Titles Available for Book Review
HIST 250 (Spring 2015)
(Remember to read (and follow!) the guidelines and examples for this assignment.)
Absolutism and its Opponents
- Hainsworth, Roger. The Swordsman in Power: War and Politics Under the English Republic 1649-1660
- Aylmer, G.E. Rebellion or Revolution?: England 1640-1660
- Claydon, Tony. William and the Godly Revolution
- Childs, John. The Army, James II, and the Revolution
- Hill, Christopher. God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
- Goubert, Pierre. Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen
- Treasure, Geoffrey. Louis XIV
- Hilton, Lisa. The Life of Louis XIV’s Mistress, Athenias: The Real Queen of France
- Treasure, Geoffrey. Mazarin: The Crisis of Absolutism in France
- Burke, Peter. The Fabrication of Louis XIV
- Cracraft, James. The Revolution of Peter the Great
- Anisimov, Evgenii. The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Coercion in Russia
The Scientific Revolution
- Margolis, Howard. It Started with Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution
- Jacob, Margaret. Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West
- Langford, Jerome. Galileo, Science and the Church
- White, Michael. Isaac Newton: the Last Sorcerer
- Berlinski, David. Newton’s Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World
Enlightenment
- Scott, H.M., editor Enlightened Absolutism: Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe
- Cragg, Gerald. The Church and the Age of Reason
- Wade, Ira Owen. The Clandestine Organization and Diffusion of Philosophic Ideas in France from 1700 to 1750
- Brunschwig, Henri. Enlightenment and Romanticism in Eighteenth-Century Prussia
- Payne, Harry. The Philosophes and the People
- Torrey, Norman. Voltaire and the English Deists
French Revolution
- Hufton, Olwen H. Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution
- Melzer, Sara E. and Leslie W. Rabine, editors. Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution
- Van Kley, Dale K. French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791
- Lusebrink, Hans-Jurgen and Rolf Reichardt. The Bastille: A History of a Symbol of Despotism and Freedom
- Hampson, Norman. Prelude to Terror
- Fitzsimmons, Michael. The remaking of France: The National Assembly and the Constitution of 1791
- Ozouf, Mona. Festivals and the French Revolution
- Slavin, Morris. The Making of an Insurrection: Parisian Sections and the Gironde
- Bertaud, Jean-Paul. The Army of the French Revolution: From Citizen-Soldiers to Instrument of Power
- Forrest, Alan. Soldiers of the French Revolution
- Tackett, Timothy. When the King Took Flight
- Jordan, David P. The King’s Trial: Louis XVI vs. the French Revolution
- Steegmuller, Francis. A Woman, A Man, and Two Kingdoms: The Story of Madame D’Epinay and the Abbe Galiani
- Jordan, David P. The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre
- Doyle, William. Origins of the French Revolution
- Merrick, Jeffrey W. The Desacralization of the French Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century
Napoleon
- Schom, Alan. One Hundred Days: Napoleon’s Road to Waterloo
- Epstein, Robert M. Napoleon’s Last Victory
- Connelly, Owen. Blundering to Glory: Napoleon’s Military Campaigns
- Broers, Michael .Europe Under Napoleon: 1799-1815
- Lyons, Martyn. Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution
- Tone, John. The Fatal Knot: The Guerilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain
Industrial Society and Life
- Jordan, Ellen. The Women’s Movement and Women’s Employment in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Rodner, William. J.M.W. Turner: Romantic Painter of the Industrial Revolution
- Aldcroft, Derek, and Michael Freeman. Transport in the Industrial Revolution
- Foster, John. Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution : Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns
- Ashton, T.S. Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution
- Hopkins, Eric, Childhood transformed : working-class children in nineteenth-century England
- Moch, Leslie Page. Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650
- Dixon, Simon. The Modernisation of Russia 1676-1825
Revolutionary Europe
- Goldstein, Robert Justin. Political Repression in 19th Century Europe
- Talmon, J.L. Romanticism and Revolt: Europe 1815-1848
- Evans, R.J.W. and Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, editors. The Revolutions in Europe 1848-1849: From Reform to Reactions
- Sperber, Jonathan. The European Revolutions 1848-1851
- Miller, Martin A. The Russian Revolutionary Emigres 1825-1870
- Aminzade, Ronald. Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France 1830-1871
- Amann, Peter H. Revolution and Mass Democracy: The Paris Club Movement in 1848
- Pilbeam, Pamela M. Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century France, 1814-1871
- Harsin, Jill. Barricades: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris 1830-1848
Cultural Topics
- Lyons, John O. The Invention of the Self: The Hinge of Consciousness in the Eighteenth Century
- Corbin, Alain. The Lure of the Sea: The discovery of the seaside 1750-1840
- Balnning, T.C.W. The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789
- Black, Jeremy. Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past
- Young, Michael B. King James and the History of Homosexuality
- Cross, Gary. A Social History of Leisure since 1600
- Morgan, Carol, Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835-1913
- Bartley, Paula, Prostitution : prevention and reform in England, 1860-1914
- Thomas, Donald. The Victorian Underworld
- Waite, Gary. Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
- Adams, Christine. A Taste for Comfort and Status: a Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France.
- Taithe, Bertrand. Defeated Flesh: Medecine, Welfare, and Warfare in the Making of Modern Flesh
- Pinkney, David H. Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris
- Gullickson, Gay. Unruly Women of Paris
- Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists
- Siegel, Jerrold. Bohemian Paris: culture, politics, and the boundaries of bourgeois life, 1830-1930
Military History
- Forrest, Alan. Conscripts and Deserters: The Army and French Society During the Revolution and Empire
- Black, Jeremy, editor. The Origins of War in Early Modern Europe
- MacKenize, David. Violent Solutions: Revolutions, Nationalism, and Secret Societies in Europe to 1918
- Wawro, Geoffrey. Warfare and Society in Europe 1792-1914
- Best, Geoffrey. War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870
- Rich, Norman. Why the Crimean War?: A Cautionary Tale
- Bucholz, Arden, Moltke and the German Wars 1864-1871
Europe and the Wider World
- Winther, Paul, Anglo-European science and the rhetoric of empire : malaria, opium, and British rule in India, 1756-1895
- Goffman, Daniel. The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe
The Arts
- Mauner, George. Manet, Peintre-Philosophe: A Study of the Painter's Themes
- Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa. Necklines: the Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror
- Crow, Thomas.Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Nationalism
- Eyck, Erich. Bismarck and the German Empire
- Youssef M. Choueiri. Arab Nationalism
- Hearder, Harry. Cavour
- Porter, Brian. When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland