18Th – 19Th-Century Europe (Kilian Harrer, 2018) (Pdf)

Kilian Harrer, Preliminary exam, reading list: Europe, c. 1650-1850 Spring 2018 Supervising professors: Daniel Ussishkin, Kathryn Ciancia

NB: works highlighted in yellow are also on my French history reading list.

Sovereignty and the Making of Modern Statehood Armitage, David and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, eds. The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Bell, David A. The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007. Bell, David A. Napoleon: A Concise Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Brewer, John. The Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State, 1688-1783. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. Broers, Michael. Europe under Napoleon 1799-1815. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996. Burchell, Graham, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller, eds. The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. [focus on Foucault’s lectures] Foucault, Michel. Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison. Paris: Gallimard, 1975. Furet, François. La Révolution, de Turgot à Jules Ferry: 1770-1880. Paris: Hachette, 1988. Gierowski, Józef Andrzej. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century: From Anarchy to Well-Organised State. Kraków: Nakład Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności, 1996. Hanley, Sarah. “Engendering the State: Family Formation and State Building in Early Modern France.” French Historical Studies 16, no. 1 (1989): 4-27. Hobsbawm, Eric J. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. New York: Praeger, 1969 [1962]. Kantorowicz, Ernst H. The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997 [1957]. Knott, Sarah. “Narrating the Age of Revolutions.” William & Mary Quarterly 3rd series 73, no. 1 (2016): 3-26. Kraus, Hans-Christof. Das Ende des alten Deutschland: Krise und Auflösung des Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation 1806. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2006. Mukerji, Chandra. Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Palmer, Robert R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800. New ed. with a foreword by David Armitage. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014 [1959-64]. Palti, Elías José. An Archeology of the Political: Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.

Kilian Harrer, Preliminary exam, reading list: Europe, c. 1650-1850 Spring 2018 Supervising professors: Daniel Ussishkin, Kathryn Ciancia

Pincus, Steve. 1688: The First Modern Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Sperber, Jonathan. The European Revolutions, 1848-1851. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005 [1994]. Torpey, John C. The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Weber, Eugen. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976. Woolf, Stuart. Napoleon’s Integration of Europe. London: Routledge, 1991.

Science and Enlightenment Beales, Derek. Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Europe. London: Tauris, 2005. Cassirer, Ernst. Die Philosophie der Aufklärung. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1932. Cook, Harold J. Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Darnton, Robert. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995. Daston, Lorraine and Katherine Park. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750. New York: Zone Books, 1998. Endersby, Jim. Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: An Interpretation. 2 vols. New York: Knopf, 1966-69. Habermas, Jürgen. Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit: Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. With a new foreword by the author. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1990 [1962]. Hazard, Paul. La crise de la conscience européenne (1680-1715). Paris: Fayard, 1961 [1935]. Israel, Jonathan. Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. Kant, Immanuel. Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 [1962]. Lehner, Ulrich L. “Introduction: The Many Faces of the Catholic Enlightenment.” In A Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe, edited by Ulrich L. Lehner and Michael O’Neill Printy, 1-61. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

Kilian Harrer, Preliminary exam, reading list: Europe, c. 1650-1850 Spring 2018 Supervising professors: Daniel Ussishkin, Kathryn Ciancia

