HSM 36: Britain, 1815-1914

Charu Gupta
1. British Overseas Expansion, 1815-1914
P. J. Cain, Economic Foundations of British Overseas Expansion, 1815-1914,
Macmillan, London, 1980.
2. Rural Society, Poor and Clergy, 1815-1914
Robert Lee, Rural Society and the Anglican Clergy, 1815-1914: Encountering and
Managing the Poor, Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2006.
3. Health, Medicine and Society in Victorian England
Mary Wilson Carpenter, Health, Medicine and Society in Victorian England,
Greenwood, California, 2010.
4. Friendship and Marriage in Victorian England
Sharon Marcus, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian
England, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2007.
5. British Labour Movement, 1880-1914
Loggie Barrow and Ian Bullock, Democratic Ideas and the British Labour Movement,
1880-1914, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996.
6. Womens Vote, 1880-1914
Myriam Boussahba-Bravard (ed.), Suffrage Outside Suffragism: Womens Vote in
Britain, 1880-1914, Palgrave, New York, 2007.
7. Womens Work and Health, 1880-1914
Barbara Harrison, Not only the Dangerous Trades: Womens Work and Health in
Britain, 1880-1914, Taylor and Francis, London, 1996.
8. Race and Justice under British Rule, 1870-1914
Martin J. Wiener, An Empire on Trial: Race, Murder, and Justice Under British Rule,
1870-1935, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009.
For General Introduction and Overview of British History, 1815-1914
Norman McCord and Bill Purdue, British History, 1815-1914, Oxford University
Press, Oxford, 2007.
Additional Readings
Gareth Stedman Jones, Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class
History, 1832-1982, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983. [Topic 5]
Ronald Hyam, Briains Imperial Century, 1815-1914: A Study of Empire and
Expansion, Palgrave, New York, 2002. [Topic 1]
Trevor Harris (ed.), Art, Politics and Society in Britain (1880-1914): Aspects of
Modernity and Modernism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2009.

HSM- 09 : Historical Traditions in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Topics:
1. Understanding historiographical traditions in different chronological and
cultural
contexts, their comparative features and interactions; myth, hagiography,
biography and history
2. The Graeco-Roman historiographical traditions
3. China: dynastic, institutional and private histories
4. Early India: traditional history, biographies, history
5. Medieval western historiography: Biblical histories; contacts with
Byzantine and Arab
historiography
6. Arab and Persian historians; translation and the flows of knowledge
7. Medieval India: Persian chronicles; vernacular historical traditions
Select Readings:
Berlin, Isaiah, Vico and Herder*
Collingwood, R.G. [1946] 1994. The Idea of History. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Encyclopaedia of Islam. 1960--2004.12 vols. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Jones, A.H.M. ed. 1968-70. A history of Rome through the fifth century: Selected
Documents,
vols. 1 and 2. New York: Harper and Row.
Kelley, Donald R. 1991. Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. New
Haven:Yale University Press.
Philips, C.H. ed. [1961] 1967. Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon. London:
Oxford
University Press.
Pulleybank, E.G. and Beasely, W.G. eds. 1961. Historians of China and Japan.
London: OxfordUniversity Press.
Warder, A.K. 1972. An Introduction to Indian historiography. Bombay: Popular
Prakashan.
The Practice of History
(Core Course, 1st semester)
Select readings have been given here; detailed readings will be
provided in the course of instruction.
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Pre-modern historical traditions

Modern historiography: documents and the archives
Cultural history
Marxism
Annales
Gender
Archaeology
Art and history
The environment
Oral history

10. Intellectual history

11. History of emotions
12. Connected histories: peoples regions, commodities
Select Readings
Alier, Joan Martinez, Padua, Jose Augusto and Rangarajan, Mahesh eds.
Environmental History as if
Nature Existed (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2010)
Aymard, Maurice and Mukhia, Harbans eds., French Studies in History, vol. I
(Orient Longmans, New Delhi, 1989).
Bloch, Marc, The Historians Craft, with an Introduction by Peter Burke
(Manchester University Press, 2004).
Burke, Peter, Varieties of Cultural History, Cornell University Press, 1997.
Carr, E.H., What is History (also available in Hindi) (Penguin [1961], 2008).
Davis, Natalie Zemon The Return of Martin Guerre (Harvard University Press,
1983)
Haskell, Francis, History and its images: art and the interpretation of the past (New
Haven and London, Yale University Press, [1993] 3rd reprint edn. 1995).
Portelli, Alessandro, The Death off Luigo Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and
Meaning in
Oral History (CUNY Press, 1990, paperback).
Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn, Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice (5th
edition,
Thames and Hudson, 2008).
Roberts Alice, The Incredible Human Journey: The story of how we colonized our planet
(London, Bloomsbury, 2009)
Sarkar, Sumit, Writing Social History (USA, Oxford University Press, 1995).
Stern, Fritz ed., Varieties of History: from Voltaire to the Present (2nd edn., New
York, Vintage, 1973)
Thompson, E.P. Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture (The Free
Press, New York, 1991); Folklore, Anthropology and History, Indian
Historical Review, iii, no. 2, Jan 1977
Walach Scott, Joan, Gender and the Politics of History (Columbia, New York,
1988).