THIRD YEAR B.Ed - St. Patrick's College - DCU

CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION 2
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II. COURSE LIST AND REQUIREMENTS 3
III. TUTORIALS / ESSAYS 5
IV. GUIDELINES FOR ESSAY WRITING 6
V. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS and READING LISTS
HIST 301
Modern Ireland 1850–2000 8
HIST 302
Europe 1870–1950: Society and Politics in Crisis and Change 21
HIST 303
Herstory: Women from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century 31
HIST 304
America: From Civil War to Great Power c.1840–1972 35

I. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to third-year History. Congratulations on completing second year, particularly on passing the
examinations and completing the course work, and welcome to the last year of our under-graduate History
programme.
This course-book is intended to equip you with the information you will need about the third-year
History programme. It includes course descriptions, booklists, information on tutorials, essays and
examinations. If you have any queries about the courses or any other matter referred to therein, or if you
encounter problems that are not addressed here, feel free to contact a member of the Department. The offices
of each staff member are presented at the bottom of the page. In addition, the History Department operates a
Staff-Student liaison committee, which has proved a useful forum for discussing matters of general concern.
Third-Year Representatives will be elected early in first term. The committee meets during the year according
to an agreed schedule, or as required.
As you know the College has an active Student History Society. This organises meetings, talks, outings
and social functions. The Society is an important aspect of the experience of studying History. Much of the
honour/burden of running the society falls to third years. If you have ideas, now is your chance. Please
become involved. A general meeting will be held in the second week of term to elect a committee and to
organise the programme for the year.
James Kelly Dáire Keogh Matthew Stout
Carla King Linda Kiernan Daithí Ó Corráin
OFFICES OF MEMBERS OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT
Prof James Kelly (Head of Department) – Room D313
Dr Dáire Keogh – Room E213
Dr Carla King – Room D307
Dr Linda Kiernan – work station
Dr Daithí Ó Corráin – Moville Houss, Room 43
Dr Matthew Stout – Moville House, Room 48
Ms Kathleen Gordon (Secretary to Department) – Room D327
Members of the History Department are available for consultation; please consult for times that are mutually
agreeable.
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THIRD YEAR B.Ed.
II. COURSE LISTS AND REQUIREMENTS
B.Ed. students take three courses as follows:
• two core courses - HIST 301 and HIST 302
• one of the optional courses HIST 303 or HIST 304
In 2011–12, the History Department’s courses in third year will be taught as follows:
CORE COURSE
HIST 301: Modern Ireland 1850–2000 (Daithí Ó Corráin)
CORE COURSE: Second Semester
HIST 302: Modern Europe, 1870–1950 (Carla King)
OPTIONAL COURSES: First Semester
HIST 303: Herstory: Women in Europe from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century
(Linda Kiernan)
OR
HIST 304: America: from Civil War to Great Power 1840–1972 (James Kelly)
LECTURES
4–5 lectures per week + 1 tutorial
Four essays.
WRITTEN WORK
Tutorials:
Essays will be assigned in Tutorial, and corrected by your tutor. In the case of the B.A. documents
course students, the seminar paper will be assigned, supervised and corrected by the course lecturer.
ASSESSMENT
HIST 301–4: Three hour written examination for each course: three questions to be attempted
Twenty-five per cent of marks will be awarded for essays and course work. The expectation is that
students will not miss lectures or tutorials without legitimate reason, which they may be
required to provide in writing.
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EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
PAPER I PAPER II PAPER III
HIST 301 HIST 302 HIST 303–4
HIST 301 and HIST 303/304 will be examined at the end of first Semester, in January 2012.
HIST 302 will be examined at the end of the second semester, in May 2012
Coursebook
Every student is entitled to a copy of the course-book, which will be distributed at the
beginning of the academic year. The course-book is also available for consultation and
downloading on the Department’s website. If you lose or mislay your copy of the coursebook,
it can be downloaded at your convenience.
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III. HISTORY TUTORIALS AND ESSAYS
TUTORIALS:
Early in first term each student will be assigned to a tutorial group that meets weekly during the year. If, for any
reason you are not assigned to a tutorial group, it is your responsibility to bring it to the notice of the
Director of Tutorials, Dáire Keogh (e-mail – daire.keogh@spd.dcu.ie, Room E213), without delay. It is in
every student’s interest to treat tutorials with due seriousness. The tutor will arrange topics for discussion (in
advance), recommend reading, assign essays and discuss written work when completed.
Attendance at tutorials is mandatory. Absences must be explained to your tutor, preferably in advance,
and in the case of three consecutive absences to the director of tutorials in person and in writing. The
tutorial grade counts for 25%. All essays count towards the tutorial mark. Marks can be deducted for
non-attendance. Students who fail to attend regularly and/or fail to submit assignments in a timely
fashion may be deemed incomplete and prevented from proceeding with their degree. STUDENTS MUST
OBTAIN 40% IN THEIR TUTORIAL MARK TO PASS HISTORY.
ESSAYS:
HIST 301–4
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Essays will be assigned by the tutors from lists prepared and provided by course lecturers. Essays should be
submitted by arrangement with your tutor on the dates agreed during the academic year. Because the courses are
taught and examined on a semester basis, essays appertaining to course should be completed during the
semester in which they are taught. Second semester essays should be presented in sufficient time, (i.e. the last
essay should be submitted no later than 1 May), to allow them to be return before the end of the semester.
Tutors may refuse to correct essays submitted after the other essays in the batch have been corrected and
returned. They have also been advised to treat plagiarism very seriously.
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IV.
GUIDELINES FOR WRITING ESSAYS
1. LENGTH
There are no minimum or maximum lengths. It depends on the individual student and the particular
topic. Circa 3,000 words (eight to ten pages) is average.
2. LAYOUT
• Each essay should contain a title page with the title of the essay, the student’ s name, the name of
the lecturer, course for which it is submitted and the date.
• Each page should have a left hand margin of at least one inch, use a 12pt font size and 1.5
spacing.
• Students are requested to present their essays in a word-processed format and to keep copies of
their work.
3. STYLE/APPROACH:
• Most essays require discussion or argument of an issue. A mere recitation of factual information is
insufficient. Information should be used in support of, not as a substitute for, argument.
• It cannot be overstressed that there are no absolutely right or wrong answers, no definitive works,
no one unchallengeable or unchallenged interpretation. Thus reliance on a single source is
unwise.
• As with any argument, a familiarity with various viewpoints or interpretations enhances the
quality of the essay.
• However, students are free (indeed, are encouraged) to formulate their own views and to question
the interpretations of others, not least the lecturers.
• To facilitate clear, logical argument, essays should contain an introduction which defines the
question posed, assesses what it involves and explains how it is intended to proceed, and a
conclusion which returns to the question raised and summarises the arguments made and
conclusions reached: ‘Tell what you are going to tell them; tell them; and tell them what you
have told them.’
• The focus of the essay should be the essay title. If you believe the title is too sweeping, confining
or misleading, do not hesitate to say so. In no circumstances should you ignore it.
• Avoid self-created abbreviations, clichés, colloquialisms and sexist language.
• Avoid lengthy quotations from secondary sources
4. QUOTATION/CITATION
Inevitably, considerable use will be made of books and/or articles in the writing of essays. Where
these are used simply as the source of factual information, they need only be listed in the
bibliography. Where the distinctive views or interpretations of a particular historian are being
substantially reproduced, then the source should be acknowledged precisely by means of a footnote.
Where a direct quotation is made, it should be placed in quotation marks (single inverted commas)
and precisely acknowledged by means of a footnote, it should not be reproduced as the student’s own
work. Avoid extensive quotations from secondary sources.
The following method of citation is suggested:
Each direct quotation or citation of a particular historian’s distinctive interpretation should be
identified at the end of the sentence or paragraph by the use of a number (avail of the automatic
footnoting facility in common word processing programmes). At the bottom of each page of the essay
each number should be listed in turn and followed on the first occasion by the full reference to the
source of the relevant quotation. Subsequent citations should employ a short title. For example, in an
essay on the English revolution, the following might occur:
Basically the conflict between the Crown and Parliament was caused by their respective
views on government. 1 As Christopher Hill puts it, ‘two conceptions of civilisation were in
conflict. One took French absolutism as its model, the other the Dutch republic’. 2
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At the bottom of the page (footnotes), the source of the above quotation would be given thus (for first
citation):
1. Christopher Hill, The Century of Revolution (London, 1969), p. 16.
and, for second and subsequent citations:
2. Hill, Century of Revolution, p. 32.
WARNING
PLAGIARISM (THE DIRECT AND UNACKNOWLEDGED TRANSCRIPTION OF
MATERIAL) IS A SERIOUS TRANSGRESSION. AT THE LEAST, MARKS WILL BE
DEDUCTED. NO MARK GIVEN, OR STUDENTS MAY BE INVITED TO RESUBMIT
WHERE IT IS APPARENT THAT AN ESSAY OR PROJECT IS PLAGIARISED.
5. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
At the end of the essay there should be a bibliography listing the books and articles consulted in
alphabetical order. This should include the author’s name and the name of the work concerned. Titles
of books or journals should be italicised. Titles of articles should be placed in single inverted
commas. For example:
B. Manning, ‘The Levellers’ in E.W. Ives (ed.), The English Revolution (London, 1968), pp 35–61.
P. Robinson, The Plantation of Ulster (Dublin, 1984).
6. THE INTERNET
The World Wide Web is an attractive and accessible source of information. It is no substitute for the
printed word, however, and should be used in conjunction with printed sources. It is best used to
access primary sources. Moreover, it should be used with discretion, as the information provided is
not always reliable. WWW addresses should be given in the footnotes and bibliography.
7. DEADLINES:
Dates for submission of essays will be indicated by individual tutors. It is recommended that students
aim to have their first essay completed by mid November, the second by mid December, the third by
the end of February, the fourth by the end of April. Late essays may not be accepted unless a prior
arrangement is made, and essays will only be accepted after 1 May 2012 in exceptional
circumstances.
8. SUBMISSION OF ESSAYS
Essays should normally be handed to the tutor at the tutorial. They may also be handed in to the
History Department’s Secretary at D327 who will date and stamp them.
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V. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS and BOOKLISTS
HIST 301 MODERN IRELAND 1850–2000
DR DAITHÍ Ó CORRÁIN
A. MODULE DESCRIPTION
This broad survey course treats the dominant themes, personalities and developments in Irish history from the
end of the Great Famine to the close of the twentieth century. The action and interaction of motifs such as
separatism, land tenure, nationalism and unionism are examined as well as the often complex interplay between
cultural, economic, denominational and social forces. Beginning with the aftermath of the Great Famine, this
course charts the ending of the Union between Britain and Ireland and scrutinises the historical trajectories of
Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State/Republic of Ireland. Recent trends in Irish historiography are also
assessed, with particular emphasis on the ‘historical reputations’ of key personalities.
B. LEARNING OUTCOMES
On completing this course, students should be able to
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be enabled to:
LO 1 – Demonstrate their knowledge of the key themes, tendencies and historical actors in the 1850 to 2000
period
LO 2 – Identify and assess contested historical and political perspectives
LO 3 – Comprehend the changing nature of historical evidence and interpretation
LO 4 – Construct an objective argument based on historical evidence
LO 5 – Evaluate prescribed readings and texts analytically
LO 6 – Apply the concepts of ‘continuity and change’ prioritised in the strands of Primary History
LO 7 – Apply and integrate knowledge gained to the teaching of history and complementary strands of the
school curriculum
LO 8 – Engage in self-directed learning through independent study in specialised areas of personal interest
Assessment
Format
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C. COURSE OUTLINE
Part One: Post-Famine Transformations
1. The impact of the Great Famine
2. Fenianism and the genesis of Home Rule
3. Religion, education, and society
Part Two: The Union under Strain
4. Land, politics and nationalism
5. The Parnell era
6. Constructive Unionism
7. Cultural nationalism
8. The Irish Parliamentary Party and the revival of Home Rule
9. Unionism and the Ulster crisis
10. The rise of the labour movement
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Part Three: Ending the Union
11. World War and the 1916 Rising
12. The struggle for independence
13. Treaty and civil war
Part Four: From Irish Free State to Republic
14. Consolidating the Irish Free State
15. The ascendancy of de Valera
16. War and Emergency in the two Irelands
17. Post-war vicissitudes
18. Emigration: the exodus from Ireland in the 1950s
19. The age of Lemass and national recovery
20. Ireland in the wider world
21. The status of women in Ireland
22. The Church of Ireland and the Irish state
Part Five: Northern Ireland
23. Northern Ireland, 1920-69
24. Northern Ireland, 1969-98
25. Review
D. SUGGESTED READING LIST
There has been an efflorescence of writing on nineteenth and twentieth century Irish history. The reading list
below is detailed by design to facilitate students who wish to specialise in particular areas. Additional sources
will be recommended for some topics. The majority of the titles can be found at 941.5.
Recommended Texts
There are a number of general texts but you should consider purchasing at least one of these. Both are widely
available in bookshops. Copies are also available on 24-hour loan.
Jackson, Alvin, Ireland 1798-1998: War, Peace and Beyond (2 nd ed, Oxford, 2010).
Ferriter, Diarmaid, The Transformation of Ireland 1900 – 2000 (London, 2004).
Other General Works
Bartlett, Thomas, Ireland: A History (Cambridge, 2010)
Beckett, J. C., The Making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923 (London, 1966).
Boyce, D. George, Nationalism in Ireland (London, 1995 [1 st ed. 1982]).
Boyce, D. George, Nineteenth Century Ireland: The Search for Stability (Dublin, 1990).
Brown, Terence, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-2002 (London, 2009).
Comerford, R.V., Ireland (London, 2003).
Connolly, S. J. (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 nd ed., Oxford, 2002).
English, Richard, Irish Freedom: A History of Irish Nationalism (London, 2006).
Fanning, Ronan, Independent Ireland (Dublin, 1983).
Fitzpatrick, David, The Two Irelands 1912-1939 (Oxford, 1998).
Foster, R. F., Modern Ireland 1600 – 1972 (London, 1988).
Foster, R. F. (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland (Oxford, 1989).
Fraser, T.G., Ireland in Conflict 1922-1998 (London, 1999).
Garvin, Tom, The Evolution of Irish Nationalist Politics (Dublin, 2005 [1 st ed. 1981]).
Garvin, Tom, Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928 (Oxford, 1987).
Lyons, F. S. L., Ireland since the Famine (London, 1973).
Harkness, David W., Ireland in the Twentieth Century: Divided Ireland (London, 1996).
Keogh, Dermot, Twentieth Century Ireland: Nation and State (Dublin, 1994).
Lee, J. J., The Modernisation of Irish Society 1848-1918 (Dublin, 2008 [1 st ed. 1973]).
—— Ireland 1912-1985: Politics and Society (Cambridge, 1989).
McCartney, Dónal, Dawning of Democracy: Ireland 1800-1870 (Dublin, 1987).
MacDonagh, Oliver, Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath (London, 1977).
—— States of Mind: A Study of Anglo-Irish Conflict, 1780 – 1980 (London, 1983).
McDowell, R.B., The Administration of Ireland 1801-1914 (London, 1964).
Murphy, John A., Ireland in the Twentieth Century (Dublin, 1975).
O’Hegarty, P.S., A History of Ireland under the Union 1801-1922 (1952).
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Patterson, Henry, Ireland since 1939: The Persistence of Conflict (Oxford, 2002).
Townshend, Charles, Ireland: the Twentieth Century (London, 1999).
Travers, Pauric, Settlements and Divisions: Ireland 1870-1922 (Dublin, 1988).
Walker, Brian (ed), Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922 (Dublin, 1978).
—— Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland 1918-92 (Dublin, 1992).
There are a number of useful essays in the New History of Ireland series:
Vaughan, W.E. (ed), A New History of Ireland V: Ireland Under the Union I: 1801-1870 (Oxford, 1989).
—— A New History of Ireland VI: Ireland Under the Union II: 1801-1870 (Oxford, 1989).
Hill, J.R. (ed.), A New History of Ireland VII: Ireland 1921–1984 (Oxford, 2003)
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I: POST-FAMINE TRANSFORMATIONS
1. Impact of the Great Famine
Cullen, Louis, An Economic History of Ireland since 1660 (London, 1972).
Daly, Mary E., Social and Economic History of Ireland since 1800 (Dublin, 1981).
—— The Famine in Ireland (Dundalk, 1986).
Donnelly, James, The Great Irish Potato Famine (Gloucestershire, 2001).
Edwards, R. Dudley and T. Desmond Williams (eds), The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History, 1845-52
(Dublin, 1965 [new edition 1994]).
Fitzpatrick, David, Irish Emigration 1800-1921 (Dublin, 1984).
—— Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia (Cork, 1994)
Gray, Peter, Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society, 1843-1850 (Dublin, 1999).
Lee, J. J., The Modernisation of Irish Society 1848-1918 (Dublin, 2008 [1 st ed 1973]).
Miller, Kerby, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish exodus to North America (New York, 1985).
Ó Gráda, Cormac, Ireland before and after the Famine: Explorations in Economic History, 1800-1925 (2 nd ed.,
Manchester, 1993).
—— Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780-1939 (Oxford, 1994).
—— Ireland’s Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Dublin, 2006).
Póirtéir, Cathal (ed), The Great Irish Famine (Cork, 1995).
Toibín, Colm and Diarmaid Ferriter, The Irish Famine: A Documentary (London, 2001).
2. Fenianism and the genesis of Home Rule
Ball, Stephen, A Policeman’s Ireland: Recollections of Samuel Walters RIC (Cork, 1999).
Comerford, R.V., The Fenians in Context: Irish Politics and Society 1848-82 (Dublin, 1985).
—— ‘Conspiring brotherhoods and contending elites, 1857-1863’, in A New History of Ireland V, pp 415-30.
Devoy, John, Recollections of an Irish Rebel (New York, 1929).
Jenkins, Brian, The Fenian Problem: Insurgency and Terrorism in a Liberal State, 1858-1874 (Montreal, 2008)
Kelly, M. J., The Fenian Ideal and Irish Nationalism, 1882-1916 (Woodbridge, 2006).
