AS.100.743 Topics in Post-1945 European History Prof. Todd

AS.100.743 Topics in Post-1945 European History
Prof. Todd Shepard
For E-RESERVES *
January 27, 2014: Historiographic Discussions
-- Martin Conway, "The Rise and Fall of Western Europe's Democratic Age, 1945–
1973." Contemporary European History 13.01 (2004): 67-88.*
--Jenny Andersson, “The Great Future Debate and the Struggle for the World,” American
Historical Review 117, no. 5 (Dec. 2012), pp. 1411-30.*
-- Pieter Lagrou, "De l'histoire du temps présent à l'histoire des autres."Vingtième Siècle.
Revue d'histoire 2 (2013): 101-119.*
-- Emmanuel Droit, and Franz Reichherzer. "La fin de l'histoire du temps présent telle
que nous l'avons connue." Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire 2 (2013): 121-145.*
--Pietr Lagrou, « Between Europe and the Nation : the inward turn of Contemporay
Historical Writing » in : Konrad Jarausch and Thomas Lindenberger (dir.) Conflicted
Memories. Europeanizing Contemporary Histories (Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford, 2007),
69-80.*
-- Henry Rousso, “Les dilemmes d'une mémoire européenne" Recherches (2007): 203-221.*
February 3 Families
--Tara Zahra, Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families After World
War II (Harvard University Press, 2011).
-- Tara Zahra, "Going West." East European Politics & Societies 25.4 (2011): 785-791.*
February 10: Victims
--Carolyn Dean, Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the
Holocaust (Cornell, 2010).
--Amir Weiner, “The Empires Pay a Visit: Gulag Returnees, East European Rebellions,
and Soviet Frontier Politics,” Journal of Modern History 78: 2 (June 2006), 333-376.*
--Frank Biess, “Survivors of Totalitarianism: Returning POWs and Reconstruction of
Masculine Citizenship in West Germany,” in Hanna Schissler, ed., The Miracle Years: A
Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-1968 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001),
57-82.*
February 17 FRG
--Norbert Frei,Adenauer’s Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty
and Integration translated by Joel Golb (2002).
--Elizabeth Heineman, “The Hour of the Woman: Memories of Germany’s ‘Crisis Years’
and West German National Identity,” in Hanna Schissler, ed., The Miracle Years: A Cultural
History of West Germany, 1949-1968 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), 21-56
Robert Moeller, “Remembering the War in a Nation of Victims,” in The Miracle Years, 83109.*
Feb. 24: European Union: I
--Pieter Lagrou, “Europe as a Place for Common Memories? Some Thoughts on
Victimhood, Identity and Emancipation from the Past,” in Muriel Blaive, Christian
Gerbel and Thomas Lindenberger eds., Clashes in European Memory: The Case of Communist
Repression and the Holocaust (Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2011), 281-288.*
--William Wallace, "Rescue or Retreat? The Nation State in Western Europe, 19451993,” Political Studies 42 (1994): 57-76. *
--Wilfried Loth, "Explaining European Integration: The Contribution from Historians,"
Journal of European Integration History 14, no.1 (2008): 9-26.*
--Wolfram Kaiser, Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union (Cambridge UP,
2007), 1-11, 163-190, 191-252 [skim to get the point], 253-325.*
--Alan Milward, The European Rescue of the Nation-State (Berkeley, 1992), 1-45, 318-344.*
--Ann-Christina Knudsen, Farmers on Welfare: The Making of Europe’s Common Agricultural
Policy (Cornell, 2009), 1-19, 23-89, 266-317.*
March 3 European Union: II
Yves Montarsolo, L'Eurafrique: contrepoint de l'idée d'Europe: le cas français
de la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale aux négociations des traités de
Rome. Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2010.
Peo Hansen, and Stefan Jonsson. "A Statue to Nasser? Eurafrica, the Colonial Roots of
European Integration, and the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize."Mediterranean Quarterly 24.4
(2013): 5-18.*
Stéphane Mourlane, "La Méditerranée des élites italiennes aux lendemains de la Seconde
Guerre mondiale." Rives méditerranéennes 1 (2009): 141-152.*
--Todd Shepard, “A l’heure des “grands ensembles” et de la guerre d’Algérie. L’ ‘Étatnation’ en question,” Monde(s). Revue d’histoire transnationale 1 (May 2012), 113-134.*
SPRING BREAK:
March 10 Legacies and Transformations
Sergio Luzzatto, The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini’s Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy (New York,
2005), 1-12, 53-116, 171-230. *
Miriam Dobson, Khrushchev’s Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform After
Stalin (Cornell, 2009), 1-214. *
Sudhir Hazareesingh, In the Shadow of the General: Modern France and the Myth of De Gaulle
(Oxford, 2012), xi-xiv, 3-119, 144-182. *
March 24: Americanization
--Victoria De Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance Through
Twentieth-Century Europe. Bellknap Press, 2005.
March 31 Eastern Europe
--Paulina Bren, The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after
the 1968 Prague Spring (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2010)
--Konrad Jarausch, “Care and Coercion: The GDR as Welfare Dictatorship,” in
Jarausch, ed., Dictatorship as Experience: Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR (New
York: Berghahn Books, 1999), 43-69.*
--Paul Betts, “Building Socialism at Home: The Case of East German Interiors,” in
Katherine Pence and Paul Betts, eds., Socialist modern: East German Everyday Culture and
Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), 96-132.*
--Katherine Pence, “Women on the Verge: Consumers between Private Desires and
Public Crisis,” in Socialist modern, 287-322.*
April 7 The United Kingdom
Mike Savage, Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940: The Politics of
Method. Oxford University Press, New York, 2010.
Ben Jackson, “The Think Tank Archipelago: Thatcherism and Neoliberalism” in
B.Jackson and R.Saunders (eds.), Making Thatcher’s Britain (Cambridge, 2012), 43-61.*
April 14 Sexual Revolution
Uta Poiger, “Rock ‘n’ Roll, Female Sexuality, and the Cold War Battle over German
Identities,” Journal of Modern History 68 (September 1996): 577-616.*
Dagmar Herzog, "Syncopated Sex: Transforming European Sexual Cultures," American
Historical Review 114 (December 2009).*
Dagmar. Herzog, "" Pleasure, Sex, and Politics Belong Together": Post-Holocaust
Memory and the Sexual Revolution in West Germany." Critical Inquiry 24.2 (1998): 393444.*
Julian Jackson, Living in Arcadia: Homosexuality, Politics, and Morality in France from the Liberation
to AIDS. University of Chicago Press, 2009. 169-254.*
April 21 The Late Soviet Union
Alexei Yurchak, Everything Was For Ever, Until It Was No More: The Last
Soviet Generation (Princeton University Press, 2006).