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MINOR FIELD: MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, 1870–1989

Jonathon Catlin | Princeton University | Spring 2018

The Twentieth Century in Retrospect 1. , The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 (1987) 2. Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991 (1994) 3. , Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century (1999) 4. , Postwar: A since 1945 (2005) 5. Dan Diner, Cataclysms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge (2007)

Global Perspectives 6. , The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System 1830–1970 (2009) D 7. , The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987) 8. C. A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World 1780–1914 (2004) 9. Jürgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (2014) 10. Alice Conklin, A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895–1930 (1997)

Fin-de-Siècle Nation and Culture 11. Carl Schorske, Fin-de-siècle Vienna: and Culture (1979) 12. Carl Schorske, German Social , 1905-1917 (1955) 13. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of (1983; 2016) 14. Philip Nord, The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France (1995) 15. Pieter Judson, The Habsburg Empire: A New History (2016) 16. , Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century (2010) 17. Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1940 (1984) 18. Vanessa Schwartz, Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris (1998) 19. Eric J. Evans, The Shaping of Modern Britain: Identity, Industry and Empire, 1780–1914 (2011) 20. Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality, 2nd ed. (1992) 21. Nancy Reagin, Sweeping the German Nation: Domesticity and National Identity in Germany, 1870–1945 (2007) 22. Gérard Noiriel, Workers in French Society in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1990)

Revolution and 23. Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring, The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989) 24. Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)

1 25. Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution, 1917–1932 (1994) (?) 26. Jay Winter, The Great War and the Twentieth Century, “Introduction,” eds. Jay Winter et al (2014) 27. Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1998) 28. Robert Gerwarth, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End (2016) 29. Maureen Healy, Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I (2004) 30. , The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (2012) 31. Francis Carsten, Revolution in Central Europe, 1918–1919 (1972) 32. Peter Holquist, Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis, 1914–1921 (2002) 33. John Horne and Alan Kramer, German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial (2001) 34. Leonard Smith, Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division During WWI (1991) 35. Melissa Stockdale, “My Death for the Motherland is Happiness’: Women, Patriotism, and Soldiering in Russia’s Great War, 1914-1917,” AHR 109:1 (Feb 2004): 78–116

The Interwar Crisis 36. Hans-Ulrich Wehler, The , 1871–1914 (1997) 37. Detlev Peukert, The : The Crisis of Classical Modernity (1991) P 38. Eric Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (2007) P 39. Peter Fritzsche, “Did Weimar Fail?” The Journal of Modern History 3 (1996): 629–656. 40. Fritz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of Germanic Ideology (1974) P 41. Anson, Rabinbach, The Crisis of Austrian : From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1927– 1934 (1979) P 42. Stephen Kotkin, “Modern Times: The Soviet Union and the Interwar Conjuncture,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 2, no. 1 (2001): 111–64. 43. Vicki Caron, “The Antisemitic Revival in France in the 1930s,” Journal of Modern History 70 (March 1998): 23–73. 44. Clifford Rosenberg, Policing Paris: The Origins of Modern Immigration Control between the Wars (2006) 45. Eugen Weber, The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s (1994) 46. Martin Baumeister and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, eds. “If You Tolerate This…”: The Spanish Civil War in the Age of Total War (2008) 47. Burnett Bolloten, The Spanish Civil War (1991) 48. Ivo Banac and Katherine Verdery, National Character and National Ideology in Interwar Eastern Europe (1995) 49. Richard Bessel, Germany after the First World War (1993) 50. Jackson, The Popular Front in Front: Defending Democracy 1934–1938 (1988) 51. Dan LeMahieu, A Culture for Democracy: Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind in Britain between the Wars (1988)

Class, Warfare, Welfare 52. Arno Mayer, The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions (2002) P

2 53. Geoff Eley, ed., Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870–1930 (1996) 54. Venita Datta, Birth of a National Icon: The Literary Avant-Garde and the Origins of the Intellectual in France (1999) 55. Philip Nord, The Politics of Resentment: Paris Shopkeepers in Nineteenth-century Paris (1986; 2005) REQ 56. Philip Nord, France’s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era (2010) D 57. Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day (1968; 1999) 58. E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1964) 59. Paul Dutton, Origins of the French : The Struggle for Social Reform in France, 1914–1947 (2002) 60. Susan Pedersen, Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914–1945 (1993) 61. Robert Tombs, The Paris Commune, 1871 (1999)

