COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION BIBLIOGRAPHIES

M.A. - United States history (Arts & Sciences)

M.A.-European History (Arts & Sciences)
TEP - Social Studies: United States history
TEP - Social Studies: Non-U.S./World history

M.A. in History (Arts and Sciences)
Bibliography - United States history (rev. 04/10)

COLONIAL TO CONSTITUTION/EARLY REPUBLIC

Alan Taylor, The American Colonies (2002)

Karen Kupperman, Indians & English: Facing Off in Early America (2000)

Peter Kolchin, American Slavery, 1619-1877 (1994)

Carol Berkin, First Generations (1996)

Thad Tate and David Ammerman, eds., The Chesapeake in the 17th Century (1979) (collected essays)

David Cressy, Coming Over (1987)

Ed Countryman, The American Revolution (1985)

Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (2003)

Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)

Woody Holton, Forced Founders (1999)

Pauline Maier, From Resistance to Rebellion (1972)

Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic (1980)

David Szatmary, Shays’ Rebellion: The Making of An Agrarian Insurrection (1980)

Marc Kruman, Between Authority and Liberty: State Constitution-Making in Revolutionary America (1999)

Jack Rakove, Original Meanings (1997)

Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (1999)

Carol Berkin, A Brilliant Solution (2002)

NINETEENTH CENTURY

Paul Johnson, A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815 – 1837. (1978).

Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789 – 1860 (1996).

Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815 – 1846 (1991).

Kathryn Kish Sklar, ed., Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830-1870 (2000). Read pp. 1-76.

Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class (1984).

James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988).

Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots (1990).

Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863 – 1877 (1988).

Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (1987).

Richard W. Etulain, ed., Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional? (1999). Read pp. 3-14, 17-43, 59-71.

William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991).

Walter Licht, Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century (1995).

Herbert Gutman, Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America: Essays on American Working-Class and Social History (1974).

James Green, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America (2007).

John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860 – 1925 (1955).

Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877- 1920 (1967).

Robert C. McMath, American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898 (1993).

John David Smith, ed., When Did Southern Segregation Begin? (2002).

Jacqueline Jones Royster, ed., Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 (1997). Read pp. 1-41.

Brook Thomas, ed., Plessy v. Ferguson (1997). Read pp. 1-38, 169-76.

TWENTIETH CENTURY

Understanding Twentieth-century America

Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001).

Michael Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the Twentieth Century (1999).

D.W. Meinig, The Shaping of America, vol. 4, Global America, 1915-2000 (2004).

Michael Sherry, In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s (1995). Read preface, prologue, chs. 1-7, conclusion.

From the Progressive Era to World War II

Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR (1955).

Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (2009).

Glenda Gilmore, ed., Who Were the Progressives? (2002). Read pp. 3-20.

Alan Dawley, Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution (2003).

David Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999). Read Prologue, chs. 1-15, 18, 21, Epilogue.

Post-1945 America

Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003).

Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001).

David Burner, Making Peace with the 60s (1996).

Sara Evans, The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rughts Movement and the New Left (1979).

Nancy MacLean ed., The American Women's Movement, 1945-2000 (2009). Read pp. 1-42.

African-American History

Eric Arnesen, ed., Black Protest and the Great Migration (2003). Read pp. 1-37.

Adam Fairclough, Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000 (2001).

Jeffrey B. Ferguson, ed., The Harlem Renaissance (2008). Read pp. 1-27.

Brenda Gayle Plummer, Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 (1996).

Steven Lawson and Charles Payne, eds., Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968 (2006). Read essays by Lawson and Payne.

Waldo E. Martin, ed., Brown vs. Board of Education (1998). Read pp. 1-38.

U.S. Foreign Relations

Michael Hunt, The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance (2007).

Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2006 (2008).

Historiographical Readings

Anthony Mohlo and Gordon Wood, eds., Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past (1998). Read introduction, chs. 1-2, 4-5, 7-9.

