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American Social, Cultural and Intellectual
History
(HISTORY 639B and AMERICAN STUDIES 646) Sakamaki
A-201
RESEARCH SEMESTER Wed.
Richard L. Rapson rapson@hawaii.edu
Office Hours: TuTh,
Office: Sakamaki
B-215 rapson@aol.com
Members of this seminar typically come from a wide variety of
backgrounds, disciplines, and interests.
The disciplines represented always include History and American Studies,
of course. But increasing numbers are
coming from Psychology plus a sprinkling from English, Philosophy, Social Work,
Speech, Business, International Relations, Theatre, Sociology, various other
social sciences, and other quarters as well.
Bearing that in mind, I have tried to construct a course that will be
slightly different for each person, one that will be tailored to individual
needs and interests as much as possible.
There will be a balance of things we all do together and those that will
be done individually; the balance will differ with each person. I’ll meet with each of you separately to do
the tailoring.
The
best way to grasp my objectives in the seminar is to see them as falling into
six categories, described below 1.
Multicultural issues and the University today (note the class on Jan. 19). 2.
Multidisciplinary matters (five joint classes with the graduate seminar in
Social Psychology). 3. The need for Synthesis (my seven presentations: see in
schedule). 4. Individual explorations (one-on-one work with me). 5. Film,
Fiction, and History—and Teaching. 6.
1.
We begin with a look at the intense culture wars generated from the Academy (not
incidentally from History and American Studies programs), reaching into
2.
Then we explore the new multidisciplinary strategies that may very well
revolutionize intellectual and academic life in the next century. We do this essentially by introducing a
course-within-a-course into our seminar; in five of our sessions, we will meet
jointly with the graduate seminar in Social Psychology and together we will
investigate the exciting connections between psychology and history. And we will chart some joint research
strategies with the psychologists. Does
this joint enterprise, which transcends traditional academic specialization,
offer us a glimpse into the intellectual future?
3.
Finally, in a time of narrow specialization, I’d like to put in some good words
(via a series of presentations plus
some informal discussion of the AMAZED . . . book) for The Big Picture, for synthesis . And
at a time when some theories emphasize how little we can truly know, I’d like
to say some good things about what we can
(if imperfectly) “know.” In this
seminar, we’ll swim (with respect) a bit against the prevailing academic tides.
4. There are several possibilities here,
some of which relate to things currently on my mind, others that belong exclusively to your mind. I’ll work out the
choices with each of you individually, but they fall into the following
categories.
A. Your own research
interests, which can be pursued in a number of ways. History graduate students who wish this
seminar to count as a research seminar must, obviously, complete a research
paper developed in my conversations with you.
Or,
B. Reading some books in
the new psychological history or the new cultural history (see my extensive
list at the end). Students who previously attended my joint seminars with the
Social Psychology seminar might typically pursue matters we began there through
further reading. My list includes many
outstanding, innovating books in social, cultural, and intellectual history,
most of which have been written in the past 15 years. This will afford us a glimpse of what now is
possible as history ventures into new territories in novel ways.
Or,
C. Reading a collection of what I call
‘Historically-informed fiction.” This
enterprise might include reading John Updike’s “Rabbit Quartet” or Gore Vidal’s
‘American Chronicles.”
Or,
D. Exploration into the
relatively unexamined and quite exciting relationship between films and
history. I explain items #3 & 4 more
fully below.
Or,
E. Something else more
germane to your own particular interests.
FILMS, FICTION, AND HISTORY
Historians
in Research Universities have tended to equate the study of the past with the
methods and expression of traditional scholarship. But history is no longer the
private preserve of the academics.
First-rate work about the past is being done by filmmakers, novelists,
composers, as well as by scholars from a variety of disciplines.
(Tons of third-rate work is
also being done in the form of television docudramas with no interest in
accuracy, films with historical settings that are far more about “entertainment
value” than about any genuine interest in the past, where characters speak
invented lines in language right out of today’s sitcoms. Further, many
Americans get their history from Disney theme parks.)
We
can find in much of European film and TV an almost instinctive concern for
historical accuracy; in
Since the end of World War II, many of our finest novelists have turned
to the past for inspiration. John
Updike, Phillip Roth, Toni Morrison, Gore Vidal, Don DeLillo,
E.L. Doctorow and others have done their research
before casting their fictions in previous eras.
And on television, directors like Ken Burns and David Grubin and the makers of “The American Experience” series
have recently brought historical integrity to their films.
A
sub-theme in this course not only recognizes these new ways of doing history,
but that they have had a major impact in the teaching
as well as the doing of history. We shall examine and analyze
these different modes for resurrecting the past, assessing various strengths
and dangers. We will look at implications both for teaching as well as for
research. These new forms of expression
will certainly make their way into our classrooms. And, finally, is it far-fetched to think that
Universities could even be helpful in forging a new generation of filmmakers
and fiction writers who will enrich our understanding of the past and of
culture?
