EUROPE AND THE INVENTION OF MODERNITY, Seminar 3: The Modern State and the Autonomy of Politics

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Academic year: 
2012/2013
Semester: 
Spring
Start and end dates: 
15 Apr 2013 - 24 May 2013
Host Unit: 
Department of History
Instructor(s): 
László Kontler
Instructor(s): 
Guest Professors

Location: Nador 11, Room 615
Time: 10:00-13:00 on each occasion (unless otherwise indicated)

DRAFT SCHEDULE

Week 1 (15-18 April) Theoretical foundations and practical transitions

Tuesday, 16th April. 14:00-17:00 Le droit romain. Un droit sans État à la base de l'État modern (IN FRENCH) (Aldo Schiavone, SUM)

Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1978) part one, chapter one, and part two, chapter four [savepdf] [savepdf]

Wednesday, 17th April. Roman law, modernity and the style of Western history (Aldo Schiavone, SUM)

Quentin Skinner, Liberty before Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998), chapter one [savepdf]
 
Aldo Schiavone, The End of the Past. Ancient Rome and the Modern West (Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., 2000)

Thursday, 18th April. Ideas of governance: from reason of state to state sciences (Laszlo Kontler, CEU)

Michel Foucault, “Governmentality”, in Michel Foucault, Power, ed. James D. Faubion (New York: The New Press, 2000), 201-222. [CONSULTING THE FRENCH ORIGINAL OF COURSE ACCEPTABLE – I DID NOT HAVE IT IN HAND, L.K.] [savepdf]

Giovanni Botero, The Reason of State, Book I.1, 8, 12-15; Book II.1-10; Book III.1; Book VII.11-12; Book VIII.1-2, 14 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1956), 3, 12-3, 16-21, 34-53, 73-75, especially143-153, 165. [ITALIAN ORIGINAL ACCEPTABLE] [savepdf]

Gerhard Oestreich, Neostoicism and the early modern state (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1982), 155-186. [savepdf]

Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler (eds.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 525-546 [WATCH PAGES: PDF IS LONGER!!!] [savepdf]

Friday, 19th April. Classical conceptions of sovereignty (Matthias Riedl, CEU)

Jean Bodin, On Sovereignty, ed. Julian H. Franklin (Cambridge: CUP 1992), 1-13, 46-59. [savepdf]

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Richard Tuck (Cambridge: CUP 1991), 9-11, 86-100, 121-138. [savepdf]

Rousseau, The Social Contract, ed. Victor Gourevitch (Cambridge: CUP 1997), 41-65, 296-299 (notes) [savepdf]

Carl Schmitt, Political Theology. Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, trans. George Schwab (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985), 5-15. [savepdf]

Week 2 (22-25 April) Forms of state and state formation (I)

Monday, 22nd April. A Europe of republics and monarchies (Laszlo Kontler, CEU)

H.G. Koenigsberger, “Republicanism, monarchism and liberty”, in Robert Oresko, G.C. Gibbs and H.M. Scott (eds.) Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe. Essays in memory of Ragnhild Hatton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1997), 43-74. [savepdf]

Ian Green, The Development of Monarchies in Western Europe, c. 1500-1800”, in Richard Butterwick (ed.), The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, c. 1500-1795 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), 39-57. [savepdf]

Martin Creveld, The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 118-170. [savepdf]

Tuesday, 23rd April. Wars and State formation I.: Changing art of war and birth of the modern state (Domagoj Madunic, CEU)

Parker, Geoffrey. "The ‘Military Revolution,’ 1560-1660 – a Myth?" Journal of Modern History, vol. 48 (1976), pp. 195-214. [savepdf]

Frank Tallet, War and Society in Early Modern Europe, 1495-1715. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. pp. 21-44.[savepdf]

James, Alan. "Warfare and the Rise of the State." In Palgrave Advances in Modern Military History. Matthew Hughes and William J. Philpott eds., pp. 23-41. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2006. [savepdf]

Steven Gunn, "War and the emergence of the State: western Europe, 1350-1600" in European Warfare 1350-1750. Edited by Frank Tallet and D. J. B. Trim, pp. 50-73. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2010. [savepdf]

Wednesday, 24th April. Wars and State formation II.: Military entrepreneurship, and the fiscalmilitary state, a paradigm challanged? (Domagoj Madunic, CEU)

