SocialHistory:Schools,MethodsandCaseStudies

CentralEuropeanUniversity,BudapestFall2006

ConstantinIordachiDepartmentofHistoryIordachinc@ceu.hu

Overview:

ThepivotofmanynoveldevelopmentsinEuropeanandAmericanhistoriographyinthelastdecades,socialhistoryhasevolvedasaseparatefieldofhistoricalinquiry,becoming institutionalized in new academic departments, research institutes andspecializing journals, such as Journal of Social History, the International Review of Social History, Past and Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History,Geschichte und Gesellschaft, etc. During the time, social history has become verydiverse,coveringamultitudeoftheoreticalstances,methodologicalpractices,and subdisciplines. These include the history of social categories andsocial organization, ofwork,oftowns,ofpeasants,ofthefamily,ofchildren,ofconsumption,ofpoverty,ofsexandgender,ofmedicine,ofmentalits,ofdemography,ofcrime,ofpopularculture,etc.

It is therefore not surprising that no standard definition of social history hasgainedunanimousscholarlyacceptance.Somehistoriansdefineitnegatively,inordertoemphasizewhatsocialhistoryisnot(i.e.historywiththepoliticsleftout),whileothersunderlineitsinclusivecharacter,definingsocialhistorypositivelyastotalhistory,andnotjustthestudyofpolitics.Itis,however,commonlyacceptedthattheriseofsocialhistory has been intrinsically linked to the development of behaviouralism, with itscliometricianandquantitativeapproachesandthegrowinginteractionbetweenhistoryandtheneighboringfieldsofanthropology,literarystudies,psychology,sociologyandpolitical science. The practice of social history encompasses a shift of interest frompoliticaleventstosocioeconomicstructures,andachangeinhistoricalmethodsfromnarrative to quantitative techniques and interdisciplinary models of interpretation. Inaddition,socialhistoryhasalwaysbeentheoreticallyminded,beingcharacterizedbytheconsciousandlargescaleutilizationofmodelsandtypesofhistoricalinterpretation.Theenlargementoftheanalyticalfocusfromthehistoryofpoliticalelitestothatofwidersociopoliticalgroupshasalsostimulatedthecomparativestudyofsocietiesatmicroandmacrolevel(beitglobalorregional).

Thiscoursetracesthedevelopmentofsocialhistoryasadisciplineofhistory,froman interdisciplinary perspective. It examines main historiographical schools andapproachesinthefield;exploressomeofthemethodologicalprincipleswhichunderliesocialhistoryresearchandwriting;andencouragesreflectiononcontroversialmatters

relatingtothewritingofsocialhistory.Whileitcanbesafelyappreciatedthateverytypeofhistorywritingimplicitlyemployselementsofsocialhistoryresearch,thecourseaimsto make these elements explicit, by increasing students awareness of the specifictheoreticalunderpinning,methodologicaltools,vocabulary,andsourcesassociatedwithsocial history.It ishopedthatthissystematic introductionwill furtherhonestudentsabilitytoengageinoriginalcomparativeresearch.

Thecourseisdividedintointroduction,threemainparts,andconclusion.Afterabriefcontextual introduction, thefirst part focusesontheemergenceofsocial historyasareactiontothedominantpoliticalhistoryofthenineteenthcenturyanditscrystallizationin different national variants: the American behavioralism, the British neoMarxistGroupandhistoryfrombelow,thethreegenerationsoftheFrenchAnnalesandtheirinterest in deep structures and the longue dure of historical change; the GermanBielefeldschoolanditsparadigmofGesellschaftsgeschichte,andtheItalianschoolofmicrostoria. For eachnational school, in addition to historiographical overviews, arepresentativehistoricalwritingwillprovidethebasisforseminardiscussion.

