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Western Civilization--European History, Empire

Customized guides to research for specific courses in Western civilization and European history

In One's Last Letters One Says Only What Is True

General Reference

Frucht, Richard C. Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the
   Fall of Communism
. New York: Garland Pub, 2000.  DJK6 .E53 2000 Reference Fl. 1

Stearns, Peter N. Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000.
   New York: Scribner, 2001. HN373 .E63 2001 Reference Fl. 1

Cook, Bernard A. Europe Since 1945 : An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 2001.
     D1058 .E8754 2001 Reference Fl. 1

Russia/Soviet Union

Brown, Archie. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cambridge:
     Cambridge University Press, 1982. DK14 .C35 1982 Reference Fl. 1

Perrie, Maureen, et al. The Cambridge History of Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
   DK40 .C36 2006 Reference Fl. 1

Germany

Kaes, Anton, et al. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
   DD240 .W39 1995 Reference Fl. 1

Zentner, Christian, et al. The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. New York: Macmillan, 1991.
   DD256.5 .G76313 1991 Reference Fl. 1

Megargee, Geoffrey P.  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps
     and Ghettos, 1933-1945
.

     Volume 1, Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps.
     Volume 2, Ghettos in German-occupied Eastern Europe

Benz, Wolfgang, et al. Encyclopedia of German Resistance to the Nazi Movement. New York:
   Continuum, 1997.  DD256.5 .L51313 1997 Reference Fl. 1

History

Europe from French Revolution to 1900

Blanning, T. C. W. The Oxford History of Modern Europe. 3rd ed.
     Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Roessler, Shirley E., et al. Europe, 1715-1919: From Enlightenment to World War.
     Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Social Conditions, etc.

Social movements 20th century

Nationalism, Europe

Nationalism 19th century

Sample sources:

Woolf, Stuart. J. Nationalism in Europe, 1815 to the Present: A Reader. London: Routledge, 1996.

World War I

Battles and campaigns

Sample sources:

Crocker, Terri Blom. The Christmas Truce: Myth, Memory, and the First World War.
     Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.

Ulrichsen, Kristian Coates. First World War in the Middle East. London: Hurst, 2014.

World War II

Battles and campaigns

Bell, Philip Michael. H. Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.

France. Library of Congress - DC

Time periods

1914-1918 (World War I)

1914-1940

1939-1945 (World War II)

1940-1945 (Fall of France)

Sample Topics

Vichy regime

Popular Front (include in French)

The Somme (1st Battle)

German occupation of France 1940-1945

Rist, Charles. Season of Infamy: A Diary of War and Occupation, 1939-1945.
     Translated by Michele McKay Aynesworth. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.

People

Georges Clemenceau

Charles de Gaulle

Dreyfus Affair

Germany.  Library of Congress - DD

Time

World War, 1914-1918 Germany Causes (World War I)

Papayoanou, Paul A. “Interdependence, Institutions, and the Balance of Power:
      Britain, Germany, and World War I
.” International Security 20, no. 4 (1996): 42–76.

1918-1933 (Between the World Wars)

1933-1945 (National Socialism, i.e. Nazi Germany)

History 20th century

Sample Topics

Holocaust

Ferdinand Foch

Weimar Republic (Germany between the World Wars)

Kristallnacht

Concentration camps 1939-1945

Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Eugenics and racism

Turda, Marius. Blood and Homeland: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central
     and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940
. Herndon: Central European University Press, 2006.

People and Groups

Wilhelm II (Kaiser)

Hitler-jungend (Hitler youth)

Gustav Stresemann

Konrad Adenauer

Leni Riefenstahl

Great Britain.  Library of Congress - DA

Time

1910-1936

Great Britain Politics and government 1936-1945

Donnelly, Mark. Britain in Second World War. London: Routledge, 1999.

1939-1945 (World War II)

History 20th century

Sample Topics

abdication

Occupation of India

Nationalism, Ireland

Easter Rising (Ireland, 1916)

Sinn Fein

Ireland 20th century

Knight, Lionel. Britain in India, 1858-1947. London: Anthem Press, 2012.

People and Groups

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain (1819-1901)

Neville Chamberlain

Winston Churchill (as subject)

Winston Churchill (speeches, letters, etc.)

Labour Party Great Britain

Lloyd George

George V

George VI, King of Great Britain

Italy.  Library of Congress - DG

Time

1914-1945 (beginnings of fascism, fascist rule)

1914-1922 ('red years' through 'black years')

De Grand, Alexander J. The Hunchback's Tailor: Giovanni Giolitti and Liberal Italy
     from the Challenge of Mass Politics to the Rise of Fascism, 1882-1922
.
     Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001.

Italy fascism

Italy communism

Politics and government 1922-1945

1939-1945 (World War II)

1943-1947 (Liberation of Italy, Allied occupation)

Sample Topics

Fascism and Catholic Church

Chamedes, Giuliana. “The Vatican, Nazi-Fascism, and the Making of Transnational Anti-Communism
     in the 1930s
.” Journal of Contemporary History 51, no. 2 (2016): 261–90.

People and Groups

Fascists

Benito Mussolini

Antonio Gramsci (Italian Communism)

Pius XII

Russia.  Library of Congress - DK

Time

Russia in the 19th century (from defeat of Napoleon to World War I)

1894-1917 (Tsarist Russia to the 1917 Revolution)

1914-1918  (World War I)

Russia and causes of World War I

People and Groups

Imperial Russia, House of Romanov

Library of Congress - DS

Time

1917-1921 (Bolshevik revolution)

1917-1945 Social conditions

Five year plans (see detailed contents)

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times  Soviet Russia in the 1930s.
     New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

1917-1936 (Congress of Soviets)

Collectivization

1941-1944 (German occupation of Soviet Union)

1939-1945 (World War II)

1936-1953 (Supreme Soviet to death of Stalin)

Shearer, David R. Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order
     in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Sample Topics

Soviet system

gulags (Soviet prison camps)

Political prisoners Soviet Union

Socialist realism

People and Groups

Bolsheviks

Peasants Soviet Union

Vladimir Lenin

Leon Trotsky

Joseph Stalin

Soviet Union Heads of State

Potsdam Conference

Diplomatic History 1939-1945

World War II - Peace

Yalta Conference (February 1945)

Plokhy, Serhii. Yalta : The Price of Peace. New York: Viking, 2010.
     D 734 .P55 2010 Fl. 2