Instructions for choosing and receiving your prize(s):

  • For each distinction level (16.5 or above) sub-honours overall module grade that you have achieved, you are entitled to choose one book.
  • Please email your choice(s) to Mrs Melanie Forbes on soon as possible but BEFORE Friday 13th August 2010.
  • Books and book plates will be distributed at a reception that will be held at the start of the first semester of 2010-11. You will be notified about this reception by email. If you are unable to attend, you will be able to collect your book from the secretaries’ office in St Katharine’s Lodge.
  • If you have any further questions, please contact Dr Katie Stevenson on
  • Please choose your book(s) from the following list:

Anderson, Benedict, ‘Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism’ (1991) [MO3216 – Science and NationBuilding]
Ansari, A. M., ‘Modern Iran since 1921’ (2003) [MO3327 – Modern Iran since 1834]
Ascoli A.R. & von Henneberg K. eds. ‘Making and Remaking Italy: The Cultivation of National Identity around the Risorgimento’ (2001) [MO3328 – Making Italians]

Axworthy, M., ‘Sword of Persia: Nader Shah; from Tribal warrior to conquering tyrant’ (2006) [MO3280 – Persia in the 18th Century]
Barrell, A.D.M., ‘Mediaeval Scotland’ [SC2003 - Kingdom, Nation, People:
Scotland 1200-1603]
Bartlett, Robert, ‘The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950-1350’ (1993) [ME2003–East and West in the Later Middle Ages]
Bentley, Michael, ‘Politics Without Democracy, 1815-1914’ (3rd ed. 1999)
[MO3309 - The Evolution of British Democracy, 1832-1918]
Black, J., ‘From Louis XIV to Napoleon: The Fate of a Great Power’
(1999) [MO3214 – French Old Regime]
Blanning, T.C.W., ‘The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe, 1660-1789’ (2002) [MO1007–The Early Modern Western World, c.1450-c.1770]
Blanning, Tim, (ed.),‘The Nineteenth Century: Europe 1789-1914’ (2000)
[MO2007 - Europe and the World, 1850 - 2000]
Bowersock, G.W., ‘Roman Arabia’ (1982) [ME3211 - The Archaeology of Syria from Antiquity to Islam c. 250-750 AD]

Brown M, Scottish Baronial Castles

Brubaker L. and Smith, J.M.H (eds), ‘Gender in the Early Medieval World:
East and West, 300-900’ (2004) [ME3232 - Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe]
Buzard, James, ‘The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture, 1800-1918’ (1993) [MO3217 – Travel Culture in Europe]
Calder, A., ‘The People’s War’ [MO3502 – War and Welfare]
Canny, N. (ed), ‘The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Origins of Empire’ (1998) [MO3033 – Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Period]
Carpenter, D., ‘The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284’ (2003)
[ME2001 - British Isles from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Centuries and
SC3024 - Age of Conquest: Edward I, Scotland and Wales (1239-1307)]

Clark, Christopher, ‘’Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power’ (2009) [MO3329 – Kaiser William II]

Cohen, Ronald, ‘Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970’ [/MO3421 – Making People’s Music]
Comnena, Anna, ‘Alexiad’, translated by E. Sewter [ME3204 - The Princess Historian: Anna Comnena]
Coss, Peter R. and Keen, Maurice ‘Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England’ (2002) [ME3015 - Heralds, Heraldry and History:
Late Medieval Heraldic Studies]
Crampton, R. J., ‘Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century’ (1995)
[MO3504 – Central and Eastern Europe]
D'Altroy, T., ‘The Incas’ (2002) [ME3222 - Inca Civilization And Its Destruction]
Dark, Ken, ‘Britain and the End of the Roman Empire’ (2002) [ME3102 – Gildas and the Ruin of Britain, c.367-570 and ME3224 - Legend And History In Sub-Roman Britain]
Davies. W. (ed.), ‘Short Oxford History of the British Isles: From the Vikings to the Normans’ (2003) [ME2001 - British Isles from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Centuries]
DeGroot G., ‘The Bomb: A Life’ [MO3514 – Atom Bomb]
DeGroot, G., ‘Noble Cause’ [MO3508 – America and Vietnam]
Devine, T.M., ‘Scotland and the Union: 1707-2007’ (2007) [SC2004 -Scotland, Britain and Empire, 1603 - 2000]

Duffy, E., ‘The Voices of Morebath’ (2003) [MO3039 – England’s Long Reformation]

Duggan C. ‘The Force of Destiny: A history of Italy since 1796’ (2008) [MO3328 – Making Italians]

Elliott, J.H., ‘Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830’ (2006) [MO1007–The Early Modern Western World, c.1450-c.1770]
Evans, Richard J., ‘The Third Reich in Power’ (2005) [MO3410 – The Third Reich]
France, J., ‘The Crusades and the Expansion of Latin Christendom, 1000-1714’ (2005) [ME3203 - The Crusades]
Fraser, J. E., 2008, ‘From Caledonia to Pictland’ (2008) [SC3029 - Adomnán and His World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages]
Grant, A., ‘Independence and Nationhood: Scotland 1306-1469’ (1984),
[SC3021 - The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland 1371-1460]
Hafez, S. and Cobham, C. (eds), ‘A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories’ (1988) [AR3206 - Literary Arabic]

Hamel, Christopher de, ‘A History of Illuminated Manuscripts’ (1994) [MO3037 Renaissance Information Technology]

Harrison, M., ‘Disease and the Modern World’ (2003) [MO3023 – Disease and the Environment]
Harvey, B. (ed.) ‘Short Oxford History of the British Isles: The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries’ (2001) [ME2001 - British Isles from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Centuries]
Holt, M., ‘The French Wars of Religion’ (2nd ed., 2005) [MO3011 – Society and Religious Change in Sixteenth Century France]
Horrox, Rosemary (ed) ‘The Black Death’ (1994) [ME3408 - The Black Death and the Peasants’ Revolt In England]

Hughes-Warrington, Marnie, ‘History Goes to the Movies’ (2006) [ME3417 - The Middle Ages And The Movies]

Iggers, G., Wand, Q. E. and Mukherjee, S., ‘A global History of Modern Historiography’ (2008) [MO2006 - Interpreting the Past: 1450-the
present]
Jackson, Peter ‘The Mongols and the West’ (2005) [ME3230 - The Mongols and the West]
Jones, Colin, ‘The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99’ (2002) [MO3214 Decline and Fall of the French Old Regime]
Jotischky, A., ‘Crusading and the Crusader States’ (2004) [ME2003 –Europe in the High Middle Ages]

Judt, Tony, ‘Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945’ (2005) [MO3520 - Political Culture in Postwar European Democracies: History, Memory & Identity, 1945-2005]
Kay, Billy, ‘The Scottish World: A Journey into the Scottish Diaspora’
(2006) [SC3045 - Scotland and the Wider World, c. 1600 – 1750]
Keen M., ‘English Society in the Later Middle Ages’ (1990) [ME3014 - The End of the Middle Ages? Scotland and England in the Fifteenth Century]

Kennedy, David, ‘Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945’ (2001) [MO3422 – The US in Depression and War]

Kidd, C., ‘Subverting Scotland's Past’ (1993) [MO3260 - Constructing
Identities: Scottish Historians and the Past, 1707-1832]

Knox, W. ‘Industrial Nation: work, culture, society and culture in Scotland, 1800 – present’ (1999) [MO3361 – Scottish Social Problems]

Knox, W., ‘Lives of Scottish Women: Women and Scottish Society, 1800-1980’ (2006) [MO3360 - The Weaker Sex? Women and Scottish Society,
1800-1970]

Kupperman, Karen, ed. ‘Major Problems in Colonial American History’ (2nd ed. 1999) [MO3025 – Empire and Nation]

Kurslansky, Mark, ‘1968: The Year that Rocked the World’ (2004)
[/MO3513 – Heavenly Decade: The 1960s]
Lambert, M., ‘Medieval Heresy’ (2nd ed., 1992) [ME3206 - Heretics and Social Outcasts in Western Europe c.1100-c.1330]
Lamont, William (ed) ‘Historical Controversies and Historians’ [MO2006 - Interpreting the Past: 1450-the present]
Landes, R., Gow A., and van Meter D., ‘The Apocalyptic Year 1000:
Religious Expectation and Social Change 950-1050’ (2003) [ME3231- Mediaeval Apocalyptic Traditions c.400-C.1200]
Liddiard, R., ‘Castles in Context’ (2005) [ME3411 – The Mediaeval Castle]
Lowenthal, David, ‘The Past is a Foreign Country’ (1985) [MO3308 - Approaches to Historical Theory]
Lydon, J., ‘The Lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages’ (1972 & 2003)
[ME3016 - Ireland In The Later Middle Ages: Nations And Conflicts]
Macinnes, Allan, ‘Union and Empire: The Making of the United Kingdom in 1707’ (2007) [SC2004 - Scotland, Britain and Empire, 1603 - 2000]

Mahmoud Darwish, 'A River Dies of Thirst' [AR3201 - Media Arabic]
Mango, C., (ed) ‘The Oxford History of Byzantium’ (Oxford 2002) [ME3202 - Byzantium And The West 800-1118]

Markovits, C., (ed), ‘A History of Modern India’ (2004) [MO3320 –British Empire in India]
Mazower, M., ‘Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century’ (1999) [MO2007
- Europe and the World, 1850 - 2000]
McKibbin, R., ‘Classes and Cultures: England, 1918-1951’ (2000)[MO3516 – Popular Culture in Britain]
Mommsen, W. J., ‘Imperial Germany 1867-1918’(1995) [MO3317 – German
Foreign Policy]

Naguib Mahfouz, 'The Cairo Trilogy' (Everyman's Library) [AR3206 - Literary Arabic]
Negrine, R., ‘Politics and the Mass Media in Britain’ (2nd ed, 1996)[MO3319 – Press and British Politics]
Overy, Richard J., ‘The Inter-War Crisis 1919-1939’ (1994) [MO3518 –Inter-War Europe]
Parish, Peter, /Slavery: History and Historians/ (1997) [MO3110 -
African-Americans in Slavery and Freedom, c.1620-1865]
Pettegree, Andrew ‘The Early Reformation in Europe’ (1992) [MO3005 –
Early Reformation in Europe]
Pettegree, Andrew, ‘Sixteenth Century Europe’ (2002) [MO1007–The Early Modern Western World, c,1450-c.1770]
Potter, D., (ed.) ‘France in the Later Middle Ages’ (2003) [ME2004 -Europe in the Late Middle Ages]
Prestwich, Michael, ‘Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: the English
Experience’ (1996). [ME3423 - Mediaeval Warfare]
Reuter, T., ‘Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800-1054’ (1991) [ME3223
– Politics and Power in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe, c. 800-1000]
Roesdahl, E., ‘The Vikings’ (2nd ed, 1999) [ME3418 - The Vikings:Invasion, Settlement And Conversion, C. 750-1050]
Rogger, H., ‘Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution:
1881-1917’ (1983) [MO3302 – Imperial Russia]
Scribner, R. W., ‘For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for
the German Reformation’ [(MO3026 – Art and Piety]
Service, R., ‘A History of Twentieth-Century Russia’ (1999) [MO3406 –
The Soviet Union]
Skinner, Q., ‘The Foundations of Modern Political Thought vol 1:
Renaissance’ [/MO3019 – European Thought]
Skinner, Q., ‘The Foundations of Modern Political Thought vol 2: Age
of Reformation’ [MO3019 – European Thought]
Smith, Colin, (ed.) ‘Christians and Moors in Spain, 1145-1617’ (1985)
[ME3201 - Christians, Muslims And Jews In Mediaeval Spain
Smith, Jeffrey Chips, ‘The Northern Renaissance’ (2004) [MO3900 – The
Northern Renaissance]
Smith, Julia, ‘Europe after Rome: A New Cultural History 500-1000’
(2005) [ME1003–Transformation and Crisis in the Early Mediaeval World]
Song of Roland’ [ME3407 - Courtroom Dramas: Literature, Law And Lordship]
Sowerwine, C., ‘France since 1870: culture, politics and society’ (2001)
[MO3419 – The French ‘Civil Wars’ of the 20th Century]
Sperber J., ‘The European Revolutions, 1848-1851’ (1984, 1995) [MO3318 –
1848-49 in the German Lands]
Stora, B. ‘Algeria, 1830-2000: a short history’ /(2001) [MO3381 –French Algeria]
Sturdy, David, ‘Fractured Europe’ (2002) [MO1005 - Early Modern Europe
1450 - 1650]

Thomas, Keith, ‘The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England’ (2009) [MO3040 – From Cradle to Grave]

Thomas, K., ‘Man and the Natural World’ (1984) [ME3414 - Ideas on Nature
and Animals in the Middle Ages]
Tomalin, Claire, ‘Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self’ (London, 2003)
[MO3111 – Samuel Pepys]
Tyerman, C.J., ‘God’s War: A New History of the Crusades’ (2006) [ME1004
East and West: The Mediterranean in the Middle Ages]
Vasari, Giorgio, The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World’s Classics, 2008)
[MO3026 The Italian Renaissance]
Waley D. and Denley, P., ‘Later Medieval Europe 1250-1520’ (3rd edn.,
2001) [ME2004 - Europe in the Late Middle Ages]
Whittow, M, ‘The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025’ (1996) [ME3218
- Imperial and Christian Constantinople and ME3228 - The Near East in
the Age of Justinian and Muhammad,c.527-700]
Wormald, Jenny, ‘Court, Kirk and Community: Scotland 1470-1625’
(1981) [ME3303 – Culture and Society in Renaissance Scotland]

Zubok, Vladislav, ‘Zhivago's Children. The Last Russian Intelligentsia’ (2009) [MO3321 – Russia, Real and Imagined]

Arabic: recommended at entry to Second Year (see also original language texts below):
Naguib Mahfouz, 'Harafish'
Hanan al-Shaykh, 'Only in London'
Elias Khoury, 'Gate of the Sun'
Fu'ad al-Takarli, 'The Long Way Back'
Elias Khoury, 'Yalo'
Arabic: recommended at entry to Honours:
Ilyas Khuri, 'Rihlat Ghandi al-saghir'
Najib Mahfuz, 'Miramar'
Yusuf Idris, 'Al-Qisas al-qasira' Vol. 1, complete works; short stories
Yusuf Idris, 'Al-Qisas al-qasira' Vol. 2, complete works; short stories
Mahmud Darwish, 'Limadha tarkta al-hisan wahidan?,' poetry
Zakarya Tamir, 'Dimashq al-hara'iq' collection of short stories
Hanan al-Shaykh, 'Inna-ha Lundun ya 'azizi,' novel
Hanan al-Shaykh, 'Barid Bayrut' novel.