History Level 3 Indicative Reading Lists 2011-2012
THE COLLAPSE OF EMPIRE AND COLONIAL WAR: BRITISH AND FRENCH
DECOLONIZATION – UPHPJC-30-3
CRIME IN AMERICA: ORGANISATION AND CONTROL – UPHPJF-30-3
GLOBAL BUSINESS: RAMPANT CAPTALISM OR INCOME FOR ALL –
UPHPJL-30-3
CULTURE, AUTHORITY AND CRISIS: ENGLAND AND ITS NEIGHBOURS –
UPHPJS-30-3
THE COLD WAR WORLD – UPHPKB-30-3
THE LONDON-PARIS-BERLIN TRIANGLE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 19331940 – UPHPKG-30-3
CROWDS, DISORDER AND THE LAW IN ENGLAND, 1730-1820 – UPHPKQ-30-3
POLITICS AND VIOLENCE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY IRELAND – UPHPKT-30-3
BRITAIN, THE SLAVE TRADE AND THE ATLANTIC LEGACY – UPHPKY-30-3
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, 1936-1939 – UPHPLA-30-3
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY DURING THE PERIOD OF THE “HIGH COLD
WAR”: FROM THE ADOPTION OF CONTAINMENT TO FLEXIBLE RESPONSE –
UPHPLB-30-3
WAR, CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN –
UPHPLC-30-3
TSARS AND COMMISSARS: RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1853-1953 –
UPHPLL-30-3
THE ENGLISH REFORMATION: THE TUDOR STATE, THE CHURCH AND THE
PEOPLE, c. 1529-1603 – UPHPLX-30-3
THE DARK YEARS: FRANCE 1934-1945 – UPHPSC-30-3
THE COLLAPSE OF EMPIRE AND COLONIAL WAR: BRITISH AND FRENCH
DECOLONIZATION – UPHPJC-30-3
Recommended texts for purchase
L J Butler, Britain and Empire (I B Tauris)
J Darwin, Britain and Decolonization (Macmillan)
R F Holland, European Decolonization, 1918-1981: An Introductory Survey (Macmillan)
Ronald Hyam, Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonization, 1918-68 (Cambridge)
Martin Shipway, Decolonization and its Impact (Blackwell/Wiley)
Martin Thomas, Bob Moore and L J Butler, Crises of Empire (Longman/Pearson)
The texts cited below are available in paperback and are well-stocked in the UWE Library
system.
R Aldrich, Greater France. A History of French Overseas Expansion (Macmillan)
F Ansprenger, The Dissolution of the Colonial Empires (Routledge)
S Bernstein, The Republic of de Gaulle (Cambridge)
R Betts, France and Decolonisation, 1900-1960 (Macmillan)
P J Cain & A J Hopkins, British Imperialism: Crisis and Deconstruction, 1914-1990
(Longman)
A Clayton, The Wars of French Decolonization (Longman)
J Darwin, The End of the British Empire (Blackwell)
J D Hargreaves, Decolonization in Africa (Longman)
W D McIntyre, British Decolonization, 1946-1997 (Macmillan)
Norrie MacQueen, The Decolonization of Portuguese Africa (Longman)
Anne Orde, The Eclipse of Great Britain. The US and British Imperial Decline, 1895-1956
J-P Rioux, The Fourth Republic (Cambridge)
H S Wilson, African Decolonization (Edward Arnold)
CRIME IN AMERICA: ORGANISATION AND CONTROL – UPHPJF-30-3
M. Woodiwiss, Organized Crime and American Power
M. Woodiwiss, Gangster Capitalism
Please contact Mike Woodiwiss for guidance on specific topics.
GLOBAL BUSINESS: RAMPANT CAPTALISM OR INCOME FOR ALL – UPHPJL30-3
Indicative bibliography:
Wardley, P. ‘The Emergence of ‘Big Business’, 1890-1921’, ReFRESH, 30, (Summer
2001): pages five-eight.
Background reading:
Cassis, Y. Big Business: the European Experience in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1997)
Jones, G. and J. Zeitlin, The Oxford Handbook of Business History (Oxford: OUP, 2009).
McCloskey, D., If You're So Smart: the narrative of economic experience. (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1990)
Sloan, Alfred P. My Years with General Motors (New York: Doubleday, 1964).
Among the most important texts appropriate for this module are the following:
Blaszczyk, Regina Lee and Philip B. Scranton (eds.) Major Problems in American
Business History (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2006).
Chandler, A.D., Jr., Scale and Scope: the dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (Cambridge,
Mass: Belknap Press, 1990).
Chandler, A.D., Jr., Amatori,F and Hikino,T. Big Business and the Wealth of Nations
(Cambridge: CUP, 1997).
Hannah, L. The Rise of the Corporate Economy (2nd. ed.: London, Methuen, 1983).
Jones, G. Multinationals and Global Capitalism from the nineteenth to the twenty-first
century (Oxford: OUP, 2005).
The following texts will also be extremely useful:
Blackford, M. (2nd. ed.) The rise of modern business in Great Britain, the United States and
Japan (North Carolina: NCU, 1998)
Boyce, G. and S. Ville The Development of Modern Business (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002).
Chandler, AD,Jr. The Visible Hand: the Managerial Revolution in American Business,
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977)
Brakman, S, H. Garretsen, C. van Marrewijk and A. van Witteloostuijn, Nations and Firms in
the Global Economy. (Cambridge: CUP: 2006)
McCraw, T.K. Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries
Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1998)
Schmitz, C.J. The Growth of Big Business in the United States and Western Europe, 18501939, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993).
Zunz, O. Making America Corporate (Chicago: Mass, Harvard UP, 1990)
The following journal articles will also play a significant role in the delivery of this
module:
Chandler, A.D. Jr. 'The growth of the transnational industrial firm in the US and the UK...'
Economic History Review 33, no.3, (1980): 396-410.