Kerr, Donal A., ‘Priests, pikes and patriots : the Irish Catholic church and political violence from the Whiteboys
to the Fenians’, in Stewart J. Brown and David Miller, (eds.), Piety and Power in Ireland 1760-1960:
Essays in honour of Emmet Larkin (Belfast, 2000), pp 16-42.
McGarry, Fearghal & James McConnel (eds), The Black Hand of Republicanism: Fenianism in Modern Ireland
(Dublin, 2009)
McGee, Owen, The IRB: The Irish Republican Brotherhood from the Land League to Sinn Féin (Dublin, 2005).
Moody, T.W. (ed), The Fenian Movement (Cork, 1968).
Newsinger, John, Fenianism in Mid-Victorian Britain (London, 1994)
Ó Broin, León, Fenian Fever: An Anglo-American Dilemma (London, 1971).
—— Revolutionary Underground: the Story of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, 1858-1924 (Dublin, 1976).
O’Day, Alan, Isaac Butt (Dublin, 2009)
Rafferty, Oliver, The Church, the State and the Fenian Threat 1861-1975 (Basingstoke, 1999).
Ramón, Marta, A Provisional Dictator: James Stephens and the Fenian Movement (Dublin, 2007)
Ryan, Desmond, The Phoenix Flame: A Study of Fenianism and John Devoy (London, 1937).
—— The Fenian Chief: A Biography of James Stephens (Dublin, 1967).
Takagami, Shin-ichi, ‘The Fenian rising in Dublin, March 1867’, Irish Historical Studies, 29 (1995), pp 340-62.
Thornley, David, Isaac Butt and Home Rule (London, 1964).
Townshend, Charles, Political Violence in Ireland (Oxford, 1983).
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Williams, T. Desmond (ed), Secret Societies in Ireland (Dublin, 1973).
3. Religion, education, and society
Acheson, Alan, A History of the Church of Ireland, 1691-1996 (Dublin, 1997)
Akenson, Donald H., The Church of Ireland 1800-85: Ecclesiastical Reform and Revolution, 1800–1885 (New
Haven, 1970).
—— The Irish Education Experiment: the National System of Education in the Nineteenth Century (London,
1970).
Barr, Colin, Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865 (Notre
Dame, 2003).
—— ‘University education, history and the hierarchy,’ in Lawrence McBride (ed), Reading Irish Histories
(Dublin, 2003), pp 62-79.
Bowen, Desmond, Paul Cardinal Cullen and the Shaping of Modern Irish Catholicism (Dublin, 1983).
Connolly, Seán, Religion and Society in Nineteenth Century Ireland (Dundalk, 1985).
Corish, Patrick, (ed.), A History of Irish Catholicism, vol. 5 (Dublin, 1970).
Daly, Mary E., Dublin the Deposed Capital: A Social and Economic History 1860-1916 (Cork, 1984).
Finnane, Mark, Insanity and the Insane in Post Famine Ireland (London, 1981).
Hogan, Edmund, The Irish Missionary Movement: A Historical Survey 1830-1980 (Dublin, 1990).
Hooper, Glenn and Leon Litvack (eds), Ireland in the Nineteenth Century: Regional Identity (Dublin, 2000).
Jones, Greta and Elizabeth Malcolm, Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland, 1650-1940 (Cork, 1999).
Keenan, Dónal, The Church in Nineteenth Century Ireland (Dublin, 1983).
Keogh, Dáire & Albert McDonnell (eds), Cardinal Paul Cullen and his world (Dublin, 2011)
Kerr, Dónal, ‘A Nation of Beggars’? Priests, People and Politics in Famine Ireland 1846-1852 (Oxford, 1994).
Larkin, Emmet, The Roman Catholic Church and the Creation of the Modern Irish State, 1878-1886
(Philadelphia, 1975).
—— The Making of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland 1850-1860 (Chapel Hill, 1980).
—— The Consolidation of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland 1860-1870 (Chapel Hill, 1987).
—— The Roman Catholic Church and the Home Rule Movement in Ireland 1870-74 (Chapel Hill, 1990).
Malcolm, Elizabeth, Ireland Sober, Ireland Free: Drink and Temperance in Nineteenth Century Ireland
(Dublin, 1986).
Megahey, Alan, The Irish Protestant Churches in the Twentieth Century (Basingstoke, 2000).
Miller, David, Church, State and Nation 1898-1921 (Dublin, 1973).
Morrissey, Thomas, William J. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, 1841-1921 (Dublin, 2000).
—— Bishop Edward Thomas O’Dwyer of Limerick, 1842-1917 (Dublin, 2003).
Rafferty, Oliver, The Catholic Church and the Protestant State: Nineteenth-Century Irish Realities (Dublin,
2008)
Parkes, Susan, ‘Higher Education, 1793-1908’, in A New History of Ireland VI, pp 539-70.
Paseta, Senia, Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change and Ireland’s Catholic Elite (Cork, 2000).
Prunty, Jacinta, Dublin Slums 1800-1925 (Dublin, 1998).
II: THE UNION UNDER STRAIN
4. Land, politics and nationalism
Bew, Paul, Land and the National Question 1858-1910 (Dublin, 1978).
Bull, Philip, Land, Politics and Nationalism: A Study of the Irish Land Question (Dublin, 1996).
Campbell, Fergus, Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland (Oxford, 2005).
Clark, Samuel, Social Origins of the Irish Land War (Princeton, 1979).
Clark, Samuel and James Donnelly (eds), Irish Peasants: Violence and Political Unrest 1780-1914
(Manchester, 1983).
Geary, Laurence, The Plan of Campaign 1886-91 (Cork, 1986)
Jordan, Donald, Land and Popular Politics in Ireland (Cambridge, 1994).
King, Carla, Michael Davitt (Dundalk, 1999).
—— (ed), Famine, Land and Culture in Ireland (Dublin, 2000)
Loughlin, James, Gladstone, Home Rule and the Ulster Question 1882-93 (Dublin, 1986).
Marley, Laurence, Michael Davitt: Freelance Radical and Frondeur (Dublin, 2007)
Moody, T. W., Davitt and Irish Revolution, 1846-82 (Oxford, 1981).
O’Callaghan, Margaret, British High Politics and a Nationalist Ireland: Criminality, Landand the Law under
Forster and Balfour (Cork, 1994)
Pomfret, John E., The Struggle for the Land in Ireland, 1800-1923 (New York, 1969).
Shields, Andrew, Irish Conservative Party, 1852-1868: Land, Politics and Religion (Dublin, 2007)
Steele, E. D., Irish Land and British Politics: Tenant Right and Nationality 1865-1870 (Cambridge, 1974).
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Warwick-Haller, Sally, William O'Brien and the Irish Land War (Dublin, 1990).
Whyte, John H., The Tenant League and Irish Politics in the 1850s (Dundalk, 1972).
Vaughan, W. E., Landlords and Tenants in mid-Victorian Ireland (Oxford, 1994).
5. The Parnell era
Bew, Paul, C.S. Parnell (Dublin, 1980).
Callanan, Frank, The Parnell Split 1890-91 (Cork, 1992).
Foster, R.F., Charles Stewart Parnell: the Man and His Family (Hassocks, 1976).
Jackson, Alvin, A History of Home Rule (2003)
Kee, Robert, The Laurel and the Ivy: The Story of Charles Stewart Parnell (1994)
Lyons, F. S. L., Charles Stewart Parnell (London, 1977).
—— John Dillon: A Biography (London, 1968).
McCartney, Donal, Parnell: the Politics of Power (Dublin, 1991).
O’Brien, Conor C., Parnell and His Party, 1880-1890 (Oxford, 1957).
O’Day, Alan, Charles Stewart Parnell (Dundalk, 1998).
—— Irish Home Rule, 1867-1921 (Manchester, 1998).
6. Constructive Unionism
Bew, Paul, Conflict and Conciliation in Ireland 1890-1910 (Oxford, 1987).
Biagini, Eugenio, British Democracy and Irish Nationalism 1876–1906 (Cambridge, 2007)
Breathnach, Ciara, The Congested Districts Board 1891–1923 (Dublin, 2005).
Buckland, Patrick, The Anglo-Irish and the New Ireland 1885–1922 (Dublin, 1972).
Bull, Philip, ‘The formation of the United Irish League, 1898-1900: the dynamics of Irish agrarian agitation’,
Irish Historical Studies 33:132 (November 2003), pp 404-23
Curtis, L.P., Coercion and Conciliation in Ireland 1880-92 (Princeton, 1963).
Dangerfield, George, The Damnable Question (London, 1979).
Gailey, Andrew, Ireland and the Death of Kindness: The Experience of Constructive Unionism 1890-1905
(Cork, 1986).
Peatling, Gary, British Opinion and Irish Self-Government, 1865-1925 (Dublin, 2001).
Privilege, John, Michael Logue and the Catholic Church in Ireland, 1879-1925 (Manchester, 2009)
Shannon, Catherine, Arthur J. Balfour and Ireland, 1874-1922 (Washington, 1988).
West, Trevor, Horace Plunkett: Co-operation and Politics (Gerrards Cross, 1986).
7. Cultural nationalism
GAA
Cronin, Mike, Sport and Nationalism in Ireland (Dublin, 1999).
Cronin, Mike, William Murphy & Paul Rouse (eds), The Gaelic Athletic Association 1884-2009 (Dublin, 2009)
De Búrca, Marcus, The GAA: A History (Dublin, 2000 [1 st ed. 1980).
—— Michael Cusack and the GAA (Dublin, 1989).
Garnham, Neal, ‘Accounting for the early success of the Gaelic Athletic Association’, Irish Historical Studies
34 (2004), pp 65-78.
Greene, David, ‘Michael Cusack and the rise of the G.A.A,’ in Conor C. O’Brien (ed), The Shaping of Modern
Ireland (1960), pp 74-84.
King, Séamus, A History of Hurling (Dublin, 1996).
Mandle, W. F., The GAA and Irish Nationalist Politics 1884-1924 (London, 1987).
—— ‘The I.R.B. and the beginnings of the Gaelic Athletic Association,’ in Alan O’Day (ed), Reactions to Irish
Nationalism (Dublin, 1987), pp 95-115.
Nolan, William (ed), The Gaelic Athletic Association in Dublin 1884-2000 (Dublin, 2005).
Rouse, Paul, ‘The politics of culture and sport in Ireland: a history of the G.A.A. ban on foreign games 1884-
1971. Part One: 1884-1921’, International Journal of the History of Sport, 10 (1993), pp 333-360.
Language & Literature
Allen, Nicholas, George Russell and the New Ireland, 1905-30 (Dublin, 2003).
Cleary, Joe and Claire Connolly, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge, 2004).
Dunleavy, J. & Garret Dunleavy, Douglas Hyde: A Maker of Modern Ireland (Berkeley, 1991).
Fitzsimon, Betsey Taylor (ed.), The Irish Revival Reappraised (Dublin, 2004).
Foster, R. F., Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English history (London, 1993).
Garvin, Tom, Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928 (Oxford, 1987).
Hutchinson, John, The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism: The Gaelic Revival and the Creation of the Irish
Nation State (London, 1987).
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Kiberd, Declan, ‘Douglas Hyde a radical in Tory clothing,’ Irish Reporter, 11 (1993), pp 18–20
—— Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (London, 1996).
Lyons, F. S. L., Culture and anarchy in Ireland, 1890-1939 (Oxford, 1979)
Martin, Francis Xavier and F. J. Byrne (eds), The Scholar Revolutionary: Eoin MacNeill, 1867-1945 (Shannon,
1973).
Maume, Patrick, ‘Life that is Exile’: Daniel Corkery and the Search for Irish Ireland (Belfast, 1993).
—— D.P. Moran (Dundalk, 1995).
McCartney, Dónal, ‘Hyde, D. P. Moran, and Irish Ireland,’ in F. X. Martin (ed.), Leaders and Men of the Easter
Rising (London, 1967), pp 43-54.
—— ‘The founding of the Gaelic League’, in Liam de Paor (ed.), Milestones in Irish History (Cork, 1986), pp
117-127.
MacDonagh, Oliver, States of Mind: a study of Anglo-Irish conflict 1780-1980 (Oxford, 1983).
McMahon, Timothy, ‘“All creeds and all classes”? Just who made up the Gaelic League?’, Éire-Ireland, 37:3-4
(2002), pp 118-68.
—— Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910 (New York, 2008)
Ó Giolláin, Diarmuid, Locating Irish Folklore, Tradition, Modernity, Identity (Cork, 2000).
Ó Glaisne, Risteárd, Dúbhglas de h-íde (1860-1949): Ceannródaí Culturtha 1860-1910 (Baile Átha Cliath,
1991).
Ó Lúing, Seán, ‘Douglas Hyde and the Gaelic League’, Studies 62 (1973), pp 123-38.
Ó Tuama, Seán (ed.), The Gaelic League Idea (Cork, 1973).
Theatre
Brown, Terence, The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography (Dublin, 1999).
Hogan, Robert and James Kilroy, The Irish Literary Theatre: 1899-1901 (Dublin, 1975).
Hunt, Hugh, The Abbey, Ireland’s National Theatre, 1904-78 (Dublin, 1979).
Foster, R. F., W.B. Yeats: A Life 1: The Apprentice Image 1865-1914 (Oxford, 1997).
—— W. B. Yeats: A Life 2: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 (Oxford, 2003).
Gwynn, Denis, Edward Martyn and the Irish Revival (London, 1930).
Mathews, P. J. Revival: The Abbey Theatre, Sinn Féin, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement
(Cork, 2003).
Morash, Chris, A History of Irish Theatre (Cambridge, 2002).
O’Farrell, Ciara, Louis D’Alton and the Abbey Theatre (Dublin, 2004).
Richards, Shaun (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Cambridge, 2004).
Trotter, Mary, ‘Gregory, Yeats and Ireland’s Abbey Theatre’, in Mary Luckhurst (ed.), A Companion to
Modern British and Irish Drama: 1880-2005 (Oxford, 2006), pp 87–98.
Watson, G. J. Irish Identity and the Literary Revival: Synge, Yeats, Joyce and O’Casey (London, 1979).
8. The Irish Parliamentary Party and the revival of Home Rule
Bew, Paul, John Redmond (Dublin, 1996).
Biagini, Eugenio, British Democracy and Irish Nationalism 1876–1906 (Cambridge, 2007)
Bull, Philip, ‘The United Irish League and the reunion of the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1898-1900’, Irish
Historical Studies 26:101 (May 1988), pp 51-78
Callanan, Frank, T.M. Healy (Cork, 1996).
Finnan, Joseph, John Redmond and Irish Unity, 1912-1918 (Syracuse, 2004).
Gwynn, Denis, Life of John Redmond (London, 1932).
Jalland, Patricia, The Liberals and Ireland: the Ulster Question in British Politics to 1914 (New York, 1980).
Lyons, F.S.L., The Irish Parliamentary Party 1890-1910 (1951)
Maume, Patrick, The Long Gestation: Irish Nationalist Life 1891-1918 (1999)
Meleady, Dermot, Redmond: The Parnellite (Cork, 2008).
Morton, Grenfell, Home Rule and the Irish Question (London, 1980).
O’Halpin, Eunan, Decline of the Union 1892-1920 (Dublin, 1987).
Smith, Jeremy, The Tories and Ireland 1910-1914 (Dublin, 2001).
—— ‘Federalism, devolution and partition: Sir Edward Carson and the search for a compromise on the Third
Home Rule Bill, 1913-14’, IHS 35:140 (November 2007), pp 496-518.
Wheatley, Michael, Nationalism and the Irish Party: Provincial Ireland, 1910-1916 (Oxford, 2005)
9. Unionism and the Ulster Crisis
Bardon, Jonathan, A History of Ulster (Belfast, 1992).
Bew, John, The Glory of being Britons: Civic Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Belfast (Dublin, 2009)
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Boyce, George, ‘Respectable rebels: Ulster Unionist resistance to the third Home Rule Bill, 1912-14’, in Alan
Parkinson and Éamon Phoneix (eds), Conflicts in the North of Ireland, 1900-2000 (Dublin, 2010), pp.
28-39
Bowman, Timothy, Carson’s Army: The Ulster Volunteer Force, 1910-1922 (Manchester, 2007)
Buckland, Patrick, James Craig (Dublin, 1980).
—— Ulster Unionism and the Origins of the New State 1896-1922 (Dublin, 1973).
Gailey, Andrew, ‘King Carson: An Essay on the intervention of leadership’, IHS 30:117 (May 1996), pp 66-87
Hepburn, A.C. The Conflict of Nationality in Modern Ireland (London, 1980).
—— Catholic Belfast and Nationalist Ireland in the Era of Joe Devlin, 1871-1934 (Oxford, 2008)
Jackson, Alvin, Edward Carson (Dundalk, 1993).
Moody, T.W., The Ulster Question 1603-1973 (Cork, 1974).
O’Leary, Cornelius and Patrick Maume, Controversial issues in Anglo-Irish relations 1910–1921 (Dublin,
2005).
Smith, Jeremy, ‘Federalism, devolution and partition: Sir Edward Carson and the search for a compromise on
the Third Home Rule Bill, 1913-14’, IHS 34:140 (November 2007), pp 496-518.
Stewart, A. T. Q., The Ulster Crisis (London, 1967).
—— Carson (Dublin, 1983).
Walker, Brian, Ulster Politics: The Formative Years 1868-86 (Belfast, 1989).
Walker, Graham, A History of the Ulster Unionist Party: Protest, Pragmatism and Pessimism (Manchester,
2004).
10. The Rise of the Labour Movement
Dudley-Edwards, Ruth, James Connolly (Dublin, 1981)
Gaughan, J.A. Thomas Johnson, 1872-1963: First Leader of the Labour Party (Dublin, 1980).
Jones, Mary, These Obstreperous Lassies: The Irish Women Workers’ Union (Dublin, 1988)
Keogh, Dermot, The Rise of the Irish Working Class (Dublin, 1982).
Lane, Fintan and Dónal Ó Drisceoil, Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830-1945 (Basingstoke, 2005).
