Department
of History University
of Michigan
History
615 Fall,
2002
SYLLABUS
Introduction to the Comparative Study of History:
Political Economy, Nation, and Gender in the Making of Modernity
Instructors:
Victor
Lieberman Office: 269 University Towers; Office Hours: by appt. Tel. 763-4771.
Juan
R.I. Cole Office: 237 University Towers; Office Hours: Thurs. 2-3 & by
appt. Tel. 763-1599; 
Required
Texts (Available in University Reserves, Undergraduate Library;
paperbacks
available at Shaman Drum, 313 State St., tel. 662-7407.
Small
coursepack at: Accu-Copy, E. William St.):
Books:
Abu-Lughod,
Lila, ed. Remaking Women.
Princeton, 1998.
Anderson,
Benedict. Imagined Communities. 2nd edn. Verso, 1991
Cole,
Juan. Sacred Space and Holy War. I.B. Tauris, 2002.
Foucault,
Michel. Discipline and Punish. New York: Pantheon, 1977.
Hall,
Catherine, et al. Defining the Victorian nation : class, race, gender
and the British Reform Act of 1867. Cambridge : Univ. Press,
2000.
Jones,
E.L. The European Miracle. Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Journal
of Asian Studies 61 (May, 2002). Articles on Pomeranz
Lieberman,
Victor. Beyond Binary Histories. University of Michigan Press, 1999.
Marx,
Karl. Later Political Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1996.
Pomeranz,
Ken. Coursepack.
Quataert,
Donald. The Ottoman Empire,
1700-1922. Cambridge, 2000.
Scott,
Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History. Columbia Univ. Press,
1988
van
der Veer, Peter. Religious
Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India.
University of California Press,
1994.
Weber,
Max. Economy and Society, vol. 1. University of California Press, 1980.
CLASS
TOPICS
Sept.
3: Orientation
I.
Classic Theory
Sept.
10: Marx, Later Political Writings
Sept.
17: Weber, Economy and Society, Chapters 3 and 6 of Volume I.
Sept.
24: Foucault, Discipline and Punish
II.
European Exceptionalism and Early Modern History
Oct.
1: E. L. Jones, The European
Miracle
Oct. 8: Journal
of Asian Studies 61 (May, 2002). Articles on Pomeranz;
Pomeranz, Coursepack
readings.
Oct.
15: Lieberman, Beyond Binary
Histories: Re-Imagining Eurasia to C.1830
Oct.
22: Donald Quataert, The Ottoman
Empire
OCTOBER 22 FIRST PAPER DUE
Late papers will be downgraded
III.
Nationalism and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
Oct. 29: Anderson, Imagined Communities
Nov. 5:
Catherine Hall, et al. Defining the Victorian Nation
Nov.
12: Peter van der Veer, Religious
Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India
Nov.
19: Cole, Sacred Space and Holy War,
chapters. 1,2, 6-11
Nov.
26: Class Discussion
IV.
Comparative Studies in the Construction of Gender
Dec. 3:
Joan Scott, Gender and the Politics of History
Dec.
10: Abu Lughod, ed., Remaking Women
SECOND
PAPER DUE DECEMBER 17
Late
papers not accepted.