2015
GRADUATEREADINGLIST:EUROPEANCONCENTRATION
StudentswillselectOptionI(sections1-7inclusive)
orOptionII(sections2-10inclusive).
1.DECLINEOFMEDIEVALINSTITUTIONS
1. W.C.Jordan,TheGreatFamine,1996.
2. D.Nirenberg,CommunitiesofViolence,1988
3. E.Perroy,TheHundredYearsWar,1965.
4. R.N.Swanson,ChurchandSocietyinLateMedievalEngland,1989.
5. P.Ziegler,TheBlackDeath,1967.
6. E.Kantorowicz,TheKing’sTwoBodies,1957.
7. J.Given,InquisitionandMedievalSociety,2001.
2.EARLYMODERNEUROPE
Renaissance
1. C.Ginzburg,TheCheeseandtheWorms,1982.
2. J.R.Hale,TheCivilizationoftheRenaissanceinEurope,1995
3. L.Martines,PowerandImagination:CityStatesinRenaissanceItaly,
1979.
4. M.Wiesner,WomenandGenderinEarlyModernEurope,3rdedition,2008.
Discoveries
5. BernardBailyn,AtlanticHistory:ConceptandContours,2005
6. F.Braudel,CivilizationandCapitalism,Vol.I,StructuresofEverydayLife1400- 1800,
1967
7. J.H.Elliott,EmpiresoftheAtlanticWorld,2006
Reformation
8. S.Clark,ThinkingwithDemons,1999.
9. D.MacCullogh,TheReformation:AHistory,2004
AbsolutismandAncienRegime
10. J.Black,BeyondtheMilitaryRevolution:WarintheSeventeenth-CenturyWorld(2011)
11. J.Cracraft,TheRevolutionofPetertheGreat,2003.
12. N.Z.Davis,SocietyandCultureinEarlyModernFrance,1975.
13. N.Elias,CourtSociety,1983
14. P.Monod,ThePowerofKings,2001
15. J.Price,DutchCultureinaGoldenAge(2011)
16. M.Rediker,VillainsofAllNations:AtlanticPiratesintheGoldenAge,2005
ScientificRevolution
17. S.Shapin,TheScientificRevolution,1996
3.ENLIGHTENMENT
18. W.Doyle,TheOriginsoftheFrenchRevolution,1999.
19. T.Munck,TheEnlightenment:AComparativeSocialHistory,2000
4.AGEOFREVOLUTION
20. J.Brewer,SinewsofPower,1989.
21. S.Drescher,Abolition:AHistoryofSlaveryandAntislavery,2009
22. E.J.Hobsbawm,AgeofRevolution,1996
5.INDUSTRIALIZATION,GENDERANDCLASSFORMATION
23. R.Allen,TheBritishIndustrialRevolutioninGlobalPerspective,2008
24. P.Gay,Schnitzler’sCentury,2002
25. J.Scott,GenderandthePoliticsofHistory,rev.ed.1999
6.NATIONALISMANDNATIONBUILDING
26. B.Anderson,ImaginedCommunities,1983
27. L.Colley,Britons,1992
28. E.Gellner,NationsandNationalism,2nded,2009
29. E.Weber,PeasantsintoFrenchmen,1976.
7.WORLDWARIANDREVOLUTIONS
30. P.Fussell,TheGreatWarandModernMemory,1977.
31. G.MageeandAThompson,EmpireandGlobalization:NetworksofPeople,
GoodsandCapitalintheBritishWorld,1850-1914,2010
32. R.Wade,TheRussianRevolution,1917,2005
33. J.WinterandA.Prost,TheGreatWarinHistory,2005
8.GREATDEPRESSIONANDTOTALITARIANISM
1. K.Fischer,NaziGermany:ANewHistory,1995
2. S.Fitzpatrick,EverydayStalinism,2002
3. S.Payne,CivilWarinEurope,1905-1949,2011
9.WORLDWARII
4. D.DworkandR.VanPelt,Holocaust:AHistory,2003
5. R.A.C.Parker,StruggleforSurvival,1989
10.POST-WAREUROPE
6. R.Betts,Decolonization,1998
7. D.Painter,TheColdWar:AnInternationalHistory,2007