See The Journal of American History (March 2009) for essays on writing U.S. history in a global context. Read pp. 1038-1091.

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M.A. - European History (Arts & Sciences)

LIST OF BOOKS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY, 1750 2000 For an amateur of historical reading or a person who studied history as part of an undergraduate liberal education, the change to professional preparation as a historian involves a significant shift of viewpoint and a new set of tasks. Mastery of an extensive subject matter becomes the major purpose, more or less displacing the objectives of simple enjoyment and general enlightenment. At once, the master student in history begins to share a characteristic and perennial problem of professional historians. There is not enough time. There is too much to read.

Outside the ranks of professional historians, few people are aware of the sheer bulk of published historical writing. For modern European history, it probably amounts to more than a million volumes. To a considerable degree, competence in modern history depends on knowing how fields of study are organized. This means familiarizing oneself with the major lines of interpretation, the issues that have been extensively studied, the methods that have been developed, and the principal types of evidence used. It also involves familiarity with bibliographies. Every major scholarly specialty has its own. For instances, see the American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature (Oxford University Press, latest edition). Learning how to use this mass of material requires a willingness to explore and experiment. The following list of books in modern European history has been drawn to help you prepare for the comprehensive written exams. It attempts to combine general overviews of the period and of topics, with ‘national’ or interpretational case studies.

CHOOSE TWO BOOKS FROM EACH CATEGORY FOLLOWING YOUR OWN INTEREST

General surveys of modern European history:

Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Revolution; The Age of Capital; The Age of Empire; and The Age of Extremes. (4 vols., New York: Vintage,1962-1994).

McNeill, William H. The Shape of European History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Merriman, John. A History of Modern Europe. Vol. 2, From the French Revolution to the Present. NY: W.W. Norton, 1996.

Palmer, R.R., et al. A History of the Modern World. Vol. 2. The most recent is the 10th edition. New York: McGraw Hill, 2006.

Pugh, Martin. Blackwell Companion to Modern European History, 1871-1945.

Blackwell Companions to History. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997.

Intellectual and Cultural History: Adas, Michael. Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Casanova, Jose. Public Religions in the Modern World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Collins, Marcus. Modern Love: An Intimate History of Men and Women in Britain, 1900- 2000.

London: Atlantic Books, 2003. Ekstein, Modris. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.

Jacob, James. The Scientific Revolution: Aspirations and Achievements, 1500 – 1700. Humanity Books, 1999.

Jacob, Margaret C. The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons, and Republicans. Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1981.

Jones, Gareth Stedman. Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Kaufmann, Suzanne. Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.

McLeod, Hugh, and Werner Ustrof. The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750-2000. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

McMahon, Darrin M. Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Outram, Dorinda. The Enlightenment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Ross, Kristin. May ’68 and its Afterlives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Schorske, Carl. Fin-de-siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture. New York: Vintage, 1980.

Economic and Social History:

Bayly, C. A. The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.

Baldwin, Peter. The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Clark, Anna. The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Corbin, Alain. Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Davidoff, Leonore, and Catherine Hall. Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1987.

Houlbrook, Matt. Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Landes, David S. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

Moch, Leslie Page. Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, rev. ed. 2003.

Scott, Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

Verdery, Katherine. What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

International Relations, War and Peace

Bartov, Omer. Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Dawidowicz, Lucy. The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945. New York: Bantam Books, 1986.

Déak, Istvan, Jan T. Gross and Tony Judt, eds. The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Fink, Carole. Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Hull, Isabel. Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.

Joll, James. The Origins of the First World War. London: Longman, 1984. Overy, Richard. Why the Allies Won. New York: Norton, 1997.

Pick, Daniel. War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Rupp, Leila. Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Weinberg, Gerhard. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Winter, Jay. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Political History and Nationalism Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1983.

Baker, Keith M., Colin Lucas and François Furet (eds.), The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, 2 vols. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987-1994.

