HISTORY READING LIST

AFRICA SURVEY
Achebe, C., Things Fall Apart, Vintage-Anchor (1994), ISBN-13: 978-0-38-547454-2, 209 pages.
Echenberg, M., Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Senegalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960,
Heinemann (1990), ISBN-13: 978-0-43-508052-5, 236 pages.
Gilbert, E. & Reynolds, J.T., Africa in World History, 3rd ed., Pearson Prentice-Hall (2011), ISBN-13: 9780-20-505399-5, 480 pages.
Mandela, N., Long Walk to Freedom: With Connections, abridged ed., Holt Rinehart & Winston (2000),
ISBN-13: 978-0-03-056581-6, 528 pages.
Niane, D.T., Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, revd ed., Longman (2006), ISBN-13: 978-1-40-584942-5, 120
pages.
Stockwell, J., In Search of Enemies, W.W. Norton & Company (1984), ISBN-13: 978-0-39-300926-2, 288
pages.
Vandervort, B., Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914, Indiana University Press (2009), ISBN13: 978-0-25-321178-1, 296 pages.
BRITISH HISTORY SURVEY
Aldous, R., The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli, Pimlico (2007), ISBN-13: 978-1-84-4133123, 384 pages.
Best, G., Churchill: A Study in Greatness, Oxford University Press USA (2003), ISBN-13: 798-0-19516139-7, 400 pages.
Braddock, M., Gods Fury, Englands Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars, Penguin Global
(2009), ISBN-13: 978-0-14-100897-4, 784 pages.
Roberts, C., Roberts, D. & Bisson, D.R., A History of England, Volume I (Prehistory to 1714), 5th ed.,
Pearson Prentice-Hall (2009), ISBN-13: 978-0-13-602861-1, 480 pages.
Roberts, C., Roberts, D. & Bisson, D.R., A History of England, Volume II (1688 to the Present), 5th ed.,
Pearson Prentice-Hall (2009), ISBN-13: 978-0-13-602862-8, 496 pages.
CIVIL WAR
Frazier, D.S., Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest, Texas A&M University Press
(1996), ISBN-13: 978-0-89-096732-4, 376 pages.
McPherson, J.M., Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Oxford University Press USA (2003), ISBN13: 978-0-19-516895-2, 952 pages.

McPherson, J.M., For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, Oxford University Press
USA (1998), ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512499-6, 256 pages.
Perman, M., & Taylor, A.M., Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction: Documents and
Essays, 3rd ed., Wadsworth Publishing (2010), ISBN-13: 978-0-61-887520-7, 528 pages.
COLD WAR CAPSTONE SEMINAR
Fursenko, A. & Naftali, T., One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The
Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, W.W. Norton & Company (1998), ISBN-13: 978-0-39-3317909, 420 pages.
Gaddis, J.L., The Cold War: A New History, Penguin (2006), ISBN-13: 978-0-14-303827-6, 352 pages.
Judge, E.H. & Langdon, J.W., The Cold War: A Global History with Documents, 2nd ed., Pearson PrenticeHall (2010), ISBN-13: 978-0-20-572911-1, 496 pages.
Moyar, M., Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965, Cambridge University Press (2009), ISBN13: 978-0-52-175763-8, 544 pages.
Oberdorfer, D., From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983-1991,
The Johns Hopkins University Press (1998), ISBN-13: 978-0-80-185922-9, 568 pages.
Whitfield, S.J., The Culture of the Cold War, 2nd ed., The Johns Hopkins University Press (1996), ISBN13: 978-0-80-185195-7, 288 pages.
Zhi-Sui, L., The Private Life of Chairman Mao, Random House (1996), ISBN-13: 978-0-67-976443-4, 736
pages.
Zubok, V. & Pleshakov, C., Inside the Kremlins Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev, Harvard University
Press (1997), ISBN-13: 978-0-67-445532-0, 382 pages.
EAST ASIA SURVEY
Chang, J., Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Touchstone (2003), ISBN-13: 978-0-74-324698-9, 538
pages.
FLORIDA HISTORY
Dyckman, M., Reubin OD. Askew and the Golden Age of Florida Politics, University Press of Florida
(2011), ISBN-13: 978-0-81-303571-0, 320 pages.
Gannon, M., The New History of Florida, University Press of Florida (2012), ISBN-13: 978-0-81-13044316, 492 pages.
Mormino, G., Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida, University Press of
Florida (2008), ISBN-13: 978-0-81-303308-2, 478 pages.
Standiford, L., Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad
that Crossed an Ocean, Reprint ed., Broadway Books (2003), ISBN-13: 978-1-40-004947-9, 288 pages.

