Course Description:<\/p>\n
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to some important new directions in history writing of the recent decades that have forced a re-evaluation of the relationship of historians to their subject. The course will trace fundamental changes that came with structuralism and the Marxist school in Britain before exploring the paradigmatic shift created by the next generation of historians influenced by Foucault, Hayden White and Said. It will analyse the contribution of the Subaltern studies collective of historians, its present status, and evoke the critiques it has spawned. The recent trends towards narrative history and detachment from given models and schools will be reappraised.<\/p>\n
Learning Objectives:
\nThe objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive knowledge for students in the History Special Degree on the philosophical and methodological changes introduced to the study of History as a scientific subject in parallel with paradigm shifts in social sciences.<\/p>\n
Learning Outcomes:
\nAt the end of this course, students should be able to:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Understand the change in approaches to historical inquiry
\n\u2022 Have an awareness of historical interpretations as a socially constructed set of knowledge
\n\u2022 Be analytical in understanding and appraising the work of historians<\/p>\n
Course Content:
\n1. The question of \u2018objective history\u2019<\/p>\n
2. New history in the twentieth century:
\n\u2022 The Annals Schools (structuralism)
\n\u2022 Social history: British Marxist approaches (E.P Thompson)
\n\u2022 New History: new objectives and methodologies.<\/p>\n
3. The linguistic turn:
\n\u2022 Post \u2013 structuralism (Foucault, De Certeau)
\n\u2022 Metahistory and emplotment (Haydn White)
\n\u2022 Orientalism and post-Orientalists (Edward Said)<\/p>\n
4. Subaltern studies:
\n\u2022 The peasant in history (Guha)
\n\u2022 Provincialising Europe (Chakraborty)
\n\u2022 Critiques of Subaltern studies (Sumith Sarkar, O\u2019Hanlon, Chandravarkar)<\/p>\n
5. New direction in history writing: gender, \u2018oral history\u2019, beyond the cultural turn<\/p>\n
Assessment:
\nAttendance 10%
\nMidterm Test or Assignment 30%
\nFinal Exam 60%<\/p>\n
Recommended Readings:
\nBurle, P. (2004) What is Cultural History?, Cambridge: Polity Press.
\nChatterjee, P. (1993) The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Post Colonial Histories, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
\nChakraborty, D. (2000) Provincialising Europe, Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, NY: Princeton University Press.
\nDe Certeau, M., Conely, T. (1988) The writing of History: European Perspectives, NY: Columbia University Press.
\nGuha, R. (ed.) (1997) A Subaltern Studies Reader1986-1995 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
\nMarwick, A. (2001) The New Nature of History, England: Macmillan.
\nSaid, E. (1985) Orientalism, London: Routledge and Keegan Paul.
\nEd. D. Thompson (2001) The Essential E.P. Thompson, NY: The New Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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