This is where you find key texts for the summer school as well as some further reading suggestions. There is of course more to discover in the numerous blog posts by individual participants. So, pick and chose from there.

The key texts here are directly related to individual workshops as required readings and as basis for discussion and exchange, others are simply wider suggestions. This site will be updated regularly and core readings required for workshops will be clearly communicated in due course to summer school participants.

Key Readings Monday

AM Workshop: Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen (St Andrews), Network practice in the early modern news world

Note: The workshop is based on the USTC project, St Andrews and will pick up some of the themes addressed in Andrew Pettegree’s latest monograph The Invention of News (Yale, 2014).

 

PM Workshop: Jakob Vogel & Alexander van Wickeren, Spaces and Knowledge: New Perspectives on Interconnections in History

Text 1: Raj, Relocating Modern Science Intro

 

Text 2: Saunier, Learning by doing

Further Reading Suggestions

Prakash Kumar, Transnational Knowledge and Colonial Indigo Plantations in South Asia, in: Modern, Asian Studies, 48 (2014), pp. 720-753.

Text 2: Sven Beckert, The Empire of Cotton: A Global History, New York 2014.

 

Evening Keynote: Philipp Ther (Vienna), The global 1989 – networks of neoliberalism – Text: Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe eds, The Road from Mont Pèleri. The making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective PDF: Mirowski & Plehwe eds, The Road from Mont Pèlerin (Introduction is recommended as background reading for lecture)

 

Key Readings Tuesday 

AM Workshop & Playshop: Roberto Sala (Basel), Create your data! The value of relational databases for network analysis – Text: Claire Lemercier, Formal network methods in history: why and how?  PDF: Lemercier, Networks

 

AM Reading Group: Ulrike Lindner (Cologne) Texts: Lindner, New Forms of Knowledge AND MacKenzie, European Imperialism-1

 

PM Workshop: Roberto Prado (William & Mary) Trans-Imperial Cooperation – Texts: Prado, Transimperial Networks and Adelman Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic Ch 1

 

Further Reading Suggestions 

Bruno Latour, “Actor Network Theory. A Few Clarifications”, Soziale Welt 47/4 (1996) PDF: Latour, Actor Network Clarifications

Veronika Lipphart, Knowledge Transfer and Science Transfer (Europäische Geschichte Online)

Lux, David S., and Harold J. Cook. “Closed Circles or Open Networks?: Communicating at a Distance..” History of Science 36, no. 112 Part 2 (June 1998). 

Christian Marx, Economic Networks (Europäische Geschichte Online).

Davide Rodogno, Bernhard Struck, Jakob Vogel, “Introduction”, in : Shaping the transnational sphere. Experts, networks, and issues (c. 1850-1930), ed. with Davide Rodogno and Jakob Vogel, New York: Berghahn 2014, 1-20. PDF: Rogodno Struck Vogel, Introduction Shaping Transnational Sphere 2014

Bernhard Struck, Kate Ferris, Jacques Revel, “Introduction: Space and Scale in Transnational History” Size Matters. Scales in Transnational and Comparative history, special issue: International History Review, ed. with Kate Ferris and Jacques Revel (vol 33/4, December 2011PDF: Struck et al. – 2011 – Introduction Space and Scale in Transnational His

Frank Wolff, “Eastern Europe Abroad: Exploring Actor-Networks in Transnational Movements and Migration History, The Case of the Bund.” International Review of Social History 57, no. 02 (2012): 229–55. doi:10.1017/S0020859012000211. PDF: Wolff, Eastern Europe Abroad Exploring Actor-Networks in
Charles Wetherell, “Historical Social Network Analysis.” International Review of Social History 43, no. Supplement S6 (December 1998): 125–44. doi:10.1017/S0020859000115123. PDF: Wetherell, Historical Social Network Analysis

Some tools and smallish workshops for mapping and visualisation: 

http://transnationalhistory.net/mapping/

Some ideas for inspiration:

http://spatial.ly