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Modern Europeanist Graduate Reading List General Works 1. Eric Modern Europeanist graduate reading list General works 1. Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Revolution: 1789­1848, Vintage, 1987. 2. Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Capital: 1848­1875, Scribner, 1975. 3. Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Empire: 1875­1914, Vintage, 1987. 4. Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century, A.A. Knopf, 1999. 5. Jonathan Hart, Empires and Colonies, Polity, 2008. 6. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe, Princeton University Press, 2000. 7. Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History, Columbia University Press, 1999. French Revolution and Napoleon 8. Francois Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 1981. 9. Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, University of California press, 1984. 10. Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution, University of Chicago Press, 1998. 11. Georges Lefebvre, Coming of the French Revolution, Princeton University Press, 1967. 12. Joan Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution, Cornell University Press, 1988 13. Geoffrey Ellis, The Napoleonic Empire, Houndmills, 2003 Industrial Revolution and class 14. David S. Landes, The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 1969. 15. E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, Vintage, 1963. 16. William H. Sewell, Work and Revolution in France, Cambridge University Press, 1980. 17. Kathleen Canning, Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850­1914, Cornell University Press, 1996. 18. Jürgen Kocka and Allan Mitchell, Bourgeois Society in Nineteenth­Century Europe, New York University Press, 1991. 19. Peter Gay, Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle­Class Culture, W.W. Norton, 2001. 20. Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780­1850, Routledge, 2002. 21. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space, University of California Press, 1987. Nationalism 22. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso, 2006. 23. Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality, Cambridge University Press, 1992. 24. Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of France, 1870­ 1914, StanFord University Press, 1976. 25. Peter Sahlins, Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees, University oF CaliFornia Press, 1989. 26. Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century, Princeton University Press, 2006. 27. Jane Schneider, Italy’s ‘Southern Question’: Orientalism in one country, OxFord University Press, 1998. Reform, Revolution, and Political Culture 28. Richard Evans, Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830­1910, Penguin Books, 2005. 29. Albert Lindemann, A History of European Socialism, Yale University Press, 1983. 30. Alan S. Kahan, Liberalism in Nineteenth­Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage, Houndmills, 2003. 31. Don Herzog, Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders, Princeton University Press, 2000. 32. Jonathan Sperber, The European Revolutions, 1848­1851, Cambridge University Press, 1994. 33. Gay L. Gullickson, Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune, Cornell University Press, 1996. 34. Martin Pugh, The March of the Women: A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1866­1914, OxFord University Press, 2002. 35. W. Bruce Lincoln, The Great Reforms: Autocracy, Bureaucracy, and the Politics of Change in Imperial Russia, Northern Illinois University Press, 1990. 36. Philip Pomper, The Russian Revolutionary Intelligentsia, Harlan Davidson, 1992. Russian Revolution 37. Alexander Rabinowitch, Prelude to Revolution, Indiana University Press, 1991. 38. Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Visions and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution, New York University Press, 1989 39. Leopold Haimson, “The Problem oF Social Stability in Urban Russia, 1905‐ 1917 (Part One)” Slavic Review 23, no. 4 (1964): 619‐642. ____________________, “The Problem oF Social Stability in Urban Russia, 1905‐ 1917 (Part Two)” Slavic Review 24, no. 1 (1965): 1‐22. Ronald Grigor Suny, “Towards a Social History of the October Revolution,” American Historical Review 88, no. 1 (1983): 31‐52. 40. Mark Steinberg, Voices of Revolution, 1917, Yale University Press, 2001. 41. Peter Holquist, Making War and Forging Revolution, Harvard University Press, 2002. Colonialism 42. Frederick Cooper, Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World, University of California Press, 1997. 43. Edward Said, Orientalism, Vintage, 1994. 44. Frances Gouda, Dutch Culture Overseas: Colonial Practice in the Netherlands Indies 1900­1943, Amsterdam University Press, 1996. 45. Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830­1867, University of Chicago Press, 2002. 46. Terry Martin, Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923­1939, Cornell University Press, 2001. The Great Wars 47. Catherine Merrindale, Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939­1945, Metropolitan Books, 1994. 48. Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, Oxford University Press, 2000. 49. Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the birth of the Modern Age, Mariner Books, 2000. 50. Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning, Cambridge University Press, 1995. 51. Christopher Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939­March 1942, Bison Books, 2007. 52. Omer Bartov, Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich, Oxford University Press, 1992. 53. Jan Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, Princeton University Press, 2001. 54. Jean‐Jacques Becker, The Great War and the French People, Berg Publishers, 1986. 55. Interwar Europe 56. Detlev J.K. Peukert, The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity, Hill & Wang Publishers, 1992. 57. Victoria DeGrazia, How Fascism Ruled Women, University of California Press, 1992. 58. Ian Kershaw, The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich, Oxford University Press, 1989. Sheila Fitzpatrick, "New Perspectives on Stalinism," Russian Review 45, no. 4 (1986): 357‐373. 59. Susan Pedersen, Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914­1945, Cambridge University Press, 2008. 60. Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization, University of California Press, 1997. 61. Sheila Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, Oxford University Press, 1999. Post­war 62. DeGrazia, Irresistible Empire, Belknap Press, 2005. 63. Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Penguin, 2005. 64. Paul Gilroy, ‘Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack’: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation, University of Chicago Press, 1991. 65. Padraic Kenney, A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989, Princeton University Press, 2002. 66. Archie Brown, Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2009. .
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