United States
There are many excellent general histories of the United
States and many others besides those here mentioned
could equally well be commended. In paperback there
is William Miller, A New History of the United States*
(Paladin, 1970). For a well-written and beautifully
produced one-volume history, see M. B. Norton, D.
Katzman, P. Escott, T. Paterson, H. Chardacoff and W.
Tuttle, A People and a Nation: A History of the United
States(Houghton Mifflin, 2000); two good surveys are
D. Grantham, Recent America: The United States since
1945 * (Harlan Davidson, 1987) and W. La Feber, The
American Century: A History of the United States since
the 1890s(4th edn, McGraw-Hill, 1991). A concise eco-
nomic history is H. N. Scheiber, H. O. Vatter and H. V.
Faulkner, American Economic History(9th edn, Harper
& Row, 1976). See also J. A. Garraty, The American
Nation* (7th edn, Harper & Row, 1990). For a broad
view, see R. H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877–1920
(Greenwood, 1980). Foreign policy is carefully surveyed
in S. F. Bemis, A Short History of American Foreign
Policy and Diplomacy(Halt, 1959).
China
J. Chesneaux, F. Le Barbier and M.-C. Bergere, China
from the Opium Wars to the 1911 Revolution*
(Harvester, 1976) and China From the 1911 Revolution
to Liberation* (Harvester, 1977) provide a sound factual
survey, though somewhat disjointed. For a stimulating
analysis and good narrative, see J. E. Sheridan, China in
Disintegration, 1912–49* (Collier-Macmillan, 1977).
Brief but informative is M. Gasster, China’s Struggle to
Modernize* (Knopf, 1972). See also J. Ch’en, China
and the West* (Hutchinson, 1979); I. C. Y. Hsü, The
Rise of Modern China(5th edn, Oxford, 1996); A.
Feuerwerker, The Chinese Economy, 1870–1911
(Michigan, 1969); and The Chinese Economy, 1912–49
(Michigan, 1977). Information on many aspects is to be
found in C. Mackerras and A. Yorke, The Cambridge
Handbook of Contemporary China* (2nd edn,
Cambridge, 1991) and B. Hook and D. Twitchett, The
Cambridge Encyclopaedia of China(Cambridge, 1991).
The doyen of America’s historians of China, J. K. Fair-
bank, has produced China: A New History* (Harvard,
1992). The authoritative multi-volume history of China
is The Cambridge History of China, vol. 10 (1800–1911,
pt 1), ed. J. K. Fairbank; vol. 11 (1800–1911, pt 2), ed. J.
K. Fairbank and Kwang-Ching Liu; vol. 12 (1912–1949,
pt 1), ed. J. K. Fairbank; vol. 13 (1912–1949, pt 2), ed. J.
K. Fairbank and A. Feuerwerker; vol. 14 (1949–1965),
ed. R. MacFarquar and J. K. Fairbank; vol. 15 (1966–
1982), ed. R. MacFarquar and J. K. Fairbank (Cam-
bridge, 1978–92). See also S. Karnow, Mao and China:
Inside China’s Cultural Revolution* (Penguin, 1985);
M. Yahuda, Towards the End of Isolationism: China’s
Foreign Policy after Mao(Macmillan, 2985); J. Gittings,
China Changes Face: The Road from Revolution, 1949–
1989 * (Oxford, 1990); C. Riskin, China’s Political
Economy: The Quest for Development since 1949(Oxford,
1987). An account by Chinese scholars of the develop-
ment of the economy can be found in China’s Socialist
Economy: An Outline History (1949–1984),* ed. Liu
Suinian and Wu Qungan (Beijing Review, 1986).
Japan
Among the best one-volume histories is R. Storry, A
History of Modern Japan* (Penguin, 1976). Another
good survey is W. G. Beasley, The Rise of Modern
Japan* (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990). Full of stimu-
lating insights is E. O. Reischauer, The Japanese
(Harvard, 1977). On Japan’s relations with the West,
see R. Storry, Japan and the Decline of the West in Asia,
1894–1943* (Macmillan, 1979). See also K. B. Pyle, The
New Generation in Meiji Japan(Stanford, 1969); I.
Nish, Japanese Foreign Policy, 1869–1942(Routledge,
1977); M. Schaller, The American Occupation of Japan:
The Origins of the Cold War in Asia(Oxford, 1986). A
lively and critical account is J. Woronoff, Politics the
Japanese Way* (St Martin’s, 1990). For the book of a
first-rate BBC Television series, see W. Horsley and R.
Buckley, Nippon New Superpower: Japan since 1945
(BBC Publications, 1990). See also M. Morischima,
Why Has Japan ‘Succeeded’?: Western Technology and the
Japanese Ethos(Cambridge, 1982).
Some Other Countries
R. Carr, Spain, 1808–1939(Oxford, 1966); H. V.
Livermore, A New History of Portugal* (2nd edn,
Cambridge, 1976); J. Rothschild, Return to Diversity.
A Political History of East Central Europe(Oxford,
1994); H. Roos, History of Modern Poland(Eyre &
Spottiswoode, 1966); A. Polonsky, Politics in Independ-
ent Poland, 1921–39(Oxford, 1972). H. G. Skilling
(ed.), Czechoslovakia, 1918–88: Seventy Years from Inde-
pendence(Macmillan, 1991); H. G. Skilling, Czechoslo-
vakia’s Interrupted Revolution(Princeton, 1976); B.
Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey(2nd edn,
Oxford, 1968); A. O. Mazour, Finland between East
and West(Greenwood, 1975); V. S. Vardys and R. J.
Misinnas (eds), The Baltic States in Peace and War,
1917–45(Pennsylvania, 1978); C. P. Woodhouse,
Modern Greece: A Short History* (4th edn, Faber &
Faber, 1986); R. Clogg, A Short History of Modern
Greece* (2nd edn, Cambridge, 1986); T. B. Millar, Aus-
tralia in Peace and War(Hurst, 1978); P. Mansfield,
The Ottoman Empire and Its Successors* (Macmillan,
1973); B. N. Pandey, The Rise of Modern India
(Macmillan, 1967). J. M. Brown, Modern India: The
Origins of an Asian Democracy(Oxford University
Press, 1994). Bruce Cumings, Korea’s Place in the Sun:
A Modern History(New York, W. W. Norton, 1997).
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