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History 220 -- Rise and Fall: Yugoslavia in Historical Perspective
Stanford University, Winter Quarter, 2001-02
Instructor: Dusan Djordjevich
Useful surveys of the history of eastern Europe and of nationalism
NATIONALISM
More ink’s been spilled on this subject than you can shake a stick at. Here are some of the more important and useful texts of recent years:
- Anderson, Benedict. Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism (1991 [1983])
- Armstrong, John. Nations before nationalism (1982)
- Breuilly, John. Nationalism and the state (1994)
- Brubaker, Rogers. Nationalism reframed: nationhood and the national question in the New Europe (1996)
- Eriksen, T.H. Ethnicity and nationalism: anthropological perspectives (1993)
- Gellner, Ernest. Nations and nationalism (1983)
- Greenfeld, Liah. Nationalism: five roads to modernity (1992)
- Hobsbawm, E.J. Nations and nationalism since 1780: programme, myth, reality (1992 [1990])
- Seton-Watson, Hugh. Nations and states (1977)
- Smith, Anthony D. The ethnic origins of nations (1986)
- Smith, Anthony D. Theories of nationalism (1983 [1971])
- Wiebe, Robert H. Who we are: a history of popular nationalism (2002)
Useful reviews of the literature can be found in Anthony Smith's works and, from a more "modernist" perspective, in John A. Hall, "Nationalisms: classified and explained," Daedalus (1993): 1-28. [ON RESERVE]
Some of these books have a good deal to say about eastern Europe (e.g., Brubaker, Seton-Watson). The following two collections are also good starting places. Each has chapters on specific countries, plus interesting introductory essays by Peter Sugar:
- Sugar, Peter F., and Ivo John Lederer, eds. Nationalism in Eastern Europe (1994 [1969])
- Sugar, Peter F., ed. Eastern European nationalism in the 20th century (1995)
GENERAL EUROPEAN HISTORY
A somewhat arbitrary selection of good surveys:
- R.R. Palmer and J. Colton. A history of the modern world (1984 [6th ed.])
- G.A. Craig. Europe since 1815 (1971 [3rd ed.])
- J.M. Roberts. Europe, 1880-1945 (1989 [2nd ed.])
- W. Laqueur. Europe since Hitler: the rebirth of Europe (1982 [Rev. ed.])
EASTERN EUROPE
- R. Okey. Eastern Europe, 1740-1985: feudalism to communism (1986 [2nd ed.])
- R. Bideleux and I. Jeffries. A history of Eastern Europe: crisis and change (1998)
- P.R. Magocsi. Historical atlas of Eastern Europe (1993)
- R.J. and B. Crampton. Atlas of Eastern Europe in the twentieth century (1997)
- R.J. Crampton. Eastern Europe in the twentieth century -- and after (1997 [2nd ed.])
- I.T. Berend. Decades of crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II (1998)
- _____. Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993: detour from the periphery to the periphery (1996)
- J. Rothschild. East Central Europe between the two World Wars (1974)
- J. Rothschild and N. Wingfield. Return to diversity: a political history of East Central Europe since World War II (2000 [3rd ed.])
BALKAN PENINSULA & OTTOMAN EMPIRE
- 25 lectures on modern Balkan history: available online, from a class taught at Michigan State by Steven Sowards (1995)
- W.S. Vucinich. The Ottoman Empire, its record and legacy (1965)
- L.C. Brown, ed. Imperial legacy: the Ottoman imprint on the Balkans and the Middle East (1996)
- B. Braude and B. Lewis, eds. Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: the functioning of a plural society. 2 vols. (1982)
- M.S. Anderson. The Eastern question, 1774-1923: a study in international relations (1966)
- A.L. Macfie. The Eastern question, 1774-1923 (1996 [2nd ed.])
- L.S. Stavrianos. The Balkans since 1453. (2000 [2nd ed.])
- S.K. Pavlowitch, A history of the Balkans, 1804-1945 (1999)
- B. Jelavich. History of the Balkans (Vol. 1: 18-19th c.; Vol. 2: 20th c.) (1983)
- C. and B. Jelavich. The establishment of the Balkan national states, 1804-1920 (1977)
- _____, eds. The Balkans in transition: essays on the development of Balkan life and politics since the eighteenth century (1963)
- T. Stoianovich. Balkan worlds: the first and last Europe (1994)
EAST CENTRAL EUROPE & HABSBURG MONARCHY
- P.S. Wandycz. The price of freedom: a history of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the present (2001 [2nd ed.])
- R.A. Kann. The multinational empire: nationalism and national reform in the Habsburg monarchy, 1848-1918 (1950)
- Austrian History Yearbook, vol. III, parts 1-3 (1967): essays on nationalities in the Habsburg monarchy
- R. Okey. The Habsburg monarchy, c. 1765-1918: from enlightenment to eclipse (2001)
- A. Sked. The decline and fall of the Habsburg Empire, 1815-1918 (2001 [2nd ed.])
- A.J.P. Taylor. The Habsburg monarchy, 1809-1918: a history of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary (1948 [2nd ed.])
ECONOMIC HISTORY
- D. Chirot, ed. The origins of backwardness in Eastern Europe: economics and politics from the Middle Ages until the early twentieth century (1989)
- D.F. Good. The economic rise of the Habsburg Empire, 1750-1914 (1984)
- I.T. Berend and G. Ranki. Economic development in East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries (1974)
- A.C. Janos. East Central Europe in the modern world: the politics of the borderlands from pre- to postcommunism (2000)
- J.R. Lampe and M.R. Jackson. Balkan economic history, 1550-1950: from imperial borderlands to developing nations (1982)
- H. Inalcik and D. Quataert, eds. An economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914 (1994)
- M.R. Palairet. The Balkan economies c. 1800-1914: evolution without development (1997)
- T. Stoianovich. Between East and West: the Balkan and Mediterranean worlds. 4 vols. (1992-)