Modernities 62. Jeffrey Herf, Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (1984) 63. Anson Rabinbach, The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity (1990) 64. Anson Rabinbach, The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor (2018) 65. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945 (2001) 66. Peter Fritzsche, “Nazi Modern” Modernism /Modernity 3/1 (1996): 1–22. 67. Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space 1880–1918 (1983) 68. David Harvey, Paris, Capital of Modernity (2003) 69. Ross McKibben, Classes and Cultures: England, 1918–1951 (1998) 70. Mary Nolan, Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany (1994) 71. Susan Pederson, Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914–1945 (1993) 72. Marci Shore, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918– 1968 (2006)

Fascism 73. Zeev Sternhell, The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution (1995) 74. Stanley Payne, A History of , 1914–1945 (1995) 75. Robert O. Paxton, “The Five Stages of Fascism” The Journal of Modern History 1 (1998): 1– 23. 76. Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (2004) 77. Zeev Sternhell, Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France (1986) 78. Evan Burr Bukey, Hitler’s Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938–1945 (2000) 79. Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wipperman, The Racial State: Germany, 1933–1945 (1991) 80. Victoria De Grazia, How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922–1945 (1992) 81. Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics (1986) 82. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini’s Italy (1997) 83. Hans Rogger and Eugen Weber, The European Right: A Historical Profile (1965)

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Totalitarianism 84. Philip Burrin and Nicolas Werth, “Historical Comparison,” Stalinism & : History and Memory Compared, ed. Henry Rousso (2004), pp. 1–72. 85. Slavoj Zizek, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions on the Misuse of a Notion (2001), ch. 1. 86. Anson Rabinbach, “Moments of Totalitarianism,” History and Theory, Vol. 45, No. 1. (February 2006): 72–100. 87. Kershaw, Ian, “Totalitarianism Revisited: Nazism and Stalinism in Comparative Perspective,” Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte XXXIII (1994): 23–40. 88. Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010) 89. Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (1995) 90. Jan Gross, Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland’s Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia (1988; 2002) 91. Jan Gross, “War as Social Revolution” (1997) 92. Richard Crossman, ed., The God That Failed (1949; 2001)

National Socialism 93. Saul Friedländer, Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death (1993) 94. Friedrich Meinecke, The German Catastrophe (1946; 1963) 95. Peter Fritzche, Life and Death in the Third Reich (2009) 96. Dan Diner, Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Final Solution (2006) 97. , The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (2006) 98. , The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation, 4th ed. (2000) 99. Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–1945 (2015) 100. George Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology (1964) 101. George Mosse, Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich (1966) 102. Benjamin George Martin, The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture (2016) 103. Anson Rabinbach and Sander Gilman, eds., The Third Reich Sourcebook (selections) (2013) 104. David Blackbourn, “Class and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany: The Center Party and the Social Democrats in Württemberg” (1976) 105. Fritz Stern, Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History (1987; 1999) 106. Robert Gellateley, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in (2001) 107. Robert Gellateley, “The Gestapo and German Society: Political Denunciation in the Gestapo Files,” Journal of Modern History 60 (1998): 654–698. 108. Donna Harsch, German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism (1993) 109. David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley, eds., The Peculiarity of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany (1984)

World War Two and Occupation 110. Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (2008) 111. Robert Paxton, : Old Guard and New Order 1940–1944 (1972) 112. Philip Nord, France 1940: Defending the Republic (2015)

4 113. Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2012) 114. Omer Bartov, The Eastern Front, 1941-1945: The German Army and the Barbarization of Warfare (1986) 115. Alan Milward, War, Economy, Society, 1939–1945 (1977) 116. Gordon Wright, The Ordeal of Total War 1939–1945 (1968) 117. John Sweets, Choices in Vichy France: The French Under Nazi Occupation (1986) 118. Dallin, Alexander, German Rule in Russia: A Study of Occupation Policies (1957) 119. Mark Harrison and John Barber, The Soviet Home Front, 1941–1945 (1991) 120. Jan Gross, Polish Society Under German Occupation (1979) 121. Norman Naimark, The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945–1949 (1995) 122. Richard Lukas, The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939–1944 (1986) 123. William I. Hitchcock, The Bitter Road to Freedom: The Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II Europe (2008)