Lamoreaux, NR, Raff, DMG & Temin P, 'Beyond Markets and Hierarchies: Towards a New
Synthesis of American Business History', American Historical Review 108, no.2,
(2003): 404-433.
Wardley, P. ‘The Anatomy of Big Business: Aspects of Corporate Development in the
Twentieth Century’, Business History 33, no.2 (1991): 268-96.
Wardley, P. ‘The Commercial Banking Industry and its Part in the Emergence and
Consolidation of the Corporate Economy in Britain before 1940’, Journal of
Industrial History 3, no.2, (2000): 71-97.
CULTURE, AUTHORITY AND CRISIS: ENGLAND AND ITS NEIGHBOURS –
UPHPJS-30-3
The best overview of the fifteenth century is A J Pollard, Late Medieval England, 1399-1509
(Longman, 2000), which may be available from libraries – it is now out of print, I believe.
Ralph A Griffiths (ed.), The Short Oxford History of the British Isles: The Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Centuries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) is a collection of essays that
constitutes the best short introduction to this longer period.
A very useful survey is M Hicks, English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century (Routledge,
2002), ISBN 0 415 21764 4. A convenient short account of English political history from 1307
to 1509 is provided in K Dockray, William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses, and the
Historians (Stroud, 2002), chs 2-6.
An on-Line textbook history of medieval England by Stephen Muhlberger, written for US
undergrads, is at http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/muhlberger/muhlindex.html
Two brief introductory overviews of the period are provided by:
N Saul, ‘Britain, 1400’, History Today, 50 (July, 2000), pp. 38-43
S Gunn, ‘Britain, 1500’, History Today, 50 (August, 2000), pp. 38-44
The following books provide accounts of the political and/or social/economic/cultural history
of England for parts of our period. Bear in mind that no one book gives a full overview of the
entire period.
H S Bennett, The Pastons and their England (Cambridge, 1922)
F R H DuBoulay, An Age of Ambition: English Society in the Late Middle Ages (London,
1970)
G R Elton, England under the Tudors (2nd edn, Cambridge, 1974)
C Given-Wilson, The Illustrated History of Late Medieval England (London, 1996)
J Guy, Tudor England (Oxford, 1988)
E F Jacob, The Fifteenth Century (Oxford, 1961)
M Keen, England in the Later Middle Ages: A Political History (London, 1973)
M Keen, English Society in the Later Middle Ages, 1348-1500 (Harmondsworth, 1990)
P M Kendall, The Yorkist Age: Daily Life during the Wars of the Roses (London, 1962)
J R Lander, Government and Community: England, 1450-1509 (London, 1980)
M McKisack, The Fourteenth Century (Oxford, 1959)
A R Myers, England in the Later Middle Ages (London, 1971)
S H Rigby, English Society in the Later Middle Ages: Class, Status and Gender (London,
1995)
R L Storey, The End of the House of Lancaster (1986 edn, Gloucester)
J A F Thomson, The Transformation of Medieval England, 1370-1529 (London,1983)
A Tuck, Crown and Nobility, 1272-1461 (London, 1985)
B Wilkinson, The Later Middle Ages in England, 1216-1485 (Oxford, 1969)
THE COLD WAR WORLD – UPHPKB-30-3
Please, do not be alarmed by the length of the reading list below. You are not expected to
read all or even most of the books listed here. The aim is to provide you with choice and
alternatives in case a particular listed book is not available from the library. The library also
has a large collection of e-journals containing articles that are relevant to this course. For
seminars and assignments, students are encouraged to locate journal in the American
Historical Review, Journal of American History, Diplomatic History, Journal of American
Studies, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Cold War History, Journal of Cold War Studies, Journal
of Contemporary History, etc., etc. Many of the most important books can also be found in
the short loan section. Suggestions for specialised reading for each seminar will be provided
in the module handbook and also during seminar sessions.
To get the most out of this module you must go beyond the minimal amount of reading
required for each seminar. Seminars function best if everyone has done the preparatory
reading, has thought about different interpretations of key themes or events and comes
along prepared to discuss the subject in depth. Do not leave it up to the tutor or fellow
students to do the work for you in individual sessions.
RECOMMENDED TEXT BOOKS
We shall be using the following text books for this course and it is essential for
students to buy at least three of them:
Keylor, W., The C20th World: An International History, Oxford University Press, 2001
Ball, S. J., The Cold War: An International History, 1947-1991, Edward Arnold, 1998
Ambrose, Stephen E., and Brinkley, Douglas G., Rise to Globalism: American Foreign
Policy since 1938, Penguin, 1997
Merrill, Dennis and Paterson, Thomas G., (eds), Major Problems in American Foreign
Relations since 1914: Vol. II: Documents and Essays, Houghton Mifflin, 2000
ESSENTIAL
This section of the reading list contains books which are likely to be used frequently during
this course:
Ashton, Nigel, Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War: The Irony of Interdependence,
Bagby, Wesley M., America's International Relations since World War I, 1999
Bisley, Nick, The End of the Cold War and the Causes of Soviet Collapse, Palgrave
Boyle, Peter G., American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of
Communism, 1993
Brown, S., The Faces of Power: Constancy and Change in United States Foreign Policy
from Truman to Clinton, FRENCHAY
Calvocoressi, Peter, World Politics, 1945-2000, Longman, Harlow, 2001.
Caridi, R. J., 20th Century American Foreign Policy
Carter, Dale and Clifton, Robin, War and Cold War in American Foreign Policy, 1942-62,
Palgrave, Basingstoke 2002.
Caute, David, The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the
Cold War, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003.
Crockatt, R., The Fifty Years War
Dallek, R., Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, FRENCHAY
Damms, Richard V., The Eisenhower Presidency 1953-1961, Longman, Harlow, 2002
Dobson, Alan P., and Steve Marsh, U.S. Foreign Policy since 1945, London, Routledge,
2006.
