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668Suggested Readings

Chapter 22

For the industrial revolution, see the older, but still classical,

work by P. Mantoux, The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century

(1961); T. S. Ashton, The Industrial Revolution(1948), a brief intro-

duction, stressing the human side; D. Landes, The Unbound

Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western

Europe from 1750 to the Present Day(1969); P. Dean, The First Industrial

Revolution(1965); E. A. Wrigley, Continuity, Chance, and Change:

The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England(1988); and

R. M. Hartwell, ed., The Causes of the Industrial Revolution(1967),

an anthology presenting several conflicting perspectives. For

industrialized Britain, see J. H. Clapham, An Economic History of

Modern Britain,3 vols. (1926–39), and F. Crouzet, The Victorian

Economy(1982).

For continental and comparative industrialization, see

A. Milward and S. Saul, The Economic Development of Continental Eu-

rope,2 vols. (1977–79); T. Kemp, Industrialization in Nineteenth-

Century Europe (1985); C. Trebilcock, The Industrialization of the

Continental Powers, 1780–1914 (1981); W. O. Henderson, The Indus-

trial Revolution in Europe(1961) and The Industrialization of Europe,

1780–1914 (1969); F. Crouzet, Britain Ascendant(1990), on the

continental effort to catch up; P. O’Brien and C. Keyder, Economic

Growth in Britain and France, 1780–1914 (1978); J. H. Clapham, The

Economic Development of France and Germany, 1815–1914 (1936);

C. Kindleberger, Economic Growth in France and Britain(1964); and

A. L. Dunham, The Industrial Revolution in France, 1815–1848 (1955).

Chapter 24
For general works on this period, the most recent surveys are
R. Gildea, Barricades and Borders(1987), which covers the period
1800–1914; F. Ford, Europe, 1780–1830(1989); E. J. Hobsbawm,
The Age of Revolution(1978); and T. Hamerow, The Birth of a New
Europe(1983), which covers the entire nineteenth century.
Valuable older studies include F. Artz, Reaction and Revolution,
1814–1832(1968) and W. Langer, Political and Social Upheaval,
1832–1852(1969), from the “Rise of Modern Europe” series.

Chapter 25
For surveys of the period, see E. J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital,
1848–1875(1979), the second volume of his history of modern
Europe; the volume of the New Cambridge Modern Historyedited
by J. P. T. Bury, The Zenith of European Power, 1830–1870(1964);
R. Binkley’s volume in the Rise of Modern Europeseries, Realism and
Nationalism, 1852–1871(1963).

Chapter 26

The most recent surveys of this period are E. J. Hobsbawm, The

Age of Empire, 1875–1914(1987) and N. Stone, Europe Transformed,

1878–1919(1984); see also C. Hayes, A Generation of Materialism,

1871–1900(1941); O. Hale, The Great Illusion, 1900–1914(1971),

in the Rise of Modern Europeseries; and F. H. Hinsley, ed., Material

Progress and World-Wide Problems, 1870–1898(1962), in the New

Cambridge Modern Historyseries. B. Tuchman, The Proud Tower

(1966) is a highly readable overview of the period 1890–1914.

Chapter 27

For European imperialism, see T. Pakenham, The Scramble for

Africa, 1876–1912(1991); D. Gillard, The Struggle for Asia,

1828–1914(1977).

For the debate over the origins of World War I, see J. Joll,

The Origins of the First World War (1992) and L. Lafore, The Long

Fuse(1965), both good syntheses.

For World War I, see B. Tuchman, The Guns of August(1962),

for the opening phase of the war; M. Ferro, The Great War,

1914–1918(1978), for a good short history. For surveys of the

Russian Revolution, see R. Pipes, The Russian Revolution(1990), a

vigorously hostile account; J. Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World

(1935), a highly sympathetic contemporary account; E. H. Carr,

The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917–1923,3 vols. (1950–53), for an ex-

ceptionally detailed investigation.

Chapter 28

For surveys of the interwar period, see R. Sontag, A Broken World,

1919–1939(1971), for political detail, and C. Kindleberger, The

World in Depression, 1929–1939(1986), for economics.

Chapter 29

For overviews of the wartime era, see G. Wright, The Ordeal of To-

tal War, 1939–1945(1968), a comprehensive survey in the Rise of

Modern Europe series; G. Weinberg, A World at Arms(1994), a

massive and up-to-date general history; and E. Hobsbawm, The

Age of Extremes(1996), helpful for putting the war into context.

Chapter 30

For general economic histories of the twentieth century, see

C. Cipolla, ed., The Fontana Economic History of Europe,especially

vol. 5: The Twentieth Centuryand vol. 6: Contemporary Economies

(1976); M. M. Poston, D. C. Coleman, and P. Mathias, eds.,

The Cambridge Economic History,especially vols. 7 and 8 (1978);

S. Clough, T. Moodie, and C. Moodie, eds., Economic History of

Europe: Twentieth Century(1969).

Chapter 31

For overviews of the period, see E. Hobsbawm, The Age of

Extremes(1994) and A. W. De Porte, Europe between the Superpowers:

The Enduring Balance(1986).