The Metropolis: Social and Cultural History Winter 2008 MA Course, 2 credits Gábor Gyáni visgyani@ceu.hu This course is intended to figure out the main parameters of metropolitan life characterizing the 19 th and 20 th century. In seeking the social and cultural meaning of the modern metropolis, one is confronted with the proliferation of difference that dominates metropolitan realm. Therefore it is unlikely that there is a single text of the city that would reveal the deep and hidden substance of the city in the moden era. The course organized in an analytical fashion focuses on the most diverse spatial implications of a distinctive metropolitan life. The empirical evidences are taken both from North America (a case in point is New York), and Western or Central Europe (London, Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Prague). The emphasis is laid not on the individual profile of the cities to be discussed, but the common features on the one hand and the varieties of such a metropolitanism on the other hand. Besides class discussions students will be responsible for a paper approximately 4000 to 6000 words, produced at the end of the course on one of the topics involved in the course program. 1. Themes and trends in urban social and cultural history Richard Rodger: Urban history: prospect and retrospect. Urban History, 19, part 1 April 1992. 1 23. Thomas Bender: The Unfinished City. New York and the Metropolitan Idea. The New Press, New York, 2002. 57 69. Theodore Hershberg: The new urban history: toward an interdisciplinary history of the city. In: Theodore Hershberg, ed.: Philadelphia. Work, Space, Family and Group Experience in the 19 th Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981. 3 43. (optional)
2. Urban segregation Donald J. Olsen: The City as a Work of Art. London, Paris, Vienna. Yale University Press, New Haven London, 1986. 132 159. Sam Bass Warner, Jr.: The Private City. Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1968. 161 177. David Cannadine: Residential differentiation in nineneteenth century towns: from shapes on the ground to shapes in society. In: J. H. Johnson C. G. Pooley, eds.: The Structure of Nineteenth Century Cities. Croom Helm, London, 1982. 235 252. (optional) 3. A case of territorialization Cathleen M. Giustino: Municipal activism in late nineteenth century Prague: the house numbered 207 V ghetto clearance. Austrian History Yearbook, XXXIV, 2003. 247 279. Tim Cole: Ghettoization. In: Dan Stone, ed.: The Historiography of the Holocaust. Palgrave, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004. 65 88. 4. Urban family and community Thomas Bender: Community and Social Change in America. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1978. 121 143. Richard Sennett: Families Against the City. Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago 1872 1890. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1984. 218 241. Donna R. Gabaccia: From Sicily to Elizabeth Street. Housing and Social Change Among Italian Immigrants, 1880 1930. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1984. 100 117. 5. Middle class domesticity Donald J. Olsen: The City as a Work of Art., 101 132. Gábor Gyáni: Parlor and Kitchen. Housing and Domestic Culture in Budapest, 1870 1940. Central University Press, Budapest New York, 2002. 37 66., 98 106., 115 117. Katherine C. Grier: Culture and Comfort. Parlor Making and Middle Class Identity, 1850 1930. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington London, 1988. 64 89., 117 143. (optional) 2
Leonore Davidoff Catherine Hall: Family Fortunes. Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780 1850. Hutchinson, London, 1987. 357 397. (optional) 6. Working class housing Donald J. Olsen: The City as a Work of Art, 178 185. Martin J. Daunton, ed.: Housing the Workers, 1850 1914. A Comparative Perspective. Leicester University Press, London New York, 1990. 1 33. Gábor Gyáni: Parlor and Kitchen, 137 241. (optional) 7. Public space public culture: flânerie Richard Sennett: The Fall of Public Man. Vintage, New York, 1978. 195 219. Marshall Berman: All That is Solid Melts Into Air. The Experience of Modernity. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1982. 131 164. Gábor Gyáni: Identity and the Urban Experience. Fin de Siécle Budapest. Columbia University Press, New York, 2004. 25 44., 59 83. Victoria E. Thompson: Telling spatial stories : urban space and bourgeois identity in early nineteenth century Paris. Journal of Modern History, 75 (September 2003) 523 556. (optional) 8. Public space public culture: amusement Donald J. Olsen: The City as a Work of Art, 189 251. Gábor Gyáni: Identity and the Urban Experience, 97 111. Lewis A. Erenberg: Steppin Out. New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture 1890 1930. University of Chicago Press, Chicago London, 1984. 5 31. (optional) Kathy Peiss: Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn of the Century New York. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1986. 11 34. (optional) 9. Public space public culture: consumption Jeanne Catherine Lawrence: Geographical space, social space, and the realm of the department store. Urban History, 19, part 1 (April 1992) 64 84. 3
Geoffrey Crossick Serge Jaumain, eds.: Cathedrals of Consumption. The European Department Store 1850 1939. Ashgate, Aldershot, 1999. 1 46. Daniel Roche: The People of Paris. An Essay in Popular Culture in the 18 th Century. Berg, Leamington, Spa, 1987. 127 160. (optional) 10. Public space public culture: violence Rob Sindall: Street Violence in the Nineteenth Century. Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1990. 1 16., 44 79. David R. Johnson: Policing the Urban Underworld. The Impact of Crime on the Development of the American Police, 1800 1887. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1979. 68 90. Gábor Gyáni: Identity and the Urban Experience, 137 155. Louise A. Tilly: I Fatti de Maggio. The working class of Milan and the rebellion of 1898. In: Robert J. Bezucha, ed.: Modern European Social History. D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, 1972. 124 161. (optional) 11. Expression and representation of the city Donald J. Olsen: The City as a Work of Art, 281 313. Carl E. Schorske: Museum in contested space: the sword, the scepter and the Ring. In: Carl E. Schorske: Thinking With History. Explorations in the Passage to Modernism. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ., 1998. 105 125. Thomas Bender: The Unfinished City, 1 55. (optional) 12. Social memory and the city Richard Reichensperger: The art of memory between Paris and Vienna.. In: Moritz Csáky Elena Mannová, eds.: Collective Identites in Central Europe in Modern Times. Bratislava, 1999. 23 45. Peter Stachel: An Austrian place of memory. The Heldenplatz in Vienna as a historic 4
symbol and political metaphor. In: Moritz Csáky Elena Mannová, eds.: Collective Identites in Central Europe, 159 179. András Gerő: Modern Hungarian Society in the Making. The Unfinished Experience. CEU, Budapest London New York, 1995. 203 223. L ubomír Lipták: Collective identity and public space. In: Moritz Csáky Elena Mannová, eds.: Collective Identites in Central Europe Times, 121 137. (optional) 5