Dockrill, Michael L., The Cold War 1945-1963, 1988
Walker, Martin, The Cold War and the Making of the Modern World, 1994
Dockrill, Saki R. and Hughes, Geraint (eds), Palgrave Advances in Cold War History,
Basingstoke, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006.
Dockrill, Saki, Eisenhower's New Look National Security Policy, 1953-1961,
Macmillan/St Martin's, 1996.
Dockrill, Saki, Britain's Retreat from East of Suez: The Choice between Europe and the
World?, Palgrave, 2002.
Dumbrell, John, A Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations in the Cold War and
After, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001. (FRENCHAY)
Elliott, Geoffrey, Secret Classrooms: An Untold Story of the Cold War, St. Ermin's Press,
London, 2002
Feis, Herbert, From Trust to Terror: The Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1950, 1970
Fontaine, Andre, History of the Cold War: From the Korean War to the Present, 1969
Fontaine, Andre, History of the Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Korean
war, 1917-1950, 1970
Gaddis, J. L., The U.S. and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947
Gaddis, John Lewis, We Now know: Rethinking Cold War History, 1997
Gati, Charles, Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest and the 1956
Hungarian Revolt, Washington, D.C., Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2006.
Geelhoed, E. Bruce and Edmonds, Anthony O., Eisenhower, Macmillan and Allied Unity,
1957-1961, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003.
Graebner, Norman A., (ed) Ideas and Diplomacy: Readings in the Intellectual Tradition
of American Foreign Policy, 1964
Grogin, Robert C., Natural Enemies: The United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold
War, 1917-1991, 2001
Halle, L. J., Cold War as History
Hamilton, Keith, Documents on British Policy Overseas. Series III, Vol . VI, Berlin in the
Cold War, 1948-1990, 2009
Hanhimaki, Jussi and Westad, Odd Arne, (eds), The Cold War: A History in Documents
and Eyewitness Accounts, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003.
Harbutt, Fraser J., The Cold War Era, Blackwell, Oxford, 2002
Haslam, Jonathan, Russia's Cold War: from the October Revolution to the fall of the
wall, Yale University Press, 2011.
Hopkins, Michael F., Kandiah, Michael D. and Staerck, Gillian, (eds), Cold War Britain,
1945-1964: New Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003.
Horowitz, David, (ed), Containment and Revolution: Western Policy towards Social
Revolution, 1917 to Vietnam, 1967
Hendrickson, Ryan C., Diplomacy and war at NATO: The Secretary General and Military
Action after the Cold War, Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 2006. [electronic
resource]
Hook, Steven W., American foreign policy since World War II , Washington, D.C. : CQ
Press, c2007.
Hunter, Allen, Rethinking the Cold War, 1998, FRENCHAY
Jentleson, Bruce W. and Paterson, Thomas G., Encyclopaedia of U.S. Foreign Relations:
Vols. 1, 2, 3 and 4, 1997
Jian, Chen, Mao's China and the Cold War, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill,
2001
Kegley, Charles W. and Wittkopf, Eugene R., (eds) American Foreign Policy: Pattern and
Process, 1991, FRENCHAY
Kol(k)do, G., Roots of American Foreign Policy, FRENCHAY
Krock, Arthur, Memoirs: Intimate Recollections of Twelve American Presidents from
Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Nixon, 1968, FRENCHAY
Lafeber, Walter, America, Russia and the Cold War 1945-71
Lafeber, Walter, Origins of the Cold War, 1941-47
Larres, Klaus and Lane, Ann, (eds) The Cold War: The Essential Readings, Blackwell,
Oxford, 2001
Leffler, Melvyn P., and Painter, David, S., (eds), Origins of the Cold War: An International
History, 1994
Lawrence, Mark Atwood and Logevall, Fredrik (eds), The First Vietnam War: Colonial
Conflict and Cold War Crisis, Cambridge, Mass., London : Harvard University Press,
c2007.
Li, Hua-Yu, Mao and the Economic Stalinization of China, 1948-1953, Lanham, Rowman
& Littlefield, c2006.
Libbey, James K. (ed), Documents of Soviet-American Relations, Vol 5, The Cold War
Begins, 1946-1949, Gulf Breeze, Academic, 2006.
Lindley-French, Julian, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization: The Enduring Alliance,
London, Routledge, 2007.
Loth, Wilfried, (ed), Europe, Cold War and Coexistence, 1953-1965, Frank Cass, London,
2003.
Loth, Wilfried, The Division of the World 1941-1955, 1988
Lucas, Scott, Freedom's War: The U.S. Crusade against the Soviet Union, 1945-1956,
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1999.
Maddrell, Paul, Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany 19451961, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Mahan, Erin, Kennedy, De Gaulle and Western Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke,
2002
Marsh, Steve, Anglo-American Relations and Cold War Oil: Crisis in Iran, Palgrave
Martel, G. (ed), American Foreign Relations Reconsidered 1890-1993
Mastny Vojtech and Byrne, Malcolm (eds), A Cardboard Castle? An Inside History of the
Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991, New York, Central European University Press, 2005. [electronic
resource]
May, Ernest R, "Lessons" of the Past: The Use and Misuse of History in American
Foreign Policy, 1973
McCauley, Martin, Russia, America and the Cold War, 1949-1991,1998
McCauley, Martin, The Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1949, 1995
McKnight, David, Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial
Heritage, Frank Cass, London, 2001
McMahon. R. J., The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, 2003
Miscamble, Wilson D., From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Mitrovich, Gregory, Undermining the Kremlin: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet
Bloc, 1947-1956, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2000.
Murray, Donette, Kennedy, MacMillan and Nuclear Weapons, Macmillan Press,
Houndmills, 2000
Offner, Arnold A., Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 19451953, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2002
Osgood, R. E., Alliances and American Foreign Policy
Ovendale, Ritchie, The English-Speaking Alliance: Britain, the United States, the
Dominions and the Cold War, 1945-1951, 1985
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2002.