Larkin, Emmet, James Larkin: Irish Labour Leader, 1876-1947 (London, 1967).
Lynch, David, Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: The Irish Socialist Republican Party 1896-1904 (Dublin,
2005).
Metscher, Priscilla, Republicanism and Socialism in Ireland: a Study in the Relationship of Politics and
Ideology from the United Irishmen to James Connolly (New York, 1986).
Mitchell, Arthur, Labour in Irish Politics 1890-1930 (Dublin, 1974).
Morgan, Austin, James Connolly (Manchester, 1988).
Nevin, Dónal, James Connolly: A Full Life (Dublin, 2005).
O’Connor, Emmet, A Labour History of Ireland 1824-1960 (Dublin, 1992).
—— Syndicalism in Ireland, 1917-1923 (Cork, 1988).
—— Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia, and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43 (Dublin, 2004).
Puirséil, Niamh, The Irish Labour Party 1922-73 (Dublin, 2007)
Rumpf, E. and A. C. Hepburn, Nationalism and Socialism in Twentieth Century Ireland (London, 1977).
Yeates, Pádraig , Lockout: Dublin 1913 (Dublin, 2000).
11. World War and the 1916 Rising
1916 Rebellion Handbook (Belfast, 1998).
Bartlett, Tom and Keith Jeffery (eds), A Military History of Ireland (Cambridge, 1996).
Bourke, Joanna (ed), The Misfit Soldier: Edward Casey’s War Story, 1914-1918 (Cork, 1999)
Bowman, Timothy, The Irish Regiments in the Great War: Discipline and Morale (Manchester, 2003).
Brennan-Whitmore, W.J., Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising from Behind the Barricades, with an introduction
and notes by Pauric Travers (Dublin, 1996).
Caulfield, Max, The Easter Rebellion (Dublin, 1995 [first published 1963]).
Doherty, Gabriel and Dermot Keogh, 1916: The Long Revolution (Cork, 2007).
Dungan, Myles, They shall grow not old: Irish Soldiers and the Great War (Dublin, 1997).
Dudley-Edwards, Ruth, Patrick Pearse: The Triumph of Failure (London, 1977).
Fitzpatrick, David, ‘The logic of collective sacrifice: Ireland and the British army, 1914-1918,’ Historical
Journal, 38:4 (1995), pp 1017-30.
Foy, Michael and Brian Barton, The Easter Rising (Stroud, 1999).
Gregory Adrian and Senia Paseta (eds), Ireland and the Great War: 'a War to Unite us all'? (Manchester,
2002).
Hegarty, Shane and Fintan O’Toole, The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising (Dublin, 2006).
Hennessey, Thomas, Dividing Ireland: World War I and Partition (London, 1998).
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Howe, Stephen, Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture (Oxford, 2000).
Johnson, Nuala, Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance (Cambridge, 2007)
Jordan, Anthony, Major John MacBride, 1865-1916 (Westport, 1991).
Laffan, Michael, The Resurrection of Ireland: The Sinn Fein Party, 1916-23 (Cambridge, 1999).
MacAtasney, Gerard, Seán Mac Diarmada: The Mind of a Revolution (Manorhamilton, 2004).
Mac Lochlainn, Piaras, Last Words (Dublin, 1990).
McGarry, Fearghal, The Rising Ireland: Easter 1916 (Oxford, 2010)
Martin, F.X. (ed.), Leaders and Men of the 1916 Rising (London, 1967).
Novick, Ben, Irish Nationalist Propaganda during the First World War (Dublin, 2001).
Ó Broin, Leon, Dublin Castle and the 1916 Rising: The Story of Sir Matthew Nathan (Dublin, 1966).
Robbins, Frank, Under the Starry Plough: Recollections of Citizens Army (Dublin, 1977).
Ryan, Annie, Witnesses: Inside the Easter Rising (Dublin, 2005).
Ryan, Desmond, The Rising: The Complete Story of Easter Week (3 rd ed., Dublin, 1949).
Scholes, Andrew, The Church of Ireland and the Third Home Rule Bill (Dublin, 2010), ch. 5
Townshend, Charles, Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion (London, 2005).
Younger, Carlton, Arthur Griffith (Dublin, 1981).
12. The struggle for independence
Abbott, Richard, Police Casualties in Ireland 1919-22 (Cork, 2000).
Augusteijn, Joost, From Public Defiance to Guerrilla Warfare: The Experience of Ordinary Volunteers in the
Irish War of Independence, 1916-1921 (Dublin, 1996).
—— (ed), The Irish Revolution, 1913-23 (Basingstoke, 2002).
—— ‘Accounting for the emergence of violent activism among Irish revolutionaries, 1916-21’, Irish Historical
Studies 35:139 (May 2007), pp 327-44
Boyce, D. George, Englishmen and Irish Troubles: British Public Opinion and the Making of Irish Policy 1918-
22 (Aldershot, 1994 [1 st ed.1972])
Carroll, F.M., American Opinion and the Irish Question (Dublin, 1978).
Coleman, Marie, County Longford and the Irish Revolution (Dublin, 2003).
Coogan, Tim Pat, Michael Collins: A Biography (London, 1990).
Deasy, Liam, Towards Ireland Free (Cork, 1973).
Doherty, M. A. ‘Kevin Barry and the Anglo-Irish Propaganda War’, Irish Historical Studies, 32:126 (Nov.,
2000), pp 217-231
Fitzpatrick, David, Politics and Irish Life 1913-21 (Cork, 1998 [new edition]).
Hart, Peter, The IRA and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-23 (Oxford, 1998).
—— The IRA at War 1916-1923 (Oxford, 2003).
—— Mick, The Real Michael Collins (London, 2005).
Hopkinson, Michael, The Irish War of Independence (Dublin, 2002).
Laffan, Michael, The Resurrection of Ireland: the Sinn Fein Party, 1916-1923 (Cambridge, 1999).
McMahon, Paul, ‘British intelligence and the Anglo-Irish truce, July-December 1921’, Irish Historical Studies
35:140 (November 2007), pp 519-40
Mitchell, Arthur, Revolutionary Government in Ireland, 1919-22 (Dublin, 1995).
Ó Broin, León, Michael Collins (Dublin, 1980).
Ryan, Annie, Comrades: Inside the Irish War of Independence (Dublin, 2007).
Townshend, Charles, The British Campaign in Ireland 1919-21 (London, 1975).
—— Political Violence in Ireland (Oxford, 1983).
13. Treaty and civil war
Bowman, John, De Valera and the Ulster Question (Oxford, 1982).
Campbell, Colm, Emergency Law in Ireland, 1918-1925 (Oxford, 1994).
Deasy, Liam, Brother against Brother (Cork, 1982).
Doherty, Gabriel and Dermot Keogh (eds), De Valera’s Irelands (Dublin, 2003).
Dolan, Anne, Commemorating the Irish Civil War: History and Memory 1923-2000 (Cambridge, 2003).
English, Richard, Ernie O’Malley: IRA Intellectual (Oxford, 1998).
Farry, Michael, The Aftermath of Revolution: Sligo 1921-23 (Dublin, 2000).
Fitzpatrick, David, Harry Boland’s Irish Revolution (Cork, 2003).
Harrington, Niall, Kerry Landing (Dublin, 1992).
Hopkinson, Michael, Green against Green: The Irish Civil War (Dublin, 1988).
—— ‘From treaty to civil war, 1921-2’, in New History of Ireland 7, pp 1-30.
Jones, Thomas, Whitehall Diary: Vol, III, Ireland 1918-25 (Oxford, 1971).
Kissane, Bill, The Politics of the Irish Civil War (Oxford, 2005).
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Knirck, Jason, The Debate over the Anglo-Irish Treaty (2006).
—— Women of the Dáil: Republicanism and the Anglo-Irish Treaty (Dublin, 2006).
Laffan, Michael. The Resurrection of Ireland: the Sinn Fein Party, 1916-1923 (Cambridge, 1999).
Macardle, Dorothy, The Irish Republic (London 1937).
—— Tragedies of Kerry (Dublin, 1998).
Mitchell, Arthur, Revolutionary Government in Ireland, 1919-22 (Dublin, 1995).
Murphy, Brian P., ‘The Irish Civil War 1922-1923: an anti-Treaty perspective,’ Irish Sword, 20 (1997), pp 293-
307.
O’Donoghue, Florence, No Other Law: The Story of Liam Lynch and the IRA (Dublin, 1954).
Pakenham, Francis, Peace by Ordeal (London, 1935).
Ryan, Meda, Liam Lynch, the Real Chief (Cork, 1986).
Valiulis, Maryann, Portrait of a Revolutionary: General Richard Mulchay (Dublin, 1992).
—— ‘The “army mutiny” of 1924 and the assertion of civilian authority in independent Ireland’, Irish
Historical Studies, 23 (1983), pp 354-66.
Williams, Desmond T, ‘From the treaty to the civil war’, in Williams (ed.), The Irish Struggle 1916-1926
(London, 1966), pp 117-28.
Younger, Carlton, Ireland’s Civil War (London, 1968).
14. Consolidating the Irish Free State
Brady, Conor, Guardians of the Peace (Dublin, 1974).
Chubb, Basil, The Government and Politics of Ireland (Stanford, 1970).
—— The Constitution and Constitutional Change in Ireland (Dublin, 1978).
Collins, Stephen, The Cosgrave Legacy (Dublin, 1999).
Cronin, Mike and John M. Regan, Ireland: The Politics of Independence 1922-49 (Basingstoke, 2000).
Fanning, Ronan, The Irish Department of Finance 1922-58 (Dublin, 1978).
Gallagher, Michael, Days of Blue Loyalty: The Politics of Membership of the Fine Gael Party (Dublin, 2002).
Garvin, Tom, 1922: The Birth of Irish Democracy (Dublin, 1996).
Hand, Geoffrey (ed.), Report of the Boundary Commission (1969).
Hanley, Brian, The IRA 1926-1936 (Dublin, 2002).
Kissane, Bill, Explaining Irish Democracy (Dublin, 2002).
Maguire, Martin, The Civil Service and the Revolution in Ireland 1912-1938 (Manchester, 2008)
McCarthy, John P., Kevin O’Higgins: Builder of the Irish State (Dublin, 2006).
McGarry, Fearghal, Eoin O’Duffy: Self-made Hero (Oxford, 2005).
Meehan, Ciara, The Cosgrave Party: A History of Cumann na nGaedheal, 1923-33 (Dublin, 2010)
Murray, Patrick, Oracles of God: The Roman Catholic Church and Irish politics 1922-37 (Dublin, 2000).
McNiffe, Liam, A History of the Garda Síochána: A Social History of the Force (Dublin, 1997).
Ó Corráin, Donnachadh (ed), James Hogan: Revolutionary, Historian and Political Scientist (Dublin, 2001).
Ó Gráda, Cormac, A Rocky Road: The Irish Economy since the 1920s (Manchester, 1997).
O’Halpin, Eunan, Defending Ireland: The Irish Free State and its Enemies (Oxford, 2000).
Ó Longaigh, Seosamh, Emergency Law in Independent Ireland (Dublin, 2006).
Regan, John M., The Irish Counter-Revolution 1921-36 (Dublin, 1999).
Whyte, J.H. Church and State in Modern Ireland 1923-79 (Dublin, 1980).
White, Terence De Vere, Kevin O'Higgins (London, 1966).
15. The ascendancy of de Valera
Augusteijn, Joost (ed), Ireland in the 1930s: New Perspectives (Dublin, 1999).
Bowman, John, De Valera and the Ulster Question (Oxford, 1982).
Coogan, Tim Pat, De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow (London, 1993).
Cronin, Mike, The Blueshirts and Irish Politics (Dublin, 1998).
Dunphy, Richard. The Making of Fianna Fáil Power in Ireland, 1923-1948 (Oxford, 1995).
Dwyer, T. Ryle, Eamon de Valera (Dublin, 1980).
English, Richard, Radicals and the Republic: Socialist Republicanism in the Irish Free State, 1925-1937
(Oxford, 1994).
Ferriter, Diarmaid, Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera (Dublin, 2007).
Farrell, Brian (ed.), De Valera’s Constitution and Ours (Dublin, 1988).
Longford and T.P. O’Neill, De Valera (London, 1970).
Manning, Maurice, The Blueshirts (Dublin, 1970).
McGarry, Fearghal, Ireland and the Spanish Civil War (Cork, 1999).
McMahon, Deirdre, Republicans and Imperialists. Anglo-Irish Relations in the 1930s (New Haven and London,
1984).
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O’Brien, Mark, De Valera, Fianna Fáil and the Irish Press (Dublin, 2001).
O’Carroll J.P. & J.A. Murphy, De Valera and his Times (Cork, 1983).
Ó Drisceoil, Dónal, Peadar O’Donnell (Cork, 2001)
O’Halloran, Clare, Partition and the Limits of Nationalism (Dublin, 1987).
O’Halpin, Eunan, Defending Ireland: The Irish Free State and its Enemies (Oxford, 2000).
Ryan, Ray, ‘The anti-annuity payment campaign, 1934-6’, Irish Historical Studies 34:135 (May 2005), pp 306-
320.
Travers, Pauric, Eamon De Valera (Dundalk, 1995).
16. War and Emergency in the two Irelands
Barrington, Brendan, The War-time Broadcasts of Francis Stuart (Dublin, 2000).
Carroll, Joseph, Ireland in the War Years, 1939-1945 (Newton Abbot, 1975).
Dwyer, T. Ryle, Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland’s Phoney Neutrality during World War II (Dublin, 2010)
Fisk, Robert, In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality (London, 1983).
Girvin, Brian The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939-45 (London, 2006).
—— ‘The Emergency, neutrality and the Second World War’, Irish Historical Studies 35:140 (November
2005), pp 553-8
Girvin, Brian and Geoffrey Roberts, Ireland and the Second World War (Dublin, 2000).
Hull, Mark, Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Ireland 1939-24 (Dublin, 2002).
Kennedy, Michael, Guarding Neutral Ireland: the Coast Watching Service and Military Intelligence, 1939-45
(Dublin, 2009)
Muldowney, Mary, The Second World War and Irish Women: An Oral History (Dublin, 2007).
Nowlan K.B. & T.D. Williams (eds), Ireland in the Wars Years and After (Dublin, 1969).
O’Donoghue, David, Hitler’s Irish Voices (Belfast, 1998).
Ó Drisceoil, Dónal, Censorship in Ireland 1939-45: Neutrality, Politics and Society (Cork, 1996).
O’Halpin, Eunan, Defending Ireland: The Irish Free State and its Enemies (Oxford, 2000).
O’Malley, Michael, Military Aviation in Ireland 1921-45 (Dublin, 2010)
Salmon, Trevor, Unneutral Ireland (Oxford, 1989).
Wills, Clair, That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland during the Second World War (2007).
17. Post-War Vicissitudes and New Departures
Browne, Noel, Against the Tide (1986)
Cousins, Mel, The Birth of Social Welfare in Ireland (Dublin, 2003).
Deeny, James, To Cure and to Care (1989).
Garvin, Tom, Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so poor for so long? (Dublin, 2004).
——, News from a Republic (Dublin, 2010)
Girvin, Brian, Between Two Worlds: Politics and Economy in Independent Ireland (Dublin, 1989).
Horgan, John, Noël Browne: Passionate Outsider (Dublin, 2000).
Mac Dermott, Eithne, Clann Na Poblachta (Cork, 1999).
Manning, Maurice, James Dillon: A Biography (Dublin, 1999).
McCullagh, David, Makeshift Majority: The First Inter-party Government 1948-51 (Dublin, 1998).
——, The Reluctant Taoiseach: A Biography of John A. Costello (Dublin, 2010)
Ó Gráda, Cormac, A Rocky Road: The Irish Economy since the 1920s (Manchester, 1997).
Purséil, Niamh, The Irish Labour Party, 1922-73 (Dublin, 2007).
18. Emigration: the exodus from Ireland in the 1950s
Daly, Mary E., The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1922-1973 (Madison, 2006).
Delaney, Enda, Demography, state and society: Irish migration to Britain 1921-1971 (Liverpool, 2000).
—— Irish Emigration since 1921 (Dublin, 2002).
—— The Irish in Post-War Britain (Oxford, 2007).
Duffy, Patrick and Gerard Moran (eds), To and From Ireland: Planned Migration Schemes c.1600-2000
(Dublin, 2004)
Keogh, Dermot, The Lost Decade: Ireland in the 1950s (Cork, 2004).
Lynch, Anne (ed), The Irish in Exile: Stories of Emigration (London, 1988).
Miller, Kerby, Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class and Transatlantic Migration (Dublin, 2008)
Milotte, Mike, Banished Babies (Dublin, 1997).
Rouse, Paul, Ireland’s Own Soil: Government and Agriculture in Ireland 1945-65 (Dublin, 2001).
Ryan, Liam, ‘Irish Emigration to Britain since World War II’, in Richard Kearney (ed), Migrations: The Irish at
Home and Abroad (Dublin, 1990),
Schweitzer, Pam (ed), Across the Irish Sea (2nd ed., London, 1991)
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19. The age of Lemass and national recovery
Bew, Paul and Henry Patterson, Seán Lemass and the Making of Modern Ireland 1945-66 (Dublin, 1982).
Farrell, Brian, Seán Lemass (Dublin, 1983).
Girvin, Brian & Gary Murphy (eds), The Lemass Era: Politics and Society in the Ireland of Seán Lemass
(Dublin, 2005).
Horgan, John, Seán Lemass: The Enigmatic Patriot (Dublin, 1999).
Kennedy, Michael, Division and Consensus: The Politics of Cross-Border Relations in Ireland, 1925-1969
(Dublin, 2000).
McCarthy, John (ed.), Planning Ireland’s Future: The Legacy of T. K. Whitaker (Dublin, 1990).
Savage, Robert, Irish Television: The Political and Social Origins (Cork, 1996).
20. Ireland in the wider world
Hourihane, Jim (ed), Ireland and the European Union: The First Thirty Years, 1972-2002 (Dublin, 2003).
Keatinge, Patrick, The Formulation of Irish Foreign Policy (Dublin, 1973).
