Europe 66

Introduction to Modern Europe

Texts

 

  1. Recommended Textbooks:
  2. Lynn Hunt et al. The Challenge of the West, Vol. two

    Kagan, Ozment, Turner, The Western Heritage, Vol. II.

    John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, Vol. II. Norton, 1996

    McKay, Hill, & Buckler, A History of Western Societies, Vol. C. Houghton Mifflin

  3. Primary Sources:
  4. Charles Dickens, Hard Times

    Perry Rogers, Aspects of Western Civilization, Vol. II. 3rd edition, Prentice Hall

    Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (WWI)

    Weisner, Ruff, and Wheeler, Discovering The Past, Vol. II.

  5. Recommended Secondary Readings:

Bernard Anderson, Imagined Communities

Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Chickering, Imperial Germany and the Great War

D. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Charles Dickens, Hard Times

Bernt Engelmann, In Hitler's Germany (3rd Reich from a personal perspective)

Carolly Erickson, To the Scaffold: the Life of Marie Antoinette

R. Conquest, Reflections on a Ravaged Century

Ann Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

Otto Friedrich, Blood and Iron

Thomas Gallagher, Paddy's Lament (on the Irish famine)

Daniel Headrick, The Tentacles of Progress

Judith Isaacson, Seed of Sarah

Georges Lefebvre, On the Coming of the French Revolution

John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (Spanish Civil War)

Daniel Pool, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew (19th century England)

A.J.P. Taylor, From Napoleon to the Second International

A.J.P. Taylor, From the Boer War to the Cold War

Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist

Barbara Tuchman, The Zimmerman Telegram (WWI)

Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Great Hunger (Irish Famine)

Mary Wollstonecraft, The Vindication of the Rights of Women (18th century women)