Leopold von Ranke, The Theory and Practice of History
G.R. Elton, The Practice of History
Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie, Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives
E.H. Carr, What is History?
A.G. Dickens, The German Nation and Martin Luther
That was last week's reading. This week I got:
Sofia Rosenfeld, Common Sense: A Political History
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights
Peter de Bolla, The Architecture of Concepts
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action
A.O. Hirschman, Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Jürgen Habermas, Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
Jan Goldstein, "Foucault among the Sociologists: The Disciplines and History of the Professions"
Mark Raeff, "The Well-Ordered Police State and the Development of Modernity in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe: An Attempt at a Comparative Approach"
Steven Ozment, The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
Steven Ozment ed., Reformation Europe: A Guide to Research
The latter two are, obviously, for my thesis research. I only hope I have time to get to them. Because otherwise getting to my thesis proposal is going to be difficult, assuming this kind of workload is the standard....