Modern Europe:
The Making of Modern Europe, c. 1789 – 1991
Examiner: Robert H. Greene
Overviews
Mason, David, Revolutionary Europe, 1789 – 1989: Liberty, Equality, Solidarity (2004)
Hobsbawm, Eric, The Age of Revolution, 1789 – 1848
Hobsbawm, Eric, The Age of Capital, 1848 – 1875
Hobsbawm, Eric, The Age of Empire, 1875 – 1914
Hobsbawm, Eric, The Age of Extremes, 1914 – 1991
Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Transformations
Crosby, Al, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900 – 1900 (1986)
McKeown, Thomas, The Modern Rise of Populations (1976)
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, Tastes of Paradise (1992)
Burke, Peter, The Fabrication of Louis XIV (1994)
Darnton, Robert, The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie,
1775 – 1800 (1987)
Darnton, Robert, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
(1985)
Elias, Norbert, The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations (1939)
Habermas, Jurgen, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962)
Sabean, David Warren, Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early
Modern Germany (1988)
Thompson, E.P., Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture (1991)
Hazard, Paul, European Thought in the Eighteenth Century: From Montesquieu to Lessing
(1963)
Schama, Simon, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the
Golden Age (1987)
Sahlins, Peter, Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees (1989)
French Revolution and Napoleonic Europe
Cobban, Alfred, The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution (1964)
Darnton, Robert, The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (1995)
Furet, Francois, Interpreting the French Revolution (1981)
Hunt, Lynn, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984)
Lefebvre, Georges, The Coming of the French Revolution (1939)
Ozouf, Mona, Festivals and the French Revolution (1991)
Schama, Simon, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1990)
Soboul, Albert, The Parisian Sans-Culottes and the French Revolution (1964)
De Tocqueville, Alexis, The Old Regime and the French Revolution (1856)
Industrialization & Working Class Politics
Clark, Anna, The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the English Working
Class (1995)
De Vries, Jan, The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy,
1650 to the Present (2008)
Hobsbawm, Eric and George Rude, Captain Swing (1968)
Jacob, Margaret, Scientific Culture & the Making of the Industrial West (1997)
Landes, David, The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development
in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (2003 – fix date)
Mokyr, Joel, The Gifts of Athena: The Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy (2003)
Reid, Donald, Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations (1993)
Rude, George, The Crowd in History: A Study of Popular Disturbances in France and England,
1730 – 1848 (1964)
Sahlins, Peter, Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France (1994)
Scott, Joan, Gender and the Politics of History (1986)
Scott, Joan, The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a
Nineteenth-Century City (1980)
Sewell, William, Work and Revolution in France: The Languages of Labor from the Old
Regime to 1848 (1980)
Stearns, Peter, The Industrial Revolution in World History (2006)
Thompson, E.P., The Making of the English Working Class (1963)
Tresch, John, The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon (2012)
Wrigley, E.A., Continuity, Chance, and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in
England (1988)
Nations, Nationalism, and the 1848 Revolutions
Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of
Nationalism (1983)
Blackbourn, David, The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern
Germany (2006)
Colley, Linda, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707 – 1837 (1992)
Gould, Roger, Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the
Commune (1995)
Hobsbawm, Eric, The Invention of Tradition (1983)
Hobsbawm, Eric, Nations and Nationalism Since 1790: Programme, Myth, Reality (1992)
Mosse, George, The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements
in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars through the Third Reich (1975)
Namier, Lewis, 1848: The Revolution of the Intellectuals (1992)
Parry, Jonathon, The Politics of Patriotism: English Liberalism, National Identity, and Europe,
1830 – 1886 (2006)
Snyder, Timothy, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 –
1999 (2004)
Sperber, Jonathon, The European Revolutions, 1848 – 1851 (2005)
Weber, Eugen, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France (1976)
Rise of Middle Class Culture & Consumption
Auslander, Leora. Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France (1996)
Cohen, Deborah, Household Gods: The British and their Possessions (2009)
Gay, Peter, Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle Class Culture, 1815 – 1914 (2001)
Kocka, Jurgen, Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in
Modern Germany (1999)
Koven, Seth, Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London (2006)
Miller, Michael, The Bon Marche: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869 – 1920
(1981)
Nead, Lynda, Victorian Babylon: People, Streets, and Places in Nineteenth-Century London
(2005)
Rappaport, Erika, Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West End (2001)
Ruane, Christine, The Empire’s New Clothes: A History of the Russian Fashion Industry, 1700
– 1917 (2009)
Sprang, Rebecca, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture
(2001)
Tosh, John, A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England
