478A  PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY SINCE 1789     (Micale)

            Topic:  Varieties of Cultural History

            An examination of the leading approaches to and genres of cultural history writing with special attention to the range of subjects and methods found in present-day scholarship.  Examples include: the history of cultural politics; the history of mentalities; the history of the book and reading; the history of cultural institutions; the history of culture and class identity; psychocultural history; the history of the emotions; and cross-cultural history.  Weekly readings will be drawn widely from British, French, German, Austrian, Italian, Russian, and North American history from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.