All
in all, I hope to create in the seminar a grown-up, relaxed atmosphere in which
we truly learn from and help each other—an experience of co-operative,
sophisticated, and enjoyable intellectual exploration.
Discussions: Five sessions with Psychology graduate students plus
seven others (on our
own) dealing with modern
History’s largest themes and
issues.
Film
and History
Fiction
and History
Psychological
History
Your
own Research and Intellectual Interests
SCHEDULE
Jan. 12 Introductions
Jan. 19 UNIVERSITIES AND MULTICULTURALISM
Read Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (including
Preface by Saul Bellow) and Lawrence Levine, The Opening of the American Mind.
Jan. 26 Big
Picture Lecture and Discussion #1:
“The Westernization of the Modern World.”
Feb. 2 Big
Picture Lecture and Discussion #2:
“Why the West? Religion and Science”
Feb. 9 Joint Meeting with Social Psychology Graduate
Seminar (650/751). All Joint
Classes Meet in Sakamaki
A-201.
The Family,
Sex, and Marriage: The Past
The Village Blacksmith”
Feb.
23 Joint Meeting (II) with Social Psychology
Graduate Seminar.
The
Family, Sex, and Marriage: The Present
March 2 Big
Picture Lecture and Discussion#4:
“How is America Different? Is It Exceptional?
The
Egalitarian Model”
March 9 Joint Meeting (III) with Social Psychology
Graduate Seminar.
The Family,
Sex, and Marriage: The Future
March 16 Big
Picture Lecture and Discussion #5:
“Progressive
vs. Consensus History”
March 23 SPRING VACATION
March 30 Joint Meeting (IV) with Social
Psychology Graduate Seminar.
Sex: Past,
Present, Future.
April 6 Big
Picture Lecture and Discussion #6:
“The
Holocaust and ‘Evil’ in History”
April 13 Final Joint Meeting with Social
Psychology Graduate Seminar.
Cross-Cultural Considerations.
Also Film:
“The Amazing Randi.”
April 20 Big
Picture Lecture and Discussion #7:
“The
Contemporary Climate of Opinion”
April 27* Conclusions.
Read
RLR, Amazed By Life: Confessions of a
Non-Religious
Believer (2003)
*THIS CLASS WILL MEET AT MY HOME.
May 4 Completion of Independent Work (I will
be available all
afternoon in my
office to meet with you.)
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Richard L. Rapson
Some Arresting, Original Recent Books in Social, Cultural and
Intellectual History
(in
chronological order)
Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean: and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, 2 vols. (Harper & Row: NY, 1966)
Garry
Wills,
Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worm: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Johns Hopkins U. Press: Baltimore: 1980)
Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siecle
Philippe Aries, The Hour of Our Death (Knopf: NY, 1981)
Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin
Guerre (
Press:
Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism: 15th-18th Century, 3 vols. 1.The Structures of Everyday Life (Harper & Row: NY, 1981); 2. Wheels of Commerce (1982); 3. Perspective of the World (Harper & Row: NY, 1984)
Rhys Isaac,
The Transformation of
Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Random House: NY, 1983)
Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre; and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (Basic Books: NY, 1984)
Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown:
Fame and Its History (
Barbara Hanawalt, The Ties That Bound:
Peasant Families in
Medieval
Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000 (Random House: NY, 1987)
Richard L.