(2007)
Fin de Siecle Politics and Culture/The Experience of Modernity
Barnes, David, The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth Century France
(1995)
Barnes, David, The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth Century Struggle Against Filth and
Germs (2006)
Berman, Marshall, All That Is Solid Melts into Air (1982)
Brown, Frederick, For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus (2011)
Cohen, William, ed., Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life (2004)
Corbin, Alain, The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination (1988)
Corbin, Alain, Village Bells: Sound and Meaning in the Nineteenth-Century French
Countryside (1988)
Evans, Richard, Death in Hamburg (1992)
Fritzsche, Peter, Reading Berlin 1900 (1996)
Kern, Stephen, The Culture of Time and Space, 1880 – 1918 (2003)
Mcleod, Hugh, Secularisation in Western Europe, 1848 – 1914 (2002)
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the
Nineteenth Century (1988)
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space (1979)
Schorske, Carl, Fin-de-siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture (1981)
Schwartz, Vanessa, Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-siecle Paris (1999)
Walkowitz, Judith, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian
London (1992)
Whited, Tamara, Forests and Peasant Politics in Modern France (2000)
Empire and Colonialism
Adas, Michael, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of
Western Dominance (1989)
Cannadine, David, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (2002)
Ciarlo, David, Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany (2011)
Davis, Mike, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World
(2000)
Headrick, David, The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the
Nineteenth Century (1981)
Hochschild, Adam, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial
Africa (1998)
Mackenzie, J.M., Imperialism and Popular Culture (1989)
Price, Richard, Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in
Nineteenth-Century Africa (2008)
Said, Edward, Orientalism (1978)
Schimmelpennick van der Oye, David, Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from
Peter the Great to the Emigration (2010)
Seth, Vanita, Europe’s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500 – 1900 (2010)
Wolf, Eric, Europe and the People without History (1982)
World War I and the Interwar Period
Eksteins, Modris, The Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989)
Ferguson, Niall, The Pity of War (2000)
Fussell, Paul, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
Winter, Jay, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History
(1988)
Abraham, David, The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political Economy and Crisis (1986)
Gay, Peter, Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968)
Weitz, Eric, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (2007)
Eksteins, Modris, Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty
(2012)
Roberts, Mary Louise, Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Post-War France
(1994)
Luebbert, Gregory, Liberalism, Fascism, or Social Democracy: Social Classes and the Political
Origins of Regimes in Interwar Europe (1991)
The Russian Revolution & Stalinism
Figes, Orlando, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution (2001)
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, The Russian Revolution (1982)
Pipes, Richard, The Three Whys of the Russian Revolution (1997)
Rabinowitch, Alexander, The Bolsheviks Come to Power (1976)
Stites, Richard, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian
Revolution (1989)
Barnes, Steven, Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society (2011)
Goldman, Wendy, Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of
Repression (2007)
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (1999)
Hellbeck, Jochen, Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin (2006)
Hoffman, David, Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914 –
1939 (2011)
Hoffman, David, Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917 – 1941 (2003)
Kotkin, Stephen, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (1995)
Fascism, World War II, and the Holocaust
Browning, Christoper, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in
Poland (1998)
Ecksteins, Modris, Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the
Heart of Our Century (2000)
Friedlander, Saul, Nazi Germany and the Jews (2003)
Fritzsche, Peter, Germans into Nazis (1999)
Gross, Jan, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jebwadne, Poland (2002)
Paxton, Robert, Vichy France: Old Guard and the New Order, 1940-44 (1972)
Paxton, Robert, The Anatomy of Fascism (2004)
Snyder, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (2012)
Postwar
Judt, Tony, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2006)
Stone, Dan, Goodbye to All That?: A History of Europe since 1945 (2014)
Addison, Paul, No Turning Back: The Peaceful Revolutions of Postwar Britain (2010)
Baldwin, Peter, The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State,
1875 – 1975 (1990)
Cohen, Gerard Daniel, In War’s Wake: Europe’s Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order
(2011)
Nord, Phillip, France’s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era (2012)
Applebaum, Anne, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944 – 1956 (2013)
Shore, Marci, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe (2013)
Plokhy, Serhii, The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (2014)
Yurchak, Alexei, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
(2007)