Book Reviews

MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY

I: Contextualizing Europe

• Bayly, C.A.  The Birth of the Modern World: 1780-1914, Wiley-Blackwell, 2003.
• Osterhammel, Jürgen and Niels P. Petersson.  Globalization: A Short History, Princeton University Press, 2009.   

II:  Nationalism & Nation Building

• Waldstreicher, David. In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
• Applegate, Celia. Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn’s Revival of the St. Matthew Passion. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005.
• Todorova, Maria. Imagining the Balkans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Mazower, Mark. The Balkans: A Short History. New York: Modern Library, 2002.

III: Science & Society in the 19^th Century

• Winter, Alison.  Mesmerized:  Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 
• Geison, Gerald L. The Private Science of Louis Pasteur.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
• Kern, Stephen.  The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918.  With a new preface by Stephen Kern.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 

IV:  the “Fin-de-Siécle:” Culture & Society around 1900 

• Schorske, Carl E. Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture. New York: Knopf, 1979. 
• Coen, Deborah R. Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
• Schwartz, Vanessa R. Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 
• Eksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
• Mosse, George L. Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

V:  European Mass Culture in the Context of Global War

• Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Moment : Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Berghahn, Volker, R. Europe in the Era of two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006.
• Andrews, James T. Science for the Masses: The Bolshevik State, Public Science, and the Popular Imagination in Soviet Russia, 1917-1934. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003.
• Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta, Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini’s Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

VI: Life Under Totalitarian Regimes

• Proctor, Robert. The Nazi War on Cancer. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.
• Fitzpatrick, Sheila.  Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s.New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

VII:  Writing Modern European History

• Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century. New York: Vintage, 2000.
• Wasserstein, Bernard. Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.

 

MODERN GERMAN HISTORY

I: Surveys & the Sonderweg 

• Sheehan, James J.  German History, 1770-1866.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1989.
• Wehler, Hans Ulrich. Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte, Volumes 1-5
• Hagen, William W.  German History in Modern Times:  Four Lives of a Nation.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• Meinecke, Friedrich.  The German Catastrophe:  Reflections and Recollections.  Trans. Sidney B. Fay. Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1950.
• Blackbourn, David and Geoff Eley.  The Peculiarities of German History:  Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1984.

II: The German Question

• Thomas Nipperdey, Germany From Napoleon to Bismarck
• Matthew Levinger, Enlightened Nationalism:  the Transformation of Prussian Political Culture, 1806-1848
• Lother Gall, Bismarck:  Der weisse Revolutionär
• Jonathan Sperber, Rhineland Radicals:  The Democratic Movement and the Revolution of 1848-1849
• Celia Applegate, A Nation of Provincials:  The German Idea of Heimat

III:  The Nature of the Kaiserreich 

• Wehler, Hans-Ulrich. The German Empire 1871-1918.  Trans. Kim Traynor.  Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1985.
• Lidtke, Vernon. The Alternative Culture:  Socialist Labor in Imperial Germany.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
• Eley, Geoff. Reshaping the German Right:  Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.
• Smith, Helmut Walser. German Nationalism & Religious Conflict:  Culture, Ideology, Politics, 1870-1914.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
• Anderson, Margaret Lavinia. Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 
• Wildenthal, Lora. German Women for Empire: 1884-1945.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

IV: World War One 

• Chickering, Roger. Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
• Hull, Isabel. Absolute Destruction:  Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.  
• Lerner, Paul. Hysterical Men:  Wary, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.
• Fischer, Fritz.  Germany’s Aims in the First World War.  Introduction by Hajo Holborn & James Joll.  New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1967.
• Davis, Belinda J.  Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin.  Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2000.  

V: Weimar 

• Weitz, Eric.  Weimar Germany:  Promise and Tragedy.  Princeton University Press, 2007
• Peukert, Detlev J.K.  The Weimar Republic: the Crisis of Classical Modernity.  Trans. Richard Deveson.  New York: Hill & Wang, 1993.   
• Tatar, Maria. Lustmord:  Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
• Theweleit, Klaus.  Male Fantasies: Women, Floods, Bodies, History.  Vol. 1. Trans. Stephen Conway with a Foreward by Barbara Ehrenreich.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
• Broszat, Martin.  Hitler and the Collapse of Weimar Germany.  Trans V.R. Berghahn.  Leamington Spa: Berg, 1987. 

