Culture, Politics, and Class
Knowing History and Making HistoryBackground Reading
Merriman, History of Modern Europe, vol. 2, on middle-class culture (pp. 618-633), reform in Britain (pp. 661-668), and on varieties of socialism (pp. 592-597).Discussion: 4-5 Feb.,Reading the People
(this was postponed from last week)
Students whose last names begin with I-Q must submit written answers to Reading Questions this week.
Charles Dickens, “The Pawnbroker’s Shop” (1836), available on-line.
Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), chapter six; the full text is also available.
Mrs. Motherly (Emily Augusta Patmore), The Servant’s Behaviour Book: or Hints on Manners and Dress (1859), selections; the full text is also available.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Speech on Parliamentary Reform (March 1831), selections.
Further Reading
Catherine Hall and Leonore Davidoff, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850 (1987).
Leonard Krieger, Ranke: The Meaning of History (1977).
Katherine Lynch, Family, Class, and Ideology in Early Industrial France (1988).
Edgar Newman, "The Historian as Apostle: Romanticism, Religion, and the First Socialist History of the World," Journal of the History of Ideas (1995), 239-261."
Bonnie Smith, The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice (1998).
E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1963).
Charles Taylor, Hegel and Modern Society (1979).
Robert C. Tucker, Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx (1961).
Francis Wheen, Karl Marx : A Life (2000).
