Main group 1

• 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*
• Introduction, Part of: Global biographies: lived history as method, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2022, p. 22 pagesCompulsory*
• Bauman, Zygmunt, Modernity and the holocaust, 1. pbk ed., Cambridge, Polity, 1991Compulsory*
• Burk, Kathleen; Geary, Dick, Editorial", Contemporary European History 1:1 (1992), Part of: Contemporary European history, 1992Compulsory* (2 p.)
• Chakrabarty, D, The Muddle of modernity, Part of: The American historical review, vol. 116, no. 3, 2011, p. 13 pagesCompulsory*
• Clark, Phil, "Rwanda's Recovery. When Remembrance Is Official Policy", Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018Compulsory* (6 p.)
• Conrad, Sebastian, "Globalizing the Beautiful Body: Eugen Sandow, Bodybuilding, and the Ideal of Muscular Manliness at the Turn of the Twentieth Century", Part of: Journal of world history.: official journal of the World History Association, vol. 32, no. 1, 2021Compulsory* (30 p.)
• "Editorial note", Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 1, no. 1, 1966Compulsory* (4 p.)
• Editorial, Journal of Modern European History/Zeitschrift für moderne europäische Geschichte/Revue d'histoire européenne contemporaine, Part of: Journal of modern European history =: Zeitschrift für moderne europäische Geschichte = Revue d'histoire européenne contemporaine., vol. 1, no. 1, 2003Compulsory* (2 p.)
• 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, Rebecca; Turner, Mathew, Judicializing History: Mass Crimes Trials and the Historian as Expert Witness in West Germany, Cambodia, and Bangladesh, Part of: Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018Compulsory* (16 p.)
• Gordon Reed, Anette, America's Original Sin. Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremacy, Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018Compulsory* (6 p.)
• 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, Woody, Chilling Affects: The Far Right Takes Aim at Black History, Part of: The American historical review, vol. 129, no. 1, 2024Compulsory* (17 p.)
• Hunt, Lynn, Modernity: Are Modern Times Different?, Part of: Historia critica, 2014Compulsory* (18 p.)
• Hunt, Tristram, Whose Truth? Objective Truth and a Challenge for History, Part of: Criminal Law Forum, vol. 15, no. 1-2, 2004Compulsory* (6 p)
• Kochlin, Peter, Whiteness Studies: The New History of Race in America, Part of: The journal of American history, vol. 89, no. 1, 2002Compulsory* (19 p.)
• Marvin, Garry, Wolves in Sheep's (and Others') Clothing, Part of: Beastly natures: animals, humans, and the study of history, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2010Compulsory* (20 p.)
• 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, David, The Political Role of the Historian, Part of: Contemporary European history, vol. 32, 2023Compulsory* (8 p.)
• Msimang, Sisonke, All is not forgiven. South Africa and the Scars of Apartheid, Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018Compulsory* (7 p.)
• Müller,, J-W, European Intellectual History as Contemporary History, Part of: Journal of contemporary history, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, p. 574–590Compulsory*
• Petrov, N, Don't Speak Memory: How Russia Represses its Past, Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018, p. 16–22Compulsory*
• Richardson, Heather Cox, Democracy awakening: notes on the state of America, [New York], Penguin Books, 2024Compulsory* (part 1&2, 160p)
• Bonnell, Jennifer, Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Ritvo, Harriet, "Epilogue: Combinations and Conjunction" pp. 386–401. 16 p.)
• Schell, Orville, China's Cover-Up. When Communists Rewrite History, Part of: Foreign affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, 2018Compulsory* (6 p.)
• Shimazu, Naoko, What is Sociability in Diplomacy?, Part of: Diplomatica, vol. 1, no. 1, 2019Compulsory* (17 p.)
• Sörlin, Sverker; Lane, Melissa, Historicizing climate change—engaging new approaches to climate and history, Springer, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2285-0Compulsory* (13 p.)
• Vartija, Devin J, Introduction to the Special Issue 'Enlightenment and Modernity, Part of: International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, vol. 8, no. 3-4, 2020Compulsory* (11 p.)
• Venn, Couze; Featherstone, Mike, Modernity, Part of: Theory, culture & society., vol. 2-3, 23Compulsory* (9 p.)
• Victuri, Salutamus, The Journal of Modern History, Part of: The journal of modern history, vol. 1, no. 1, 1929Compulsory* (2 p.)
• Virmani, Arundhati, Social Responsibility of the Historian: The Annales' Agenda in Perspective, Part of: Economic and political weekly., vol. 52, no. 36, 2017Compulsory* (8 p.)
• Wagner, Peter, The End of European Modernity, Part of: Changing Societies & Personalities, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017Compulsory* (8 p.)
• Zainaldin,, J, The Price of the Truth: History, Deborah Lipstadt and the Libel Trial, Noteworthy, 2002Compulsory*

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 updates to the reading list may be announced at the beginning of the course. Some short additional texts may will be assigned during the course.

* Compulsory