Thesecondpartcontinueswithadiscussionoftheinterdisciplinarydialogueandthedebates between social history and the social sciences, particularly sociology,anthropology and literary studies. It provides a review of recent trends such aspostmodern and poststructuralist challenges, the revival of the narrative and thefragmentationofthehistoricaldiscourse,assessingtheirimpactonthewritingofsocialhistory.Thethirdpartaddressesmainmethodologicalchallengesposedbysocialhistoryresearch,namelyissuesofsocialterminology,categorizationandspecializedvocabulary;generalizing from fragmentary evidence; understanding causality; establishingdifferences and similarities among historical phenomena; employing appropriateconcepts; andevaluatingcompetingexplanatoryaccounts.Finally, onthebasisofthecoursediscussion,theconclusionsofferaninformedandconstructivecritiqueofsocialhistory,openingstudentstofreshtransnationalandrelationalapproachestoregionalandEuropeansocialhistory.

Thecoursecombineslargescalecomparisonswithmicrohistoricalanalyses,andrelationalandtransnationalapproacheswithknowledgeoflocaltrendsinhistoriography.Inordertoenablestudentstomakemeaningfulcomparisons,readingsamplesalternateshistoriographical debates with extracts from authoritative works of practitionerhistorians,suchasE.P.Thompson,MichelFoucault,ReinhartKoselleck,DanielRoche,EmmanuelLeRoyLadurie,andWilliamSewell.

Inadditiontotheassignedreadingmaterials,thecoursesyllabusalsoprovidesgeneral bibliographical guidelines on the field of social history. Students are alsoencouragedtomonitortheactivityofnewresearchinstitutesandacademicdepartmentsonsocialhistoryinEastCentralEurope,suchastheInstituteofSocialHistoryoftheNational Academy of Science, Budapest; the Department of Economic and SocialHistory, ELTE University, Budapest; the Institute of Social History of the NationalAcademyofScience,Warsaw;theCentreforSocialHistoryattheInstituteofGeneralHistory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; the Association for SocialHistory,Belgrade;andtheInstituteofEconomicandSocialHistory,CharlesUniversity,Prague; and to consult new regional periodicals in the field, among which: ZG

sterreichische Zeitschrift fr Geschichtswissenschaften, (Vienna), Revista de IstorieSocial (Bucharest) Korall. Trdadalomtrtneti folyirat (Budapest), The RussianSocial History Yearbook/ Social'naja istorija. Ezhegodnik (Moscow), aslovek asponost (Bratislava), Godinjak za drutvenu istoriju/Annual for Social History(Belgrade), and the Prager wirtschafts und sozialhistorische Mitteilungen/PragueEconomicandSocialHistoryPapers.

CourseRequirements:

Studentsareexpectedtoattendallseminars,readtheassignedreadingsandpreparetoactivelyparticipateinseminardiscussions.Therequirementsandgradingbreakdownoftheseminarareasfollows: Seminarparticipation (30percent),basedonboththequantityandqualityofthe

studentscontributionsandinvolvementduringdiscussionsofreadings; Bookpresentation(35percent);Titleswillbeselectedfromabooklistprovidedat

theendofthesyllabus.Allreportsmustbecirca1.500wordsandshouldincludearelevantsummaryofalloftheimportanttopicsandconclusionscoveredinthebookand an analysis of the historical significance of the work. The analysis shouldevaluatetherelevanceofthebooktotheclassdiscussion,identifywhatkindofsocialhistory sources the book employs and what type of interpretation it applies tohistoricaleventsandcharacters,andprovideanevaluationofthehistoricalmeaningofthebooktothecontemporaryscholarlyaudiences.

Finalessay(35percent):Afinalessayofapproximately4.000wordswillbeduetwoweeksafterthefinalseminar,onatopicrelevanttoboththecoursesubjectmatterandstudentsparticularresearchinterest.

Course Topics :

1.TheRiseofSocialHistory:PoliticalandHistoriographicalContexts2.SocialHistoryintheUSA3.SocialHistoryintheUnitedKingdom4.SocialHistoryinFrance5.SocialHistoryinGermany6.SocialHistoryandtheLinguisticTurn7.SocialHistoryandPostmodernism8.SocialHistoryandCulturalHistory9.MethodsofSocialHistoryResearch(I):QuantificationandComputerTechniques10. Methods of Social History Research (II): Vocabulary, Terminology and SocialCategorization11.VarietiesofSocialHistory:MicrohistoryandAlltagsgeschichte12.TowardaNewSocialHistory?

