Modern Historiography

(2 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This module will address the topics: What was distinctive about the contribution of the Annales School to European historiography, and Was the Annales School an essentially French phenomenon, or were their ideas and approaches exported to an anglophone historical world. It will also address debates in historiographical trends related to political history (institutional vs narrative approaches), intellectual history (Cambridge School, LaCapra, Koselleck, Global Intellectual History), and topics in legal history, focussing on the American colonial transition from indentured to slave labor.