Graduate Core Seminar Recommended Readings, Part 2
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, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge [UK]: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Scott, James. Weapons of the weak : everyday forms of peasant resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Stedman Jones, Gareth. Languages of class : studies in English working class history, 1832-1982. Cambridge [UK]: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the past : power and the production of history. Boston Mass.: Beacon Press, 1995.
Williams, Raymond. Culture and materialism : selected essays. London : Verso, 2005.
[Most of these books are on library reserve. Search under HIS524. - elb & pg]