CourseOutlineandReadings:

I.Introduction

1.TheRiseofSocialHistory:PoliticalandHistoriographicalContext:

Requiredreadings:

GeoffElley,SomeRecentTendenciesinSocialStudies,inGeorgG.IggersandHarold T. Parker, eds., International handbook of Historical Studies: ContemporaryResearchandTheory(Westport,Conn.:GreenwoodPress,1979),pp.5570.

HarryRitter, Social History, in DictionaryofConcepts in History (London,NewYork,Westpoint:TheGreenwoodPress,1986),pp.408413.

Social History in D.R. Woolf, ed., A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing,2vols.(NewYork:GarlandPublications,1998),vol.2,pp.844849.

C. Conrad, Social History in International Encyclopedia of the Social &Behavioral Sciences, ed. Neil H.Smelser, PaulBBaltes (Amsterdam,2001),vol.21,1429914306.

I.NationalSchoolsandHistoriographicalTraditions:

2.SocialHistoryintheUSA:

RequiredReadings:

GeorgG.Iggers, AmericanTraditionsofSocialHistory, inHistoriographyinthe Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge(Hanover,NH:WesleyanUniversityPress,1997),pp.4150.

ErnstBreisach,AmericanProgressiveHistoryandHistoriographyasaMirrorofPostwarAmerica,in Historiography:Ancient,MedievalandModern(Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,1994),pp.362370,385394.

Laurence Veysey, The New Social History in the Context of AmericanHistoricalWriting, ReviewsinAmericanHistory,Vol.7,No.1,(Mar.1979),pp.112.

Articlepresentation: FrederickJ. Turner,SocialForcesinAmericanHistory,TheAmericanHistoricalReview,Vol.16,No.2(Jan.,1911),pp.217233.

Furtherbibliography:

FredAnderson,AndrewR.L.Cayton,TheProblemofFragmentationandtheProspectsfor Synthesis in Early American Social History, The William and Mary

Quarterly, Vol.50,No.2,EarlyAmericanHistory:ItsPastsandFuture(Apr.1993),pp.299310.

RobertEGallman,SomeNotesontheNewSocialHistory,TheJournalofEconomic History,Vol.37,No.1,(Mar.1977),pp.312.

3.SocialHistoryintheUnitedKingdom:

Requiredreadings:

Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Writing of Social History: Recent Studies of 19th

CenturyEngland, TheJournalofBritishStudies,Vol.11,No.1,(Nov.1971),pp.148170.

Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Group: British Marxist Historians, in The Newhistory and the Old (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of HarvardUniversityPress,1987),pp.7093.

EricHobsbawm,FromSocialHistorytotheHistoryofSociety,inFelixGilbertand Graubard,Stephen,eds., HistoricalStudiesToday (NewYork:WWNorton,1972),pp.126.

Bookpresentation:E.P.Thompson, TheMakingoftheEnglishWorkingClass (NewYork:RandomHouse,1963).

Furtherbibliography:

E. P. Thompson, Eighteenth century English society: class struggle without class?SocialHistory,Vol.2,No.5,(1978),pp.133165.

N.B.Harte,TrendsinPublicationsontheEconomicandSocialHistoryofGreatBritainandIreland,19251974,TheEconomicHistoryReview,NewSeries,Vol.30,No.1,(Feb.1977),pp.2041.

L.A.Clarkson,TheWritingofIrishEconomicandSocialHistorySince1968, TheEconomicHistoryReview,NewSeries,Vol.33,No.1,(Feb.1980),pp.100111.

Richard E. Miller, Composing English Studies: Toward a Social History of theDiscipline, College Composition andCommunication, Vol. 45, No. 2, (May,1994),pp.164179.

4.SocialHistoryinFrance:

Requiredreadings:

ErnstBreisach,TheAnnalesSchool,inHistoriography:Ancient,MedievalandModern(Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,1994),pp.370376.

