Modern European History Orals List
European Historiography and General History of Migration
BLOCH, Marc. The Historian’s Craft, trans. by Peter Putnam (New York: Knopf, 1953).
SCOTT, Joan Wallach Gender and the Politics of History (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1999).
MAZOWER, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century. 1st American ed. New
York: Random House, 1999.
CHAKRABARTY, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical
Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
WOOLF, Stuart. "Europe and Its Historians." Contemporary European History 12, no. 3 (2003):
pp. 323-37.
COHEN, Deborah, and O'Connor, Maura eds. Comparison and History: Europe in CrossNational Perspective. New York: Routledge, 2004.
KLEINSCHMIDT, Harald. People on the Move: Attitudes toward and Perceptions of Migration
in Medieval and Modern Europe. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003.
MOCH, Leslie Page. Moving Europeans : Migration in Western Europe since 1650. 2nd ed,
Interdisciplinary Studies in History. Bloomington ; Indianapolis: Indiana University
Press, 2003.
BADE, Klaus J. Migration in European History. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Pub., 2003.
LUCASSEN, Jan, and Leo Lucassen. Migration, Migration History, History : Old Paradigms
and New Perspectives, International and Comparative Social History, 4. Bern ; New
York: Peter Lang, 1997.
FASSMANN, Heinz, and Rainer Münz. European Migration in the Late Twentieth Century :
Historial Patterns, Actual Trends, and Social Implications. Aldershot, Hants, England ;
Brookfield, Vt.: E. Elgar Pub. Co., 1994.
FAHRMEIR, Andreas, Olivier Faron, and Patrick Weil. Migration Control in the North Atlantic
World : The Evolution of State Practices in Europe and the United States from the
French Revolution to the Inter-War Period. New York: Berghahn Books, 2003.
Nations, Nationalism, Nationality, Citizenship, Transnational Boundaries
ANDERSON, Benedict. Imagined Communities
SAID, Edward Orientalism
BREUILLY, John, ed. 19th Century Germany: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1780-1918.
London : Arnold, 2001.
FULBROOK, Mary. The Divided Nation: A History of Germany 1918-1990. New York : Oxford
University Press, 1992.
WRIGHT, Gordon. France in Modern Times: from the Enlightenment to the Present. New
York: W.W. Norton, 1995.
STRACHAN, Hew. The Outbreak of the First World War. Oxford; New York: Oxford
University Press, 2004.
PEUKERT, Detlev, The Weimar Republic, The Crises of Classical Modernity
PEUKERT, Detlev, Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday
Life. Translated by Richard Deveson. London : Batsford, 1987.
ROSHWALD, Aviel. Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia, and
the Middle East, 1914-1923. London; New York: Routledge, 2001.
GELLNER, Ernst, Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca, 1983.
HOBSBAWM, Eric J. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality.
Cambridge, UK, 1992.
_________The Age of Empire, 1875-1914. New York, 1987.
_________The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 (New
York: Vintage, 1996).
Morris, Lydia. “Globalization, Migration and the Nation-State: The Path to a Post-National
Europe?” British Journal of Sociology 48, no. 2 (1997): 192-209.
KAHAN, Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: the Political Culture of Limited Suffrage
(2003)
SPERBER, Jonathan. The European Revolutions, 1848-1851. 2nd ed. Cambridge England; New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2005
LEBOVICS, Herman. True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900-1945. Ithaca :
Cornell University Press, 1992.
BRINKER-GABLER, Gisela and Sidonie Smith eds. Writing New Identities: Gender, Nation
and Immigration in Contemporary Europe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1997.
BRUBAKER, Roger. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1992.
PORTEOUS, J. Douglas, and Sandra Eileen Smith. Domicide : The Global Destruction of Home.
Montreal ; Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
CESARANI, David, and Mary Fulbrook. Citizenship, Nationality, and Migration in Europe.
London New York: Routledge, 1996.
Forced Migration, Displaced Persons, Population Transfers
WEINER, Amir, ed. Landscaping the Human Garden: 20th Century Population Management in
a Comparative Framework. Stanford: Sanford University Press, 2003.
NAIMARK, Norman M. Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe.
Cambridge: Harvard, 2001.