—— A Place Among the Nations: Issues of Irish Foreign Policy (Dublin, 1978).
Kennedy, Michael, Ireland and the League of Nations 1919-1946: International Relations, Diplomacy and
Politics (Dublin, 1996).
Kennedy, Michael and J.M. Skelly (eds), Irish Foreign Policy 1919-66 (Dublin, 2000).
Kennedy, Michael and Deirdre McMahon (eds), Obligations and Responsibilities: Ireland and the United
Nations, 1955-2005: Essays Marking Fifty Years of Ireland’s United Nations Membership (Dublin,
2005).
Keogh, Dermot, Ireland and Europe (Cork, 1990).
Laffan, Brigid and Ben Tonra, ‘Europe and the international dimension’, in John Coakley, and Michael
Gallagher (eds), Politics in the Republic of Ireland (4 th ed., London, 2005), pp 430-61.
Maher, Denis, The Tortuous Path: The Course of Ireland’s Entry into the EEC, 1948-73 (Dublin, 1986).
Whelan, Bernadette, Ireland and the Marshall Plan 1947-57 (Dublin, 2000).
Wylie, Paula, Ireland and the Cold War: Diplomacy and Recognition, 1949-1963 (Dublin, 2006)
21. The Status of Women in Ireland
Byrne, Anne & Madeleine Leonard (eds), Women and Irish Society: A Sociological Reader (Belfast, 1997)
Clear, Caitriona, Women of the House: Women’s household work in Ireland 1922-61 (Dublin, 2000).
Connolly, Linda, The Irish Women’s Movement from Revolution to Devolution (Basingstoke, 2002).
Connolly, Linda & Tina O'Toole, Documenting Irish Feminisms: the Second Wave (Dublin, 2005).
Connolly, Linda and Niamh Hourigan (eds), Social Movements and Ireland (Manchester, 2006)
Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (London, 2006).
Cullen, Mary (ed.), Girls Don’t do Honours: Irishwomen in Education in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries (1987).
Cullen, Mary & Maria Luddy (eds), Female Activists: Irish Women and Change, 1900–1960 (Dublin, 2001)
Curtin, Chris, Pauline Jackson, Barbara O'Connor (eds), Gender in Irish Society (Galway, 1987)
Daly, Mary, ‘The condition of women in twentieth-century Ireland’, in Anthony Bradley &
Maryann Gialanella Valiulis (eds), Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland (Amherst, 1997)
——, Women and Work (Dublin, 1997)
Earner-Byrne, Lindsey, Mother and Child: Maternity and Child Welfare in Ireland, 1920s–1960s (Manchester,
2007).
Eichacker, Joanne Mooney, Varieties of Irish Republican Womanhood (2001).
Ferriter, Diarmaid, Mothers, Maidens and Myths: A History of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (Dublin,
1996).
Foster, Roy, Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, c. 1970-2000 (London, 2007), ch 2
Galligan, Yvonne, Women and Politics in Contemporary Ireland: from the Margins to the Mainstream
(London, 1998)
Galligan, Yvonne, Eilís Ward, Rick Wilford (eds), Contesting Politics: Women in Ireland, North and South
(Boulder, 1999)
Hayes Alan & Diane Urquhart, The Irish Women’s History Reader (London, 2001)
Hill, Myrtle, Women in Ireland: a Century of Change (Belfast, 2003)
Holmes, Janice and Diana Urquhart (eds), Coming into the Light: The Work, Politics and Religion of Women in
Ulster, 1840-1940 (Belfast, 1994).
Keenan-Thompson, Tara, Irish Women and Street Politics, 1956-1973 (Dublin, 2010)
Luddy, Maria and Cliona Murphy (eds), Women Surviving: Studies in Irish Women’s History (Dublin, 1989).
McKillen, Elizabeth, ‘Irish Feminism and National Separatism 1914-23’, in Eire/Ireland, XVIII, no. 4 (1981).
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1983).
—— A Social History of Women in Ireland 1870-1970 (Dublin, 2005)
Shepard, Christopher, ‘A liberalisation of Irish social policy? Women’s organisations and the campaign for
women police in Ireland, 1915-57’, Irish Historical Studies 36:144 (November 2009), pp 564-80
Smyth, Ailbhe (ed), Irish Women's Studies Reader (Dublin, 1993)
Tweedy, Hilda, A Link in the Chain: the Story of the Irish Housewives’ Association 1942-92 (Dublin, 1992).
Valiulis, Maryann G. (ed), Gender and Power in Irish History (Dublin, 2008)
Ward, Margaret, Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women in Irish Nationalism (Dingle, 1983).
—— In their own Voice: Women and Irish Nationalism (Dublin, 1995).
22. The Church of Ireland and the Irish State
Acheson, Alan, A History of the Church of Ireland, 1691-1996 (Dublin, 1997).
Bowen, Kurt, Protestants in a Catholic State: Ireland’s Privileged Minority (Dublin, 1983).
Coolahan, J., Irish Education: Its History and Structure (Dublin, 1981).
Cooney, John, John Charles McQuaid: Ruler of Catholic Ireland (Dublin, 1999).
Fuller, Louise, Irish Catholicism since 1950: The Undoing of a Culture (Dublin, 2002).
Kennedy, Finola, Cottage to Crèche: Family Change in Ireland (Dublin, 2001).
Megahey, Alan, The Irish Protestant Churches in the Twentieth Century (Basingstoke, 2000).
Ó Buachalla, Séamas, Education Policy in Twentieth Century Ireland (Dublin, 1988).
O’Connor, Seán, A Troubled Sky: Reflections on the Irish Educational Scene 1957-1968 (Dublin, 1986).
Ó Corráin, Daithí, Rendering to God and Caesar: The Irish Churches and the two States in Ireland, 1949-73
(Manchester, 2006).
Scholes, Andrew, The Church of Ireland and the Third Home Rule Bill (Dublin, 2010).
23. Northern Ireland, 1920–69
Akenson, Donald Harmon, Education and Enmity: The Control of Schooling in Northern Ireland, 1920-50
(Newton Abbot, 1973).
Barritt, Denis P. and Charles F. Carter, The Northern Ireland Problem. A Study in Group Relations (London,
1962).
Barton, Brian, Brookeborough: the Making of a Prime Minister (Belfast, 1988).
Bew, Paul, Peter Gibbon and Henry Patterson, Northern Ireland 1921-1996. Political Forces and Social
Classes (revised ed., London, 1996 [first published in 1995 as Northern Ireland 1921-1994]).
Bloomfield, Ken, Stormont in Crisis: A Memoir (Belfast, 1994).
Buckland, Patrick, A History of Northern Ireland (Dublin,1981).
—— The Factory of Grievances: Devolved Government in Northern Ireland, 1921-39 (Dublin, 1979).
Elliott, Marianne, The Catholics of Ulster. A History (London, 2000).
Elliott, Sydney, ‘The Northern Ireland electoral system: A vehicle for disputation’, in
Patrick J. Roche and Brian Barton (eds), The Northern Ireland Question. Nationalism, Unionism and Partition
(Aldershot, 1999), pp 122-38.
Farrell, Michael, Arming the Protestants (1983)
Fulton, John, The Tragedy of Belief. Division, Politics and Religion in Ireland (Oxford, 1991).
Haddock-Flynn, Kevin, Orangeism: the Making of a Tradition (2000)
Harkness, David, Northern Ireland since 1920 (1984)
Harris, Mary, The Catholic Church and the Foundation of the Northern Ireland State (Cork, 1993).
Henessey, Thomas, A History of Northern Ireland 1920-1966 (1997)
Kennedy, Liam and P. Ollerenshaw (eds), An Economic History of Ulster 1820-1940 (Manchester, 1985).
Loughlin, James, The Ulster Question since 1945 (London, 1998).
Lynch, Robert, The Northern IRA and the Early Years of Partition, 1920-1922 (Dublin, 2006).
McGrath, Michael, The Catholic Church and Catholic Schools in Northern Ireland. The Price of Faith (Dublin,
2000).
McIntosh, Gillian, The Forces of Culture: Unionist Identity in Twentieth-Century Ireland (Cork, 2000).
Miller, D. Queen’s Rebels: Ulster Loyalism in Historical Perspective (Dublin, 1978).
Mulholland, Marc, Northern Ireland at the Crossroads: Ulster Unionism in the O’Neill Years 1960-9
(Basingstoke, 2000).
O’Connor, Fionnuala, In Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland (Belfast, 1993).
Ó Corráin, Daithí, Rendering to God and Caesar: The Irish Churches and the two States in Ireland, 1949-73
(Manchester, 2006).
Rafferty, Oliver, Catholicism in Ulster 1603-1983 (London, 1994).
Phoenix, Éamon, Northern Nationalism. Nationalist Politics, Partition and the Catholic Minority in Northern
Ireland 1890-1940 (Belfast, 1994).
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Prince, Simon, Northern Ireland’s ’68: Civil Rights, Global Revolt and the Origin of the Troubles (Dublin,
2007).
Purdie, Bob, Politics in the Streets: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland (Belfast,
1990).
Shea, Patrick, Voices and the Sound of Drums (Belfast, 1981).
Staunton, Enda, The Nationalists of Northern Ireland 1918-1973 (Dublin, 2001).
Stewart, A. T. Q., The Narrow Ground: Aspects of Ulster, 1609-1969 (London, 1977).
Walker, Graham, The Politics of Frustration. Harry Midgley and the Failure of Labour in Northern Ireland
(Manchester, 1985).
—— A History of the Ulster Unionist Party (2004).
Whyte, John H.,‘How much discrimination was there under the unionist regime, 1921-68?’, in Tom Gallagher
and James O’Connell (eds) Contemporary Irish Studies (Manchester, 1983), pp 1-35.
Interpreting Northern Ireland (Oxford, 1990).
Wichert, Sabine, Northern Ireland since 1945 (2 nd ed., London and New York, 1999 [1 st ed., 1991]).
24. Northern Ireland, 1969-1998
Arthur, Paul and Keith Jeffrey, Northern Ireland since 1968 (2 nd ed., 1996)
Bean, Kevin The New Politics of Sinn Féin 1985-2006 (2007)
Bew, Paul, The Making and Remaking of the Good Friday Agreement (Dublin, 2007).
Cunningham, Michael, British Government Policy in Northern Ireland, 1969-2000 (Manchester, 2001).
Daly, Edward, Mister, are you a priest? (Dublin, 2000).
Edwards, Ruth Dudley, The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions (London, 2000).
English, Richard, Armed Struggle: A History of the IRA (London, 2003).
Farren, Seán and Robert F. Mulvihill, Paths to a Settlement in Northern Ireland (Gerrards Cross, 2000).
Farrington, Christopher, Ulster Unionism and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland (Basingstoke, 2006).
Feeney, Brian, Sinn Féin: A Hundred Turbulent Years (Dublin, 2002).
Gallagher, Eric and Stanley Worrall, Christians in Ulster, 1968-1980 (Oxford, 1982).
Hennessy, Thomas, Northern Ireland: The Origin of the Troubles 1970-1972 (Dublin, 2005).
McGladdery, Gary The Provisional IRA in England: The Bombing Campaign 1973-1997 (Dublin, 2006).
McKay, Susan, Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People (Belfast, 2000).
McKittrick, David and David McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles (Belfast, 2000).
Moloney, Ed, A Secret History of the IRA (London, 2002).
—— Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat (Dublin, 2008).
Ó Ceallaigh, Daltún, Britain and Ireland: Sovereignty and Nationality- the Peace Process in Context (1996)
Ó Corráin, Daithí, Rendering to God and Caesar: The Irish Churches and the two States in Ireland, 1949-73
(Manchester, 2006).
Ó Dochartaigh, Niall, From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles (Cork, 1997).
O’Malley, Padraig, Uncivil Wars (Boston, 1983).
Patterson, Henry, The Politics of Illusion: A Political History of the IRA (London, 1997)
Powell, Jonathan, Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland (2008).
Rose, Richard, Governing Without Consensus (London, 1971).
Rose, Peter, How the Troubles came to Northern Ireland (Basingstoke, 2001).
Storey, Earl, Traditional Roots. Towards an Appropriate Relationship between the Church of Ireland and the
Orange Order (Dublin, 2002).
Walker, Graham, A History of the Ulster Unionist Party (Manchester, 2004).
Wood, Ian S., Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA (Edinburgh, 2006).
Electronic Resources
There are a number of websites that will be useful for preparing essays.
• The Dictionary of Irish Biography is an indispensable source and it available through the Library website at
http://leabharlann.spd.dcu.ie/EnglishSite/OnlineResources/databasesD.html
• A bibliographical database of Irish history is available on the Bibliography of British and Irish History
http://www.irishhistoryonline.ie/ This will save you considerable time when sourcing additional
articles and monographs for essay writing.
• The text of the Official Report of the Parliamentary Debates of the Houses of the Oireachtas is available at
[http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/index.html]. It includes the Dáil Debates from 21 January 1919
(First Dáil) and the Seanad Debates from 11 December 1922
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• Irish Newspaper Archives [http://www.irishnewsarchive.com] is a searchable on online database of Irish
newspapers. The site currently has sixteen titles, including The Irish Independent and The Freeman’s
Journal.
• The Irish Times now has a searchable digital archive from 1859 onwards at
[http://www.irishtimes.com/search/archive.html].
• CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) has source material and commentaries on the Northern Ireland
Troubles at [http:cain.ulst.ac.uk].
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HIST 302
EUROPE 1870–1950: SOCIETY AND POLITICS
IN CRISIS AND CHANGE
DR CARLA KING
I. Module description:
This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the main patters of European
change in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century and the interactions
between economic, social, political and cultural factors that shaped them. This was a period
of immense social, economic and political change and the main trends and events will be
traced and their impact on people’s lives examined. This was a period in which the gradual
democratisation of society affected European politics although the second and third decades
of the twentieth century saw this trend disrupted by the rise of dictatorships across the
Continent. In the first half of the twentieth century Europe was convulsed by two devastating
wars while Russia saw a succession of revolutions. Major new political philosophies
emerged, both of the left and right, for which Europe was to provide a battleground. The
course will aim to examine the main features of this formative page in European history. It
will be supported on Moodle.
II.
Aim, objectives and learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be enabled to:
LO 1 – Acquire transferable knowledge and understanding of history of the period and research, analytical and
writing skills which will have a direct application in their planning and teaching of history and
other curriculum areas at primary level
LO 2 – Understand some of the important ideas that shaped the history of the period, such as nationalism,
democracy, socialism, communism and fascism.
LO 3 – Appreciate the interaction between economy, society and politics, in relation to issues such as the
impact of the world war on the civilian societies.
LO 4 – Demonstrate a breadth of transferable knowledge and understanding of history and a mastery of
research, analytical and writing skills.
LO 5 – Apply subject knowledge in their planning and teaching of history and other curriculum areas at primary
level
LO 6 – Draw upon their advanced knowledge and understanding of the past to inform and display a critical
engagement with current issues relating to education, society, social justice, commitment to
equality, environmental awareness and ethics and, where appropriate, to foster similar engagement
in the classroom
Assessment:
Assessment Format LO 1 LO 2 LO 3 LO 4 LO5 LO 6
Examination 1 √ √
Assignment √ √ √
Tutorial discussion √ √ √
Teaching Practice √ √ √ √
III. Course outline
1. Introduction to late nineteenth-century Europe
Section 1: Social change
2. Modernisation and peasant society
3. Life and work in industrial Britain
4. The changing roles of women
Section 2: Europe before the Great War
5. Germany after Unification
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6. France and La Belle Époque
7. European imperialism
8. The Austro-Hungarian Empire
Section 3: War and revolution
9. Why was there a Great War?
10. The impact of the Great War
11. Revolutions in Russia
Section 4: Inter-war Europe
12. Social, economic and cultural change in the 1920s
13. Political change: the failure of the League of Nations and the rise of the radical Right
14. Mussolini and Italian fascism
15. Weimar Germany and Hitler’s path to power
16. Britain in the inter-War period
17. Germany under the Nazis before the Second World War
18. Stalinism and Soviet society
19. The Spanish Civil War
Section 5: World War II: its Origins and Aftermath
20. Appeasement
21. France in the 1930s and the coming of war
22. The course of the Second World War
23. The experience of the Second World War
24. The Holocaust
25. Post-War Europe: renovation and transformation.
26. Conclusions: interpreting modern European history.
READING LIST
Where books are available in E-book format this is indicated. There is a tutorial on using E-books on the
Cregan Library website. For DCU E-Books go to Combined Catalogue menu on Cregan Library website
and type in author or title.
RECOMMENDED GENERAL TEXTBOOKS: [940.28]
There is no single book that will provide adequate coverage of this course. However, if students wish to have
one core textbook as an introduction to the topics, I recommend J.M. Roberts, Europe 1880-1945 (15 copies, 2
on short loan). Lecture notes will refer to relevant pages in this. Other good general textbooks include:
David Thomson, Europe Since Napoleon (Penguin, many editions), 6 copies, 2 on short loan.
Robert Gildea, Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914 (Short Oxford History of the Modern World,
1987), 13 copies, one on short loan.
M.S. Anderson, The Ascendancy of Europe, 1815-1914 (2 nd ed., Longman, 1986, 1999), reserve, are highly
recommended for the part of the course, while
Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1992 (Abacus, 1994, 1995) 3 copies,
909.82
Julian Jackson, Europe, 1900-1945 (2002) 940.5/JAC, 3 copies
Harold James, Europe Reborn: a History, 1914-2000 (2003) 940.5/JAM, 1 copy
Martin Pugh (ed.), A Companion to Modern European History (Blackwell, 1997) and
Eric Hobsbawm Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1992, (Abacus, 1994, 1995), 3 copies,
909.82, deal with the twentieth-century section of the course.
NB: You should buy at least one of the above.
Also see Stefan Berger, A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1789-1914 (2006), SPD E-book, and
Gordon Martel (ed.), A Companion to Europe, 1900-1945 (2006), SPD E-book.
GOOD GENERAL WORKS INCLUDE:
Anthony Best, An International History of the Twentieth Century (2 nd ed., 2008) available as e-book (see library
catalogue). Relevant chapters are: 1,2,4,7 & 8.