Georg G. Iggers, France: The Annales, in Historiography in the Twentieth Century,pp.5164.

Editors of Annales, Histoire et Sciences Sociales: Un Tournant critique,AnnalesESC43(Mar.Apr.1988),pp.291293,publishedinEnglishasHistoryandSocialScience:ACriticalTurningPointin JacquesReveland Lynn Hunt, eds., Histories: French constructions of the past,translatedbyArthurGoldhammer(NewYork:NewPress,1995),pp.480483.

EditorsofAnnales,Tentonslexprience,AnnalesESC44(Nov.Dec.1989),pp. 13171323,publishedinEnglishasLets TrytheExperiment, inRevelandHunt,eds.,Histories:Frenchconstructionsofthepast,pp.484491.

AntoineProst,WhatHasHappenedtoFrenchSocialHistory? TheHistorical Journal,Vol.35,No.3(Sept.1992),pp.671679.

Bookpresentation: DanielRoche, AHistoryofEverydayThings:TheBirthof Consumption in France, 16001800, translated by Brian Pearce(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2000),309p.

Furtherbibliography:

AymandMaurice,TheAnnalesandFrenchHistoriography(19291972),inTheJournal ofEuropeanEconomicHistory,Vol.1,(1972),2,pp.491511.

PeterBurke, TheFrenchHistoricalRevolution:TheAnnalesSchool,192989 (Oxford:PolityPress,1990).

Clark,Stuart,ed.,TheAnnalesSchool:CriticalAssessments.4vols.(London:Routledge,1999).

SocialHistoriansinContemporaryFrance:EssaysfromAnnales.EditedandtranslatedbythestaffofAnnales,Paris.NewYork:Harper&Row,1972.

5.SocialHistoryinGermany:

Requiredreadings:

GeorgG.Iggers,CriticalTheoryandSocialHistory:HistoricalSocialScienceintheFederalRepublicofGermany,inHistoriographyintheTwentieth Century,pp.6577.

Ernst Breisach, The Transformation of German Historiography, inHistoriography:Ancient,MedievalandModern,pp.378385.

Jrgen Kocka, Theory and Social History: Recent Developments in WestGermany,inSocialResearch,47(1980)2,pp.426457.

Bookpresentation:JrgenKocka,Facingtotalwar:Germansociety,19141918(LeamingtonSpa:Berg,1984).

Furtherbibliography:

Iggers,GeorgG.TheGermanconceptionofhistory:thenationaltraditionofhistorical thought fromHerderto thepresent (Middletown, Conn.: WesleyanUniversityPress,1983).

Iggers,GeorgG.TheSocialHistoryofPolitics:CriticalPerspectivesinWestGermanHistoricalWritingsince1945(Dover,N.H.:Berg,1985).

7.SocialHistoryandtheLinguisticTurn:

Requiredreadings:

Georg G. Iggers, The Linguistic Turn: The End of History as a ScholarlyDiscipline? in Historiography in the Twentieth Century (Middletwon,CT:WesleyanUniversityPress,1997),pp.118133,and168170.

ReinhartKoselleck,BegriffsgeschichteandSocialHistory,inFuturesPast.Onthe Semantics of Historical Time, trans. Keith Tribe (London andCambridge:MITPress,1985),pp.7392.

Book presentation: Reinhart Koselleck, Preussen zwischen Reform undRevolution: allgemeines Landrecht, Verwaltung und soziale Bewegungvon1791bis1848(Stuttgart:Klett,1967).

Furtherbibliography:

RolandBarthes,TheDiscourseofHistory,ComparativeCriticism:AYearbook,vol.3(1981),pp.328.

MelvinRichter,ReconstructingtheHistoryofPoliticalLanguages:Pocock,Skinnerandthe GeschichtlicheGrundbegriffe, HistoryandTheoryVol.29,No.1,(1990),pp.3869.

