Week Two: Reading schedule for compositions

Sunday, February 8th, 6pm

-----Week One: Habermas, Wolff, Blum

Monday, February 16, 630pm

-----Week Two: Weber, Gellner, Kohn

Monday, March 2, 630pm

Week Three: Colley, Chatterjee, and Stokes

Week Four: Hobsbawm&Ranger, Komaroff

(optional) Sunday, March 8, 6pm

-----Use this meeting to cover any issues, questions, spillover from previous weeks

Monday, March 30, 6pm

-----Week Five: Goldman, Cherniavsky, Hochs

Monday, April 6, 6pm

-----Week Six: Gatrell, Hirsch, Goldhagen (excerpts), and Koonz

EH: Week One

Went over syllabus, figured out schedule for books and assigned weeks for annotated bibliographies/historiographies and book reviews.

I'm writing a book review on fascism/totalitarianism but the book hasn't been assigned yet. It'll be due the last week of class. My annotated bibliography and historiographical essay is due on March 3rd and is on Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault. I look forward to the challenge.

Otherwise, the class looks really good. There are several familiar faces: Regina, Elizabeth, Nadine, Matt, and Michael. Michael & I will be taking European comps together so maybe we can set up some sort of reading group. Nadine and I have a semester of assisting together behind us, will be assisting Dr. Brazy together this spring, and now with this class together will prove to be a valuable ally in surviving this semester.

European Historiography

The Old Regime and French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville, translated by Stuart Gilbert

AbeBooks.com: $3.35+ $3.75 or $6.75 (shipping)= $7.10 or $10.10

**Alibris.com: $1.99 + 3.99 or 6.99 (shipping)= $5.98 or 8.98

Received: January 7, 2009

The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson

AbeBooks.com: $15.36 + $3.75 or $7.70 (shipping)= $19.11 or $23.06

**Alibris.com: $15.00 + 3.99 or 6.99 (shipping)= $18.99 or 21.99

Barnes & Noble: $22.50 + tax= $24.75

Received: January 9, 2009

Total: $30.97

Cheese & The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by John and Anne C Tedeschi

**AbeBooks.com: $14.95 (free shipping) or $17.95 (faster shipping)

Alibris.com: $11.95 + $3.99 or 6.99 (shipping)= $15.94 or 18.94

Barnes & Noble: $18.90+tax

Received: January 13, 2009

The Great War and Modern Memory (25th Anniversary Edition) by Paul Fussell

**AbeBooks.com: $3.00+ $3.79 or $6.79 (shipping)= $6.79 or $9.79

Alibris.com: $7.79+ $3.99 or 6.99 (shipping)= $11.78 or 14.78

Barnes & Noble: $17.99+ tax

Received: January 8, 2009

The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick

 AbeBooks.com: $1.50 + $3.95 or $6.50 (shipping)= $6.95 or $8.00 (unavailable)

**Alibris.com: $2.95 + 3.99 or 6.99 (shipping)=$6.94 or 9.94

Barnes & Noble: 13.82 + tax

Received: January 12, 2009

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn

**AbeBooks.com: $5.00 + $4.00 or $6.00 (shipping)= $9.00 or $10.00

Alibris.com: $3.49 + 3.99 or 6.99 (shipping)= $7.48 or 10.48

Barnes & Noble: $10.53 + tax

Received: January 9, 2009

Total: $44.68

Grand Total: $75.65

[Edited: Friday, January 13, 4:47pm]

German Ideology by Karl Marx (Don't know what edition I should get)

I have a copy of these:

Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault (unread)

Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe by Norman M Naimark (read in Dr. Mara Kozelsky's Comparative Nationalism course)

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (New Edition) by Benedict Anderson (read in Dr. Mara Kozelsky's Comparative Nationalism course but not discussed)

Orientalism by Edward W. Said (read in Dr. Mara Kozelsky's European Imperialism course)

World Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein (read but not discussed)