Jan Glete, "Warfare, entrepreneurship, and the fiscal-military state," In: European Warfare 1350-1750. Edited by Frank Tallet and D. J. B. Trim, pp. 300-321. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2010. [savepdf]

Frank Tallet, War and Society in Early Modern Europe, 1495-1715. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. pp. 168-216. [savepdf]

Olaf van Nimwegen, "The transformation of army organisation in early-modern western Europe, c. 1500–1789 ." In: European Warfare 1350-1750. Edited by Frank Tallet and D. J. B. Trim, pp. 159-178. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2010. [savepdf]

David Parrot, "From military enterprise to standing armies: war, state, and society in western Europe, 1600–1700 ," In: European Warfare 1350-1750. Edited by Frank Tallet and D. J. B. Trim, pp. 74-95. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2010. [savepdf]

Thursday, 25th April (afternoon) - Saturday, 27th April, Conference Historians in Space – Concepts of Space in Recent European Historiography

Week 3 (29 April-3 May) Forms of state and state formation (II)

Monday, 29th April. “Oriental despotisms?” The Eastern empires of Europe as states (Alfred Rieber, CEU)

Edward Said, “Latent and Manifest Orientalism,” from Orientalism (London, 1978), pp. 111-114. [savepdf]

Aijaz Ahmad, “Between Orientalism and Historicism,”  from Studies in History 7:1 (1991), pp. 285-297 [savepdf]

Franco Venturi, “Oriental Despotism,” from Journal of the History of Ideas, 24:1 (Jan-March, 1963), pp. 133-142. [savepdf]

Nader Naderi, “European Absolutism versus Oriental Despotism: A Comparison and Critique from Michigan Sociological Review 8 (Fall 1994), pp.48-64. [savepdf]

Tuesday, 30th April. Overhauling the ancien regime: Central European trajectories (Laszlo Kontler, CEU)

H. M. Scott, Reform in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1740-1790”, in H. M. Scott (ed.), Enlightened Absolutism. Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe (London: Macmillan, 1990), 145-188 [savepdf]

Richard Butterwick (ed.), The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, c. 1500-1795 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), 193-218  [savepdf]

Ritchie Robertson, “Joseph Rohrer and the Bureaucratic Enlightenment”, in Ritchie Robertson and Edward Timms (eds.), The Austrian Enlightenment and its Aftermath (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991), 22-42. [savepdf]

[Wednesday, 1st May: CEU is closed, no seminar]

Thursday, 2nd May. Conflits politiques et luttes de factions [IN FRENCH] (Anna Maria Rao, Università di Napoli, “Federico II”)

Giorgio Chittolini, «Il ‘privato’, il ‘pubblico’, lo Stato», in Origini dello Stato. Processi di formazione statale in Italia fra medioevo ed età moderna, a cura di Giorgio Chittolini, Anthony Molho, Pierangelo Schiera, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1994, pp. 553-589 [savepdf]

Andrea Zorzi, «“Ius erat in armis”. Faide e conflitti tra pratiche sociali e pratiche di governo», in Origini dello Stato. Processi di formazione statale in Italia fra medioevo ed età moderna, a cura di Giorgio Chittolini, Anthony Molho, Pierangelo Schiera, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1994, pp. 609-629 [savepdf]

Daniel Lord Smail, «Factions and Vengeance in Renaissance Italy. A Review article», in Comparative Studies in Society and History, n. 38, 4, 1996 (à propos de Edward Muir, Mad Blood Stirring. Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993, et de Osvaldo Raggio, Faide e parentele. Lo stato genovese visto dalla Fontanabuona, Torino, Einaudi, 1993), pp. 781-789 [www.jstor.org/stable/179199] [savepdf]

Angelantonio Spagnoletti, «Grandi famiglie napoletane nel tramonto del sistema imperiale spagnolo», in Italia 1650. Comparazioni e bilanci, a cura di G. Galasso e A. Musi, Napoli, Cuen, 2002, pp. 87-100

Friday, 3rd May. (Révoltes et révolutions: les langages de la violence [IN FRENCH] Anna Maria Rao, Università di Napoli, “Federico II”)

Résistance, représentation et communauté, sous la direction de Peter Blickle, Paris, Puf, 1998 : Peter Blickle, Introduction, pp. 1-5 ; Peter Blickle, Conclusions, pp. 427-443

