A bit challenging under the circumstances but I'm planning a new graduate course for next fall. The basic idea is to a version of a "history & theory" class that is global rather than based in classics of European historiography
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This doesn't mean excluding Europe, which would be its own kind of provincialism, but I want this to be expansive. One key text and obvious text is "The Other Mirror: Grand Theory Through the Lens of Latin America"https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691050171/the-other-mirror …
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But, for example, I want to make sure that students have all read at least some Marx and thought about it, even if they reject it, so we'll read Marx and Andrew Sartori's chapter from Global Intellectual History https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1547
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And we should definitely read Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities" as well as comment from Latin Americanists on his treatment of the independence period
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We could do Eric Williams and a recent update on Capitalism & Slavery debates...
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Replying to @PatrickIber
Probably should do a volume of Subaltern Studies.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Yes, you're right. And there's a good connection to the previous generation of Wisconsin's Latin America program there too
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There are a couple of good subaltern studies anthologies.
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