Archive for September, 2011

Initiative for Historical Social Sciences (IHSS)

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Initiative for Historical Social Sciences (IHSS)

Wednesday, October 19th, 12:50 – 2:00 PM, SBS, Room N-320
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives – “Why State Strength and Weakness Persist: The Social Origins of State Power in 20th Century Latin America”
Hillel Soifer, Temple University – Department of Political Science
Wednesday, November 9th, 4:00 – 5:30 PM, SBS, Room N-318
Faculty Workshop – “The [...]

Winter Session 2012

Friday, September 16th, 2011

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Graduate Core Seminar Recommended Readings, Part 2

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Nation, Popular Politics, Culture
Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.
Guha, Ranajit. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.
Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1991.
Hobsbawm, E. J, and T. O Ranger, [...]

Graduate Core Seminar Recommended Readings (2011-12), part 1

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Historiographies & Theory
Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books: Readers, Authors and Libraries in Europe Between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge [UK]: Polity Press, 1994.
Eley, Geoff. A crooked line : from cultural history to the history of society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan [...]