Paterson, Thomas G., Soviet American Confrontation
Paterson, Thomas. G., On Every Front: The Making of the Cold War, 1979
Pedaliu, Effie G. H., Britain, Italy and the Origins of the Cold War, Palgrave Macmillan,
Basingstoke, 2003.
Pedaliu, Effie G. H., and Young, John W., (Guest Editors), Diplomacy and Statecraft, Special
Issue, Vol. 22, (1), March 2011.
Pedaliu, Effie G. H, ‘Truman, Eisenhower and the Mediterranean Cold War’, The Maghreb
Review, Vol., 31 (1-2), 2006;
Pedaliu, Effie G. H., “ ‘A Sea of Confusion’: The Mediterranean and Détente, 1969-1974’,
Diplomatic History, Vol. 33 (4), September 2009
Quandt, William B., Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since
1967, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, c2005. [electronic resource]
Reynolds, David, From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the
International History of the 1940s, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Roberts, Geoffrey, Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953, New Haven,
(Conn.), Yale University Press, c2006.
Roberts, Geoffrey, The Soviet Union in World Politics: Coexistence, Revolution and
Cold War, 1945-1991, Routledge, London, 1999
Ryan, David, US Foreign Policy in World History, 2000
Schulzinger, R. D., American Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century, 1994
Schulzinger, Robert D., U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900, c1998, FRENCHAY
Sewell, Mike, The Cold War, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002
Shaw, Tony, Hollywood's Cold War, Edinburgh., Edinburgh University Press, c2007.
Smith, J., The American Diplomatic Tradition (Historical Association Pamphlet), 1992
Spalding, Elizabeth Edwards, The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment and
the Re-making of Liberal Internationalism, Lexington, University Press of Kentucky,
c2006.
Spanier, John W., American Foreign Policy since World War II
Stone, David, Wars of the Cold War: Campaigns and Conflicts, 1945-1990, Brassey's,
London, 2004.
Togo, Kazuhiko, Japan's Foreign Policy: 1945-2003: The Quest for a Proactive Policy,
Leiden, Brill, 2005.
Trachtenberg, Marc, A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement,
1945-1963, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1999
Tsang, Steve Yui-Sang, The Cold War's Odd Couple. The Unintended Partnership
between the Republic of China and the UK, 1950-1958, London, I.B. Tauris, 2006.
Varsori, Antonio and Calandri, Elena, (eds), The Failure of Peace in Europe, 1943-48,
Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2002
Williams, , William Appleman, (ed), From Colony to Empire: Essays in the History of
American Foreign Relations
Williams, William Appleman, (ed.) The Shaping of American Diplomacy, Vol. 2: 19141968, 1970
Wittkopf, Eugene R. and McCormick, James M., (eds), The Domestic Sources of
American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence, c1999, FRENCHAY
Young, John W. and Kent, C. John, International Relations since 1945: A Global History,
Oxford University Press, Oxford , 2004.
Young, John W., Cold War Europe, 1945-1989: A Political History, 1991
Young, John W., The Longman Companion to America, Russia and the Cold War, 19411998, Longman, Harlow, 1999.
Zubok, Vladislav and Pleshakov, Constantine, Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: from Stalin
to Khrushchev, 1996
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USEFUL COLD WAR HISTORY INTERNET LINKS
Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center,
Washington DC, www.cwihp.si.edu
Foreign Relations of the United States, www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus (1961-1976)
Foreign Relations of the United States,
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/FRUS, (1861-1960)
Avalon Project, Yale University, www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon
Documents of World War II, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww2.htm
United Nations Documents, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/unres.htm
American Foreign Policy--the Cold War
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm
The Cuban Missile Crisis, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/cuba.htm
Democracy and Foreign Policy, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/demos.htm
American Foreign Policy--Hiroshima,
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hiroshim.htm
American Foreign Policy--Intelligence Community,
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/intel.htm
American Foreign Policy--NATO, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/nato.htm
American Foreign Policy--Nuclear
Weapons,www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/nukes.htm
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American Foreign Policy--Vietnam, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam.htm
American Foreign Policy--Clinton Administration,
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/clinton.htm
American Foreign Policy--Human Rights,
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/humrites.htm
American Foreign Policy--Reagan Administration,
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/gipper.htm
Center for the Study of Intelligence, Washington D.C. www.odci.gov/csi
The UK NATIONAL ARCHIVES, London:
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp
The Parallel History Project, www.isn.ethz.ch/php
The National Security Archive, George Washington University,
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv
CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room, http://www.foia.cia.gov
Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project, University of Toronto,
www.utoronto.ca/serap/index.htm
Collaborative Collection Management Project for Russian and East European
Studies (COCOREES) www.cocorees.ac.uk/desiderata
Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, Harvard University,
www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws
Also read:
Robert Griffith, 'Un-Tangling the Web of Cold War Studies Or How One Historian
Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Internet', The Journal of Multi-Media History,
Volume 3,2000.
THE LONDON-PARIS-BERLIN TRIANGLE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 19331940 – UPHPKG-30-3
Zara Steiner, The Triumph of the Dark: European International History, 1933-1939, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2011
CROWDS, DISORDER AND THE LAW IN ENGLAND, 1730-1820 – UPHPKQ-30-3
POLITICS AND VIOLENCE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY IRELAND – UPHPKT-30-3
D.G. Boyce
and A. O'Day (eds)
Defenders of the Union: A Survey of British and Irish
Unionism Since 1801 (2001)
Martin Dillon
The Dirty War (1990)
M. Elliott (ed)
The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland (2002)
R. English
Armed Struggle: A History of the IRA (2003)
Peter Hart
The IRA and its Enemies (1998)
Peter Hart
The IRA at War, 1916-1923 (2003)
T. Hennessey
Dividing Ireland (1996)
T. Hennessey
The Evolution of the Troubles (2007)
Michael Hopkinson
Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War (1988)
Michael Hopkinson
The Irish War of Independence (2004)
Bill Kissane
The Politics of the Irish Civil War (2005)
D. Keogh
Twentieth Century Ireland: Nation and State (1994)
Niall O’Dochartaigh
From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish
Troubles (1997)
H. Patterson
The Politics of Illusion: A Political History of
The IRA (1997)
Henry Patterson
Ireland Since 1939: the Persistence of Conflict (2006)
Charles Townshend
Political Violence in Ireland (1983)
Charles Townshend
Easter 1916: the Irish Rebellion (2005)
BRITAIN, THE SLAVE TRADE AND THE ATLANTIC LEGACY – UPHPKY-30-3
Maps:
http://www.uwec.edu/Academic/Geography/Ivogeler/Papers/Slavery/london.htm
Timeline:
http://home.inreach.com/usm/slavechron.html
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/SlaveTrad e/collection/large/E007.JPG
General overviews:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/hyperhistorian.cfm
this University of Houston site is edited by Stephen Mintz of the Gilder Lehrman Institute and
whilst it’s oriented to the USA, there are parts which are relevant to our module.
