Modern European History Reading List

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

1 - 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

2 - 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 19 th 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

3 - 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

19 th 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

4 - 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

5 - 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

6 - 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

7 - 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

8 - 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 - Vanessa Schwartz, It’s So French!: Hollywood, Paris and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Film Culture - Chin, Fehrenbach, Eley and Grossmann, After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe

9 - Atina Grossmann, Jews, Germans and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany - Heide Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America - Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfriend, eds., Between Marx and Coca-Cola: Youth Culture in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980 - Hanna Schisler, ed., The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-1968 -

Decolonization

- James Le Sueur, Uncivil Wars: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria - Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization: the Algerian War and the Remaking of France - Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times - Herman Lebovics, Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age - Mark Mazower, No Enchanted Place: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations - Martin Shipway, Decolonization and Its Impact: A Comparative Approach to the End of the Colonial Empires - James Le Sueur, ed., The Decolonization Reader

The 1960s

- Kristin Ross, May ’68 and Its Afterlives - Fink, Gassert, Junker, Mattern, eds., 1968: the World Transformed - Martin Klimke, The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties - Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, ed., 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-1977 - Andrew Feenberg and Jim Freedman, When Poetry Ruled the Streets: the French May Events of 1968 - Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente - Jeremy Varon, Bringing the War Home: the Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction and the Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies - Kieran Williams, The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath: Czechoslovak Politics, 1968-1970 - Gerd-Rainer Horn, The Spirit of ’68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976 - Hand Kundnani, Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust

10 - Arthur Marwick, The Sixties: Cultural Transformations in Britain, France, Italy and the United States, 1958-1974 - Barry Eichengreen, The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond

Gender and Sexuality in the 20 th Century

- Mary Louise Roberts, Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927 - Susan Pedersen, Family, Dependence and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britian and France, 1914-1945 - Julian Jackson, Living in Arcadia: Homosexuality, Politics and Morality in France from the Liberation to AIDS - Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant Ragan, eds., Homosexuality in Modern France - Carolyn Dean, The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality and Other Fantasies in Interwar France - Dagmar Herzog, Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in 20th C. Germany - Matt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 - Laura Levine Frader, Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model - Elizabeth Heineman, What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany - Atina Grossmann, Reforming Sex: the German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950

The End of Communism

- Istvan Rev, Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism - Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Post- Socialist Change - Katherine Verdery, What was Socialism and What Comes Next? - Stephen Kotkin, Armageddon Averted: the Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 - Padraic Kenney, Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989 - Alexei Yurchak, Everyting Was Forever, Until it Was No More: the Last Soviet Generation - Istvan Deak, Jan Gross and Tony Judt, The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath - Jan Gross, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz - Timothy Garton Ash, The Magic Lantern: the Revolution of ‘89 - Stephen Kotkin and Jan Gross, Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment - Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century

11 - James Sheehan, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe

Immigration, Postcolonialism and Multicultural Europe

- Rita Chin, The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany - Ika Huegel-Marshall, Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany - May Optitz, Katharina Oguntoye and Dagmar Schultz, eds., Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out - Ruth Mandel, Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany

- Deniz Gokturk, David Gramling, Anton Kaes, eds., Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005 - Paul Gilroy, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: the Cultural Politics of Race and Nation - Joan Scott, Politics of the Veil - Paul Silverstein, Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation - Dominic Thomas, Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism - Laurent Dubois, Soccer Empire: the World Cup and the Future of France - Alec Hargreaves, Multi-Ethnic France: Immigration, Politics, Culture and Society - Jim House and Neil MacMaster, Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror and Memory - Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History - Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam and the Limits of Tolerance - Tony Judt, A Grand Illusion?: An Essay on Europe