Reading List for Dr. Weiler
Addison, Paul. The Road to 1945
Armitage, David. The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
Bebbington, David. “Revival and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England.” Modern
Christian Revivals. Edith Blumhofer and Randall Balmer, eds.
Best, Geoffrey. Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75
Briggs, Asa. Victorian People
Cain, P. J., and A. G. Hopkins. British Imperialism, 1688-2000
Cannadine, David. “The Context, Performance and Meaning of Ritual: The British Monarchy
and the ‘Invention of Tradition’, c. 1820-1977.” The Invention of Tradition. Eric
Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds.
________. “The Present and the Past in the English Industrial Revolution 1880-1980.”
Childers, Erskine. The Riddle of the Sands
Clarke, Peter. Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-1990
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837
Constantine, Stephen. “Britain and the Empire.” The First World War in British History
David, Anna. “Imperialism and Motherhood.”
Davidoff, Leonore, and Catherine Hall (contributer). Family Fortunes
Eley, Geoff. Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000
First World War Poetry
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory
Gash, Norman. Aristocracy and People: Britain 1815-1865
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and the Double Consciousness
________. ‘There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack’
Knight, Frances. The Nineteenth-Century Church and English Society
Koditscheck, Theodore. “Introduction.” Class Formation and Urban-Industrial Society:
Bradford, 1750-1850
Kuchta, David. “The Making of the Self-Made Man” The Sex of Things
Hall, Catherine. Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 18301867
Hall, Catherine, Keith McClelland, and Jane Rendall. Defining the Victorian Nation: Class,
Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867
Harris, Jose. Private Lives, Public Spirit
Hempton, David. Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious
Revolution to the Decline of Empire
Heyck, T. William. A History of the British Isles. Vol 2.
Hobsbawm, Eric. Industry and Empire
Holmes, Colin. John Bull’s Island: Immigration and British Society, 1871-1971
Howell, D. W. and C. Baber. “Wales.” 1
Hughes, Thomas. Toms Brown’s Schooldays
Innes, Joanna. “Jonathan Clark, Social History and England’s ‘Ancien Regime,’” Past and
Present (1987)
James, C. L. R. Beyond a Boundary
Landes, David. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Larsen, Timothy. Contested Christianity
Lewis, Jane E. Women in Britain since 1945: Women, Family, Work and the State in the PostWar Years
________. Women in England 1870-1950: Sexual Divisions and Social Change
Linebaugh, Peter, and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Heanded Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and
Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
MacKenzie, John. Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 18801
D. W. Howell and C. Baber, “Wales,” The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950, F. M. L Thompson,
ed., vol. 1 (Cambridge University Press, 1990), ch. 4.
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Mandler, Peter. Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform
Marwick, Arthur. Culture in Britain since 1945
McLeod, Hugh. Religion and Society in England, 1850-1914
Mill, John Stuart. Autobiography
Obelkevick, James. “Religion.” 2
Oddy, D. J. “Food, Drink and Nutrition.” 3
Orwell, George. Burmese Days
________. Road to Wigen Pier
Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger
Paul, Kathleen. Whitewashing Britain
Porter, Andrew. Religion versus Empire?
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century
________. Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World
Price, Richard. “Historiography, Narrative, and the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of British
Studies (April 1996).
Rich, Paul B. Race and Empire in British Politics
Scally, Robert James. The End of Hidden Ireland
Schneer, Jonathan. London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis
Smith, Harold L., ed. War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War
Spadafora, David. The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Stansky, Peter and William Abrahams. Journey to the Frontier
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. James Obelkevich, “Religion,” The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950, F. M. L Thompson, ed., vol.
3 (Cambridge University Press, 1990), ch. 6.
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D. J. Oddy, “Food, Drink and Nutrition” The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950, F. M. L Thompson,
ed., vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press, 1990), ch. 5.
Stedman Jones, Gareth. “Rethinking Chartism” in Languages of Class
Thane, Pat. “Government and Society in England and Wales, 1750-1914.” 4
Thompson, E. P. Customs in Common
________. The Making of the Working Class
Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight: Narrative of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian
London
Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society: 1780-1950
Winter, Jay. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History
Woodam Smith, Cecil. The Reason Why
Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas
Movies
If
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Chariots of Fire
The Third Man
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Pat Thane, “Government and Society in England and Wales, 1750-1914,” The Cambridge Social History of
Britain, 1750-1950, F. M. L Thompson, ed., vol. 3 (Cambridge University Press, 1990), ch. 1.