Seminar in Historical Methods

Bynum, Caroline Walker. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780520063297.

Davis, Natalie. The Return of Martin Guerre . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780674766914.

Demos, John. The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America . New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1995. ISBN: 9780679759614.

Hunt, Lynn, et al. Telling the Truth About History . New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company, 1995. ISBN: 9780393312867.

Lee, James Z., and Wang Feng. One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000 . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780674007093.

Lewis, C. S. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature . Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780521477352.

Krech, Shepard. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History . New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company, 2000. ISBN: 9780393321005.

SES #: 2 · TOPICS: Narrative and History · READINGS: The Return of Martin Guerre.

SES #: 3 · TOPICS: Narrative and History (cont.) · READINGS: The Unredeemed Captive.

Braudel, Fernand. Mediterranean. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1992. ISBN: 9780060159580. (selections)

Hexter, J. H. “Fernand Braudel and the Monde Braudellien.” Journal of Modern History 44 (1972): 480-539.

Extra Reading if Interested

Hufton, Olwen. “Fernand Braudel.” Past and Present no. 112 (August, 1986): 208-213.

TOPICS: Individual meetings to review research proposals · READINGS: none

SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Gender and History · READINGS: Holy Feast, Holy Fast. pp. 1-186 (and distribute part III amongst the class).

The Discarded Image .

Cantor, Norman. “The Oxford Fantasists.” In Inventing the Middle Ages . New York: W. Morrow, 1991.

Dower, John. “Race, Language, and War in Two Cultures.” In Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays. New York: New Press, 1993.

Jacobs, Meg. “How About Some Meat?: The Office of Price Administration, Consumption Politics, and State Building from the Bottom Up, 1941-1946.” Journal of American History 84, no. 3 (1997).

McCants, Anne. “The Not-So-Merry Widows of Amsterdam, 1740-1782.” Journal of Family History 24, no. 4 (1999).

Perdue, Peter. “Empire and Nation in Comparative Perspective: Frontier Administration in 18th c China.” Journal of Early Modern History 5, no. 4 (2001).

Ravel, Jeff. “The Coachman’s Bare Rump: an 18th French Cover-up.” Unpublished manuscript, 2003.

Ritvo, Harriet. “Race, Breed, and Myths of Origin: Chillingham Cattle as Ancient Britons.” Representations 39 (Summer, 1992).

Telling the Truth About History .

Tilly, Charles. “How (and What) are Historians Doing?” In American Behavioral Scientist , July–August 1990. pp. 685-711.

SES #: 9 · TOPICS: Environment and History · READINGS: The Ecological Indian. pp. 9-104, and 145-189.

SES #: 11 · TOPICS: Demography and History · READINGS: One Quarter of Humanity.

Darnton, Robert. The Great Cat Massacre. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1985. ISBN: 9780394729275.

Mah, Harold. “Suppressing the Text: The Metaphysics of Ethnographic History in Darnton’s Great Cat Massacre.” History Workshop 31 (Spring, 1991).

Hegel, G. W. F., George W. F. Reason in History. Prentice Hall, 1953.

Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II . University of California Press, 1996. [The book was originally published in French in 1949; the 1996 version is an English language reprint.]

Foucault, Michel. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. [The book was initially published in French in 1975; the 1995 version is an English language reprint.]

WEEK #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction · READINGS: Ash, Timothy Garton. “On the Frontier.” New York Review of Books (7 November 2002): 60-1.

Davis, Natalie Zemon. “Introduction.” In Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France. Stanford: 1987, pp. 1-6. (To be distributed in class.)

Starn, Randolph. “Truths in the Archives.” Common Knowledge 8 (Spring 2002): 387-401.

WEEK #: 3 · READINGS: None

Hegel, G. W. F. Reason in History, pp. 3-95.

Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution, pp. 195-209. [First published in 1837]

Michelet, Jules. History of the French Revolution. Translated by Charles Cocks, pp. 161-80. [First published in French in 1847]

Rudé, Georges. The Crowd in the French Revolution, pp. 45-60. [First published in 1959]

Amalvi, Christian. “Bastille Day: From Dies Irae to Holiday.” In Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past. Vol 3. Under the direction of Pierre Nora. English language edition edited and with a foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Edited by Pierre Nora, pp. 117-59. [First published in Frenchca. 1990]

Smith, Henry Nash. “The Myth of the Garden and Turner’s Frontier Hypotheses.” In Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. 1950, pp. 291-305.

Hofstadter, Richard. “The Frontier as an Explanation.” In The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington. 1968, pp. 118-64.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. “Introduction.” In The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. 1987, pp. 17-32.