Felix Gilbert, The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present (1991), 940.5.
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Martin Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century, Vol. I: 1900-1933, 909.82.
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (1987), 909.8, 2 copies.
James Joll, Europe Since 1870 (1973, 1980), 5 copies, short loan, 940.2, 10 copies.
Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1988), 6 copies.
W.R. Keylor, The Twentieth-Century World (1984), 8 co[l]pies.
M. Kolinsky, Continuity and Change in European Society: France, Germany and Italy Since 1870 (1972).
Stephen J. Lee, Europe, 1890-1945 (2003).
George Lichtheim, Europe in the Twentieth Century (1972) 940.2.
Mark Mazower, Dark Continent. Europe’s Twentieth Century (1999), 2 copies.
Agatha Ramm, Europe in the Nineteenth Century (1984).
Graham Ross, The Great Powers and the Decline of the European States System (1983), 2 copies, 1 on short
loan.
Norman Stone, Europe Transformed, 1878-1919 (1983, 1985), 3 copies.
Richard Vinen, A History in Fragments. Europe in the Twentieth Century (2002).
Section 1: Social change
Modernisation, industrialisation, urbanisation, peasant society [305.56]
Good, clear overviews are:
P. Stearns, European Society in Upheaval: Social history since 1800 (1968), 940.28, on short loan.
T. Kemp, Industrialisation in 19th-Century Europe (1969), 330.94, short loan.
Other useful sources are:
Derek H. Aldcroft and Simon P. Ville, The European Economy, 1750-1914 (1994), 330.94.
Jeffrey Burds, Peasant Dreams and Market Politics (1998), 304.80947/BUR
C.M. Cipolla, The Fontana Economic History of Europe: [vol 4, The Emergence of Industrial Societies; and –
delete] vol 5, The Twentieth Century
David Englander, Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Britain from Chadwick to Booth, 1834-1914 (1998),
362.580941/ENG.
Peter Gay, The Cultivation of Hatred: the bourgeois experience (1995) 301/GAY.
J. Goodman and K. Honeyman, Gainful Pursuits: the making of industrial Europe, 1600-1914 (1988),
330.9402/GOO.
W.O. Henderson, The Industrialisation of the Continent: Germany, France, Russia, 1800-1914 (1961),
333.94/HEN.
Eric Hopkins, Industrialisation and Society: a social history, 1830-1951 (2000), 306.30941/HOP.
Eric Hopkins, A Social History of the English Working Classes, 1815-1945 (1979), 305.562/HOP.
Pat Hudson, The Industrial Revolution (1992), 330.942/HUD.
Jocelyn Hunt, Britain, 1846-1919 (2003), 941.081/HUN
Alan Kidd, State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England (1999), 362.50941/KID.
D.S. Landes, The Unbound Prometheus: technological change and industrial development in Western Europe
to the present day (1969, 2003), 338.094/LAN.
P. Mathias, The 1st Industrial Nation: an economic history of Britain, 1700-1914 (1969), 330.941/MAT.
Charles More, The Industrial Age: economy and society in Britain, 1750-1985 (1989), 330.94107/MOR.
Harold Perkin, The Origins of Modern English Society, 1780-1880 (1969, 2002), 941.073, 2 copies.
Harold Perkin, The Rise of Professional Society. England Since 1880 (1989, 1999), 305.50942/PER.
Pamela Pilbeam, The Middle Classes in Europe (1990), 305.55094/PIL.
Roger Price, A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987), 944.06/PRI.
Donald Read, The Age of Urban Democracy: England 1868-1914 (1978) 941.08/REA
Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo (eds), Patterns of European Industrialisation: the 19th Century (1991),
338.094/SYL.
M. Teich and R. Porter, The Industrial Revolution in National Context (1996), 330.94/TEI, on short loan.
F.M.L. Thompson, The Cambridge Social History of Britain, vol. 2 (1990), 941.07/THO
F. Tipton and R. Aldrich, An Economic and Social History of Europe, 1890-1939 (1987), 330.94055/TIP.
Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen, 1870-1914 (1979) 944.081/WEB [also on DCU E-book]
S.J. Woolf, The Poor in Western Europe in the 18th and 19 th Centuries (1986), 305.569094/WOO.
The changing roles of women [305.409]
Lynn Abrams, The Making of Modern Woman (2002), 3 copies
Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, A History of their Own, vol. II (1988)
Paula Bartley, The Changing Role of Women, 1815-1914 (1996)
R. Bridenthal and C. Koontz (eds), Becoming Visible: women in European history (2nd ed., 1987)
G. Duby and M. Perrot (eds), A History of Women. Vol 4, Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War
(1995)
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Carol Dyhouse, Feminism and the Family in England, 1880-1939 (1989)
B. A. Engel, Between the Fields and the City: women, work and family in Russia, 1861-1914 (1996)
Barbara Franzoi, At the Very Least She Pays the Rent: women and German industrialisation [DCU E-book]
Ute Frevert, Women in German History. From Bourgeois Emancipation to Sexual Liberation (1989)
Rachel G. Fuchs and Victoria E. Thompson, Women in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2005)
Katrina Honeyman, Women, Gender and Industrialization in England, 1700-1870 (2000), 331.48
James F. McMillan, Housewife or Harlot: the place of women in French society, 1870-1940 (1981)
James F. McMillan, France and Women (1991), 305.42
June Purvis (ed.), Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, an introduction (1995)
Pamela Sharpe (ed.), Women’s Work: the English Experience (1998)
Deborah Simonton (ed), The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 (2006)
Bonnie Smith, Changing Lives: Women in European History Since 1870 (1989), 5 copies
Richard Stites, The Women’s Liberation Movement in Russia (1991)
J. Waelti-Walters and S.C. Hause (eds), Feminisms of the Belle Époque (1994)
Section 2: Europe before the Great War
Germany after Unification [943.07] [943.08]
John Breuilly, The Formation of the German Nation State, 1800-1871
Gordon Craig, Germany: 1867-1945 (1981) - first part [also on DCU E-book]
Michael Gorman, The Unification of Germany (1989)
Andrina Stiles, The Unification of Germany (1989) are specifically addressed to the theme of unification. You
should also look at the relevant sections of the following:
David Blackbourn, The Fontana History of Germany, 1780-1918 (1997)
David Blackbourn, The Long Nineteenth Century: a history of Germany, 1780-1918 [DCU E-book]
John Breuilly, Nineteenth-Century Germany. Politics, Culture and Society (2001)
R.J. Evans, Society and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (1978) 306.20943
Mary Fulbrook, German History Since 1789 (1997)
D. Langewiesche, Liberalism in Germany (1999) 320.510943
Golo Mann, Germany Since 1789 (1969)
Gordon Martel (ed.), Modern Germany Reconsidered 1870-1945 (1992)
Wolfgang Mommsen, Imperial Germany, 1867-1918 (1995)
Otto Pflanze, Germany in the Age of Bismarck (1968)
Eda Sagarra, Social History of Germany, 1684-1914 (1977)
Hagen Schulze, Germany: a New History (1998), chs 7 and 8
Matthew S. Seligman, Germany from Reich to Republic, 1871-1918: politics, hierarchy and elites (2000)
William Simpson, The Second Reich (1995)
Michael Stürmer, The German Empire, 1871-1919 (2002)
Hans-Ulrich Wehler, The German Empire, 1871-1918 (1985, 1997)
David G. Williamson, Germany Since 1815: a nation forged & renewed, Part II (2005)
On the role of Bismarck:
Lynn Abrams, Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871-1918 (1995) [also 2 nd ed. SPD E-book]
Edgar Feuchtwanger, Bismarck (2002) [Also SPD E-book].
Lothar Gall, Bismarck: the White Revolutionary (1994)
T.S. Hamerow, Otto von Bismarck and Imperial Germany (1962, 1994)
[Heath series] Bismarck and Imperial Germany (3rd edition, 1995)
W.N. Medlicott, Bismarck and Modern Germany (1965)
W.N. Medlicott and D. Coveney, Bismarck and Europe (1971)
O. Pflanze, Bismarck and the Development of Germany (1968)
A.J.P. Taylor, Bismarck: the Man and the Statesman (1955)
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Republican France during La Belle Époque [944.081]
Robert Gildea, France 1870-1880 (1988, 1996) short loan
J.M. Mayeur and M. Reberioux, The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War, 1871-1914 (1987)
Robert Tombs, France, 1814-1914 (1996) 944.06 short loan
Other useful sources include:
R.A. Anderson, France, 1870-1914 (1977)
D.W. Brogan, The Development of Modern France, 1870-1939 (1959)
Eric Cahm, The Dreyfus Affair in French Society and Politics (1996)
G. Chapman, The Third Republic of France, 1871-94 (1962)
Gregor Dallas, At the Heart of a Tiger: Clemenceau and his world, 1841-1929 (1993)
L. Derfler, The Dreyfus Affair (1963 - Heath series)
William Fortescue, The 3 rd Republic in France 1870–1940 (2000), chapters 1–4. [Also SPD E-book]
W. D. Irvine, The Boulanger Affair Reconsidered (1989)
Martin P. Johnson, The Dreyfus Affair (1999), 944.081
John McManners, Church and state in France 1870–1914 (1972).
J.F. McMillen, Dreyfus to De Gaulle, 1898-1969 (1985)
C. Sowerwine, A History of Modern France, 1870-1995. Culture, Society, Politics (2000), 944.081, on short
loan.
Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen (1979)
[R.L. Williams, The French Revolution of 1870-1 (1969)- delete]
Theodore Zeldin, France 1848-1945 (1949; revised ed. 1980) [Also available on DCU E-book]
European Imperialism [940.28]
P.J. Cain, British Imperialism: Innovation and expansion, 1688–1914 (1993).
P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins, British Imperialism, 1688–2000 (2002).
Scott B. Cook, Colonial encounters in the Age of High Imperialism (1996).
L.R. Gardiner, British Imperialism in the Late Nineteenth Century (1968).
W.O. Henderson, The German Colonial Empire, 1884–1919 (1993), 325.343/HEN.
George Lichtheim, Imperialism (1974).
John Lowe, The Great Powers, Imperialism and the German Problem, 1865–1925 (1994).
Frank McDonough, The British Empire, 1815–1914 (1994).
Andrew N. Porter, European Imperialism, 1860–1914 (1994).
Ronald Edward Robinson, Africa and Victorians: The official mind of imperialism (1961).
A.P. Thornton, Doctrines of Imperialism (1965).
Harrison M. Wright, The ‘New Imperialism’: Analysis of late nineteenth-century expansionism (1961, 1976).
The Austro-Hungarian Empire [943.604]
John W. Mason, The Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1997)
Robin Okey, The Habsburg Monarchy, c. 1765-1918 (2001)
Alan Sked, The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire, 1815-1918 (2001)
A.J.P. Taylor, The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918: a history of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary
(1948)
Samuel R. Williamson, Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War (1991)
Section 3: War and revolution
Why was there a Great War? [940.3]
Some introductory texts include:
D.E. Lee (ed.), The Outbreak of the First World War (1975) 3 copies
Keith Wilson (ed.), Decisions for War, 1914 (1998)
Other sources include:
Ian F.W. Beckett, The Great War (2008)
Fritz Fischer, Germany’s aims in the First World War (1967)
D.F. Fleming, The Origins and Legacies of World War I (1968)
Richard F. Hamilton and Holgen H. Henwig (eds), The origins of World War I (2003).
Holger H. Herweg, The Outbreak of the 1st World War: causes and responsibilities (1975)
H.W. Koch, The origins of the First World War (1972)
Laurence Lafore, The Long Fuse: an interpretation of the origins of the World War I (1965)
Gordon Martel, The Origins of the First World War (1996)
John Maurer, The Outbreak of the First World War (1994)
F. McDonough, The Origins of the First and Second World Wars (1997)
J. Remak, Origins of World War I, 1871-1914 (1995) on short loan.
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Stuart Robson, The First World War (1998)
B. Schmitt, Origins of the First World War (Historical Association Pamphlet, 1958)
David Stevenson, The Outbreak of the First World War (1997)
On the diplomatic background, see:
Roy Bridge, The Great Powers and the European States System, 1815-1914 (1980)
[On particular countries, see: Change to: On the experience of the Great War, see:]
V.R. Berghahn, Germany and the Approach of War in 1914 (1993)
Roger Chickering, Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918 (1998)
Nicole Ann Dombrowski, Women and War in the Twentieth Century (1999)
Peter Gatrell, Russia’s First World War: a social and economic history (2005)
Jürgen Kocha, Facing Total War: German society 1914-1918 [DCU E-book]
Leonard Smith, Stephane Audoin-Rouseau and Annette Becker, France and the Great War, 1814-1918 (2003)
Russian revolutions [947.0841]
Edward Acton, Rethinking the Russian Revolution (1990) short loan
Edward Acton, Vladimir Iu. Chernaiev and William G. Rosenberg (eds), Critical Companion to the Russian
Revolution, 1914-1921 (1997, 2001)
Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution (1982)
Other useful texts include:
E.H. Carr, The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin (1979)
E.H. Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution (3 vols, 1952, 1977)
C. Hill, Lenin and the Russian Revolution (1971)
Orlando Figes, Interpreting the Russian Revolution (1999)
Lionel Kochan, The Russian Revolution (1971)
Stephen J. Lee, Russia and the USSR, 1855-1991 (2006)
David Marples, Lenin’s Revolution. Russia 1917-1921 (2000)
Martin Miller (ed), The Russian Revolution (2001)
Michael Lynch, Reaction and Revolutions: Russia 1881-1924 (1992)
Richard Pipes, Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime, 1917-24 (1994)
Harvey Pitcher, Witnesses of the Russian Revolution (2001)
Mark Sandle, A Short History of Soviet Socialism (1998)
Victor Serge, Year One of the Russian Revolution (1992 reprint of 1972 transl. of 1930 book by a participant in
the revolution)
Robert Service, The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927 (1993)
R. Suny and A. Adams, The Russian Revolution (1990)
Adam Ulam, Lenin and the Bolsheviks (1968)
Beryl Williams, The Russian Revolution 1917-21 (1988)
B.D. Wolfe, Three Who Made a Revolution (1984 ed.)
Alan Wood, The Origins of the Russian Revolution, 1861-1917 (Lancaster pamphlet, 1987)
Section 4: Inter-War Europe
For general background, see:
George Blum, The Rise of Fascism in Europe (1998) 335.6094.
Piers Brendon, The Dark Valley: a panorama of the 1930s (2000), 909.823/BRE.
F.H. Hinsley, Power and the Pursuit of Peace (1967 - good on the League of Nations).
Aristotle Kallis, Fascist Ideology: territory and expansionism in Italy and Germany (2000), 320.533/KAL.
Stephen J. Lee, The European Dictatorships, 1918-1945 (1987), on short loan.
F. McDonagh, Conflict, Communism and Fascism (2001), 940.5/MAC, on short loan.
Philip Morgan, Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945 (2003), 320.533094/MOR, 2 copies.
R.J. Overy, The Inter-War Crisis, 1919-1939 (1994), 909.822/OVE.
Graham Ross, The Great Powers and the Decline of the European States System, 1914-1945 (1983),
327.4/ROS.
Allan Todd, The European Dictatorships: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini (2001), 940.5/TOD.
Elizabeth Wiskemann, Europe of the Dictators, 1919-45 (1966), 940.51/WIS.
Inter-war society
See above, Section 2, especially Tipton and Aldrich Econ and Soc. History 330.94055 and P. Stearns European
Society, see also:
V.R. Berghahn, Modern Germany: Society, Economy and Politics in the Twentieth Century (1982), 943.08.
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Richard Bessel, Germany After the First World War (1993), 306.0943.
Patricia Clavin, The Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939 (2000)
John Davis, A History of Britain, 1885-1939 (1999), 941.08
Charles S. Maier, Recasting Bourgeois Europe: stabilisation in France, Germany and Italy in the decade after
World War I [DCU E-book]
R.J. Overy, The Inter-War Crisis, 1919-1939 (1994)
J. Stevenson and C. Cook, Britain in the Depression (1994)
Mussolini and Italian fascism [945.091]
Richard Bessel (ed.), Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (1996), 320.533, 2 copies .
Martin Blinkhorn, Mussolini and Fascist Italy (pamphlet, 1994), 945.091, 3 copies. [Also on SPD E-book]
R.J.B. Bosworth, The Italian Dictatorship (1998)
R.J.B. Bosworth, Mussolini (2002).
Martin Clark, Modern Italy, 1871-1982 (1984)
R. Collier, Duce: the Rise and Fall of Benito Mussolini (1971)
Christopher Duggan, A Concise History of Italy (1994)
Christopher Duggan, The Force of Destiny: a history of Italy since 1796 (2008)
Guiseppe Finaldi, Mussolini and Italian Fascism (2008)
Desmond Gregory, Mussolini and the Fascist era (1970)
C. Hibbert, Benito Mussolini (1963)
Denis Mack Smith, Mussolini’s Roman Empire (1976)
Philip Morgan, Italian Fascism, 1919-45 (1995), at issue desk.
Peter Neville, Mussolini (2003) 2 copies
John Pollard, The Fascist Experience in Italy (1998), on short loan. [Also on SPD E-book]
Edward R. Tannenbaum, The Fascist Experience: Italian society and culture, 1922-1945 [DCU E-book]
John Whitthorn, Fascist Italy (1995).
