Syllabus/achievement requirements

Compendium (can be bought at the campus bookstore, bottom floor - please bring your student ID with you)

William H. Sewell jr., Theory, History, and Social Science, in: Idem, Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation, Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press 2005, 1-21

William H. Sewell jr., A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation, in: Idem, Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation, Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press 2005, 124-151

Ann Swidler, Talk of Love: How Culture Matters, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press 2001, 160-180 (ch. “Codes, Contexts, and Institutions”)

William Reddy, The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions, Cambridge: CUP 2001, 173-210

Patrick Finney, 'Introduction: what is international history?', in Palgrave Advances in International History, ed. Patrick Finney (London, 2005), pp. 1–35.

 

Electronic articles (accessible through the UiO network):

Bas van Bavel, Auke Rijpma, How important were formalized charity and social spending before the rise of the welfare state? A long-run analysis of selected western European cases, 1400-1850, in: Economic History Review 69, 1 (2016), 159-187

Craig Muldrew, Debt, Credit, and Poverty in Early Modern England, in: Ralph Brubaker, Robert M. Lawless, Charles J. Tabb, eds., A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Debt, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012, 9-35

Sarah Igo, From Main Street to Mainstream: Middletown, Muncie, and 'Typical America', in: Indiana Magazine of History 101, 3 (2005), 239-266

William Sewell jr., Historical Events as Transformations of Structures: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille, in: Theory and Society 25 (1996), 841-881

Zara Steiner, ‘On Writing International History: Chaps, Maps and Much More’, International Affairs, vol. 73, no. 3, (Jul., 1997), 531-46.

Patricia Clavin, "Time, Manner, Place. Writing Modern European History in Global, Transnational and International Contexts." European History Quarterly 40, no. 4 (2005): 624-40.

David Reynolds, From the Transatlantic to the Transnational: Reflections on the Changing Shape of International History, in: Diplomacy & Statecraft,  24(1), p.134-148  

Michael J. Hogan, 'The next big thing: the future of diplomatic history in a global age', Diplomatic History, 28 (1) (2004), 1–21

Martin Conway, 'The Rise and Fall of Western Europe's Democratic Age, 1945-1973’, Contemporary European History, vol. 13, no. 1 (2004), 67-88

Roland Burke, The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, in: Journal of Genocide Research 15.1 (2013), 103-106 (review article)

Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig, Human Rights and History, in: Past & Present 232, 1 (2016), pp. 279-310.

Mark Mazower, The Strange Triumph of Human Rights, 1933-1950, in: The Historical Journal 47 (2004), Nr. 2, pp 379-398.

K. Patel, “?Transnations’ among ‘Transnations’? The Debate on Transnational History in the United States and Germany,” Amerikastudien/American Studies 54, no. 3 (2009): 451–72. 22 pp.

I.Tyrrell, “Reflections on the transnational turn in United States history: theory and practice,” Journal of Global History 4, no. 3 (2009): 453–74. 22 pp.

B. Struck et al., “Introduction: Space and Scale in Transnational History,” International History Review 33, no. 4 (December 2011): 573–84. 12 pp.

A. Stoler, “Rethinking Colonial Categories: European Communities and the Boundaries of Rule,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 31, no. 1 (January 1989): 134–61. 28 pp.

P. Wolfe, “Land, Labor, and Difference: Elementary Structures of Race,” American Historical Review 106, no. 3 (June 2001): 866–905. 40 pp.

A. Zimmerman, “Africa in Imperial and Transnational History: Multi-Sided Historiography and the Necessity of Theory,” Journal of African History 54, no. 3 (November 2013): 331–40. 10 pp.

M. Weiner and B. Zimmerman, “Beyond Comparison: Histoire Croisée and the Challenge of Reflexivity,” History and Theory 45, no. 1 (February 2006): 30–50. 21 pp.

P. Sahlins, “The Nation in the Village: State-Building and Communal Struggles in the Catalan Borderland during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” Journal of Modern History 60, no. 2 (June 1988): 234–63. 30 pp.

E. Gould, “Entangled Histories, Entangled Worlds: The English-Speaking Atlantic as a Spanish Periphery,” American Historical Review 112, no. 3 (June 2007):764–86. 23 pp.

 

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