WEEK #: 9 · TOPICS: The Longue Durée . · READINGS: Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean. Vol. I, pp. 13-53, 168-230, 295-312, 394-418. (and skim the rest!)

WEEK #: 10 · TOPICS: Micro-Technologies of Power · READINGS: Foucault, Michel. Discipline & Punish, pp. 3-228, 293-308.

WEEK #: 11 · READINGS: None

Darnton, Robert. “The Great Cat Massacre.” In The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History .

Mah, Harold. “Suppressing the Text: The Metaphysics of Ethnographic History in Darnton’s Great Cat Massacre.” History Workshop 31 (Spring 1991): 1-20.

Hegel, G. W. F. Reason in History.

Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II.

Foucault, Michel. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison.

Appy, Christian. Working-Class War. Chapel Hill, 1993.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. New York, 1983.

Davis, Natalie Zemon. Fiction in the Archives. Stanford, 1987.

Demos, John. Unredeemed Captive. New York, 1994.

Kolchin, Peter. Unfree Labor. Cambridge, 1987.

Maza, Sara. Private Lives and Public Affairs. Berkeley, 1993.

Thompson, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class. New York, 1963.

Williams, Raymond. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. New York, 1976, 1983.

Williams, Raymond. Keywords. Introduction (26 pp.) and 15 entries (especially recommended: history, culture, art, industry, democracy, civilization, class, educated, work).

Hunt, Lynn. “The Rhetoric of Revolution.” In Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution. Pp. 19-51.

Fraser, Nancy, and Linda Gordon. “A Genealogy of Dependency : Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State.” Signs 19, 2 (1994).

White, Hayden. “The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality.” In The Content of the Form. Pp. 1-25.

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. “The October Revolution of 1917 in Russia.” Excerpts from The Russian Revolution. Pp. 40-67.

Trotsky, Leon. The Russian Revolution. Pp. 304-335.

Brower, Daniel, ed. The Russian Revolution. Pp. 40-48, 57-81. (Selections by John Keep, “Revolution in the Factories”; Marc Ferro, “Citizen-Soldiers in the Revolutionary Struggle”; I. I. Mints, “Lenin’s Revolutionary Leadership”; Robert Daniels, “The Unpredictable Revolution.”)

Pipes, Richard. Three Why’s of the Russian Revolution. Pp. 31-62.

Ginzburg, Carlo. “The Inquisitor as Anthropologist,” and “Witchcraft and Popular Piety: Notes on a Modenese Trial of 1519.” In Clues, Myths, and The Historical Method. Baltimore, 1992, pp. 1-16, 156-164.

Davis, Natalie Zemon. Fiction in the Archives. Pp. 1-114, 141-42.

LEC #: 5 · TOPICS: Evidence From The Physical World · READINGS: Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. Pp. vii-x, 3-156.

LEC #: 6 · TOPICS: Voice and Historical Subject · READINGS: Demos, John. Unredeemed Captive. Preface, pp. 3-198, 237-41.

LEC #: 7 · TOPICS: Oral History · READINGS: Appy, Christian. Working-Class War. Pp. 1-85, 117-44, 206-49, 298-321.

LEC #: 8 · TOPICS: Macro-Historical Structures · READINGS: Thompson, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class . Pp. 9-13 (Preface), 17-76, 102-85, 269-314 (“The Weavers”), 711-46.

Maza, Sara. Private Lives and Public Affairs. Pp. 1-17, 167-211 (“Diamond Necklace Affair”).

Mah, Harold. “Suppressing the Text: The Metaphysics of Ethnographic History in Darnton’s Great Cat Massacre.” History Workshop 31 (Spring 1991): 1-20.

Chartier, Roger. “Text, Symbols, and Frenchness.” Journal of Modern History 57 (1985): 682-95.

LeCapra, Dominick. “Chartier, Darnton, and The Great Symbol Massacre.” Journal of Modern History 60 (1988): 95-112.

LEC #: 10 · TOPICS: Comparative History · READINGS: Kolchin, Peter. Unfree Labor. Pp. ix-xiii, 1-102. Plus one further chapter (to be divided among the class).

Wood, Elizabeth A. “The Trial of Lenin: Legitimating the Revolution Through Political Theater, 1920-1923.” Russian Review (April 2002): 1-15.

Tucker, Robert C. “Stalin, Bukharin, and History as Conspiracy.” In The Great Purge Trial. Edited by Tucker. New York, 1965, pp. ix-xlviii.

Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror. 1990, pp. 341-98.

Cohen, Stephen F. Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution. Pp. 372-81.

LEC #: 13 · TOPICS: Memory and History, Part I · READINGS: Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Beacon Press, 1995 (entire).