Rapson, American Yearnings: Love, Money,
and Endless
Possibility
(University Press of
D.C., 1988)
Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (Collins: London, 1987)
Jonathan Spence, The Question of Hu (Knopf: NY, 1988)
Robert Darnton, The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History (Norton: NY, 1990)
Carl Degler, In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1991)
Simon Schama, Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations (Knopf: NY, 1991)
Daniel Boorstin, The Creators: A
History of Heroes of the
Imagination (Random House: NY, 1992)
Garry
Wills,
Beatrice
Gottlieb, The Family in the Western World from the Black
Death to the Industrial
Age (
1993)
Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to 1870 (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1993)
John Demos,
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from
Early
Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization (Norton: NY, 1994)
Robert Darnton, The
Forbidden Best Sellers of Prerevolutionary
Ann
Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel
(Farrar, Straus: NY,1995)
David
Hollinger, Post-Ethnic
(Basic Books: NY, 1995)
Jackson Lears, Fables of
Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising
in
Roy Porter,
Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory (Knopf: NY,1995)
Patricia
Meyer Spacks, Boredom:
The Literary History of a State of
Liselotte Steinbrugge, The Moral Sex: Woman’s Nature in the French
Enlightenment (Oxford U. Press: London, 1995)
Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (Chatto & Windus: London, 1995)
Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History of Humanity (HarperCollins:
NY, 1995)
Pat Jalland, Death in the
Victorian Family (
Steven Ozment, The Burger-Meister’s
Daughter: Scandal in a 16th-
Jonathan
Spence, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly
Renate Bridenthal and Susan Mosher Stuard,
eds., Becoming
Visible: Women in European History (Houghton
Mifflin: NY, 1997)
Michael Brown, The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1997)
Jared
Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The
Fates of Human
Societies (Norton: NY, 1997)
Barbara Ehrenreich, Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (Holt: NY, 1997)
Paul Heelas, The New Age Movement:
The Celebration of the
Self and the Sacralization of Modernity (
Press:
Arthur Herman, The Idea of Decline inWestern History (The Free Press: NY, 1997)
David Hollinger, Transvaluations: Science, Jews and Secular Culture- Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History (Princeton U. Press: Princeton, 1997)
Bettyann Kevles Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the 20th Century (Rutgers U. Press: NY, 1997)
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1997)
Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading (Penguin: NY, 1997)
Stephen Oates, The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820- 1861 (HarperCollins: NY, 1997)
Peter Stearns, Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West (NYU Press: NY, 1997)
Gary Taylor, Cultural Selection: Why Some Achievements Withstand the Test of Time--and Others Don’t (Basic Books: NY, 1997)
Garry Wills, John Wayne’s America: The Politics of Celebrity
(Simon & Schuster: NY, 1997)
William F. Baker & George Dessart, Down the Tube: An Inside Account of the Failure of American Television (Basic Books: NY, 1998)
Daniel Boorstin, The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest (Random House: NY, 1998)
David Bordwell, On the History of Film Style (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 1998)
Patricial Cline Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and
Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century
New
James N.
Davidson, Courtesans & Fishcakes: The
Consuming
Passions
of Classical
Hans Ulrich Gumbert, In 1926: Living On the Edge of Time (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 1998)
Ralph Houlbrooke, Death,
Religion, and the Family in
1480-1750 (Oxford U. Press: London 1998)
Richard Pells, Not like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II (Basic Books: NY, 1998)
Glenn Wallach, Obedient Sons: The Discourse of Youth and Generations in American Culture, 1630-1860 (Univ, of Massachusetts Press: Amherst, 1998)
Bonnie Anderson and Judith Zinsser, A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, 2 vols.
(Oxford U. Press: London 1999)
Rudolph
Bell, How To Do
It: Guides to Good Living for
Renaissance
Italians (
Richard Evans, Tales from the German Underworld (Yale
Univ. Press:
Ann
Goldberg, Sex, Religion, and the Making
of Modern Madness:
The Eberbach
Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849
(Oxford U. Press: London, 1999)
Ann
Goldberg, Sex, Religion, and the Making
of Modern Madness:
The Eberbach
Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849
(Oxford U. Press: London, 1999)
Michael Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes: Social
Change and the 20th Century (Knopf: NY, 1999)
Medicine
on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century
(Oxford U. Press: NY, 1999)
Wendy Kaminer, Sleeping
with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of
Irrationalism and Perils of Piety (Pantheon: NY, 1999)
Daniel
Roche, France in the Enlightenment (
Jonathan
Spence, The Chan’s Great Continent: China
in Western
Minds (Norton: NY, 1999)
Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to
Decadence: 500 Years of Western
Cultural Life—1500 to Present (HarperCollins: NY, 2000)
Cynthia
Eller, The Myth of Matriarachal
Prehistory: Why an
Invented Past Won’t Give Women a Future (Beacon
Press:
Jonathan
Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the
Twentieth
Century (
Rebecca Spang, The Invention of the
Restaurant:
Modern Gastronomic Culture (
Natalie Zemon Davis, The Gift in
Sixteenth-Century
(
Peter Gay, Schnitzler’s Century: The Amaking
of Middle-Class
Culture, 1815-1916 (Norton: NY, 2001)
Jenna Weissman Joselit, A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and
The Promise of
J.M.
Beattie, Policing and Punishment in
Crime and the Limits of
Terror (
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Food: A History (NY: Macmillan, 2002)
Estelle Freedman, No
Turning Back: The History and the Future
Of Women (Profile: NY, 2002)
Mary Laven, Virgins of
The Renaissance Convent (Viking: NY, 2002)
E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., and Judy Miller, The Invisible Plague: The
Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present
(
Laurel
Thatcher Ulrich, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories
in the Creation of an American Myth (Vintage: NY, 2002)
Michael Cook, A Brief History of the Human Race (Norton: NY, 2003)
Gail
Collins,
Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines (Morrow: NY, 2003)
Robert Darnton, George
Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century
(Norton: NY, 2003)
Deborah
Hayden, Pox: Genius, Madness and the
Mysteries of
Syphilis (Basic Books: NY, 2003)
Charles
Murray: Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit
of Excellence
In the Arts and Sciences—800 B.C. to 1950
(HarperCollins: NY, 2003)
Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
(Metropolitan Books: NY, 2004)
Stephen Prothero, American
Jesus: How the Son of God Became
A National Icon (Farrar, Straus: NY, 2004)
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Social, Cultural and Intellectual History (in alphabetical order)
Bonnie Anderson and Judith Zinsser, A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, 2 vols.
