Prof. Auslander
Modern European History Orals List
I. Grand Narratives/ Seminal Texts
Hobsbawm, Eric J. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality.
(1992)
Hobsbawm, Eric J. The Age of Revolution, 1789-1948. (1962)
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe, 1800-1914. (1996)
Auslander, Leora. Cultural Revolutions: Everyday Life and Politics in Britain, North
America, and France. (2009)
Skocpol, Theda. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France,
Russia and China (1979)
Sahlins, Peter. Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees. (1989).
Maier, Charles S. "Consigning the Twentieth Century to History: Alternative Narratives
for the Modern Era." American Historical Review 103, no. 3 (2000): 807-31.
Maier, Charles S. Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and
Italy in the Decade after World War I (1975)
Soutou, George-Henri. "Was there a European Order in the Twentieth Century? From the
Concert of Europe to the End of the Cold War." Contemporary European History 9
(2000): 329-53.
Tilly, Charles. European Revolutions, 1492-1992: The Making of Europe. (1993).
Horn, Gerd-Rainer, and Padraic Kenney. Transnational Moments of Change: Europe
1945, 1968, 1989. (2004)
II. Gender
Scott, Joan W. “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.” The American
Historical Review 92 (no. 5) 1986: 1053-1075
Offen, Karen M. European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History (2000).
De Grazia, Victoria, ed. The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical
Perspective. (1996).
Grayzel, Susan R. Women’s Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in
Britain and France during the First World War. (1999)
Pollard, Miranda. Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France (1998)
Clancy-Smith, Julia and Frances Gouda. Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender and
Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism (1998)
Herzog, Dagmar. “ ‘Pleasure, Sex and Politics Belong Together:’ Post-Holocaust
Memory and the Sexual Revolution in West Germany.” Critical Inquiry 24.2 (Winter
1998): 393-444.
De Grazia, Victoria. How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945 (1992)
Kaplan, Marion. The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in
Imperial Germany (1991)
Reagin, Nancy. Sweeping the German Nation: Domesticity and National Identity in
Germany, 1870-1945, (2006)
Nolan, Mary. "'Housework Made Easy': The Taylorized Housewife in Weimar Germany's
Rationalized Economy." Feminist Studies 16, no. 3 (1990): 549-77.
Wingfield, Nancy and Maria Bucur (eds). Gender and War in Twentieth Century Eastern
Europe (2006).
Ginsborg, Paul. “The Politics of the Family in Twentieth-Century Europe.”
Contemporary European History 9 (2000). 411-44.
IV. War as rupture
Hunt, Lynn A. Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution. (1984)
Ozouf, Mona. Festivals and the French Revolution. (1988)
Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution:
1789-1795 (1996)
Sperber, Jonathan. The European Revolutions, 1848-1851: New Approaches to European
History (1994).
Gould, Roger V. Insurgent Identities: Class, Community and Protest in Paris from 1848
to the Commune (1995)
Liulevicius, Vejas Gabriel. War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National identity
and German Occupation in World War I. (2000)
Healy, Maureen. Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Monarchy Total War and
Everyday Live in World War I. (2004)
Wall, Richard and Jay Winter, eds. The Upheaval of War: Family, Work, and Welfare in
Europe, 1914-1918 (1988)
Rozenblit, Marsha. Reconstructing National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria
during World War I. (2001)
Bartov, Omer. Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity (2000).
Istvan Deak, Jan T. Gross and Tony Judt, eds. The Politics of Retribution in Europe:
World War II and its Aftermath. (2000)
Frommer, Benjamin. National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in
Postwar Czechoslovakia. (2005)
Lagrou, Pieter. The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National
Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965 (2000)
Mandel, Maud. In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in TwentiethCentury France. (2003)
Bryant, Chad. Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism. (2007)
Harvey, Elizabeth. Women in the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization
(2003).
V. Migration and Displacement.
Lewis, Mary. Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism
in France, 1918-40 (2007).
Rosenberg, Clifford. Policing Paris: the Origins of Modern Immigration Control
between the Wars (2006).
Moch, Leslie Page. “The European Perspective: Changing Conditions and Multiple
Migrations, 1750-1914,” in Moch and Hoerder, ed. European Migrants (1996),
Hochstadt, Steve. Mobility and Modernity: Migration in Germany, 1820-1989 (1999)
Marrus, Michael R. The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century (1985).
Green, Nancy. The Pletzel of Paris: Jewish Immigrant Workers in the “Belle Epoque.”
(1986)
Brubaker, Rogers. “Migrations of Ethnic Unmixing in the ‘New Europe’” International
Migration Review 32, no. 4 (1998): 1047-65.
VI. Nationalism
Deák, Istvan. Beyond Nationalism: a Social and Political History of the Habsburg
Officer Corps, 1848-1918 (1990)
Eley, Geoff and Ronald Grigor Suny, eds. Becoming National: a Reader (1996)
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism (1983)
Judson, Peter M. Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of
Imperial Austria (2006)
Hagen, William. Germans, Poles and Jews: The Nationality Conflict in the Prussian
East, 1772-1914. (1980)
Zahra, Tara. Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the
Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948. (2008)
Mosse, Georg. The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass
Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars through the Third Reich. (1975)
Ford, Caroline. Creating the Nation in Provincial France: Religion and Political Identity
in Brittany. (1993)
Healy, Maureen. “Becoming Austrian: Women, the State, and Citizenship in World War
I," Central European History 35:1 (2002), 1 -35.
Tara Zahra, “The ‘Minority Problem’ and National Classification in the French and
Czechoslovak Borderlands,” Contemporary European History 17 (May 2008), 137-165.