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HIST 1018 Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914

Nota Bene:

Books related to nineteenth-century Europe and the histories of individual European nation states
are abundant, making it impractical to compile an exhaustive list. Therefore, what follows is a
representative selection of fundamental readings, primarily focusing on general European history
during the nineteenth century and ideologies relevant to the course. Most titles can be found in
the Main Library of HKU, as clearly marked and accompanied by a hyperlink. Students are also
encouraged to explore additional resources available in other HK libraries.

READING LIST

I. Textbook:
- John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Present, 3rd
ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010) (available on Moodle).

II. Overviews:
- T. C. W. Blanning (ed.), The Short Oxford History of Europe: The Nineteenth Century
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) (available in HKU Library).
- Jürgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of The World: A Global History Of The
Nineteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014) (available online in
through HKU Library).

III. Articles, Edited Volumes, Monographs:

1) Ideologies, Movements, Politics

a) Liberalism:
- Michael Freeden, Javier Fernández-Sebastián and Jörn Leonhard (eds.), In Search of
European Liberalisms. Concepts, Languages, Ideologies (Oxford: Berghahn Books,
2019) (available online through in HKU Library).
- Harold Laski, The Rise of European Liberalism (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.,
1936) (available online through archive.org).
- Robert Leroux and David M. Hart, French Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century: An
Anthology (New York: Routledge, 2012) (available online through HKU Library).
- Alan S. Kahan and Ewa Atanassow (eds.), Liberal moments: Reading Liberal Texts
(London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017) (available online through HKU Library).
- Vanessa Rampton, Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the
Russian Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020) (available through
HKALL)
- Alan Ryan, The Making of Modern Liberalism (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University
Press, 2012) (available online through HKU Library).

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- James J. Sheehan, German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century, (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1978) (available online through HKU Library).

b) Socialism

- Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe (Oxford: Oxford
University Press 2002), Chapter 1 “Making Democracy Social,” (available online
through HKU Library).
- Terrell Carver and James Farr, The Cambridge Companion to the Communist Manifesto
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015) (available online through HKU
Library).
- Tommaso Milani, Hendrik de Man and Social Democracy. The Idea of Planning in
Western Europe, 1914–1940 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Chapter 2 “Flawed
Giant: European Social Democracy Before 1914” (available online through HKU
Library).
- Tom Rockmore, Marx’s Dream: From Capitalism to Communism (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2018) (available through HKALL).
- Donald Sassoon, One Hundred Years of Socialism. The West European Left In The
Twentieth Century (London: I.B. Tauris 1996); Chapter 1: “The Establishment of
Socialism before 1914” (available in HKU Library).

c) Nationalism
- Benedict R. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism (London: Verso, 2006) (available online through HKU Library).
- Benedict R. Anderson, Long-Distance Nationalism: World Capitalism and the Rise of
Identity Politics (Amsterdam: Center for Asian Studies Amsterdam, University of
California 1992) (available in HKU Library).
- John Connelly, From Peoples into Nations. A History of Eastern Europe, Part I, “The
Emergence of National Movements” and Part II “The Decline of Empire and the Rise of
Modern Politics” (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020) (available
online through HKU Library).
- Ernest Gellner, Encounters with Nationalism, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994) (available in
HKU Library).
- Ernest Gellner, Nationalism, (London: Phoenix, 1998) (available through HKALL).
- Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1983)
(available in HKU Library).
- Eric J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality,
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, Second edition) (available online
through HKU Library).
- Anthony Smith, Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History, (Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley
2013, 2nd Edition (available online through HKU Library).

d) Fascism, National Socialism, Nazism, Social Darwinism


- Mike Hawkins, Social Darwinism in European and American thought, 1860-1945.
Nature as Model and Nature as Threat (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
(available online through HKU Library).

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- John Connelly, From Peoples into Nations. A History of Eastern Europe, Part II, Chapter
9 “The Origins of National Socialism: Fin de Siècle Hungary and Bohemia” (Princeton &
Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020) (available online through HKU Library).
- T. Mills Kelly, Czech National Socialism in Late Habsburg Empire (New York: New
York, 2006) (available upon request from the lecturer).
- Mark Mazower, Dark Continent. Europe's Twentieth Century, Chapter I “The Deserted
Temple: Democracy's Rise and Fall” (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998) (available in
HKU Library).
- George L. Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology. Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich
“Part I: The Ideological Foundations” and Part II “The Institutionalization of the
Ideology, 1873-1918” (New York: Schocken Books, 1981) (available in HKU Library).
- George L. Mosse, “Introduction: The Genesis of Fascism,” Journal of Contemporary
History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1966): 14-26 (available online through JSTOR).
- Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914-1945, Chapter 1 “The Cultural
Transformation of the Fin de Siècle” and Chapter 2 “Radical and Authoritarian
Nationalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe” (Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1995) (available online through HKU Library).
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism, Chapter 2 “Creating Fascist Movements”
(New York: Knopf, 2004) (available in HKU Library).
- Andrew Gladding Whiteside, Austrian National Socialism Before 1918 (Dordrecht:
Springer, 1962) (available online through archive.org).
- Andrew Gladding Whiteside, The Socialism of Fools. Georg Ritter von Schönerer and
Austrian Pan-Germanism (available online through archive.org).

