COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION BIBLIOGRAPHIES

These bibliographies are only suggestions for the material which will be covered in the examination; they are not meant to be considered as the only sources needed to answer the exam questions.

M.A. - United States history (Arts & Sciences)
TEP - Social Studies: United States history
TEP - Social Studies: European history
TEP - Social Studies: Non-Western history

M.A. in History (Arts and Sciences)
Bibliography - United States history (rev. 11/01)

I) Robert H. Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (1994)

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

John Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990)

Sara M. Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America

Eric Foner, Reconstruction

Philip Greven, The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Childrearing, Religious Experience and the Self in
Early America (1977)

Herbert Gutman, The American Family in Slavery and Freedom (1976)

Alice Kessler-Harris, et al., eds., U.S. as Women’s History: New Feminist Essays (1995)

David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. DuBois, vol. 1

David Nasaw, The Chief

Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson

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

Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelly and the Nation’s Work: The Rise of Women’s Political Culture, 1830-1900
(1995)

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

Ann Fairfax Withington, Toward a More Perfect Union: Virtue and the Formation of the American Republics

Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992)

II) Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962)

Melvin Dubovsky, The State and Labor in Modern America (1994)

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

William A. Goetzman, Exploration and Empire: the Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West

Herbert Gutman, Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America (1974)

Walter Licht, Industrializing America (1995)

Charles Rosenberg, The Cholera Years (1966)

Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land (1950)

Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Society and Culture in the Gilded Age (1982)

Richard White & Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Frontier in American Culture (1994)

III) Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest (1982)

John Bodner, The Transplanted (1985)

William Chafe, Civility and Civil Rights (1980)

Lizabeth Cohen, Making of a New Deal (1990)

Allan F. Davis, Spearheads for Reform (1967)

Sara Deutsch, No Separate Refuge (1987)

Scott Ellsworth, Death in a Promised Land (1987)

David Garrow, Bearing the Cross (1987)

Venus Green, Race on the Line (2001)

John Higham, Strangers in the Land (1955)

Judith Walzer Leavitt & Ron Numbers, eds., Sickness and Health in America (1997)

Edward Larsen, Summer of the Gods (1997)

Nancy Tomes, Gospel of Germs (1998)

Joe Trotter, Jr. ed., The Great Migration in Historical Perspective (1991)

Morris Vogel, Invention of the Modern Hospital (1980)

Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order (1985)

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M.A. - T.E.P. in Adolescence Education
Bibliography - United States history (rev. 11/01)

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

John Bodner, The Transplanted (1985)

Lizabeth Cohen, Making of a New Deal (1990)

Scott Ellsworth, Death in a Promised Land (1987)

Sara M. Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America

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

Alice Kessler-Harris, et al., eds., U.S. as Women’s History: New Feminist Essays (1995)

David Nasaw, The Chief

Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson

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

Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelly and the Nation’s Work: The Rise of Women’s Political Culture, 1830-1900 (1995)

Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order (1985)

Ann Fairfax Withington, Toward a More Perfect Union: Virtue and the Formation of the American Republics

Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992)

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M.A. - T.E.P. in Adolescence Education
Bibliography - European history (rev. 11/01)

T.C.W. Blanning, The Oxford History of Modern Europe (1996)

Euan Cameron, The European Reformation (1991)

Christopher R. Friedrichs, The Early Modern City, 1450-1750 (1995)

Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination: City States in Renaissance Italy (1988)

Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s 20th Century

Martin Pugh, A Companion to Modern European History (1997)

J.M. Roberts, The Penguin History of Europe (1998)

Norman Stone, Europe Transformed, 1789-1919 (1999)

A.J.P. Taylor, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 (1954)

Mary Weisner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (1993)

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M.A. - T.E.P. in Adolescence Education
Bibliography - Non-Western history (rev. 11/01)

Students need only prepare ONE field in non-Western History – Latin America, East Asia, or Africa.

N.B.: These bibliographies are only suggestions for the material which will be covered in the examinations; they are not meant to be considered as the only sources needed to answer the questions.

Latin America

Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America (most recent edition)

David Bushnell & Neill Macaulay, The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century (most recent edition)

Carl N. Degler, Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States (1986)

Richard Graham, Independence in Latin America (1972)

Franklin W. Knight, Slave Society in Cuba During the 19th Century (most recent edition)

John Lynch, The Spanish American Revolutions 1808-1826 (1973)

Thomas Skidmore & Peter Smith, Modern Latin America (1992)

Thomas E. Skidmore, Politics of Military Rule in Brazil (1988)

Stanley J. Stein, Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County 1850-1900 (1957)

East Asia

Peter Duus, Modern Japan (2nd ed., 1998) or
Mikiso Hane, Modern Japan: A Historical Survey (1992)

John King Fairbank, The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800-1985 (1987) or Jonathan Spence, The Search for Modern China (1990)

David Shambaugh, The Modern Chinese State (2000)

William Duiker, Vietnam: Revolution in Transition (1995)

Bruce Cummings, Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History (1998)

Africa

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (199

J.F.A. Ajayi, Christian Missionaries in Nigeria 1841-1891 (1965)

Claude Ake, Democracy and Development in Africa (1996)

Steve Biko, I Write What I Like (1996)

Michael Crowder, West Africa Under Colonial Rule (1968)

Basil Davidson, Africa in History (1991)

Joseph E. Harris, Africans and Their History (1998)

Robert W. July, A History of the African People (fifth edition)

Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (1995)

Irving Leonard Markovitz, Studies in Class and Power in Africa (1987)

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