Erica Foss
Modern Britain Reading List
Comprehensive Exams
Dr. Weiler
14 December 2011
Political History
Addison, Paul. The Road to 1945: British Politics and the Second World War.
Clarke, Peter. Hope and Glory.
Hobsbawm, Eric. Labouring Men.
Koditscheck, T. Class Formation in Urban Industrial Society.
Overy, Richard. The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars.
Pedersen, Susan. “What is Political History Now?” What is History Now.
Price, Richard. “Historiography, Narrative, and the 19th Century,” in JBS, 1996.
Pugh, Martin. The Making of Modern British Politics, 2002 edition
Strachan, Hew. The First World War.
Social History
Cannadine, David. “Present and Past in the English Industrial Revolution.” Past &
Present, 1984.
Cohen, Deborah. Household Gods.
Colley, Linda. Britons.
Joyce, Patrick. “The End of Social History.” Social History, 1995.
Koven, Seth. Slumming.
Stedman Jones, Gareth. Outcast London.
Stedman Jones, Gareth. Rethinking Chartism.
Taylor, Miles. “The Beginnings of Modern British Social History.” History Workshop
1997.
Thompson, Dorothy. The Chartists.
Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class.
Tilly, Charles. Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1833.
Walkowitz, Judith. City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in LateVictorian London.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics, and Society
Culture/Intellectual History
Bebbington, D.W. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain.
Brown, Callum. The Death of Christian Britain.
Burrow, J.W. Evolution and Society.
Collini, Stefan. Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 18501930.
Dworkin. Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain.
Goss, Edmund. Father and Son.
Hilliard, Chris. To Exercise our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain.
Hilton, Boyd. The Age of Atonement.
Hoggart, Richard. The Uses of Literacy.
Mandler, Peter. “The Problem with Cultural History.” Cultural and Social History, 2004.
McLeod, Hugh. Religion and Society.
Ortolano, Guy. The Two Cultures Controversy.
Secord, James. Victorian Sensation.
Raymond Williams, Culture and Society
Stansky, Peter, and William Abrahams. Journey to the Frontier: Two Roads to the
Spanish Civil War.
Turner, Frank. Contesting Cultural Authority.
Winter, J.M. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning.
Gender
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists.
Clark, Anna. The Struggle for the Breeches.
Davidoff and Hall. Family Fortunes.
Dawson, Graham. Soldier Heroes: British Adevnture, Empire, and the Imagining of
Masculinities.
Frader, Laura and Sonya O. Rose. Gender and Class in Modern Europe.
Houlbrook, Matt. Queer London.
Levine, Phillipa. Victorian Feminism, 1850-1900.
Light, Allison. Forever England: Femininity, Conservatism, and Literature Between the
Wars.
Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women.
Noakes, Lucy. War and the British.
Rappaport, Erika. Shopping for Pleasure.
Rose, Sonya. Limited Livelihoods.
Ross, Ellen. Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London.
Scott, Joan. “Women in the Making of the English Working Class.” Gender and the
Politics of History.
Vickery, Amanda. “Golden Age to Separate Spheres?” The Historical Journal, 1993.
Empire
Caine & Hopkins. British Imperialism.
Colley, Linda. Captives.
Darwin, John. The Empire Project.
Hall, Catherine. Civilizing Subjects.
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914.
Hobsbawm, Eric. Industry and Empire.
Kennedy, Dane. “The Boundaries of Oxford’s Empire.” International History Review,
2001.
Paul, Kathleen. Whitewashing Britain.
Porter, Bernard. The Absentminded Imperialists.
Wiener, Martin. English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit.
Crime
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900.
___________. The Great British Bobby: A History of British Policing from the 18th
Century to the Present.
___________. The English Police: A Political and Social History.
Wiener, Martin. Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law and Policy in England.
Gatrell, V.A.C. “Crime.” Cambridge Social History
___________. The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868.