E. Wiskemann, Fascism in Italy: Its Development and Influence (1981)
Germany (Weimar and Nazi) [943.08]
Richard Bessel (ed.), Social Change and Political Development in Weimar Germany (1981)
Paul Bookbinder, Weimar Germany. The Republic of the Reasonable (1996)
M. Boszat, German National Socialism, 1919-45 (1966)
Karl Dietrich Bracher, The German Dictatorship: Origins and Consequences of National Socialism (1991)
Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich. A New History (2001)
W. Carr, Hitler: A Study in Personality and Politics (1978)
Thomas Childers (ed.), The Formation of the Nazi Constituency, 1919-33 (1986)
David Crew (ed.), Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945 (1994) 2 copies [Also on SPD E-book]
Sefton Delmer, Weimar Germany (1972)
Geoff Eley, From Unification to Nazism (1990)
T. Eschenberg et al., The Road to Dictatorship: Germany, 1918-33, a Symposium (1970)
Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich (2004)
Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939(2005)
E.J. Feuchtwanger, From Weimar to Hitler, 1918-33 (1995)
Conan Fischer, The Rise of the Nazis (1995)
Fritz Fischer, From Kaiserreich to Third Reich. Elements of Continuity in German History, 1871-1945 (1986)
Norbert Frei, National Socialist Rule in Germany (1993)
Peter Gay, My German Question: growing up in Nazi Berlin (2000)
Dick Geary, Hitler and Nazism (Lancaster pamphlet 1993)
Richard J. Geary, The Third Reich (2002)
Helmut Heiber, The Weimar Republic (1993)
J. Hiden, Germany and Europe (1977)
Martin Housden, Hitler: study of a revolutionary? (2000) 3 copies, short loan
Eberhard Jäckel, Hitler’s World View: a blueprint for power (1972, 1981)
Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris 1998) and Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis (2001)
Ian Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship: problems and perspectives of interpretation (1985, 1993)
Tim Kirk, Nazi Germany (2007)
Martin Kitchen, The Third Reich: Charisma and Community (2008)
Eberhard Kolb, The Weimar Republic (1988)
Claudia Koonz, The Nazi Conscience (2003)
M. Laffan (ed.), The Burden of German History (1988) essays on Weimar and the rise of Hitler
Geoff Layton, From Bismarck to Hitler: Germany 1890-1933 (1995)
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Frank McDonough, Hitler and the rise of the Nazi Party (2003).
Hans Mommsen, The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy (1996)
A.J. Nichols and E. Mathias (eds), German Democracy and the Trumph of Hitler (1971)
A.J. Nichols, Weimar and the Rise of Hitler (1991)
Richard Overy, The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia (2004)
J.G. Rohl, From Bismarck to Hitler (1979)
B. Sax and D. Kuntz, Inside Hitler’s Germany. A Documentary History of Life in the Third Reich (1992)
William Simpson, Hitler and Germany (1997)
Roderick Stackelberg, Hitler’s Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies (1999) 3 copies [Also on SPD E-
book]
Jill Stevenson, Women in Nazi Germany (2001)
Matthew Stibbe, Germany, 1914-1933 (2010)
Matthew Stibbe, Women in the Third Reich (2003)
Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction. The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (2006)
David Welch, The Third Reich: politics and propaganda (1993)
David Welch, Hitler (1998)
David Welch, Hitler: profile of a dictator (1998)
J. Willett, The Weimar Years: A Culture Cut Short (1984)
D.G. Williamson, The Third Reich (2002)
Stalinism and Soviet Society [947.0842] [335.43]
See also, general histories listed in Section 3.
Philip Boobyer, The Stalin Era (2000), on short loan.
Vladimir Brovkin, Russia After Lenin (1998)
Robert Conquest, Stalin: Breaker of Nations (1991)
Robert Daniels (ed.), The Stalin Revolution (1990)
Sarah Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia (1997)
Orlando Figes, The Whisperers: private life in Stalin’s Russia (2008)
Sheila Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
(1999)
Graeme Gill, Stalinism (1995), 3 copies.
James R. Harris, Stalin: a new history [DCU E-book]
I. Kershaw and M. Lewin (eds), Stalinism and Nazism (1997), 320.53.
Hiroaki Kurdomiya, Stalin’s Industrial Revolution. Politics and Workers, 1928-1932 (1998, 1990)
Michael Lynch, From Stalin to Khrushchev (1990)
Michael Lynch, Trotsky, the Permanent Revolutionary (1995)
Evan Mawdsley, The Stalin Years, 1929-1953 (1998)
Martin McCauley, Stalin and Stalinism (1983, 2003) [Also SPD E-book]
Richard Overy, The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia (2004)
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: the court of the Red Tsar (2003)
Richard Sakwa, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (1999) [also SPD E-book]
Robert W. Thurston, Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1934-1941 (1996)
Robert C. Tucker, Stalin in Power (1993)
Robert C. Tucker, Stalin as Revolutionary (1973) [DCU E-book]
Dmitri Volkogonov, Stalin (1991)
Chris Ward, Stalin’s Russia (1993)
The Spanish Civil War [946.07] [946.08]
For background see:
[W. Atkinson, A History of Spain and Portugal (1969) delete]
S. Balfour and P. Preston, Spain and the Great Powers in the 20 th Century (1999)
Martin Blinkorn, Democracy and Civil War in Spain, 1931-1939 (1988)
R. Carr, Spain 1880-1939 (1968)
Gabriel Jackson, The Spanish Republic and the Civil War (1965) [DCU E-book]
Francisco Romero-Salvado, Twentieth-Century Spain (1999)
Mary Vincent, Spain 1833-2002. People and State (2007)
On the war see:
Michael Alpert, A New International History of the Spanish Civil War (1994)
Anthony Beevor, The Battle for Spain: the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (2006)
R. Carr and J. Pablo Fusi, Spain: Dictatorship to Democracy (1982), pt 1
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G. Esenwein and A. Schubert, Spain at War (1995)
Andrew Forrest, The Spanish Civil War (2000)
D. Mitchell, The Spanish Civil War (1982)
Paul Preston, The Coming of the Spanish Civil War (1978) [2 nd ed. 1994 on SPD E-book]
Paul Preston, The Spanish Civil War (1986)
Paul Preston (ed.), Revolution and War in Spain, 1930-39 (1984)
Paul Preston, Franco (1994)
Paul Preston, The Spanish Civil War: Reaction Revolution and Revenge (2006)
Paul Preston and A.L. Mackenzie (eds.), The Republic Besieged: Civil War in Spain, 1936-1939 (1997)
F. J. R. Salvado, Twentieth-Century Spain (1999)
Michael Seidman, Republic of Egos: a social history of the Spanish Civil War (2002)
Adrian Shubert, A Social History of Modern Spain (1990) 2 copies
Adrian Shubert, Spain at War: the Spanish Civil War in Context (1995)
Hugh Thomas, The Spanish Civil War (rev. ed., 1965)
Section 5: World War II: its Origins and Aftermath [940.53 and see individual countries]
Appeasement
R.J.Q. Adams, British Appeasement and the Origins of World War II (1994)
P.M.H. Bell, The Origins of the Second World War in Europe (1997) [Also in SPD E-book]
M. Beaumont, Origins of the Second World War (1978)
Keith Eubank, The Origins of World War II (1969, 1990)
Keith Eubank, World War II: Roots and Causes (1992)
Ruth Henig, Origins of the Second World War (1985 - Lancaster pamphlet)
Gordon Martel ed., The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered (1999), 2 copies [Also in SPD E-book]
R. Overy, The Road to War (1989)
A.J.P. Taylor, Origins of the Second World War (1977)
France in the 1930s and the coming of war [944.08]
P. Bernard and H. Dubieff, The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914-1938 (1988)
Sarah Fishman et al, France at War: Vichy and the Historians (2000)
H.R. Kedward, La Vie en Bleu: France and the French since 1900 (2005)
Julian Jackson, The Fall of France: the Nazi Invasion of 1940 (2004)
Peter Neville, France, 1914-1969: the Three Republics (1995)
William Shirer, The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969)
R. Vinen, France, 1934-1970 (1996), 2 copies.
Eugen Weber, The Hollow Years, France in the 1930s (1995)
Robert J. Young, France and the Origins of the Second World War (1996)
The Second World War [940.53]
William Carr, Poland to Pearl Harbour: The Making of World War 2 (1985)
Norman Davies, Europe at War, 1939-1945: No Simple Victory (2006)
Martin Gilbert, The Second World War (1989)
John Keegan, The Second World War (1989)
Ian Kershaw, Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 (2008)
Norman Longmate, How We Lived Then: a history of everyday life during the Second World War (2002)
Arthur Marwick, Clive Emsley and Wendy Simpson (eds), Total War and Historical Change: Europe 1914-
1955 (2001)
Charles Messenger, The Second World War (1986)
A.W. Purdue, The Second World War (1999)
Individual countries:
Anthony Beevor, Berlin. The Downfall, 1945 (2002)
Chris Bellamy, Absolute War. Soviet Russia in the Second World War (2007)
H.R. Kedward, Occupied France, Collaboration and Resistance, 1940-1944 (1985)
R. Kedward (ed.), Vichy France and the Resistance: culture and ideology (1985)
The Holocaust [940.5318]
Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust (2001)
Wolfgang Benz, Holocaust (1999)
David Caesarani (ed), The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation (1994)
Martin Gilbert, Atlas of the Holocaust (1982)
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Martin Gilbert, Auschwitz and the Allies (1984)
Martin Gilbert, Never Again: A history of the Holocaust (2000)
Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy (1986)
Michlin Gilbert, Of no Interest to the Nation: a Jewish family in France, 1925-45 (2004)
Gordon J. Horwitz, Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City (2008)
Steven T. Katz, The Holocaust in Historical Context (1994)
Guenter Lewy, The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (2000)
Arno Mayer, Why Did the Heavens not Darken? The ‘Final Solution’ in History (1988)
Memoirs of the Holocaust
Hélène Berr, Journal (2009)
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (2000)
Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life (1999)
Victor Klemperer, I Shall Bear Witness (1998)
Primo Levi, If This is a Man (1960)
Post-war Europe [940.55] [909.82]
David W. Ellwood, Rebuilding Europe: W. Europe, America and postwar reconstruction (1992)
P.L. Melvyn, Origins of the Cold War (1994)
Martin McCauley, The Origins of the Cold War (1995), 327.4/MCC.
A.S. Milward, The Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945-51 (1984)
Derek W. Urwin, A Political History of Western Europe Since 1945 (1997)
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HIST 303
HERSTORY: A HISTORY OF WOMEN FROM THE
RENAISSANCE TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
DR LINDA KIERNAN
[Optional Course]
This course will provide an introduction to the place of women in the history of Europe, across countries,
classes and cultures. Social, cultural, political, religious and intellectual roles will be explored, from mothers to
monarchs, witches to widows, nuns to nurses, wet-nurses to washerwomen, and maids to mistresses, to name
but a few. Students will gain a understanding of how gender roles differed, and of how the story of women’s
history, or ‘herstory’, has unfolded over time.
Week One: Introduction to Women’s Historiography. Gender and History.
Week Two: Muses and Matrons: Women and the Renaissance.
Week Three: Nuns and novices: Religious Women and the Reformation.
Week Four: Mothers and Mistresses: maternity and matrimony in Early Modern Europe.
Week Five: Monarchs and matriarchs: Gender, power and politics in Early Modern Europe.
Week Six: Witches, wet-nurses and widows: Women on the Fringes.
Week Seven: Salonnières and philosophes: female voices in the Enlightenment.
Week Eight: Demoncracy for all? Women and Revolution.
Week Nine: Women in the Nineteenth Century.
Week Ten: Suffragettes and suffragists: the fight for the female franchise.
Week Eleven: Conclusion: Legacies for the Twentieth Century and beyond.
Reading List
There are many fine texts dealing with the history of women available. If you decide to purchase one I would
recommend one of the following:
Bonnie S Anderson, A History of their Own, 2 vols, (London, 1988). Students will find the second volume
especially useful, 305.4094/AND.
Renate Bridenthal, Susan Mosher Stuard and Merry E Wiesner eds, Becoming Visible. Women in European
History. 3rd Edition. (Boston, 1988). An excellent volume on many diverse topics, ranging from work to
war.
Olwen Hufton, The Prospect before Her (New York, 1996) 305.40940903/HUF.
Other general reading:
Lynn Abrams, The making of modern woman: Europe 1789-1918, (London, 2002) 305.4094/ABR.
Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless, editors. Studies on medieval and early modern women: pawns or
players? (London, 2000) 305.409415/MEE.
Deborah Simonton, A history of European women's work: 1700 to the present (London, 1998) 331.4094/SIM.
Deborah Simonton (ed), The Routledge history of women in Europe since 1700 (London, 2007) 305.4094/SIM.
Bonnie G. Smith, Changing lives: women in European history since 1700. 305.4094/SMI.
Margaret R. Sommerville, Sex and subjection: attitudes to women in early-modern society (London, 1995)
305.3094/SOM.
Margaret Wade Labarge, A small sound of the trumpet: women in medieval life. (London, 1990) 305.4094/LAB.
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Christianity and sexuality in the Early Modern world: regulating desire, reforming
practice. 261.8357/WIE.
Merry E. Wiesner, Women and gender in early modern Europe. (Cambridge, 1993) 305.4094/WIE
Rachel Fuchs and Victoria E. Thompson, Women in nineteenth-century Europe. (Basingstoke, 2005)
305.4094/FUC.
Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, general editors. A history of women in the West. 305.4094/DUB
Mary O’Dowd, A History of Women in Ireland, (Harlow, 2005). 305.409415/ODO.
Christine Meek (ed.) Women in Renaissance and early modern Europe. (Dublin,1999). 305.42094/MEE.
Siân Reynolds (ed.),Women, state, and revolution: essays on power and gender in Europe since 1789,
(Brighton, 1986) 305.42094/REY.
Journals: Programmes such as JSTOR and Project Muse are both accessible through the library webpage at
http://services.spd.dcu.ie/library/LIBeng/Online_Resources.html
These services allow you to search scholarly articles in many academic journals at once. Articles are more
specialised, and you will find them of greater benefit when you have completed preliminary reading.
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Other online sources:
Internet Women’s History Sourcebook provides a comprehensive list of primary sources which illustrate the
lives, careers and influences of women from the ancient to the modern era.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html
Websites such as www.genesis.ac.uk, provide portals to a host of related links.
This page provides the most comprehensive and reliable list of links to women’s history resources I am aware
of:
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/genesis/sources/a-z.cfm
Selected Reading, week-by-week.
Week One: Introduction to Women’s Historiography. Gender and History.
What does a history of women actually mean? Where had the idea of women’s history come from and how has
it developed? How can we use gender as a useful form of historical analysis?
Peter Barry, Beginning Theory, (Manchester, 2002) 801.95/BAR provides a good introduction to feminism,
gender, and more (for the more adventurous student!)
Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the politics of history, (New York, 1999).
Joan Wallach Scott, ‘Gender: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis’, American Historical Review, Vol. 94,
no. 5 (1986), pp. 1053-1075.
Week Two: Muses and Matrons: Women and the Renaissance.
Carole Levin, ‘Women in the Renaissance’, in Bridenthal et al, Becoming Visible, pp. 153-174.
Merry E Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1993).
Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge (eds.), A History of Women: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes
(Vol. 3 of A History of Women in the West, Duby and Perrot) (Cambridge, 1993).
Week Three: Nuns and novices: Religious Women and the Reformation.
Susan C. Karant-Nunn, ‘The Reformation of Women’, in Bridenthal et al, Becoming Visible, , pp. 175-202.
Olwen Hufton, The Prospect before Her, chapter 10 ‘Obedient to Thy Will’, pp. 363-423.
Anderson, A History of their Own, vol. 1, chapter III ‘Women of the Churches’, pp. 181-268.
Mary T. Malone, Women and Christianity., From the Reformation to the 21st century Vol.3. (Dublin, 2003)
270.082/MAL.
Week Four: Mothers and Mistresses: maternity and matrimony in Early Modern Europe.
Olwen Hufton, The Prospect before Her, chapters 3,4, and 5, pp. 102-220.
Bonnie Anderson, A History of their Own, vol. 1, pp. 272-331, 431-444.
Joanne Bailey, Unquiet lives: marriage and marriage breakdown in England, 1660-1800. (Cambridge, 2003)
306.810942/BAI.
Elizabeth A. Foyster, Manhood in early modern England: honour, sex and marriage. (Harlow, 1999)
305.310942/FOY.
Jack Goody, The development of the family and marriage in Europe (Cambridge, 1983) 306.8094/GOO.
Beatrice Gottlieb, The family in the Western world from the Black Death to the industrial age, (New York,
1993) 306.8509/GOT.
Linda Kiernan, ‘The Mistress and Matrimony: attitudes to marriage at the court of Louis XIV’, in Christine
Meek and Catherine Lawless (eds), Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women 4. Victims of
Viragos? (Dublin, 2005) (available from lecturer).
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Reformation. Europe’s House Divided, 1490-1700, (London, 2004), chapters 15 and 16.
Lawrence Stone, The family, sex and marriage in England 1500-1800. (Harmondsworth, 1979) 306.85/STO.
Week Five: Monarchs and matriarchs: Gender, power and politics in Early Modern Europe.
There are many biographies on individual queens, regents and consorts from which to choose, as well as those
titles dealing with the political role of women in general. Major figures such as Elizabeth I, Catherine de
Medici, Marie de Medici, Christina of Sweden, Anne of Austria, and Catherine the Great present cases of
legitimate female power in the Early Modern period, however the informal influence of women will also be
explored, for example through the role of the royal mistress.
Clarissa Campbell Orr, Queenship in Europe, 1660-1815. The Role of the Consort (Cambridge, 2005).
Week Six: Witches, wet-nurses and widows: Women on the Fringes.
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Witchcraft presents the historian with a huge range of sources, both primary and secondary, and the library
holds a particularly strong collection on this subject:
Olwen Hufton, The Prospect before Her, chapter 9 ‘Women and the Devil’, pp. 336-362.
Ankarloo Bengt, and Gustav Henningsen, (eds.). Early modern European witchcraft: centres and peripheries
(Oxford, 1993), CP 133.43094/ANK.
Robin Briggs, Communities of belief: cultural and social tension in early modern France (Oxford and New
York, 1989), CP 944.03/BRI.
G.R. Quaife, Godly zeal and furious rage: the witch in early modern Europe (London, 1987), CP
133.43094/QUA.
Lyndal Roper, Oedipus and the devil: witchcraft, sexuality and religion in early modern Europe (London,
1994).
Geoffrey Scarre, Witchcraft and magic in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe (Basingstoke, 1987), CP
133.43/SCA.
