The Metropolis: A Social and Cultural History
Level:
Master's CEU credits:
2 ECTS credits:
4 Academic year:
2009/2010 Academic year:
2010/2011 Academic year:
2011/2012 Semester:
Winter Start and end dates:
9 Jan 2012 - 30 Mar 2012 Co-hosting Unit(s) [if applicable]:
Department of History Stream/Track/Specialization/Core Area:
Social and Political History in a Comparative Perspective CEU Instructor(s):
Gabor Gyani Additional information:
The goals of the course are to develop a comprehensive and critical understanding of the problem of modern urbanization and the metropolitan development in the 19th and 20th century Europe and the United States.
The course readings are designed to elaborate the various topics necessary to understanding the overall patterns of metropolitan evolution amidst very diverse socio-econimic and national contexts following the mid-19th century up to the mid-20th century.
Through the discussion of the readings, you will also gain insight into the historical questions and the methods by which they are researched. The end-of-the-term essay exam will be used to evaluate how throroughly you have mastered the basic infirmation provided in the course as well as your ability to answer the key questions that this course has been designed to address. Learning Outcomes:
The course provides a comparative insight into the social and cultural history of the European and North American urban development by focusing on the cities like Paris, London, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, New York or Philadelphia in the 19th and 20th century. In studying the relevant urban historical narratives the aim is to highlight the most diverse spatial implications of metropolitan life identified as usual with the realm of modernity. The emphasis is laid not on the individual and unique profile of the cities discussed, but the common features and last but not least the varieties of them. The course seeks to be attractive for students having a special interest both in the urban and social history of the modern world. The students are demanded to submit a seminar paper at the end of the course concerned with a single aspect of the city development of the last two centuries. Assessment :
A paper approximately 4000 to 6000 words, produced at the end of the course on one of the topics involved in the course program. Full description:
1. Themes and trends in urban social and cultural history
- Richard Rodger: Urban history: prospect and retrospect. Urban History, 19, part 1 April 1992. 1-23. [
pdf]
- Thomas Bender: The Unfinished City. New York and the Metropolitan Idea. The New Press, New York, 2002. 57-69. [pdf]
- Theodore Hershberg: The new urban history: toward an interdisciplinary history of the city. In: Theodore Hershberg, ed.: Philadelphia. Work, Space, Family and Group Experience in the 19th Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981. 3-43. (optional)
2. Urban segregation
- Donald J. Olsen: The City as a Work of Art. London, Paris, Vienna. Yale University Press, New Haven - London, 1986. 132-159. [pdf]
- Sam Bass Warner, Jr.: The Private City. Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1968. 161-177. [pdf]
- David Cannadine: Residential differentiation in nineneteenth-century towns: from shapes on the ground to shapes in society. In: J. H. Johnson - C. G. Pooley, eds.: The Structure of Nineteenth Century Cities. Croom Helm, London, 1982. 235-252. (optional)
3. A case of territorialization
- Cathleen M. Giustino: Municipal activism in late-nineteenth-century Prague: the house numbered 207-V ghetto clearance. Austrian History Yearbook, XXXIV, 2003. 247-279. [pdf]
- Tim Cole: Ghettoization. In: Dan Stone, ed.: The Historiography of the Holocaust. Palgrave, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004. 65-88. [pdf]
4. Urban family and community
- Thomas Bender: Community and Social Change in America. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1978. 121-143. [pdf]
- Richard Sennett: Families Against the City. Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago 1872-1890. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1984. 218-241. [pdf]
- Donna R. Gabaccia: From Sicily to Elizabeth Street. Housing and Social Change Among Italian Immigrants, 1880-1930. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1984. 100-117. [pdf]
