Syllabus/achievement requirements

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Reading assignments

Books

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

 

Articles and chapters (compendium and online links)

“Christiania and Environs”, in Karl Baedeker (ed.), Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Handbook for Travellers, 8th ed. Leipzig: Baedeker, 1903, 9-21, https://archive.org/details/norwayswedendenm00karl.

"Globalisation has faltered", The Economist, 24.1.2019 [https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/01/24/globalisation-has-faltered].

"Globalisation is dead and we need to invent a new world order", The Economist, 28.6.2019 [https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/28/globalisation-is-dead-and-we-need-to-invent-a-new-world-order].

Bashford, Alison, Global Population. History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth, New York: Columbia UP, 2014, 29-51, 355-364, 372-79, 443-444.

Bordo, Michael D., “Globalization in historical perspective”, Business Economics, 37 (2002), 20-29. (https://search.proquest.com/docview/199852036?rfr_id=info%3Axri%2Fsid%3Aprimo)

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.

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.

Hoerder, Dirk, “Migrations and Belongings”, in Emily S. Rosenberg (ed.), A World Connecting 1870-1945, Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press, 2012, 433-589.

Hoerder, Dirk, Jan Lucassen, and Leo Lucassen, “Terminologies and Concepts of Migration Research”, in: Klaus J. Bade/Pieter C. Emmer/Leo Lucassen (eds.), The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities. From the Seventeenth Century to the Present, New York: Cambridge UP, 2011, xxv-xxxix.

J., W.B., ‘A Journey Round the World with Knife and Fork, Chapter VII. – Italy,’ Once a Week, 21.12.1867, 730-1.

Laqua, Daniel, The Age of Internationalism and Belgium, 1880-1930. Peace, Progress and Prestige, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013, 181-210.

Ling, Wessie, “A Bag of Remembrance. A Cultural Biography of Red-White-Blue, from Hong Kong to Louis Vuitton”, in Regina L. Blaszczyk and Véronique 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, 1945–2007, 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.

O’Rourke, Kevin, “Economic History and Contemporary Challenges to Globalization”, Journal of Economic History, 79 (2019), 356-382. (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/economic-history-and-contemporary-challenges-to-globalization/616A2B63EDFDE212193C324157498179)

Reinalda, Bob, Routledge History of International Organizations. From 1815 to the Present Day, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009, 96-10.

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

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.

Thompson, Maris, “Family Photographs as Traces of Americanization”, in: Alexander Freund and Alistair Thomson (eds.), Oral History and Photography, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 149-168.

Urdal, Henrik, “People vs. Malthus: Population Pressure, Environmental Degradation, and Armed Con?ict Revisited”, Journal of Peace Research, 42 (2005), 417–434. (https://libkey.io/libraries/269/articles/5059582/full-text-file?utm_source=api_181)

Wilkins, Mira, “The Oil Companies in Perspective”, Daedalus, 104 (1975), no. 4, 159-178.

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