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Colloquium: Nation, Class, and Empire Course Description: This
course is designed to provide graduate students a foundation in some of
the central problems and historiographical
developments in nineteenth-century European history.
The readings encompass a range of forms of historical
enquiry, methodologies, and use of evidence. Topics discussed include
industrialization, class formation, nationalism and nation-building,
consumer culture, empire and imperialism, and modernization and
modernity. Course Requirements:
Students are required to attend and participate in each class
discussion, and to prepare a two to three page response paper for each
week’s readings. Response papers should address the points listed
below, and include three specific questions for class discussion.
Questions should be based on issues internal to that weeks reading or
on themes that tie the new material to points from previous classes. To
be considered on time, response papers must be turned in to my mailbox
in the history department office no later than Possible points for Discussion
in Response Papers: 1.
Author background (such as academic training, publications, or present
institution) 2.
Historical problem(s) addressed by the work 3.
Author’s thesis 4.
Sources 5.
Genre of history 6.
Significant finding(s) 7.
Ideological orientation / theoretical basis 8. Historiographic
contributions 9.
Strengths of the work 10.
Weaknesses of the work Required E. A. Wrigley, Continuity,
Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in William H. Sewell, Work and
Revolution in Dror Wahrman, Imagining the Middle
Class: the Political Representation of Class in Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (Cambridge University Press, 1992) Eugene Weber, Peasants into
Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Verso, 1991) Edward Said, Orientalism (Vintage, 1979) Carl E. Schorske,
Fin-de-Siecle And a selection of online articles – available through JSTOR and Strozier Online Reserves. Reserve
Grading: Written Response Papers: 30% Leading of class Discussion: 20% Participation and Attendance at Class Discussions: 50% Grade
Scale: A =
100-93
A- = 92-90 B+
= 89-87
B =
86-83
B- = 82-80
C = 79 and under Students with Disabilities Students with disabilities covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act should follow these steps: Provide documentation of your disability to
the 108 Student Services Building, attached to Parking Garage #2 Telephone: 644-9566; e-mail: website: from FSU home page, go to Current Students and then to Student Life and Resources Bring a statement from the Week-by-Week Schedule: Monday, 10 January General class introduction and administrative work and two introductory readings – Michael D. Bess, “E. P. Thompson: The Historian as Activist,” American Historical Review 98, 1(1993): 19-38. (on JSTOR) E. P. Thompson, “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century,” Past and Present 50 (February, 1971): 76-136 (on JSTOR)
17 January – Early Industrialization and Its Context E. A. Wrigley, Continuity, Chance and Change Patrick O'Brien, "European Economic Development: The Contribution of the Periphery," The Economic History Review 35 (1982), pp. 1-18. Robert S. DuPlessis, ‘The Partial Transition to World-Systems Analysis in Early Modern European History,’ Radical History Review 39 (1987), pp. 1-27 (distributed in class) Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (short selection, distributed in class) Week Three – 24 January – Contrasting Industrializations Ira Katznelson,
“Working Class Formation: Constructing Cases and Comparisons,” pp.3-41,
in Ira Katznelson and Aristide Zolber, eds. Working Class
Formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United
States ( Jurgen Kocka, “Problems of Working-Class Formation in E. P. Thompson, ‘Time, Work-discipline, and Industrial Capitalism’ Past and Present, 1967 (38): 56-97. (on JSTOR) Rondo Cameron and Charles Friedman, “French Economic Growth: A Racial Revision,” Social Science History 7, 1(1983): 3-30. (on JSTOR) Jack R. Censer, “Commencing the Third Century of Debate.” American Historical Review 94 (5) (1989): 1309-1325 (on JSTOR) Week Four – 31 January – French Industrialization William Sewell, Work and
Revolution in Week Five – 7 February – Gender and Class Identity Kathleen Canning, ‘Gender and the Politics of Class Formation: Rethinking German Labor History’ American Historical Review, 97 (3)1992: 736-768 (on JSTOR) Anna Clark, ‘The New Poor Law and the Breadwinner Wage: Contrasting Assumptions” Journal of Social History 34(2) 2000: 261-281 (Strozier Online Reserves) Louise Tilly, ‘Industrialization and Gender Inequality,’ pp. 243-310 in Adas, Michael, ed., Islamic and European Expansion (Temple Univ. Press, 1993)(Strozier Online Reserves) Catherine Hall, “Feminism and Feminist History,” in Catherine Hall, White, Male, and Middle Class: Explorations in Feminism and History (Routledge, 1992) Week Six – 14 February – The Middle Class Dror Wahrman, Imagining the Middle
Class: the Political Representation of Class in Week Seven – 21 February – Middle Class Culture and Consumption Jurgen Kocka, “The European Pattern and the German
Case,” pp. 3-39 in Jurgen Kocka and Allen Mitchell, eds., Bourgeois
Society in Nineteenth-Century
Victoria de Grazia, Introduction, in Victoria de Grazia and Ellen Furlough, eds., The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective (University of California Press, 1996) (distributed in class) Warren Breckman,
“Disciplining Consumption: The Debate about Luxury in Wilhelmine Erika Rappaport,
“A Husband and His Wife’s Dresses: Consumer Credit and the Debtor
Family in
Leora Auslander, ‘The Gendering of Consumer Practices in Nineteenth-Century France,’ pp. 79-112, in de Grazia/Furlough, eds., The Sex of Things (Stozier Online Reserves) Week Eight – 28 February – Nationalism and Nation-building Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780 Week Nine - Week Ten – 14 March – Regional and National Identities Eugene Weber, Peasants into
Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural Week Eleven – 21 March – Comparative Regional Identities Celia Applegate, “A Keely Stauter-Halsted, “Rural Myths and the Modern
Nation: Peasant Commemorations of Polish National Holidays, 1879-1910,”
pp. 153-177, in Maria Bucur and Nancy Wingfield, eds., Staging the Past:
The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Jean Quataert,
‘The Politics of Rural Industrialization: Class, Gender, and Collective
Protest in the Saxon Oberlausitz of the
Late Nineteenth Century’ Central European History 20,
2(1987): 91-124. (Strozer Online Reserves)
Eric Wolf, introduction, in Europe and the People Without History (University of California Press, 1992), pp. 3-23. (Strozier Online Reserves)
Week Twelve – 28 March – Nation, Empire and Identity Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism Week Thirteen – 4 April – Empires & Imperialism Michael Adas, ‘“High” Imperialism and the “New” History,’ pp. 311-344, in Adas, ed., Islamic and European Expansion: The Forging of a Global Order (Temple Univ. Press, 1993) (Strozier Online Reserves) John M. McKenzie, “European Imperialism: Comparative Approaches.” European History Quarterly 22 (1992): 415-429 (Strozier Online Reserves)
Margaret Strobel, “Gender, Sex, and Empire” in Adas, ed., Islamic and European Expansion Ann Laura Stoler,
“Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the
Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Rosalind O’Hanlon and David Washbrook, ‘After Orientalism:
Culture, Criticism and Politics in the
Week Fourteen – 11 April – Said and Orientalism Edward Said, Orientalism Week Fifteen – 18 April – Fin-de-Siecle and the Modern Carl E. Schorske,
Fin-de-Siecle Michael Roth, ‘Performing History: Modernist Contextualism in Carle Schorske’s Fin-de-Siecle Vienna’ American Historical Review 99 3(1994): 729-745 (on JSTOR)
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