Field: Modern Europe 1700-2006
General Outlines of Modern European History
E.J. Hobsbawm The Age of Revolutions 1789-1815 New York: New American Library,
1962.
The Age of Capital 1848-1875 New York: New American Library, 1978.
The Age of Empire 1875-1914 New York: Pantheon Books, 1987.
Mark Mazower Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century New York: Vintage Books,
1998.
“Progress” and “Backwardness:” Making Europe “Modern”
What Is Modernization?
Norbert Elias The Civilizing Process New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.
Benedict Anderson Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism New York: Verso, 1992.
Ernst Gellner Nations and Nationalism Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Bruno LaTour We Have Never Been Modern Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1993.
Stuart Hall ed. Modernity: An Introduction of Modern Society Cambridge, MA:
Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno The Dialectic of Enlightenment New York:
Continuum, 1972.
The Process of Industrialization
Landes, David, The unbound Prometheus: technological change and industrial
development in Western Europe from 1750 to the present. London, Cambridge
University Press., 1969.
Alexader Gerschenkron“Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective” in Economic
Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays Cambridge, MA:
Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1962.
Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo eds. Patterns of European Industrialization: The
Nineteenth Century New York: Routledge, 1991.
Leandro Prados de la Escosura ed. Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and its
European Rivals, 1688-1815
Colin Heywood The Development of the French Economy, London Macmillan 1992
Keyder and Patrick O’Brien Economic Growth in England and France 1780-1940: Two
Paths to the Twentieth Century
Peter Mathias and John A. Davis The First Industrial Revolutions Oxford: Blackwell,
1989
Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson “Rehabilitating the Industrial Revolution The Economic
History Review Vol. 45, No. 1 (Feb., 1992), pp. 24-50
Jan de Vries “The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution” Jan De Vries
The Journal of Economic History Vol. 54, No. 2, Jun., 1994), pp. 249-270
Financial and Business History
Maxine Berg ed. Markets and Manufacture in Early Industrial Europe New York:
Routledge, 1991.
Charles P. Kindleberger A financial history of western Europe New York: Oxford
University Press, 1993.
Bruce Carruthers City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial
Revolution Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Larry Neal The rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of
Reason Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal “Information and
Economic History: How the Credit Market in Old Regime Paris Forces Us to Rethink the
Transition to Capitalism” The American Historical Review” Vol. 104, No. 1 (Feb., 1999),
pp. 69-94
Immanuel Wallerstein World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction Durham, N.C. Duke
University Press, 2004.
Rondo Cameron ed. Banking and the Early Stages of Industrialization Cameron et al
New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Richard Sylla, Richard Tilly and Gabriel Tortella The State, the Financial System and
Economic Modernization Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Giorgi Arrighi The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origin of Our Times
London: Verso, 2004.
The Rise of Modern Culture and Society
Habermas Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of
Bourgeois Society Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993
Neil McKendrik, John Brewer and J.H. Plumb The Birth of a Consumer Society: The
Commercialization of Eighteenth-century England London: Europe Publicatons Ltd,
1982
Jean-Christophe Agnew “Coming up for air: consumer culture in historical perspective”
in John Brewer and Roy Porter ed. Consumption and the world of goods New York:
Routledge, 1993 (pp. 19-39)
Colin Jones “The Great Chain of Buying: Medical Advertisement, the Bourgeois Public
Sphere and the Origins of the French Revolution” American Historical Review Feb 1996
13-40.
Laurence Fontaine History of Peddlers in Europe Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
William H. Sewell Jr. Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the
Old Regime to 1848 by William H. Sewell Jr.
E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class New York: Vintage Books,
1966.
William Reddy The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society 17501900 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English
Middle Class, 1780-1850 (1987)
Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 17801914: Enterprise, Family and Independence New York: Routledge, 1995.
Philip Nord Paris Shopkeepers and the Politics of Resentment Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 1986.
Jürgen Kocka Industrial Culture & Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy
in Modern Germany New York: Berghahn Books, 1999.
David Warren Sabean Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Victoria E. Thompson The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics
in Paris, 1830--1870 Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Victoria De Grazia Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance Through Twentieth Century
Europe Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Backwardness?: The Other Europe
Nelson Moe The View from Vesuvius: Italian Culture and the Southern Question
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Robert D. Putnam Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Terry Eagleton and Terrence McDonough ed. Was Ireland A Colony?: Economics,
Politics, And Culture In Nineteenth-century Ireland Dublin: Irish Academic Press
May 2005.
Weber, Eugen Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976.
Daniel Chirot ed The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economics and
Politics from the Middle Ages until the Early Twentieth Century Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1989.
Todorova, Maria N. Imagining the Balkans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Wolff, Larry Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the
Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
“Spain: The 'Spanish Problem' and the Imperial Myth” Martin Blinkhorn Journal of
Contemporary History, Vol. 15, No. 1, Imperial Hangovers. (Jan., 1980), pp. 5-25.
Russia and the Soviet Experiment
Stephen Kotkin Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism As A Civilization Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2005.
Douglas Northrop Veiled Empire: gender and power in Stalinist Central Asia Ithaca,
N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.
James R. Harris The Great Urals: Regionalism and the Evolution of the Soviet System
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.
David Hoffman Stalinist Values: the Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Laura Engelstein “Combined Underdevelopment: Discipline and the Law in Imperial and
Soviet Russia” The American Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 2. (Apr., 1993), pp. 338353.
Sonderweg, Nazism and the Holocaust
Zygmunt Bauman Modernity and the Holocaust Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.
Stern, Fritz. The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the German
Ideology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.
Jeffrey Herf Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and
the Third Reich Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois
Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany New York: Oxford University
Press, 1984.
Kocka, Jürgen "German History before Hitler: The Debate about the German
Sonderweg" pages 3-16 from Journal of Contempoary History, Volume 23, 1988.
Detlev Peukert “The Genesis of the Final Solution from the Spirit of Science” in
Reevaluating the Third Reich ed. Thomas Childers and Jane Caplan Holmes and Meier:
1993.
Moishe Postone “Anti-Semitism and National Socialism: Notes on the German Reaction
to "Holocaust" New German Critique, No. 19, Special Issue 1: Germans and Jews.
(Winter, 1980), pp. 97-115.
Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism New York: Harcourt Brace and Company,
1973.
Modernity and Tradition: The Problem of History
Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural
History Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Modri Eksteins The Rites of spring : the Great War and the birth of the Modern Age
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
Maurice Halbwachs On Collective Memory Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
E.J. Hobsbawm “Introduction: Inventing Traditions” and “Mass-Producing Traditions
Europe 1870-1914” in E.J. Hobsbawn and Terence Ranger The Invention of Tradition
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Peter Fritzsche, "The Case of Modern Memory," Journal of Modern History 73 (2001):
87-117.
Kerwin Lee Klein, "On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse,"
Representations 69 (2000): 127-50.
Pierre Nora, “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire” Representations
26, no. Spring (1989): 7-25
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