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AS1012: Understanding the West - Europethe Cradle of Western Civilization(2017/2018)

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The Reading List is designed to help the Students find their assigned compulsory readingfor the coursework. This includes the Textbook chapters and certain additional informationavailable online.

 

For seminar groups, the sources and documents will be provided as a paper handout inLecture 1 (See Workbook with Sources in the Module Handbook). For any further questionplease ask the module convenor or your selected ban zhang.

 

 

Textbook (5 items)This is the textbook for the class. Please read the chapters according to the sessioninstructions and take notes for your end-of-semester exam!

A short history of Europe : from the Greeks and Romans to the present day / Antony Alcock; foreword by J.E. Spence. - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Suggested for Student Purchase | Textbook for the Course AS1012"Understanding the West: Europe the Cradle of Western Civilization"

The West : encounters and transformations / Brian P. Levack ... [et al.]. Vol. 2. - Universityof Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Further Reading | Chapters for self-study

Western society : a brief history / John P. McKay ... [et al.]. - University of NottinghamNingbo China

Book | Further Reading | for self-study

McKay | Primary SourcesWebpage | Core | Additional Primary Sources

Internet History SourcebooksWebpage | Core | Primary Sources - selected

Ancient Greece (28 items)Reading for Lecture 2 and Seminar groups 2

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A short history of Europe : from the Greeks and Romans to the present day / Antony Alcock; foreword by J.E. Spence. - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Suggested for Student Purchase | Ancient Greece: Read Chapter 1 (pp. 1-16).

Economic and social history of ancient Greece: an introduction - M. M. Austin, PierreVidal-Naquet, 1980

Book | Core

Ancient Greece: a very short introduction - Paul Cartledge, c2011Book | Recommended

Ancient empires : from Mesopotamia to the rise of Islam / Eric H. Cline, Mark W. Graham. -University of Nottingham Ningbo China

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Egypt, Greece and Rome: civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean - Charles Freeman,2014

Book | Further Reading

Aristotle - Hoffe, OtfriedSalazar, Christine, 2003

Book | Recommended

Aristotle's Politics - Carnes Lord, Aristotle, 2013Book | Recommended

Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle's PoliticsArticle | Recommended

The politics - T. A. Sinclair, Trevor J. Saunders, Aristotle, 1981Book | Recommended

Alexander the Great: the hunt for a new past - Paul Cartledge, 2004Book | Recommended

The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's - 2013Book | Recommended

Plato's Laws - Gregory Recco, Eric Sanday, 2012Book | Recommended

Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy : Plato on Virtue and the Law (1) - Berges,Sandrine, 2009

Book | Recommended

Plato's Republic: a dialogue in 16 chapters - Alain Badiou, 2012Book | Recommended

Ancient Greece: a history in eleven cities - Paul Cartledge, 2009Book | Recommended

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Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition : Moses Finley and Politics (1) - Harris, William,2013

Book | Recommended

Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (1) - Raaflaub, Kurt A.Ober, JosiahWallace, Robert, 2007

Book | Recommended

Athenian democracy - P. J. Rhodes, c2004Book | Recommended

Stability and crisis in the Athenian democracy - Gabriel Herman, 2011Book | Recommended

Race and citizen identity in the classical Athenian democracy - Susan Lape, 2010Book | Recommended

Literacy and democracy in fifth-century Athens - Anna Missiou, 2011Book | Recommended

Pericles of Athens - Azoulay, Vincent, 2014Book | Recommended

Athenian politics: democracy in Athens from Pericles to Cleophon - R. W. J. Clayton, 1970Book | Recommended

The Athenian revolution - Josiah Ober, 1996Book | Recommended

Readings In Greek History: Sources and Interpretations - D. Brendan Nagle, Stanley MayerBurstein, 2014

Book | Further Reading | Alternative sources for essay

Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World : Ancient Greek Laws : A Sourcebook (1) -Arnaoutoglou, Ilias, 2008

Book | Core

Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World : Greek and Roman Slavery (1) -Wiedemann, Thomas, 2003

Book | Core

Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome (1) - Bispham, EdwardHarrison, ThomasSparkes, Brian, 2006

Book | Core

Rome: Republic and Empire (48 items)Reading for Lecture 3 and Seminar groups 2

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Book | Core

Res gestae divi Augusti =: the achievements of the divine Augustus - P. A. Brunt, J. M.Moore, Augustus, 1967

Book | Core

Res Gestae Divi Augusti - The deeds of the godly Augustus - Benario, Herbert W.Rogers, Robert S.Scott, Kenneth, 1990

Book | Core

A short history of Europe : from the Greeks and Romans to the present day / Antony Alcock; foreword by J.E. Spence. - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Rome: Republic and Empire. Read Chapter 2 (pp. 17-36)

Ancient empires : from Mesopotamia to the rise of Islam / Eric H. Cline, Mark W. Graham. -University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Recommended | For exams and essays: Introduction and Chapters 8-12

Rome: the Augustan age, Unit 4: Augustus : Res gestae - Open University, 1982Book | Further Reading

Augustus - Pat Southern, 1998Book | Recommended

Age of Augustus, The - Eck, WernerBook | Recommended

Augustus - J. C. Edmondson, c2009Book | Recommended

Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14: the restoration of the Republic and the establishment ofthe Empire - John Richardson, c2012

Book | Recommended

The social history of Rome - Dr Géza Alföldy., 2014Book | Core

Tiberius the politician - Barbara Levick, 1999

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Augustus: image and substance - Barbara Levick, c2010Book | Recommended

Claudius - Barbara Levick, 1990Book | Recommended

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Book | Recommended

Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World : The Government of the Roman Empire : ASourcebook (2) - Levick, Dr BarbaraLevick, Barbara, 2002

Book | Core

Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World : The Roman Household : A Sourcebook (1) -Gardner, Jane F.Wiedemann, ThomasWiedemann, Professor Thomas E J, 2013

Book | Core

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Book | Recommended

Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome (1) - Bispham, EdwardHarrison, ThomasSparkes, Brian, 2006

Book | Core

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Tiberius the politician - Barbara Levick, 1999Book | Recommended

Ammianus and the Historia Augusta - Ronald Syme, 2001, c1968Book | Recommended

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World : Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greekand Roman Antiquity (1) - Christesen, PaulKyle, Donald G., 2013

Book | Recommended

The social and economic history of the Roman Empire - Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff,1971, 1957

Book | Core

Poverty in the Roman world - E. M. Atkins, Robin Osborne, 2006Book | Recommended

Popular culture in ancient Rome - J. P. Toner, 2009Book | Recommended

Slavery in the Roman world - Sandra R. Joshel, 2010Book | Recommended

Roman social history: a sourcebook - Tim G. Parkin, Arthur John Pomeroy, 2007Book | Recommended

New frontiers: law and society in the Roman world - Paul J. du Plessis, c2013Book | Recommended

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome - 2012Book | Core

Slavery in the late Roman world, AD 275-425 - Kyle Harper, 2011Book | Recommended

Rome's Imperial economy: twelve essays - William V. Harris, 2011Book | Recommended

The Oxford handbook of social relations in the Roman world - edited by Michael Peachin.,2014

Webpage | Recommended

Studies in ancient society - by M.I. Finley., 2011Book | Core

The Roman Republic: a very short introduction - David M. Gwynn, 2012Book | Recommended

The Roman republic - Michael H. Crawford, 1992Book | Recommended

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Remembering the Roman republic: culture, politics and history under the Principate -Andrew B. Gallia, 2012

Book | Recommended

A companion to the Roman Republic - Nathan Stewart Rosenstein, Robert Morstein-Marx,2006

Book | Core

Law and Religion in the Roman Republic - Tellegen-Couperus, Olga, 2011Book | Recommended

A history of the Roman republic - Klaus Bringmann, c2007Book | Recommended

Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic - Mouritsen, Henrik, 2001Book | Recommended

Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC: the imperial republic - Nathan StewartRosenstein, c2012

Book | Recommended

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic - 2004Book | Recommended

Rome and the Western Greeks, 350 BC-AD 200: conquest and acculturation in SouthernItaly - Kathryn Lomas, 2011

Book | Recommended

A history of the Roman world : 753 to 146 BC - H.H. Scullard., 2013Book | Recommended

The end of the Roman Republic, 146 to 44 BC: conquest and crisis - C. E. W. Steel, c2013Book | Recommended

The Roman Republic and the Augustan revolution - Fergus Millar, Hannah Cotton, GuyMacLean Rogers, c2002

Book | Recommended

Romans, barbarians, and the transformation of the Roman world - Biennial Conference onShifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (6th 2005 University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaigncampus)), 2010

Book | Recommended

Carthage must be destroyed: the rise and fall of an ancient civilization - Richard Miles,2011

Book | Recommended

The Rise of Christendom and the Papcy (26 items)Reading for Lecture 4 and Seminar groups 3

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Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity - Cameron, AverilBook | Core

A short history of Europe : from the Greeks and Romans to the present day / Antony Alcock; foreword by J.E. Spence. - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Suggested for Student Purchase | Read Chapters 3 and 4 (pp. 37-63) and pp.71-74.

