🗃️Favorite comparative histories assigned for grad students? Taking over a methods class for a colleague and I’m looking for new material.
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I don’t know if this qualifies as “comparative” exactly (maybe embedded comparison?), but am intrigued by Scott Reynolds Nelson’s Oceans of Grain. Anyone assign who can report back? 🗃️
aug 10, 2025, 6:33 pm • 3 1 • view
JH Elliott's Empires of the Atlantic World? it's perhaps a bit dated for your purposes, plus it's LONG (but the length and archival richness is part of what makes it so original and impressive), so perhaps hard to assign in a course?
aug 10, 2025, 6:44 pm • 3 0 • view
Too ambitious but yeah.
aug 10, 2025, 7:27 pm • 2 0 • view
What Scott does especially well is embed his research process into the narrative in engaging ways — so I find his writing teaches very well! Not sure about comparative aspect. I only assigned excerpts, also
aug 10, 2025, 7:22 pm • 2 0 • view
(UG only, too, but when I teach grad methods I’m totally using it)
aug 10, 2025, 7:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Kate Brown’s “Plutopia” on nuclear cities in USSR and USA.
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I was thinking about her article comparing Montana and Kazakhstan in the AHR. But you recommend the book?
aug 10, 2025, 10:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Actually the article might be ideal for discussion in a seminar. Esp if you want to have a couple readings.
aug 10, 2025, 10:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Second that!
aug 10, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Compare official policies to “Germanize” the populations of post-partition Poland vs Alsace Lorraine.
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Theda Skocpol. States and social revolutions. A comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China.
aug 10, 2025, 7:07 pm • 1 0 • view
My favorites: Pomeranz, The Great Divergence; Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World; Burton (ed.), After the Imperial Turn; Mayer, The Persistence of the Old Regime; Cooper, Colonialism in Question.
aug 10, 2025, 7:31 pm • 1 0 • view
www.amazon.ca/Many-Headed-...
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Property and Dispossession by Nash. Very dense read, but great scholarship synthesizing a library of texts on colonization
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