Sandro Guzzi-Heeb, Christine Payot, «Des rebelles novateurs? Conflits politiques et réseaux sociaux dans une vallée alpine au XVIIIe siècle», Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 2010, 4, pp. 72-96

W. Kaiser, «Violenze urbane. alcune riflessioni sui linguaggi del conflitto e le pratiche politiche nel mondo urbano», in Storica, n. 17, 2000, pp. 115-124

Guy Lemarchand, «Troubles populaires et société. Vues nouvelles sur l’Ancien Régime. A’ propos d’un livre récent», Annales historiques de la Révolution française,  328, 2002, pp. 211-223 [dans le web] [savepdf]

Aldo Stella, Il «Bauernführer Michael Gaismair e l’utopia di un repubblicanesimo popolare, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1999, pp. 249-262 («I 21 articoli delle compagnie minerarie», 1525), 271-278 («Progetto di un nuovo ordinamento regionale», 1526)

Edward P. Thompson, The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the XVIIIth Century, «Past and Present», 50, 1971 (aussi in Id., Customs in common, New York, The New York Press, 1991, pp. 185-258); Edward P. Thompson, The Moral Economy Reviewed, ivi, pp.  259-351 [web] [savepdf]

Week 4 (6-9 May) “Political modernity” (I)

Monday, 6th May. The rise of mass politics (Constantin Iordachi, CEU)

Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind esp. Chapters 1.1 and 2.3, available online at http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BonCrow.html  

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973), pp. 389-459. [savepdf]

We will watch: Sergei Eisenstein, “The Massacre of the Odessa Steps,” The Battleship Potemkin (1925).

Tuesday, 7th May. Authoritarianism – totalitarianism (Constantin Iordachi, CEU)

Ian Kershaw, Moshe Lewin, “Introduction: The Regimes and their Dictators: Perspectives of Comparison” in Ian Kershaw, Moshe Lewin, eds. Nazism and Stalinism. Dictatorships in Comparison (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 1-25. [savepdf]

Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Introduction," in Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick, eds. Beyond Totalitarianism. Stalinism and Nazism Compared (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 1-37. [savepdf]

Thomas Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (New York, Basic Books, 2010), 1-20, 379-408.

We will watch short extracts from Dziga Vertov, Three Songs of Lenin (1934); and Leni Reifenstahl, The Triumph of the Will (1935).

Thursday, 9th May. Constitutional monarchies in Europe (19th century): the institutional questions (Catherine Brice, Université Paris-Est Créteil)

Charte constitutionnelle du 4 juin 1814 [savepdf]

L'invention des funérailles royales en Italie (9 janvier 1878 - Mort de Victor-Emmanuel II)[savepdf]

Emmanuel Fureix, "La construction rituelle de la souveraineté populaire: deuils protestataires (Paris, 1815-1840)", Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle, 42 (2011), 21-39 [savepdf]

Jonathan Parry, "L’histoire politique de l’ère victorienne : nouvelles tendances", Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle 37 (2008), 71-86 [savepdf]

Introduction J. M. Luzon/Brice [savepdf]

Corinne Legoy, "Les poètes et les princes : figures et postures des thuriféraires du pouvoir sous la Restauration", Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle, 35 (2007), 35-49 [savepdf]

Martin Wrede, "LE PORTRAIT DU ROI RESTAURÉ, OU LA FABRICATION DE LOUIS XVIII", Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, 2006/2, 112-138 [savepdf]

Benoît Agnès, "LE « PÉTITIONNAIRE UNIVERSEL » : LES NORMES DE LA PÉTITION EN FRANCE ET AU ROYAUME-UNI PENDANT LA PREMIÈRE MOITIÉ DU XIXE SIÈCLE", Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 58 (2011/4), 45-70 [savepdf]

CHRISTOPHE VOILLIOT, "Introduction", Revue d’histoire du xixe siècle, n° 42, 2011/1, pp. 7-13 [savepdf]

Vincent Robert, "Présentation" [savepdf]
 
Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution, 1867. NO. III. THE MONARCHY [savepdf]

Friday, 10th May. Constitutional monarchies and politicization: a debate (Catherine Brice, Université Paris-Est Créteil)

Week 5 (13-15 May) “Political modernity” (II)

Monday, 13th May. Party politics in modern and contemporary Europe (Zsolt Enyedi, CEU)

Boix, Carles (2006) The Emergence of Parties and Party Systems in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, ed. by Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes, New York: OUP, 500-521. [savepdf]