(Oxford U. Press: London 1999)
Philippe Aries, The Hour of Our Death (Knopf: NY, 1981)
William F. Baker & George Dessart, Down the Tube: An Inside Account of the Failure of American Television (Basic Books: NY, 1998)
Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to
Decadence: 500 Years of Western
Cultural Life—1500 to Present (HarperCollins: NY, 2000)
J.M.
Beattie, Policing and Punishment in
Crime and the Limits of
Terror (
Rudolph
Bell, How To Do
It: Guides to Good Living for
Renaissance
Italians (
Renate Bridenthal and Susan Mosher Stuard,
eds., Becoming
Visible: Women in European History (Houghton
Mifflin: NY, 1997)
Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Random House: NY, 1983)
Daniel Boorstin, The Creators: A
History of Heroes of the
Imagination(Random House: NY, 1992)
Daniel Boorstin, The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest (Random House: NY, 1998)
David Bordwell, On the History of Film Style (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 1998)
Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean: and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, 2 vols. (Harper & Row: NY, 1966)
Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism: 15th-18th Century, 3 vols. 1.The Structures of Everyday Life (Harper & Row: NY, 1981); 2. Wheels of Commerce (1982); 3. Perspective of the World (Harper & Row: NY, 1984)
Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown:
Fame and Its History (
Michael Brown, The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1997)
Patricial Cline Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life
And
Deathof a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century
Gail
Collins,
Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines (Morrow: NY, 2003)
Michael Cook, A Brief History of the Human Race (Norton: NY, 2003)
Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre; and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (Basic Books: NY, 1984)
Robert Darnton, The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History (Norton: NY, 1990)
Robert Darnton, The
Forbidden Best Sellers of Prerevolutionary
Robert Darnton, George
Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century
(Norton: NY, 2003)
James N.
Davidson, Courtesans & Fishcakes: The
Consuming
Passions
of Classical
NY, 1998)
Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (Harvard
U. Press:
Natalie Zemon Davis, The Gift in
Sixteenth-Century
(
Carl Degler, In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1991)
John Demos,
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from
Early
Jared
Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The
Fates of Human
Societies (Norton: NY, 1997)
Ann
Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel
(Farrar, Straus: NY,1995)
Barbara Ehrenreich, Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (Holt: NY, 1997)
Cynthia
Eller, The Myth of Matriarachal
Prehistory: Why an
Invented Past Won’t Give Women a Future (Beacon
Press:
Richard Evans, Tales from the German Underworld (Yale
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Food: A History (NY: Macmillan, 2002)
Sheila
Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary
Life in
Extraordinary Times: Soviet
(Oxford U. Press: London, 1999)
Life in Victorian
Estelle
Freedman, No Turning Back: The History
and the Future
Of Women (Profile: NY, 2002)
Peter Gay, Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle-Class
Culture, 1815-1916 (Norton:
NY, 2001
Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worm: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Johns Hopkins U. Press: Baltimore, 1980)
Jonathan
Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the
Twentieth
Century (
Ann
Goldberg, Sex, Religion, and the Making
of Modern Madness:
The Eberbach
Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849
(Oxford U. Press: London, 1999)
Beatrice
Gottlieb, The Family in the Western World from the Black
Death to the Industrial
Age (
1993)
Hans Ulrich Gumbert, In 1926: Living On the Edge of Time (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 1998)
Barbara Hanawalt, The Ties That Bound:
Peasant Families in
Medieval
Deborah
Hayden, Pox: Genius, Madness and the
Mysteries of
Syphilis (Basic Books: NY, 2003)
Paul Heelas, The New Age Movement:
The Celebration of the
Self
and the Sacralization of Modernity (
U. Press:
Arthur Herman, The Idea of Decline inWestern History (The Free Press: NY, 1997)
David Hollinger,
Post-Ethnic
(Basic Books: NY, 1997)
David
Hollinger, Transvaluations: Science, Jews and Secular
Culture--Studies
in Mid-Twentieth-Century
American
Intellectual History (
Press:
Ralph Houlbrooke, Death,
Religion, and the Family in
1480-1750 (Oxford U. Press: London 1998)
Rhys Isaac,
The Transformation of
Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
(Metropolitan Books: NY, 2004)
Pat Jalland, Death in the
Victorian Family (
Jenna Weissman Joselit, A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and
The Promise of
Wendy Kaminer, Sleeping with
Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of
Irrationalism and Perils of Piety (Pantheon: NY, 1999)
Michael Kammen, American
Culture, American Tastes: Social
Change and the 20th Century (Knopf: NY, 1999)
Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000 (Random House: NY, 1987)
Bettyann Kevles, Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the 20th Century (Rutgers U. Press: NY, 1997)
Mary Laven, Virgins of
The Renaissance Convent (Viking: NY, 2002)
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1997)
Jackson Lears, Fables of
Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising
in
Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to 1870 (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1993)
Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading (Penguin: NY, 1997)
Medicine
on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century
(Oxford U. Press: NY, 1999)
Charles Murray: Human Accomplishment:
The Pursuit of Excellence
In the Arts and Sciences—800 B.C. to 1950
(HarperCollins: NY, 2003)
Stephen Oates, The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820- 1861 (HarperCollins: NY, 1997)
Steven Ozment, The Burger-Meister’s
Daughter: Scandal in a 16th-
Richard Pells, Not like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II (Basic Books: NY, 1998)
Roy Porter,
Stephen Prothero, American
Jesus: How the Son of God Became
A National Icon (Farrar, Straus: NY, 2004)
Richard L.