VI: Nazi Germany

• Gellately, Robert. Backing Hitler:  Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany.  Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2001. 
• Kershaw, Ian.  Hitler. New York: W.W. Norton & Company: Volume 1: Hubris: 1889-1936, published 1998; Volume 2: Nemesis: 1936 – 1945, published 2000
• Peukert, Detlev J.K. Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life.  Trans. Richard Deveson.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.  
  
• Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland:  Women, the Family and Nazi Politics. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987. 
• Bracher, Karl.  The German Dictatorship:  The Origins, Structure, and Effects of National Socialism.  Trans. Jean Steinberg.  Introduction by Peter Gay.  New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970.
• Broszat, Martin. The Hitler State:  The Foundation and Development of the Internal Structure of the Third Reich.  Trans. John W. Hiden.  London: Longman, 1981.

VII: After 1945

• Herman Weber, Geschichte der DDR 
• Conze, Eckart.  Die Suche nach Sicherheit: eine Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland von 1949 bis in die Gegenwart.  Munich: Siedler, 2009. 
• Poiger, Uta G.  Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics & American Culture in a Divided Germany.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
• Jarausch, Konrad J. and Michael Geyer.  Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
• Herf, Jeffrey.  Divided Memory: the Nazi Past in the Two Germanys.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
• Evans, Richard J. “The New Nationalism and the Old History: Perspectives on the West German Historikerstreit,” in The Journal of Modern History. Vol. 59, No. 4 (Dec. 1987): 761:797.

VIII: History of Jews in Germany

• Jacob Katz, Out of the Ghetto:  the Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870
• Kaplan, Marion A. The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: Harper Perennial, 1998.
• Raul Hilberg, the Destruction of the European Jews (3 Volumes)   
• Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

 

THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY

I: Theory

• Foucault, Michel.  The History of Sexuality V. 1: An Introduction, (1990)
• Katz, Jonathan Ned. The Invention of Heterosexuality (1995)
• Sedgwick, Eve. Epistemology of the Closet (1991)
• Halperin, David. “Forgetting Foucault,” Representations, No. 63 (Summer, 1998):  93-120.
• Weeks, Jeffrey. “Remembering Foucault,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 14, No. 1/2, (January/April 2005): 186-201.
• Halperin, David. How to Do the History of Homosexuality (2004)
• Stoler, Ann Laura. Race and the Education of Desire:  Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995)
• McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest, (1995)
• Rubin, Gayle.  “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” in Carole Vance,Pleasure and Danger:  Exploring Female Sexuality  (1993)
• Scott, Joan.  Gender and the Politics of History (1999) 
• Angelides, Martin.  A History of Bisexuality (2001)

II: General Overviews

• Duberman, Martin, Martha Vicinus, & George Chauncey, eds., Hidden from History:  Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (1989)
• Abelove, Henry, Michele Barale, & David Halperin, eds., The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (1993)  
• Rosario, Vernon A.  ed., Science and Homosexualities, (1997)
• Rupp, Leila. Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women (2009)
• Plummer, D.  One of the Boys:  Masculinity, Homophobia, and Modern Manhood, (Harrington Park Press:  1999).
• Stryker, Susan.  Trangender History (Seal Press, 2008).
• Lancaster, Roger N.  The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture (2003)
• Laqueur, Thomas, “Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology,” in Thomas Laqueur, ed., The Making of the Modern Body:  Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century (University of California Press, 1987).
• Boyd, Nan Alamilla and Horacio N. Roque Ramierez, eds.  Bodies of Evidence: the Practice of Queer Oral History, Oxford Oral History Series, 2012.  