www.antislavery.org/breakingthesilence –be sure you get into the full briefing notes of
this website
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/slavery/ lots of primary sources here including those
unearthed and catalogued by our own UWE History postgrad, Mike Breward
Bristol and the slave trade:
www.discoveringbristol.org- this looks at the Bristol slavery exhibition of 1999 but links
into sites about other maritime slaving ports such as Liverpool
For some excellent material on Olaudah Equiano and other black writers and slavery related
material, see
www.brycchancarey.com
http://setallfree.net/racism_attitudes.html- an ecumenical Christian website with some
short but clear summary pieces on the legacy of slavery
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/slavery/DG_065902 Another popular website but sourced by
knowledgeable authorities, includes link about role of royal slavery in suppression of slave
trade.
Bibliographies:
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~slavery/links/
Abolition
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/launch_anim_slavery.shtml
Basic reading for the Summer Recommended Texts- you are expected to buy at least
4 of these paperbacks. Try www.abebooks.co.uk for used copies
James Walvin Black Ivory (London: Blackwell:1992 new edition, 2001); -This costs £14-95
and provides the readable and well-researched introductory survey of the impact of the
British slave trade
Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings Ed. Vincent Carretta
(Penguin, 2003).
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (London: Penguin 2003)-Essential reading start with this after Walvin
to get into the subject
Kenneth Morgan Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy 1660-1800 Cambridge
University Press 2000- This will set you back £`7-95 but is a good investment since it gives
an up to date review of the economic dimensions of the subject which is key to
understanding the cultural and social aspects.
Susan Dwyer Amussen Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English
Society 1640-1700 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007) it’s American and
costs about £15 but order in advance
Madge Dresser Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in Bristol (London:
Continuum Press 2001/ Bristol: Redcliffe Press 2007).
Hugh Thomas The Slave Trade: the History of the Atlantic slave trade 1440-1870 (1997,
paperback 1998) esp.Chapters 1-2. Wordy, controversial and wide-ranging, this offers a
panoramic view of the Atlantic slave trade. This cost £10-19 from Amazon and they are
offering used copies for £7-00.
S. Farrell, M. Unwin and J Walvin the British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and People
(Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
Journals
Check out Slavery and Abolition in our library which has an annual bibliography of relevant
articles published each year. Do a trawl via JSTORR
Some illustrative titles of journal articles include:
David Barry Gaspar , “They Could Never Have Too Much of My Work’” Eric Williams and the
Journal of Negro History, 1940-1945’,The Journal of African American History, Vol. 88, No. 3
(Summer, 2003), pp. 291-303
J.E. Inikori, ‘Slavery and the development of industrial capitalism in England,’ Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, vol. 17, no. 4 (1987)
C. Midgely, ‘Antislavery and feminism in Britain,; Gender and History, vol. 5 no. 3 Autumn,
1993.
Some other Primary sources
Matthew Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor. Ed. Judith Terry (Oxford University
Press, 1999).
Mary Prince The History of Mary Prince A West India Slave. Ed. Sara Salih (Penguin, 2000).
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, 1936-1939 – UPHPLA-30-3
For background, acquire a copy of Helen Graham, The Spanish Civil War. A Very Short
Introduction (Oxford, 2005). (It’s a lovely little book. The introductory chapter is VERY good
for background and the rest gives you a good summary of the war).
For more detailed political background (which will benefit you enormously if you read and
digest it) see Raymond Carr, Modern Spain, 1875-1980, (Oxford, 1980). Read particularly
the chapters prior to and including the civil war.
Here are some excellent introductory texts which are highly recommendable as the basis of
this preparatory reading. ALL students should devour at least one of these in addition to the
above BEFORE the start of next year (whether they have studied modern Spanish history
before or not):
George Esenwein and Adrian Shubert, Spain at War, (London: Longman, 1995) (Probably
the most recommendable, at the moment, as a module “text book” to refer to week-by-week)
Julián Casanova, The Spanish Republic and Civil War, (Cambridge, 2010) (A very readable
synthesis which benefits from the most recent research) (Also an E-book)
Francisco Romero Salvadó, The Spanish Civil War (Palgrave, 2005). (Another good and
highly readable synthesis).
Paul Preston, A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War, (London: Fontana, 1996) (An updated version of his The Spanish Civil War, London, 1986; either will do).
Raymond Carr, The Civil War in Spain, (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986) (A re-print
of Carr’s The Spanish Tragedy. The Civil War in Perspective, London: Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, 1977; though this is now a little dated, it remains useful).
For the more adventurous among you – and for those who want to gain some clues
about the kind of thing that is to follow over the course of the year – see:
Michael Richards, A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco’s
Spain, 1936-1945 (Cambridge: CUP, 1998).
Chris Ealham and Michael Richards (eds), The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the
Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, (Cambridge: CUP, 2005).
