Erica Foss
Modern Europe Reading List
Comprehensive Exams
Dr. Pendas
22 February 2012
GENERAL HISTORIES
Bayly, C.A. The Birth of the Modern World: 1780-1914 (London: Blackwell, 2003)
Delanty, Gerard. Inventing Europe
Eksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848.
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Empire: 1875-1914
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991.
Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (Vintage, 1987)
Maier, Charles. Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilisation in Europe after WW1.
Princeton, 1975
Mazower, Mark. The Dark Continent
Pagden, Anthony. The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union (Cambridge UP,
2002 )
Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World
Economy (Princeton: PUP, 2002)
CRIME and POLICING
Arnot, Meg. Gender and Crime in Modern Europe
Berenson, Edward. The Trial of Madame Caillaux. 1992
Cobb, R.C. The Police and the People: French Popular Protest, 1789-1820. Oxford: Clarendon
Press. 1970.
Davis, John. Conflict and Control: Law and Order in 19th Century Italy. Basingstoke:
MacMillan Education. 1988.
Daly, Jonathan. Autocracy Under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1866-1905.
1998.
Emsley, C, (1999) Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth Century Europe
Emsley, Clive and Barbara Weinberger, eds. Policing Western Europe: Politics,
Professionalism, and Public Order, 1850-1940. Westport: Greenwood Press. 1991.
Evans, Richard. Tales from the German Underworld: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth
Century. 1998.
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Gaillimard: France. 1975.
Godfrey, Barry S, Comparative histories of crime
Johansen, Anja. Soldiers as Police: The French and Prussian Armies and the Policing of
Popular Protest, 1889-1914. Burlington: Ashgate. 2005.
Johnson, Eric. Urbanization and Crime: Germany 1871-1914
Ludtke, Alf. Police and State in Prussia, 1815-1850. trans. Peter Burgess. Cambridge: New
York. 1989.
Neuberger, Joan. Hooliganism: Crime, Culture and Power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914.
Tilly, Charles. The Contentious French. 1986
Wetzel, Richard. Inventing the Criminal.
Wright, Gordon. Between the Guillotine and Liberty: Two Centuries of the Crime Problem in
France. 1983
Zehr, Howard. Crime and the Development of Modern Society: Patterns of Criminality in
Nineteenth century Germany and France. 1976.
RACE and EMPIRE
Abernathy, D.B. The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980.
New Haven. 2000.
Burleigh, Michael and Wolfgang Wipperman. The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945.
Cambridge University Press. 1993.
Conklin, Alice. A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and
West Africa, 1895-1930
Crosby, Alfred. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900.
Hale, Dana S. Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.
Lorcin, Patricia, Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria. New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Fehrenbach, Heide. Race After Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Post-War Germany and
America.
Mandel, Ruth. Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in
Germany.
Mosse, Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism
Said, Edward, Orientalism (1978)
Stoler, Ann Laura. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial
Rule. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002.
Wesseling, H.L. The European Colonial Empires, 1815-1919. Edinburgh: Pearson Longman.
2004.
NATIONAL and CULTURAL IDENTITY
Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism (1983)
Brubaker, Rogers. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany, Harvard
University Press, 1992
Foucault, Michel, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
(1971)
Gallagher, Catherine and Thomas Laqueur, eds. The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and
Society in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Gilman, Sander, The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the fin de
siecle(1993)
Graham, Brian. Modern Europe: Place, Culture, and Identity. 1998.
Hunt, Lynn. Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution.
Johnson, Lonnie, Central Europe: enemies, neighbors, friends (New York, Oxford University
Press, 2002)
Lebovics, Herman. True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900-1945. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1992
Mosse, George L. Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in
Modern France. New York: H. Fertig, 1985.
Wolff, Larry. Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the
Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1994.
GENDER
Allen, Ann Taylor. Feminism And Motherhood In Germany, 1800-1914
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York:
Routledge, 1999.
Canning, Kathleen. Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class and
Citizenship. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Clark, Anna. Desire: A History of European Sexuality.
Cole, Joshua. The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in
Century France
Nineteenth-
Engel, Barbara. Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in NineteenthCenturyRussia. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Frader and Rose, Gender and Class in Modern Europe
Fuchs, Rachel. Gender and Poverty in 19th Century Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Gilman, Sander, Freud, Race, and Gender (1993)
Grayzel, Susan. Women’s Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain &
France during the First World War. University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Hause, Steven and Ane Kenney. Women’s Suffrage and Social Politics in the French Third
Republic
Nye, Robert A. Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1998.
Pollard, Miranda. Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France. 1998
Scott, Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press,
1988.
Scott, Joan Wallach. The Politics of the Veil
Shoemaker, Robert. Gender and History in Western Europe, 1998.
Smith, Bonnie G., Changing Lives: Women in European History since 1700 (1988)
POLITICS, WAR, and ECONOMICS
Baldwin, Peter. The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State,
1875-1975
Berend, Ivan T. & Gyorgy Ranki. The European Periphery and Industrialization, 1780-1914.
Black, Cyril. Et.al. Rebirth: A Political History of Europe Since World War II (Second Edition).
Oxford: Westview Press. 2000.
Berend, Ivan. An Economic History of 20th Century Europe.
Brovkin, Vladimir. Russia After Lenin: Politics Culture and Society, 1921-1929. 1998.
Cronin, James. The World the Cold War Made.
Ferguson, Niall. The Pity of War
Gillingham, John. European Integration 1950-2003: Superstate or New Market Economy?
Gotz, Aly. Hitler’s Beneficiaries.
Gowan, Peter and Perry Anderson, eds. The Question of Europe.
Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Landes, David. Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in
Western Europe from 1750 to the Present.
Lindemann, Albert S. A History Of European Socialism
Maier, Charles. Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany.
Mazower, Mark. No Enchanted Palace.
Milward, Alan. European Rescue of the Nation State.
Milward, Alan. German Economy at War.
Schroeder, Paul W. The Transformation Of European Politics, 1763-1848
Slaughter, Anne-Marie. A New World Order.
Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.
Tooze, Adam. Wages of Destruction.