Martus, Steffen. Aufklärung: Das deutsche 18. Jahrhundert, ein Epochenbild. Berlin: Rowohlt, 2015. Mokyr, Joel. The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Perrot, Jean-Claude. Une histoire intellectuelle de l’économie politique, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Éditions de l’EHESS, 1992. Pomian, Krzysztof. Collectionneurs, amateurs et curieux: Paris, Venise, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Gallimard, 1987. Porter, Roy. The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000. Terrall, Mary. Catching Nature in the Act: Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Walicki, Andrzej. The Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Nationhood: Polish Political Thought from Noble Republicanism to Tadeusz Kościuszko. Translated by Emma Harris. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989. Wolff, Larry. Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Industry and Capitalism Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Vintage Books, 2014. De Vries, Jan. The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Hirschman, Albert. The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. Hobsbawm, Eric. Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution. Rev. and updated ed. with Chris Wrigley. New York: The New Press, 1999. Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton. “The Industrial Revolution in the Anthropocene.” Journal of Modern History 84, no. 3 (Sept. 2012): 679-96. Kocka, Jürgen. Geschichte des Kapitalismus. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2013. Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Samuel, Raphael. “Workshop of the World: Steam Power and Hand Technology in Mid- Victorian Britain.” History Workshop, no. 3 (Spring 1977): 6-72.

Kilian Harrer, Preliminary exam, reading list: Europe, c. 1650-1850 Spring 2018 Supervising professors: Daniel Ussishkin, Kathryn Ciancia

Liberalism and the Social MacDonagh, Oliver. “The Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Government: A Reappraisal.” The Historical Journal 1, no. 1 (1958): 52-67. Otter, Chris. The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. With a foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz and a new introduction by Fred Block. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001 [1944]. Poovey, Mary. Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. [just intro] Sheehan, Jonathan and Dror Wahrman. Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Stedman Jones, Gareth. An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Vernon, James. Hunger: A Modern History. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.

Class Biernacki, Richard. The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Blackbourn, David and Geoff Eley. The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. Clark, Anna. The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Hobsbawm, Eric. Labouring Men: Studies in the History of Labour. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964. Maza, Sarah. The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750- 1850. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Mergel, Thomas. Zwischen Klasse und Konfession: Katholisches Bürgertum im Rheinland 1794- 1914. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994. Stedman Jones, Gareth. Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832- 1982. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. [focus on ch. “Rethinking Chartism”]

Kilian Harrer, Preliminary exam, reading list: Europe, c. 1650-1850 Spring 2018 Supervising professors: Daniel Ussishkin, Kathryn Ciancia

Thompson, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class. Reprint with new preface. London: Penguin, 1980 [1963]. Thompson, E. P. “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century.” Past & Present no. 50 (1971): 76-136.

Nations and Nationalism Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. Rev. ed. New York: Verso, 2006 [1990]. Applegate, Celia. A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Bell, David A. The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Bjork, James. Neither German nor Pole: Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. Clark, Christopher. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. London: Allen Lane, 2006. Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Rev. ed., with new introductory essay. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Friedrich, Karin and Barbara M. Pendzich, eds. Citizenship and Identity in a Multi-National Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania in Context, 1550-1772. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Hagen, William W. Germans, Poles and Jews: The Nationality Conflict in the Prussian East, 1772-1914. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Mosse, George L. The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars through the Third Reich. New York: H. Fertig, 1975. Snyder, Timothy. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569- 1999. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Empire and Imperial Rivalries Bartov, Omer and Eric D. Weitz. “Introduction: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands.” In Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands, ed. Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz, 1-20. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Benton, Laura. Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Kilian Harrer, Preliminary exam, reading list: Europe, c. 1650-1850 Spring 2018 Supervising professors: Daniel Ussishkin, Kathryn Ciancia

