HIS4235 Syllabus Spring 2020
Use your UiO username and password to log in here in order to access the compendium.
Artikler/kapitler på nett
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso 2016 (first 1983), 1-36 (available online).
E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, London: Penguin 2013 (first 1963), 9-14.
William Sewell, “How Classes are Made: Critical Reflections on E. P. Thompson's Theory of Working-class Formation,” in Harvey J. Kaye, Keith McClelland, eds., E.P. Thompson: Critical Perspectives, Philadelphia: Temple University Press 1990, 50-77 (available online).
Partha Chatterjee, “Whose Imagined Community?” in The Nation and its Fragments. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993, 3-13 (available online).
Idem, “Unanswered Questions,” American Historical Review 113, 5 (2008), 1422-1430.
Ben Griff, "Hegemonic Masculinity as a Historical Problem," Gender & History 30 (2018), 377–400.
Peter K. Andersson, “‘Bustling, crowding, and pushing’: pickpockets and the nineteenth-century street crowd,” Urban History 41, 2 (2014), 291-310.
Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life”, in: Richard Sennett, ed., Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities, Englewood-Cliffs: Prentice-Hall 1969, 47-60 (available online).
Peter Bailey,” Conspiracies of Meaning: Music-Hall and the Knowingness of Popular Culture,” Past and Present 144 (1994), 138-170.
Marcel van Linden, "The Promise and Challenges of Global Labor History,” International Labor and Working-Class History 82 (2012), 57-76.
Judith R. Walkowitz, “Going Public: Shopping, Street Harassment, and Streetwalking in Late Victorian London,” Representations 62 (1998), 1-30.
Mona Harb and Lara Deeb, “Contesting Urban Modernity: Moral Leisure in Urban Beirut,” European Journal of European Culture 16 (2013), 725-44.
Richard A. Peterson, “Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music,” Popular Music 9, 1 (1990), 97-116.
Sarah Igo, From Main Street to Mainstream: Middletown, Muncie, and “Typical America”, Indiana Magazine of History 101, 3 (2005), 239-266.
Jonathan Ira Levy,” Contemplating Delivery: Futures Trading and the Problem of Commodity Exchange in the United States, 1875-1905,” American Historical Review 111, 2 (2006), 307-335.
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib, “The Material Life of the Ottoman Middle Class,” History Compass 10 (2012), 584-95. [https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-0542.2012.00866.x]
BONUS TRACK: Mark Grief, “The Hipster in the Mirror,” The New York Times
Artikler samlet i kompendium
* Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 1989, 27-56 (pt. 2 "The social structure of the public sphere"). + NOTES
* Antoine Prost, Intro + “The Family and the Individual,” in A History of Private Life, vol. 5, general eds., Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1998, 3-7, 51-102 + NOTES.
* Mary Ann Fay, “From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-Style Nuclear Family,” in Family History in the Middle East, ed., Beshara Doumani. Albany: State University of New York Press 2003, 77-97 + NOTES.
* Matt Stahl, Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work, Duke: Durham University Press 2013, 143-182, 254-261 (notes).
* Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History. London: Penguin 2015 (first 2014), 175-198 (ch. “Mobilizing Industrial Labor”), 500-506 (notes).
* Ann Swidler, Talk of Love: How Culture Matters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2000, 160-180 (ch. “Codes, Contexts, and Institutions”), 257-261 (notes).
* Daniel Miller, “Shopping as Lovemaking,” in The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader, eds. Amin and Thrift. London: Blackwell 2004, 251-65.
* Shirine Hamadeh, “Creating the Traditional City: A French Project,” in Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise, ed., Nezar AlSayyad. Aldershots: Avebury 1992, 241-59.
* Karl Hagstrom Miller, Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow. Durham: Duke UP 2010, 157-186 (ch. Talking Machine World), 306-311 (notes).