Reading list
for 10th-grade World History
1. Students relate the moral and ethical principles in ancient
Greek and Roman philosophy, in Judaism, and in Christianity to the
development of Western political thought.
Charles Rowan Beye. Ancient Greek Literature and Society. Broad
introduction of Greek letters from an historical and sociological
perspective.
John Crook. Law and Life of Rome . Accessible history
of Roman citizenship laws.
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece and The
Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece . Best paperback
research volumes around for a history of Greece and Rome through
maps and artifacts.
Michael Walzer. Exodus and Revolution. Basic Books. Moving
account by a major political theorist, written in accessible prose,
of the political meaning of the Book of Exodus in its own moment
and for later generations.
2. Students compare and contrast the Glorious Revolution of England,
the American Revolution, and the French Revolution and their enduring
effects worldwide on the political expectations for self-government
and individual liberty.
Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution
Linda Kerber, Toward an Intellectual History of Women
Sarah Maza, Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Celebres
of Prerevolutionary France
David Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism,
1680-1800
Tim Tackett, Becoming a Revolutionary
Dominique Godineau, The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution
3. Students analyze the effects of the Industrial Revolution in
England , France , Germany , Japan , and the United States.
John Richards, “Landscape Change and Energy Transformation
in Early Modern England ” from The Endless Frontier:
An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class
Anna Clark: The Struggle for the Breeches: The Making of the
English Working Class
John McNeill, Something New Under the Sun
E.A. Wrigly, Chance, Continuity, and Change: the Character
of the Industrial Revolution in England
Kathleen Canning, Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory
Work in Germany, 1850-1914
4. Students analyze patterns of global change in the era of New
Imperialism in at least two of the following regions or countries:
Africa , Southeast Asia , China , India , Latin America , and the
Philippines .
Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: Europe and China
and the Making of the Modern World
Christopher Bayly, The Imperial Meridian
Frederick Cooper and Ann Stoler editors, Tensions of Empire:
Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World
Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts
Conklin, Alice, A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea
of Empire in France and West Africa
Lora Wildenthal, German Women for Empire, 1884-1945
Peter Zinoman, The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment
in Vietnam, 1862-1940
Nancy Stepan, The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation
in Latin America
5. Students analyze the causes and course of the First World War.
Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth
of the Modern Age
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
James Joll, The Origins of the First World War
Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning : The Great
War in European Cultural History
Roger Chickering, We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural
Study of the Pan-German League, 1886-1914
6. Students analyze the effects of the First World War.
Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth
of the Modern Age
George Esenwein and Adrian Shubert, Spain at War: The Spanish
Civil War in Context, 1931-1939
Mary Nash, Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish
Civil War
Mark Mazower, Dark Continent
Wendy Goldman, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family
Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936
7. Students analyze the rise of totalitarian governments after
World War I.
Mabel Berezin, Making of the Fascist Self: The Political Culture
of Interwar Italy
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945
Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Stalin's Peasants: Resistance
and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization
J. Arch Getty, and Oleg V. Naumov, The Road to Terror: Stalin
and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939
Kotkin, Steven. Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization
Rex A. Wade, The Russian Revolution, 1917
James Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to
Improve the Human Condition Have Failed Andrew
Gordon, Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan
Detlev
Peukert, Inside Nazi Germany
8. Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
David Crew, Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945
Sarah Farmer, Martyred Village : Commemorating the 1944 Massacre
at Oradour-sur-Glane
Marion Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in
Nazi Germany
Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family,
and Nazi Politics
Saburo Ienaga, The Pacific War, 1931-1945
John
Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World
War II
9. Students analyze the international developments in the post-World
World War II world.
John Connelly, Captive University : The Sovietization of East
German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956
Robert Moeller, Protecting Motherhood:Women and the Family
in the Politics of Postwar West Germany
Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., Salt of the Earth: The Political Origins
of Peasant Protest and Communist Revolution in China
Timothy Burke, Lifeboy Men, Lux Women: Commodification,
Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe
Norman Naimark, The Russians in Germany: A History of the
Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949
10. Students analyze instances of nation-building
in the contemporary world in at least two of the following regions
or countries: the Middle East , Africa , Mexico and other parts of
Latin America , and China.
Timothy Burke, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption,
and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe
Margaret Randall, Sandino's Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan
Women in Struggle
James Scott, Seeing Like a State
Greg Grandin, The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race
and Nation
11. Students analyze the integration of countries
into the world economy and the information, technological, and communications
revolutions (e.g., television, satellites, computers).
Kevin Bales, Disposable People
Bill Bigelow, editor, Rethinking Globalization: Teaching Social
Justice in an Unjust World
Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the
national question in the New Europe
Akira Iriye, Global Community: The Role of International Organizations
in the Making of the Contemporary World
John McNeill, Something New Under the Sun
World History Readings
Bentley, Jerry H. Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts
and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human
Societies
Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed
Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History
Martin Lewis and Karen Wigen, The Myth of Continents
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System
Philp Curtain, Cross-Cultural Trade in World History
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