Pensum/læringskrav

1. History, capitalism, class

€ Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1867), pp. 14-66. PDF available at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ (52 p.)

* E.P. Thompson, “The Radical Culture” in The Making of the English Working Class (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981), pp. 781-820 (39 p.)

* Douglas Hay, Property, Authority, and the Criminal Law, in Hay, Linebaugh, Rule, Thompson og Winslow, Albion’s Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England  (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1977), pp. 17-63 (46 p.)

* Joan Scott, Women in The Making of the English Working Class, in Gender and the Politics of History, pp. 68–90 (22p.)

(Total 159 p.)

 

2. History and sociology

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (entire book, c. 150 pages plus notes) (150 p.)

* Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 1989), pp. 27-56 (pt. 2"The social structure of the public sphere") (29 p.)

* Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP 1984, pp. 99-101, 169-75, 208-225, 230-44 (51 p.)

(Total 220 p.)

 

3. History and globalization

* Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, Vol. I, The Structures of Everyday Life (London: Collins, 1985), “The Spread of Technology: Revolution and Delays”, pp. 385-435 (50 p.)

* Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System, Vol. 1: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century (New York/London: Academic Press, 1974), ”The European World-Economy: Periphery Versus External Arena”, pp. 300-344 (45 p.)

* Jürgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014), pp. 637 – 672 (36 p.)

* Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 114-165 (51 p.)

(Total 182 p.)

 

4. History and anthropology

* Robert Darnton, Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Séverin, in The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985), pp. 75-104 + noter på side 270-272

Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1983), pp. 1-125 (plus notes) (125 p.)

(Total 150 p.)

 

5. History and language

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. I: An Introduction (New York: Vintage Books, 1990) (160 s.)

* Arlette Farge, Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994), pp. 22-53 (31 p.)

€ Joan Scott, “Experience”, in Judith Butler and Joan Scott (eds.), Feminists Theorize the Political (London/N.Y.: Routledge, 1992), pp. 22-40 (PDF available online at https://conceptsinsts.wikispaces.com/file/view/Joan+Scott+Experience.pdf (19 p.)

(Total 210 p.)

          

6. History and post-colonialism

* Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1980), pp. 31–73 (42 p.)

* Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, ), pp. 27 – 71 (44 p.)

 

(Total 86 p.)

 

Total sum 1007 pages

Published June 8, 2015 4:41 PM