Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books - available in the campus bookstore:

Emily S. Rosenberg (ed.), A World Connecting 1870-1945, Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press, 2012 (Hoerder, 433-589; Topik and Wells, 595-603, 608-632, 642-646).

Zuelow, Eric G. E., A History of Modern Tourism, London: Palgrave, 2016, 91-102, 112-184.

Articles and chapters

Texts marked with an asterisk (*) can be bought as a compendium at the bottom floor of the campus bookstore. Please remember to bring your student ID with you when buying compendiums.

The rest of the texts are accessible electronically through the UiO network.

¡°Christiania and Environs¡±, in Karl Baedeker (ed.), Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Handbook for Travellers, 8th ed. Leipzig: Baedeker, 1903, 9-21

*Bashford, Alison, Global Population. History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth, New York: Columbia UP, 2014, 29-51, 372-79.

*Bashford, Alison, Global Population. History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth, New York: Columbia UP, 2014, 355-364, 443-444.

*Fulvio, Catherine, Eat Like An Italian: Recipes for the Good Life, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2012), XV-XIX.

Gabaccia, Donna R., ¡°Food, Mobility, and World History,¡¯ in Jeffrey M. Pilcher (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Food History, New York: Oxford UP, 2012, 305-23.

*Gjerde, Jon, The Minds of the West. Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West 1830-1917, Chapel Hill and London: U of North Carolina P, 1997, 1-22, 58-76, 88-102, 240-47.

Godley, Andrew, ¡°Selling the Sewing Machine Around the World. Singer¡¯s International Marketing Strategies, 1850-1920¡±, Enterprise and Society, 7 (2006), no. 2, 266-314.

*Green, Nancy L., ¡°Fashion, Flexible Specialization, and the Sweatshop. A Historical Problem¡±, in Daniel E. Bender and Richard E. Greenwald (eds.), Sweatshop USA. The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective, New York: Routledge, 2003, 37-55.

Hahamovitch, Cindy, ¡°Creating Perfect Immigrants. Guestworkers of the World in Historical Perspective,¡± Labor History, 44 (2003), no. 1, 69-94.

Hoerder/Lucassen/Lucassen, ¡°Terminologies and Concepts¡±; Hoerder, ¡°Migrations and Belongings¡±

*Herbert, Ulrich, and Karin Hunn, ¡°Guest Workers and Policy on Guest Workers in the Federal Republic. From the Beginning of Recruitment in 1955 until its Halt in 1973¡±, in Hanna Schissler (ed.), The Miracle Years. A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-1968, Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2001, 187-218.

Jones, Geoffrey, ¡°Business enterprises and the making of the modern world¡± and ¡°The end of nationality? Global firms and borderless worlds¡±, in Geoffrey Jones, Entrepreneurship and Multinationals. Global Business and the Making of the Modern World, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013, 1-13, 190-207.

*J., W.B., ¡®A Journey Round the World with Knife and Fork, Chapter VII. ¨C Italy,¡¯ Once a Week, 21.12.1867, 730-1.

*Jones, Geoffrey, and Espen Storli, ¡°Marc Rich and Global Commodity Trading¡±, Harvard Business School Case 813-020, http://hbr.org/product/Marc-Rich-and-Global-Comm/an/813020-PDF-ENG, 2012. (Revised 2014.).

*Ling, Wessie, ¡°A Bag of Remembrance. A Cultural Biography of Red-White-Blue, from Hong Kong to Louis Vuitton¡±, in Regina L. Blaszczyk and V¨¦ronique Pouillard (eds.), European Fashion. The Creation of a Global Industry, Manchester: Manchester UP, 2018 (20 pp.).

McDowell, Linda, Working Lives. Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945¨C2007, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, 51-68, 95-125.

M?hring, Maren, ¡°Food for Thought: Rethinking the History of Migration to West Germany Through the Migrant Restaurant Business¡±, Journal of Contemporary History, 49 (2014), no. 1, 209-27.

*Radetzki, Marian, A Handbook of Primary Commodities in the Global Economy, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008, 7-46.

Schmelzer, Matthias, ¡°The Growth Paradigm. History, Hegemony, and the Contested Making of Economic Growthmanship¡±, Ecological Economics, 18 (2015), no. 1, 262-271.

Schultz, April, ¡°¡®The Pride of the Race Had Been Touched¡¯. The 1925 Norse-American Immigration Centennial and Ethnic Identity¡±, Journal of American History, 77, no. 4 (1991), 1265-1295.

*Skidelsky, Robert, ¡°The Growth of a World Economy¡±, in Michael Howard and Wm. Roger Louis (eds.), The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century, Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998, 50-62.

Stevens, Paul, ¡°National Oil Companies and International Oil Companies in the Middle East: Under the Shadow of Government and the Resource Nationalism Cycle¡±, Journal of World Energy Law & Business, 1 (2008), no. 1, 5-30.

Stevens, Paul, ¡°International Oil Companies. The Death of the Old Business Model¡±, The Royal Institute of International Affairs Research Paper, 2016.

*Topik, Steven C., and Allen Wells, ¡°Commodity Chains in a Global Economy¡±, in: Emily S. Rosenberg (ed.), A World Connecting 1870-1945, Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press, 2012, 595-603, 608-632, 642-646.

Wilkins, Mira, ¡°The Oil Companies in Perspective¡±, Daedalus, 104 (1975), no. 4, 159-178