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The core course seminars (MA Global History) consider the wider historiographical and
conceptual issues raised in the Mastering Historical Research: Birkbeck Approaches
lectures. For each seminar, you should as a minimum do the set reading for the main
lecture (reader) and for the seminar (Moodle) in this outline. It is important that you do
these readings, in order to participate fully in the discussion.
Starting from Week 2, students will be asked to give a brief presentation. Each
presentation should last a maximum of 10 minutes and should focus on the set reading
for the seminar. Presentations should consist of a maximum of five key points, and work
as a starting point for the discussion rather than a full presentation.
Recommended Reading:
Michael Geyer and Charles Bright, World History in a Global Age, American
Historical Review 100, no 4 (October 1995): 1034-60
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Dorothy Ross, Grand Narrative in American Historical Writing: From romance
to uncertainty, The American Historical Review, vol 100, No 3 (June 1995), 651- 677
(JSTOR) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2168599
Lawrence Stone, The Revival of narrative, Past and Present, 1979, vol. 85, 1, pp. 3-24.
[http://www.jstor.org/stable/650677]
Eric Hobsbawms, The Revival of narrative. Some comments. Past and Present,
1980, vol. 86, 1, pp. 3-8. [http://www.scribd.com/doc/49227020/The-revival-of-
narrative-some-comments-Eric-Hobsbawm]
David Washbrook, Problems in Global History, in Maxine Berg, ed., Writing the
History of the Global (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 21-31.
Recommended Reading:
Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism
E. Hobsbawm & T. Ranger (ed.), The Invention of Tradition, pp. 114
P. Duara, Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China, pp.
351 and, if possible, 177205.
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P. Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, pp. 313.
J. Hutchinson & A. D. Smith (eds.), Nationalism: critical concepts in political science,
Sections 1, 2 and 5, which include different views on The Question of Definition,
pp. 1546; Theories of Nationalism, pp. 4769; Nationalism outside Europe, pp.
196236.
Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literature, pp. 123158.
Recommended Reading:
Sunil Amrith, Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia (Cambridge, 2011),
Introduction.
James Clifford, Travelling Cultures, in Clifford, Routes: Travel and Translation in the
Late Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, 1997).
Robin Cohen, Global diasporas: An introduction (Routledge, 2008), ch 2.
Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen, Measuring and Quantifiyng Cross-Cultural
Migrations: An Introduction Lucassen and Lucassen, Globalizing Migration History:
The Eurasian Experience 16th-21st Centuries (Brill, Leiden, 2014).
In this session, we will reflect back upon the discussions and lectures in the first half of
the course as students prepare to submit their outlines for their historiographically-
focussed core course essay. The session will include general reflections on the
importance of thinking historiographically; some practical advice about preparing
outlines, researching, and writing; and a Q&A session to give students a chance to
address any questions they have about the course so far, or their assignment.
Roy Porter, The Patient's View: Doing Medical History from Below, Theory
and Society (1985): 175 98.
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Timothy Melley, Brain Warfare: The Covert Sphere, Terrorism, and the Legacy
of the Cold War, in Grey Room 45 (Fall 2011), pp 18-41.
If you have time, please look at the other articles in this special issue, and try to
familiarize yourself with the basic history of the Korean War and its aftermath. The
Coldest Winter and Brothers at War are good guides.
Explore also the resources on this excellent research website, hosted by Birkbeck:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuaders/
For example:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuaders/blog/hunter-origins-of-brainwashing/
To get a flavor of discussion of brain-washing in the US media of the 1950s, try doing a
keyword search in, say, the New York Times.
Recommended Reading:
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M. Vaughan, Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness, chapter 5
M. Vaughan chapter in S. Marks and D. Engels (eds), Contesting Colonial Hegemonies
Recommended Reading:
John Brewer, Microhistory and the histories of everyday life, Cultural and social
history 7.1 (2010). [http://www.cas.uni-
muenchen.de/publikationen/e_series/cas-eseries_nr5.pdf]
William Cronon, The uses of environmental history, Environmental History Review
17 (1993): 1-22
[http://www.williamcronon.net/writing/Cronon_Uses_of_Environmental_Hist
ory_EHR_Fall_1993.pdf]
Kren Wigen, Oceans of History: Introduction, American Historical Review, 111
(June 2006): 717-21 [available online at www.historycooperative.org]
Recommended Reading:
Ann Laura Stoler, Rethinking colonial categories: European communities and thr
Boundaries of rule, Comparative studies in society and history, vol. 31, no 1, 1989.
Frantz Fanon, The woman of colour and the white man and The man of colour
and the white woman in Frantz Fanon, The Fanon Reader, London, 2006) ch. 3-4.
Joan W. Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," American
Historical Review, December 1986, Vol.91, No.5.
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Michael Weiner, Discourses of race, nation and empire in pre-1945 Japan, Ethnic
and Racial Studies 18:3 (1995): 433-456.
Recommended Reading:
Roy Rosenzweig, Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the
Past, in The Journal of American History 93 (2006), pp.117-146.
[http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/42 ]