Introduction to Modern History
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5HA600
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Allison, G; Ferguson, N, Applied History Manifesto, Harvard Kennedy School, 2016, https:/
/ Compulsory (3 pages)www.belfercenter.org/ project/ applied-history-project#!manifesto - Bauman, Zygmunt, Globalization: the human consequences, London, Polity, 1998Compulsory (pp 7–26, 55–127)
- Bauman, Zygmunt, Modernity and the holocaust, 1. pbk ed., Cambridge, Polity, 1991Compulsory (pp 1–111, 149–168)
- Berman, Sheri, The primacy of politics: social democracy and the making of Europe's twentieth century, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006Compulsory (pp 1–20, 152–176, 200–218)
- Clark, P, Rwanda's Recovery: When Remembrance is Official Policy, Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018, p. 35–41Compulsory
- Cole, J, Blogging Current Affairs History, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 658–670Compulsory
- Drayton, R, Where Does the World Historian Write From?: Objectivity, Moral Conscience and the Past and Present of Imperialism, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 671–685Compulsory
- Eley, G, The Past under Erasure?: History, Memory, and the Contemporary, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 555–573Compulsory
- Evans, Richard, Telling lies about hitler - the holocaust, history and the david irving tri, Verso Books, 2002Compulsory (pp 1–45, 193–231)
- Evans, R J, From Nazism to Never Again: How Germany Came to Terms with its Past, Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018, p. 8–16Compulsory
- Evans, R J, History, Memory, and the Law: The Historian as Expert Witness, Part of: History and theory: studies in the philosophy of history, vol. 41, no. 3, 2002, p. 326–345Compulsory
- Evans, R J, The Journal of Contemporary History and its Editors, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 50, no. 4, 2015, p. 710–737Compulsory
- Fukuyama, F, Reflections on the End of History: Five Years Later, Part of: History and theory: studies in the philosophy of history. Theme issue, vol. 34, no. 2, 1995, p. 27–43Compulsory (Theme Issue 34: World Historians and Their Critics)
- Fukuyama, F, The End of History?, Part of: The National interest, no. 16, 1989, p. 3–18Compulsory
- Gordon Reed, A, America's Original Sin: Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremacy, Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018, p. 2–8Compulsory
- Hart, R P; Elvin, T L, Tracking the Language of Space and Time, 1948-2008, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 591–609Compulsory
- Hobsbawm, E. J., Age of extremes: the short twentieth century 1914-1991, London, Joseph, 1994Compulsory (pp IX-XII, 2–17, 21–177, 199–222)
- Hopf, J; Gaddis, J T; Gaddis, J L, Getting the End of the Cold War Wrong, Part of: International security, vol. 18, no. 2, 1993, p. 202–210Compulsory
- Judt, Tony; Snyder, Timothy, Thinking the twentieth century, London, William Heinemann, 2012Compulsory (pp IX-XVII, 195–283)
- Kochlin, P, Whiteness Studies: The New History of Race in America, Part of: The journal of American history, vol. 89, no. 1, 2002, p. 154–173Compulsory
- London, H, On the End of History, Part of: International journal on world peace, vol. 6, no. 3, 1989, p. 20–22Compulsory
- McBride, I, The Shadow of the Gunman: Irish Historians and the IRA, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 686–710Compulsory
- McNeill, John Robert., Something new under the sun: an environmental history of the twentieth-century world, London, Penguin, 2001Compulsory (pp.3–17, 48–49, 83, 116–117, 147–148, 190–191, 227, 265–266, 295, 297–324, 349–356, 357–362)
- Msimang, S, All is not forgiven: South Africa and the Scars of Apartheid, Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018, p. 28–35Compulsory
- Müller,, J-W, European Intellectual History as Contemporary History, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 574–590Compulsory
- Nussbaum, Martha Craven, Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities, New ed., Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, cop. 2010Compulsory (pp 1–10)
- Palmowski, J; Spohr Readman, K, Speaking Truth to Power: Contemporary History in the Twenty-first Century, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 484–505Compulsory
- Palmowski, J, The Europeanization of the Nation-State, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 631–657Compulsory
- Petrov, N, Don't Speak Memory: How Russia Represses its Past, Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018, p. 16–22Compulsory
- Pinkham, S, Zombie History: Timothy Snyder's bleak vision of the past and present, Part of: The Nation, 2018Compulsory
- Riall, L, The Shallow End of History?: The Substance and Future of Political Biography, Part of: The journal of interdisciplinary history, vol. 40, no. 3, 2010, p. 375–397Compulsory
- Schell, O, China's Cover-Up: When Communists Rewrite History, Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018, p. 22–28Compulsory
- Schlesinger Jr, A, On the Writing of Contemporary History, Part of: The Atlantic, 1967Compulsory
- Scott, James C., Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, cop. 1998Compulsory (pp 1–102)
- Snyder, Timothy, On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century, London, The Bodley Head, 2017Compulsory (pp 9–46, 59–80, 99–102, 115–126)
- Spohr Readman, K, Contemporary History in Europe: From Mastering National Pasts to the Future of Writing the World, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 506–530Compulsory
- Sörlin, S, The Contemporaneity of Environmental History: Negotiating Scholarship, Useful History, and the New Human Condition, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 610–630Compulsory
- Turner, M, Historians as Expert Witnesses: How do Holocaust Perpetrator Trials Shape Historiography?, Working Paper No 22 Alfred Deakin Research Institute Australia, 2011Compulsory (6 pages)
- Vinen, R, The Poisoned Madeleine: The Autobiographical Turn in Historical Writing, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 531–554Compulsory
- Wagner, P, Modernity: understanding our present time, Lychnos Frontier: In Studies into Society and Culture, 2018Compulsory (4 pages)
- Wiesner-Hanks, M, World History and the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Part of: Journal of world history.: official journal of the World History Association, vol. 18, no. 1, 2007, p. 53–67Compulsory
- Zainaldin,, J, The Price of the Truth: History, Deborah Lipstadt and the Libel Trial, Noteworthy, 2002Compulsory (5 pages)
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