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Chapter 22: The Coming of Mass Politics: Industrialization, Emancipation, and Instability, 1870-1914 |
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Scientific Transformations
Adas, Michael. Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. 1989. A superb study of the way in which the ideology of empire was inextricably connected with cultural and intellectual developments within the West.
Bowler, Peter. Evolution: The History of an Idea. 1989. Looks at the development of evolutionary theory both before and after Darwin.
Bowler, Peter. The Non-Darwinian Revolution. 1988. Argues that Darwin's theory of evolution was misunderstood and misapplied in the nineteenth century.
Brian, Denis. Einstein: A Life. 1996. One of the more recent of many biographies of Einstein.
Desmond, Adrian and James Moore. Darwin. 1991. A very readable biography.
Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. 1996. A compelling look at the manipulation of scientific data and statistics to provide "proof" for racist and elitist assumptions.
Hughes, H. Stuart. Consciousness and Society: The Reorientation of European Social Thought 1890-1930. 1958. Despite the date of publication, Hughes' study remains one of the most important examinations of the intellectual history of this period.
Cultural Crisis: The Fin-de-Sicle and the Birth of Modernism
Butler, Christopher. Early Modernism: Literature, Music, and Painting in Europe, 1900-1916. 1994. Wide-ranging and nicely illustrated.
Dijkstra, Bram. Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture. 1986. This richly illustrated work shows how anxiety over the changing role of women permeated artistic production at the end of the nineteenth century.
Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918. 1983. A creative and compelling account that places the cultural history of this era firmly in its social, economic, and technological context.
McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. 1995. A provocative study that explores the links between Western ideologies of racial superiority, economic and social developments, and gender roles.
Pick, Daniel. Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder c. 1848-1918. 1993. Pick argues that concern over degeneration formed a central theme in European culture in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Quinn, Susan. Marie Curie: A Life. 1995. Important biography of an important figure.
Showalter, Elaine. Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Sie'cle. 1990. An illuminating look at the turbulence that characterized gender relations in the fin de siecle.
Sperber, Jonathan. Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany. 1984. A look at the religious dimensions of popular culture.
West, Shearer. Fin De Siecle. 1993. Focuses largely on cultural developments.
The New Imperialism
Albertini, Rudolf von. European Colonial Rule, 1880-1940: The Impact of the West on India, South East Asia, and Africa. 1982. Explores the consequences of imperialism on the "non-West."Baumgart, Winifred. Imperialism: The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial Expansion, 1880-1914. 1982. A brief but useful overview.
Beasley, W.G. Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945. 1987. Focused on the twentieth century, but contains a valuable survey of nineteenth-century Western imperialism in Asia and the Japanese response.
Betts, Raymond F. The False Dawn: European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. 1975. A general survey that looks at the ideas that underlay imperialism as well as the events that shaped it.
Crowder, Michael (ed.). West African Resistance: The Military Response to Colonial Occupation. 1971. A collection of essays by historians of Africa.
Dodge, Ernest. Islands and Empires: The Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia. 1976. A useful study of Asian imperialism.
Ellis, John. The Social History of the Machine Gun. 1975. Lively, nicely illustrated, and informative.
Fieldhouse, D.K. Economics and Empire: 1830-1914. 1970. Both a survey of the history of Western imperialism and a study of its causes.
Headrick, Daniel R. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. 1981. Highlights the important role played by technology in determining both the timing and success of Western imperialism.
Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. 1998. Blistering account of Leopold's repressive imperialist regime in the Congo.
Hyam, Ronald. Britain's Imperial Century, 1815-1914. 3rd ed. 2002. Well-written survey that emphasizes the geopolitical concerns behind Britain's imperial expansion.
Marshall, P. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire. 1996. A visual treat.
Roberts, Brian. Cecil Rhodes: Flawed Colossus. 1987. Engaging biography of one of the most important of Britain's imperialists.
Schneider, William. An Empire for the Masses: The French Popular Image of Africa, 1870-1900. 1982. A study of the construction of the imperial idea in the popular press.
Thornton, A.P. The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies: A Study in British Power. 1959; reprinted 1985. An older but still important look at imperialist ideology and opposition.
Vandervort, Bruce. Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914. 1998. An up-to-date study by a military historian.
Wesseling, H.L. Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa 1880-1914. 1996. A solid survey of complex developments.
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