Brubaker, Rogers. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Eley, Geoff. Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Garton Ash, Timothy. The Magic Lantern. New York: H. Holt, 1992.

Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. New York: Penguin, 2005.

Mann, Michael. Fascists. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century. New York: Random House, 1999.

Mosse, George. The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars through the Third Reich (1975). Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Namier, Lewis. 1848: The Revolution of the Intellectuals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Rodinson, Maxime. Europe and the Mystique of Islam. Seattle: University of Washington Press, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002.

Sperber, Jonathan. The European Revolutions, 1848-1851. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Imperialism Burton, Antoinette. At the Heart of Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late Victorian Britain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Conklin, Alice. A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Cooper, Fred, and Ann Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.

Hall, Catherine. Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Louis, William Roger. The Oxford History of the British Empire. Vol II: The Eighteenth Century, ed. P.J. Marshall; Vol. III: The Nineteenth Century, ed. Andrew Porta. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. Shepard, Todd. The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Stoler, Ann. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Some National and Regional Cases: Blackbourn, David and Geoff Eley. The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Carr, Raymond. Spain: A History. New York: Oxford, 2001. Davies, Norman. God’s Playground: A History of Poland. Vol. 2. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Ginsborg, Paul. A History of Contemporary Italy. London: Penguin, 1990. Kotkin, Stephen. Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Mazower, Mark. Balkans, A Short History. New York: Random House, 2002. Morgan, Kenneth O. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Paxton, Robert. Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order 1940-1944. (1972) 2nd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

Popkin, Jeremy D. A History of Modern France. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2005.

Riasanovsky, Nicholas D. and Steinberg, Mark. History of Russia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Rothschild, Joseph. Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

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M.A. - T.E.P. in Adolescence Education

Note to students in the Teachers of Adolescent Education – Social Studies Program:

The history department has changed the comprehensive exam for students in the Teachers of Adolescent Education – Social Studies Program. The new exam, which will have two parts rather than three, will be given for the first time in fall 2010.

One part of the revised exam will focus on U.S. History and the other part will focus on themes and areas distinct from the United States. The exam, which will be given twice a year, will require students to write two essays, one on U.S. history and the other on non-U.S. history. The essay questions will draw on the revised reading lists, which are available on the department Web-site. One reading list focuses on U.S. history, the other on the non-U.S. field. In writing the exam essays, students are expected to be conversant in the literature on the reading lists and to cite works from both lists. If there are any questions about the readings or the revised exam, the history department encourages students to speak with members of the history faculty.

United States history (rev. 04/10)

Bibliography

The theme for Fall 2010’s exam is: Reform.

Books:

Frank Lambert, Inventing the “Great Awakening” (1999).

Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America (1986).

Ronald Walters, The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionism After 1830 (1984).

Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789 – 1860 (1987).

Paul Johnson, A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815 – 1837 (1978).

Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (2005).

Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995).

William Chafe, A Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20th Century (1991).

Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (1979).

David L. Chappell, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow (2004).

Articles/Essays:

Joan Gunderson and Gwen Gompel, “Married Women’s Legal Status in 18th Century New York and Virginia” William and Mary Quarterly 39:1 (Jan. 1982): 114 – 134.

Gary B. Nash, “Poverty and Poor Relief in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia” William and Mary Quarterly 33:1 (Jan. 1976): 3 – 30.

Margaret Haviland, “Beyond Women’s Sphere: Young Quaker Women and the Veil of Charity in Philadelphia, 1790 -1810” William and Mary Quarterly 51:3 (July 1994): 419 – 446.

Barbara Welter, “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820 - 1860” American Quarterly 18:2 (Summer 1966): 151 – 174.

Daniel T. Rodgers, “In Search of Progressivism” Reviews in American History 10:4 (Dec. 1982): 113 – 132.

Peter Filene, “An Obituary for the Progressive Movement” American Quarterly 22:1 (Spring 1970): 20 – 34.

