History Level 2
2011-2012
Indicative Reading Lists
Women and Men in Imperial Britain, c. 1700-1800
Problems of Power: US History, 1776-present
Religion, Politics and Society in Early Modern Europe, c. 1500-1700
Crime and Protest, 1750-1930
Themes in the Social and Political History of Fascism: Europe,
1890-1945
Politics and Society in Ireland since 1750
International History 1914-1945: The End of European Dominance in
World Politics
Britain’s Second Empire: The Transformation from Empire to
Commonwealth, 1820-1965
Public History: Representations of the Past, 1400 to the present
WOMEN AND MEN IN IMPERIAL BRITAIN, C. 1700-1800 – UPHPGL-30-2
The module’s most basic text which you should all order now and buy is Robert Shoemaker’s Gender in English Society 1650-1850: The Emergence of Separate
Spheres? (Harlow, 1998)
You’ll also need to buy an eighteenth century novel to read for your assessed book review
and the more you read the better purchase you will have on the period. These can be
cheaply purchased through abebooks.co.uk or through secondhand bookshops.
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D. Defoe
Colonel Jack
Henry Fielding Amelia
S. Richardson
Pamela (part One)
Tobias Smollet
Humphrey Clinker
F. Burney
Evelina
F. Burney
Cecilia
F. Burney
Camilla
M. Edgworth
Belinda
W. Godwin
The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Short loan books: These include some key texts a few of which you might wish to buy once
you decide which aspects of the course interest you most:
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Barker, Hanna and Chalus, Elaine, eds, Gender in Eighteenth-Century England:
Roles, Representations and Responsibilities (Harlow, 1997)
Carter, Philip, Men and the Emergence of Polite Society in Britain, 1660-1800
(Harlow, 2001) –a top scholar on the new field of masculinity.
Davidoff, Leonore and Hall, Catherine, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the
English Middle Class, 1780-1850 (London, 1987; revised edition, London, 2002) –
first rate for separate spheres themes, evangelicalism.
Erickson, Amy, Women and Property in Early Modern England (London, 1993)
Fletcher, Anthony, Gender, Sex and Subordination in England, 1500-1800 (London,
1987)
Hitchcock, T. and Cohen, M., eds, English Masculinities, 1660-1800 (London, 1999)
–bold pioneering collection with some good very readable essays.
Honeyman, Katrina, Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England, 1700-1870
(Basingstoke, 2000) –excellent overview of the historiography
Hunt, Margaret, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and the Family in England,
1680-1780 (Berkeley, California, 1996)
Pinchbeck, Ivy Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution (1930, London,
1981).
Valenze, Deborah The First Industrial Woman (Oxford,1995)
Wheeler, Roxann The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in EighteenthCentury British Culture (Philadelphia, 2000)
Wilson, Kathleen The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the
Eighteenth Century (London, 2003)
Journal Articles will be an essential part of the module:
See for example:
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Amanda Vickery, ‘An Englishman's Home Is His Castle? Thresholds, Boundaries and
Privacies in the Eighteenth-Century London House’,Past & Present
No. 199 (May, 2008), pp. 147-173.
Tim Hitchcock, ‘ Begging on the Streets of Eighteenth‐Century London Begging on the
Streets of Eighteenth‐Century London’,The Journal of British Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3 (July
2005), pp. 478-498
J. Burnette ‘An investigation of the female-male wage gap during the industrial revolution in
Britain’,Economic History ReviewVol. L, no. 2 May 1997 pp357-381.
M. Berg ‘What difference did women’s work make to the Industrial Revolution?’History
Workshop Journal, 35 (1993), pp.22-44
P. King ‘Customary rights and women’s earning: the importance of gleaning to the rural
labouring poor, 1750-1850’, Economic History Review, 1991, 44.
M. Roberts ‘Sickles and scythes: women’s work at harvest time’, History Workshop Journal,
Spring (1979), pp.3-30
I. Pinchbeck Women and the Industrial Revolution, Chapters 1 and 2.(Counts as one
article). Pamela Sharpe, 'The female labour market in English agriculture during the
Industrial Revolution: expansion or contraction?'. Agricultural History Review, 47 (1999),
161-81.
P. Sharpe, ‘Literally spinsters: a new interpretation of local economy and demography in
Colyton in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, Economic History Review . 1991
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'The art of women and the business of men: women's work and the dairy industry 17401840', Past and Present, February 1991, no.130. It's a wonderful article.
Sharpe, Pamela. 'Population and society 1700-1840'. In Clark, Peter (ed.), The Cambridge
urban history of Britain, vol. 2: 1540-1840 (Cambridge, 2000), 491-528.