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY DURING THE PERIOD OF THE “HIGH COLD
WAR”: FROM THE ADOPTION OF CONTAINMENT TO FLEXIBLE RESPONSE –
UPHPLB-30-3
Please, do not be alarmed by the length of the reading list below. You are not expected to
read all or even most of the books listed here. The aim is to provide you with choice and
alternatives in case a particular listed book is not available from the library. The library also
has a large collection of e-journals containing articles that are relevant to this course. For
seminars and assignments, students are encouraged to locate journal in the American
Historical Review, Journal of American History, Diplomatic History, Journal of American
Studies, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Cold War History, Journal of Cold War Studies, Journal
of Contemporary History, etc., etc. Many of the most important books can also be found in
the short loan section. Suggestions for specialised reading for each seminar will be provided
in the module handbook and also during seminar sessions.
Special subject modules require intensive, detailed examination of a historical subject. To
get the most out of this module you must go beyond the minimal amount of reading required
for each seminar. Seminars function best if everyone has done the preparatory reading, has
thought about different interpretations of key themes or events and comes along prepared to
discuss the subject in depth. Do not leave it up to the tutor or fellow students to do the work
for you in individual sessions.
RECOMMENDED TEXT BOOKS
We shall be using the following text books for this course and it is essential for
students to buy at least three of them:
Gaddis, J. L., Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American
National Security Policy, OUP, 2005
Cohen, Warren I., The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: America in the
Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991, Vol. IV, CUP, 1995
Keylor, William., The C20th World: An International History, Oxford University Press,
2001
Ambrose, Stephen E., and Brinkley, Douglas G., Rise to Globalism: American Foreign
Policy since 1938, 1997
ESSENTIAL
This section of the reading list contains books which are likely to be used frequently during
this course:
Ashton, Nigel, Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War: The Irony of Interdependence,
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2002.
Bagby, Wesley M., America's International Relations since World War I, 1999.
Ball, Simon J., The Cold War: An International History, 1947-1991, 1998.
Boyle, Peter G., American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of
Communism, 1993.
Brogi, Alessandro, A Question of Self-esteem: The United States and the Cold War
Choices in France and Italy, 1944-1958, Praeger, Westport, Conn, 2002.
Brown, S., The Faces of Power: Constancy and Change in United States Foreign Policy
from Truman to Clinton, FRENCHAY
Burwood, Stephen, American Labor, France and the Politics of Intervention 1945-1952:
Workers and the Cold War, Mellen, New York, 1999.
Calvocoressi, Peter, World Politics, 1945-2000, Longman, Harlow, 2001.
Caridi, R. J., 20th Century American Foreign Policy
Carter, Dale and Clifton, Robin, War and Cold War in American Foreign Policy, 1942-62,
Palgrave, Basingstoke 2002.
Caute, David, The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the
Cold War, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003.
Crockatt, Richard, The Fifty Years War
Dallek, R., Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, FRENCHAY
Damms, Richard V., The Eisenhower Presidency 1953-1961, Longman, Harlow, 2002.
Defty, Andrew, Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda, 1945-53 : the
Information Research Department, Routledge, 2004.
Dockrill, Michael L., The Cold War 1945-1963, 1988.
Dockrill, Saki, Eisenhower's New Look National Security Policy, 1953-1961,
Macmillan/St Martin's, 1996.
Dockrill, Saki, Britain's Retreat from East of Suez: The Choice between Europe and the
World?, Palgrave, 2002.
Dumbrell, John, A Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations in the Cold War
and After, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001. (FRENCHAY).
Elliott, Geoffrey, Secret Classrooms: An Untold Story of the Cold War, St. Ermin's Press,
London, 2002.
Feis, Herbert, From Trust to Terror: The Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1950, 1970.
Fontaine, Andre, History of the Cold War: From the Korean War to the Present, 1969.
Fontaine, Andre, History of the Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Korean
War, 1917-1950, 1970.
Gaddis, John L., The U.S. and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947
Gaddis, John L., The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War, 1987.
Gaddis, John Lewis, We Now know: Rethinking Cold War History, 1997.
Gardner, Lloyd C., LaFeber, Walter F., McCormick, Thomas J., Creation of the American
Empire: U.S. Diplomatic History, 1973.
Geelhoed, E. Bruce and Edmonds, Anthony O., Eisenhower, Macmillan and Allied Unity,
1957-1961, Palgrave/Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003.
Graebner, Norman A., (ed) Ideas and Diplomacy: Readings in the Intellectual Tradition
of American Foreign Policy, 1964
Grogin, Robert C., Natural Enemies: The United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold
War, 1917-1991, 2001.
Grogin, Robert C., Natural Enemies: The United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold
War, 1917-1991, Lexington Books, Oxford, 2001.
Hamby, Alonzo L., Liberalism and its Challengers: From F.D.R. to Bush, 1992.
Hamilton, Keith, Documents on British Policy Overseas. Series III, Vol . VI, Berlin in the
Cold War, 1948-1990, 2009.
Hanhimaki, Jussi and Westad, Odd Arne, (eds), The Cold War: A History in Documents
and Eyewitness Accounts, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003.
Harbutt, Fraser J., The Cold War Era, Blackwell, Oxford, 2002.
Haslam, Jonathan, Russia's Cold War: from the October Revolution to the fall of the
wall, Yale University Press, 2011.
Hopkins, Michael F., Kandiah, Michael D. and Staerck, Gillian, (eds), Cold War Britain,
1945-1964: New Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003.
Horowitz, David, (ed), Containment and Revolution: Western Policy towards Social
Revolution, 1917 to Vietnam, 1967
Jentleson, Bruce W. and Paterson, Thomas G., Encyclopaedia of U.S. Foreign Relations:
Vols. 1, 2, 3 and 4, 1997
Jian, Chen, Mao's China and the Cold War, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill,
2001.
Kegley, Charles W. and Wittkopf, Eugene R., (eds) American Foreign Policy: Pattern and
Process, 1991, FRENCHAY
Krock, Arthur, Memoirs: Intimate Recollections of Twelve American Presidents from
Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Nixon, 1968, FRENCHAY
Lafeber, Walter, America, Russia and the Cold War, 2008.