e) Humanitarian Democracy (Czech Way out of the Crisis)


- Antonie van den Beld, Humanity: The Political and Social Philosophy of Thomas G.
Masaryk (Mouton: The Hague, 1976) (available upon request from the lecturer).
- George J. Kovtun, The Spirit of Thomas G. Masaryk (1850-1937). An Anthology
(London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1990) (available upon request from the lecturer).
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Constructive Sociological Theory, introduction by Alan
Woolfolk (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1994) (available online through
archive.org).
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Humanistic Ideals, trans. by William Preston Warren.
(Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1971) (available upon request from the lecturer).
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Masaryk on Marx. An Abridged Edition of T. G. Masaryk. The
Social Question: Philosophical and Sociological Foundations of Marxism, ed. and trans.
by Erazim V. Kohák (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1972) (available online
through archive.org).
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Modern Man and Religion, trans. by Ann Bibza and Dr.
Václav Benes, introduction by Vasil K. Škrach (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd,
1938) (available online through archive.org).
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Suicide and the Meaning of Civilization, trans. by William B.
Weist and Robert G. Batson, introduction by Anthony Giddens (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1970) (available online through archive.org).

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- René Wellek, “T. G. Masaryk on the Meaning of Czech History” in Milič Čapek and
Karel Hrubý (eds.), T.G. Masaryk in Perspective: Comments and Criticism (Ann Arbor:
SVU, 1981), 157–172 (available upon request from the lecturer).

2) Concert of Powers, European States, Geopolitics, Diplomacy, World War I

- Bridge, F. R and Roger Bullen, The Great Powers and The European States System
1814-1914 (London; New York: Routledge, 2013) (available online through HKU
Library).
- Tim Chapman, The Congress of Vienna 1814-1815 (Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2012)
(available online through HKU Library).
- Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers. How Europe Went to War in 1914 (New York:
Harper, 2013) (available through HKALL).
- John Connelly, From Peoples into Nations. A History of Eastern Europe, Part I, “The
Emergence of National Movements” and Part II “The Decline of Empire and the Rise of
Modern Politics” (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020) (available
online through HKU Library).
- Roger Chickering, “Imperial Germany’s Peculiar War, 1914–1918,” The Journal of
Modern History, Vol. 88, No. 4 (2016): 856-894 (available online through HKU Library).
- Holger Afflerbach and David Stevenson (eds.), An Improbable War?: The Outbreak of
World War I and European Political Culture before 1914 (New York: Berghahn Books,
2012) (available online through HKU Library).
- Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War: Explaining World War I (New York: Basic Books,
1999) (available in HKU Library).
- Alexander Grab, Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe (Basingstoke, England;
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) (available in HKU Library).
- Mark Hewitson, Germany and the Causes of the First World War (Oxford: Berg, 2004)
(available online through HKU Library).
- A.G. Hopkins, “Overseas expansion, imperialism, and Empire, 1815-1914,” (Chapter 6)
in T. C. W. Blanning (ed.), The Short Oxford History of Europe: The Nineteenth Century
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) (available in HKU Library).
- Pieter M. Judson, The Habsburg Empire: A New History (Cambridge, Massachusetts;
London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2016) (available in
HKU Library).
- Jonathan Kwan, “The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815: Diplomacy, Political Culture and
Sociability,” Historical Journal, Vol. 60, No. 4 (2017): 1125-1146 (available online
through HKU Library).
- Jack S. Levy and John A. Vasquez (eds.), The Causes of the First World War: Analytic
Perspectives and Historical Debates (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
(available upon request from the lecturer).
- David van der Oye, “Russian foreign policy, 1815-1917” (Chapter 26) in Dominic Lieven
(ed.), The Cambridge History of Russia vol. 2, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006), pp. 554-74 (available online through HKU Library).

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- Thomas G. Otte, The Foreign Office Mind the Making of British Foreign Policy, 1865-
1914 (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011) (available online
through HKU Library).
- Stanley Z. Pech, “Czech Political Parties in 1848,” Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue
Canadienne des Slavistes, Vol. 15, No. 4 (1973): 462-487 (available online through
JSTOR).
- Roger Price, A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (London: Hutchinson,
1987) (available in HKU).
- Hugh Ragsdale, “Russian foreign policy, 1725-1815” (Chapter 24) in Dominic Lieven
(ed.), The Cambridge History of Russia vol. 2, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006), pp. 504-529 (available online through HKU Library).
- Paul W. Schroeder, ‘International politics, peace and war, 1815-1914’, (Chapter 5) in T.
C. W. Blanning (ed.), The Short Oxford History of Europe: The Nineteenth Century
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) (available in HKU Library).
- Alan John Percivale Taylor, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848–1918 (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1954) (available in HKU Library).
- Alan John Percivale Taylor, From Napoleon to the Second International: Essays on the
Nineteenth Century Europe (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993) (available in HKU
Library).
- Paul Vyšný, Neo-Slavism and the Czechs, 1898-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1977) (available in HKU).

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