Ancient empires : from Mesopotamia to the rise of Islam / Eric H. Cline, Mark W. Graham. -University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Recommended | For essays and exams - Chapters 11-14

Western society and the Church in the Middle Ages / R.W. Southern. - University ofNottingham Ningbo China

Book | Recommended

The making of the Middle Ages / R.W. Southern. - University of Nottingham Ningbo ChinaBook

The Early Middle Ages : Europe 400-1000 / editor, Rosamond McKitterick. - University ofNottingham Ningbo China

Book | Further Reading

The inheritance of Rome : a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 / Chris Wickham. -University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Further Reading

A Political History of Early Christianity (1) - Brent, Allen, 2009Book | Core

Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200–450 CE - Rebillard,Éric, 2012

Book | Recommended

Crisis of empire: doctrine and dissent at the end of late antiquity - Phil Booth, c2014Book | Recommended

War and warfare in late antiquity - Alexander Constantine Sarantis, Neil Christie, 2013Book | Recommended

Late Antiquity: a very short introduction - Gillian Clark, 2011Book | Recommended

Social and political life in late Antiquity - William Bowden, Adam Gutteridge, CarlosMachado, 2006

Book | Recommended

Between empires: Arabs, Romans, and Sasanians in late antiquity - Greg Fisher, 2013Book | Recommended

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Book | Recommended

A companion to the early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500-1100 - Pauline Stafford,2013

Book | Recommended

State and society in the early Middle Ages: the middle Rhine valley, 400-1000 - MatthewInnes, 2000

Book | Recommended

The Early Middle Ages: Europe 400-1000 - Rosamond McKitterick, c2001Book | Core

Islamic and Christian Spain in the early Middle Ages - Thomas F. Glick, 2005Book | Recommended

Italy in the early Middle Ages: 476-1000 - Cristina La Rocca, 2002Book | Recommended

Kingship and consent in Anglo-Saxon England, 871-978: assemblies and the state in theearly Middle Ages - Levi Roach, 2013

Book | Recommended

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series : Legal Practice and theWritten Word in the Early Middle Ages : Frankish Formulae, c.500–1000 - Rio, Alice, 1000

Book | Recommended

Germany in the early Middle Ages c.800-1056 - Timothy Reuter, 1991Book | Recommended

Life and Thought in the Early Middle Ages - Hoyt, Robert S., 1967Book | Recommended

The Formation of Christian Europe - Owen M. Phelan, 2014-10-23Book | Recommended

The Frankish Church - J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, 1983-12-15Book | Recommended

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The Medieval World (30 items)Reading for Lecture 5 and Seminar groups 4

A medieval omnibus : sources in medieval European history - Clifford R. Backman, BostonUniversity., 2015

Webpage | Core

A short history of Europe : from the Greeks and Romans to the present day / Antony Alcock; foreword by J.E. Spence. - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Suggested for Student Purchase | Read Chapters 6 and 7 (pp. 75-109).

The making of the Middle Ages / R.W. Southern. - University of Nottingham Ningbo ChinaBook | Recommended

Western Europe in the Middle Ages, 300-1475 / Brian Tierney, Sidney Painter. - Universityof Nottingham Ningbo China

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The Oxford illustrated history of medieval Europe / edited by George Holmes. - Universityof Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Recommended

Feudal society / by Marc Bloch ; translated from the French by L.A. Manyon ; foreword byM.M. Postan. - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Further Reading

Mediaeval feudalism / by Carl Stephenson. - University of Nottingham Ningbo ChinaBook | Recommended

Gender in debate from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance - Thelma S. Fenster, ClareA. Lees, 2002

Book | Recommended

Dictionary of the Middle Ages: Supplement - William C. Jordan, c2004-Book | Recommended

Gendering the Middle Ages - Pauline Stafford, Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, c2001Book | Recommended

Rise of the Medieval World : A Biographical Dictionary - Schulman, Jana K., 2002Book | Recommended

A short history of the Middle Ages - Barbara H. Rosenwein, c2004Book | Core

The central Middle Ages: Europe 950-1320 - Daniel Power, 2006Book | Core

Europe in the High Middle Ages - William Chester Jordan, 2002Book | Recommended

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Western society and the Church in the Middle Ages - R. W. Southern, 1990Book | Core

East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern TimesBook | Recommended

