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Jonathan Kuiken ~ Comprehensive Exam Reading List ~ 12/3/2008
Britain
Addison, Paul, Now the war is over: a social history of Britain, 1945-51 (London, Jonathan Cape,
1985)
Aldous, Richard and Sabine Lee, eds. Harold Macmillan and Britain’s World Role. 1996
Aldous, Richard. Macmillan, Eisenhower and the Cold War. 2005
Anderson, David. Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire.
Norton, 2005.
Ball, Stuart and Anthony Seldon eds. The Heath Government 1970-1974: A Reappraisal.
Longman, 1996.
Barnett, Correlli, The Audit of war: the illusion & reality of Britain as a great nation (London,
Macmillan, 1986)
Bartlett, C.J. ‘The Special Relationship’ A Political History of Anglo-American Relations since 1945.
Longman: New York, 1992.
Bayly, Christopher and Tim Harper. Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945.
Belknap, 2006.
Bogdanor, Vernon, and Skidelsky, Robert, The age of affluence, 1951-1964 (London, Macmillan,
1970)
Cain, P.J. and A. G. Hopkins. British Imperialism: 1688-2000. London: Longman, 2002.
Clarke, Peter. Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000. 2004
Clarke, Peter. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt and the Birth of
the Pax Americana. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2008.
Cronin, James E. The Politics of State Expansion. London: Routledge, 1991.
Crowson, N.J. The Conservative Party and European Integration Since 1945. Routledge, 2007.
Deighton, Anne, The Impossible Peace: Britain, the division of Germany and the origins of the
cold war (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990)
Dimbleby, David and David Reynolds. An Ocean Apart: The Relationship Between Britain and
America in the Twentieth Century. Random House: New York, 1988.
Dirks, Nicholas. The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain. 2006
Dumbrell, John. A Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations From the Cold War to Iraq. 2nd
ed. 2006
Ferguson, Niall. Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for
Global Power. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
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Gallagher, John. The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1982.
Gamble, Andrew. The Free Economy and the Strong State. 1988
Gamble, Andrew. Between Europe and America. 2003
Garnett, Mark. From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975. 2007
Greenwood, Sean. Britain and the Cold War 1945-1991. London: Macmillan, 2000.
Hathaway, Robert M. Great Britain and the United States: Special Relations since World War II.
Twayne Publishers: Boston, 1990.
Heath, Edward, The Course of my Life (London, Coronet Books, 1999)
Hennessy, Peter, Never again: Britain, 1945-1951 (New York, Pantheon Books, 1993)
Hennessy, Peter. Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties. 2006
Hennessy, Peter. The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War. 2003
Hennessy, Peter and Anthony Seldon eds. Ruling Performance: British Governments From Attlee
to Thatcher. 1987
Hogan, Michael J. The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the reconstruction of Western Europe,
1947-1952 (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1987)
Kavanagh, Dennis. Thatcherism and British Politics (Oxford, Oxford U. Press, 1997)
Kavanagh, Dennis and Anthony Seldon. The Powers Behind the Prime Minister: The Hidden
Influence of Number Ten. (London, Harper Collins, 2000)
Kennedy, Paul. The Realities behind Diplomacy: Background Influences on British External Policy,
1865-1980. 1981.
Lee, Sabine. Victory in Europe: Britain and Germany since 1945. 2001
Louis, William Roger, and Owen, Roger. Suez 1956. The crisis and its consequences (New York,
Oxford University Press, 1989)
Louis, Wm. Roger and Hedley Bull. The ‘Special Relationship’: Anglo-American Relations Since
1945. Clarendon: Oxford, 1986.
Louis, Wm. Roger. Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and
Decolonization. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.
Mangold, Peter. The Almost Impossible Ally: Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle. I.B. Tauris,
London: 2006.
McKibbin, Ross, Classes and Cultures : England 1918-1951 (Oxford, Oxford University Press,
1998)
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Milward, Alan, The United Kingdom and the European Community, vol. 1: The Rise and Fall of a
National Strategy, 1945-1963 (London, Frank Cass Publishers, 2002)
Morgan, Kenneth O., The people's peace: British history, 1945-1989 (Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 1990)
Pimlott, Ben, Harold Wilson (London, HarperCollins, 1992)
Porter, Bernard. Britain, Europe and the World, 1850-1982: Delusions of Grandeur. 1983
Porter, Bernard. The Absent-minded Imperialists. 2004
Porter, Bernard. The Lion’s Share: A Short History of British Imperialism 1850-2004. 2004
Porter, Bernard. Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World. 2006
Reynolds, David, Britannia overruled: British policy and world power in the twentieth century
(London, Longman, 1991)
Robinson, Ronald and John Gallagher. Africa and the Victorians. 1961
Sandbrook, Dominic. Never Had it So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles.
London: Abacus, 2005.
Sked, Alan, and Cook, Chris, Post-war Britain: a political history (New York, Penguin Books, 1990)
Trentmann, Frank. Free Trade Nation
Young, Hugo. This Blessed Plot. London: Macmillan, 1998.
Young, John W. Britain and European Unity, 1945-1999. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.