Modern European History reading list
Philosophy and History of History
- Foucault, The History of Sexuality
- Antoinette Burton, Archive Stories
- Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain
- Hayden White, Tropics of Discourse
- Peter Novick, That Noble Dream
- Geoff Eley, A Crooked Line
- Kathleen Canning, Gender History in Practice
- William Sewell, Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation
- Joan W. Scott, Gender and the Politics of History
- Denise Riley, Am I That Name: Feminism and the Category of Women in History
- Frederick Cooper, Colonialism in Question
- Dominick LaCapra, Writing Trauma, Writing History
- Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object
- James Clifford and George Marcus, eds., Writing Culture: the Poetics and
Politics of Ethnography
- Edward Said, Orientalism
- Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe
- David Harvey, The Postmodern Condition: An Enquiry into the Origins of
Cultural Change
Enlightenment
- Peter Dear, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its
Ambitions, 1500-1700
- Steve Shapin, The Scientific Revolution
- Steve Shapin and Simon Schaeffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle
and the Experimental Life
- Jonathan Israel, A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the
Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy
- Sarah Maza, The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: an Essay on the Social
Imaginary, 1750-1850
- Dena Goodman, The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French
Enlightenment
- Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
- Dan Edelstein, The Enlightenment: A Genealogy
- Darrin McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-
Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
- David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
- Susan Buck-Morss, Haiti, History and Universal History
- Sankar Muthu, Enlightenment Against Empire
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- David Sorkin, The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews and Catholics
from London to Vienna
- Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe: the Map of Civilization on the Mind of
the Enlightenment
The French Revolution
- Gary Kates, The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies
- Georges Lefebvre, The Coming of the French Revolution
- Francois Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution
- Georges Rudé, The Crowd in History
- Arno Mayer, The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian
Revolutions
- Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre
- Timothy Tackett, Becoming Revolutionary: the Deputies of the French National
Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture
- Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution
- Suzanne Desan, The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France
- Keith Michael Baker, Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French
Political Culture in the 18th Century
- Laurent Dubois, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the
French Caribbean, 1787-1804
- Jeremy Popkin, You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of
Slavery
- David Bell, The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as
We Know It
- Dan Edelstein, The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature
and France
- Joan Landes, Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation and Revolution in
18th Century France
- Peter Davis, The Debate on the French Revolution
Industrialism
- William Sewell, Work and Revolution in France: the Language of Labor from the
Old Regime to 1848
- Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000
- Donald Reid, Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations
- Patrick Joyce, Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of
Class, 1848-1914
- Kathleen Canning, Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in
Germany, 1850-1914
- E.P. Thompson, Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture
- E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class
- Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution
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- Gareth Stedman Jones, Languages of Class: Studies of English Working Class
History, 1832-1982
- Harold Perkin, The Origins of Modern English Society
- Anna Clark, The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British
Working Class
- Sonya Rose, Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in 19th Century England
- David Landes, The Unbound Prometheus
- Steven Beaudoin, The Industrial Revolution
- Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the
Modern World Economy
Nations and Nationalism
- Jonathan Sperber, The European Revolutions, 1848-1851
- Jeremy King, Budweisers into Czechs and Germans: a Local History of
Bohemian Politics, 1848-1948
- Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania,
Belarus, 1569-1999
- Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: the Modernization of Rural France,
1870-1914
- Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
- Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
- Eric Hobsbawm and Terrence Ranger, Invented Traditions
- Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780
- David Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800
- Geoff Eley and Ronald Grigor Suny, Becoming National: a Reader
- George L. Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal
Sexuality in Modern Europe
- Anthony D. Smith, The Nation in History
- Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism
- Alon Confino, The Nation as Local Metaphor: Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany
and National Memory
- Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
- Rogers Brubaker, Ethnicity Without Groups
Gender and Sexuality in the 19th Century
- Mary Poovey, Uneven Developments: the Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-
Victorian England
- Sharon Marcus, Between Women: Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian
England
- Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the
Middle Class, 1780-1850
- Joan W. Scott, Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man
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- Seth Koven, Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
- Susan Kingsley Kent, Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914