Frederick Valletta, Witchcraft, magic and superstition in England, 1640-70 (Aldershot, 2000), CP
133.430942/VAL.
Week Seven: Salonnières and philosophes: female voices in the Enlightenment.
The Age of Enlightenment, of philosophes and salons, of public opinion and (not so) private scandal, presented
a world ‘disenchanted’, relieved of its stifling superstition. Did women benefit from the enlightened ideas of its
(mostly male) philosophes, or were they left in an even more restricted position?
Dena Goodman, ‘Women and the Enlightenment’, in Bridenthal et al, Becoming Visible, pp. 233-264.
Olwen Hufton, The Prospect before Her, chapter 11 ‘Corresponding Gentlewomen, Shameless Scribblers,
Drudges of the Pen and the Emergence of the Critic’, pp. 424-462.
Carla Hesse, The Other Enlightenment, (Oxford, 2001).
Benedetta Craveri, The Age of Conversation, (New York, 2005).
Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor (eds), Women, gender, and Enlightenment. 305.409/KNO.
Week Eight: Democracy for all? Women and Revolution.
Jane Abray, ‘Feminism in the French Revolution’, American Historical Review, 80 (February 1975), pp. 43-62.
(online)
Darlene Gay Levy and Harriet B. Applewhite, ‘A Political Revolution for Women? The Case of Paris’, in
Bridenthal et al, Becoming Visible, pp. 264-292.
Rudolf M. Dekker, and Judith Vega, eds., ‘Women and the French Revolution’, Special Edition of History of
European Ideas, 10, no. 3 (1989). (online)
Olwen Hufton, Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution, (Toronto, 1992).
Joan B. Landes, Woman and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution, (Ithaca, 1988).
Sara E. Melzer, Rebel daughters: women and the French Revolution, (New York, 1992) 944.04082/MEL.
Week Nine: Women in the Nineteenth Century.
Karen Offen, ‘Contextualizing the Theory and Practice of Feminisim in Nineteenth-Century Europe’, in
Bridenthal et al, Becoming Visible, pp. 327-355.
Laura L. Frader, ‘Doing Capitalism’s Work: Women in the Western Industrial Economy’, in Bridenthal et al,
Becoming Visible, pp. 295-325.
Charles Sowerwine, ‘Socialism, Feminism, and the Socialist Women’s Movement from the French Revolution
to World War II’, in Bridenthal et al, Becoming Visible, pp. 357-388.
Week Ten: Suffragettes and suffragists: the fight for the female franchise.
Sandi E. Cooper, ‘Women in War and Peace, 1914-1945’, in Bridenthal et al, Becoming Visible, pp. 439-462.
Rosemary Cullen Owens, Smashing times: a history of the Irish women's suffrage movement, 1889-1922,
(Dublin, 1984) 324.62309415/OWE.
Susan Kingsley Kent, Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 (Princeton, 1987) 324.623/KEN.
Martin Pugh, The march of the women: a revisionist analysis of the campaign for women’s suffrage, 1866-
1914, (Oxford, 2000) 324.6230941/PUG.
Kathryn Gleadle, British women in the nineteenth century, (Basingstoke, 2001) 305.40941/GLE.
Tim Harris, Popular culture in England, c. 1500-1850, (New York, 1995) 942.06/HAR.
Week Eleven: Conclusion: Legacies for the Twentieth Century and beyond.
The final week will look at the feminist movement of the twentieth century and how it was shaped by the
events, writings and ideologies of the preceding centuries. We will explore the continuities and achievements of
feminist thinking, with reference to major figures such as Simone de Beauvoir, Germaine Greer, and Kate
Millet among others.
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HIST 304
AMERICA: FROM CIVIL WAR TO GREAT POWER
c. 1840–1972
PROF. JAMES KELLY
[Optional Course]
Course description:
This course provides students with an opportunity both to contextualise and to examine closely how, having
experienced the crisis of civil war, 1860-65, the United States overcame this challenge to its very survival, to
embark in the later nineteenth century on a phase of physical, economic and demographic growth that had
transformed it into the world’s largest economy by the beginning of the twentieth century. By combining a focus
on key domestic developments and its gradual embrace of an active foreign policy, the course traces the
embrace by the United States of an active foreign policy during the first five decades of the twentieth century,
and its assumption of the leadership of the democratic world and great power status in the second half of the
twentieth century. Grounded on the exploration of the key historical concept of change over time, this courses
traces the evolution of a modern nation, and examines the themes and issues crucial to an understanding both of
the history and present day role in the world of the United States; these include manifest destiny; states rights;
slavery; civil war; comparative economic development; reconstruction; race relations; expansion; violence;
immigration; protest; progressivism; the emergence of a modern consumerist society; the principles and practice
of modern foreign policy; economic growth and economic crisis; the emergence of a superpower; the Cold War
and Civil rights. The course is located in a broad national and international historiography.
Learning outcomes:
Aim
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be enabled to:
LO 1 – Display their understanding of the main features – political, economic and social – and the main trends
and personalities of nineteenth and twentieth-century American History.
LO 1 – Discriminate between minor and major causative factors and consequences in analysing and assessing
historical episodes
LO 1 – Dilate on the nature of historical argument and possess an awareness of its mutability
LO 1 – Engage critically with historical documentation and historical texts and, through their use, construct
multi-layered historical interpretations.
LO 1 – Assess critically and confidently to evaluate the merits of different interpretations and perspectives
LO 1 – Articulate informed historical opinions that are logical and cogently constructed.
LO 1 – Pursue independent, self-directed enquiry at an advanced level
LO 1 – Equip pupils in the primary school system with ‘the concepts and skills associated with sequence, time,
and chronology’ and confidently to introduce them to the ‘use of historical evidence’.
Assessment:
Assessment Format LO 1 LO 2 LO 3 LO 4 LO 5 LO 6 LO 7 LO 8
Examination 3 √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Assignment √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Teaching Practice √ √ √ √ √
Seminar Discussion √ √ √ √ √ √
Lecture list:
Lecture I
Background and introduction
PART I: THE ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL WAR:
Lecture II The economics of slavery
Lecture III The politics of slavery: abolitionism
Lecture IV The impact of westward expansion
Lecture V The Kansas ‘war’ and the outbreak of the Civil War
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Part II: LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA:
Lecture VI Reconstruction and post-war politics
Lecture VII Radical’ Reconstruction
Lecture VIII Blacks in late nineteenth century America
Lecture IX American immigration: its character and dimensions
Lecture X Immigration: the American response
Lecture XI Expansion and violence in the ‘wild west’
Lecture XII Industrialisation and urbanisation in the late 19C
Lecture XIII Trade unionism
Lecture XIV Agrarian radicalism in the late 19th Century
Lecture XV Progressivism
Part III: FROM ISOLATION TO SUPER POWER: 1890-1972
Lecture XVI America becomes a world power: 1890-1910
Lecture XVII American foreign policy under Wilson 1910-20
Lecture XVIII Prosperity, Depression, New Deal - 1920-1939
Lecture XIX From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: Blacks in the 20C
Lecture XX F.D. Roosevelt’s foreign policy
Lecture XXI The U.S and the beginning of the Cold War
Lecture XXII American foreign policy from Korea to Vietnam
Lecture XXIII The Vietnam War.
Lecture XXIV Conclusion
Reading List
I: INTRODUCTION
There are a number of very useful general histories of America. The fullest is Morison, Commager and
Leuchtenburg, The growth of the American republic (2 vols, 6th edition).
More recent, readable and recommended are
* H. Brogan, Longman History of U.S.A.
* M.A. Jones, The limits of Liberty (copy on 24 hour loan]
* B. Bailyn etc, The Great Republic (2 vols) [copy on 24 hour loan]
* Esmond Wright, A History of the USA (vols 2 and 3)
Other general histories of value include:
J. Edward Davies, The United States in World history (973)
Bedford and Colbourn, The Americans: a brief History
Carroll and Noble, The free and the unfree
H. Zinn, A people’s history of the United States
Dollar, Gundersen etc, America: changing times - a brief history
A.S. and W.A. Link, The twentieth century: an American history
G.B. Tindall and D.S. Shi, America: a narrative history (3rd ed.)
J.M. Blum et als, The national experience…, chapter 10 onwards
J.M. Murrin, et als, Liberty, equality, power:…, chapter 13 onwards
The simplest is Nash, Jeffrey etc, The American People
More detailed overviews can be secured in V.P. de Santis, The shaping of modern America, R.H.Wiebe, The
search for order 1877-1920, Sean Dennis Cashman, America in the gilded age, G.A. Donaldson,
Abundance and Anxiety: America 1945-60 and W.H. Chafe, The unfinished journey: America since
World War II; Sean Dennis Cashman, America ascendant, 1901–45 (973.91)
II: THE ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL WAR
1. The economics of slavery. The starting point for the modern debate on slavery is R.W. Fogel and S.
Engerman, Time on the cross. This has been subject to a devastating critique by David, Gutman, Sutch, Temin
and Wright, Reckoning with slavery [both at 326.0973; copies on 24 hour loan). Fogel has responded
confidently with Without consent or contract. Also useful are Weinstein, Gatell and Sarasohn, American negro
slavery, while Kenneth Stampp provides a humanist critique in The imperilled union; see also Ira Berlin,
Generations of captivity: a history of African-American slaves (2003), chapter . Valuable insights can also be
gained from Kenneth Stampp in The peculiar institution; L.B. Goodheart, etc, Slavery in American society, J.W.
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Harris, ed., Society and culture in the slave south (esp. chs 1-3), and E.D. Genovese, The world the slaveholder
made, M.M. Smith, Debating slavery: economy and society in the antebellum South.
2. Abolitionism: For an outline see L. Filler, The crusade against slavery, 1830-60 (early chapters) [copy on
24 hour loan]. Claudine Ferrell, The Abolitionist movement, especially chaps 4 an 5 (973.7114) and Thomas
Mitchell, Anti-slavery politics and Civil War America (973.7114); A Zilversmit, The first emancipation:
abolition of slavery in the north examines the early phase; S. Harrold, The abolitionists and the South (973.7)
and C.J. Hess, Liberty, virtue and progress (973.7) look at southern and northern opinion respectively. J.R.
Jeffery, The great silent army of abolitionism (326.80973) examines the immense role of women. See also, D.
Donald, ‘Towards a reconsideration of abolitionists’, in D. Donald, Lincoln reconsidered and Perry and
Fellman, Anti-slavery reconsidered, J.B. Stewart, Garrison and the challenge of emancipation, R.H. Abzug,
Passionate liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld. A.M. Kraut, ed., Crusaders and Compromisers, chs 1-5; Hugh
Hawkins, The Abolitionists: Means, ends and motivations, part 5; W.L. Miller, Arguing about slavery: The great
battle in the United States Congress (973.5)
See also the general works cited below.
For antebellum southern society and southern attitudes see,
C. Eaton, The growth of southern civilisation, 1790-1860
Bruce Collins, White society in the antebellum South [copy on 24 hour loan]
W.W. Freehling, The road to disunion...1776-1854
R.F. Durden, The self-inflicted wound: southern politics in the nineteenth century
E. Genovese, The slaveholders’ dilemma: freedom and progress in southern conservative thought 1820-60.
Mitchell Snay, Gospel of disunion: religion and separatism in the antebellum South.
John P. Drudy, When slavery was called freedom: Evangelicalism, proslavery and the causes of the Civil War.
John Niven, J.C. Calhoun and the price of Union
Gerald Capers, J.C. Calhoun: a reappraisal
3: Westward expansionism, the Kansas Question and the outbreak of the Civil War
The Origins of the Civil War: general works (mainly 973.711)
W.R. Brock, Conflict and Transformation, 1844-77
R.F. Nicholls, The stakes of power, 1845-77 [24 hour loan]
E.B. Smith, The death of slavery, 1837-65
G.T. McJimsey, The dividing … of America 1848-1877 [24 hour loan]
J. Niven, The coming of the Civil War 1837–1861 (973.5)
J.A. Rawley, Secession: the disruption of the American Republic
R.H. Sewall, A House divided: sectionalism and Civil War 1848-65
A. Craven, The coming of the Civil War [24 hour loan]
Thomas Mitchell, Anti-slavery politics and Civil War America (973.7114)
B.H. Reid, The origins of the American Civil War, chapters 1–6.
More detailed consideration of the lead up to the Civil War is to be found in the following:
M.A. Morrison, Slavery and the American West
N.C. Peterson, The Presidency of W.H. Harrison and John Tyler
P.H. Bergeron, The Presidency of James Polk
Larry Gara, The Presidency of Franklin Pierce
E.B. Smith, The Presidency of James Buchanan
W.W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion, chapters vi and vii
James McPherson, Battle cry of Freedom; the civil war era
M.F. Holt, The political crisis of the 1850s
M.F. Holt, Political parties and American political development … (320.973)
RA Rutland, The Republicans from Lincoln to Bush (324.2734)
E. Foner, Free soil, free labor, free men
E. Foner, Politics and ideology in the age of the Civil War (chapters 2 and 3).
Roger Ranson, Conflict and compromise, part 5.
K. Stampp, ‘The irrepressible conflict’ in The imperilled union, pp 191-245.
Kenneth Stampp, America in 1857: a nation on the Brink.
J. McPherson, The coming of the American Civil War
M. Perman, The coming of the American Civil War (3rd ed.).
M. Perman, Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction
D.S. Heidler, Pulling the Temple down: the fireeaters and the destruction of the Union.
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There are many biographies of Lincoln (see section 973.7). Among the best shorter examples are R.P. Barker,
Lincoln, J.R. Pole, Abraham Lincoln, J.G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln, P.S. Paludan, The
presidency of Abraham Lincoln, D.H. Donald, Lincoln, and M.C. Neely, Abraham Lincoln and the promise of
America.
III: RECONSTRUCTION (973.8)
The post war period was a most troubled era in American history. For good outlines, see:
Donald and J.G. Randall, Civil War and reconstruction, pp 535-700
K.M. Stampp, The era of reconstruction, 1765-77
H.L. Trefousse, Reconstruction: America’s first effort at Racial democracy
J.H. Franklin, Reconstruction and, especially,
Eric Foner, Reconstruction 1863-77: the essays in
P.D. Escott and D.R. Goldfield, Major problems in the history of the American South, volume 2, chapts 1-6
M.L. Barney, Flawed victory: a new perspective on the civil war.
E. Foner and O. Mahoney, America’ reconstruction
More specific considerations of specific factors are provided in Lawanda Cox, Lincoln and Black freedom
C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South
E.M. Coulter, The South during reconstruction 1865-77
E.L. McKitrick, Andrew Johnson and reconstruction
Albert Castel, The Presidency of Andrew Jackson.
W.R. Brock, Congress and reconstruction
Heather Cox Richardson, The death of Reconstruction: Race, labor and politics in the post Civil War North
1865–1901, chaps 1–3.
O.H. Olsen, Reconstruction and Redemption in the south.
William Gillette, Retreat from reconstruction 1869-79.
Michael Perman, Reunion without compromise: the south and reconstruction 1865-68.
George R. Rable, But there was no peace: the role of violence in the politics of reconstruction.
C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and reaction: the compromise of 1877
R.N. Current, Arguing with Historians, chs 6-9.
M. Perman, ed., Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction
T.J. Brown (ed.), Reconstruction: New Perspectives on Postbellum United States (973.8)
IV: THE BLACK QUESTION IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
The works cited in sections III and XIV contain much pertinent matter; the following are also recommended:
J.H. Franklin and A. Moss, From Slavery to freedom [copy on 24 hour loan]
C. Vann Woodward, The strange career of Jim Crow,
C.A. Palmer, Passageways: an interpretive history of Black America 1863-1965 [24 hour loan]
C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the new south
Meier and Rudick, From plantation to ghetto (3rd ed.), chapters 4 and 5 [24 hour loan]
M.J. Cassity, American race relations since Reconstruction, pt 1 [305.8].
J.M. McPherson, The struggle for equality: abolitionists and the negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction.
H.L. Trefousse, Reconstruction: America’s first effort at Racial democracy (323.1196073) (24 hour loan]
K.L. Hall. ed. Major problems in American constitutional history, i, chap. 12.
C.A. Palmer, An interpretive history of black America, vol 2, chaps 1-5.
Herbert Schapiro, White violence-Black reponse, part 1
V. de Santis, Republicans face the southern question 1877-97.
R.L. Logan, The Betrayal of the Negro from ...Hayes to Wilson.
J.R. Mandle, Not slave, not free: the African American economic experience since the Civil War
Heather Cox Richardson, The death of Reconstruction: Race, labor and politics in the post Civil War North
1865–1901, chaps 4–6.
For the economic consequences of emancipation see, as well as Mandle, just cited,
R.L. Ranson etc., One kind of freedom, chapters 2,4,5,8.
Ranson, Conflict and Compromise, parts 7 and 8,
J.R. Mandle, The African American economic experience since the Civil War and
Eric Foner, Nothing but freedom: emancipation and its legacy.
R. Higgs, Competition and Coercion: Blacks and the American Economy 1805-1914
For the Black reponse see
A.Meier, Negro though in America 1880-1915
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L. Dinnerstein etc, eds, Natives and strangers: blacks, indians and immigrants in America, chapters 4 to 8.
V: IMMIGRATION
The most straight-forward introduction is M.A. Jones, American Immigration; see also his Destination America.
A short, incisive introduction is Burchell and Homberger, ‘The Immigrant experience’ in M. Bradbury and H.
Temperly, eds., Introduction to American studies. For a longer introduction, see Roger Daniels, Coming to
America: a history of immigration and ethnicity in American life (325.73) The classic work in Oscar Handlin,
The uprooted.
The best work on the American response to immigration is J. Higham, Strangers in the land.
More recent works dealing with the immigrant in America are:
A.M. Krant, The huddled masses.
S. Lieberson, A piece of the pie: immigrants since 1880.
L. Dinnerstein and D.M. Reimers, Ethnic Americans: a history of immigration and assimilation.
John Bodner, The transplanted: a history of immigrants in urban America.