WYMAN, Mark. DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons, 1945-1951. Cornell University Press,
1998
RADANOVSKY, Zdeněk. “The Social and Economic Consequences of Resettling Czechs into
Northwestern Bohemia, 1945 – 1947.” In Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in EastCentral Europe, 1944-1948, ed. Philipp Ther and Ana Siljak, 241 – 262. Lanham,
Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
KULISCHER, Eugene Michel. The Displacement of Population in Europe. London:
International labour office; P.S. King & Staples ltd., 1943.
THER, Philipp. “A Century of Forced Migration: The Origins and Consequences of ‘Ethnic
Cleansing.’” In Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948,
ed. Philipp Ther and Ana Siljak, 43 – 72. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
BELL_FIALKOFF, Andrew. Ethnic Cleansing. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
KAUFMANN,Chaim D. “When All Else Fails: Ethnic Population Transfers and Partitions in the
Twentieth Century.” International Security 23, no. 2 (1998): 120-56.
SMITH, Andrea L. Europe's Invisible Migrants. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press,
2003.
Rural to Urban Migration, Industrialization, Economic Push/Pull Factors
THOMPSON, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class
SEWELL, William. Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old
Regime to 1848. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.
WEBER, Eugen. Peasants into Frenchmen: the Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976.
BADE, Klaus J. Population, Labour, and Migration in 19th- and 20th-Century Germany,
German Historical Perspectives 1. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
POOLEY, Colin G., and Jean Turnbull. Migration and Mobility in Britain since the Eighteenth
Century. London ; Bristol, Penn.: UCL Press, 1998.
MOCH, Leslie Page. Paths to the City : Regional Migration in Nineteenth-Century France, New
Approaches to Social Science History. V. 2. Beverly Hills: Sage publications, 1983.
CASTLES, Stephen. “The Guest-Worker in Western Europe - an Obituary.” International
Migration Review 20, no. 4, Special Issue: Temporary Worker Programs: Mechanisms,
Conditions, Consequences (1986): 761-78.
FIELDING, A. J. “Migration and Urbanization in Western Europe since 1950.” Geographical
Journal 155, no. 1 (1989): 60-69.
FUCHS, Rachel G., and Leslie Page Moch. “Pregnant, Single, and Far from Home: Migrant
Women in Nineteenth-Century Paris.” The American Historical Review 95, no. 4 (1990):
1007-31.
PEDRAZA, Silvia. “Women and Migration: The Social Consequences of Gender.” Annual
Review of Sociology 17 (1991): 303-25.
Imperialism, Colonialism, Decolonization and Migration
ARCHER-STRAW, Petrine, Negrophelia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s
Thames and Hudson, 2000.
WILDER, Gary. The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and colonial Humanism between
the Two World Wars. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
ASH, Timothy Garton The Magic Lantern. New York: Vintage, 1993.
FINK, Carole, Gassert, Philipp and Detlef Junker, eds. 1968: The World Transformed.
Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
BETTS, Raymond. France and Decolonization. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
DUARA, Prasenjit ed. Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then., London; New York:
Routledge, 2004. (relevant chapters)
Transfer of Goods, Material Culture
WEBBER, Andrew. The European Avant-Garde, 1900-1940. Cambridge and Malden, MA:
Polity Press, 2004.
ROSS, Kristin Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French
Culture (Cambridge: MIT, 1995)
De GRAZIA, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through Twentieth-Century
Europe. Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
AUSLANDER, Leora. “Bavarian Crucifixes and French Headscarves: Religious Signs and the
Postmodern European State,” in Cultural Dynamics 12, no. 3 (2000): 283-309.
______ Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London:
University of California Press, 1996.
War, History and Memory
FRITZSCHE, Peter “The Case of Modern Memory.” The Journal of Modern History 73 (2001):
pp. 87-117.
KELLY, Debra, ed. Remembering and Representing the Experience of War in Twentieth-Century
France: Committing to Memory. Lewiston, NY; Queenstown, ON.; Edwin Mellen Press,
2000.
KOSHAR, Rudy. Germany’s Transient Pasts: Preservation and National Memory in the
Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1998.
FUSSEL, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York : Oxford University Press,
1975.
HERZOG, Dagmar. Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Europe.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005