HISTORY 101

Family, Community, and Class

 

Mr. Schwartz

Spring 2002

Office Hours:

206 Skinner Hall

 

Tues. & Thurs., 4-5 and by appointment

Telephone: x2465

 

E-Mail: rschwart

Speaking & Writing Mentor: 

Kristina Gross   kmgross@mtholyoke.edu

 

 

Books available for purchase at the Odyssey:

 

Edward Berenson, The Trail of Madame Caillaux (U. of California pb)

Emilie Carles, A Life of Her Own (Penguin pb)

 

Course Booklet

The course booklett contains additional readings which are indicated in the syllabus by (CB 1 or CB 2). It is available in the History Department, 309 Skinner; a fee will be charged to offset the cost of duplication of this packet and miscellaneous photocopying during the semester.

 

Books on reserve in the Library

J. L. Flandrin, Families in Former Times

B. Smith, Changing Lives. Women in European History Since 1700

Edward Berenson, The Trail of Madame Caillaux

Michael Mitterauer and Reinhard Sieder, The European Family

Beatrice Gottlieb, The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age

Mark Traugott, The French Worker Autobiographies from the Early Industrial Era

 

Course Requirements

1.       Attendance at all classes and team meetings

2.       Teamwork and collaboration

3.       Informed participation in class discussions

4.       Postings to the Class Disucssion forum

5.       Several oral presentations in class

6.       Several reports and essays

 

Evaluations:

  1. Self evaluation
  2. Peer evaluation by one’s team members
  3. Instructor evaluation

 

Final Grade:

  1. Self and peer evaluation  10%
  2. Team performance  20 %
  3. Individual performance 70 %

 

Course Web Site: (for copies of the syllabus, handouts, etc.)

www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist101/home.htm

 

I.  Family, Community, and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century

 

Secondary Accounts: rural life as described by historians

Jan. 29

 

Daniel Roche, “Peasant France and Merchant France,”chapter 4 in : his France in the Enlightenment (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1999) (Handout)

Jan. 31

Gerald Cavanaugh, "A French Peasant Community in the Old Regime," from Gene Brucker, ed., People and Communities in the Western World, Vol. II (Homewood, Illinois: Dorsey Press, 1979). (Handout)

Bonnie Smith, "Eighteenth-Century Worlds" in her Changing Lives, chap 1, especially pp. 6-26; (CB 1)

 

Primary Sources: rural life described by observers of the time

Feb. 5

Pierre Jean-Baptise Le Grand d’Aussy: Voyage d’Auvergne [Voyage in the Auvergne, an account of a voyage by a bourgeois traveler], published in 1788. (CB 1)

Feb. 7

F. Y. Bernard [1752-1842], Mémoires d’un Nonagenaire [Memoirs of a Ninety-Year Old, reminiscences of a bourgeois priest who lived in the area about which he wrote.], published ca. 1840. (CB 1)

 

The Peasant Patriarch as Hero

Feb. 12

Rétif de la Bretonne, My Father's Life, introduction, books 1-2 (CB 1)

Feb. 14

Rétif de la Bretonne, My Father's Life, Book 3-4 and Ploughman's Wife

 

Interpretations

Feb. 19

R.M. Schwartz, “The Peasant as Hero: Rousseau, Restif de la Bretonne, and the Representation of Rustic Virtues” (CB 2)

E. Le Roy Ladurie, "Rétif de la Bretonne as a Social Anthropologist: Rural Burgundy in the Eighteenth-Century" (CB 2)

Feb. 21

Mark Poster, “Patriarchy and Sexuality: Rétif and the Peasant Family,” The Eighteenth Century 25 (1984): 217-240 (CB 2)

D.G. Carlton, “Happy Families: (1) The Age of Innocence; (2) The New Eve” and Town and Country” in his New Images of the Natural (CB 2)

 

 

II. Reconstructing the Lives of Ordinary People: Célestine (1844-1933) and Others

 

“The Wedding” from George Sand, The Devil’s Pool (1848) (CB 2)

 

Tindall, Cëlestine, Part I: The Making of a World  (CB 2)

Feb. 26

Tindall, Cëlestine, Part II: The Cheerful Day 

Feb. 28

Tindall, Cëlestine, Part III: A Time for Reaping

Mar. 5

Working with Census Records

Mar. 7

Working with Census Records

Mar. 12

Working with Census Records

Mar. 14

Working with Census Records

BREAK

 

Mar. 25

Martin Nadaud, “Memoires of a Former Mason’s Assistant,”selection taken from Mark Traugott, ed., The French Worker. Autobiographies of the Early Industrial Era (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 183-216 (CB 2)

Mar. 30

Nadaud, pp. 216-249

IV.  The Bourgeoisie and the New Woman

Apr. 2

B. G. Smith, "The New Woman" in her Changing Lives, chap. 8 (CB 1)

Apr. 4

Berenson, Trial of Madame Caillaux, Prologue and chaps. 1-2

Apr. 9

Berenson, Trial of Madame Caillaux, chaps. 3-4

Apr. 11

Berenson, Trial of Madame Caillaux, chaps. 5-6 and Epilogue

Apr. 16

Open

Apr. 18

Emilie Carles, A Life of Her Own, Intro., Preface, chaps. 1-6.

Apr. 23

Carles, chaps. 7-19

Apr. 25

Carles, chaps. 20-26

Apr. 30

Carles, chaps. 27-32

May 2

Review and synthesis

May 7

Review and synthesis