Reinhart Koselleck, Sozialgeschichte und Begriffsgeschichte in Wolfgang Schiederand Volker Sellin, eds., Sozialgeschichte in Deutschland: Entwicklungen undPerspektiven im internationalen Zusammenhang, 2 vols. (Gttingen:VandenhoeckandRuprecht,1987),vol.2,pp.89107.

Hayden V. White, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation(Baltimore:JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,1987).

Peter Burke and Roy Porter, eds. The Social History of Language (Cambridge,Cambridgeshire:CambridgeUniversityPress,1987).

BryanPalmer, DescentintoDiscourse:TheReificationofLanguageandtheWritingof SocialHistory(Philadelphia:TempleUniversityPress,1990).

8.SocialHistoryandPostmodernism:

Requiredreadings:

Jane Caplan, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, and Deconstruction. Notes forHistorians, CentralEuropeanHistory,Vol.22,No.3/4(1989),pp.260279.

Rudy Koshar, Foucault and Social History: Comments on CombinedUnderdevelopment, TheAmerican Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 2(April1993),pp.354363.

Golstein,Jan,FoucaultamongtheSociologists:TheDiscipleandtheHistoryofProfession,HistoryandTheory,23(1984),pp.170192.

Bookpresentation: Michel Foucault, Discipline andPunish: The Birth of the Prison,translatedfromtheFrenchbyAlanSheridan(NewYork:VintageBooks,1977).

Furtherbibliography:

F.R.AnkersmitHistoriographyandPostmodernism,HistoryandTheory,Vol.28No.2,(1989),pp.137153.

Foucault,Michel, TheArchaeologyofKnowledge,translatedfromtheFrenchbyA.M.SheridanSmith,(London:Routledge,1972).

Foucault,Michel,TheHistoryofSexuality,translatedfromtheFrenchbyRobertHurley,(NewYork:VintageBooks,19881990).

9.SocialHistoryandCulturalHistory:

Requiredreadings:

WilliamH.Sewell, Jr.Theconcept(s)ofculture,inVictoriaE.BonnellandLynnHunt,eds.,Beyondtheculturalturn:newdirectionsinthestudyof societyandculture (Berkley,Cal.:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1999,pp.3561.

LynnHunt,Introduction:History,Culture, andTextinLynnHunt,ed., TheNew Cultural History, with an introduction by Lynn Hunt Berkeley:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1989,pp.124.

Fass, Paula S. Cultural History/Social History: Some Reflections on aContinuingDialogue,JournalofSocialHistory,(Fall2003),pp.3946.

Book presentation: Lynn Hunt. Politics, culture, and class in the French Revolution(Berkeley:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1984).

Furtherbibliography:

PatriciaOBrien,MichelFoucaultsHistoryofCultureinLynnHunt,ed., TheNewCultural History, withanintroduction byLynnHunt (Berkeley: University ofCaliforniaPress,1989),pp.2546.

Victoria E. Bonnell andLynnHunt Introduction, in Victoria E. Bonnell andLynnHunt,eds.,BeyondtheCulturalTurn:NewDirectionsintheStudyofSocietyand Culture; with an afterword by Hayden White Berkeley, Cal.: University ofCaliforniaPress,1999,pp.134.

RogerChartier,IntellectualHistoryorSocioculturalHistory?TheFrenchTrajectories,Trans. Jane P. Kaplan, in Dominique La Capra and Steven L. Kaplan, eds., Intellectual History:Reappraisals andNewPerspectives (Ithaca, NY.: CornellUniversity Press, 1982), pp. 1346, republished in Revel and Hunt, eds.,Histories:Frenchconstructionsofthepast,pp.287297.

III.MethodsofSocialHistory:

9.SocialHistoryandGender

10.QuantificationandComputerTechniques:

Requiredreadings:

EmmmanuelleRoyLadurie,TheHistorianandtheComputerinTheTerritoryoftheHistorian,trans.T.B.andSianRaynolds(Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,1979),pp.35.

Franois Furet, Quantitative History in The Workshop of History, trans.JonathanMandelbaum(Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,1984),pp.4053.