Richard Polenberg, “Introduction: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Liberalism” in The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 – 1945 (2000), 1 – 35.

Nancy MacLean, “Introduction” The American Women’s Movement, 1945 – 2000: A Brief History with Documents (2008), 1 – 43.

Steven Lawson and Charles Payne, eds., Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945 – 1968, (2006). Read 3-46, 115-155.

Michael J. Klarman “How Brown Changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis” The Journal of American History 81:1 (June 1994): 81 – 118.

Bruce Schulman, ed., Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents (2006). Read 1 – 166.

Supplementary Reading:

Arthur S. Link and Richard L. McCormick, Progressivism (1983).

Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954 – 1992 (1993).

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M.A. - T.E.P. in Adolescence Education, Non-U.S./World

Note to students:

One of the great questions of modern world history involves the emergence of “the west,” as represented by Western Europe and the United States, in particular, as more economically developed and more powerful than other regions of the world over the last few centuries. Historians and others have long grappled with what the causes were for the “rise of the west,” and they have also debated the nature of the phenomenon. Was modernization as experienced by the western nations inevitable? Was it the outcome of core western values? Historical happenstance? Something else? Also key to this set of questions is the relationship between the modernizing west of recent centuries and the rest of the world. Did the west discover a universal route to modernization that other regions could also follow? Or was western modernization dependent on the west’s exploitative interactions with the rest of the world? The readings below are a sample of some of the most notable works to engage these questions. Most are relatively recent works of influential and widely discussed secondary scholarship, but we have also thrown in some classic works (Lenin, Gandhi, Marx and Weber) that have proven to be enormously important, and with which teachers of world history should be familiar.

Although all teachers of social studies are expected to have had some economic course work, we do not expect students to be able to diagram technical economic formulas. What we do expect is that in the exam essay students should be able to discuss major historiographical approaches to this question, identify the basic arguments of authors regarding this question, and be able to discuss how the arguments of different authors stand in relation to each other. The list below represents a manageable sampling of works on this topic, and students are absolutely expected to have read and be familiar with each of these works. However, we also encourage students to look up book reviews, critical essays, and other contextual work that will help you appreciate why these works have proven to be so influential. Passing essays are expected to reflect command of all the works listed below; reference to relevant works not on this list is, of course, permitted.

Bibliography (rev. 04/10)

Robert C. Allen, The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times (London ; New York : Verso, 1994).

Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies (New York : Norton, 2005).

M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj. This text is widely available on the internet, including here: http://www.mkgandhi.org/swarajya/coverpage.htm. Pay particular attention to Gandhi’s ideas about western modernization and its relationship to India.

David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W. W. Norton, 1999).

V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism [Widely available on the internet at sites such as: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ ]

Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto [read especially “Section 1: Bourgeois and Proletarians”, skim rest]; read also Marx’s short piece for the New York Herald Tribune (1853), “The British Rule in India”, both texts are widely available on the internet (including at the www.marxists.org site). For a thoughtful discussion of the latter piece see, Rajiv Rawat, “Marx on British Rule in India Historical and Contemporary Perspectives” http://prayaga.org/documents/paper-marx.pdf

Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence : Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton University Press, 2000). [Note: available on-line through the Hunter College Library].

Joel Mokyr, The Gifts of Athena : Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy (Princeton University Press, 2002).

Douglass C. North & Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History (Cambridge University Press, 1976).

E. P Thompson, “Time, Work discipline and Industrial Capitalism,” Originally published as Chapter Six of Customs in Common; E. P. Thompson, Penguin Books, London 1993. [Note: this piece is widely available on-line at such sites as http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~salaff/Thompson.pdf]

Immanuel Wallerstein, Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World- Economy in the Sixteenth Century (New York, Academic Press, 1974).

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. [Note: Macmillian, 1976 with an introduction by Anthony Giddens is an especially instructive edition, but there are many choices available].

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