Burbank, Jane and Frederick Cooper. Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Cain, P. J. and A. G. Hopkins. “Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Expansion Overseas: I. The Old Colonial System, 1688-1850.” Economic History Review 2nd ser. 39, no. 4 (1986): 501-25. Cain, P. J. and A. G. Hopkins. “Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Expansion Overseas: II. New Imperialism, 1850-1945.” Economic History Review 2nd ser. 40, no. 1 (1987): 1-26. Godechot, Jacques and Robert R. Palmer. “Le problème de lʼAtlantique du XVIIIème au XXème siècle.” In X congresso internazionale di scienze storiche. Roma, 4-11 settembre 1955: Relazioni, volume V. Storia contemporanea, edited by Giunta centrale per gli studi storici, 175- 239. Florence: Sansoni, 1955. Halliday, Eric D. Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. Lukowski, Jerzy. The Partitions of Poland 1772, 1793, 1795. London and New York: Longman, 1999. Metcalf, Thomas R. Ideologies of the Raj. The New Cambridge History of India III.4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pagden, Anthony. The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Stern, Philip. The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundation of the British Empire in India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. on France: Banks, Kenneth. Chasing Empire across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763. Montréal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003. Dubois, Laurent. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Instittue/University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Dubois, Laurent. “The French Atlantic.” In Atlantic History: A Critical Reappraisal, ed. Jack P. Greene and Philip Morgan, 137-61. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Gainot, Bernard. La révolution des esclaves: Haïti, 1763-1803. Paris: Vendémiaire, 2017. Havard, Gilles and Cécile Vidal. Histoire de l’Amérique française. Rev. ed. Paris: Flammarion, 2008 [2003]. Innis, Harold A. The Fur Trade in Canada. With a new introductory essay by Arthur J. Ray. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999 [1930].

Kilian Harrer, Preliminary exam, reading list: Europe, c. 1650-1850 Spring 2018 Supervising professors: Daniel Ussishkin, Kathryn Ciancia

James, C. L. R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint LʼOuverture and the San Domingo Revolution. With an introduction and notes by James Walvin. London: Penguin Books, 2001 [1938]. McClellan, James E., III and François Regourd. The Colonial Machine: French Science and Overseas Expansion in the Old Regime. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. Régent, Frédéric. La France et ses esclaves, de la colonisation aux abolitions, 1620-1848. New ed. Paris: Fayard, 2012 [2007]. Rushforth, Brett. Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Instittue/University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Sessions, Jennifer E. By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. Twentieth anniversary ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Witgen, Michael. An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

Political Culture Baker, Keith Michael. Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Brewer, John. Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. [ch.s on John Wilkes and the American Rev] Chartier, Roger. Les origines culturelles de la Révolution: Avec une postface inédite de l’auteur. Paris: Seuil, 2000 [1990]. Henshall, Nicholas. The Myth of Absolutism: Change and Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy. London: Longman, 1992. Hunt, Lynn. Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Ozouf, Mona. La fête révolutionnaire 1789-1799. Paris: Gallimard, 1976. Spang, Rebecca. “Paradigms and Paranoia: How Modern Is the French Revolution?” American Historical Review 108, no. 1 (2003): 119-47. Stollberg-Rilinger, Barbara. Des Kaisers alte Kleider: Verfassungsgeschichte und Symbolsprache des Alten Reiches. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2008. Vernon, James. Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, c. 1815-1867. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Kilian Harrer, Preliminary exam, reading list: Europe, c. 1650-1850 Spring 2018 Supervising professors: Daniel Ussishkin, Kathryn Ciancia

Wilson, Kathleen. “Empire, Trade and Popular Politics in Mid-Hanoverian Britain: The Case of Admiral Vernon.” Past and Present, no. 121 (Nov. 1988): 74-109.

Religion, Slavery and Abolitionism, Humanitarianism Bender, Thomas, ed. The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Blackburn, Robin. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848. London: Verso, 1988. Brown, Christopher Leslie. Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Clark, J. C. D. English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology, and Politics during the Ancien Regime. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 [1985]. Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself. Edited with an introduction by Robert J. Allison. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin’s, 2016. Grenouilleau-Pétré, Olivier. La révolution abolitionniste. Paris: Gallimard, 2017. Harris, Ruth. Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age. New York: Viking, 1999. Hunt, Lynn. Inventing Human Rights: A History. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007. Laqueur, Thomas. “Bodies, Details, and the Humanitarian Narrative.” In The New Cultural History, edited by Lynn Hunt, 176-204. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Laqueur, Thomas. The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. Porter-Szücs, Brian. Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History. New York: Viking, 2007. Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997 [1971].