Magna Carta: a very short introduction - Nicholas Vincent, 2012Book | Core

1215: the year of Magna Carta - Danny Danziger, John Gillingham, 2004Book | Core

Magna Carta - James Clarke Holt, 1976, c1965Book | Core

Magna Carta - with a new commentary by David Carpenter., 2015Book | Core

Stephen Langton: Erzbischof von Canterbury im England der Magna Carta (1207-1228) -Baumann, Daniel, 1207

Book | Further Reading

Magna Carta - John, King, 2000, 1215Book | Core

Fordham Series in Medieval Studies : Medieval Education - Begley, RonaldS.J., Joseph W. Koterski,, 2005

Book | Recommended

European transformations: the long twelfth century - Thomas F. X. Noble, John H. VanEngen, University of Notre Dame. Medieval Institute, c2012

Book | Recommended

Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance : Aneignungen desHumanismus : Institutionelle und individuelle Praktiken an der Universität Ingolstadt im 15.Jahrhundert (1) - Schuh, Maximilian, 2013

Book | Further Reading

Studieren an Mittelalterlichen Universitaten : Chancen und Risiken : Gesammelte Aufsatze- Miethke, Jurgen, 2004

Book | Further Reading

Censure and Heresy at the University of Paris, 1200-1400 - Thijssen, J. M. M. H., 1200Book | Core

The liberal arts tradition - Bruce A. Kimball, 2010Book | Core

English University Life In The Middle Ages (1) - Cobban, Alan, 2002Book | Recommended

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Medieval Education - Begley, RonaldS.J., Joseph W. Koterski,, 2005

Book | Recommended

The Age of Exploration, Reformation and Religious Wars (46 items)Reading for Lectures 6 and 7 and Seminar groups 5

A reformation reader: primary texts with introductions - Denis Janz, c2008Book | Core

A short history of Europe : from the Greeks and Romans to the present day / Antony Alcock; foreword by J.E. Spence. - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Read Chapters 8 and 9 (pp. 110-143).

Reformation thought : an introduction / Alister E. McGrath. - University of NottinghamNingbo China

Book | Core

Reformation : Europe's house divided, 1490-1700 / Diarmaid MacCulloch. - University ofNottingham Ningbo China

Book | Recommended | Take a look at the definition of the Reformation!

The long European reformation : religion, political conflict, and the search for conformity1350-1750 / Peter G. Wallace. - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Further Reading

Reformation Europe, 1517-1559 / G.R. Elton. - University of Nottingham Ningbo ChinaBook | Further Reading

Spain, Europe and the Wider World 1500-1800 - Elliott, John H.Book | Further Reading

Religion and Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 - Greyerz, Kaspar von, 1500Book | Recommended

Comparing Empires : European Colonialism from Portuguese Expansion to theSpanish-American War - Hart, Jonathan, 2003

Book | Further Reading

New Oxford World History : World from 1450 to 1700 - Wills, John E., 1450Book

The journal of Christopher Columbus (during his first voyage, 1492-93) and documentsrelating the voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real - Christopher Columbus,Clements R. Markham, 2010, c1893

Book | Recommended

The age of reconnaissance: discovery, exploration and settlement, 1450-1650 - J. H. Parry,1973

Book | Recommended

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The age of reconnaissance: discovery, exploration and settlement, 1450-1650 - J. H. Parry,1973

Book | Recommended

Journal of Christopher Columbus (during his First Voyage, 1492-93) : And Documentsrelating to the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real - Markham, Clements R.,1492

Book | Recommended

1493: uncovering the new world Columbus created - Charles C. Mann, 2011Book | Recommended

Select Letters of Christopher Columbus, with other Original Documents, relating to his FourVoyages to the New World - Major, R.H., 2010

Book | Recommended

New world encounters - Stephen Greenblatt, c1993Book | Recommended

The old world and the new 1492-1650 - J. H. Elliott, 1992, c1970Book | Recommended

Historic maritime maps - Donald Wigal, c2007Book | Recommended

The Reformation - Owen Chadwick, 1990Book | Core

The Reformation: a brief history - Kenneth G. Appold, 2011Book | Recommended

Reformation thought: an introduction - Alister E. McGrath, 2012Book | Recommended

Contesting the Reformation - C. Scott Dixon, 2012Book | Recommended

The Reformation in Germany - C. S. Dixon, c2002Book | Recommended

St Andrews Studies in Reformation History : Adaptations of Calvinism in ReformationEurope : Essays in Honour of Brian G. Armstrong - Holt, Mack P.Cameron, Professor EuanGordon, Professor Bruce, 2007

Book | Recommended

Town, Country, and Regions in Reformation Germany - Scott, Tom, 2005Book | Recommended

