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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Department of History
| History 901 |
Office Hours |
| Prof. Dunlavy |
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| 4103 Humanities |
or by appt. (263-1854) |
Reading SEMINAR
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Note:
When I teach this again in Fall 2000, we
will focus on the 19th century. I plan to mix a few classic works
in with the best of the newest studies and to offer students the choice
of a historiographic or research paper to be due at the end of the
semester. Feel free to contact
me with any questions. |
History of American Capitalism
Readings. For details, see the (projected) reading list below. Polanyi has been ordered at the University Bookstore and several copies are on reserve at the College Library. The remaining books will be put on reserve at the State Historical Society; if available in paperback, they will also be ordered at the bookstore.
Structure and Requirements. Each week a team of two or three students will lead class discussion. Written work will take the form of three take-home essays (ca. 10-15 pp.) -- in effect, think-pieces based on assigned readings. Grades will be based the written work, the essays weighted equally.
| January 27 |
Introduction, Class Mechanics, etc. |
| February 3 |
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (1944; any edition). |
| February 10 |
Winifred Barr Rothenberg, From Market-Places to a Market Economy: The Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750-1850 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). |
| February 17 |
John R. Nelson, Jr., Liberty and Property: Political Economy and Policymaking in the New Nation, 1789-1812 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987). |
| February 24 |
Judith A. McGaw, Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987). |
| March 3 |
Colleen A. Dunlavy, Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994). |
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First take-home essay topic handed out. |
| March 10 |
Grace Palladino, Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-68 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990). |
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First take-home essay due. |
| March 17 |
William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1991). |
| March 24 |
Joseph P. Reidy, From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992). |
| March 31 |
Spring recess |
| April 7 |
Victoria Hattam, Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993). |
| April 14 |
Paul Krause, The Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992). |
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Second take-home essay topic handed out. |
| April 21 |
Carroll Van West, Capitalism on the Frontier: Billings and the Yellowstone Valley in the Nineteenth Century (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993). |
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Second take-home essay due. |
| April 28 |
Olivier Zunz, Making America Corporate, 1870-1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990). |
| May 5 |
David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 (Cambridge:
M.I.T. Press, 1990). |
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Third take-home essay handed out. |
| May 12 |
David F. Noble, Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984). |
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Third take-home essay due. |
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