Bibliography

Sept. 4 + Sept. 11
  • William Carr, A History of Germany, 1815-1945 (Fifth edition), chap. 1
  • Robin Okey, Eastern Europe, 1740-1985: Feudalism to Communism, pp. 9-58

Sept. 18
  • Jonathan Sperber, The European Revolutions, 1848-1851, pp.� Okey, 59-102
  • Alan Sked, The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire, 1815-1918, pp. 1-136
  • Istv�n De�k, Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918, pp. 3-19, 31-41

Sept. 25

  • Carr, chapters 2-4
  • Okey, pp. 102-118
  • Sked, pp. 137-218

Oct. 2

  • De�k, pp. 53-67, 78-113, 126-138, 165-189

Oct. 16

  • V. R. Berghahn, Modern Germany, chapter I, and/or Carr, chapters 5-8
  • Okey, pp. 118-151
  • Sked, 218-258

Oct. 23

  • Berghahn, pp. 38-56, and/or Carr, chap. 9
  • Okey, pp. 151-156
  • Sked, pp. 258-269
  • De�k, pp. 190-204

Oct. 30

  • Berghahn, pp. 57-114, and/or Carr, chapters 10-12
  • Okey, pp. 158-180
  • Barbara Jelavich, Modern Austria: Empire and Republic, 1800-1986, pp. 130-165

Nov. 13

  • Berghahn, pp. 115-148, and/or Carr, chapters 13-14
  • Jelavich, pp. 165-208
  • Joseph Rothschild, Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II, chap. 1

Nov. 20

  • Berghahn, pp. 149-176
  • Gordon Wright, The Ordeal of Total War
  • Jelavich, pp. 208-244
  • Rothschild, chapter 2

Nov. 27

  • Michael R. Marrus, The Holocaust in History
  • *Istv�n De�k, "The Incomprehensible Holocaust" and other essays on the so-called Final Solution of the Jewish Question in The New York Review of Books
  • Jan T. Gross, Neighbors, pp�
Dec. 4-11
  • Berghahn, pp. chapter 5
  • Rothschild, chapters 3-8
  • Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down

Recommended for the entire course:
  • Bideleux, Robert, and Jean Jeffries, A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change
  • Gordon Craig, Germany, 1866-1945
  • Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalisms
  • David F. Good, The Economic Rise of the Habsburg Empire, 1750-1914
  • Miroslav Hroch, Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe
  • John Lampe, Yugoslavia as History
  • Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March, 1983 (1932); a novel
  • Joseph Rothschild, East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars
  • Peter F. Sugar and Ivo J. Lederer, eds., Nationalism in Eastern Europe
  • Peter F. Sugar, ed., Native Fascism in the Successor States
  • Last but not least, Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of East Central Europe
All the books listed on the bibliography and syllabus pages are paperbacks and in print, or at least were in print in June when I prepared this syllabus. The books should be available at Labyrinth Bookstore in 112th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway. They are also on reserve in the Columbia College Reading Room in Butler Hall. Articles marked with an asterisk will be distributed in class or will be made available to you on the course web page.