Reformation Europe - Ulinka Rublack, 2005Book | Recommended

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Henry VIII and the English Reformation - Richard Rex, 2006Book | Recommended

Historical dictionary of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation - Michael A. Mullett,2010

Book | Core

A brief history of the English Reformation - by Derek Wilson., 2012Book | Recommended

The Counter Reformation - A. G. Dickens, 1992Book | Recommended

The German Reformation - Robert W. Scribner, C. Scott Dixon, 2003Book | Recommended

The French wars of religion, 1562-1629 - Mack P. Holt, 2005Book | Recommended

Noble power during the French wars of religion : the Guise affinity and the Catholic causein Normandy - Stuart Carroll., 1998

Book | Recommended

England's wars of religion, revisited - Charles W. A. Prior, Glenn Burgess, 2011Book | Recommended

Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48 - Mortimer, Geoff, 1618Book | Recommended

The Thirty Years War - C. V. Wedgwood, 2005Book | Recommended

The Thirty Years War: a documentary history - Tryntje Helfferich, c2009Book | Recommended

The Thirty Years' War - Geoffrey Parker, Simon Adams, 1997Book | Recommended

The Thirty Years War: a sourcebook - Peter H. Wilson, 2010Book | Recommended

The Thirty Years War: the Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-1648 - Ronald G. Asch,1997

Book | Core

Europe's tragedy: a new history of the Thirty Years War - Peter H. Wilson, 2010Book | Recommended

The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 - Richard Bonney, c2002Book | Recommended

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The winter king: Frederick V of the Palatinate and the coming of the Thirty Years' War -Brennan C. Pursell, c2003

Book | Recommended

The Ashgate research companion to the Thirty Years' War - Olaf Asbach, Peter Schröder,ebrary, 2014

Book | Core

The long European reformation: religion, political conflict, and the search for conformity1350-1750 - Peter George Wallace, 2012

Book | Recommended

Absolute Monarchy and Republicanism - the early modern state (32items)Reading for Lecture 8 and Seminar groups 6

A short history of Europe : from the Greeks and Romans to the present day / Antony Alcock; foreword by J.E. Spence. - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Suggested for Student Purchase | Read Chapter 10 (pp. 144-167).

Peace Treaties and International Law in European History : From the Late Middle Ages toWorld War One - Lesaffer, Randall, 2004

Book | Recommended

Dissimulation and Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe - Snyder, Jon R., 2009Book | Further Reading

The old European order : 1660-1800 / William Doyle. - University of Nottingham NingboChina

Book | Recommended | Classic Textbook for Early Modern Europe after the Reformation

War and Religion after Westphalia, 1648–1713 - Onnekink, DavidClaydon, Tony, ProfessorDunthorne, Hugh, Dr, 1650

Book | Core

The Anglo-Dutch moment: essays on the glorious revolution and its world impact -Jonathan Irvine Israel, 2003

Book | Core

England's glorious revolution, 1688-1689: a brief history with documents - Steven C. A.Pincus, c2006

Book | Core

Early modern Europe, 1450-1789 - Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks., 2013Book | Recommended

The Oxford handbook of early modern European history, 1350-1750 - edited by HamishScott., 2015

Book | Recommended

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The Glorious Revolution in America - Lovejoy, David S., 2011Book | Recommended

The Empire ReformedWebpage | Recommended

The European world 1500-1800: an introduction to early modern history - Beat A. Kümin,2014

Book | Core

European Warfare, 1660-1815 - Black, Jeremy, 1660Book | Recommended

European international relations 1648-1815 - Jeremy Black, 2002Book | Recommended

The European World 1500–1800 - An Introduction to Early Modern History, 1500Book | Core

Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers : John Locke (1) - Mack, EricMeadowcroft, John, 2013

Book | Recommended

Locke - John Dunn, 2003Book | Core

Two Treatises of Government - Locke, John, 1999Book | Recommended

Hobbes: a very short introduction - Richard Tuck, 2002Book | Core

Starting with Hobbes (1) - Ross, George MacDonald, 2009Book | Recommended

Hobbes and republican liberty - Quentin Skinner, 2008Book | Recommended

Limiting Leviathan - Larry May, 2013-09-26Book | Recommended

Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes, C. B. Macpherson, 1985Book | Core

Leviathan: authoritative text, backgrounds, interpretations - Thomas Hobbes, Richard E.Flathman, David Johnston, c1997

Book | Recommended

Leviathan: the matter, forme & power of a common-wealth ecclesiastical and civill -Thomas Hobbes, ebrary, 1651

Book | Recommended

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The origins of French absolutism, 1598-1661 - Alan James., 2014Book | Recommended

