GRADUATE READING LIST
2005
Students will select option I (sections 1-7 inclusive) or option II (sections 2-10 inclusive).
1. DECLINE OF MEDIEVAL INSTITUTIONS
B. Hanawalt, The Ties
that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval
1986.
B. Harvey, Living and
Dying in
C. H. Haskins, The Rise of Universities, 1965.
J. Huizinga, The Autumn of the Middle Ages, 1996.
W.C. Jordan, The Great Famine, 1996.
E. Perroy, The Hundred Years War, 1965.
J. Riley-Smith, The Crusades, 1987.
S. Stuard, Women in Medieval Society, 1976.
R. N. Swanson, Church
and Society in Late Medieval
A. Tuck, Crown and
Nobility,
P. Ziegler, The Black Death, 1967.
E. Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou, 1978.
E. Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies, 1957.
J. Given, Inquisition and Medieval Society, 2001.
2. EARLY MODERN
A. Renaissance
D. Jensen,
L. Martines, Power and
Imagination:
1979.
C. Ginzburg, The
Cheese and the
M. Wiesner, Women and
Gender in Early Modern
B. Discoveries
E. Wallerstein, The Modern World System, 1989.
J. H. Elliott, The
D. Armitage, Theories of Empire, 1998.
A. Pagden, Lords of All the World, 1995.
C. Reformation
S. Clark, Thinking with Demons, 1999.
J. Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1400-1700, 1985.
A. G. Dickens and J. Tonkin, The Reformation in Historical Thought, 1985.
D. Absolutism
N. Z. Davis, Society and
Culture in Early Modern
*N. Elias, Court Society, 1983
J. Duindam,
G. Parker, The Military Revolution, 1988.
J. Cracraft, The Revolution of Peter the Great, 2003.
S. Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches, 1987.
E. Scientific Revolution
S. Shapin, Scientific Revolution, 1996.
A. R. Hall, The Scientific Revolution, 1983.
3. ENLIGHTENMENT
D. Goodman, The
W. Doyle, The Origins of the French Revolution, 1999.
A.B. Kamenskii, The Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century, 1997.
K. Maxwell, Pombal, 1995.
J. Sheehan, German History 1770-1866, 1989.
M. Shennan, Rise of Brandenburg Prussia, 1995.
4. AGE OF REVOLUTION
E. J. Hobsbawm, Age of Revolution, 1996.
G. Ellis, Napoleon, 1997.
T. Skocpol, States and Revolution, 1979.
J. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, 1991.
J. Brewer, Sinews of Power, 1989.
5. INDUSTRIALIZATION, GENDER AND CLASS FORMATION
P. Mathias, The First Industrial Nation, 1983.
S. Pollard, Peaceful Conquest, 1981.
*P. Gay, Schnitzler’s Century, 2002.
I. Katznelson, Working-Class Formation, 1986.
J. Scott, Gender and the Politics of History, 1988.
6. NATIONALISM AND NATION BUILDING
B. Anderson, Imagined Communities, 1983.
R. Okey, Eastern Europe, 1740-1985, 1986.
L. Colley, Britons, 1992.
*H. Herwig, Hammer or Anvil, 1994.
L. Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, 1993.
E. Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen, 1976.
A. D. Smith, Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History, 2001.
7. WORLD WAR I AND REVOLUTIONS
D. Headrick, Tools of Empire, 1981.
T. Packenham, Scramble for Africa, 1876-1912, 1991.
J. Joll, The Origins of the First World War, 1992
P. Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, 1977.
S. Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution, 1994.
8. GREAT DEPRESSION AND TOTALITARIANISM
K. Fischer, Nazi Germany: A New History, 1995.
C. Kindleberger, The World in Depression, 1975.
S. Payne, Fascism (abridged), 1980.
W. Goldman, Women at the Gates, 2002.
V. de Grazia, How Fascism Ruled Women, 1992.
9. WORLD WAR II
Y. Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust, 2001.
A. Milward, War, Economy, Society, 1939-45, 1977.
R.A.C. Parker, Struggle for Survival, 1989.
10. POST-WAR EUROPE
J. Gillingham, European Integration, 1950-2003, 2003.
K. Morgan, Labour in Power, 1945-51, 1985.
K. Jarausch, Rush to German Unity, 1994.
S. Kotkin, Steeltown USSR, 1991.