5. Middle-class domesticity
- Donald J. Olsen: The City as a Work of Art., 101-132. [pdf]
- Gábor Gyáni: Parlor and Kitchen. Housing and Domestic Culture in Budapest, 1870-1940. Central University Press, Budapest - New York, 2002. 37-66., 98-106., 115-117. [pdf]
- Katherine C. Grier: Culture and Comfort. Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington - London, 1988. 64-89., 117-143. (optional)
- Leonore Davidoff - Catherine Hall: Family Fortunes. Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850. Hutchinson, London, 1987. 357-397. (optional)
6. Working-class housing
- Donald J. Olsen: The City as a Work of Art, 178-185. [pdf]
- Martin J. Daunton, ed.: Housing the Workers, 1850-1914. A Comparative Perspective. Leicester University Press, London - New York, 1990. 1-33. [pdf]
- Gábor Gyáni: Parlor and Kitchen, 137-241. (optional)
7. Public space - public culture: flânerie
- Richard Sennett: The Fall of Public Man. Vintage, New York, 1978. 195-219. [pdf]
- Marshall Berman: All That is Solid Melts Into Air. The Experience of Modernity. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1982. 131-164. [pdf]
- Gábor Gyáni: Identity and the Urban Experience. Fin-de-Siécle Budapest. Columbia University Press, New York, 2004. 25-44., 59-83. [pdf]
- Victoria E. Thompson: Telling ‘spatial stories’: urban space and bourgeois identity in early nineteenth-century Paris. Journal of Modern History, 75 (September 2003) 523-556. (optional)
8. Public space - public culture: amusement
- Donald J. Olsen: The City as a Work of Art, 189-251. [pdf] [pdf] [pdf]
- Gábor Gyáni: Identity and the Urban Experience, 97-111. [pdf]
- Lewis A. Erenberg: Steppin’ Out. New York Nightlife and the Transformation of
American Culture 1890-1930. University of Chicago Press, Chicago - London, 1984. 5-31. (optional)
- Kathy Peiss: Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1986. 11-34. (optional)
9. Public space - public culture: consumption
- Jeanne Catherine Lawrence: Geographical space, social space, and the realm of the department store. Urban History, 19, part 1 (April 1992) 64-84. [pdf]
- Geoffrey Crossick - Serge Jaumain, eds.: Cathedrals of Consumption. The European Department Store 1850-1939. Ashgate, Aldershot, 1999. 1-46. [pdf]
- Daniel Roche: The People of Paris. An Essay in Popular Culture in the 18th Century. Berg, Leamington, Spa, 1987. 127-160. (optional)
10. Public space - public culture: violence
- Rob Sindall: Street Violence in the Nineteenth Century. Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1990. 1-16., 44-79. [pdf]
- David R. Johnson: Policing the Urban Underworld. The Impact of Crime on the Development of the American Police, 1800-1887. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1979. 68-90. [pdf]
- Gábor Gyáni: Identity and the Urban Experience, 137-155. [pdf]
- Louise A. Tilly: I Fatti de Maggio. The working class of Milan and the rebellion of 1898. In: Robert J. Bezucha, ed.: Modern European Social History. D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, 1972. 124-161. (optional)
11. Expression and representation of the city
- Donald J. Olsen: The City as a Work of Art, 281-313. [pdf] [pdf]
- Carl E. Schorske: Museum in contested space: the sword, the scepter and the Ring. In: Carl E. Schorske: Thinking With History. Explorations in the Passage to Modernism. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ., 1998. 105-125. [pdf]
- Thomas Bender: The Unfinished City, 1-55. (optional)
12. Social memory and the city
- Richard Reichensperger: The art of memory between Paris and Vienna.. In: Moritz Csáky - Elena Mannová, eds.: Collective Identites in Central Europe in Modern Times. Bratislava, 1999. 23-45. [pdf]
- Peter Stachel: An Austrian “place of memory”. The Heldenplatz in Vienna as a historic symbol and political metaphor. In: Moritz Csáky - Elena Mannová, eds.: Collective Identites in Central Europe, 159-179. [pdf]
- András Gerő: Modern Hungarian Society in the Making. The Unfinished Experience. CEU, Budapest - London - New York, 1995. 203-223. [pdf]
- L’ubomír Lipták: Collective identity and public space. In: Moritz Csáky - Elena Mannová, eds.: Collective Identites in Central Europe Times, 121-137. (optional)