- Susan Kingsley Kent, Gender and Power in Britain, 1660-1990
- Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
- George Mosse, The Image of Man: the Creation of Modern Masculinity
- Robert Nye, ed., Sexuality
- Robert Nye, Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France
- Matt Cook, London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914
- Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century
- Nancy Wingfield and Maria Bucur, Gender and War in Twentieth Century
Eastern Europe
- Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late
Victorian London
- Judith Surkis, Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920
19th Century Culture: Visual, Musical and Commercial Culture
- Rudy Koshar, ed., Histories of Leisure
- Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: the Industrialization of Space and
Time
- Jonathan Crary, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle and Modern
Culture
- T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His
Followers
- T.J. Clark, The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851
- David Harvey, Paris, Capital of Modernity
- Patrick Joyce, The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City
- Thomas Richards, The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and
Spectacle, 1851-1914
- Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
- Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space: 1880-1918
- Colin Campbell, The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism
- Geoff Eley, Society, Culture and the State in Germany, 1870-1930
- Vanessa Schwartz, Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siecle
Paris
- Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin 1900
- Arno Mayer, The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War
- Owen Chadwick, The Secularization of the European Mind in the 19th Century
- Rosalind Williams, Dreamworlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century
France
- Erika Rappaport, Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West
End
- Deborah Cohen, Household Goods: The British and Their Possessions
Science and Medicine
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- Anson Rabinbach, The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue and the Origins of
Modernity
- Daniel Pick, Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, 1848-1918
- Mary Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact
- Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
- Sander Gilman, Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and
Madness
- Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human
Heredity
- Jan Goldstein, The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-
1850
- Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason: the Modern Foundations of Body and
Soul
- George Fredrickson, Racism: A Short History
- Neil MacMaster, Racism in Europe: 1870-2000
- Albert Lindemann and Richard Levy, eds., Antisemitism: A History
- Jacob Katz, From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933
- Norman Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in 20th Century Europe
- Leon Poliakov, The Aryan Myth
- George Mosse, Toward the Final Solution: a History of European Racism
- David Arnold, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India
Colonialism and Imperialism
- Andrew Zimmerman, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German
Empire and the Globalization of the New South
- J.P. Daughton, An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism and the Making of
French Colonialism, 1880-1914
- Frederick Cooper and Jane Burbank, Empires in World History: Power and the
Politics of Difference
- David Prochaska, Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bone, 1870-1920
- Kathleen Wilson, Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the 18th
Century
- Patricia M.E. Lorcin, Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in
Colonial Algeria
- Lora Wildenthal, German Women for Empire, 1884-1945
- Patrizia Palumbo, A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from
Post-Unification to the Present
- Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda, Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender
and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism
- Robert Aldrich, Colonialism and Homosexuality
- Eric Ames, Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments
- Mrinalini Sinha, Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an
Empire
- Bonnie Smith, ed., Women’s History in Global Perspective, Volume 1
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- Richard Price, Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial
Rule in 19th Century Africa
- Philippa Levine, The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset
- Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and
Imperial Culture, 1865-1914
- Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege
and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon
- Elisa Camiscoli, Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy and
Embodiment in the Early 20th Century
- Lata Mani, Contentious Traditions: the Debate on Sati in Colonial India
- Ann McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial
Contest
- Alice Conklin, A Mission to Civilize: the Republican idea of Empire in France
and West Africa
- Gary Wilder, The French Imperial Nation-State
- Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate
in Colonial Rule
- Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in
a Bourgeois World
- Niall Ferguson, Empire: the Rise and Demise of the British World Order
- Linda Colley, Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850
- Catherine Hall, Civilizing Subjects: Metropolose and Colony in the English
Imagination, 1830-1867
- Philippa Levine, ed., Gender and Empire
- Thomas Holt, The Problem of Emancipation: Race, Labor and Politics in
Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938
- Christopher Brown, Moral Capital: the Foundations of British Abolitionism
- Phyllis Martin, Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville
- James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography,
Literature and Art
World War I
- Isabel Hull, Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in
Imperial Germany
- Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker, 14-18: Understanding the Great
War
- Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: the Great War in European
