Class Schedule

Note: The schedule below remains subject to changes depending on the number of students enrolled in this module. Depending on students’ needs and interests, background and language skills, I may revise some topics and readings throughout the semester.

7 October 2020 Welcome & Introduction - What is and Why is Transnational History?

14 October 2020 Transnational or transnational? OR The problem with borders

and containers: Time, Events and Periods – Borders, Spaces, Places

1760s-1840s – The Great Divergence or Why Europe? Enlightenment(s) and Revolution triumphant or Crisis of the Old Regime

21 October 2020 Climates of the Enlightenment OR Into the Anthropocene: Climate

(change), Hunger Crises, Balloons, and a Volcano in Iceland

28 October 2020 NO CLASS

4 November 2020 Interwar Crisis and Opportunities OR Did Prussia have an Atlantic

History? The Partition of Poland-Lithuania, Storms in Havana, and

Baltic Timber

11 November 2020 Slavery Hinterlands: When Silesian Linen met the Caribbean and

Glasgow had a Sugar Rush

18 November 2020 The problem with ‘1789’: French, Atlantic or Global Age of Revolution –

Diffusion or Interconnected?

1850s-1920s – Into Steam and Out of Europe: The mid-century and late-19^th century

25 November 2020 Poles in Paris and along the Ruhr, Slovaks in Cleveland: Hungry ’40s, Revolt,

Migration and Exiles

2 December 2020 A World of Commodities, (Indentured) Labour, and Inequalities: Why

Cotton, Whales, Jute, and Guano Matter

9 December 2020 A World of Novelties and Innovations: Internationalism in the Age of

Nationalism. Postcards, Congresses, and the Quest for a Global

Language

16 December 2020 Disease, Germs, Experts, and Infrastructures OR Why the Russian Flu

Killed Regionally and the Spanish Flu Globally

6 January 2021 Looking back and ahead - Concluding Discussion

Reading and Preparation

Note on Reading: For each week there is one to two * marked core reading for ALL to read as I prefer to have a common ground. Beyond that you find a short list of recommended further readings as well as a more general introductory bibliography as well as relevant journals below.

7 October 2020 Welcome & Introduction - What is and Why is Transnational History?

Reading

*Patel, Kiran Klaus. ‘An Emperor without Clothes? The Debate about Transnational History Twenty-five years on’. Revue électronique, 13 June 2017. https://www.histoire-politique.fr/index.php?numero=26&rub=pistes&item=32.

Patel, Kiran Klaus, ‘Transnational History’, EGO European History Online http://www.ieg-ego.eu http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/theories-and-methods/transnational-history

*Rüger, Jan. ‘OXO: Or, the Challenges of Transnational History’. European History Quarterly 40, no. 4 (10 January 2010): 656–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265691410376488.

14 October 2020 Transnational or transnational? OR The problem with borders

and containers: Time, Events and Periods – Borders, Spaces, Places

Reading

*Clavin, Patricia. ‘Time, Manner, Place: Writing Modern European History in Global, Transnational and International Contexts’, European History Quarterly 40/4 (2010), 624-640.

*Jordanova, Ludmilla J. History in Practice. London: Arnold, 2000, pp. 114-138 (Chapter 5: Periodisation)

Maier, Charles S. ‘Consigning the Twentieth Century to History: Alternative Narratives for the Modern Era’. The American Historical Review 105, no. 3 (1 June 2000): 807–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/2651811.

21 October 2020 Climates of the Enlightenment OR Into the Anthropocene: Climate

(change), Hunger Crises, Balloons, and a Volcano in Iceland

Reading

*Jones, Peter. Agricultural Enlightenment: Knowledge, Technology, and Nature 1750-1840. First edition. Oxford, Great Britain: Oxford University Press, 2016. (e-book – Chapter 3)

*Malanima, Paolo. ‘Energy Crisis and Growth 1650–1850: The European Deviation in a Comparative Perspective’. Journal of Global History 1, no. 1 (March 2006): 101–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022806000064.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. ‘The Climate of History: Four Theses’. Critical Inquiry 35, no. 2 (2009): 197–222. https://doi.org/10.1086/596640.

Brázdil, Rudolf, Gaston R. Demarée, Mathias Deutsch, Emmanuel Garnier, Andrea Kiss, Jürg Luterbacher, Neil Macdonald, et al. ‘European Floods during the Winter 1783/1784: Scenarios of an Extreme Event during the “Little Ice Age”’. Theoretical & Applied Climatology 100, no. 1–2 (March 2010): 163–89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-009-0170-5.

28 October 2020 NO CLASS

Reading

Christopher A. Bayly et al., ‘AHR Conversation: On Transnational History’, American Historical Review 111/5 (2006), 1441-1464.

Green, Nancy L. ‘The Trials of Transnationalism: It’s Not as Easy as It Looks’. The Journal of Modern History 89, no. 4 (28 November 2017): 851–74. https://doi.org/10.1086/694392.

4 November 2020 Interwar Crisis and Opportunities OR Did Prussia have an Atlantic

History? The Partition of Poland-Lithuania, Storms in Havana, and

Baltic Timber

Reading

Healy, Róisín. Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772--1922: Anti-Colonialism within Europe. Electronic book. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Johnson, Sherry. ‘El Niño, Environmental Crisis, and the Emergence of Alternative Markets in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1760s-70s’. The William and Mary Quarterly 62, no. 3 (2005): 365–410. https://doi.org/10.2307/3491529.

Rothschild, Emma. ‘A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic’. Past & Present, no. 192 (1 August 2006): 67–108.

11 November 2020 Slavery Hinterlands: When Silesian Linen met the Caribbean and

Glasgow had a Sugar Rush

Reading

*Brahm, Felix, and Eve Rosenhaft. Slavery Hinterland. Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2016. (selected chapters)

Fuhrmann, Malte. ‘“Western Perversions” at the Threshold of Felicity: The European Prostitutes of Galata‐Pera (1870–1915)’. History and Anthropology 21, no. 2 (1 June 2010): 159–72. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757201003796617.

Lago, Enrico Dal. ‘Second Slavery, Second Serfdom, and Beyond: The Atlantic Plantation System and the Eastern and Southern European Landed Estate System in Comparative Perspective, 1800–60’. Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 32, no. 4 (2009): 391–420.

*Raphael-Hernandez, Heike, and Pia Wiegmink. ‘German Entanglements in Transatlantic Slavery: An Introduction’. Atlantic Studies 14, no. 4 (2 October 2017): 419–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2017.1366009.

Ryden, David Beck. ‘Producing a Peculiar Commodity: Jamaican Sugar Production, Slave Life, and Planter Profits on the Eve of Abolition, 1750-1807’. The Journal of Economic History 61, no. 2 (2001): 504–7.

Useful resources

http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/page/welcome

https://www.slavevoyages.org/

18 November 2020 The problem with ‘1789’: French, Atlantic or Global Age of Revolution –

Diffusion or Interconnected?

Reading

*Armitage, David, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. (selected chapters)