L. Fink, Major problems in the gilded age..., chapter 8.
For Irish immigration see David Fitzpatrick, Irish Emigration
Kevin Kenny, The American Irish, chapters 2-4 (973.049162) [copy on 24 hour loan]
Kevin Kenny, (ed.), New directions in Irish American history, especially the essay on Irish female servants by
Holten-Somers
*L.J. McCaffrey, The Irish diaspora
*L.J. McCaffrey, Textures of Irish America
P.J. Drudy, ed, The Irish in America: emigration, assimilation and impact - particularly the essay by Blessing.
*Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles, pp 492-551.
J. Lee and M. Casey, Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States,
chapters 4 and 5 (973.049162)
S Ó hAnnrachain, ed, Go Meiricea Siar - essays by Montgomery and Doyle
*Dennis Clark, Hibernia America: the Irish and regional cultures
*Dale T. Koebel, Paddy in the Republic (deals with the response to the Irish in the mid-nineteenth century).
J.P. Ferrie, Yankees Now: immigrants in the antebellum US 1840-60 (304.973)
R.H. Bayer and T.J. Meagher, eds, The New York Irish, parts 2 and 3.
T.J. Meagher, Inventing Irish America 1880-1928 (this is a detailed study of the Irish in Worcester, Mass).
N. Ignatiev, How the Irish became white
Ann Bradley, History of the Irish in America and the specific studies of the Irish in Butte, San Francisco,
Wisconsin etc.
Michael Glazier, ed., The encyclopaedia of the Irish in America (973.049162)
And see W. Kamphoefner and W. Helbich (eds), German-American immigration, chapters 7 and 8 (913.0431)
and J.P. Farrie, Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum US 1840–60, passim (304.873), for a
comparative perspective.
On the Irish and the Catholic Church see J.T. Ellis, American Catholicism, chapters 2 and 3.
VI: THE ‘WILD WEST’ [970.00497, 978.02 etc]
For westward expansion and the attendant violence, see
S.D.Cashman, America in the gilded age, chapt 8 [on 24 hour loan]
M.Jones, The limits of liberty, chapter 15.
J.A. Hawgood, The American West
Richard White, A new history of the American west, parts 2-4
Emerson Hough, The passing of the frontier
J.M. Faragher and R.V. Hine, The American West: a new interpretive history (24 hour loan]
R.A. Bartlett, The new country: a social history of the American frontier 1776-1890.
R.A. Billington, Western expansion: a history of the American frontier.
E.A. Milner ed, Major problems in the history of the American West, the essays.
R.M. Brown, Strain of violence, especially chapt. 6.
C.A. Milner, The Oxford History of the American West
A.M. Gibson, The American Indian, chapts 15-19.
A.L. Hurtado and P.Iverson, Major problems in American Indian history, chapters 7–10.
W.T. Hagan, American Indians, chapters 4–5
A.H. Sturgis, The trail of tears and Indian removal (973.0497)
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M.L. Nunnally, American Indian wars (973.0497)
Stuart Banner, How the Indians lost their land: Law and power on the frontier, chapters 5–8
R.L. Nichols, Indians in the United States and Canada, chapters 8–9
B.G. Trigger and WE Washburn, The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas
F.P. Prucha, The Great Father: The U.S. Government and the American Indians (2vols)
F.P. Prucha, The Indians in American Society
P. Weeks, The American Indian and the United States 1820-1890, chapters 4 to 6 (973.1497)
F.E. Hoxie, A final promise: the campaign to assimilate the Indians 1880-1920.
James Wilson, The earth shall weep, part 3.
Dee Brown, The American West
J.Weston, The real American cowboy (978)
R.W. Slatta, Cowboys of the Americas, chapter 4 onwards.
R.D. McGrath, Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and vigilantes (978][on 24 hour loan]
R.E. Mather and F.E. Boswell, Gold Camp desperadoes (979.5)
J.M. Faragher, Women and men on the overland trail (973.5)
Glenda Riley, A place to grow: women in the American west
Glenda Riley, The female frontier: a comparative view of women on the prairie and the plains.
VII: INDUSTRIALISATION AND THE LABOUR RESPONSE (330.941)
An introduction to industrialisation will be found in O’Sullivan and Keuchel, American Economic history
(330.973) part six and S. Lebergott, The Americans: an economic record, part 3. Also useful are T.C. Cochran
and W. Miller, eds., A social history of Industrial America and T.C. Cochran, Business in American life: a
history part III; D.O. Whitten and B.E. Whitten, The birth of big business in the United States 1860–1914
(338.0973); T.J. Misa, A nation of steel: the making of modern America 1865-1925 (338.47669142); P.K.
O’Brien, The economic effects of the American Civil war; J.O. Robertson, America’s business chapter 3.
For a comparative perspective see P.S. Bagwell and G.E. Mingay, Britain and America: a study of economic
change 1850-1939; M. Teich and R. Porter, eds. The industrial revolution in national context. For a
technological perspective see T.J. Mosa, A nation of steel: the making of modern America 1865-1925
(338.47669142].
The response to industrialisation is considered in S.P. Hayes, The response to Industrialisation, 1885-1914. For
the overall response of labour see M. Dubovsky, Industrialisation and the American worker, and H. Pelling,
American labour.
More recent and authoritative are Dulles and Dubovsky, History of American labour
Bruce Laurie, Artisans and Workers: Labor in nineteenth century America. The Wobblies are afforded
specialised consideration by B. Weisberger, ‘Here comes the Wobblies’ in Dinnerstein and Jackson, American
vistas: 1877 to the present.
David Montgomery, The fall of the House of Labor: the workplace, the state and American labor action 1865-
1920; E. Boris and N. Liechtenstein (eds), Major problems in the history of American workers, parts 5–
7.
VIII: AGRARIAN RADICALISM
R.A. Billington, Westward expansion: a history of the American frontier, chap 33 provides a brief introduction,
as does V.P. de Santis, The shaping of modern America 1877-1920. More detailed are F.A. Shannon, The
farmers last frontier, chapters 13-14. and S.P. Hayes, The reponse to industrialisation. See also, H.U. Faulkner,
Politics, reform and expansion 1890-1900.
Populism is well served by L. Goodwyn, The populist movement [24 hour loan], W.F. Holmes, American
populism (select chapters] [330.973] and J.D. Hicks, The populist revolt [24 hour loan]. See also W.A. Peffer,
Populism: its rise and fall.
See also C. Vann Woodward, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel.
IX: PROGRESSIVISM (973.913)
See select chapters of G.E. Mowry, The era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-12, Faith Jaycox, The Progressive era
(973.8); Allerfeldt Fristofer, The Progressive Era in the USA: 1890–1921, introduction (973.91); L.L. Gould,
The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, V.P. de Santis, The shaping of modern America, chapters 8-11, L. Fink,
Major problems in the gilded age and the progressive era, chapter 9 and 10, P. Boyer, Urban masses and the
moral order in America, parts 3 and 4, J.W. Chambers, The tyranny of change: America and the progressive era
1890-1920, but above all A.S. Link, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive era. See also, S.M. Milkis and J.M.
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Mileur, eds., Progressivism and the new democracy; J.M. Cooper, The warrior and the priest, H.A. Clements,
The presidency of Woodrow Wilson, chap 7 and R. Hofstadter, The age of reform, R.M. Saunders, In search of
Woodrow Wilson while, L. Filler, Appointment at Armageddon which addresses the muckraking impulse, E.J.
Eisenach, The lost promise of Progressivism, D.H. Burton, The learned presidency: Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.
X: AMERICA BECOMES AN EMPIRE
Overviews of twentieth century America can be found in a variety of texts.
T.G. Paterson, America in the twentieth century [copy on 24 hour loan]
S.D. Cashman, American Ascendant 1901–45
J.M. Siracusa and D.G. Coleman, Depression to Cold War (973.91)
R. Griffith, ed., Major problems in American History since 1945;
S. Fraser and G. Gerstle, The rise and fall of the New Deal Order 1930-70.
G.A. Donaldson, Abundance and anxiety: America 1945-60
W.H. Chafe, The Unfinished journey: America since World War II (973.92) [24-hour loan]
J.T. Patterson, Grand expectations: The United States 1945-74 (973.92) (24-hour loan]
J.E. Findling and F.W. Thackeray, Events that changed America in the twentieth century - includes the Great
Depression, Cold War, Civil Rights movement and Vietnam War.
For an introduction see the general histories cited above, and
R.L. Watson, The development of national power, 1900-1919.
E.R. May, Imperial Democracy: the emergence of America;. G.E. Mowry, The era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-
12. G. Martel, ed., American Foreign Relations Reconsidered, 1890-1993/
XI: THE 1920s AND THE NEW DEAL (973.913, .915 and .917)
Tom Kemp, The climax of capitalism, chapters 2–3 presents a succinct introduction. D.M. Kennedy, Freedom
from fear [on 24 hour loan] provides an extended account; J.D. Hicks, Republican Ascendancy provides a good
outline of the 1920s, while W.E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal is the companion
volume for the 1930s. D. Perkins, The new age of Franklin Roosevelt is another useful work. D.R. McCoy,
Coming of Age: the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, E.W. Hawley, The great war and the search for
a modern order...1917-33, W.E. Leuchtenburg, The perils of prosperity, 1914-32 and D.A. Shannon, Between
the wars: America 1919-1941 are alternative single volume surveys. See also R.H Farrell, The presidency of
Calvin Coolidge, D.J. Goldberg, Discontented America: the US in the 1920s
An economic perspective on the 1920s and 1930s is provided in George Soule, The Prosperity decade 1919-29
and B. Mitchell, The depression decade 1929-41.
For the Depression and New Deal see M.A. Bernstein, The Great Depression (338.542); A.L. Hanby, ed., The
New Deal: analysis and interpretation. P.K. Conkin, The New Deal; A.J. Badger, The New Deal: the depression
years 1933-40. And for the contrasting interpretations of the New Deal, B.H. Sternsher, ed., The New Deal:
Laissez faire to socialism; T.H. Watkins, The Great Depression [24 hour loan]; DM Kennedy, Freedom from
fear: the American people in depression and war 1929–45; Jeffrey W. Coker, Franklin D. Roosevelt (973.917)
and other biographies listed in Section XIII.
XII: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY 1930-60 (327.73, 973)
A good overall survey of American foreign policy is provided in Mertel, ed., (above); L.C. Gardner, A covenant
with power: America and world order from Wilson to Reagan, Walter La Feber, The American Age, chapters 12
to 19 and R.D. Schulzinger, American diplomacy in the twentieth century. See also P.A. Varg, America from
client state to world power, chapters 7 and 8, T.G. Paterson et al., American foreign relations since 1895 vol. 2
and G. Martel ed., American foreign relations reconsidered 1890-1993; T.G. Fraser and D. Murray, America and
the World since 1945.
American foreign policy in the 1930s and 1940s can be followed in detail in R.A. Divine, The illusion of
neutrality which addresses the 1930s, and the same author’s Roosevelt and World War II which deals with the
early 1940s, see also J.W. Coker, Franklin D. Roosevelt (973.917); R.S. McElvaine, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(973.917); Patrick Renshaw, Franklin D. Roosevelt (973.917); J.E. Wiltz, From isolation to war, 1931-41
pursues the same themes.
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XIII: THE COLD WAR 1945–91
There are a wealth of books from which to study American foreign policy in the post war period when America
exercised unprecedented international influence:
S.E. Ambrose, Rise to Globalism, 1938-76 (3rd edition) takes a liberal perspective.
H. Agar, The price of power
P.G. Boyle, American-Soviet relations, chapt 5 onwards.
Mooney and Brown, Truman to Carter
C.J. Bartlett, The rise and fall of the pax Americana
Walter LaFeber, America, Russia and the Cold war, 1945-75
S. Brown, The faces of power...U.S. foreign policy from Truman to Reagan
Anthony McGrew, Empire
R. Levering, The Cold war, 1945-72.
M.H. Hunt, Crises in US foreign policy [327.73), ‘The origins of the Cold War’, chapter 3.
S.J. Bell, The Cold War: an international history 1847-91
M. McCaulay, Russia, America and the Cold War 1949-91
T.G. Paterson, Major problems in American foreign policy, vol 2. T.G. Paterson, Meeting the communist threat:
Truman to Reagan
T.G. Paterson etc., American foreign policy since 1900
Dan Caldwell, American-Soviet relations from 1947
T.G. Paterson and J.G. Clifford, America Ascendant.
T.J. McCormick, America’s half century: U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War.
R. Crockett, The fifty years war: the US and the Soviet Union in World politics
W.I. Cohen, America in the Age of Soviet Power 1945-91.
Z. Karabell, Architects of intervention: the US, the third world and the Cold war 1946-52
F.J. Harbutt, The Cold War era
More detailed analysis of the origins of the Cold war can be found in J.L. Gladdis, The U.S. and the origins of
the Cold war, 1941-7; of Truman in M.J. Hogan, A cross of iron: HS Truman and the origins of the national
security state 1945-54 and H.F. Gosnell, Truman’s crises, part 2 and 3, and A.L. Hamby, Beyond the New deal:
Harry S. Truman; E.R. May, American Cold War strategy: interpreting NSC 68; Scott Lucas, Freedom’s War:
the US crusade against the Soviet Union 1945-56; CAS Sibley, The Cold War. For McCarthyism, see R.M.
Fried, The McCarthy Era in Perspective; R.G. Powers, Not without honour: the history of American anticommunism,
chap 9 (335.40973) and D. Caute, The Great Fear. For Eisenhower, see S.E. Ambrose,
Eisenhower: the president, D. Dockrill, Eisenhower’s New Deal National Security Policy 1953-61, C.J. Pack
and E. Richardson, The Presidency of D.W. Eisenhower and R.A. Divine, Eisenhower and the Cold War. For
Kennedy, B.J. Firestone, The quest for nuclear Stability: Kennedy and the Soviet Union, J.N. Giglio, The
president of J.F. Kennedy, and for Johnson, R.A. Divine, The Johnson years (2 vols).
XIV: THE VIETNAM WAR: THE CONFLICT AND ITS DOMESTIC IMPACT
(959.7043373, 973.923)
This should be assessed in the context of American foreign policy since 1945, for which see works by Ambrose,
Agar, LaFeber, and Gardner cited in section XII. Note also Kim McQuaid, The Anxious Years: America in the
Vietnam-Watergate era, part 2 and, in the context of the changing America of the 1960s, see D. Forber (ed.),
The Sixties; M. Isserman and M. Kazin, America divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (973.923)
More specific and lengthy works are
Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: a history (copy on 24 hour loan]
Gabriel Kolko, Vietnam: anatomy of war.
Marilyn Young, The Vietnam wars 1945-1990
R.B. Smith, An international history of the Vietnam war (2 vols)
P. Braestrup, ed., Vietnam a history, and
R.J. McMahon, Major problems in the history of the Vietnam War [on 24 hour loan].
Robert Buzzanco, Vietnam and the transformation of American life [on 24 hour loan].
G. J. de Gannt, A noble cause: America and the Vietnam War.
D.C. Anderson, The Vietnam War (provides a short introduction).
See also the essays by Debenedetti and Herring in R.A. Divine, ed, The Johnson years, vols 1 and 2, chapter 6
of M.H. Hunt, Crises in US foreign policy (327.73)
W.J. Thies, When governments collide: coercion and diplomacy in the Vietnam confict 1964-8.
H.W. Brands, The wages of globalism
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H.W. Brands, The devil we know: American and the Cold War, chapters 4 and 5.
R. Jefferys-Jones, Peace Now: American society and the ending of the Vietnam War.
Jerry Embcke, The spitting image: myth, memory and the legacy of Vietnam
RR Tomes, Apocalypse Now: American intellectuals and the Vietnam War
Keith Beattie, The scar that binds: American culture and the Vietnam War (24 hour loan]
Michael Lind, Vietnam: The necessary war, chaps 3-5 [24 hour loan].
For opposition to the war see C de Benedetti, An American ordeal: the anti-war movement of the Vietnam era,
and Kim McQuaid, cited above, part 2, T. Wells, The war within: America’s battle over Vietnam [on 24 hour
loan] and John Hellin, American myth and the legacy of Vietnam, and J.M. Blum, Years of Discord: American
Politics and Society 1961-74.
XV: BLACK EXPERIENCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT (323.0973–173, 973.8)
Several of the works cited in section IV are pertinent here, notably those by Franklin and Moss, and Woodward.
As well as these see A. Meier and E. Rudick, From plantation to ghetto; CA Palmer, Passageways: an
interpretive history of Black America 1863-1965, chaps 6-12 [on 24 hour loan], and R. Cook, Sweet land of
liberty: civil rights in the 2oth century (on 24 hour loan]; S. Dennis Cashman, African Americans and the quest
for civil rights, 1900–90.
For the seminal events of the 1950s and 1960s, see:
R.L. Blumberg, Civil Rights: the 1960s freedom struggle (323.1196); C.M. Braner, J.F. Kennedy and the second
reconstruction.
Harvard Sitkoff, The struggle for Black Equality, chapts 1–6 (323.0973)
Herbert Shapiro, White violence and Black response, part 6
W. Riches, The Civil Rights Movement (973.0496073)
P.B. Levy, The Civil Rights movement (323.0973)
G.A. Donaldson, The second reconstruction: a hitory of the modern civil rights movement (323.0973)
A.D. Morris, The origins of the Civil Rights Movement [305.8960730] on black organising
N.V. Bartley, The rise of massive resistance: race and politics in the south … 1950s (976.3063) [on 24 hour
loan]
M.J. Cassity, Chains of Fear: American race relations since reconstruction, part 2 (305.8), and the essays by
Lawson in Divine ed., The Johnson Years, vol II.
D.G. Newman, Promises to keep: African Americans and the constitutional order, chapters 5–6.
Manning Marble, Race, Reform and Rebellion 1945-90
F. Powledge, Free at last?
H.D. Graham, Civil rights era and the Presidency, chs 1–5.
R.D. Bush, We are not what we seem: Black nationalism and class struggle in the 20th century
R. Cook, Sweet land of liberty: the African-American struggle for civil rights in the twentieth century
(323.1196075)
R. Bruns, Martin Luther King Jr (323.1196073)
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