Paper 21 reading list - Faculty of History

W Dean Brazil and The Struggle for Rubber
Argentina
HS Ferns ‘Britain’s Informal Empire in Argentina 1806–1914’, Past & Present 4 (Nov 1953); Britain
and Argentina in the Nineteenth Century (1960)
D Rock Politics in Argentina 1890–1930 (1975); Argentina 1516–1982
P Smith Politics and Beef in Argentina
J Scobie Revolution on the Pampas
C Diaz-Alejandro Essays in the Economic History of the Argentine Republic
P Winn ‘British and Uruguay’, Past & Present 73 (1976)
1 5 T H E N E W I M P E R I A L I S M
What, if anything, was new about the ‘New Imperialism’ of the period c. 1870–1914?
PJ Marshall (ed.) Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire (1996), chapter 3
R Owen & B Sutcliffe (eds) Studies in the Theory of Imperialism (1972), esp. chapters 3, 5, 8 and 11–13
A Brewer Marxist Theories of Imperialism (1980)
N Etherington Theories of Imperialism: War, Conquest and Capital (1984)
AN Porter European Imperialism 1860–1914 (1994)
JA Schumpeter Imperialism and Social Classes ([1919, 1927] 1951)
J Gallagher The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire (1982)
WR Louis (ed.) Imperialism: the Robinson and Gallagher Controversy [collection of articles, etc.]
PJ Cain & AG Hopkins British Imperialism, vol. I (2nd edn, 2001)
DK Fieldhouse Economics and Empire (1973), Parts 1 and 3
D Headrick Tools of Empire (1981)
R Hyam Britain’s Imperial Century (2nd edn, 1993), esp. chapters 3 and 4
E Stokes Late 19th Century expansion: mistaken identity?’, HJ 12, 2 (1969)
A Hodgart The Economics of European Imperialism
LE Davis & RA Huttenback Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire. Economics of Imperialism 1869–1912, esp. chapters
1 and 10 (use abridged version if available). See review by Hopkins in JICH 16, 2 (1988)
PM Kennedy The Rise of Anglo-German Antagonism
B Porter The Lion’s Share (1975), chapters 3–5; or Britain, Europe and the World, chapters 2–3
JT Linblad ‘Economic Aspects of the Dutch Expansion in Indonesia, 1870–1914’, MAS 23 (1989)
S Groenveld & M Wintle (eds) Government and the Economy in Britain and the Netherlands since the Middle Ages
(1992), chapter by Kuitenbrower on Dutch expansionism 1870–1914
S Forster, WJ Mommsen & RE Robinson Bismarck, Europe and Africa (1988), chapters 1, 8, 14 and 29
HL Wesseling Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa 1880–1914 (1996)
1 6 J A P A N : T R A D I T I O N & M O D E R N I Z A T I O N
Account for the success of the elites of Meiji Japan.
General
Cambridge History of Japan, IV, chapter IV
C Totman A History of Japan (2000)
The autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi (new ed, OF)
EO Reischauer Japan: Tradition and Transformation, chapters 3–5
WG Beasley Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868
“ The Meiji Restoration
R Chang From Prejudice to Tolerance: A Study of Japanese Image of the West, 1826–1864
H Harootunian Towards Restoration: Growth of Political Consciousness in Tokugawa Japan, chapters 3–4
C Totman Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu
James Huffman, Creating a public. People and press in Meiji Japan (2005)
Anne Walthall The weak body of a useless woman. Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji restoration (OS)