chisels: The Workers of Tianjin (China). Stanford, CA; Stanford University Press, 1986. | | 4 | Race, Culture, and War | Core Reading
Dower, John. "Race, Language and War in Two Cultures.", and "Fear and Prejudice in U.S.-Japan Relations." In Japan in War & Peace: Selected Essays. New York: New Press, 1993. Pp.257-335.
Genovese, Eugene. Roll Jordan Roll. New York: Vintage Books, 1976. Pp. 1-112, 162-93, 255-79, and 588-612.
Supplementary
Field, Barbara. "Racial Ideology in American History." In Region, Race, Ideology: Festschrift for C.Vann Woodward. Edited by J. Morgan Kousser and James M. McPherson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. 143-177.
White, Landeg. Magomero: Portrait of an African Village. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Frederickson, George. Racism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. | | 5 | Women's History; Gender and Textiles | Core Readings
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife's Tale. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. Pp. 3-134.
———. The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth. New York: Knopf, 2001. Pp. 12-40, and 76-107.
Bray, Francesca. Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. 173-273.
Supplementary
Scott, Joan. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. 15-50. | | 6 | Global History: Economic and Environmental | Core Reading
Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Supplementary
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Extremes:A History of the World, 1914-91. New york: Vintage Books, 1996.
McNeill, William. The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983.
———. Plagues and Peoples. New York: Anchor Books, 1989.
Pomeranz, Kenneth, and Steven Topik. The World that Trade Created. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. New York: vintage Books, 1989.
Braudel, Fernand. Capitalism and Material Life, 1500-1800. New York: Harper Colophon, 1975. (3 vols. - epecially look at volume 1)
Tilly, Charles. Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1984. (Reviews and critiques some of the above works)
Journal of World History. (Scan a few articles and reviews)
Wolf, Eric. Europe and the People Without History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997.
Chaudhuri, K. N. Asia Before Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Reid, Anthony. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. (2 volumes) | | 7 | Historical Demography | Core Readings
Lee, James Z., and Wang Feng. One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Myths and Chinese Realities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Supplementary
Flinn, M. W. The European Demographic System. Baltimore: JohnsHopkins University Press, 1981.
Livi-Bacci, Massimo. Population and Nutrition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
McCants, Anne. Civic Charity in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. | | 8 | The New Cultural History[1]: Microhistory | Core Readings
Darnton, Robert. The Great Cat Massacre. New York: Vintage Books, 1985. Pp. 3-107.
Geertz, Clifford. "Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." In The Interpretation of Cultures. London: Fontana Press, 1993. Pp. 412-453.
Kuhn, Philip. Soulstealers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Supplementary
Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy. Montaillou. New York: George Braziller, 1978.
Hunt, Lynn, ed. The New Cultural History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. (Especially the chapter by Alberta Bierstadt)
Clifford, James. "Identity in Mashpee." In The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms. London: Penguin, 1992.
Spence, Jonathan. The Death of Woman Wang. New York: Penguin Books, 1979. | | 9 | Environmental History | [Taught by William Turkel]
Core Reading
McNeill, John R. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.
Supplementary
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
Crosby, Alfred. Ecological Imperialism. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Worster, Donald. Rivers of Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
White, Richard. The Middle Ground. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
"A Round Table: Environmental History." Journal of American History, (1990/3). | | 10 | The New Cultural History [2]: Post-modern and Post-structural Approaches to the Representation of Space | Core Reading
Mitchell, Timothy. Colonising Egypt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. 1-33, and 161-179.
Kotkin, Stephen. Magnetic Mountain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. 106-197.
Winichakul, Thongchai. Siam Mapped. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1991. Pp. 163-185.
Supplementary
Rabinow, Paul. French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. | | 11 | New Military History, in Print and on Film | Core Reading
Keegan, John. The Face of Battle. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1988.
Burns, Ken. The Civil War. [Video]; or Henry V. [Olivier and Branagh versions]
Supplementary
Toplin, Robert B., ed. Ken Burns "The Civil War": The Historians Respond. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. | | 12 | Historical Memory and History Wars | Core Reading
Linenthal, Edward, and Tom Engelhardt, eds. History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1996.
Supplementary
Hein, Laura, and Mark Selden. Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000. | | 13 | History and Fiction | Ghosh, Amitav. In an Antique Land.
Goitein, S. D. A Mediterranean society: An Abridgment in One Volume. Berkeley, 1999. Pp. xi-xvii, 9-68, and 240-247. | | 14 | Frontiers in History | Turner, Frederick J. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." American Historical Review 16 (January 1911): 217-233.
Lattimore, Owen. Studies in Frontier History: Collected Papers, 1928-1958. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Pp. 11-31, 97-118, 165-179, and 469-491.
Bush, Vannevar. Science: The Endless Frontier. New York: Arno Press, 1980. Pp. 5-9.
Williams, Rosalind. "The Expansive Disintegration of Engineering." Chapter 2 in Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. 29-89
Perdue, Peter C. "From Turfan to Taiwan: Trade and War on Two Chinese Frontiers." In Frontiers Through Space and Time. Edited by Bradley Parker, and Lars Rodseth. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press forthcoming. | | 15 | Where are Historians Going? The Future of the History Profession | Core Reading
Look back at Charles Tilly's article, "How and What are Historians Doing," and compare it to the following:
Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth About History. New York: Norton, 1994.
Supplementary
"AHR Forum: The Old History and the New." Articles by Theodore Hamerow, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Lawrence Levine, Joan Scott, John Toews in American Historical Review (June 1989).
Novick, Peter. "That Noble Dream." Symposium on Peter Novick's book in American Historical Review (Last chapter.) |
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