Modern European History Reading List

Modern European History Reading List:
History MA Comprehensive Oral Examination
Abbreviated instructions (full instructions here): Students not writing a thesis must
present themselves for examination in three subfields. Students will take three subfield
examinations (written, three hours each) within a one-week period, followed by a onehour oral examination with the Graduate Advisory Committee. For the subfield of
Modern European History, students will be expected to synthesize the arguments and
evidence of at least fifteen of the following books and articles. Students interested in
this subfield should contact Professors Easton or Transchel for guidance. Call numbers
at the end of each entry are for copies at the Meriam Library. Books without call
numbers have been ordered by the library, but should be requested via Interlibrary
Services.
Basics (choose the four by Hobsbawm or the four by Winks, ed.)
Hobsbawm, E. J. The Age of Extremes: a History of the World, 1914-1991. New York:
Pantheon Books, 1994. D421 .H582 1994.
———. The Age of Capital, 1848-1875. New York: Scribner, 1975. D358 .H56 1975.
———. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. D359.7 .H63
1987. D421 .H582 1994.
———. The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848. Cleveland: World Pub. Co, 1962. D299 .H6.
Winks, Robin W., ed. Europe 1945 to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press,
2005. D1051 .W56 2005.
———. Europe and the Making of Modernity, 1815-1914. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2005. D358 .W683 2005.
———. Europe, 1648-1815: From the Old Regime to the Age of Revolution. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2004. D273 W53 2004.
———. Europe, 1890-1945: Crisis and Conflict. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
D395 W48 2003.
To 1914 (choose five)
Allen, Robert C. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. New Approaches
to Economic and Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
HC254.5 .A663 2009.
Anderson, Benedict R. O’G. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread
of Nationalism. Rev. and extended ed., 2nd ed. London: Verso, 1991. JC311 A656
1991.
Berend, T. Iván. History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth
Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. D359 .B53 2005.
Berlanstein, Lernard. The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth-century Europe.
New York: Routledge, 1992. HC240 .I533 1992.
Ferguson, Niall, Empire the Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons
for Global Power. New York: Basic Books,
2003. http://mantis.csuchico.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/csuchico/
Doc?id=10457831 (authenticate through Meriam Library) DA16 .F47 2003eb.
Furet, François. Interpreting the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1981. DC138 .F813.
Gay, Peter. Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle-class Culture, 1815-1914. New
York: W. W. Norton, 2002. CB415 G39 2002.
Headrick, Daniel R. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the
Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. T19 .H4.
Hobsbawm, E. J. Industry and Empire; the Making of Modern English Society, 1750 to the
Present Day. New York: Pantheon Books, 1968. HC 253 .H57 1968.
———. Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. The Wiles
Lectures Given at the Queen’s University of Belfast. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1990. JC311 H577 1990.
——— and Terence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1992. GT95 I58 1992.
Hunt, Lynn. Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution. Studies on the History of
Society and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. DC158.8 H86
1984.
Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1983. CB478 .K46 2003 .
Landes, David S. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial
Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1969. HC240 .L26.
Landes, Joan B. Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in
Eighteenth-century France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. N6846 L344
2001.
McClintock, Anne, and American Council of Learned Societies. Imperial Leather Race,
Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. New York: Routledge,
1995. http://mantis.csuchico.edu/login?url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.021
46 (authenticate through Meriam Library).
Rapport, Michael. 1848, Year of Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2009. D387 .R27
2009.
Rose, Sonya O. Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth-century England.
Studies on the History of Society and Culture 13. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1992. HQ1075.5 G7 R67 1992.
Stoler, Ann Laura. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in
Colonial Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. JV105 S79 2002.
Since 1914 (choose six)
Blackbourn, David, and American Council of Learned Societies. The Peculiarities of
German History Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-century Germany.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. Only read the Blackbourn parts. DD204
B5213 1984.
Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final
solution in Poland. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. D804.3 B77 1992.
Buruma, Ian. Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of
Tolerance. New York: Penguin Press, 2006. DJ91 .B87 2007.
Wingfield, Nancy M. and Maria Bucur, eds. Gender and War in Twentieth-century
Eastern Europe. Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
2006. http://mantis.csuchico.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/csuchico/
Doc?id=10155191 (authenticate through Meriam Library) DJK48.5 .G46 2006eb.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia
in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. HN523 .F57 1999.
———. The Russian Revolution. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. DK265
.F48 2008.
Fritzsche, Peter. Germans into Nazis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
DD238 .F74 1999.
Glenny, Misha. The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999. New
York: Viking, 2000. DR43 .G546 2012.
Herzog, Dagmar, ed. Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe’s Twentieth
Century. Genders and Sexualities in History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2011. HV6593.E85 B78 2011.
Judt, Tony. Postwar: a History of Europe Since 1945. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.
D1051 .J84 2006.
Keegan, John. “The Somme.” In The Face of Battle. New York: Viking Press, 1976. D25
.K43 1976.
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler. Profiles in Power. New York: Longman, 1991. DD247 H5 K46 1991.
Kotkin, Stephen. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000. Updated ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. DK274 .K635 2008.
Kuisel, Richard F. Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization. Berkeley and
Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1993. DC59.8 U6 K85 1993.
Leitz, Christian, and Harold James. The Third Reich: The Essential Readings. Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers, 1999. DD256.48 .T45 1999.
Maier, Charles S. “The Two Postwar Eras and the Conditions for Stability in Twentiethcentury Western Europe.” In In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical
Political Economy. Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1987. HC240 .M17 1987.
Martel, Gordon. The Origins of the First World War. New York: Longman, 1996. D511
.M269 2008.
Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century. 1st American ed. New
York: A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999. D424 M39 1999.
Overy, R. J. Why the Allies Won. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995. D743 .O94 1997.
Parker, Robert Alexander Clarke. The Second World War: a Short History. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1997. http://opac.csuchico.edu/record=b2440904~S13
(authenticate through Meriam library).
Roberts, Mary Louise. Civilization Without Sexes Reconstructing Gender in Postwar
France, 1917-1927. Women in Culture and Society. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press,
1994. http://mantis.csuchico.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/csuchico/
Doc?id=10286153 (authenticate through Meriam Library). HQ1075.5.F8 R63
1994eb.
Scott, Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History. Rev. ed. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1999. HQ1154 .S335 1999.
Shandley, Robert R., ed. Unwilling Germans?: The Goldhagen Debate. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1998. D804.3 G6483 U59 1998.
Stokes, Gale. The Walls Came Tumbling down: Collapse and Rebirth in Eastern Europe.
2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. DJK50 .S75 2012.
Tooze, Adam. “The Economic History of the Nazi Regime.” In Nazi Germany, edited by
Jane Caplan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. DD256.5 .N356 2008.

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