Cultural History
- Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert, eds., Capital Cities at War: Paris, London,
Berlin, 1914-1919
- Daniel Sherman, The Construction of Memory in Interwar France
- Gregory Mann, Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth
Century
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- Robert Wohl, The Generation of 1914
- Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: the Great War and the Birth of the Modern
World
- Paul Fussel, The Great War and Modern Memory
- Belinda Davis, Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics and Everyday Life in World
War I Berlin
- Maureen Healy, Vienna and the Fall of the Hapsburg Empire: Total War and
Everyday Life in World War I
- George Mosse, Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars
Soviet Revolution
- Eric Naiman, Sex in Public: the Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology
- Dan Healey, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: the Regulation of
Sexual and Gender Dissent
- Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the
Soviet Union, 1923-1929
- Jochen Hellbeck, Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin
- Boris Groys, The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorhisp and
Beyond
- T.J. Clark, “Painting in the Year 2” in Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a
History of Modernism
- Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in
the Russian Revolution
- Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution
- Sheila Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism
- Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization
- Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of
the Soviet Union
- Igar Halfin, From Darkness to Light: Class, Consciousness and Salvation in
Revolutionary Russia
- Donald Raleigh, Experiencing Russia’s Civil War: Politics, Society and
Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917-1922
- Ronald Grigor Suny, The Soviet Experiment: Russian, the USSR and the
Successor States
- Ronald Grigor Suny, ed., The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents
Interwar Period
- Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s 20th Century
- Peter Gay, Weimar Culture: the Insider as Outsider
- Eugen Weber, The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s
- Eric Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
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- Richard Overy, The Inter-War Crisis, 1919-1939
- Susan Whitney, Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Interwar France
- Joseph Rothschild, East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars
Fascism
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Peter Fritzsche, Germans into Nazis
- Detlev Peukert, Inside Nazi Germany: Conformism, Opportunity and Racism in
Everyday Life
- Ian Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
- Robert Gellately, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
- David Crew, Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1923-1945
- Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat
- Julian Jackson, France: the Dark Years, 1940-1944
- Eric Jennings, Vichy in the Tropics: Petain’s National Revolution in Indochina,
Madagascar and Guadeloupe
- Zeev Sternhell, Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France
- Zeev Sternhell, The Birth of Fascist Ideology
- John Sweets, Choices in Vichy France: The French Under Nazi Occupation
- Michael Marrus and Robert Paxton, Vichy France and the Jews
- Robert Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism
- Martin Blinkhorn, Fascism: Theories and Interpretations
- Michael Mann, Fascists
- Stanley Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914-1945
- Roger Griffin, Modernism and Fascism
- Roger Griffin, The Nature of Fascism
- Victoria de Grazia, How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945
- Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland
- Robert Paxton, Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944
The Holocaust and Its Memory
- Peter Baldwin, Hitler, Holocaust and the Historians
- Richard Evans, In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to
Escape the Nazi Past
- Marion Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
- Saul Friedlander, Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vols. 1 and 2
- Saul Friedlander, When Memory Comes
- Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: the Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
- Michael Rothberg, Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the
Age of Decolonization
- Julian Jackson, The Dark Years, 1940-1944
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- Susan Rubin Suleiman, Crises of Memory and the Second World War
- Tina Campt, Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender
and Memory in the Third Reich
- Jeffrey Herf, Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys
- Henry Rousso, The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944
- Omer Bartov, The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath
- Jan Gross, Neighbors
- Wistrich, review of Gross’ Neighbors
- Polonsky and Michlic, The Neighbors Respond: the Controversy over the
Jedwabne Massacre in Poland
- Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men
- Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners
- Ian Kershaw, Hitler, the Germans and the Final Solution
- Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann, The Racial State: Germany, 1933-
1945
- Helmut Walser Smith, “Where the Sonderweg Debate Left Us,” German Studies
Review 31.2 (May 2008)
- Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
- Gotz Aly, Architects of the Final Solution: Auschwitz and the Logic of
Destruction
- Robert Gellately and Nathan Stoltzfus, eds., Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany
- Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust
- Zygmund Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust
- Bridenthal, Grossmann, Kaplan, eds., When Biology Became Destiny: Women in
Weimar and Nazi Germany
- Fogu, Lebow, Kansteiner, eds., The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe
The Postwar Period
- Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945
- Richard Kuisel, Seducing the French: the Dilemma of Americanization
- Maria Hohn, GIs and Frauleins: the German-American Encounter in 1950s West
