Reading List – Minor Field in Europe 1850-1950 – Jessica Butler
General Histories
Bayly, C.A. The Birth of the Modern World: 1780-1914 (2003).
Delanty, Gerard. Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality (1995).
Gowan, Peter and Anderson, Perry. The Question of Europe (1997).
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 (1996).
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Empire: 1875-1914 (1989).
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991(1996).
Johnson, Lonnie. Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends (2002).
Joll, James. Europe since 1870: An International History, 4th ed (1990).
Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2006).
Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of Great Powers (1989).
Mayer, Arno. Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War (1981).
Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century (1999).
Sheehan, James J. Where have all the soldiers gone?: The transformation of modern
Europe (2008).
War
Eksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (2000).
Ferguson, Niall. The Pity of War: Explaining World War I (1999).
Kocka, Jürgen. Facing Total War: German Society, 1914-1918 (2008).
Schmidt, Bernadotte E. and Harold C. Vederler. The World in the Crucible, 1914-1918 (1984).
Taylor, A.J.P. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 (1980).
Taylor, A.J.P. The Origins of the Second World War (1996).
Interwar
Kindleberger, Charles P. The World in Depression, 1929-1939 (1986).
Luebbert, Gregory. Liberalism, Fascism, Or Social Democracy: Social Classes And The
Political Origins Of Regimes In Interwar Europe (1991).
Marks, Sally. The Illusion of Peace: International relations in Europe, 1918-1933 (2003).
Nationalism and the Nation
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism (1983).
Brubaker, Rogers. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New
Europe (1996).
Hobsbawm, Eric. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality, revised
ed. (1992).
Greenfeld, Liah. Nationalism: Five Roads To Modernity (1993).
Mosse, George. The Nationalization Of The Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements
in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars Through the Third Reich (2001).