Naomi Tadmor, ‘The concept of the household family in eighteenth century England’, Past
and Present, 151, (1996)
PROBLEMS OF POWER: US HISTORY, 1776-PRESENT – UPHPGQ-30-2
Books to purchase:
Hugh Brogan, Penguin History of the USA
E. Hoffman, Major Problems in American History: Vol 2 Since 1865
Please contact Mike Woodiwiss or Effie Pedaliu for guidance on specific topics.
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RELIGION, POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE, c. 15001700 – UPHPGR-30-2
The following texts provide useful introductions to, and surveys of, the Reformation period.
Many, if not most, of the themes touched upon during the course are covered in these
volumes.
E. Cameron,
The European Reformation (OUP, 1991).
R. Bireley,
The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700 (Macmillan, 1999).
J. Bossy,
Christianity in the West, 1400-1700 (OUP, 1985).
R. Po-Chia Hsia (ed.), A Companion to the Reformation World (Blackwell, 2004).
D. MacCulloch,
Reformation. Europe’s House Divided (Penguin, 2004).
S. Ozment,
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History
of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe (Yale UP, 1980).
A. Pettegree (ed.),
The Reformation World (Routledge, 2000).
A. Ryrie (ed.),
Palgrave Advances
Macmillan, 2006).
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the
European
Reformations
(Palgrave
CRIME AND PROTEST, 1750-1930 – UPHPGX-30-2
Buying books
It would be a good idea to buy a couple of books; the most useful are C. Emsley, Crime and
Society in England 1750-1900, D. Taylor, Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 17501914 and J.E. Archer, Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England 1780-1840. You might
be able to get a second hand copy of Emsley and Taylor from year 3 students or from Abe
books UK.
J. Innes &
J. Styles
J. M. Beattie
‘Crime Wave: recent writings on crime and criminal justice in
eighteenth century England’, Journal of British Studies, 25, 4
(1986) and reprinted in A. Wilson (ed), Rethinking Social
History.
‘The Pattern of Crime in England, 1660-1800’,
Past and Present, 62 (1974)
D. Philips
Crime and Authority in Victorian England
C. Emsley
Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900
M.J. Weiner
Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law and Policy, 18301914
J.S. Cockburn
Crime in England 1550-1800
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D Hay
‘Crime and Justice in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
England’, Crime and Justice, 2 (1980), pp. 45-84
F. MacGlynn
Crime and Punishment in 18th Century England
L. McDonald
‘Theory and Evidence of Rising Crime in the 19th century’,
British Journal of Sociology, 33, 3 (1982), pp.404-420
R. B. Shoemaker
‘The “Crime Wave” Revisited: crime, law enforcement and
punishment in Britain, 1650-1900’, Historical Journal, 34
(1991), pp.763-68
D. Hay
Albion’s Fatal Tree: Crime, Society in Eighteenth Century
England
C. Emsley
‘Historical Perspectives on Crime’ in M. Maguire, The Oxford
Handbook of Criminology
D. Taylor
Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1750-1914 (ch.6)
P. King
Crime, Justice and Discretion in England, 1740-1820
J.M. Beattie
Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800
T. Hitchcock &
R. Shoemaker
Tales from the Hanging Court
P. King
Crime and Law in England, 1750-1840
D. Hay & F. Snyder
Policing and Prosecution in Britain, 1750-1859
N. Landau
Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830 (Google book)
THEMES IN THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF FASCISM: EUROPE,
1890-1945 – UPHPHB-30-2
You are urged to acquire a copy of the following:
Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism, (Penguin Books, 2005)
There are several reasons why this is the most desirable module text: Paxton’s book is
based on a rational comparative approach which takes in all four of our case-study examples
(though focusing particularly on Italy and Germany); he adopts an historical approach (rather
than having too theoretical a bias), but one which is not over-burdened with enormous and
unnecessary detail; it is very well written in a readable style without being simplistic. It is also
inexpensive.
Other highly recommendable texts which you will find of great use throughout the module:
Michael Mann, Fascists, (Cambridge: CUP, 2004). (Available as electronic resource
through library on-line catalogue). A sophisticated and comparative analysis by an historical
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sociologist which is noteworthy, amongst other things, for its coining of the term
‘revolutionary nation statism’.
Stanley Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914-45, (London, 1995). Combining historical
detail with conceptual summaries and (over-elaborate) theorising. A bulky tome from which
you will extract quite a lot of historical data.
Roger Griffin, The Nature of Fascism, (London, 1991). For an account which is radically
different to Paxton. (See Paxton’s comments about Griffin’s approach in his book; and see
Griffin’s subsequent highly critical review of Paxton in the AHR, [109, 5, 2004, 1530-1]).
Griffin is famous for arguing that fascism had a mythic core based on a ‘palingenetic form of
populist ultranationalism’, but has been criticised for restricting his theory to fascist ideas
rather than fascist actions.
Ian Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship (4th edition, London, 2000). Still the most
authoritative guide to debates on Nazi Germany. Invaluable – but frequently rather overused by students to the exclusion of other reading…….
R.J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich (London, 2003), The Third Reich in Power,
1933-1939 (London, 2005) and The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945, (London, 2008). An
important and readable trilogy that offers a wide range of valuable arguments.
R.J.B. Bosworth, The Italian Dictatorship, (London, 1998). Adopts a similar treatment for
Italy as Kershaw did for Germany, although this is probably not quite so authoritative.
Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years 1940-1944, (Oxford, 2001). Probably the best of
a number of useful studies of the occupation years.
Michael Richards, A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in
Franco’s Spain, (Cambridge, 1998). The most recommendable study of Spain during this
era which relates to the nature of this module.
POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN IRELAND SINCE 1750 – UPHPHC-30-2
The most appropriate text for the module is Alvin Jackson, Ireland 1798-1998 (1999, second edition
2011), available in paperback. It is strong on politics and offers the most up-to-date general
treatment of many of the themes discussed in this module. If you buy any books for the module this
is probably the best one.
Thomas Bartlett, Ireland: A History (Cambridge 2010) is the most recent survey from the earliest
times to the present day
R.F. Foster Modern Ireland 1600 - 1972 (Penguin 1989), offers a shorter time span than Bartlett but
goes into more detail.
J.J. Lee, Ireland 1912-1985 (1989) deals with the whole island since the Ulster Crisis.
Also highly recommended are R.F.Foster (ed) The Oxford History of Ireland (1991) and F.S.L Lyons
Ireland since the Famine (1971). Both of these are cheap and available in paperback.
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The most up-to-date treatment of the period before and after partition is David Fitzpatrick, The Two
Irelands, 1912-39 (1998) published in paperback.
Henry Patterson, Ireland Since 1939: the Persistence of Conflict (2006) deals skilfully with both
Northern Ireland and Eire from the start of the Second World War.
D. George Boyce, Nationalism in Ireland (3rd edition, 1996), published in paperback, is excellent
and covers much more than its title might suggest. Well worth considering.
Kevin Kenny (ed), Ireland and the British Empire (2004), sets the Irish experience of empire in a
long term context.
INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 1914-1945: THE END OF EUROPEAN DOMINANCE
IN WORLD POLITICS – UPHPHF-30-2
Recommended Reading [possibly for purchase]
S.E. Ambrose, Rise to Globalism: US Foreign Policy since 1938 (Penguin)
C.J. Bartlett, Global Conflict 1880-1970: International Rivalry of the Great Powers (Longman)
P.M.H. Bell, The Origins of the Second World War in Europe (2nd edition Longman)
A. Best, J.H. Hanhimäki, J. Maiolo, K.E. Schulze, International History of the Twentieth Century
(Routledge)
R. Boyce and E.M. Robertson (eds), Paths to War: New Essays on the Origins of the Second
World War (Macmillan)
R. Boyce and J. Maiolo (eds), The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues (Palgrave
Macmillan)
P. Finney (ed.), The Origins of the Second World War (Arnold)
A. Iriye, The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (Longman)
J. Joll, Europe since 1870: An International History (Penguin)
G. Martel (ed.), The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered (Routledge)
S. Marks, The Ebbing of European Ascendancy: An International History of the World, 19141945 (Arnold)
R.A.C. Parker, Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second
World War (Macmillan)
G. Roberts, The Soviet Union and the Origins of the Second World War: Russo-German
Relations and the Road to War, 1933-1941 (Palgrave)
Z. Steiner, The Lights that Failed: European International History, 1919-1933 (Oxford University
Press)
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Z. Steiner, The Triumph of the Dark: European International History, 1933-1939 (Oxford
University Press)
G.A. Stone, Spain, Portugal and the Great Powers, 1931-1941 (Palgrave Macmillan)
A.J.P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War (Penguin)
R.J. Young, France and the Origins of the Second World War (Palgrave)
BRITAIN’S SECOND EMPIRE: THE TRANSFORMATION FROM EMPIRE TO
COMMONWEALTH, 1820-1965 – UPHPHP-30-2
Students are strongly advised to purchase the following texts. They have been chosen for
their comprehensive coverage of the material taught on this course and their relative
affordability.
J. Darwin, Britain and Decolonisation
L. J. Butler, Britain and Empire
R. Hyam, Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonization, 1918-1968
PUBLIC HISTORY: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PAST, 1400 TO THE PRESENT
– UPHPLN-30-2
Ludmilla Jordanova, History in Practice (London, 2000), chapter 6 (‘Public History’)
John Tosh, Why History Matters (Palgrave, 2008), chapter 6 (‘History goes public’)
Jerome de Groot, Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular
Culture (Routledge, 2009)
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