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A Global History of Architecture Writing Seminar

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2008

This course will study the question of Global Architecture from the point of view of producing a set of lectures on that subject. The course will be run in the form of a writing seminar, except that students will be asked to prepare for the final class an hour-long lecture for an undergraduate survey course. During the semester, students will study the debates about where to locate "the global" and do some comparative analysis of various textbooks. The topic of the final lecture will be worked on during the semester. For that lecture, students will be asked to identify the themes of the survey course, and hand in the bibliography and reading list for their lecture.

Readings

  • Mazlish, Bruce, and Ralph Buultjens, eds. Conceptualizing Global History . Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780974369235.
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  • Gills, Barry, and William Thompson, eds. Globalization and Global History . New York, NY: Routledge, 2006, chapters 1-2. ISBN: 9780415701365.
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  • Fuglestad, Finn. The Ambiguities of History: The Problem of Ethnocentrism in Historical Writing . Oslo, Norway: Oslo Academic Press, 2005. ISBN: 9788274772045.
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  • Jarzombek, Mark. “A Prolegomenon to Critical Historiography.” In The Psychologizing of Modernity: Art, Architecture and History . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780521582384. Also in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58, no. 4 (December 1999): 488-493.
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  • Bergdoll, Barry. European Architecture 1750-1890 . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780192842220.
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  • Canizares-Esguerra, Jorge, and Erik Seeman, eds. The Atlantic in Global History: 1500-2000 . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. ISBN: 9780131927148.
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  • Trachtenberg, Marvin, and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN: 9780810906075.
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  • Kostof, Spiro. A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780195083798.
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  • Scully, Vincent. Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade . New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780312062927.
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  • Stavrianos, Leften. A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN: 9780139238970.
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  • Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History . 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007. ISBN: 9780132250672.
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  • Elkins, James, ed. Is Art History Global ? New York, NY: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415977852.
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  • Dussel, Enrique. “Beyond Eurocentrism: The World-System and the Limits of Modernity.” In The Cultures of Globalization . Edited by Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780822321699.
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  • Preiswork, Roy, and Dominique Perrot. Ethnocentrism and History: Africa, Asia, and Indian America in Western Textbooks . New York, NY: NOK Publishers, 1978. ISBN: 9780883570715.
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  • Baudet, E. H. P. Paradise on Earth: Some Thoughts on European Images of Non-European Man . Translated by Elizabeth Wentholt. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965.
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  • Rüsen, Jörn. “How to Overcome Ethnocentrism: Approaches to a Culture of Recognition by History in the Twenty-First Century.” History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History 43 (2004): 118-129.
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  • Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: A World History . New York, NY: Penguin, 2003. ISBN: 9780142001615.
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  • Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed . New York, NY: Penguin, 2005. ISBN: 9780143036555.
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  • Esherick, Joseph. Empire to Nation. Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World . London, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. ISBN: 9780742540316.
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  • Inikori, Joseph. “Africa and the Globalization Process: Western Africa, 1450-1850.” Journal of Global History 2, no. 1 (2007): 63-86.
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  • Thompson, Andrew. The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Longman, 2005. ISBN: 9780582438293.
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  • Topik, Steven, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, eds. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780822337669.
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  • Vink, Markus. “Indian Ocean Studies and the ‘New Thalassology’.” Journal of Global History 2 (2007): 41-62.
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  • Jackson, Peter. The Mongols and the West, 1221-1410 . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Longman, 2005. ISBN: 9780582368965.
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  • Prange, Sebastian. “‘Trust in God, but Tie Your Camel First.’ The Economic Organization of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade Between the Fourteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” Journal of Global History 1 (2006): 219-239.
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  • Gills, Barry, and William Thompson, eds. Globalization and Global History . New York, NY: Routledge, 2006, chapters 8-9. ISBN: 9780415701365.
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