BernardLepetit,LHistoirequantitative:Deuxoutroischosesquejesaisdelle,Histoire et Mesure, 4 (1989), pp. 191199, published in English asQuantitative History: Another Approach, in Revel and Hunt, eds.,Histories:Frenchconstructionsofthepast,pp.503512.

Chapter presentation: Miles Fairburn. To Count or not to Count in Social history:problems,strategies,andmethods(NewYork:St.Martin'sPress,1999),pp.145176.

Furtherbibliography:

Arthur E. Imhof and Oivind Larsen. Social and Medical History: MethodologicalProblemsinInterdisciplinaryQuantitativeResearch,JournalofInterdisciplinary History,Vol.7,No.3,(Winter1977),pp.493498.

ChristopherLloyd,TheMethodologiesofSocialHistory:ACriticalSurveyandDefenseofStructurism,HistoryandTheory,Vol.30,No.2,(May1991),pp.180219.

ArthurL.Stinchcombe, TheoreticalMethodsinSocialHistory (NewYork:AcademicPress,1978).

11.Vocabulary,TerminologyandSocialCategorization:

Requiredreadings:

AlfredCobban,TheVocabularyofSocialHistory,PoliticalScienceQuarterly,Vol.71,No.1(March1956),pp.117.

DanielOrlovsky,SocialHistoryanditsCategories,SlavicReview,Vol.47,No.4(Winter1988),pp.620623.

Articlepresentation:JrgenKocka,TheMiddleClassesofEurope,TheJournal ofModernHistory,Vol.67,No.4(1995),pp.783806.

12.OralHistory,Microhistoryand Alltagsgeschichte :

Requiredreadings:

Giovanni Levi, On Microhistory, in Peter Burke, ed., New Perspectives onHistoricalWriting(Cambridge,EnglandPolityPress,1992),pp.93113.

Jacques Revel, Microanalyse construction du sociale in Revel, ed., Laconstructiondusocial (Paris:Gallimard,1996),publishedinEnglishasMicroanalysisandtheConstructionoftheSocial,in RevelandHunt,eds.,Histories:FrenchConstructionsofthePast,492502.

David F. Crew, Altagsgeschichte: A New Social History From Below?CentralEuropeanHistory,22(1989),pp.394407.

Book presentation: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou: Cathars andCatholics inaFrenchvillage, 12941324,TranslatedbyBarbaraBray.London:PenguinBooks,1990.

Furtherbibliography:

Geoff Eley, Review: Labor History, Social History, Alltagsgeschichte: Experience,Culture,andthePoliticsoftheEveryday:ANewDirectionforGermanSocialHistory?TheJournalofModernHistory, Vol.61,No.2(Jun.,1989),pp.297343.

PatrickH.Hutton,PlacingHistoryinContemporaryHistoriography,inHistoryasanAct of Memory (Hanover and London: University of Press of New England,1993),pp.126.

IV.Conclusions:

13.TowardaNewSocialHistory?

Requiredreadings:

Steven.C.Hause,TheEvolutionofSocialHistory,FrenchHistoricalStudies,Vol.19,No.4,SpecialIssue:Biography(Autumn1996),pp.11911214.

PatrickJoyce,TheEndofSocialHistory?inKeithJenkins, ThePostmodernHistoryReader(London:Routledge,1997),pp.341365.

GeoffreyElleyandKeithNield,StartingOver: ThePresent,thePostmodernandtheMomentofSocialHistory,inJenkins, ThePostmodernHistoryReader,pp.366379.

Furtherbibliography:

LutzNiethammer,TheDissolutionofHistory,inPosthistoire:HasHistoryCometoanEnd?(London:Verso,1992),pp.135152.

PeterBurke,Overture:TheNewHistory.ItsPastandItsFuture,inBurke,ed., NewPerspectivesonHistoricalWriting(Cambridge,EnglandPolityPress,1992),pp.123.

Gertrude Himmelfarb, SomeReflections on the NewHistory, AmericanHistorical Review,Vol.94,No.3,(1989),pp.661670.

Peter Novick, The center does not hold in That Noble Dream. The Objectivity Question and the American Historical Profession (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversityPress,1988),pp.522527.