Lafeber, Walter, Origins of the Cold War, 1941-47
Lafeber, Walter, The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad
Since 1750, W.W. Norton, 1994.
Larres, Klaus and Lane, Ann, (eds) The Cold War: The Essential Readings, Blackwell,
Oxford, 2001.
Larres, Klaus, Churchill's Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy, Yale University
Press, New Haven, 2002.
Leffler, Melvyn P., and Painter, David, S., (eds), Origins of the Cold War: An International
History, 1994.
Loth, Wilfried, (ed), Europe, Cold War and Coexistence, 1953-1965, Frank Cass, London,
2003.
Loth, Wilfried, The Division of the World 1941-1955, 1988.
Lucas, Scott, Freedom's War: The U.S. Crusade against the Soviet Union, 1945-1956,
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1999.
Luthi, Lorenz, The Sino-Soviet Split : Cold War in the Communist World, Princeton
University Press 2008.
Mahan, Erin, Kennedy, De Gaulle and Western Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke,
2002.
Marsh, Steve, Anglo-American Relations and Cold War Oil: Crisis in Iran, Palgrave
Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003
Martel, Gordon (ed), American Foreign Relations Reconsidered 1890-1993
May, Ernest R, "Lessons" of the Past: The Use and Misuse of History in American
Foreign Policy, 1973.
McCauley, Martin, Russia, America and the Cold War, 1949-1991, 1998.
McCauley, Martin, The Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1949, 1995.
McKnight, David, Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial
Heritage, Frank Cass, London, 2001.
Miscamble, Wilson D., From Roosevelt to Truman : Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold
War, CUP,2007.
Mitrovich, Gregory, Undermining the Kremlin: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet
Bloc, 1947-1956, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2000.
Morgan, Patrick M. and Nelson, Keith L. (eds), Re-viewing the Cold War: Domestic
Factors and Foreign Policy in the East-West Confrontation, Praeger, Westport, 2000.
Murray, Donette, Kennedy, MacMillan and Nuclear Weapons, Macmillan Press,
Houndmills, 2000.
Osgood, R. E., Alliances and American Foreign Policy
Ovendale, Ritchie, The English-Speaking Alliance: Britain, the United States, the
Dominions and the Cold War, 1945-1951, 1985.
Paterson, Thomas G., Soviet American Confrontation
Paterson, Thomas. G., On Every Front: The Making of the Cold War, 1979.
Pedaliu, E. G. H., ‘Truman, Eisenhower and the Mediterranean Cold War, 1945-57’, The
Maghreb Review, Vol. 31(1-2), 2006, pp. 2-20.
Pedaliu, Effie G.H., Britain, Italy and the Origins of the Cold War, Palgrave Macmillan,
Basingstoke, 2003.
Pedaliu, Effie G. H., and Young, John W., (Guest Editors), Diplomacy and Statecraft, Special
Issue, Vol. 22, (1), March 2011.
Qing, Simei, From Allies to Enemies : Visions of Modernity, Identity, and U.S.-China
Diplomacy, 1945-1960, Harvard University Press, 2007.
Rawnsley, Gary D, (ed), Cold War Propaganda in the 1950s, Macmillan, Basingstoke,
1999.
FRENCHAY
Roberts, Geoffrey, The Soviet Union in World Politics: Coexistence, Revolution and
Cold War, 1945-1991, Routledge, London, 1999.
Ryan, David, US Foreign Policy in World History, 2000.
Saull, Richard, Rethinking Theory and History in the Cold War: The State, Military
Power and Social Revolution, Frank Cass, London, 2001.
Schulzinger, Robert D., American Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century, 1994.
Schulzinger, Robert D., U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900, c1998, FRENCHAY
Scott-Smith, Giles and Krabbendam, Hans, The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe,
1945-1960, Frank Cass, London, 2003.
Sewell, Mike, The Cold War, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002.
Smith, J., The American Diplomatic Tradition (Historical Association Pamphlet), 1992.
Spanier, John W., American Foreign Policy since World War II
Stone, David, Wars of the Cold War: Campaigns and Conflicts, 1945-1990, Brassey's,
London, 2004.
Trachtenberg, Marc, A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement,
1945-1963, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1999.
Varsori, Antonio and Calandri, Elena, (eds), The Failure of Peace in Europe, 1943-48,
Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2002.
Walker, Martin, The Cold War and the Making of the Modern World, 1994.
Westad, Odd Arne (ed), Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory,
Frank Cass, London, 2000.
Wilford, Hugh, The CIA, the British Left, and the Cold War: Calling theTune?, Frank
Cass, London, 2003.
Williams, William Appleman., (ed), From Colony to Empire: Essays in the History of
American Foreign Relations.
Williams, William Appleman, (ed.) The Shaping of American Diplomacy, Vol. 2: 19141968, 1970.
Wittkopf, Eugene R. and McCormick, James M., (eds), The Domestic Sources of
American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence, c1999, FRENCHAY
Young, John W. and Kent, C. John, International Relations since 1945: A Global History,
Oxford University Press, Oxford , 2004.
Young, John W., Cold War Europe, 1945-1989: A Political History, 1991.
Young, John W., The Longman Companion to America, Russia and the Cold War, 19411998, Longman, Harlow, 1999.
Zubok, Vladislav and Pleshakov, Constantine, Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: from Stalin
to Khrushchev, 1996.