Germany
- Richard Jobs, Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after
the World War
- Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of
French Culture
- Robert Moeller, War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal
Republic of Germany
- Uta Poiger, Jazz, Rock and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a
Divided Germany
- Vanessa Schwartz, It’s So French!: Hollywood, Paris and the Making of a
Cosmopolitan Film Culture
- Chin, Fehrenbach, Eley and Grossmann, After the Nazi Racial State: Difference
and Democracy in Germany and Europe
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- Atina Grossmann, Jews, Germans and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied
Germany
- Heide Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar
Germany and America
- Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfriend, eds., Between Marx and Coca-Cola: Youth
Culture in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980
- Hanna Schisler, ed., The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany,
1949-1968
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Decolonization
- James Le Sueur, Uncivil Wars: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the
Decolonization of Algeria
- Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization: the Algerian War and the
Remaking of France
- Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the
Making of Our Times
- Herman Lebovics, Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age
- Mark Mazower, No Enchanted Place: The End of Empire and the Ideological
Origins of the United Nations
- Martin Shipway, Decolonization and Its Impact: A Comparative Approach to the
End of the Colonial Empires
- James Le Sueur, ed., The Decolonization Reader
The 1960s
- Kristin Ross, May ’68 and Its Afterlives
- Fink, Gassert, Junker, Mattern, eds., 1968: the World Transformed
- Martin Klimke, The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the
United States in the Global Sixties
- Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, ed., 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest
and Activism, 1956-1977
- Andrew Feenberg and Jim Freedman, When Poetry Ruled the Streets: the French
May Events of 1968
- Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente
- Jeremy Varon, Bringing the War Home: the Weather Underground, the Red Army
Faction and the Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies
- Kieran Williams, The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath: Czechoslovak Politics,
1968-1970
- Gerd-Rainer Horn, The Spirit of ’68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North
America, 1956-1976
- Hand Kundnani, Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the
Holocaust
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- Arthur Marwick, The Sixties: Cultural Transformations in Britain, France, Italy
and the United States, 1958-1974
- Barry Eichengreen, The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism
and Beyond
Gender and Sexuality in the 20th Century
- Mary Louise Roberts, Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in
Postwar France, 1917-1927
- Susan Pedersen, Family, Dependence and the Origins of the Welfare State:
Britian and France, 1914-1945
- Julian Jackson, Living in Arcadia: Homosexuality, Politics and Morality in
France from the Liberation to AIDS
- Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant Ragan, eds., Homosexuality in Modern France
- Carolyn Dean, The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality and Other
Fantasies in Interwar France
- Dagmar Herzog, Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in 20th C. Germany
- Matt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis,
1918-1957
- Laura Levine Frader, Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the
French Social Model
- Elizabeth Heineman, What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and
Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany
- Atina Grossmann, Reforming Sex: the German Movement for Birth Control and
Abortion Reform, 1920-1950
The End of Communism
- Istvan Rev, Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism
- Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Post-
Socialist Change
- Katherine Verdery, What was Socialism and What Comes Next?
- Stephen Kotkin, Armageddon Averted: the Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
- Padraic Kenney, Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989
- Alexei Yurchak, Everyting Was Forever, Until it Was No More: the Last Soviet
Generation
- Istvan Deak, Jan Gross and Tony Judt, The Politics of Retribution in Europe:
World War II and Its Aftermath
- Jan Gross, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz
- Timothy Garton Ash, The Magic Lantern: the Revolution of ‘89
- Stephen Kotkin and Jan Gross, Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the
Communist Establishment
- Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century
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- James Sheehan, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of
Modern Europe
Immigration, Postcolonialism and Multicultural Europe
- Rita Chin, The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany
- Ika Huegel-Marshall, Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany
- May Optitz, Katharina Oguntoye and Dagmar Schultz, eds., Showing Our Colors:
Afro-German Women Speak Out
- Ruth Mandel, Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and
Belonging in Germany
- Deniz Gokturk, David Gramling, Anton Kaes, eds., Germany in Transit: Nation
and Migration, 1955-2005
- Paul Gilroy, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: the Cultural Politics of Race
and Nation
- Joan Scott, Politics of the Veil
- Paul Silverstein, Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation
- Dominic Thomas, Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism
- Laurent Dubois, Soccer Empire: the World Cup and the Future of France
- Alec Hargreaves, Multi-Ethnic France: Immigration, Politics, Culture and
Society
- Jim House and Neil MacMaster, Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror and Memory
- Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
- Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam and the Limits of
Tolerance
- Tony Judt, A Grand Illusion?: An Essay on Europe
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