Modern European History, 1789-2000 Reading List

Surveys and Theoretical Approaches

Mark Mazower, The Dark Continent Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity

Revolution and Working-Class Politics

Francois Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution William Sewell, Work and Revolution in France E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class Roger Gould, Insurgent Identities Joan Scott, Gender and the Politics of History Arno Mayer, The Furies Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution Peter Holquist, Making War, Forging Revolution

Nationalism

Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities Peter Sahlins, Boundaries Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780 Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism Leah Greenfeld, Nationalism

Cultural Change

Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siecle Vienna Peter Gay, Weimar Culture Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring Sheila Fitzpatrick, Cultural Front Scott Spector, Prague Territories Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory

Stalinism and Fascism

Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain William Sheridan Allen, Nazi Seizure of Power Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men Detlev J. K. Peukert, Inside Nazi Germany Sheila Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism Stanley Payne, The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism

Postwar

Norman Naimark, Russians in Germany Timothy Garton Ash, The Polish Revolution John Lewis Gaddis, Cold War Katherine Verdery, What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? Tony Judt, A Grand Illusion? Misha Glenny, Fall of Yugoslavia