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USEFUL COLD WAR HISTORY INTERNET LINKS
Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center,
Washington DC, www.cwihp.si.edu
Foreign Relations of the United States, www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus (1961-1976)
Foreign Relations of the United States,
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/FRUS, (1861-1960)
Avalon Project, Yale University, www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon
Documents of World War II, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww2.htm
United Nations Documents, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/unres.htm
American Foreign Policy--the Cold War
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm
The Cuban Missile Crisis, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/cuba.htm
Democracy and Foreign Policy, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/demos.htm
American Foreign Policy--Hiroshima,
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hiroshim.htm
American Foreign Policy--Intelligence Community,
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/intel.htm
American Foreign Policy--NATO, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/nato.htm
American Foreign Policy--Nuclear
Weapons,www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/nukes.htm
American Foreign Policy--Vietnam,
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam.htm
American Foreign Policy--Clinton Administration,
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/clinton.htm
American Foreign Policy--Human Rights,
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/humrites.htm
American Foreign Policy--Reagan Administration,
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/gipper.htm
Center for the Study of Intelligence, Washington D.C. www.odci.gov/csi
The UK NATIONAL ARCHIVES, London:
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp
The Parallel History Project, www.isn.ethz.ch/php
The National Security Archive, George Washington University,
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv
CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room,
http://www.foia.cia.gov
Also read:
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Robert Griffith, 'Un-Tangling the Web of Cold War Studies Or How One Historian
Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Internet', The Journal of Multi-Media
History, Volume 3,2000.
WAR, CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN – UPHPLC30-3
General Reading
You should start by familiarising yourself with key events and people, making sure that you
understand the political framework for both wars. General texts about Britain in the twentieth
century can be helpful for this. For example,
J Black
T O Lloyd
B Porter
M Pugh
M Pugh
Modern British History since 1900
Empire to Welfare State
Britannia’s Burden
The Making of Modern British Politics
State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain
There are important overviews of both world wars;
A Marwick
S R Grayzel
R Pope
A Marwick
A Calder
S Rose
Britain in a Century of Total War
Women and the First World War
War and Society in Britain, 1899-1948
The Deluge (WW1)
The People’s War (WW2)
Which People’s War? (Key text for WW2)
For a discussion of the debates on war and social change see;
J Winter
The Great War in History: debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present
TSARS AND COMMISSARS: RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1853-1953 –
UPHPLL-30-3
Students are advised to purchase the following:
Mackenzie, D. Imperial Dreams, Harsh Realities: Tsarist Russia's Foreign Policy, 1815-1917
(Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1993)
Mackenzie, D. From Messianism to Collapse: Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1991 (Fort Worth,
TX: Harcourt Brace, 1993)
The following will also be of use:
Donaldson, R. H. and Nogee, J. L. The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems,
Enduring Interests (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2005)
Kennedy-Pipe, C. Russia and the World, 1917-1991 (London: Arnold, 1998)
Kocho-Williams, A. Russia’s Foreign Relations in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Routledge,
2012)
Gorodetsky G. (ed.) Soviet foreign policy, 1917-1991: a Retrospective (Oxford: Routledge,
1994)
Ragsdale, H (ed.)
Press, 1993)
Imperial Russian Foreign Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Petro, N. N. & Rubinstein, A. Z. Russian Foreign Policy: From Empire to Nation-State
(Longman, 1997)
LeDonne, J. P. The Russian Empire and the world, 1700-1917 the geopolitics of expansion
and containment (Oxford: OUP, 1997)
Burbank, J. Von Hagen, M. (eds). Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930
(Indiana, 2007)
THE ENGLISH REFORMATION: THE TUDOR STATE, THE CHURCH AND THE
PEOPLE, c. 1529-1603 – UPHPLX-30-3
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. I would strongly recommend purchasing Haigh’s, English Reformations. Secondhand copies of many of the other volumes can be purchased relatively cheaply.
C. Cross,
Church and People, 1450-1660 (Fontana, 1976).
C.S.L. Davies,
Peace, Print and Protestantism, 1450-1558 (Hart-Davis, 1977).
A.G. Dickens,
The English Reformation (B.T. Batsford, 1964).
C. Haigh,
English Reformations (OUP, 1993).
C. Haigh (ed.),
The English Reformation Revised (CUP, 1987).
N. Jones,
The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaption: Religion
and Cultural Adaptation (Wiley, 2001).
R. O’Day,
The Debate on the English Reformation (Methuen, 1986).
A. Ryrie,
The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603
(Longman, 2009).
K. Thomas,
Religion and the Decline of Magic (London, 1971).
THE DARK YEARS: FRANCE 1934-1945 – UPHPSC-30-3
Indicative bibliography
Contextualisation – Introductions to Twentieth Century France
Rod Kedward, La vie en bleu: France and the French since 1900 (London: Allen Lane, 2005)
Maurice Larkin, France since the Popular Front, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997)
James McMillan, Twentieth Century France: Politics and Society 1898-1991 (London:
Arnold, 1992)
Charles Sowerine, France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society (Houndmills: Palgrave,
2001)
Richard Vinen, France, 1934-1970 (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1996)
Short introductions
Nick Atkin, The French at War 1934-44 (Harlow: Longman, 2001)
H.R. Kedward, Occupied France: Collaboration and Resistance (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985)
Longer overviews
Jean-Pierre Azéma, From Munich to Liberation (Cambridge: CUP, 1984)
Philippe Burrin, Living with Defeat [also published as French under the Germans] (London:
Arnold, 1996)
Julian Jackson, France 1940-44. The Dark Years (Oxford: OUP, 2001)
Ian Ousby, Occupation: The Ordeal of France (London: John Murray, 1998)
Robert O. Paxton, Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order (New York: Knopf, 1972)
Richard Vinen, Unfree French: Life under the Occupation (London: Allen Lane, 2006)
Local Studies
John F. Sweets, Choices in Vichy France (Oxford: OUP, 1994)
Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains (London: Macmillan, 2002)
The best – and most important – books on Vichy overall are those of Paxton, Burrin and
Jackson: Paxton provides the classic account of Vichy and collaboration, the starting point
for all subsequent works; Burrin looks at collaboration in detail and points to the many
gradations of ‘accommodation’ to the Occupation that existed; Jackson provides an up-todate synthesis of recent scholarship on Vichy. If you want to buy one book, I would strongly
advise you to invest in Jackson (who also spends quite a lot of space on the 1930s, despite
the title).