History 4453


Working Paper #2: Tracing the History of a Historiographic Field


Having completed the assigned readings for unit 2, write a 2-page, double-spaced, and appropriately footnoted (please ask me if you are uncertain as to what this means) paper in Times New Roman 12-pt. font in which you address yourself to all of the articles you have read for class in which you 1) establish where the field of the history of women and work in early modern Europe has been since its inception in the early work of Alice Clark.  You need not establish a synthesis for the field at any one point in time.  All you need to do is show how the field has progressed over its lifetime on the basis of what you have read for class.  Your thesis statement should make a claim as to what you think the general direction of the field has been over the years.  Good luck!

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