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History 80020 – Literature Survey – European History Tuesdays, 6:30-8 History 80020 – Literature Survey – European History Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30pm (classroom TBA) Professor Steven Remy ([email protected]) Weekly office hour: Tuesdays 5-6 (room TBA) This course has two purposes: (1) to introduce you to recent scholarship on the major events, themes, and historiographical debates in European history from the Enlightenment to the present; and (2) to prepare you to take the written exam in this field. Each week you will read - and come to class prepared to summarize and discuss - a different title. The titles are assigned below. Each student will write a 700-900 word summary of the book s/he has been assigned and bring a paper copy for me and for each of his/her classmates. I will determine your final course grade as follows: 60% book summaries and 40% in class discussions. Written book summary and class participation requirements are found at the end of the syllabus. A word about the titles I’ve selected: I have selected high-quality scholarship reflecting the temper and direction of current research on and methodological approaches to modern European history. I have also emphasized literature that situates European developments in global contexts. An expanded list of titles for further reading is attached to the syllabus. In addition to keeping up with scholarly journals in your area of interest, I encourage you to stay current by tracking reviews and debates in the following publications: Journal of Modern History, The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, aldaily.com, H-Net reviews, The Nation, Jewish Review of Books, and Chronicle of Higher Education book reviews. I assume that you possess a basic familiarity with the chronology of modern European history. Even if you do, I recommend you keep on hand two useful references: John Merriman’s A History of Modern Europe and Elizabeth Pollard and Clifford Rosenberg, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World (vol. 2, concise edition, 2015). Finally, I recommend that you read Lynn Hunt’s Writing History in the Global Era (W.W. Norton, 2014) before the first class meeting. The use in class of electronic devices of any kind is prohibited. Please consult the Bulletin of the Graduate Center for more information on student rights and responsibilities: (http://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate- Center/PDF/Publications/Bulletin/Archives/GC_Bulletin_2014-15.pdf) February 3: The Enlightenment Dan Edelstein, The Enlightenment: A Geneology (Andrew Kotick) Darrin McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment (Nicholas Levis) David Sorkin, The Religious Enlightenment (Alexander Baltovski) Sankar Muthu, Enlightenment Against Empire (Megan Hills) Thomas Munck, The Enlightenment (Phelim Dolan) Daniel Gordon, ed., Postmodernism and the Enlightenment (Davide Colasanto) February 10: The French Revolution Thomas Kaiser and Dale Van Kley, eds., From Deficit to Deluge: The Origins of the French Revolution (Megan Hills) Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson, eds., The French Revolution in Global Perspective (Andrew Kotick) Jeremy Popkin, You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (Phelim Dolan) Micah Alpaugh, Non-Violence and the French Revolution: Political Demonstrations in Paris, 1787-1795 (Alexander Baltovski) Timothy Tackett, The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution (Nicholas Levis) Suzanne Desan, The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France (Davide Colasanto) February 17: 19th Century & prewar Europe David Bell, The First Total War (Davide Colasanto) C.A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World (Alexander Baltovski) Juergen Osterhammel and Niels Petersson, Globalization: A Short History (Megan Hills) Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence (Nicholas Levis) Robert Beachy, Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity (Phelim Dolan) Robert Weinberg, Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis (Andrew Kotick) February 24: The New Imperialism Antoinette Burton, Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism (Alexander Baltovski) Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe (Nicholas Levis) David Motadel, ed., Islam and the European Empires (Davide Colasanto) Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens (Phelim Dolan) Andrew Thompson, The Empire Strikes Back? (Andrew Kotick) Ian Coller, Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe (Megan Hills) March 3: World War I John Horne, ed., A Companion to World War I (Andrew Kotick) John H. Morrow, The Great War: An Imperial History (Davide Colasanto) Tammy Proctor, Civilians in a World at War (Megan Hills) Craig Gibson, Behind the Front (Nicholas Levis) Sean McMeekin, The Russian Origins of the First World War (Phelim Dolan) Joshua Sanborn, Imperial Apocalypse (Alexander Baltovski) March 10: Interwar Europe David Reynolds, The Long Shadow (Nicolas Levis) Cathie Carmichael, Genocide before the Holocaust (Megan Hills) Carole Fink, Defending the Rights of Others (Alexander Baltovski) Clifford Rosenberg, Policing Paris (Davide Colasanto) Gary Wilder, The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Humanism Between the Two World Wars (Andrew Kotick) Peter Gordon, ed., Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy (Phelim Dolan) March 17: The Russian Revolution Michael Geyer and Sheila Fitzpatrick, ed., Beyond Totalitarianism (Megan Hills) Robert Gellately, The Age of Social Catastrophe (Nicolas Levis) Peter Holquist, Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia's Continuum of Crisis, 1914- 1921 (Davide Colasanto) Frederick Corney, Telling Revolution (Alexander Baltovski) Willard Sunderland, The Baron’s Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution (Phelim Dolan) David Hoffmann, Cultivating the Masses (Andrew Kotick) March 24: Stalin and Stalinism Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain (Alexander Baltovski) Steven Barnes, Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society (Megan Hills) Kate Brown, A Biography of No Place (Phelim Dolan) J. Arch Getty, The Road to Terror (updated and abridged edition) (Davide Colasanto) Sheila Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism (Andrew Kotick) Timothy Snyder and Ray Brandon, eds., Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953 (Nicolas Levis) March 31: Fascism: Nazi Germany/fascist Italy Robert O. Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism (Megan Hills) Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema (Andrew Kotick) Federico Finchelstein, Transatlantic Fascism (Davide Colasanto) Dagmar Herzog, ed., Sexuality and German Fascism (Nicholas Levis) Benjamin C. Hett, Burning the Reichstag (Phelim Dolan) Michael Wildt, An Uncompromising Generation (Alexander Baltovski) April 14: World War II Sarah Shields, Fezzes in the River: Identity Politics and European Diplomacy in the Middle East on the Eve of World War II (Phelim Dolan) Dagmar Herzog, ed., Brutality and Desire (Megan Hills) Mary Louise Roberts, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France (Andrew Kotick) Christopher Bayly & Tim Harper, Forgotten Armies (Nicholas Levis) Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War (Alexander Baltovski) Emile Greble, Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler's Europe (Davide Colasanto) April 21: The Holocaust Goetz Aly, Why the Germans? Why the Jews? 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Lee, ed., Making a World After Empire (Megan Hills) Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization (Andrew Kotick) Albert Memmi, Decolonization and the Decolonized (Phelim Dolan) May 12: Post-Cold War Europe Alexei Yurchek, Everything was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Megan Hills) Walter Laqueur, The End of Old Europe and After the Fall (Davide Colasanto) Mabel Berezin, Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times (Nicholas Levis) Joan Wallach Scott, The Politics of the Veil (Alexander Baltovski) Olivier Roy, Globalized Islam (Andrew Kotick) Roger Liddle, The Europe Dilemma: Britain and the Drama of EU Integration (Phelim Dolan) Weekly book summaries: Each week you will write a 700-900 word summary of the book you have been assigned and bring a paper copy for me and for each of your classmates. The purpose of the summaries is to develop the skill of summarizing concisely a monograph’s historiographical significance, argument(s),
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