Compass of society: commerce and absolutism in old-regime France - Henry C. Clark,c2007

Book | Recommended

The state in early modern France - James B. Collins, 2009Book | Recommended

The Ancien Régime: a history of France, 1610-1774 - Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, MarkGreengrass, 1998

Book | Recommended

Louis XIV and absolutism: a brief study with documents - William Beik, c2000Book | Recommended

Frederick the Great : King of Prussia - Tim Blanning., 2015Book | Recommended

Frederick the Great - Theodor Schieder, Sabina Berkeley, H. M. Scott, 2000Book | Recommended

The Dual Revolution 1750-1850 (31 items)Reading for Lecture 9 and Seminar groups 7

A short history of Europe : from the Greeks and Romans to the present day / Antony Alcock; foreword by J.E. Spence. - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | read Chapter 11 (pp. 168-191).

German history, 1770-1866 / by James J. Sheehan. - University of Nottingham NingboChina

Book | Further Reading

The transformation of European politics 1763-1848 / by Paul W. Schroeder. - University ofNottingham Ningbo China

Book | Recommended

The ideological origins of the American Revolution - Bernard Bailyn, 1992Book | Recommended

The Oxford handbook of the American Revolution - Edward G. Gray, Jane Kamensky, 2013Book | Recommended

The American Revolution: a history - Gordon S. Wood, 2005Book | Recommended

The Machiavellian moment: Florentine political thought and the Atlantic republicantradition - J. G. A. Pocock, 2003

Book | Recommended

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The French Revolution - J. M Roberts, 1997Book | Recommended

The French Revolution - William Doyle, 2001Book | Recommended

Contesting the French Revolution - Paul R. Hanson, 2009Book | Recommended

The French Revolution in Global Perspective - Desan, SuzanneHunt, LynnNelson, William Max, 2013

Book | Recommended

A New Dictionary of the French Revolution - Ballard, Richard, 2011Book | Recommended

The French Revolution 1787-1804 - Seminar Studies, 1787Book | Recommended

Citizen emperor: Napoleon in power - Philip G. Dwyer, 2013Book | Recommended

Napoleon: the path to power - Philip G. Dwyer, 2008, c2007Book | Recommended

Napoleon's wars: an international history, 1803-1815 - Charles J. Esdaile, 2009Book | Recommended

The French Revolution and Napoleon: a sourcebook - Philip G. Dwyer, Peter McPhee, 2002Book | Recommended

The rise of Prussia, 1700-1830 - edited by Philip G. Dwyer., 2014Webpage | Recommended

The state and the industrial revolution in Prussia, 1740-1870 - W. O. Henderson, 1958Book | Recommended

Bismarck - Katharine Anne Lerman., 2014Book | Recommended

The Politics of the Prussian NobilityWebpage | Recommended

Iron kingdom: the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 - Christopher M. Clark, 2007Book | Recommended

Austria, Prussia and the making of Germany, 1806-1871 - John Breuilly, John Breuilly, 2011Book | Recommended

Kaiser Wilhelm II - Christopher M Clark., 2014

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Book | Recommended

The age of revolution: Europe, 1789-1848 - E. J. Hobsbawm, 1997Book | Recommended

The age of capital, 1848-1875 - E. J. Hobsbawm, 1997, c1975Book | Recommended

Nations and nationalism since 1780: programme, myth, reality - E. J. Hobsbawm, 1992Book | Recommended

The making of the English working class - E. P. Thompson, 1968Book | Core

The Industrial Revolution in Europe, 1750-1914 - James Farr, c2003Book | Core

Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution - Horn, JeffRosenband, Leonard NSmith, Merritt Roe, 2010

Book | Recommended

Industrial revolution: people and perspectives - Jennifer L. Goloboy, c2008Book | Recommended

The Rise and Fall of European Globalism 1850-1945 (40 items)Reading for Lecture 10 and Seminar groups 8

A short history of Europe : from the Greeks and Romans to the present day / Antony Alcock; foreword by J.E. Spence. - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Read Chapters 12 and 13 (pp. 192-242).

The Oxford illustrated history of modern Europe / edited by T.C.W. Blanning. - University ofNottingham Ningbo China

Book | Further Reading

Barricades and borders : Europe, 1800-1914 / Robert Gildea. - University of NottinghamNingbo China

Book | Recommended | classic textbook for Europe in the 19th century

Globalization : a short history / Jgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Peterson ; translated byDona Geyer. - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Webpage | Recommended

The age of empire, 1875-1914 / E.J. Hobsbawm. - University of Nottingham Ningbo ChinaWebpage | Recommended

J.S. Mill's Political Thought - Urbinati, NadiaZakaras, Alex, 2007

Book | Recommended

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Kaiser Wilhelm II: a life in power - Christopher M. Clark, 2009Book | Recommended

The sleepwalkers: how Europe went to war in 1914 - Christopher M. Clark, 2012Book | Core

Media and the making of modern Germany: mass communications, society, and politicsfrom the Empire to the Third Reich - Corey Ross, 2010

Book | Recommended

German Colonial Empire (1) - Smith, Woodruff D., 1978Book | Recommended

Contesting the German Empire, 1871-1918 - Matthew Jefferies, 2008Book | Recommended

Gold and iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the building of the German Empire - FritzRichard Stern, 1979, c1977

Book | Recommended

A history of modern Europe: from 1815 to the present - Albert S. Lindemann, 2013Book | Recommended

A history of modern Europe: from 1815 to the present - Albert S. Lindemann, 2013Book | Recommended

The new Penguin atlas of recent history: Europe since 1815 - Colin McEvedy, DavidWoodroffe, Colin McEvedy, 2002

Book | Recommended

European Warfare, 1815-2000 - Black, Jeremy, 1815Book | Recommended

The ascendancy of Europe, 1815-1914 - M. S. Anderson, 2003Book | Recommended

The European colonial empires, 1815-1919 - H. L. Wesseling, Diane Webb, 2004Book | Recommended

British imperialism: 1688-2000 - P. J. Cain, A. G. Hopkins, 2002, c2001Book | Core

Against massacre : humanitarian interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815-1914 : theemergence of a European concept and international practice - Davide Rodogno., 2012

Webpage | Recommended

Europe's uncertain path, 1814-1914: state formation and civil society - R. S. Alexander,2012

Book | Recommended

A history of Europe in the modern world : since 1815 - R.R. Palmer, Joel Colton, Lloyd

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Kramer., 2014Webpage | Recommended

Peasants into Frenchmen: the modernization of rural France, 1870-1914 - Eugen Weber,c1976

Book | Recommended

Nationalism and social communication: an inquiry into the foundations of nationality - KarlW. Deutsch, 1966

Book | Core

Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Benedict R.O'G Anderson, 1991

Book | Recommended

Modern Italy, 1871-1995 - Martin Clark, Martin Clark, 1996Book | Recommended

The union of Italy, 1815-1895 - William James Stillman, George Macaulay Trevelyan, 2013Book | Recommended

The Risorgimento revisited: nationalism and culture in nineteenth-century Italy - SilvanaPatriarca, Lucy Riall, 2012

Book | Recommended

Italy in the nineteenth century: 1796-1900 - John Anthony Davis, 2000Book | Recommended

France, 1815-1914: the bourgeois century - Roger Magraw, 1986, c1983Book | Recommended

The rise and fall of the Second Empire, 1852-1871 - Alain Plessis, 1985Book | Recommended

Restoration and reaction, 1815-1848 - André Jardin, André Jean Tudesq, c1983Book | Recommended

The Republican experiment, 1848-1852 - Maurice Agulhon, 1983Book | Recommended

A concise history of France - Roger Price, 2005Book | Recommended

France Since 1815, Second Edition - 2, 1815Book | Recommended

The European revolutions, 1848-1851 - Jonathan Sperber, 1994Book | Core

1848 - A European Revolution?:International Ideas and National Memories of 1848, 1848Book | Recommended

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Europe in 1848: revolution and reform - Dieter Dowe, 2001Book | Core

Industry and empire: from 1750 to the present day - E. J. Hobsbawm, Chris Wrigley, 1999Book | Recommended

The invention of tradition - E. J. Hobsbawm, T. O. Ranger, 1992, c1983Book | Recommended

A House Divided and United - The Cold War and the European Union (3items)Reading for Lecture 11 and Seminar groups 9

A short history of Europe : from the Greeks and Romans to the present day / Antony Alcock; foreword by J.E. Spence. - University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Book | Suggested for Student Purchase | Read Chapters 14 and 15 (pp. 243-286).

Age of extremes : the short twentieth century, 1914-1991 / Eric Hobsbawm. - University ofNottingham Ningbo China

Webpage | Recommended

Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991 - E. J. Hobsbawm, 1995Book | Recommended

 

Databases

 

The following databases are available through the library

 

Historical Abstracts: A bibliographical database of world history, indexing over 2,300journals. It does not work regularly

 

JSTOR: digital archive of over 1,000 academic journals

 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: biographies of over 57,000 individuals

 

Oxford Reference Online: language and subject reference works; includes a number ofsubject-specific titles for history

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References works

References are useful to get a topic overview. A classic work is: The New EncyclopaediaBritannica. 15th ed., Chicago : Encyclopaedia Britannica, c2007 (Main Library Room 307AE5.E6)

 

Oxford References

· http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780227679319.001.0001/acref-9780227679319

Some relevant guides include:

- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Greece and Rome

- The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

- The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (The latter include an article on the'French Revolution' )

 

Cambridge Companions Online

http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/companions/ .

