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October 13, 2014

Personal Accounts and Identity

In Landscape of a Good Woman, Steedman gives us a personal view of her mother and her own relationship with her mother. The tension that…

davidatkins Atkins, Eley, History, Microhistory, Steedman

October 12, 2014

History as “Why?” & “How?”: Agency through Autobiography

Technically, class-consciousness has not been conceived of as psychological consciousness.  It has been separated from ‘the empirically given, and from the psychologically describable and explicable ideas that men form about their situation in life’, and has been seen rather as a possible set of reactions people might have to discovering the implications of the position […]

picasso13

October 12, 2014

Landscape of a historian

This week I read Landscape for a Good Woman before A crooked Line, and I think it might not be a good idea. Not only because Eley provides the background of Landscape for a Good Woman, but also because compared with most academic books, Carolyn Steedman takes a very special way, an autobiographical approach. I […]

hungyin

October 12, 2014

Edgy and Pushing the Envelop – What Influenced Eley?

Iggers, Foucault, now Eley, what? I mean, I am really getting bogged down with all of the dense readings. I find myself agreeing with Kate in wondering “why” are we reading this, then I begin to realize that this is part of learning to be an historian. We need to read about the thought process […]

Tiny Week 2: History past: Historical Thinking/Historiography

October 11, 2014

Landscape for a Good Woman, or Why It’s Better to Just be an Orphan

I do not think I remember ever reading anything quite like Carolyn Kay Steedman’s Landscape for a Good Woman. It made me think so many questions as I went along. Is this a gendered reading? Is it an analysis of … Continue reading →

saraevenson Historical Methods Assignment, History 5104

October 11, 2014

Autobiography as a way of ‘doing’ history

Both of our readings for this week, “Landscape for a Good Woman” and “A Crooked Line,” use an autobiographical framework to situate the reader in…

Claire G.

October 11, 2014

History, Physics and Change over Time

Yes, I know. It’s a math equation, to be precise, a physics equation. And Yes, I know it is strange to have a physics equation in a post on history. And Yes, I know, I better explain. This week’s readings … Continue reading →

faithskiles

October 10, 2014

Landscape of a Good Discipline

“Steedman is better described as a historian who understands the theoretical and philosophical implications of doing historical work. She pushes edgily on the boundaries of what historians think they do, but she manages to combine social and cultural history without turning the results into some risk-free and reassuring middle way…She makes the ‘cultural turn’ without […]

Carmen Bolt

October 9, 2014

Landscape for a [Good] Woman

I will have to admit that I enjoyed Geoff Eley’s A Crooked Line a bit more this time around. In particular, I appreciated his insight into the history of history, in Germany and elsewhere. I like being able to explore the background of history and it is one aspect of our class that I am […]

laura

October 8, 2014

At Least it’s Not Foucault…But Perhaps Even More Depressing…

I had a little confusion this week. Actually, more like many questions about unclear moments that I think discussion will clear up quickly. By unclear moments, I mean thoughts of “why are we actually reading this?” I’m sure I will Continue reading →

Kate Good

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  • Comment on Animals, Agency, and History by Tiny December 2, 2014
    Hey Laura, After hearing about how you plan on writing about the agency of dogs in the Great War, I now have a better understanding and grasp of your subject matter. I am a little surprised to read that you are questioning animals having agency in hist... Continue reading →
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  • Comment on Rosie, Buddy, Agency and History by Tiny December 2, 2014
    Hi Faith, As usual you provided a great piece of writing in my opinion. I always look forward to your posts because they seem to make me think back to personal experiences of my own in many cases. In this post, I was taken back to many different memories of all of my four legged […]
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  • Comment on Human Exceptionalism by Tiny December 2, 2014
    Hey David, I was glad to see that I was not the only one in the class that was wondering about animals and their agency or interaction with humans. This week's reading were very eye opening, as I had never really looked at the theory that we were just animals ourselves, having evolved to our […]
    Tiny
  • Comment on Lying down with the dogs by Claire G. December 2, 2014
    Hi Carmen, So do you see agency as a continuum, with natural disasters, urban landscapes, and other non-living shapers of history on one end and humans on the other? Claire Continue reading →
    Claire G.
  • Comment on Animals in History by Claire G. December 2, 2014
    Hi Sara, I was also pleased that we did this reading after "On Deep History and the Brain," because integrating animals into the study of history requires interdisciplinarity including psychology and the natural sciences. What do you think about how both week's readings position people in relation to other beings and forces? (Also, I think […]
    Claire G.

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