The Holocaust 124. George L. Mosse, Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism (1985) 125. Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, 2 vols. (1998–2003) 126. Omer Bartov, ed., : Origins, Implementation, Aftermath (2000) 127. Omer Bartov, “Eastern Europe as the Site of Genocide,” The Journal of Modern History 3 (2008): 557–593. 128. Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion and the Final Solution in Poland (1998) 129. Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners (1996) [With replies by Istvan Deak, “The Goldhagen Controversy in Retrospect,” Essays on Hitler’s Europe (2001), pp. 100–113 and Daniel Goldhagen, Christopher Browning, and Leon Wieseltier, “‘The Willing Executioners’ / ‘Ordinary Men’ Debate,” U.S. Holocaust Museum (1996; 2001) 130. Jan Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (2001) 131. Raul Hilberg, Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933–1945 (1992) 132. Ian Kershaw, “Working Toward the Führer: Reflections on the Nature of the Hitler Dictatorship” (1993) 133. Saul Friedländer, ed., Probing the Limits of Representation (1992) 134. Christopher Browning, Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers (2000) 135. Atina Grossman, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany (2007) 136. Wolfgang Sofsky, The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp (1997) 137. Berel Lang, Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (1990; 2003) 138. Eric Santner and Moishe Postone, Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century (2003) 139. Dan Stone, Histories of the Holocaust (2010)

Postwar and Reconstruction 140. Udi Greenberg, The Weimar Century: German Émigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War (2016) 141. Leffler, Melvyn, “The Struggle for Germany and the Origins of the Cold War,” German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.), occasional paper, #16 (1996)

5 142. Jan Gross, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz. An Essay in Historical Interpretation (2006) 143. Benn Steil, The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (2013) 144. Andrew Moravcsik, The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht (1998) 145. Gaddis, John L., We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997) 146. Hecht, Gabrielle, The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after WWII (1998) 147. Lagrou, Pieter, The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945–1965 (2000) 148. Kaiser, Wolfram. Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union (2007) 149. Milward, Alan. The European Rescue of the Nation State (1999)

Gender and Sexuality 150. Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (1999) 151. Dagmar Herzog, Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (2005) 152. Laurie Marhoefer, Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (2015) 153. Robert Nye, Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France (1993) 154. Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delights: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian England (1992) 155. Roberts, Mary-Louise, Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917–1927 (1994) 156. Matt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918–1957 (2005)

Americanization 157. Dan Diner, America in the Eyes of the Germans: An Essay on Anti-Americanism (1996) 158. Mary Nolan, “Anti-Americanism and Americanization in Germany,” Politics and Society 33:1 (2005): 88–122. 159. Victoria De Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through 20th-Century Europe (2005) 160. Jessica Gienow-Hecht, “Always Blame the Americans: Anti-Americanism in Europe in the Twentieth Century,” AHR 111:4 (2006): 1067–1091. 161. Rosenberg, Emily, Spreading the American Dream, 1890–1945 (1981) 162. Wagnleitner, Reinhold, Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the in Austria After the Second World War (1994) 163. Richard Kuisel, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization (1993)

The 1960s 164. Hans Kundnani, Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust (2009) 165. Ronald Fraser, 1968: A Student Generation in Revolt (1988) 166. Philipp Gassert et al., eds., 1968: The World Transformed (1998) 167. Sunil Khilnani, Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France (1993)

6 168. Michael Seidman, The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968 (2004) 169. Jeremy Varon, Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (2004) 170. Kieran Williams, The Prague Spring and its Aftermath (1997)

Decolonization and Difference 171. Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France (2006) 172. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2007) 173. Matt Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (2002) 174. Geoff Eley, Atina Grossman et al., eds., After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (2009)

1989 175. François Furet, The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of in the Twentieth Century (1999) 176. Adam Michnik, Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives (1998) 177. Charles Gati, Failed Illusions. Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt (2006) 178. Timothy Garton Ash, The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (1990) 179. Kenney, Padraic, Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe in 1989 (2002)

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