This series consists of edited volumes of scholarly articles. The collection includes:

- The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles

- The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic

- The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus

- The Cambridge Companion to the age of Justinian

- The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine

- The Cambridge companion to medieval philosophy

 

Cambridge Histories Online

http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/

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The series includes:

- The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

- The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare

- The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire

- The New Cambridge Medieval History of Europe

- The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy

- The Cambridge History of Christianity

- The Cambridge Economic History Europe

- The Cambridge History of Political Thought

- The Cambridge Modern History

 

BBC

 

BBC History

· http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/atoz.shtml

Check links to the Ancient World (Greeks and Romans), British History, and Historic Figures(A-Z)

 

BBC Religions

· http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/

Check especially the sections History, Beliefs, Art, Texts related to Judaism, Christianity,and Islam.

 

The British Museum

The British Museum reconstructs world history through artefacts

· http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore.aspx

Check also:

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http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/

Europeana

· http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

This is a portal that gives you access to a variety of sources (documents, painting andpictures, artefacts), held in museums, libraries and archives of all Europe.

(Check the Section Help, before starting to use it)

 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

The best source for the Western political philosophy (check especially the theories ofpower of Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Locke, Hobbes, Adam Smith, Voltaire, Rousseau, andMontesquieu)

· http://plato.stanford.edu/

Articles include:

- 'Ancient Political Philosophy', http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ancient-political/

The section 'Political Theory' in the article 'Enlightenment' is a good summary of the maincontribution to political theory of the movement and includes references to Adam Smith,Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquieu Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquieu, withreferences to other theorists (e.g. the previous work of Hobbes).

- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/enlightenment/#PolThe

- You can also find individual articles, such as

- 'Niccolò Machiavelli', http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/machiavelli/

- 'Hobbes's Moral and Political Philosophy', http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/

- 'Locke's Political Philosophy', http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-political/

The European Library

An online portal that offers access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europeand leading European Research Libraries.

Online exhibitions at this site include:

- 'Napoleonic Wars'

http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition/napoleonic_wars/index.html

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EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History

This is database of European primary historical documents that are transcribed,reproduced in facsimile, or translated.

http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

Internet tutorials and special resources

The following website includes tutorials on the use of the Internet to explore severalacademic disciplines (try Classics, History, Philosophy), each with a list on good websites(in the section Tour)/ See the Sites). It has also guides to find images, sounds, films, and agood tutorial on the use of the Internet. The front page is :

http://www.vtstutorials.co.uk/

Below the single websites:

· Online guide to the discipline of History available at URL:

http://www.vtstutorials.co.uk/ws//tracking/launchcontent.aspx?cv=C5DB7F8A-5DD8-4EBF-B75B-6D2B752EA013&e=A0000&c=1A8CE175-C563-40C8-827A-AC5C20049B5B&SID=6a1d1423-a172-4017-a793-59fa475473b9

This may be a revision for IS students who have completed the Foundation IS module, butis worth reviewing.

 

· Online guide to resources on Classics available at URL:

http://www.vtstutorials.co.uk/ws/tracking/launchcontent.aspx?cv=C5DB7F8A-5DD8-4EBF-B75B-6D2B752EA013&e=A0000&c=1A8CE175-C563-40C8-827A-AC5C20049B5B&SID=6a1d1423-a172-4017-a793-59fa475473b9

· Online guide to resources on Philosophy available at URL:

http://www.vtstutorials.co.uk/ws//tracking/launchcontent.aspx?cv=C5DB7F8A-5DD8-4EBF-B75B-6D2B752EA013&e=A0000&c=1A8CE175-C563-40C8-827A-AC5C20049B5B&SID=6a1d1423-a172-4017-a793-59fa475473b9

· Internet for audio resources

http://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/tutorial/audio/

· Internet for image searching

http://www.vtstutorials.co.uk/ws//tracking/launchcontent.aspx?cv=A23A401A-2982-4644-916C-7C637B7AC502&e=A0000&c=30A6D6C0-05B1-491C-8BDD-F159627F18DB&SID=10846e37-224d-435c-8679-2dabee2dc1b8

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