III: European Sexuality

• Herzog, Dagmar.  Sexuality in Europe:  a Twentieth-Century History (2011)
• Houlbrook, Matt. Queer London:  Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 (2006)
• Walkowitz, Judith R.  City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (1992)
• Clark, Anna. Desire: A History of European Sexuality (2008)
• Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent(2001)
• Vicinus, Martha. Intimate Friends:  Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 (2006)
• Trumbach, Randolph. Sex and the Gender Revolution: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London, (1998)
• Mosse, George L. Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe,(1985)
• Marcus, Sharon.  Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton, 2007).
• Tampagne, Florence.  A History of Homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris, 1919-1939 (2004)
• Ruehl, Sonja “Inverts and Experts” in Judith Newton & Deborah Rosenfelt, eds., Feminist Criticism & Social Change:  Sex, Class, and Race in Literature
• Boswell, John. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, (1980)
• Martel, Frédéric.  The Pink and the Black:  Homosexuals in France Since 1968 (1999)
• Gunther, Scott.  The Elastic Closet: A History of Homosexuality in France, 1942-Present  (2009)
• Bunzl, Matti.  Jews & Queers: Symptoms of Modernity in Late Twentieth Century Vienna

IV: German Sexuality

• Fenemore,  Mark.  “The Recent Historiography of Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Germany” in The Historical Journal, Vol. 52, Issue 03, (Sept. 2009):  763-779.
• Spector, Scott, Helmut Puff, and Dagmar Herzog, eds. After the History of Sexuality (2012)
• Jensen, Erik.  Body by Weimar:  Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity (2010)
• Crouthamel, Jason. “Male Sexuality and Psychological Trauma: Soldiers and Sexual Disorder in World War I and Weimar Germany.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 17, no. 1 (January 2008): 60-84.
• Fout, John C. “Sexual Politics in Wilhelmine Germany: The Male Gender Crisis, Moral Purity and Homophobia.” In Forbidden History: The State, Society, and the Regulation of Sexuality in Modern Europe, edited by John C. Fout, 259-92, (1992)
• Giles, Geoffrey J. “The Institution of Homosexual Panic in the Third Reich.” In Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany, edited by Robert Gellately & Nathan Stoltzfus (2001)
• Heineman, Elizabeth D. What Difference Does a Husband Make: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany (1999).
• Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland. Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics (1986)
• Herzog, Dagmar. Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (2007).
• Whisnant, Clayton J.  Male Homosexuality in West Germany:  Between Persecution and Freedom, 1945-69 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012).

V: US American Sexuality

• D’Emilio, John & Estelle Freedman, Intimate Matters:  A History of Sexuality in America. Third Edition (University of Chicago:  2012)
• Berube, Allan.  Coming Out Under Fire:  The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II.  New York: Free Press, 1990.
• Duggan, Lisa. “The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America,” Signs 18 (Summer 1993).
• Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-century America, (1991)
• Johnson, David K. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (2006)
• Meyerowitz, Joanne. How Sex Changed:  A History of Transsexuality in the United States (2004)
• Rupp, Leila.  A Desired Past: A Short History of Same Sex Love in America, (2001)
• Somerville, Siobhan B.  “Scientific Racism & the Emergence of the Homosexual Body” in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 5, No. 2. (Oct., 1994): 243-266
• Stryker, Susan. Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback, (2001)
• Amrstrong, E., Forging Gay Identities:  Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994, (University of Chicago: 2002).
• Kevin Mumford, Interzones:  Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century (1997)
• Chad Heap, Slumming:  Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940 (2010)
• Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1995)
• Kennedy, Elizabeth and Madeline Davis. Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, (1993)
• Johnson, Patrick.  Sweet Tea:  Black Gay Men of the South, (2008)

VI: Gay Rights Movements in the US

• Stein, Marc.  Rethinking the Gay & Lesbian Movement, (Routledge, 2012).
• Canaday, Margot.  The Straight State:  Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, (Princeton Press, 2009)
• D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970, (1983)
• Meeker, Martin.  “Behind the Mask of Respectability:  Reconsidering the Mattachine Society and the Male Homophile Practice, 1950s and 1960s.”  Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Jan. 2001):  78-116.
• Brandt, Eric.  Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks & Gays and the Struggle for Equality, (New Press: 1999).
• Armstrong, Elizabeth & S.M. Crage.  “Movements and Memory:  The Making of the Stonewall Myth,” inAmerican Sociological Review Vol. 71, No. 5 (2006):  724-751.
• Avila-Saavedra, G.  The Construction of Queer Memory:  Media Coverage of Stonewall 25.  Paper delivered at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, August 2006.
• Chasin, Alexandra.  Selling Out:  The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market (Palgrave, 2000).
• Gallo, Marcia,  Different Daughters:  A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement, (Carroll & Graf: 2006).
• White, Todd.  Pre-Gay L.A.:  A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights (University of Illinois, 2009).