Rapson, American Yearnings: Love, Money,
and Endless
Possibility
(University Press of
D.C., 1988)
Daniel
Roche, France in the Enlightenment (
Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (Collins: London, 1987)
Simon Schama, Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations (Knopf: NY, 1991)
Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory (Knopf: NY,1995)
Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siecle
Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization (Norton: NY, 1994)
Patricia
Meyer Spacks, Boredom:
The Literary History of a State of
Rebecca Spang, The Invention of the
Restaurant:
Modern
Gastronomic Culture (
Rebecca Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant:
and the Modern Gastronomic Culture (
Jonathan Spence, The Question of Hu (Knopf: NY, 1988)
Jonathan
Spence, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly
Jonathan
Spence, The Chan’s Great Continent:
Western Minds (Norton: NY, 1999)
Peter Stearns, Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West (NYU Press: NY, 1997)
Liselotte Steinbrugge, The Moral Sex: Woman’s Nature in the French
Enlightenment (Oxford U. Press: London, 1995)
Gary
Taylor, Cultural Selection: Why Some
Achievements
Withstand the Test of Time--and Others Don’t
(Basic Books: NY, 1997)
E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., and Judy Miller, The Invisible Plague: The
Laurel
Thatcher Ulrich, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories
in the Creation of an American Myth (Vintage: NY, 2002)
Glenn Wallach, Obedient
Sons: The Discourse of Youth and Generations
in American Culture, 1630-1860 (Univ, of Massachusetts
Press: Amherst, 1998)
Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (Chatto & Windus: London, 1995)
Garry
Wills,
Garry Wills, John Wayne’s America: The Politics of Celebrity
(Simon & Schuster: NY, 1997)
Garry
Wills,
Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History of Humanity (HarperCollins:
NY, 1995)
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About Cultural History and Culture:
Norman Cantor, Twentieth Century Culture: Modernism to Deconstruction (Peter Lang: NY,1988)
Lynn Hunt, ed., The New Cultural History (1989)
Andrew Ross, No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (Routledge: NY,1989)
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History (NY, 1993)
Dominic Strinati, An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture (Routledge: NY,1995)
Norman Cantor, The American Century: Varieties of Culture in Modern Times (HarperCollins: NY, 1997)
Joel Pfister and Nancy Schnog, eds., Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life
in
Richard Evans, In Defense of History (Norton: NY, 1999)
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A Few Favorite Historically-Informed American Fiction Works
Max Byrd, Jefferson: A Novel (1993) and
Don DeLillo, Libra (1988) and Underworld (1997)
E.L. Doctorow’s “Trilogy(in historical, not publication, order). Welcome to Hard Times (1960) Ragtime (1975), The Book of Daniel.(1971). Also his Billy Bathgate
(1985) World’s Fair (1989), andWaterworks (1994)
John Dos Passos,
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (!961)
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove (1985)
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977)
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1970)
Phillip Roth’s “Zuckerman Bound” Trilogy.
Ghost Writer, (1979) Zuckerman Unbound (1981), and The Anatomy Lesson (1983). Also his American
Pastoral (1997) and The Plot
Against
John Updike’s “Rabbit Quartet.” Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1970), Rabbit Is Rich (1980), and Rabbit at Rest (1990).
His
novella Rabbit Remembered appears in Licks of
Love (2000).Also his In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996).