Duverger, Maurice (1954 [1951]) Political parties: Their organization and activity in the modern state, London, Methuen, xxiii-xxxvii. [savepdf]

Mair, Peter (2008) The Challenge to Party Government, West European Politics, vol. 31, no. 1-2, 211-34. [savepdf]

Tuesday, 14rd May. (Partly) imagined communities: the nation as the holder of state sovereignty (Balázs Trencsényi, CEU)

Richard Hawkins, A discourse of the nationall excellencies of England (London : Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Henry Fletcher ..., 1658),  Preface (5-12) [savepdf]

Joep Leerssen, National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History (Amsterdam UP, 2007), 52-92 [savepdf]

Raymonde Monnier, Républicanisme, patriotisme et Révolution française (Paris: L'Harmattan 2005) pp. 233-58 [savepdf]

Wednesday, 15th May. (Partly) imagined communities: the nation as the holder of state sovereignty (Balázs Trencsényi, CEU)

Eva Schmidt-Hartmann, “The Fallacy of realism: some problems of Masaryk’s approach to Czech National Aspirations,” in: Stanley B. Winters, ed., T.G. Masaryk (1850-1937), vol. I., Thinker and Politician (London : Macmillan, 1990), pp. 130-150. [savepdf]

Tomaš G. Masaryk: The Czech question (excerpts)  in: Vangelis Kechriotis (Editor), Maciej Górny (Editor), Ahmet Ersoy (Editor) Modernism: The Creation of Nation-States (Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe, Vol. 3/1) (Budapest, CEU Press, 2010), 199-209 [savepdf]

Robert A. Kann, Multinational empire: nationalism and national reform in the Habsburg monarchy, 1848-1918 (New York: Octagon Books, 1983), pp. 179-207. [savepdf]

Aurel C. Popovici: The United States of Greater Austria (excerpts) in: Vangelis Kechriotis, Maciej Górny, Ahmet Ersoy eds., Modernism: The Creation of Nation-States (Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe, Vol. 3/1) (Budapest, CEU Press, 2010), 312-18.[savepdf]

Wednesday (afternoon)-Friday, 15th-17th May: Conference Declines and Falls in European History and Historiography – no seminar

Week 6 (21-23 May) The state challenged and reinforced

[Monday 20th May – Pentecost, CEU is closed, no seminar]

Tuesday, 21st May. The state in post-Word War II Europe - European integration (I) (Péter Balázs, CEU)

Jacoby, W. – Meunier, S.: Europe and the management of globalization, Journal of European Public Policy, April 2010. pp. 299-317. [savepdf]

Young, A.R.: The European Policy Process in Comparative Perspective. In: Wallace, H. et al.: Policy-Making in the European Union, Oxford University Press, 2010. pp. 45-68. [savepdf]

Thomassen, J.:The Legitimacy of the EU after Enlargement. In: Kohler-Koch, B. and Fabrice Larat (eds.): Efficient and Democratic Governance in the European Union, Connex, Mannheim, Germany, 2008. pp. 211-220. [savepdf]

Chryssochoou, D.: Europe’s Contested Democracy, In: Cini, M. et al. (eds.): European Union Politics, Oxford University Press, 2009. pp. 377-389. [savepdf]

Wednesday, 22nd May. Title TBA The state in post-Word War II Europe - European integration (II) (Péter Balázs, CEU)

Thursday, 23rd May. “Modern revolutions” (Alfred Rieber, CEU)

Nader Sohrabi, Historicizing Revolutions: Constitutional Revolutions in the Ottoman Empire, Iran and Russia, 1905-1908," The American Journal of Sociology, vol. 100, no. 6 (May 1995), pp. 1383-1447 [savepdf]

Lawrence Stone, "Theories of Revolution," in World Politics, vol. 18, no. 2 (January 1966), pp. 159-176 [savepdf]

Theda Skocpol, " France, Russia, China: A structure Comparison of Social Revolutions," in Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 18, no. 2 (April, 1976), pp. 175-210. [savepdf]

James, Alan. "Warfare and the Rise of the State." In Palgrave Advances in Modern Military Matthew Hughes and William J. Philpott eds., pp. 23-41. New York: Palgrave [savepdf]

Steven Gunn, "War and the emergence of the State: western Europe, 1350-1600" in European Warfare 1350-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2010. Edited by Frank Tallet and D. J. B. Trim, pp. 50-73. [savepdf]