H 202 Guide (2000 - 2001)

• Note on Reserve books
• Outline of lectures
  • Introduction: the 18th century background
  • The end of the Old Order
  • The 19th century
  • The 20th century
• Reading list
  • Pre-industrial Europe and the French Revolution
  • The nineteenth-century transformation
  • The late nineteenth and early twentieth century
  • Middle and late twentieth century

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Reserve books

The University of Botswana Library has leapt into the 21st century with a really excellent on-line catalogue. To access it, go to
http://medupe.ub.bw
(from within the UB network you can just enter "medupe"). This will open a list of options like the following:

To find reserve books, click on "By Course" and then enter "H202". You will then be shown a list of all books on reserve for H202. You can also search by the name of the course lecturer ("Professor" in the OPAC, which for some reason follows the American usage in which "professor" is a general title for all academics).

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Outline of lectures:

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Introduction: the 18th century background

• European society in the 18th century
• States and governments
• What did governments do?
• A review of earlier history

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The end of the Old Order

• What changed? Industry, capitalism, urbanization
• The Enlightenment
• The American Revolution
• French Revolution: moderate revolution, radical revolution, Napoleon
• French Revolution: explanations

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The 19th century

• The long 19th century: overview
• The 19th century: technology
• The 19th century: industry and urbanization
• Politics: liberalism, radicalism, conservatism, socialism
• Nationalism: what was it and how did it evolve
• Britain: economic development and political evolution
• Britain: social change: new classes; the ruling class; social control?
• 19th century France: post-revolutionary society; regimes and parties
• Italy: unification and the new state
• Germany: unification
• Germany: the new state
• 19th century Russia: society and economy; Alexander II and reform; reaction
• Challenges to traditional thought: Marx, Darwin and Freud
• Imperialism: what happened?
• Imperialism: explanations
• Women in 19th C. Britain
• Women's suffrage
• Europe: mass society and popular culture

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The 20th century

• The short 20th century: overview
• The 1st WW: overview
• The outbreak of the 1st WW: what happened?
• Explanations: immediate causes, long-term causes
• The 1st WW: course of the war
• The outcome of the war; the 1919 settlement
• The Russian Revolution: overview (from 1905)
• Russia: 1917; the Bolshevik triumph
• The Russian Revolution: Explanations
• Russia in the 1920s: War Communism, NEP
• Stalin and the 1930s: collectivization, industrialization, terror
• Inter-war Europe: overview
• The Depression
• Inter-war Britain: politics
• Fascism and right-wing politics
• Fascism in Italy
• Germany: the Weimar Republic
• Nazism
• The Nazi regime
• The Spanish Civil War
• Minor states in Europe
• The 1930s & the 2nd WW: overview
• Hitler's aims and methods
• British policy, French policy, Soviet policy
• The course of the war
• The Holocaust
• Britain in and after the war
• The post-war division of Europe and the Cold War
• Post-war Western Europe
• Post-war Eastern Europe
• European unity and the EEC
• The collapse of the Soviet Union

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Reading list:

Note: Although the books in this list have been listed under subject headings for convenience, remember that many books are useful for more than one subject. Further guidance about recommended reading will be given in lectures. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are on reserve.

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Pre-industrial Europe and the French Revolution:

General:

*T. Blanning (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe 940 OXF

M.Andrews, The Birth of Europe (background) 940 AND

O. Hufton, Privilege and Protest (especially useful for politics and culture) 940.253 HUF

J. Black, Eighteenth Century Europe (clear and up-to-date; especially for social history) 940.253 BLA

*W.Doyle, The Old European Order (thematic; very good on the general background of eighteenth-century Europe) 940.25 DOY

*F.L.Ford, Europe 1780-1830 (basic) 940.27 FOR

E.Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism (important study of the nature of European nationalism) 320.54 HOB

*E.Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution 940.28 HOB

The French Revolution and Napoleon

W.Doyle, The Ancien Regime 944.03 DOY

*R.Price, A Concise History of France (basic general history; useful for review of the basic facts) 944 PRI

*W.Doyle, Origins of the French Revolution (important summary of the "revisionist" school of interpretation) 944.04072 DOY

G. Lefebvre, The Coming of the French Revolution (classic statement of older theories, but see Doyle for more recent analysis)

*W.Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution (useful general history up to the time of Napoleon) 944.04 DOY

*Robert Gildea, Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914 (useful general textbook, detailed and thematic) 940.2 GIL

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The nineteenth-century transformation:

General:

*Robert Gildea, Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914 940.2 GIL

J.A.S. Grenville, Europe Reshaped, 1848-1878

*E.Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital 940.28 HOB

*E.Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire 940.28 HOB

(Hobsbawm's series The Age ofRevolution/Capital/Empire is a classic, to be read for broad interpretation rather than particular details)

Industrialization:

*R. Cameron, A Concise Economic History of the World (despite the title, the focus is mainly on Europe) 330.9 CAM

P.Matthias, The First Industrial Nation (i.e. Britain) 330.942 MAT

D.Landes, The Unbound Prometheus (wide-ranging economic study with focus on technology) 330.94 LAN

Russia:

*J. N. Westwood, Endurance and Endeavour: Russian History 1812-1980 (a standard work, very sound) 947.08 WES

L.Kochan, The Making of Modern Russia 947.08 KOC

Culture (note the impact of new ideas: Darwin, Marx, Freud)

M. Biddiss, The Age of the Masses (introduction to modern intellectual history) 190.904 BID

Britain:

*N.McCord, British History 1815-1906 (wide-ranging; well-subdivided and easy to use) 942.081 MCC

*W.A.Speck, A Concise History of Britain 1707-1975 942 SPE

France:

*R.Price, A Concise History of France 944 PRI

T.Zeldin, France 1848-1945 (vol. 1) (wide-ranging and very useful) 944.07 ZEL

S.M. Osgood, Napoleon III and the Second Empire (includes chapters on particular aspects of Napoleon III's regime; often illuminating) 947.07 OSG

J.F.McMillan, Napoleon III (political biography) 944.07092 MCM

W.Fortescue, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in France 1815-1852 (brief summary) 944.06 FOR

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The late nineteenth and early twentieth century:

General:

*J.M.Roberts, Europe 1880-1945 (very good general textbook, covers the essentials very clearly) 940 ROB

*Robert Gildea, Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914 940.2 GIL

*E.Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire 940.28 HOB

*A.J.P. Taylor, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe (international relations) 940 TAY

Germany:

*M.Fulbrook, A Concise History of Germany 943 FUL

S. Haffner, The Rise and Fall of Prussia (useful on the 19th C. unification of Germany) 943.05 HAF

*G.A.Craig, Germany 1866-1945 (general history, clear and detailed; includes useful explanations of Imperial German political system) 943.08 CRA

*A.J.P.Taylor, The Course of German History (old, controversial and idiosyncratic, but still very interesting) 943 TAY

Italy:

D.Beales, The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy 945.08 BEA

Britain:

*N.McCord, British History 1815-1906 942.081 MCC

*K. Robbins, The Eclipse of a Great Power: Modern Britain, 1870-1992 942.081 ROB

*W.A.Speck, A Concise History of Britain 1707-1975 942 SPE

France:

*R.Price, A Concise History of France

The First World War:

*D. Stevenson, The Outbreak of the First World War (brief summary) 940.311 STE

*J.Joll, The Origins of the First World War (outstanding book which covers all the main ideas; essential reading but requires time) 940.311 JOL

K.Robbins, The First World War (brief general history, good for basics) 940.3 ROB

H.W.Koch, The Origins of the First World War (more variable and speculative than Joll; well worth looking at but be familiar with the basics first) 940.3 KOC

*A.Marwick, Europe on the Eve of War 940.288 EUR (an Open University textbook, excellent)

M.Ferro, The Great War 1914-1918 (mainly about the nature of the war)

The Russian Revolution and the Soviet regime:

*J.N. Westwood, Endurance and Endeavour: Russian History 1812-1980 947.08 WES

A.Wood, The Russian Revolution

A.Bullock, Hitler and Stalin 943.086092 BUL

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Middle and late twentieth century:

General:

*E.Wiskemann, Europe of the Dictators (brief general history, good for basics) 940.5 WIS

*D.Smith, Left and Right in Twentieth-Century Europe (very u seful summary of ideas and nature of Fascism, Communism, etc.) 940.5 SMI

*P.Hayes (ed.), Themes in Modern European History 1890-1945 (very useful chapters on a variety of subjects; be familiar with the basics before using this) 940.28 HAY

*A. Marwick, War and Change in Twentieth-Century Europe 940.5 WAR

A.Marwick, Class: Image and Reality (useful for twentieth-century British society) 305.5 MAR

*R.Price, A Concise History of France

Britain:

*T. Lloyd, Empire, Welfare State, Europe: English History 1906-1992 942.082 LLO

*K. Robbins, The Eclipse of a Great Power: Modern Britain, 1870-1992 942.081 ROB

*W.A.Speck, A Concise History of Britain 1707-1975 942 SPE

*C. Mowat, Britain between the wars 1918-1940 942.083 MOW

Fascism and Nazism:

*S.J. Woolf (ed.), Fascism in Europe (has chapters on different countries-especially useful for fascism outside Italy and Germany) 335.6094 FAS

*S.G. Payne, Fascism (very useful on different theories of the nature of fascism) 320.533 PAY

*M.Fulbrook, A Concise History of Germany 943 FUL

*G.A. Craig, Germany 1866-1945 (general history, very good for events and details, less useful on general questions about the nature of Nazism) 943.08 CRA

*D. Williamson, The Third Reich (brief introduction to the Nazi regime) 943.086 WIL

*A.J.P.Taylor, The Course of German History (a somewhat controversial view) 943 TAY

A.Bullock, Hitler and Stalin (political biography of the two dictators, compares their lives and their political systems, but also includes extensive general history) 943.086092 BUL

J. Hiden, The Weimar Republic 943.085 HID

M. Burleigh, The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 (study of Nazi racial policy) 943.086 BUR

J. Snell, The Nazi Revolution (various facets of Nazism) 943.086 NAZ

I. Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship 943.086 KER

*P.M.H. Bell, The Origins of the Second World War in Europe (although basically about the causes of the war, contains very useful material on Fascism) 940.53112 BEL

D. Mack Smith, Mussolini (standard political biography) 945.0910924 MUS

J.Rohl, From Bismarck to Hitler (documents) 943.08 ROH

The Second World War:

*P.M.H. Bell, The Origins of the Second World War in Europe (excellent book which covers all the main approaches to the subject; as with Joll it requires time to use properly)

K. Robbins, Appeasement 940.53112 ROB

*C. Emsley, World War II and its Consequences 940.53142 WOR (an Open University textbook, excellent)

Europe since 1945:

*J. Young, Cold War Europe 1945-1991 940.55 YOU

*G. & N. Swain, Eastern Europe since 1945 947.084 SWA

*K. Robbins, The Eclipse of a Great Power: Modern Britain, 1870-1992 942.081 ROB

J.R. Wegs, Europe since 1945 940.55 WEG

W.W. Rostow, The Division of Europe after World War II 940.53144 ROS

D.W. Urwin, Western Europe since 1945 940.55 URW

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