LATIN AMERICA - SURVEY

Brenner, A. & Leighton, G.R., The Wind that Swept Mexico: The History of the Mexican Revolution of
1910-1942, University of Texas Press (1984), ISBN-13: 978-0-29-279024-7, 310 pages.
Fraser, N. & Navarro, M., Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron, 4th ed., W.W. Norton & Company (1996),
ISBN-13: 978-0-39-331575-2, 198 pages.
Martin, C.E. & Wasserman, M., Latin America and Its People, Combined Volume, Pearson Prentice-Hall
(2012), ISBN-13: 978-0-20-505470-1, 496 pages.
OConnor, E. & Garofalo, L., Documenting Latin America, Volume 2, Pearson Prentice-Hall (2011), ISBN13: 978-0-13-208509-0, 312 pages.
Wolfe, J., Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity, Oxford University Press USA (2010),
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517456-4, 288 pages.
MODERN GERMANY (1871 Present)
Bendersky, J.W., A Concise History of Nazi Germany, 3rd ed., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2006),
ISBN-13: 978-0-74-255363-7, 256 pages.
Eyck, E., Bismarck and the German Empire, W.W. Norton & Company (1964), ISBN-13: 978-0-39300235-5, 328 pages.
Funder, A., Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, Harper Perennial (2011), ISBN-13: 978-0-06207732-5, 304 pages.
Orlow, D., A History of Modern Germany: 1871 to Present, 7th ed., Pearson Prentice-Hall (2011), ISBN13: 978-0-20-521443-3, 448 pages.
HISTORY OF RUSSIA
Figes, O., Natashas Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, Picador (2003), ISBN-13: 978-0-31-242195-3,
768 pages.
Fitzpatrick, S., Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s,
Oxford University Press USA (2000), ISBN-13: 978-0-19-505001-1, 312 pages.
Hosking, G., Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917, Harvard University Press (1997), ISBN-13: 978-067-478118-4, 576 pages.
Kotkin, S., Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000, Oxford University Press USA (2008),
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-536863-5, 304 pages.
Riasanovsky, N. & Steinberg, M., A History of Russia, 8th ed., Oxford University Press USA (2010), ISBN13: 978-0-19-534197-3, 816 pages.

Suny, R., The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, Oxford University Press
USA (2010), ISBN-13: 978-0-19-534055-6, 608 pages.
Taubman, W., Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, W.W. Norton & Company (2004), ISBN-13: 978-0-39332484-6, 908 pages.
TEXAS HISTORY
Burrough, B., The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes, Penguin Reprint Edition
(2010), ISBN-13: 978-0-14-311682-0, 480 pages.
Campbell, R.B., Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press USA
(2012), ISBN-13: 978-0-19-977940-6, 528 pages.
Davis, W.C., Lone Star Rising: The Revolutionary Birth of the Texas Republic, Texas A&M University
Press (2006), ISBN-13: 978-1-58-544532-5, 376 pages.
DeLen, A., Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief History, 3rd ed., Harlan Davidson (2009), ISBN-13: 9780-88-295268-0, 248 pages.
Fernlund, K.J., Lyndon B. Johnson and Modern America, University of Oklahoma Press (2009), ISBN-13:
978-0-80-614077-3, 192 pages.
Graham, D., Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire, John Wiley & Sons
(2004), ISBN-13: 978-0-47-158905-1, 304 pages.
Green, G.N., The Establishment in Texas Politics, University of Oklahoma Press (1984), ISBN-13: 978-080-611891-8, 320 pages.
Haynes, S.W., Wintz, C.D. & Paterson, T., Major Problems in Texas History, Wadsworth Publishing
(2001), ISBN-13: 978-0-39-585833-2, 512 pages.
LaVere, D., The Texas Indians, Texas A&M University Press (2003), ISBN-13: 978-1-58-544301-7, 308
pages.
Storey, J.W. & Kelley, M.L., Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History, University of North
Texas Press (2008), ISBN-13: 978-1-57-441246-8, 488 pages.