HIS 6061: Introduction to Historiography
Requirements:
There are three components to this
course: reading, writing and oral presentation.
The weekly reading load for this course will be substantial.
Students will be expected to peruse this material carefully and critically in
preparation for the weekly discussions. Though active participation is
always expected, over the course of the semester each student will be expected
to lead part of the seminar discussion at least twice (normally with one other
student). In addition there will be occasional short reports
scattered throughout the semester. Our discussion each week will also be
framed by two short papers (3-5 pages) which analyze some aspect of the
readings. Students will write two of these essays during the
course. These papers must be pre-circulated electronically by 5 pm, the Monday before seminar.
Late essays will be penalized. Building on ideas and approaches discussed
over the course of the semester, a final historiographical essay will focus on
the student’s own subfield or research interest.
Grades
will be determined on the basis of
the following four components:
Participation: 30%
Participation includes regular
contributions to discussion, discussion leadership, and a variety of preparatory
assignments and oral reports.
2 short papers on the readings (3-5 pages each): 20%
Review
essay: 5-6 page essay: 15%
Choose one UF historian (NOT your main
advisor & preferably not in your primary field) whose work you will
profile
and analyze in a review essay.
Bibliographic Essay:
35%
In this final assignment students
will be asked to apply some of the themes, approaches, and ideas that have been
discussed during the semester by writing a 15 to 20 page historiographical
essay on a theme closest to their specific field of interest. This final
paper is due Tuesday, April 26.
Books
In addition to many essays,
articles, and primary source texts that will be available electronically, we
will be reading all or substantial parts of the required books listed below. Although these books will be on reserve at
Library West, it is strongly recommended that you purchase them (new or used).
All required texts are available at
Gator Textbooks, 3501 SW 2nd
Avenue (374-4500).
Required Texts:
E.H. Carr, What is History (Vintage,
1967)
ISBN:
039470391X
Donald Kelley, ed., Versions of History from Antiquity to
the Enlightenment (Yale, 1991)
ISBN:
0300047762
On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: The Essence of
Thucydides' History of the
Peloponnesian War (Hackett, 1993)
ISBN: 0872201686
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Discourses (Penguin, 1970)
ISBN:
0140444289
Natalie Zemon Davis, The
Return of Martin Guerre (Harvard University Press, 1984)
ISBN: 0674766911
Carl Becker, Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century
Philosophers (Yale Nota Bene; 2nd
edition,
2003)
ISBN:
0300101503
Friedrich Engels, The German Peasant War of 1525 (International
Publishers, 2000)
ISBN: 0717807207
Edward Said, Orientalism (Vintage,
1979)
ISBN:
039474067X
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing
Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical
Difference
(New Edition), (Princeton University
Press, 2007).
ISBN: 0691130019
Gender and History in Western Europe,
eds. R. Shoemaker and M. Vincent (Arnold,
1998)
ISBN: 0340676949
Recommended
Texts:
Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity
Question’ and the American Historical Profession (Cambridge, 1988)
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, Telling the
Truth About History (Norton, 1994)
Fritz Stern, The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to
the Present (Vintage, 1973)
Elizabeth Clark, History-Theory-Text: Historians and the
Linguistic Turn (Harvard, 2004)
Michel Foucault, The
Foucault Reader, edited by Paul Rabinow, (New York: Pantheon, 1984)
Donald R. Kelley, Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from
Herodotus to Herder (Yale, 1998)
Donald R. Kelley, Fortunes
of History: Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga (Yale, 2002)
Donald R. Kelley, Frontiers
of History: Historical Inquiry in the Twentieth Century
(Yale, 2006)