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History Reading List - Year One

Modern Europe: From the Enlightenment to the Present

Indicative Reading List

Core Text Book
John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe. From the Renaissance  to the Present (London, 2004)

General

Asa Briggs and Patricia Clavin, Modern Europe. 1789-Present (London, 2003)
Norman Davies, Europe: A History (London, 1997)

1750-1914

Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914 (2004)
Blanning (ed.), The Eighteenth Century, 1688-1815 (2000).
Doyle, The Old European Order, 1660-1800 [rev. edn] (1992).
Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment (1990)
Gildea, Barricades and Borders. Europe 1800-1914 (1987)
Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 (1962)
Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (1987)
Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 (1975)
Sperber, Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850 (2000)

20th Century

Bulliet, The Columbia History of the 20th Century (1998)
Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (1994)
Howard/Louis, The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century (1998)
Mazower, Dark Continent. Europe’s 20th Century (1998)
Roberts, The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century (1999)
Vinen, A History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century (2002)
Wasserstein, Barbarism & Civilization. A History of Europe in Our Time (2007)

1945-present

Buchanan, Europe’s Troubled Peace, 1945-2000 (2006)
Fulbrook, Europe since 1945 (2001)
James, Europe Reborn. A History, 1914-2000 (2003)
Judt, Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945 (2007)

Modern World History: New Perspectives

Indicative Reading

Ponting, Clive. World History: A New Perspective. London, 2001.
Bayly, C.A. The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914. Oxford, 2004.
Abernethy, David B. The Dynamics of Global Dominance. Yale, 2002.
Landes, David S. Wealth and Poverty of Nations. London, 1998.
Frank, Gunder. ReOrient. Berkeley, 1998.
Balfour, Sebastian. Castro. London, 1995.
Esposito, John L. The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? Oxford, 1999.
Ponting, Clive. The Pimlico History of the Twentieth Century. London, 1999.

What is History?

Indicative Reading List

Michael Bentley, Companion to Historiography (Routledge, 2002)
Robert Burns and Hugh RaymentPickard, Philosophies of History: From Enlightenment to Post-modernity (WileyBlackwell, 2000)
David Cannadine (eds.), What is History Now? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Dobson, Miriam and Benjamin Ziemann (eds.), Reading Primary Sources (Abingdon, 2009)
Anna Green and Kathleen Troup, The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth-century History and Theory (Manchester University Press, 1999)
Georg G. Iggers, Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge (Wesleyan University Press, 2005)
Keith Jenkins et al (eds.), Manifestos for History (London, 2007)
L.J. Jordanova, History in Practice (Hodder Arnold Publication) 
Alun Munslow, The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies (Routledge, 1999)
Robert Perks, Alistair Thomson (eds.), The Oral History Reader (Routledge, 2006)
John Tosh, Historians on History: A Reader (Longman, 2000)