Course Handbook - Faculty of History - University of Cambridge

Reinhart Koselleck, The Practice of Conceptual History (Stanford, 2002)
J. G. A. Pocock, ‘The Concept of Language and the Metier d’Historien: Some
Considerations on Practice’ in Anthony Pagden, ed., The Language of Political Theory in
Early Modern Europe (New York, 1985)
Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics: Volume I: Regarding Method (Cambridge, 2002), esp.
chapters. 9 & 10
Anna Wierzbicka, Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words (Oxford, 1997)
Raymond Williams, Keywords (Harmondsworth, 1976)
Keith Wrightson, ‘Estates, Degrees and Sorts: Changing Perceptions of Society in Tudor and
Stuart England’ in Penelope Corfield, ed., Language, History and Class (Oxford, Blackwell,
1991)
______, English Society, 1580–1680 (London, 1982)
7) Gender and development
Dr N Mora-Sitja
This course will examine the literature, debate, and approaches linking gender, economic
growth and historical development. Key questions will be how crucial the role of women has
been for economic development, and how particular growth trajectories have impacted on
women's status. In order to do so, the course will explore several theoretical and
methodological approaches to the study of women and the economy, with particular
emphasis on gender roles at work and within the family, as well as tools to measure and
identify discrimination. The second half of the course will be devoted to a comparative study
of the impact that key economic developments, such as industrialization or globalization,
have had on gender outcomes, in order to establish more systematic connections between
gender discrimination and the economy.
Some Suggestions for Introductory Reading
Boserup, E. (1970), Woman's Role in Economic Development, New York
Momsen, J.H., Women and Development in the Third World (1991)
Scott, J.W., Gender and the Politics of History (1988)
Becker, G.S. (1981), A Treatise on the Family
Goldin, C., Understanding the Gender Gap. An Economic History of American Women
(1990).
Hudson, P. and Lee, W.R. (1990), Women's Work and the Family Economy in Historical
Perspective
Lewis, J. (1984), Women in England, 1870-1950: Sexual Divisions and Social Change
Marcia Guttentag and Paul F. Secord. Too Many Women The Sex Ratio Question.
Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1983.
L. Gordon (ed.) Women, the State and Welfare (1990)
D. Sainsbury (ed.) Gender and Welfare State Regimes (1999)
Burnette, J., Gender, Work and wages in Industrial Revolution Britain (2009)
8) The economic policies of right-wing dictatorships in the era of mass politics
Dr C Ristuccia
This course will analyse economic policy making by European right-wing dictatorships in
the 20 th century, including Fascist Italy, Poland under Marshal Piłsudski, Portugal under
Salazar, Nazi Germany, Franco’s Spain, and Vichy France. Course topics will include
nationalism as an economic ideology, theories of citizenship in dictatorships, and the impact
of economic superiority on the outcome of WW2, complemented with in-depth studies of
economic policy in the countries listed above. The course’s comparative framework, and its
exploration of methodological and theoretical tools to study nationalist economic policies,
should provide the students with a solid background to understand Europe’s twentieth
century. Classes will be spread over Michaelmas and Lent.
Introductory reading list
Ben-Ghiat, R. (2001), Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945, Berkeley and Los Angeles,
CA: University of California Press.
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