Gore
Vidal’s “American Chronicles” series (in historical, not publication, order). Burr
(1973),
(2000) and
Excellent British, Australian and Canadian Writers of Historically-
Informed Fiction
Peter Ackroyd,
Margaret Atwood, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, Peter Carey, Penelope Fitzgerald, John Fowles, William Golding, Kazuo
Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Alice Munro, Graham Swift, Rose
Tremain.
Beginning Books on Film,
Popular Culture, and Celebrity
James Dudley Andrew, The Major Film Theories: An Introduction
(1976)
Melvin DeFleur, Theories of Mass Communication (1989)
Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen, Channels of Desire: Mass Images and
The Shaping of American Consciousness (1992)
Neal Gabler, An Empire of
Their Own: How the Jews Invented
__________, Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of
Celebrity (1994)
__________, Life
the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered
Reality (1999)
Barry Grant, Film Genre Reader II (1995)
Robert Hughes, The Culture of Complaint
Gerald Mast, ed., Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory
Michael Parenti, Make Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment
(1991)
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death;: Public Discourse
In the Age of Show Business (1986)
Robert Sklar, Movie-Made
Vivian Sobchak, Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of
Film Experience (1992)
George W.S. Trow, My Pilgrim’s Progress: Media Studies,
1950-1998 (1999)
Film &
History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and
Television Studies and the Historians Film Committee
www.h-net.msu.edu/~filmhis/
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Books by RLR (in chronological order)
1.
Rapson, Richard L., ed. (1967). Individualism and Conformity in the American Character.
2. Rapson, R. L. (1971). Britons
View
3. Rapson, R. L., ed. (1971). The Cult of Youth in
Middle-Class
4. Rapson, R.L., ed. (1972). Major Interpretations of the
American Past.
5. Rapson, R. L. (1977). The
Pursuit of Meaning:
6. Rapson, R. L. (1978). Denials
of Doubt: An Interpretation of American History.
7. Rapson, R. L. (1980). Fairly
Lucky You Live
8. Rapson, R. L. (1988). American
Yearnings: Love, Money, and Endless Possibility
9.
Hatfield, Elaine, & Rapson, R. L. (l993). Love,
sex, and intimacy: Their psychology,
biology, and history.
10.
Hatfield, E., Cacioppo, John, & Rapson, R.
L. (l994). Emotional contagion.
11.Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (1996). Love
and sex: Cross-
cultural perspectives.
12.
Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R.L. (2000) Rosie.
SterlingHouse
13.Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R.L. (2003) Recovered Memories. New
14.
Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R.L. (2003)
15
. Rapson, R.L. (2003) Amazed By Life: Confessions of a
Non-Religious Believer.
Books of Interest in Psychological History,* denoting
excellent overviews and listed in chronological order:
Philippe Aries, Centuries of
Childhood (Vintage: New York,1965)
*
Emmanuel Roy Ladurie,
Montaillou: Promised
*Carl Degler,
At Odds: Women and the Family in
John Boswell, Christianity, Social
Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay
People
in
Christian
Era to the Fourteenth Century (U. of
Press:
Lois Banner, American Beauty ( U. of Chicago Press: Chicago and London, 1983)
Peter Gay, The Bourgeois
Experience, vol. 1: Education of the Senses (Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1984)
*John Gillis, For Better, For
Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the
Present (Oxford U. Press: NY and Oxford, 1985)
Judith Brown, Immodest Acts: The
Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance
U. Press: NY and
Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience, vol. 2: The
Tender Passion (Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1986)
Alan Macfarlane, Marriage and Love
in
1300-1840 (Blackwell: London, 1986)
Beth Bailey, From Front Porch to
Back Seat: A History of Courtship in
*Stephanie Coontz, The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families,
1600-1900
(NY: 1988)
*John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in
(U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1997)
*Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of
American
Family
Life (Free Press: NY, 1988)
R. Phillips, Putting Asunder: A
History of Divorce in Western Society (
Press:
Karen Lystra, Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-
Century
Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
(Zone
Books: NY, 1990)
*
Trap
(Basic Books, NY: 1992)
Peter Gay, The Bourgeois
Experience, vol. 3: Hate and Aggression
(Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1993)
Robert L. Griswold, Fatherhood in
Barbara Hanawalt, Growing Up in Medieval
In History (Oxford U. Press: London, 1993)
Elaine Hatfield and Richard L. Rapson, Love, Sex, and Intimacy: Their
Psychology,
Biology,
and History (HarperCollins: NY and London, 1993)
Lynn Hunt, ed. The Invention of Pornography (Zone Books: NY, 1993)
E. Anthony Rotundo, American Manhood: Transformations in
Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (Basic
Books: NY, 1993)
Guido Ruggiero, Binding Passion:
Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the
End of the Renaissance (Oxford U. Press: London, 1993)
Janet Brodie,
Contraception and Abortion in
Nineteenth-Century
(Cornell U. Press: Ithaca, N.Y.,
1994)
Michael Mason, The Making of Victorian Sexuality (Oxford
U. Press: Oxford, 1994)