JrnRnsen,StudiesinMetahistory,editedandintroducedbyPieterDuvenage(Pretoria:HumanSciencesResearchCouncil,1993).

Listofbooksproposedforreview:

Bloch,Marc.Apologiepourl'histoireouMetierd'historien.Paris:ArmandColin,1961.

Duby, Georges. The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined, translated by ArthurGoldhammer; with a foreword by Thomas N. Bisson. Chicago: University ofChicagoPress,1980.

Foucault, Michel. DisciplineandPunish:TheBirthofthePrison, translatedfromtheFrenchbyAlanSheridan.NewYork:VintageBooks,1977.

Furet,Franois.PenserlaRevolutionfranaise.Paris:Gallimard,1978.

Koselleck,Reinhart.PreussenzwischenReformundRevolution:allgemeinesLandrecht, VerwaltungundsozialeBewegungvon1791bis1848.Stuttgart:Klett,1967.

Ladurie, Emmanuel LeRoy. Montaillou: CatharsandCatholics inaFrenchvillage, 12941324,TranslationofMontaillou,villageoccitande12941324.TranslatedbyBarbaraBray.London:PenguinBooks,1990.

Roche, Daniel. AHistoryofEverydayThings:TheBirth of Consumption in France, 16001800,translatedbyBrianPearce.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2000.

Sewell,William.WorkandRevolutioninFrance:TheLanguageofLaborfromtheOldRegimeto1848.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1980.

Thompson,E.P.TheMakingoftheEnglishWorkingClass.NewYork:RandomHouse,1963.

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Fogel,RobertWilliamandG.R.Elton.WhichRoadtothePast?:TwoViewsofHistory.NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,1983,136p.

Furet, Franois. The Workshop of History, trans. Jonathan Mandelbaum. Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,1984.

Himmelfarb,Gertrude.TheNewHistoryandtheOld.Cambridge,Mass.:BelknapPressofHarvardUniversityPress,1987,209p.

Hobsbawm,Eric.Onhistory.NewYork:NewPress,1997,305p.

Howell, MarthaC.andWalter Prevenier. FromReliableSources:AnIntroductiontoHistoricalMethods.Ithaca,N.Y.:CornellUniversityPress,2001,207p.

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SocialHistory:

Books:

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Briggs,Asa.ASocialHistoryofEngland.NewYork:VikingPress,1984,1983,320p.

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Burke, Peter. A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot. Burke.Cambridge,UK:PolityPress,2000,268p.

Burnett, John. A Social History of Housing, 18151985. Illustrated by ChristopherPowell.London:Routledge,1991c19862nded.,387p.

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Girouard, Mark. Cities andPeople: ASocial andArchitectural History. NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,1989,c1985vii,397p.

Griffin, LarryandMarcelvanderLinden,eds. NewMethodsinSocialHistory. NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,1999.SupplementofInternationalReviewof SocialHistory.

Grunberger,Richard.The12yearReich:ASocialHistoryofNaziGermany,19331945.NewYork:Holt,RinehartandWinston,1979,c1971,535p.

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Hauser,Arnold.TheSocialHistoryofArt.translatedincollaborationwiththeauthorbyStanleyGodman.London:Routledge,19894v.

Kaelble,Hartmut.ASocialHistoryofWesternEurope,18801980.TranslatedbyDanielBird.Dublin:GillandMacmillan,1990,214p.

Lane, Joan. ASocial Historyof Medicine: Health, HealingandDisease in England, 17501950.NewYork:Routledge,2001,233p.

Lloyd,Christopher.Explanationinsocialhistory.NewYork:B.Blackwell,1985.375p.

Mazsu, Jnos. Thesocial history of the Hungarian intelligentsia, 18251914. Mazsu.Translated from the Hungarian by Mario D. Fenyo. Boulder, Colo.: SocialScienceMonographs,1997.

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Course Topics:1. The Rise of Social History: Political and Historiographical ContextsCourse Outline and Readings:12. Oral History, Microhistory and Alltagsgeschichte: