Modern European History reading list
Philosophy and History of History
-Foucault, The History of Sexuality
-Antoinette Burton, Archive Stories
-Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain
-Hayden White, Tropics of Discourse
-Peter Novick, That Noble Dream
-Geoff Eley, A Crooked Line
-Kathleen Canning, Gender History in Practice
-William Sewell, Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation
-Joan W. Scott, Gender and the Politics of History
-Denise Riley, Am I That Name: Feminism and the Category of Women in History
-Frederick Cooper, Colonialism in Question
-Dominick LaCapra, Writing Trauma, Writing History
-Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object
-James Clifford and George Marcus, eds., Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography
-Edward Said, Orientalism
-Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe
-David Harvey, The Postmodern Condition: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
Enlightenment
-Peter Dear, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700
-Steve Shapin, The Scientific Revolution
-Steve Shapin and Simon Schaeffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life
-Jonathan Israel, A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy
-Sarah Maza,The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: an Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850
-Dena Goodman, The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment
-Jurgen Habermas,The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
-Dan Edelstein, The Enlightenment: A Genealogy
-Darrin McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
-David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
-Susan Buck-Morss, Haiti, History and Universal History
-Sankar Muthu, Enlightenment Against Empire
-David Sorkin, The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews and Catholics from London to Vienna
-Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe: the Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
The French Revolution
-Gary Kates, The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies
-Georges Lefebvre, The Coming of the French Revolution
-Francois Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution
-Georges Rudé, The Crowd in History
-Arno Mayer, The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions
-Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre
-Timothy Tackett, Becoming Revolutionary: the Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture
-Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution
-Suzanne Desan, The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France
-Keith Michael Baker, Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the 18th Century
-Laurent Dubois, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804
-Jeremy Popkin, You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery
-David Bell, The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
-Dan Edelstein, The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature and France
-Joan Landes, Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation and Revolution in 18th Century France
-Peter Davis, The Debate on the French Revolution
Industrialism
-William Sewell, Work and Revolution in France: the Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848
-Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000
-Donald Reid, Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations
-Patrick Joyce, Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, 1848-1914
-Kathleen Canning, Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914
-E.P. Thompson, Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture
-E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class
-Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution
-Gareth Stedman Jones, Languages of Class: Studies of English Working Class History, 1832-1982
-Harold Perkin, The Origins of Modern English Society
-Anna Clark, The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
-Sonya Rose, Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in 19th Century England
-David Landes, The Unbound Prometheus
-Steven Beaudoin, The Industrial Revolution
-Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy
Nations and Nationalism
-Jonathan Sperber, The European Revolutions, 1848-1851
-Jeremy King, Budweisers into Czechs and Germans: a Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848-1948
-Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999
-Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: the Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
-Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
-Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
-Eric Hobsbawm and Terrence Ranger, Invented Traditions
-Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780
-David Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800
-Geoff Eley and Ronald Grigor Suny, Becoming National: a Reader
-George L. Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe
-Anthony D. Smith, The Nation in History
-Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism
-Alon Confino, The Nation as Local Metaphor: Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany and National Memory
-Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
-Rogers Brubaker, Ethnicity Without Groups
Gender and Sexuality in the 19th Century
-Mary Poovey, Uneven Developments: the Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England
-Sharon Marcus, Between Women: Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian England
-Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the Middle Class, 1780-1850
-Joan W. Scott, Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man
-Seth Koven, Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
-Susan Kingsley Kent, Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914
-Susan Kingsley Kent, Gender and Power in Britain, 1660-1990
-Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
-George Mosse, The Image of Man: the Creation of Modern Masculinity
-Robert Nye, ed., Sexuality
-Robert Nye, Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France
-Matt Cook, London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914
-Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century
-Nancy Wingfield and Maria Bucur, Gender and War in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe
-Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London
-Judith Surkis, Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920
19th Century Culture: Visual, Musical and Commercial Culture
-Rudy Koshar, ed., Histories of Leisure
-Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: the Industrialization of Space and Time
-Jonathan Crary, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle and Modern Culture
-T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers
-T.J. Clark, The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851
-David Harvey, Paris, Capital of Modernity
-Patrick Joyce, The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City
-Thomas Richards, The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914
-Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
-Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space: 1880-1918
-Colin Campbell, The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism
-Geoff Eley, Society, Culture and the State in Germany, 1870-1930
-Vanessa Schwartz, Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siecle Paris
-Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin 1900
-Arno Mayer, The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War
-Owen Chadwick, The Secularization of the European Mind in the 19th Century
-Rosalind Williams, Dreamworlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century France
-Erika Rappaport, Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West End
-Deborah Cohen, Household Goods: The British and Their Possessions
Science and Medicine
-Anson Rabinbach, The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue and the Origins of Modernity
-Daniel Pick, Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, 1848-1918
-Mary Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact
-Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
-Sander Gilman, Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness
-Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
-Jan Goldstein, The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850
-Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason: the Modern Foundations of Body and Soul
-George Fredrickson, Racism: A Short History
-Neil MacMaster, Racism in Europe: 1870-2000
-Albert Lindemann and Richard Levy, eds., Antisemitism: A History
-Jacob Katz, From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933
-Norman Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in 20th Century Europe
-Leon Poliakov, The Aryan Myth
-George Mosse, Toward the Final Solution: a History of European Racism
-David Arnold, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India
Colonialism and Imperialism
-Andrew Zimmerman, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire and the Globalization of the New South
-J.P. Daughton, An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914
-Frederick Cooper and Jane Burbank, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
-David Prochaska, Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bone, 1870-1920
-Kathleen Wilson, Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the 18th Century
-Patricia M.E. Lorcin, Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria
-Lora Wildenthal, German Women for Empire, 1884-1945
-Patrizia Palumbo, A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present
-Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda, Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism
-Robert Aldrich, Colonialism and Homosexuality
-Eric Ames, Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments
-Mrinalini Sinha, Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire
-Bonnie Smith, ed., Women’s History in Global Perspective, Volume 1
-Richard Price, Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in 19th Century Africa
-Philippa Levine, The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset
-Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1914
-Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon
-Elisa Camiscoli, Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy and Embodiment in the Early 20th Century
-Lata Mani, Contentious Traditions: the Debate on Sati in Colonial India
-Ann McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
-Alice Conklin, A Mission to Civilize: the Republican idea of Empire in France and West Africa
-Gary Wilder, The French Imperial Nation-State
-Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule
-Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World
-Niall Ferguson, Empire: the Rise and Demise of the British World Order
-Linda Colley, Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850
-Catherine Hall, Civilizing Subjects: Metropolose and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867
-Philippa Levine, ed., Gender and Empire
-Thomas Holt, The Problem of Emancipation: Race, Labor and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938
-Christopher Brown, Moral Capital: the Foundations of British Abolitionism
-Phyllis Martin, Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville
-James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art
World War I
-Isabel Hull, Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
-Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker, 14-18: Understanding the Great War
-Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: the Great War in European Cultural History
-Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert, eds., Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1919
-Daniel Sherman, The Construction of Memory in Interwar France
-Gregory Mann, Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
-Robert Wohl, The Generation of 1914
-Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: the Great War and the Birth of the Modern World
-Paul Fussel, The Great War and Modern Memory
-Belinda Davis, Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin
-Maureen Healy, Vienna and the Fall of the Hapsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I
-George Mosse, Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars
Soviet Revolution
-Eric Naiman, Sex in Public: the Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology
-Dan Healey, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: the Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent
-Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1929
-Jochen Hellbeck, Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin
-Boris Groys, The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorhisp and Beyond
-T.J. Clark, “Painting in the Year 2” in Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
-Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
-Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution
-Sheila Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism
-Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization
-Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
-Igar Halfin, From Darkness to Light: Class, Consciousness and Salvation in Revolutionary Russia
-Donald Raleigh, Experiencing Russia’s Civil War: Politics, Society and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917-1922
-Ronald Grigor Suny, The Soviet Experiment: Russian, the USSR and the Successor States
-Ronald Grigor Suny, ed., The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents
Interwar Period
-Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s 20th Century
-Peter Gay, Weimar Culture: the Insider as Outsider
-Eugen Weber, The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s
-Eric Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
-Richard Overy, The Inter-War Crisis, 1919-1939
-Susan Whitney, Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Interwar France
-Joseph Rothschild, East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars
Fascism
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
-Peter Fritzsche, Germans into Nazis
-Detlev Peukert, Inside Nazi Germany: Conformism, Opportunity and Racism in Everyday Life
-Ian Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
-Robert Gellately, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
-David Crew, Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945
-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1923-1945
-Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat
-Julian Jackson, France: the Dark Years, 1940-1944
-Eric Jennings, Vichy in the Tropics: Petain’s National Revolution in Indochina, Madagascar and Guadeloupe
-Zeev Sternhell, Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France
-Zeev Sternhell, The Birth of Fascist Ideology
-John Sweets, Choices in Vichy France: The French Under Nazi Occupation
-Michael Marrus and Robert Paxton, Vichy France and the Jews
-Robert Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism
-Martin Blinkhorn, Fascism: Theories and Interpretations
-Michael Mann, Fascists
-Stanley Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914-1945
-Roger Griffin, Modernism and Fascism
-Roger Griffin, The Nature of Fascism
-Victoria de Grazia, How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945
-Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland
-Robert Paxton, Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944
The Holocaust and Its Memory
-Peter Baldwin, Hitler, Holocaust and the Historians
-Richard Evans, In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape the Nazi Past
-Marion Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
-Saul Friedlander, Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vols. 1 and 2
-Saul Friedlander, When Memory Comes
-Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: the Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
-Michael Rothberg, Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization
-Julian Jackson, The Dark Years, 1940-1944
-Susan Rubin Suleiman, Crises of Memory and the Second World War
-Tina Campt, Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich
-Jeffrey Herf, Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys
-Henry Rousso, The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944
-Omer Bartov, The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath
-Jan Gross, Neighbors
-Wistrich, review of Gross’ Neighbors
-Polonsky and Michlic, The Neighbors Respond: the Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland
-Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men
-Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners
-Ian Kershaw, Hitler, the Germans and the Final Solution
-Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann, The Racial State: Germany, 1933-1945
-Helmut Walser Smith, “Where the Sonderweg Debate Left Us,” German Studies Review 31.2 (May 2008)
-Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
-Gotz Aly, Architects of the Final Solution: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction
-Robert Gellately and Nathan Stoltzfus, eds., Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany
-Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust
-Zygmund Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust
-Bridenthal, Grossmann, Kaplan, eds., When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany
-Fogu, Lebow, Kansteiner, eds., The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe
The Postwar Period
-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945
-Richard Kuisel, Seducing the French: the Dilemma of Americanization
-Maria Hohn, GIs and Frauleins: the German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany
-Richard Jobs, Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after the World War
-Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture
-Robert Moeller, War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany
-Uta Poiger, Jazz, Rock and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany