Syllabus
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Week |
Lecture (for lecture recordings see Moodle) |
Seminar Topics/Links to weekly readings |
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Part I: History Writing in Modernity: Grand Narratives of Human Reason and the Progress of Civilisation (for lecture recordings see Moodle) All lectures will take place on Tuesdays, 09.00 - 10.00 am, in FAB 0.08 |
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| 1 |
Introduction Aditya Sarkar |
There are no texts for the week 1 seminar: this will be an introductory session |
| 2 |
History Writing in the Enlightenment: Purpose and Practice Charles Walton |
History Writing in the Enlightenment: Purpose and Practices |
| 3 |
History Writing as an Art or a Science? Or Both? 19-Century Views in Germany and Britain Aditya Sarkar |
History Writing as an Art or a Science? Or Both? 19-Century Views in Germany and Britain |
| 4 |
History as Class Struggle Aditya Sarkar |
History as Class Struggle |
| 5 |
Total History? The Annales School and the Rise of Social History Charles Walton |
Total History? The Annales School and the Rise of Social History |
| 6 | READING WEEK | |
| 7 |
The Rise of the New Social History: Socialist Humanism and Feminist History of the 1960s and 1970 Aditya Sarkar |
The Rise of the New Social History: Socialist Humanism and Feminist History of the 1960s and 1970 |
| Part II: History Writing in Post-Modernity: Challenging History's ‘Grand Narratives’ | ||
| 8 |
The Past is a ‘Foreign Land’: Microhistory and the ‘Ethnographic Turn’ Aditya Sarkar |
The Past is a 'Foreign Land' Foreign Land: Microhistory and the 'Ethnographic Turn' |
| 9 |
Literary Criticism and the ‘Linguistic turn’ Aditya Sarkar |
Literary Criticism and the 'Linguistic Turn' |
| 10 |
Power/Knowledge and the Human Subject in History: Michel Foucault Aditya Sarkar |
Power/Knowledge and the Human Subject in History: Michel Foucault |