Book Report (book selection in specific instructions)

READING LIST

This is a selective list of books arranged according to the topics in the course outline. In addition to class lectures there will be discussions on the specifically assigned readings.

In addition to the mid-term and final exams requirements for the course will include a book review 3-5 pages, and a brief oral report on the assigned topic of 5-10 minutes – EXPECTED FROM EACH STUDENT.

1. GENERAL HISTORIES

R. Albrecht-Carrie, Diplomatic History of Europe Since the of Vienna. Harper

Torchbooks.

H. Ausubel (ed.), The Making of Modern Europe. 2 vols. Dryden Press.

S. B. Clough & C. W. Cole, Economic History of Europe. D. C. Heath and Company.

R. R. Palmer, & J. Colton, A History of Modern World. Alfred A. Knopf.

G. Sabine, A History of Political Theory. Holt, Rhineheart and Winston.

F. Stern, Varieties of History. Meridian Books.

G. A. Kertesz (ed.), Documents in the Political History of the European Continent,

1815-1939. Clarendon Press.

2. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

* T. S. Ashton, Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830. Oxford Univ. Pres.

R. E. Cameron, France and Economic Development of Europe, 1800-1915.

* R. M. Hartwell, The Causes of the Industrial Revolution in England. A University

Paperback Original.

W. Henderson, The Industrial Revolution in Europe. Chicago, 1968.

* E. L. Jones, Agriculture and Economic Growth in England, 1650-1815. A University

Paperback Original.

D. S. Landes, The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Changes to the Present.

Cambridge University Press.

S. Polard, The Genesis of Modern Management. Baltimore, 1968.

A. Toynbee, The Industrial Revolution (Beacon Press).

3. MARXISM

* S. Avineri, The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx. Cambridge University Press

I. Berlin, Karl Marx. Galaxy Books.

* M. M. Bober, Karl Marx’s Interpretation of History. The Norton Library

* R. T. DeGeorge, The New Marxism. Pegasus.

S. Hook, From Hegel to Marx.

——– Marx and Marxists: The Ambiguous Legacy. Anvil Original.

K. Marx, The Communist Manifesto.

——– Wage Labour and Capital.

** ——— The Marxists; Revolutionaries or Reformers? Great Issues in Western

Civilization, II, ch. 6.

H. J. Laski, On the Communist Manifesto (Vintage Press).

S. Stojanovic, Between Ideals and Reality (Oxford Univ. Press).

* R. Tucker, Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx (Cambridge Univ. Press)

* ———– The Marxian Revolutionary Idea (The Northern Library).

A. B. Ulam, The Unfinished Revolution (A Vintage Book).

4. THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA

B. Artz, Reaction and Revolution, 1814-1832 (Harper).

H. Kissinger, A World Restored (The Universal Library).

* H. Nicholson, The Congress of Vienna (Compass Books).

** M. Kranzberg, 1848: A Turning Point (D. C. Heath and Co.).

5. NATIONALISM

R. C. Binkly, Realism and Nationalism, 1852-1871 (Harper).

** T. S. Hamerow (ed.), Otto Von Bismarck (D. C. Heath and Co.).

* E. Eyck, Bismarck and the German Empire (The Norton Library)

* H. Kohn, The Nationalism: Its Meaning and History (An Anvil Original).

6. ON LIBERTY

J. E. Acton, Essay on Freedom and Power (Meridian).

* I. Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford Press).

* J. S. Mill, On Liberty.

C. Bay, The Structure on Freedom (Athenaeum).

7. IMPERIALISM

J. A. Hobson, Imperialism (London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1948).

W. L. Langer, Diplomacy of Imperialism (Knopf).

* L. Schumpeter, Imperialism and Social Classes (Meridian).

8. WORLD WAR I

** D. E. Lee (ed.) The Outbreak of World War I (D. C. Heath and Co.).

* J. Remark, The Origins of World War I (Berkshire Studies).

J. J. Roth (ed.), World War I: A Turning Point in Modern History (Knopf).

* B. Schmitt, Triple Alliance and Triple Entente (Berkshire Studies).

L. S. Stavrianos, The Balkans, 1815-1915 (Berkshire Studies).

B. W. Tuchman, The Guns of August (Macmillan, Co.).

* D. Smith, American Intervention (Houghton Mifflin Co.).

9. FASCISM

* S. W. Halperin, Mussolini and Italian Fascism (An Anvil Original).

E. Weber, Varieties of Fascism (An Anvil Original).

* E. Wiskemann, Fascism in Italy: Its Development and Influence (Macmillan).

H. Thomas, The Spanish Civil War (Harper & Row).

10. NAZISM

H. Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (Meridian).

Z. Barbu, Democracy and Dictatorship (Evergreen).

H. Bullock, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (Harper).

*F. Meincke, The German Catastrophe (Beacon).

** J. L. Snell (ed.), The Nazi Revolution (D. C. Heath and Co.).

11. RUSSIA AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

**A. E. Adams (ed.), The Russian Revolution and Bolshevik Victory (D. C. Heath and

Co.).

*M. Djilas, Conversations with Stalin (Harper).

*——– The New Class (Praeger).

L. H. Haimson, The Russian Marxists and the Origins of Bolshevism (Beacon Press).

M. Karpovich, Imperial Russia, 1801-1907 (Berkshire Studies).

G. F. Kennan, Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1941 (An Anvil Original).