Pensum/læringskrav

1. History, capitalism and Marxism

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. 8-16 (prefaces), pp. 781-820 (48 p.)

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

*L. Boltanski and È. Chiapello, The New Spirit of Capitalism (London: Verso, 2005), 167–215 (ch 3: “1968: Crisis and Revival of Capitalism”) (49 pp.)

(Total 171 p.)

2. History and sociology

M. Weber, “The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism” in From Max Weber, ed. H Gerth and C Mills (1946), 302–22 (21 pp.)

*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 101 p.)

3. History and anthropology

C. Geertz, “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture,” in Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books, 1973), 3–30 (28 pp.)

*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 184 p.)

4. 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.)

* 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.)

R. Kelley, “ʻBut a Local Phase of a World Problem’: Black History's Global Vision, 1883–1950,” Journal of American History 86/3 (Dec. 1999): 1045–77 (33 pp.)

(Total 179 p.)

5. History and language

Q. Skinner, “Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas,” History and Theory 8/1 (1969): 3–53

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.)

(Total 242 p.)

6. History and post-colonialism

Edward Said, “Introduction” in Edward Said: Orientalism (London: Penguin, 1985) (28 p) (available in Fronter)

Talal Asad, “Conscripts of Western Civilization” in C. W. Gailey (ed.): Dialectal Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Stanley Diamond. (University Press of Florida, 1992)  (17 p)

Ranajit Guha, "Prose of Counterinsurgency" in Guha and Spivak (eds.): Selected Subaltern Studies. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988)(38 p)

D. Chakrabarty, “Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change,” New Literary History 43/1 (Winter 2012): 1–18 (18 pp.)

(Total 101 p.)

Total sum 978 pages