Term Paper Topics 13th Waves 2008 Sept
(Due Date Oct. 1st)
Urban History (in Europe; focus on history since 1400)
(1) KMS Portrait of a City : Berlin 1648-1945
(2) KYK Portrait of a City : Vienna 1400-1800
(3) KHI Portrait of a City : Vienna 1800-1970
(4) SDE Portrait of a City : Rome 1200-1800
(5) YSM Portrait of a City : Rome 1800-2000
(6) LSH Portrait of a City : St. Petersburg 1702-2002
(7) KJS Comparative Urban History : Brugge, Antwerpen and Amsterdam
(8) KYY Comparative Urban History : Cracow and Warsaw
(9) PSW Comparative Urban History : Madrid and Barcelona
(10) HDE Comparative Urban History : Milan and Rome
(11) KSJ Comparative Urban History : Frankfurt and Berlin
(12) Capital Cities in the 15th Century
(13) Capital Cities in the 18th Century
(14) JYJ Mining Cities in the 19th Century
(15) AJW Fortress Cities in the 17th to 19th Century
(16) KJS Spas from the late 18th into the 20th Century
(17) JYJ The History of the Municipal Theatre
(18) YSW The History of City Fires and Fire Brigades
(19) KJH From Market to Supermarket : the City as Center of Trade
(20) SJE Cities under Ottoman Rule
(21) PJY Cities in the Russian Empire
(22) Cities in Scandinavia
(23) Too Many Cities ? the Urban Landscape of Flanders
(24) Too Many Cities ? the Urban Landscape of Lombardy
(25) SJH Church and City : the case of Bologna
(26) KJY Church and the City : the case of Venice
(27) PJH Free Imperial Cities
(28) History of the Mapping of European Cities
(29) History of Urban Traffic
(30) History of Street Lighting
(31) KJY History of Urban Water Supply & Waste Water Disposal
(32) PHR The Importance of Bridges for Urban History
(33) Company Towns
(34) PKW University Cities
(35) KJW The Night Watch and History of the Urban Curfew
(36) PSW 19th Century Pandemics and their Influence on City Planning
(37) The Municipal Park
(38) KJY History of Urban Garbage Disposal
(39) Sphinx History of Urban Heating
(40) KIJ History of the Skyscraper in Europe
(41) LES A City Shaped by Revolutions : Paris
(42) LYJ A Communist Model City : Stalingrad
(43) DHY European Cities in the Belle Epoque
(44) YSH The Influence of Two World Wars, the Great Depression and the Cold War on E. Cities
Sample Students' Term papers on Urban history
Jeong, Hae Yoon, Interbellum Metropoleis : Paris (2008)
Jang, Yoo Jin Paris under Louix XIV, XV, XVI (2007)
Kim, Young Won, Paris from Louis XIV to Louis XVI. What Caused the Parisians to Revolt (2007)
Choi, Jung Yun, A Comparative Economic History of Florence and Venice during the Italian
Renaissance of the 14th Century (2008)
Woo, Na Young, A Historical Summary of Berlin's Architectural Controversy (2007)
First claim, by email or verbal, gets the topic; every topic only once.
Many of the topics here are vague. Students can, and are encouraged to, specify topics.
Begin with branstorming : what questions do you want to answer ? What information do you have access to ?
Papers should be divided in several chapters and have a concluding analysis. Papers should contain endnotes and references.
July 11th 2008
Alexander Ganse
