Introduction to Modern History

Main group 1

• "Victuri Salutamus", Part of: The journal of modern history, vol. 1, no. 1, 1929, p. 2Compulsory*
• Ahonen, S, The Lure of Grand Narratives: A dilemma for History teachers, Part of: International perspectives on teaching rival histories: pedagogical responses to contested narratives and the history wars, Basingstoke, Springer Science and Business Media, 2017, p. chapter 3, 22 pagesCompulsory*
• Bauman, Zygmunt, Modernity and the holocaust, 1. pbk ed., Cambridge, Polity, 1991Compulsory*
• Burk, K; Geary, D, Editorial, Part of: Contemporary European history, 1992, p. 2 pCompulsory*
• Chakrabarty, D, The Muddle of modernity, Part of: The American historical review, vol. 116, no. 3, 2011, p. 13 pagesCompulsory*
• Clark, P, Rwamda's Recovery: When Remembrance Is Official Policy, Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018, p. 6Compulsory*
• Cohen, D; Mandler, P, The History Manifesto: A Critique, Part of: The American historical review, vol. 120, no. 2, 2015, p. 13 pagesCompulsory*
• Conrad, S, Globalizing the Beatiful Bpdy: Eugen Sandpw, Bodybuilding, and the Ideal of Muscular Manliness at turn of the Twentieth Century, Part of: Journal of world history.: official journal of the World History Association, vol. 32, no. 1, 2021, p. 30Compulsory*
• Editorial, Part of: Journal of modern European history =: Zeitschrift für moderne europäische Geschichte = Revue d'histoire européenne contemporaine., vol. 1, no. 1, p. 2Compulsory*
• Editorial note, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 1, no. 1, 1966, p. 4Compulsory*
• Erlandsson, Susanna, Personal politics in the postwar world: Western diplomacy behind the scenes, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022Compulsory* (Preface pp xi-xii and Introduction & Part 1 pp 1–54, 56 p)
• Evans, R J, From Nazism to Never Again: How Germany Came to Terms with its Past, Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018, p. 8–16Compulsory*
• Evans, R J, History, Memory, and the Law: The Historian as Expert Witness, Part of: History and theory: studies in the philosophy of history, vol. 41, no. 3, 2002, p. 326–345Compulsory*
• Gidley, R; Turner, M, Judicialicing History: Mass Crimes Trials and the Historian Expert Witnses in West Germany, Cambodia, and Bangladesh, Part of: Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 12, no. 3, 2018, p. 16Compulsory*
• Goldring, P, Historians and Inuit: Learning from the Qikitani Truth Commision, Part of: Canadian journal of history, vol. 50, no. 3, 2015, p. 32Compulsory*
• Gordon Reed, A, "America's Original Sin: Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremecy", Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018, p. 6Compulsory*
• Guldi, Jo; Armitage, David, The history manifesto, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014Compulsory* (Introduction and Conclusion, pp 1–13 and 117–125)
• Hobsbawm, Eric J., Nations and nationalism since 1780: programme, myth, reality, 2. ed., Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992Compulsory* (Introduction & chapter 1, 4, 5 & 6)
• Holton, W, "Chilling Affects: The Far Right Takes Aim at Black History", Part of: The American historical review, vol. 129, no. 1, p. 17Compulsory*
• Hunt, L, "Modernity: Are Modern Times Different?", Part of: Historia critica, vol. 54, 2014, p. 18Compulsory*
• Hunt, T, "Whose Truth?: Objective Truth and a Challenge for History", Part of: Criminal Law Forum, vol. 15, no. 1-2, 2004, p. 6Compulsory*
• Introduction, Part of: Global biographies: lived history as method, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2022, p. 22 pagesCompulsory*
• Kochlin, P, "Whiteness studies: The New History of Race in America", Part of: The journal of American history, vol. 89, no. 1, p. 19Compulsory*
• Marvin, G, "Wolves in Sheep's (and Others') Clothing", Part of: Beastly Natures, University of Virginia Press, 2010, p. 20Compulsory*
• McBride, I, The Shadow of the Gunman: Irish Historians and the IRA, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 25Compulsory*
• McCarthy, Helen, Double lives: a history of working motherhood in modern Britain, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021Compulsory* (Introduction, chapters 1, 5, 10, 12 and Conclusion, 141 p)
• Motadel, D, "The Political Role of the Historian", Part of: Contemporary European history, p. 8Compulsory*
• Msimang, S, "All is not forgiven: South Africa and the Scars of Apartheid", Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018, p. 7Compulsory*
• Müller,, J-W, European Intellectual History as Contemporary History, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 574–590Compulsory*
• Palmovski, J; Sporh Readman, K, "Speaking Truth to Power: Contemporary History in the Twenty-first Century, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 20Compulsory*
• Petrov, N, Don't Speak Memory: How Russia Represses its Past, Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018, p. 16–22Compulsory*
• Schell, O, "China's Cover-Up: When Communists Rewrite History", Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018, p. 6Compulsory*
• Shainkman, M, "Introduction: The Continuity and Change of Antisemitism", Part of: Antisemitism today and tomorrow: global perspectives on the many faces of contemporary antisemitism, Brighton, MA, Academic Studies Press, 2018, p. 17Compulsory*
• Shimazu, N, "What is Sociability in Diplomacy?"¨, Part of: Diplomatica, vol. 1, no. 1, 2019, p. 17Compulsory*
• Spencer D. Segalla, Empire and catastrophe.: decolonization and environmental disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954, Lincoln, University of Nebraska, 2020Compulsory* (Chapter 1 & 2, 53 p)
• Sörlin, S, The Contemporaneity of Environmental History: Negotiating Scholarship, Useful History, and the New Human Condition, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 610–630Compulsory*
• Vartija, D.J., "Introduction to the special Issue 'Enlightenment and modernity", Part of: International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, vol. 8, no. 3-4, 2020, p. 11Compulsory*
• Venn, C; Featherstone, M, "Modernity", Part of: Theory, culture & society., vol. 23, no. 2-3, 2006, p. 9Compulsory*
• Virmani, A, "Social Responsibility of the Historian: The Annales' Agenda in Perspective", Part of: Economic and political weekly., vol. 52, no. 36, 2017, p. 8Compulsory*
• Wagner, P, "The End of European Modernity", Part of: Changing Societies & Personalities, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017, p. 8Compulsory*
• Zainaldin,, J, The Price of the Truth: History, Deborah Lipstadt and the Libel Trial, Noteworthy, 2002Compulsory* (5 p)

In addition to this mandatory literature, each student will, in consultation with the teacher, pick an academic book of their choice to read for their final essay (c 250 p).

Minor additional texts may be assigned during the course.

* Compulsory