MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Graduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

FRM5030

Nineteenth-century French social history

Jacques Birnberg

Synopsis This subject is intended to acquaint MA candidates with some of the aims and methods of French social history. Social history consists basically of the study of social groups; it aims at a synthesis of the sociologists' synchronic and the historians' diachronic approach. The lectures and the reading program will introduce students to a few chosen works by French social historians specialising in nineteenth-century studies, with an emphasis on group identification. The subject covers such topics as histoire événementielle and serial history (la longue durée); introduction to nineteenth-century French economic history; introduction to French demographic studies; French rural history of the nineteenth century.

Assessment (8 points) Two class papers (1000 words each): 15% each + Essay (5000 words): 70%

Assessment (12 points) Four class papers (1000 words each): 10% each + Essay (5000 words): 60%

Preliminary reading

• Dupeux G La Société française 1789-1960 A Colin

Prescribed texts

• L'Histoire sociale. Sources et méthodes PUF
• Braudel F Ecrits sur l'histoire Flammarion
• Daumard A Les Bourgeois de Paris au 19e siècle Flammarion

Recommended texts

• Agulhon M and others Apogée et crise de la civilisation paysanne, 1789-1914 vol. 3 Histoire de la France rurale ed. G Duby and A Wallon, Seuil
• Armengaud A La Population française au XIXe siècle PUF
• Bouvier J Initiation au vocabulaire et aux mécanismes économiques contemporains SEDES
• Chevalier L Classes laborieuses et classes dangereuses à Paris pendant la première moitié du 19e siècle Hachette-Pluriel
• Gossez R Les Ouvriers de Paris Société d'histoire de la Révolution de 1848, t. XXIV, La Roche-sur-Yon
• Soboul A and others L'Histoire sociale. Sources et méthodes PUF