Patricia Anderson, When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians (Basic Books: NY, 1995)
Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate
Geography (Houghton Mifflin: NY, 1995)
Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and
The
Body (U. of California Press: Berkeley, 1995)
John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern
Vern Bullough,
Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex
Research (Basic Books: NY, 1995)
George Chauncey, Gay
The
Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic Books: NY,
1995)
Peter Gay, The Bourgeois
Experience, vol. 4: The Naked Heart (Norton: NY, 1995)
Gary Kates, Monsieur d’Eon Is a
Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual
Masquerade (Basic Books: NY, 1995)
Jonathan Ned Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality (Dutton:
NY, 1995)
Elaine Tyler May, Barren in the
Promised Land: Childless Americans
And
the Pursuit of Happiness (New York, 1995)
Peter N. Stearns, American Cool: Constructing A 20th-Century Emotional Style (NYU Press; NY, 1995)
Natalie Zemon Davis, Women on the Margins: Three
Seventeenth-Century Lives
(Harvard:
Cambridge, MA., 1996)
Emma Donoghue, Passions Between Women: British Lesbian
Culture 1668-1801
(HarperCollins: NY, 1996)
Catalina de Erauso:
Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque
Transvestite in the
Anthony Fletcher, Gender, Sex, and
Subordination in
John Gillis, A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual,
and the Quest for
Family
Values (Basic Books: NY, 1996)
Elaine Hatfield and Richard L. Rapson, Love and Sex: Cross-Cultural
Perspectives
(Allyn &
Bacon: NY, 1996)
Margaret Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the
Family in
1680-1780 (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1996)
*Olwen Hutton, The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in
Volume 1,
1500-1800 (Knopf: NY, 1996)
Ruth Karras, Common Women; Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval
(Oxford
U. Press: London, 1996)
Michael Kimmel, Manhood in
Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant
Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern
(Oxford
U. Press: London, 1996)
George Mosse, The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity
(Oxford
U. Press: London, 1996)
Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers
& Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of
American
Society (Knopf: NY, 1996)
Frank Sulloway, Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives
(Pantheon Books: NY, 1996)
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
(Random
House: NY, 1997)
Candace Clark, Misery and Company:
Sympathy in Everyday Life (
Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with
Families (Basic Books: NY, 1997)
Grace Palladino, Teenagers: An American History (Basic Books: NY, 1997)
Brenda E. Stevenson, Life in Black
and White: Family and Community in the Slave
South (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1997)
Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Breast (Knopf: NY, 1997)
John Boswell, The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of
Children in
(U.
of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1998)
John R. Clarke, Looking at
Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art,
100BC-AD250 (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1998)
Gary Cross, Kids’ Stuff: Toys and
the Changing World of American Childhood (Harvard
U.
Press:
Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience, vol. 5: Pleasure Wars (Norton: NY, 1998)
Julia Grant, Raising Baby By the Book (Yale U. Press: New Haven, 1998)
Elizabeth Haiken, Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery (Johns Hopkins Univ.
Press:
Marianne Hirsch, Family Frames: Photography,
Narrative, and Postmemory (Harvard U.
Press: Cambridge, 1998)
James H. Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey:
A Public/Private Life (Norton: NY, 1998)
Charles Kaiser, The Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996 (Houghton
Mifflin: NY, 1998)
John Loughery, The Other Side of Silence: Men’s Lives and Gay
Identities--
A
Twentieth-Century History (Holt: NY, 1998)
Kathy Peiss, Hope In a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty
Culture (Metropolitan
Books:
NY, 1998)
Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in
Renaissance
Merril Smith, ed., Sex and Sexuality in
Early
Peter Stearns and Jan Lewis, eds., An Emotional History of the
Press: NY, 1998)
Susan Bordo, The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and
in Private
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux: NY, 1999)
Martha Hodes, ed., Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North
American
History (NYU Press: NY, 1999)
Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crosby, Women in Early Modern
1550-1720 (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1999)
Steven Ozment, Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern
(Viking:
NY, 1999)
Daphne Patai, Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism
(Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 1999)
Sarah Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores,
Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical
Antiquity (NY, 1999)
Peter Stearns, Battleground of
Desire: The Struggle for Self Control
In
Modern
John Tosh, A
Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home In
Victorian
Sexuality
and the Third Gender in Enlightenment
Sharon Ullman, Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in
(Univ.
of Calif. Press: Berkeley, 1999)
Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Celibacy (Scribner: NY,
2000)
Carol Groneman, Nymphomania: A History (Norton: NY, 2000)
Christine Stansell, American Moderns: Bohemian
Of
a New Century (Henry Holt: NY, 2000)
Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation
(
Joanne Ferraro, Marriage Wars in
Late Renaissance
Hendrik Hartog, Man
and Wife in
Press:
Paula Kamen, Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution
(NYU
Press: NY, 2001)
John Kasson, Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect White Man: The White
Male
Body and the
Challenge of Modernity in
(Hill
& Wang: NY, 2001)
Lynne Luciano, Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern
(Hill
& Wang: NY, 2001)
Lara Marks, Sexual Chemistry: A
History of the Contraceptive Pill
(
James McMillan, France and Women
1789-1914: Gender Society,
And Politics (Routledge:
Andrea Tone, Devices and Desires:
A History of Contraceptives in
(NY:
Hill &Wang, 2001)
Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Wife (HarperCollins: NY, 2001)
Joan DeJean, The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern
Richard Godbeer, Sexual Revolution in Early
Betsy Israel, Bachelor Girl: The
Secret History of Single Women in the
Twentieth
Century (William Morrow: NY, 2002)
Jonathan Ned Katz, Love Stories:
Sex between Men before Homosexuality
(
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge
In
Nineteenth-Centry
Joanne Meyerowitz, How
Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the
Catherine Orenstein, Little Red
Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and
the Evolution of a
Fairy Tale (Basic Books: NY, 2002)
Nicholas Orme, Medieval Children (
Steven Ozment, Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old
U.
Press:
Georges Vigarello,
A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in
To the 20th
Century (Polity Press:
Barbara Harris, English
Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and
Family,
Property and Careers (
Christian Henriot,
Prostitution and Sexuality in
1849-1949 (
Ann Hulbert, Raising
Children (Knopf: NY, 2003)
Thomas Laqueur,
Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of
Masturbation (Zone Books
NY,
2003)
Louis Crompton,
Homosexuality and Civilization (
2004)
Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth
Century (Norton:
NY,
2004)
Sheila and David Rothman, The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and
Perils
Of Medical
Enhancements (Pantheon Books: NY, 2004)
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Books of Interest in Psychological History,* denoting
excellent overviews and listed in alphabetical
order:
Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Celibacy (Scribner: NY,
2000)
Patricia Anderson, When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians (Basic
Books:
NY, 1995)
Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate
Geography (Houghton Mifflin: NY, 1995)
Philippe Aries, Centuries of
Childhood (Vintage: New York,1965)
Beth Bailey, From Front Porch to
Back Seat: A History of Courtship in
Lois Banner, American Beauty ( U. of Chicago Press: Chicago and London, 1983)
Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and
The
Body (U. of California Press: Berkeley, 1995)
________, The Male
Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux: NY, 1999)
John Boswell, Christianity, Social
Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay
People
in
Christian
Era to the Fourteenth Century (U. of
Press:
_________, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern
_________, The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of
Children in
(U. of
Chicago Press: Chicago, 1998)
Janet Brodie,
Contraception and Abortion in
Nineteenth-Century
(Cornell U. Press: Ithaca, N.Y.,
1994)
Judith Brown, Immodest Acts: The
Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance
U. Press: NY and
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
(Random
House: NY, 1997)
Vern Bullough, Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research (Basic Books: NY,
1995)
George Chauncey, Gay
Male World,
1890-1940 (Basic Books: Ny,
1995)
Candace Clark, Misery and Company:
Sympathy in Everyday Life (
John R. Clarke, Looking at
Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art,
100BC-AD250 (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1998)
*Stephanie Coontz, The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families,
1600-1900
(NY: 1988)
_____________, The Way We Never Were: American Families and
the Nostalgia
Trap (Basic Books, NY: 1992)
_____________, The Way We Really
Are: Coming to Terms with America’s Changing Families
(Basic Books: NY, 1997)
Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation
(
Louis Crompton,
Homosexuality and Civilization (
2004)
Gary Cross, Kids’ Stuff: Toys and
the Changing World of American Childhood (Harvard
U.
Press:
Natalie Zemon Davis, Women on the Margins: Three
Seventeenth-Century Lives
(Harvard: Cambridge,
MA., 1996)
*Carl Degler, At Odds: Women and the Family in
Present (Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1980)
Joan DeJean, The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern
*John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in
(U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1997)
Emma Donoghue, Passions Between Women: British Lesbian
Culture 1668-1801
(HarperCollins: NY, 1996)
Catalina de Erauso: Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the
(Beacon:
NY, 1996)
Joanne Ferraro, Marriage Wars in
Late Renaissance
Anthony Fletcher, Gender, Sex, and
Subordination in
Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience, vol. 1: Education of the Senses (
________, ___________________, vol. 2: The Tender Passion (